pamphronius

Updated: June 2, 2025

But the relief was accidental, the danger was perpetual and pressing; and the clergy and senate, collecting the remains of their ancient opulence, a sum of three thousand pounds of gold, despatched the patrician Pamphronius to lay their gifts and their complaints at the foot of the Byzantine throne.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4