Biography
Both Joannes Laurentius Lydus and Zacharias Rhetor report that John was a native of Caeasarea, Cappadocia. Procopius, John Malalas, the Chronicon Paschale, and Zacharias called him "John the Cappadocian" for disambiguation reasons, as the name John (Ioannes in Greek and Johannes in Latin) were widely used by his time. Lydus and Malalas at times mention him only as "the Cappadocian". His family connections are obscure and only two relatives are known with certainty. Those are his only daughter Euphemia and a kinsman called Ioannes Maxilloplumacius.
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