Chronography (partim edita e cod. Paris. gr. 1712)

 to appear but if not, the opposite, countless terrors and a swift destruction. Therefore, when night fell, the emperor went with Kassiteras to the mo

 he exiled Patriarch Nicephorus and 609 Theodore at which time it is also said that when Patriarch Nicephorus was being sent into exile, Theophanes, c

 less. For when the renowned patriarch Tarasios had long since departed this life, he heard him call a certain Michael by name, and having leaped 612 u

 the east, they burned the areas outside the Golden Gate as far as Rhegion. And coming to Athyras, they destroyed the fortress there and the bridge, wh

 he marched, having gathered a great army and the Avars and all the Sklavinias and in addition to these he prepares instruments of various city-takers

 The Stammerer and Iconoclast, 8 years, 9 months. This man took as his wife Euphrosyne, the daughter of Constantine who had been blinded, who had embra

 with freedom to practice the Christian ways having been conceded who until now have been called tributaries. And indeed the islands would have been c

 he did in the following way. It was a custom for the Persians that the proclamation of a king be from the royal line whence, the royal line having fa

 that there were many for her in the chest, and she places these on our head and face after 629 the kisses. These things drove the emperor to madness

 to venerate and honor the holy icons and to denounce his impiety. And not long after, when the patriarch arrived at the great church and reproached hi

 he made him commander of the Scholae, and received his children from holy baptism. 11. In his 7th year the emperor goes out with Manuel and the senate

 of Oxyartes, brother of Dareios, who, having married Dionysios the tyrant of Heraclea, named the city, which was under him, after his wife. and having

 they devoured. 20. But the student of Leo the philosopher, who was also the informer of the betrayal, was asked by the amermoumnes about his knowledge

 Theodore, whose relic the founder Michael himself later brought to the monastery of Michaelitzes in Chalcedon. The renowned Theophanes lived until the

 they requested. So he withdrew and looked at the house and, being pleased, moved the nuns to another monastery, and having adorned it with every kind

 the wicked one is driven out of the church and is confined in a certain monastery in Kleidio. In which, having scraped the icons of the saints, the em

 the divine mystery having been celebrated purely, all the heretics under the whole sun having been subjected to deposition along with their chief prie

 And although many were killed, those who were captured were more numerous. But Theoktistos, having gone to the empress, again enjoyed the same familia

 and to come to the palace. Having befriended also the protospatharios Theophanes Phalganes and some others, he kills Theoktistos in the palace, with t

 At this the protonotary became sullen, and reported with dejection the response from the Domestic of the Schools, and at the same time bringing and sh

 it was sealed, the fool with the fools raising his voice in laughter, laughing at the renowned Ignatius as not being accommodating in matters and as o

 and the generals bring his head and those of many others into the city. From this a great peace comes about in the east. And the toils and the heroic

 of whom Sergius said, even if he is to be such, I will kill him along with his mother. To whom the saint said, You will not be able to hinder the p

 I said to this pious and discerning monk that we too, when serving the liturgy with him, never heard him speak a prayer, but rather whisper the words

 as he was passing by in a procession, the patrician Damianos, the *parakoimomenos*, who was sitting in the Horologion, did not rise to honor him. And

 waiting for him gives a sword to two men dressed in gold, as if praepositi, and says that having quickly slipped away he assigned the emperor to the r

 Mamas, they bring Peganes with an earthenware censer smoking brimstone, and he meets and censes Symbatios. And he himself is blinded in one 681 eye, a

 the emperor ordered one of his guards to throw a spear at Basil. And during dinner time, not only this one but others too, whenever he got drunk with

 dejected, and as one might guess, pondering his own affairs. He had set out from Adrianople of Macedonia, which was formerly called Orestias from Ores

 having learned the land and the affairs, and having written down the book, and having made this very ancient by his practices, it was deposited in the

 Constantine, the son of Michael by Eudokia, died, but according to rumor, the son of Basil whom, after mourning greatly, he laid in the tombs of the

 The possession of these castles is not safe for you, as long as their rulers are dwelling here but if you wish to rule them securely, send them as pr

 And when once a banquet was being held for the emperor, and the first of the senate were dining with him, and the bird often uttered the aforesaid say

 Having beaten Santabarenos, they exiled him to Athens. Then the emperor, sending men after him, blinded him and exiled him to the east. But after many

 he deposited the body of Saint Lazarus and of Mary Magdalene. At this time Tauromenium was surrendered to the Hagarenes. 10. In the 15th year the isla

 having run through the traditions of those who made use of some counsel or oracle and who surpassed them, they are so named. The name Dromitai came to

 of the Saracens went out against the Romans. And the emperor appointed Himerios the logothete as head of all the naval forces. And he also writes to A

 When Pantaleon the metropolitan was coming in to the emperor, Samonas asked him Against whom is the misfortune? And he said, Against you and if th

 having sent immediately, he brought Nicholas from Galakrenoi and enthroned him, having deposed 716 Euthymius, whom he exiled to the monastery of Agath

 ruling, there being sufficient men, 719 and having entered by night through a side-gate of the protovestiarios Michael, which was near the acropolis,

 (Alexander had brought down from the palace) they bring her up again. And having gained control of the empire, she brings up to the palace Constantine

 when the drungarius Romanos was ordered to cross. But when they came to battle, the Patzinaks, seeing them quarreling, withdrew to their own lands. Wh

 to rest for a short while in his own house. Likewise Constantine the parakoimomenos was ordered to write a letter, ordering him the same things, and t

 tyrannically rising up wherefore I neither wish him to be domestic from now on, nor do I say that he has committed this rebellion with my counsel, bu

 and when they used an indistinct and terrible shout, and most violently charged against them, the rector immediately fled, but fighting for him Photen

 to be in the middle, where they were about to speak to one another. At this, Symeon sent men and burned down the church of the Most Holy Theotokos at

 they did not judge it a good omen for they said that both would part on irreconcilable terms regarding the peace. But Symeon, reaching his own camp,

 When Apolasath, a prudent and intelligent man, died, the inhabitants of Melitene broke the peace. Therefore, John Kourkouas, the Domestic of the Schoo

 his father. And they deposed Patriarch Tryphon after he had completed the appointed time, 745 and he died in his own monastery. And the church was vac

 those who survived and ended up on the shore of Koile, escaped when night fell. But Theophanes, returning after a great victory, was received honorabl

 only a face, but the son-in-law Constantine said he saw eyes and ears. To them the celebrated Sergios said, You both saw well. And they replied, An

 evil communications. What becomes of his kinsmen? After feasting and entertaining them, while the food was still in their mouths, men prepared for thi

 his son Romanos, and he is buried in the church of the Holy Apostles with Leo the emperor, his father. In appearance he was tall in stature, fair in c

 of the army wished to return home. But the most prudent Nicephorus and doux restrained them with the sweetness of his words. So the emperor, learning

to appear; but if not, the opposite, countless terrors and a swift destruction. Therefore, when night fell, the emperor went with Kassiteras to the monk, and was immediately slapped, as the monk had foreknown his disguise, saying thus, that it was not right for you, being an emperor, to dissemble in this way in a private station. Astounded by these things, the emperor became obedient to him regarding the removal of the holy icons; and immediately, vomiting up the poison against piety that was in him, he went mad and began the heresy. 4. Seeking accomplices, he found John, called the Grammarian, another Jannes rather than a Simon, who was also named Hylzilas, which is interpreted in Hebrew as forerunner and collaborator of the devil; he was the son of Pankratios the diviner, and from childhood he had a demon, and he was notorious for both lecanomancy and shameful deeds. He also found Constantine, a presbyter of a shoemaker, who had also become a lawyer in the district of Phorakion, but who, having fled on account of crimes and become a monk, was renamed Antony, a teller of fables and a jester and one who lived shamefully; who also, having become abbot in the monastery of the Metropolitans, taught these things to those under him, and later by the concession of God also became bishop of Sylaion. And he found certain others of like mind with him. In the mean 607 time a comet appeared in the form of two bright lunar discs, uniting and again dividing into various shapes, so as to be formed into the shape of a headless man, such as had also appeared in the time of the emperor Michael Kouropalates; which some, interpreting, said was the headless head, signifying Thomas who was destined to set upon them with rebellions after these things, and the insurgents with him. And indeed, terrible earthquakes and plagues and droughts and conflagrations occurred in the days of the God-hated one. 5. In the same year he summoned Nikephoros, the patriarch of renowned memory, and the bishops with him before the senate, and said, "Know clearly that some have risen up saying that icons ought not to be venerated." To whom Nikephoros among the saints first said, "The holy icons of the saints are to be honored, O emperor, as having been revealed from the beginning by a divine sign. For indeed the holy cloth which Christ once took and placed upon his face, and his form was made on it without hands, is to be honored and venerated. Then the icons made by the hands of the holy apostles, of Christ himself and of the one who bore him, and the one of the Transfiguration preserved in Rome until now, when Christ appeared with Moses and Elijah on Tabor; which was made at the exhortation of Peter the coryphaeus. But also what happened in the city of Lydda in the East. for 608 there is a venerable ancient church, erected by the faithful in the name of the Theotokos, in which is depicted the form of the Theotokos; which the Jews were claiming as their own, and the Mother of God, having heard in Jerusalem, spoke thus, 'Let the church be closed and let no one enter, and on the 40th day let it be opened; and if no sign is seen in it, let the church belong to the Jews.' So after the appointed time, opening it, they see the form of the Theotokos holding Christ as an infant in her arms, a form and beauty at once wonderful and most venerable and most befitting of God, on transparent slabs, and seen distinctly and having penetrated entirely through to the depths; which the Jews, having seen, fled. After these things many Jews and Greeks who tried to scrape it off failed; and the form not made by hands remains likewise on the slab until now for the glory of God. In addition to these, there is also the icon of the woman with the issue of blood, which through the plant cures every disease in Paneas and in all the earth." 6. After him the holy Euthymios, metropolitan of Sardis, speaking boldly, silenced the sinner. And Theodore, the abbot of the Stoudion, said, "Do not disturb, O emperor, the ecclesiastical order; for to you has been entrusted the order of the state and of the army, to care for these things, but leave the church alone." But the tyrant, boiling over with anger, drove them all out with insults, and the one

φανῆναι· εἰ δὲ μή, τἀναντία, μυρία δεινὰ καὶ ἀπώλειαν σύντομον. τῆς οὖν νυκτὸς ἐπιστάσης ἀπῄει ὁ βασιλεὺς μετὰ Κασσιτηρᾶ πρὸς τὸν μοναχόν, καὶ εὐθὺς παραυτὰ ἀπορραπίζεται ὡς προεγνωκότος τὸ αὐτοῦ πρόσχημα, οὕτω λέγων, μὴ δεῖν ἐν ἰδιωτικῇ καταστάσει βασιλέα σε ὄντα οὑτωσὶ ὑποκρίνεσθαι. δι' ὧνπερ καταπλαγεὶς ὁ βασιλεὺς εὐπειθὴς τούτῳ καθίσταται πρὸς τὴν τῶν ἁγίων εἰκόνων καθαίρεσιν· καὶ παρευθὺ τὸν ἐν αὐτῷ κατὰ τῆς εὐσεβείας ἰὸν ἐξεμέσας καὶ μανεὶς ἤρξατο τῆς αἱρέσεως. 4. Συμμύστας ἐπιζητήσας εὑρίσκει Ἰωάννην τὸν λεγόμενον γραμματικόν, ἄλλον Ἰαννὴν μᾶλλον ἢ Σίμωνα, ὃς καὶ Ὑλζιλὰς ὠνομάζετο, ὅπερ Ἑβραϊστὶ ἑρμηνεύεται πρόδρομος καὶ συνεργὸς τοῦ διαβόλου· ἦν δὲ υἱὸς Παγκρατίου σκιαστοῦ, καὶ ἐκ παιδόθε δαίμονα εἶχε, διαβεβόητο δὲ ἐπί τε λεκανομαντείαις καὶ αἰσχρουργίαις. εὗρε καὶ Κωνσταντῖνον πρεσβύτερον τζαγγαρίου, ὃς καὶ νομικὸς εἰς τὰ Φορακίου γέγονε, διὰ δὲ ἐγκλήματα φυγόντα καὶ γενόμενον μοναχὸν μετονομασθέντα Ἀντώνιον, μυθολόγον καὶ γελοιαστὴν καὶ αἰσχρῶς βιοῦντα· ὃς καὶ ἡγούμενος εἰς τὴν μονὴν τὰ Μητροπολιτῶν γενόμενος καὶ τοὺς ὑπ' αὐτὸν ταῦτα ἐξεπαίδευσεν, ὕστερον δὲ κατὰ παραχώρησιν θεοῦ καὶ ἐπίσκοπος Συλαίου γέγονεν. εὗρε δὲ καὶ ἑτέρους τινὰς ὁμόφρονας αὐτῷ. ἐν τῷ ἀνα 607 μεταξὺ ἀστὴρ κομήτης ἐφάνη ἐν σχήματι δύο λαμπρῶν δίσκων σεληναίων, ἑνουμένων καὶ πάλιν διαιρουμένων εἰς διάφορα σχήματα, ὡς καὶ εἰς ἀκεφάλου διάπλασιν ἀνδρὸς τυποῦσθαι, οἷος καὶ ἐπὶ Μιχαὴλ βασιλέως τοῦ Κουροπαλάτου ἐφάνη· ὅνπερ τινὲς ἑρμηνεύσαντες ἔφασαν τὴν ἀκέφαλον εἶναι κεφαλήν, προδηλοῦντα τὸν μέλλοντα ἀνταρσίαις ἐπιθήσεσθαι μετὰ ταῦτα Θωμᾶν καὶ τοὺς μετ' αὐτοῦ στασιαστάς. καὶ μέντοι καὶ σεισμοὶ φοβεροὶ καὶ λοιμοὶ καὶ αὐχμοὶ καὶ φλογώσεις γεγόνασιν ἐπὶ τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῦ θεοστυγοῦς. 5. Τῷ αὐτῷ ἔτει προσκαλεῖ Νικηφόρον ἀοίδιμον πατριάρχην καὶ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ ἐπισκόπους ἐνώπιον τῆς συγκλήτου, καὶ φησίν "ἴστε σαφῶς ὡς ἀνέστησάν τινες λέγοντες μὴ δεῖν προσκυνεῖσθαι τὰς εἰκόνας." πρὸς ὃν πρῶτος ὁ ἐν ἁγίοις Νικηφόρος φησί "τιμητέαι, ὦ βασιλεῦ, αἱ ἱεραὶ τῶν ἁγίων εἰκόνες εἰσὶν ὡς ἐξ ἀρχῆς θείῳ νεύματι φανεῖσαι. καὶ γὰρ ἡ ἁγία ὀθόνη ἥν ποτε λαβὼν ὁ Χριστὸς ἐπέθετο ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ εἶδος αὐτοῦ ἀχειροποιήτως ἐγένετο, τιμητέα καὶ σεβάσμιός ἐστιν. ἔπειτα αἱ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων ἰδιόχειροι εἰκόνες τοῦ τε αὐτοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ τῆς τοῦτον τεκούσης, ἥ τε ἐν Ῥώμῃ μέχρι τοῦ νῦν τηρουμένη τῆς μεταμορφώσεως, καὶ ἀνεφάνη ὁ Χριστὸς μετὰ Μωσέως καὶ Ἠλία ἐν Θαβώρ· ἥτις προτροπῇ Πέτρου τοῦ κορυφαίου γέγονεν. ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ ἐν τῇ Λύδδᾳ πόλει τῆς Ἑῴας τὸ γενόμενον. σε 608 βάσμιος γὰρ ναὸς ἀρχαῖος ἔστιν εἰς ὄνομα τῆς θεοτόκου ὑπὸ πιστῶν ἀνεγηγερμένος, ἐν ᾧ ἱστόρηται τὸ εἶδος τῆς θεοτόκου· ὃν ἀντιποιούμενοι ὡς οἰκεῖον οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι, ἡ θεομήτωρ ἀκούσασα ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ οὕτως εἶπεν, κεκλείσθω ὁ ναὸς καὶ εἰσίτω μηδείς, καὶ τῇ μʹ ἡμέρᾳ ἀνοιγέσθω· καὶ εἰ μὲν οὐδὲν ὀφθῇ σημεῖον ἐν αὐτῷ, ἔστω τῶν Ἰουδαίων ὁ ναός. μετὰ γοῦν τὴν προθεσμίαν ἀνοίξαντες ὁρῶσι τὸ εἶδος τῆς θεοτόκου τὸν Χριστὸν ὡς βρέφος ταῖς χερσὶ περιεχούσης, θαυμαστὸν ἅμα καὶ αἰδεσιμώτατον καὶ θεοπρεπέστατον εἶδος καὶ κάλλος, ἐν πλαξὶ διαυγέσι, καὶ ἐμφανὲς θεωρούμενον καὶ ὅλον δι' ὅλου εἰς βάθος κεχωρηκός· ὅπερ ἰδόντες Ἰουδαῖοι ἔφυγον. μετὰ ταῦτα πολλοὶ Ἰουδαῖοι καὶ Ἕλληνες ἀποξέσαι τοῦτο πειραθέντες ἠστόχησαν· μένει δὲ ὡσαύτως ἄχρι τοῦ νῦν ἡ ἀχειροποίητος ἐπὶ τῆς πλακὸς μορφὴ εἰς δόξαν θεοῦ. πρὸς τούτοις καὶ ἡ τῆς αἱμόρρους εἰκών, διὰ τῆς βοτάνης πᾶν πάθος ἰωμένη ἐν Πανεάδι καὶ πάσῃ τῇ γῇ." 6. Μετὰ τοῦτον ὁ ἱερὸς Εὐθύμιος μητροπολίτης Σάρδεων παρρησιασάμενος ἀπεστόμισε τὸν ἀλιτήριον. Θεόδωρος δὲ ὁ τῶν Στουδίου ἡγούμενος ἔφη "μὴ παρασάλευε, βασιλεῦ, κατάστασιν ἐκκλησιαστικήν· σοὶ μὲν γὰρ ἡ τῆς πολιτείας κατάστασις καὶ ἡ τοῦ στρατοπέδου ἐπιστεύθη τούτων φροντίζειν, τὴν δὲ ἐκκλησίαν ἄφες." ὁ δὲ τύραννος ὑπερζέσας τῷ θυμῷ πάντας μεθ' ὕβρεων ἀπήλασεν, καὶ τὸν μὲν