Nasrallah was a senior jurist, teacher, poet, author and annalist. He may be regarded as a courtly annalist rather than a historian. Lucius Cincius Alimentus (200) was a celebrated Roman annalist, jurist, and provincial official. It is disputed whether the annalist and orator are identical. The annalist of Fulda compared him to Catiline. When he died the contemporary annalist recorded of him that he was very "rich". One annalist estimated the total dead at 2,000 men. The first mention in Roman literature was by the annalist poet Ennius in 200 BC. It has been suggested that the annalist temporarily abandoned the project between 1016 and 1021. The form of his Chronicle is annalist but not narrowly limited to each single year. He was a contemporary of the annalist Eutychius (=Said al-Bitriq), also a Melchite. The annalist Lupus Protospatharius mentions this in his account of 1062. Though an annalist, Ralph is careless in his chronology.