Nonnosus

(Νόννοσος), was sent by the emperor Justinian I. on an embassy to the Aethiopians, Ameritae, Saracens, and other Eastern nations. Works History of an Embassy to the Aethiopians

On his return he wrote a History of his embassy, which has perished, but an abridgment of it has been preserved by Photius (Bibl. Cod. 3). From the account of Photius we learn that the father of Nonnosus, whose name was Abraham, had been also sent on an embassy to the Saracens, and that his grandfather Nonnosus had likewise been sent on a similar embassy by the emperor Anastasius. Editions

The abridgment of Photius has been reprinted, in the Bonn collection of the Byzantine writers, in the volume containing the fragments of Dexippus, Eunapius, &c., edited by Niebuhr and Bekker, 1829. Further Information

Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 543; Voss. de Hist. Graec. p. 326, ed. Westermann.