i5°

Pia Carolla

Even if Malalas or his direct source (probably Eustathius of Epiphania) have mis-
understood Priscus here and introduced the wrong συγγενής information (which
consequently should be expunged from the Priscan text), the mention of a prefect
Rufinus, possibly in charge between March 431 and March 432 and soon replaced by
Hierius, might be ultimately correct and thus go back to a contemporary source.
My four suggestions must, of course, remain hypothetical, because no parallels in
Theophanes, the Suda or elsewhere confirm them, quoting Priscus by name as their
source. But it is worth noting that there are several other Malalas’ passages bearing at
least some trace of Priscan themes and values; we may recall, for example, the impor-
tance of the three imperial women (Licinia Eudoxia and her daughters, Eudocia and
Placidia) among the Vandals up to their recovery under Leo I as described by Malalas
in Chronographia XIV 26 and 31: the same subject is particularly insisted on in Priscus’
exc. 29, 3 and exc. 30, 3 Carolla (pp. 67, 69) as well as in his fr. 69*, fr. 71* and fr. 76*
Carolla. How many other passages in Malalas can be ultimately traced back to Priscus,
mainly via Eustathius of Epiphania, is an open question to which the collaboration
with the Tübingen project may help to provide an answer.
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