Compendium chronicum
Gold-bearing, glistening with robes studded with pearls. the fragrant violet shone, the rose shone back. every kind of violet's color smiled from ever
The fine-spun ones. the large-winged, large-hooked-beaked, hooked-clawed, boasting their claws like javelins, having a beak sharper than daggers, for
Having made him a composite of soul and body, and having bestowed the grace of a will moved by itself, and having formed him according to his likeness
Of yours, and you will be called gods, and you will know all things. the woman heard these things, she heeded the flattery, she was conquered by the
Land-born, winged, walking but god, opening the floodgates of heaven, brought down from there whole seas of rain, covered the peaks of the deep-cliff
They stole, they committed adultery, and finally they looked toward idolatry. seruch was the first to begin to use carved images and pillars, being th
Javelin-bowmen, armor-bearers, spearmen, men furious in battle, and having taken an allied force from the nation of the huns, and having made allies o
Chaldeans, and the plaything of fortune and the dice of affairs, having sufficiently mocked others, passed over to others. and when these things were
Mandane, and that the liquid poured forth was so great as to be able to cover the face of the land of asia. this was the first dream, and a second one
Not even among the most famous, like that of the medes and persians, or that of the assyrians. candaules was king of lydia and phrygia, tracing his li
To be contrived by such devices. he, having learned and discerned which mare the horse of darius loved more than all the others, after the two of them
Having heard that joseph, the one born of rachel, was governing the land of egypt for pharaoh, and also contriving to find a release from his sufferin
Was sung. and a light of gladness rose for the hebrews, but the darkness of calamities overshadowed the egyptians. the israelites who fled egypt then
He exposes him in a place called parion after paris himself. he was therefore cast aside carelessly. shepherds found him, pitied him, took him up. the
Because helen had been seized by someone, all fought on her behalf with their own bodies. so after much entreating and importuning, they persuade the
While strong-handed achilles was present, the counsels of the son of laertes were ineffective, and every plot devised and scheme stitched together aga
The swarm of trojans mingled with each other, daring to do nothing. and there was a temple before the walls of beautifully-towered troy, where achille
To proteus, he also finds his consort there in memphis, and having been hosted and honored he receives helen, and after considerable toils he reaches
Flapping its wings, a great-winged bird, fanned the fire into flame with its wings. but a certain cunning fox, vying with these and contending against
To be called, remaining faithful, keepers of the house and guardians of what is within. then taking a clod of earth in his hand from outside, he throw
The most unjust slaughter of his father, and perceiving as a man of sense that he would share the danger with his father and brother and would die wit
Caesar wished to take into the fellowship of marriage a woman who was in the sixth month of her pregnancy, and he urged nero to betroth his wife to hi
And his whole character was lecherous, and worse than others, lusting after women joined to men, and commanding their spouses to serve his abomination
You will cause me pain for those who are sated on my rotten limbs will vex me for a short time, but if others fall upon me, they will cling more viol
Bringing with them a chariot-driver mime, they came upon him to kill him. and nero, knowing this, killed himself, saying this at the end: what an art
Extinguishes it, and dogs, running up and eating the bonds, release the stargazer who was invoking the gods many times. and these things indeed were a
Ravaging and plundering, being in want of money, pressed by need and having no army from anywhere to arm against them, set forth in the marketplace th
Of great things, what terror was not present, what was not dared! slaughters and toils everywhere, and pools of blood. and the gloom of the prison hel
Their names were constans and constantine) manages the western parts and rome and the gauls. but these were extinguished rather quickly and before the
But when that woman again added that her husband was plotting against gratian himself, he replied again, what is that to you, woman? and they say th
Orestes, and after orestes the son of romulus was the last to take hold of the rule. and the great-named city, the city of the romans, having had romu
They set aside the young woman. athenais the maiden, exceedingly distressed at these things and wounded in her soul, goes to her maternal aunt, she sh
Learning of the emperor, she arrives in the city of jerusalem as quickly as possible, and there, having completed the remainder of her life, she pays
When a fierce battle had broken out and he was leading the romans against the arrogant persians, marcian, seized by a death-threatening illness, remai
A man, a treasure of wisdom, was slandered as a hellene, isocasius by name, a quaestor by rank and from there, stripped of both honor and money, he i
Having reigned over the romans for eighteen years. but this one, having tasted power for a short time, departed from the earth rather quickly, leaving
The poison with the trisagion hymn, and when he saw the whole crowd immediately run wild and drive the eparch from the temple with stones and burn dow
Justin, but being inflamed with zeal for the pious religion, kindled an implacable war against the manichaeans and a persecution more severe than thos
Manly minds for with this man he joined mighty battles, and so terrified chosroes that he wished to exchange peace for man-slaying wars. and rome the
With graces and bear torches for creation, and appear as bright stars to those on earth but the sun leaped up from a most beautiful lake, and the tor
Such power, and being filled with greater zeal, he held to what must be done. and it happened that not long after something like this occurred, worthy
Into the judgments of the judge shook the hearts of all. from there a calm of justice-doing was spread everywhere, instead of a winter and a gloomy te
And by the things that will be said and the khagan, having attacked the garrisons of the romans (the khagan was king of the northern scythians) and h
Of dregs. therefore, he is caught fleeing together with the empress and the purple-born branches sprung from him. but the most god-hated, man-slaying
With golden helmets, delicate, all quiver-bearing, on snorting, gold-phalerad horses. so when the emperor saw it was impossible to engage with the arm
Having embarked in boats, they came on, covering the back of the sea with their dense light boats, with their single-log vessels. thus there were many
But nevertheless he did not long enjoy his fortune, but it quickly grew cold, but appearing he was hidden, just as a rose might spring up and immediat
Him, only one thing troubled, lest the scepter reach justinian again, and he who was formerly deprived of it, and of his nose along with it, might aga
Infancy was subjected to murderous hands for slaughter but here, boys of fifteen, girls in their early bloom, young men, soft-skinned women, little g
You will see a dreadful thing, and he bespattered the ground, flowing away like water. thus it was said well and wisely by the ancients, nothing beyo
But the emperor theodosios, shrinking from the audacity and the beast-like heart of leo, yielded the throne and the crown to his enemy, willingly or u
From the kandys and the torc i will know, and the croaking raven from its blackness. near the precinct of the wisdom of god a splendid house had been
He plundered beauty, he cut out the sacred images from the churches, and in their place with the same colors and mosaics he engraved his beloved hunti
From there he is rolled towards lawless deeds, and he shaves the head of his most temperate consort, and introduces the union with another woman into
They drive him from the throne and the city as a fugitive. and he, having indicated these things in writing to the empress and having besought to rece
They were supplicating, even employing force. but he, not knowing the turn of the balancing scale of fortune, and fearing its wavering will, approache
And again the tail of the dragon was moved. the abomination, i mean, of iconoclasm, like a great dragon, crept, dreadful and gaping, it rushed to devo
And from there what was being built was overturned from its roots, and having stained his own war-loving hands with murders and having made every spea
The king, on account of the bruises and the numerous wounds, or rather cases of paralysis, was shaken in his soul at what had happened, and wishing to
Finding their catch, they write to the just man while he is fishing with nets a short writing in iambic meter, which, since i have deemed it not right
Having been persuaded and having received complete assurance that theophilos was delivered from the torments there, she became a fellow-diner with the
Of the ancient kings, both the golden trees, and the chattering sparrows, and lions made of hammered gold, and simply every royal thing gleaming in th
By his hand, but the contriver of evils paid the penalty, and the preparer of terrible things drank a cup of wrath. bardas, therefore, while digging a
Scarcely the temple-keeper he immediately makes basil a member of his household, and deems him worthy of fitting care. and basil was handsome, noble,
To earth-born men, and certain innate dooms accompany men. for this one, great in understanding among emperors, having been persuaded by certain serpe
By the transgression of tetragamy. but leo, the most philosophical among emperors, having fallen into the natural necessities of the body and being af
He arms himself on behalf of the one who had been out-generaled with an army drawn from many places, from the lycaonians, from the thracians, from the
Raising him from a lowly state to the summit, he makes him father and guardian of the empire. and drawing romanos further into his affection, he gives
Of unstained rule, and being about to be released from the bonds of nature, he appointed his son romanos as sole ruler. but he, entrusting all strengt
He conveys everything, and says, alas, o general, for the fortune of the romans! until when will woman-souled eunuchs steer the ship of state, resour
Medimni of grain to be sold for a nomisma. thus phocas managed the matter meanly, and this though he was rich in thousand-bushel granaries, laden with
Near the ister cutting down the phalanxes, breaking the scytharchs, killing, pursuing, routing the champions, as if some lion falling upon broad-flank
Slumber to his eyelids, nor sleep to his eyes, until he drove out the wolves, the devourers of sheep. the mighty ones of the bulgars recognized his st
And having been taught by certain people that after him the rule would pass to romanos, one of the senate, surnamed argyropoulos, he compels the man t
Having the care of those in the home for the aged, he managed all other matters of state up and down and was seen openly as the keeper of the ruler. t
Rushing into the inner sanctuary, from there they seize the wretched man, crying out with groans from the heart, with hot tears, and they gouge out hi
Bloody streams, but murderous outpourings. he seized the fortresses, he seized the cities. he went on, roaring in his anger, breathing fire more than
Of the power to comnenus. but those who were allotted to steer the ship of state, wishing not to save it but to sink it and swamp the most wretched th
But suddenly the tempests of the flesh, having grown wild, stirred up a hard-to-calm, wave-tossed wind, they brought on nausea, vomiting, dizziness, t
To sheep-guarded folds. but a winged dove, flying up from somewhere, alighted on his knees with a silent flutter, not like the one before that flew to
Promising down on his temples, using caesar his uncle as a rival and the most powerful men and those in high military command, he at once seats himsel
Shining with purple dye and gold, and using in turn overlapping garments, he sat upon high, silver-studded thrones, adorning with dignities all who ca
the fine-spun ones. The large-winged, large-hooked-beaked, hooked-clawed, boasting their claws like javelins, having a beak sharper than daggers, for whom flesh was to be food and flesh-eating to become their nature, the eagle, ruler of birds, raw-flesh-eating hawks, and all the flesh-eaters for whom fire is not useful. And from there, chattering sparrows, herb-eating, small-winged, short-lived, cried out in various ways and chirped in thickets and made the trees resound, musical linnets, larks, finches, starlings, and every winged creature running about the herbs of the fields and from there gathering a delicate, easily-gotten meal. Then also fearsome beasts appeared upon the earth, shaggy-maned lions, bears, leopards, tigers, and boars with projecting tusks, the broad-chested elephant, and sharp-toothed dogs, swift-footed hares, and every winged creature and every land creature, as many as live on dry land, as many as are kin to the sea, as many as roam the mountains. Having filled the water and the dry land with so many living creatures, the all-wise roofer of the cosmic dwelling, yea, even spreading out the tunic not spun by hand, the air, which the fine works of divine fingers drew out, like a wide, strong-towered city for the flesh-eating birds and for the herb-eating ones, He completed the course of the fifth day. And a sixth day dawned again, rose-colored, and God planted a garden of beautiful trees, not with digging hands, nor with earth-battling ones, nor with planting palms, but by the Word alone. And every beautifully-sprouting tree sprang up there, fragrant, with shady leaves, with fair foliage, sweet-breathing. Who could set before our eyes the beauty of Eden? On that side were rows of fruit-bearing plants, on this side a phalanx of fragrant, ever-blooming little trees; on that side sprang up fruit with nectarous juice, on this side for delight flourished trees that reached the sky, the water-nurtured plane tree, the lofty fir, towering pines, cypresses, elms. The leaves of the trees fell together with one another, the boughs drew near, the branches came together. The very leaves of the trees seemed to embrace each other with dearer entwinings. The sun glistened, and falling upon the plants flowed gently and sporadically beneath them, as much as the thick covering of leaves was opened. The beauties of roses shone, the color of lilies gleamed in response; and the roses were then thornless, without spines. Whatever was all-purple and white-gleaming among the roses, sprang up from the ground like a ray-shining star. Here the face of the earth was green with grasses, there it was dark blue, elsewhere it smiled. Upon the dew-dripping, all-varied, fair colors of the flowers, the gentle-breathing Zephyr blew from all sides, and filled the air with the fragrance of the flowers. In the midst of these the tree of life had sprouted, full of graces, beautiful-leaved, lovely. And a water-mothering spring broke forth from below, and watered the beautifully-treed place of Eden, and tended the roots and the trunks of the plants, and nourished the tender rows of flowers. And from there, being divided into four heads, it becomes the mother of great-flowing rivers. And the rivers in the voice and tongue of the Syrians are called Phison and Geon, Phrad is the third among them, the fourth is Eddekel, but according to the Greek tongue, the Ganges and the great Nile, and the Euphrates and the Tigris. And the Ganges indeed encircles the borders of the land of Havilah (there gold is found and the greenish stone, and the gold is pure and gleaming and reddish-yellow), and the white-flowing Nile encircles the land of the Ethiopians, and waters the rich-clodded fields of the Egyptians with nourishing streams and makes them fruitful. And the Tigris, borne along like an arrow with a rushing sound, and making splashes and heavy-thudding surges, runs before the boundaries of the land of the Assyrians. Having planted and wooded such a delightful tabernacle, He also formed man with all-working palms from an earthy and poor and mud-mixed mass; and having placed the breath of life in the earthy flesh, and having crafted the complete man with breath, and
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τὰς λεπτοχύτους. οἱ μὲν μεγαλοπτέρυγες, μεγαλαγκυλοχεῖλαι, γαμψώνυχες, ὡς βέλεμνα τοὺς ὄνυχας αὐχοῦντες, τομὸν τὸ ῥάμφος ἔχοντες
ὑπὲρ τὰς μαχαιρίδας, οἷς ἔμελλε βρωματισμὸς τὰ κρέα χρηματίζειν καὶ σύντροφα γενήσεσθαι τὰ τῆς σαρκοβορίας, ὀρνεοκράτωρ ἀετός,
ἵρηκες ὠμοφάγοι, καὶ πάντες οἷς οὐ χρήσιμον τὸ πῦρ σαρκοφαγοῦσι. ἐντεῦθεν δὲ στρουθάρια λάλα, βοτανηφάγα, μικρόπτερα, βραχύβια
ποικίλως ἐλαλάγουν καὶ λόχμαις ἐτιτύβιζον καὶ δένδρα περιήχουν, ἀκανθυλλίδες μουσουργοί, κόρυδοι, σπῖνοι, ψᾶρες, καὶ πᾶν πτερὸν
τὰς τῶν ἀγρῶν βοτάνας περιθέον κἀκεῖθεν ἀπραγμάτευτον ὄψον ἁβρὸν συλλέγον. τότε καὶ θῆρες ἐπὶ γῆς ὤφθησαν φρικαλέοι, λέοντες
λασιαύχενες, ἄρκοι, παρδάλεις, τίγρεις, καὶ κάπροι χαυλιόδοντες, εὐρύστερνος ἐλέφας, καὶ κύνες καρχαρόδοντες, πτηνόποδες λαγῖναι,
καὶ πᾶν πτηνὸν καὶ πᾶν πεζόν, ὅσον ἐν χερσοβίοις, ὅσον θαλάσσῃ σύμφυλον, ὅσον ὀρεσινόμον. τοσῶνδε ζῴων τὴν ὑγρὰν πληρώσας
καὶ τὴν χέρσον ὁ πάνσοφος ὀροφωτὴς τῆς παγκοσμίου στέγης, ναὶ μὴν τὸν ἀχειρόκλωστον χιτῶνα, τὸν ἀέρα, ὃν θείων ἐμηρύσαντο
δακτύλων λεπτουργίαι, ὡς πόλιν ὀχυρόπυργον πλατεῖαν ἐφαπλώσας τοῖς σαρκοβόροις πετεινοῖς καὶ τοῖς βοτανηφάγοις, ἡμέρας συνετέλεσε
τὸ δρόμημα τῆς πέμπτης. Ἕκτη δὲ πάλιν ηὔγαζεν ἡμέρα, ῥοδεόχρους, καὶ κήπευμα καλλίδενδρον θεὸς ἐφυτοκόμει, οὐ σκαφευτρίαις
ἐν χερσίν, οὐδὲ γεωμαχούσαις, οὐδὲ παλάμαις φυτουργοῖς, ἀλλὰ τῷ λόγῳ μόνῳ. καὶ δένδρον πᾶν ἀνέτελλε καλλίβλαστον ἐκεῖσε, εὔοσμον,
εὐσκιόφυλλον, εὐπέταλον, ἡδύπνουν. τίς δ' ἂν τὸ κάλλος τοῦ Ἐδὲμ ὑπ' ὄψιν παραστήσῃ; ἐκεῖθεν ὄρχατοι φυτῶν ἦσαν ὀπωροφόρων,
ἐνταῦθα φάλαγξ εὐωδῶν δενδράδων ἀειβλάστων· ἐκεῖθεν νεκταρόχυμος ἀνέτελλεν ὀπώρα, ὧδε πρὸς τέρψιν ἔθαλλον οὐρανομήκη δένδρα,
πλάτανος ὑδατότροφος, ἀκρότομος ἐλάτη, ὑπερῃρμέναι πίτυες, κυπάριττοι, πτελέαι. τὰ πέταλα συνέπιπτον ἀλλήλοις τῶν δενδρέων,
οἱ κλῶνες προσεπέλαζον, συνῄεσαν οἱ πτόρθοι. ἐῴκεσαν αὐτόχρημα τῶν δένδρων αἱ φυλλάδες ἀλλήλας ἀγκαλίζεσθαι περιπλοκαῖς φιλτέραις.
ἥλιος ἐπεμάρμαιρε, καὶ τοῖς φυτοῖς ἐμπίπτων διέρρει κάτωθεν αὐτῶν ἠρέμα καὶ σποράδην, εἰς ὅσον τὸ συνηρεφὲς ἠνέῳκτο τῶν φύλλων.
ἔλαμπον ῥόδων καλλοναί, κρίνων ἀντηύγει χρόα· ἄκεντρα δ' ἦν ἀνάκανθα τὰ ῥόδα τηνικαῦτα. ὁπόσον περιπόρφυρον καὶ λευκαυγὲς
ἐν ῥόδοις, ὡς ἄστρον ἀκτινοβολοῦν ἀνέτελλε χαμόθεν. ὧδε τῆς γῆς τὸ πρόσωπον ἐπράσιζε ταῖς πόαις, ἐκεῖθεν ἐκυάνιζεν, ἄλλοθεν
ὑπεγέλα. ταῖς δροσοστάκτοις τῶν ἀνθῶν παντοδαπαῖς εὐχροίαις Ζέφυρος ἁπαλόπνοος ἐπέπνει πανταχόθεν, καὶ τῶν ἀνθέων τῆς ὀσμῆς
ἐπλήρου τὸν ἀέρα. ἐν μέσοις τούτοις τῆς ζωῆς τὸ δένδρον ἐβλαστήκει, ταῖς χάρισι κατάκομον, καλλίφυλλον, ὡραῖον. ὑδατομήτωρ
δὲ πηγὴ κάτωθεν ἀνερρώγει, καὶ τὸ καλλίδενδρον Ἐδὲμ ἐπότιζε χωρίον, καὶ τῶν φυτῶν ἐκήπευε τὰς ῥίζας καὶ τοὺς πρέμνους, καὶ
τῶν ἀνθῶν τοὺς ἁπαλοὺς ἐμόσχευεν ὀρχάτους. ἐκεῖθεν δὲ πρὸς τέσσαρας ἀρχὰς διαιρουμένη γίνεται μήτηρ ποταμῶν τῶν μεγαλοχευμόνων.
οἱ ποταμοὶ δὲ τῇ φωνῇ καὶ γλώσσῃ τῇ τῶν Σύρων Φεισὼν καλοῦνται καὶ Γεών, Φορὰδ ἐν τούτοις τρίτος, τέταρτός ἐστιν Ἐδδεκέλ,
κατὰ δ' Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν Γάγγης καὶ Νεῖλος ὁ πολύς, Εὐφράτης τε καὶ Τίγρης. καὶ Γάγγης μὲν περιπολεῖ γῆς Εὐϊλὰτ τοὺς ὅρους (ἐκεῖ
χρυσὸς εὑρίσκεται καὶ λίθος ὁ πρασίζων, ὁ δὲ χρυσὸς ἀκίβδηλος καὶ στίλβων καὶ πυρράζων), ὁ Νεῖλος δ' ὁ λευκόρειθρος κυκλοῖ
τὴν Αἰθιόπων, καὶ τὰς λιπαροβώλακας ἀρούρας Αἰγυπτίων εὐτρόφοις ἄρδει ῥεύμασι καὶ τίθησιν εὐκάρπους. ὁ Τίγρις δὲ φερόμενος
ὡς βέλος μετὰ ῥοίζου, καὶ καχλασμοὺς ἀποτελῶν καὶ ῥόθους βαρυδούπους, τῶν σχοινισμάτων ἔναντι γῆς Ἀσσυρίων τρέχει. Τοιόνδε
σκήνωμα τερπνὸν φυτεύσας καὶ δενδρώσας ἔπλασε καὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον παντοεργοῖς παλάμαις ἐκ χωματίνου καὶ λυπροῦ καὶ πηλοφύρτου
βάρους· πνοὴν δ' ἐνθέμενος ζωῆς τῷ γεηρῷ σαρκίῳ, καὶ τέλειον τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἔμπνουν δημιουργήσας, καὶ
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