Βυζαντιακός

Βῡζᾰ́ντῐον (Būzántion, “Byzantium”) +‎ -ᾰκός (-akós, “of or pertaining to, -ac”)

Βῡζᾰντῐᾰκός • (Būzantiakós) m (feminine Βῡζᾰντῐᾰκή, neuter Βῡζᾰντῐᾰκόν); first/second declension

1. of the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine (entitling two fifth-century histories by the sophists Malchus and Priscus)
   • a. AD 893, Photius, Bibliotheca 54.2.6–7, (entry № 78):

     Ἀνεγνώθη ΜΑΛΧΟΥ σοφιϛοῦ Βυζαντιακὰ ἐν βιβλίοις ἑπτά.

     Anegnṓthē MALKHOU sophistoû Buzantiakà en biblíois heptá.

     MALCHUS the sophist’s Byzantiaca in seven books was read.

   • Suda pi.2301:

     Πρίσκος, Πανίτης, σοφιστής, γεγονὼς ἐπὶ τῶν χρόνων Θεοδοσίου τοῦ μικροῦ. ἔγραψεν ἱστορίαν Βυζαντιακήν, καὶ τὰ κατὰ Ἄτταλον ἐν βιβλίοις ηʹ· μελέτας τε ῥητορικάς, καὶ ἐπιστολάς.

     Prískos, Panítēs, sophistḗs, gegonṑs epì tôn khrónōn Theodosíou toû mikroû. égrapsen historían Buzantiakḗn, kaì tà katà Áttalon en biblíois ēʹ; melétas te rhētorikás, kaì epistolás.

     • 2003 translation by Malcolm Heath

       Priscus of Panium. Sophist. He lived in the time of the younger Theodosius. He wrote a history of Byzantium, and the events concerning Attila (5 books); rhetorical declamations; and letters.

• → English: Byzantiac
• Greek: Βυζαντιακός (Vyzantiakós)
• → Latin: Bȳzantiacus