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grbs-17012	Dimitrios Nikou	A Compilation of Excerpts from John Xiphilinus’ Epitome of Cassius Dio	2024	19	.pdf	application/pdf	6384	376	69	[Marcus Aurelius] Ἐκ τοῦ κ-ου τοῦ περὶ Μάρκου Ἀντωνίνου τοῦ φιλοσόφου His war with the Quadi and the sudden rainfall after entreaties by the emperor and an Egyptian magician which saved the Roman soldiers from dehydration (Xiph. S260.15–261.1). Nikou ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 64 (2024) 509–527 ISSN 2159-3159 Article copyright held by the author(s) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ A Compilation of Excerpts from John Xiphilinus’ Epitome of Cassius Dio Dimitrios Nikou HE EPITOME that John Xiphilinus made of Cassius Dio’s Roman History was indisputably a particularly important enterprise,1 now chiefly because it preserves a number of lost books from that History.2 At the same time, however, the abridged presentation of Roman history from 69 B.C. to A.D. 229 in Xiphilinus’ Epitome was a handy source for Byzantines in- terested in studying the events of that period without having to plough through the lengthy original.3 As is evident from its manuscript tradition, the Epitome was particularly popular towards the end of Byzantium and in the 1 For the life and work of John Xiphilinus see A. Kazhdan “Xiphilinos, John the Younger,” ODB III (1991) 2211; E. Trapp, “Johannes Xiphilinos der Jüngere,” in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon 3 (1992) 618–619; W. Treadgold, The Middle Byzantine Historians (New York 2013) 310–312; B. Berbessou-Broustet, “Xiphilin, abréviateur de Cassius Dion,” in V. Fromen- tin et al. (eds.), Cassius Dion: nouvelles lectures (Bordeaux 2016) 81–94; M. Kruse, “The Epitomator Ioannes Xiphilinos and the Eleventh-century Xiphilinoi,” JÖB 69 (2019) 257–274.	cache/grbs-17012.pdf	txt/grbs-17012.txt