Talk:Alexios I Komnenos

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"he succession, which his wife Irene wished to alter in favour of her daughter Anne's husband, Nicephorus Bryennius for whose benefit the special title panhypersebastos (i.e. as it were augustissimus si quis ahus) was created."

Would someone please be so kind as to explain just what the hell this means? Thank you much. - user:Montrealais

Somewhat literally (which is what I used in the article), "honored above all"--sebastos is, according to my handy copy of Liddell-Scott, a form of the verb "sebo," meaning honor, "pan" is "all", "hyper" is over. "Most honored" might be more idiomatic English. Vicki Rosenzweig

Well what the text means is that since Bryennius did not succeed Alexius I, he was given the new title panhypersebastos, one of the highest ranks in Byzantine administration. "Sebastos" in Greek actually means "respected".

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