Komentiolos

   General who played an active role in the campaigns of Maurice against the Persians, Avars, and Slavs (qq.v.). He replaced Philippikos (q.v.) in Persia in 588 and immediately won a stunning victory near Nisibis (q.v.). However, his return to the Balkan Peninsula (q.v.) proved his undoing. In 598 he and a fellow-general Priskos (q.v.) were defeated by the Avars, who then invaded Thrace (q.v.). Theophylact Simokattes (q.v.) reports that an embassy to Maurice from soldiers stationed in Thrace accused Komentiolos of treason, but somehow he survived imperial censure. However, when Phokas (q.v.) overthrew Maurice in 602 he had Komentiolos executed.