 Nothing is known of his life or the time when he lived.He is generally called ""Protospatharius"", which seems to have been originally a military title given to the colonel of the bodyguards of the emperor of Constantinople ("Spatharioi"); but which afterwards became also a high court title, or was associated with the government of provinces and the functions of a judge.It is conjectured that he lived in the 7th century; that he was the tutor to Stephanus Atheniensis; that he arrived at high professional and political rank; and that at last he embraced the monastic life.