Apelates 5 was patrikios, basilikos protospatharios and strategos of the Karabisianoi; owner of a seal dateable to the first half of the ninth century: Likhachev, Molivdovuly LXVII 6 (M-6237). The name and titles read: Ἀπελάτῃ πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Καραβησιάνων. Likhachev, op. cit., p. 144, proposed to identify this man with Apelates 1 and Apelates 2 (perhaps following Mordtmann; see Apelates 2). This is a late date for the post of strategos of the Karabisianoi; see Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, p. 96, with n. 1. Either the seal is of much earlier date (early to mid eighth century), or the command of Karabisianoi lasted much longer than is usually believed.

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