Priscus

Priscus (left) with the Roman embassy at the court of Attila the Hun, holding his ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ (History, which the painter has incorrectly spelled ΙΣΤΩΡΙΑ) (detail from Mór Than's Feast of Attila)

Priscus of Panium (/ˈprɪskəs/; Greek: Πρίσκος ὁ Πανίτης; 410s/420s AD – after 472 AD) was an Eastern Roman diplomat and Greek historian and rhetorician (or sophist).

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