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Procopius: Buildings

Text and Translation on LacusCurtius

This part of my site presents a transcription of the English translation only of the Buildings, by H. B. Dewing, as printed in Vol. VII of the Loeb Classical Library edition of Procopius, published in 1940. I have no intention of transcribing the original Greek text: the paucity of readers of ancient Greek out there make it a case of diminishing returns.

The Author, the Manuscripts

As with most ancient authors, not that much is known of Procopius; biographical material may appear onsite by and by: for now see the Catholic Encyclopedia article. The Loeb edition gives very little information about the manuscripts, at least not in Vol. VII of its edition of Procopius, but the Introduction by H. B. Dewing is useful in other respects.

Book	Subject
1	Chapter 1: Introduction; the church of S. Sophia in Constantinople Chapters 2‑5: Other churches and buildings of Constantinople Chapters 6‑11: Churches and buildings in and near Constantinople
2	Chapters 1‑11: Fortifications and cities on the Persian frontier
3	Chapters 1‑7: Fortifications and cities in Armenia, Tzanica, and on the shores of the Black Sea
4	Chapters 1‑3: Illyricum: mostly fortifications Chapters 4‑6: Epirus, Macedonia, Dardania, Thessaly, and inner Illyricum Chapters 7‑11: Thrace, Haemimontum, and Moesia
5	Chapters 1‑9: Buildings in Asia
6	Chapters 1‑7: North Africa, from Alexandria to central Algeria
Appendix I	The Equestrian Statue of Justinian in the Augustaeum

Copyright

The translation is now in the public domain pursuant to the 1978 revision of the U. S. Copyright Code, since the copyright expired in 1968 and was not renewed at the appropriate time, which would have been that year or the year before. (Details here on the copyright law involved.)

Chapter and Section Numbering, Local Links

The small section numbers mark local links, according to a consistent scheme; you can therefore link to any passage directly. Similarly, for citation purposes, the Loeb edition pagination is indicated by local links in the sourcecode.

Proofreading

As almost always, I retyped the text by hand rather than scanning it — not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend: Qui scribit, bis legit. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.)

This transcription has been minutely proofread. In the table of contents above, the sections are therefore shown on blue backgrounds, indicating that I believe the text of them to be completely errorfree. As elsewhere on this site, the header bar at the top of each chapter's webpage will remind you with the same color scheme. Should you spot an error, however . . . please do report it.

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