Editing Priscus (section)

{{short description|5th-century Byzantine Greek historian and diplomat}}
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[[File:PriscusofPanium.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Priscus (left) with the Roman embassy at the court of [[Attila the Hun]], holding his ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ (''History'', which the painter has incorrectly spelled ΙΣΤ'''Ω'''ΡΙΑ). (Detail from [[Mór Than]]'s ''[[:File:MorThanFeastofAttila.jpg|Feast of Attila]]''.)]]

'''Priscus of Panium''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|r|ɪ|s|k|ə|s}}; {{langx|el|Πρίσκος}}; 410s/420s AD – after 472 AD) was an [[Eastern Roman Empire|Eastern Roman]] diplomat and [[Byzantine Greeks|Greek]] historian and rhetorician (or [[sophist]]).<ref name="ODB">{{harvnb|Kazhdan|1991|loc="Priskos", p. 1721}}.</ref><ref name="Chisholm">{{harvnb|Chisholm|1911|p=361}}.</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Toynbee|Myers|1948|p=14}}: "The renegade Greek business man from Viminacium whom the Greek historian and Roman diplomatist Priscus encountered in Attila's ''ordu'' on the Alföld in A.D. 449 has already come to our notice."</ref><ref name="Byzantine History">{{harvnb|Christophilopoulou|1986|p=209}}: "For information about Attila, his court and the organization of life generally in his realm we have the authentic and reliable evidence of contemporary Greek historian Priscus, who accompanied Maximinus, the head of the Byzantine embassy, in 448."</ref>