Symbatios the Armenian. In 1911 the St. Louis Art Museum held a major exhibition of 83 Sylvester paintings from the Elsah years. He died in St. Louis on March 2, 1915 and, according to his wishes, a boat set out from Elsah upriver to the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, where his wife and Kajiwara sprinkled his ashes on the water. Today Frederick O. Sylvester's paintings hang in a number of institutions and private homes in the St. Louis' area. Frederick Oakes Sylvester Frederick Oakes Sylvester (October 8, 1869 – March 2, 1915) was an American art educator and artist in 	Frederick Oakes Sylvester
28262089	Symbatios the Armenian Symbatios the Armenian Symbatios or Sabbatios, surnamed the Armenian () was a senior Byzantine aristocrat and official in the mid-860s. Symbatios was the son-in-law of the Caesar" Bardas, the "de facto" ruler of the Byzantine Empire during the later reign of his nephew Michael III (). By 866, he held the rank of "patrikios" and the position of "logothetes tou dromou". Despite his ties to Bardas, he was a leading member in the conspiracy that resulted in the murder of Bardas on 21 April 866, in hopes of succeeding him. When Emperor Michael III publicly justified the murder of Bardas  on 26 May, he claimed that Symbatios and another high court official, the chamberlain Basil the Macedonian, had warned him that Bardas intended to depose him. However, Michael promoted Basil the Macedonian rather than Symbatios, who had to content himself with being named "strategos" of the Thracesian Theme. From there he rebelled in summer 866 against the growing power of Basil, along with the governor of the Opsician Theme, George Peganes. The rebellion was defeated in the following winter, and its leaders were arrested. Symbatios was mutilated, losing one eye and his right hand. He was publicly humiliated by being  forced to beg for three days in the ta Laousou quarter, before being put under house arrest. When Basil the Macedonian deposed Michael III and became sole emperor in September 867; however, he lifted the banishment of Symbatios and the other rebels, and restored their property to them. Symbatios the Armenian Symbatios or Sabbatios, surnamed the Armenian () was a senior Byzantine aristocrat and official in the mid-860s. Symbatios was the son-in-law of the "Caesar" Bardas, the "de facto" ruler of the Byzantine Empire during the later reign of his nephew Michael III (). By 866, he held the rank