Anonymus 774 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E X |
| Dates | 812 (taq) / 812 (ob.) |
| Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Anonymus 774 was apparently a wandering monk; he is described as a false hermit (ἕνα δὲ τῶν ἐμπεριάκτων ψευδερημίτην) and a fellow magician (συγγόητα) of Nikolaos 2; he is said to have damaged and dishonoured an icon of the Theotokos; for this reason his tongue was cut out by the emperor Michael I (Michael 7) in 812 and he died, losing his soul and his life: Theoph. AM 6304.
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