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But now I will relate the end of his life that befell him. 7. The Christ-loving emperor Constantine, then, having advanced into the thirty-first year of his reign, and having embarked upon the thirty-second, when he learned that the Persians were preparing for war against him, set out from his own city and was seen as far as Nicomedia of the Bithynians; where he also ended his life by the plotting of his own brothers, who poured a poisonous drug for him, a comet, as they say, having foretold his death. Constantine had these brothers on his father's side: Dalmatius, Hannibalianus, and Constantius; for he himself was the only son of his father Constantius by Helena, while he was still a private citizen; but from Theodora, the daughter of Maximian, surnamed Herculius, other children were born to him: both the aforementioned Dalmatius, and Hannibalianus, and Constantius, whom Constantine honored as Caesars and Nobilissimi. Of these, Constantius, from the wife joined to him, begets both Gallus and Julian, called the Apostate, because he renounced Christ and inclined toward the Hellenic religion; who, while he was reigning, punished the great martyr of Christ and much-suffering Artemius, on account of his faith in Christ and his divine zeal. But these things happened later and after some time. 8. But I, having related the things done in the earlier times, will turn my account again to the things that happened to the martyr; both how the lawless and apostate Julian and in what manner came to the dignity of the empire; and how the martyr of Christ Artemius ran to the all-holy stadium of the confession of Christ. When the great Constantine had just died, the rule of the Romans was divided into three rules, as his sons, Constantine, 96.1260 Constantius, and Constans, divided these among themselves. And to the first, Constantine, upper Gaul and the lands beyond the Alps, the British Isles, and as far as the western ocean were given as his portion; and to Constans, as the last, lower Gaul, that is, Italy and Rome itself. But Constantius, the second of Constantine's sons, who was at that time in charge of the affairs of the East, contending against the Persians, embraced the part of the East; and then Byzantium, renamed Constantinople, and New Rome, he makes his capital, and from Illyricum as far as the Propontis, whatever was subject to the Romans, both Syria and Palestine and Mesopotamia and Egypt, and all the islands, he makes subject to his own rule and state. 9. But the great Artemius was with Constantius at every time and in every matter, as a most excellent friend, and one of those distinguished for virtue and learning, and a fervent lover of the Christian faith. No one has handed down to us a written record of his country and family, except that the thrice-blessed one was of the well-born and great. From which these things also have been recorded about him, that he is the one who was commanded by Constantius to carry out the translation of the all-holy relics of the apostles of Christ, Andrew and Luke and Timothy, as the account will teach as it proceeds; and I will relate all these things in order, proceeding through the times and setting them forth according to the necessary accuracy of the matters. As has been said, then, since there were three emperors, and each of them was ruling his own portion, the first of them, Constantine, having set out from his own share and having gone against the inheritance of his youngest brother, when that one had gone away to Rome, attempted to perpetrate some injustice against his brother; and slandered him in his absence, as

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Τὰ δὲ νῦν τὸ φθάσαν αὐτὸν τοῦ βίου τέλος διηγήσομαι. ζʹ. Ὁ γοῦν φιλόχριστος βασιλεὺς Κωνσταντῖνος εἰς τὸ πρῶτον καὶ τριακοστὸν ἔτος προελθὼν τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας, καὶ τοῦ δευτέρου ἐπιβὰς, ἐπειδὴ ἐπύθετο τοὺς Πέρσας εἰς πόλεμον ἐπ' αὐτὸν παρασκευαζομένους, ἄρας ἐκ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ πόλεως, ἄχρι τῆς Νικομηδείας ὤφθη τῶν Βιθυνῶν· ἔνθα καὶ τελευτᾷ τὸν βίον ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆς τῶν ἑαυτοῦ ἀδελφῶν, φάρμακον αὐτῷ δηλητήριον ἐκχεαμένων, ἀστέρος, ὥς φασι, κομήτου τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ προμηνύσαντος. Ἦσαν δὲ τῷ Κωνσταντίνῳ ἀδελφοὶ πρὸς πατρὸς οἵδε, ∆αλμάτιος, Ἀναβαλλιανὸς, καὶ Κωνστάντιος· αὐτὸς γὰρ ἐξ Ἑλένης μόνος ἦν τῷ πατρὶ Κώνσταντι ἔτι ἰδιοτεύοντι· ἐκ δὲ τῆς θυγατρὸς Μαξιμιανοῦ, τοῦ Ἑρκουλλίου ἐπονομαζομένου, Θεοδώρας, ἕτεροι γεγόνασιν αὐτῷ παῖδες· ὅ τε προῤῥηθεὶς ∆αλμάτιος, καὶ Ἀναβαλλιανὸς, καὶ Κωνστάντιος· οὓς καὶ Καίσαρας ὁ Κωνσταντῖνος καὶ νοβελλησίμους ἐτίμησε. Τούτων ὁ Κωνστάντιος ἐκ τῆς συναφθείσης αὐτῷ γαμετῆς γεννᾷ Γάλλον τε καὶ Ἰουλιανὸν τὸν παραβάτην ἐπικληθέντα, διὰ τὸ τὸν Χριστὸν ἐξομόσασθαι, καὶ πρὸς τὴν Ἑλληνικὴν ἀποκλῖναι θρησκείαν· ὃς καὶ τὸν μέγαν τοῦ Χριστοῦ μάρτυρα καὶ πολύαθλον Ἀρτέμιον ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτὸν ἐκόλασε, διὰ τὴν εἰς Χριστὸν πίστιν καὶ τὸν ζῆλον τὸν ἔνθεον. Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ὕστερον καὶ μετὰ χρόνου γεγόνασιν. ηʹ. Ἐγὼ δὲ τὰ πεπραγμένα τοῖς ἄνω χρόνοις διηγησάμενος, ἐπὶ τὰ συμβάντα τῷ μάρτυρι πάλιν τρέψω τὸν λόγον· πῶς τε ὁ παράνομος καὶ παραβάτης Ἰουλιανὸς καὶ τίνι τρόπῳ ἐπὶ τὸ τῆς βασιλείας ἦλθεν ἀξίωμα· καὶ πῶς ὁ τοῦ Χριστοῦ μάρτυς Ἀρτέμιος εἰς τὸ τῆς Χριστοῦ ὁμολογίας πανίερον ἔδραμε στάδιον. Ἄρτι τοῦ μεγάλου Κωνσταντίνου τελευτήσαντος, ἡ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀρχὴ εἰς τρεῖς διῃρέθη ἀρχὰς, τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ, Κωνσταντίνου, 96.1260 Κωνσταντίου τε καὶ Κώνσταντος, ταύτας μερισαμένων. Καὶ τῷ μὲν πρώτῳ Κωνσταντίνῳ αἱ ἄνω Γαλλίαι καὶ τὰ ἐπέκεινα Ἄλπεων, αἵ τε Βρετανικαὶ νῆσοι, καὶ ἕως τοῦ ἑσπερίου ὠκεανοῦ κλῆρος ἐδόθησαν· τῷ δέ γε Κώνσταντι, ὡς ὑστάτῳ, αἱ κάτω Γαλλίαι, ἤγουν ἡ Ἰταλία καὶ αὐτὴ Ῥώμη. Ὁ δε Κωνστάντιος ὁ δεύτερος τῶν Κωνσταντίνου υἱῶν, ὃς ἦν ἐπὶ τῶν τῆς ἑῴας τότε πραγμάτων πρὸς τοὺς Πέρσας ἀγωνιζόμενος, τὸ τῆς ἑῴας ἀσπάζεται μέρος· καὶ τότε Βυζάντιον μετονομασθὲν εἰς Κωνσταντινούπολιν, καὶ νέαν Ῥώμην, ποιεῖται βασίλειον, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἰλλυρικοῦ μέχρι τῆς Προποντίδος ὁπόσα ὑπήκοα Ῥωμαίοις, τήν τε Συρίαν καὶ Παλαιστίνην καὶ Μεσοποταμίαν καὶ Αἴγυπτον, καὶ τὰς νήσους ἁπάσας, τῇ αὐτοῦ βασιλείᾳ καὶ πολιτείᾳ ὑποτελῆ καθίστησιν. θʹ. Ὁ δὲ μέγας Ἀρτέμιος συνῆν τῷ Κωνσταντίῳ ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ τε καὶ πράγματι, ὡς ἅτε φίλος ἄριστος, καὶ τῶν ἐπ' ἀρετῇ καὶ παιδείᾳ λαμπρυνομένων, καὶ τῆς Χριστιανῶν πίστεως διάπυρος ἐραστής. Πατρίδος καὶ γένους αὐτοῦ ἀνάγραπτον μνήμην οὐδεὶς ἡμῖν παραδέδωκεν, πλὴν ὅτι τῶν εὐπατριδῶν καὶ μεγάλων ὑπῆρχεν ὁ τρισμακάριστος. Ἐξ ὧν καὶ τάδε τὰ περὶ αὐτοῦ ἀναγέγραπται, ὅτι τὰ πανάγια λείψανα τῶν τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀποστόλων Ἀνδρέου καὶ Λουκᾶ καὶ Τιμοθέου, αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ τὴν ἀνακομιδὴν αὐτῶν ὑπὸ Κωνσταντίου ποιήσασθαι κελευσθεὶς, ὡς προϊὼν ὁ λόγος διδάξει· ἐγὼ δὲ ἅπαντα ταῦτα καθεξῆς διηγήσομαι ἐπὶ τοὺς χρόνους διαβαίνων καὶ ἐκτιθέμενος κατὰ τὴν δεούσαν τῶν πραγμάτων ἀκρίβειαν. Ὡς οὖν εἴρηται, τῶν βασιλέων τριῶν τυγχανόντων, καὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ μοίρας ἑκάστου αὐτῶν βασιλεύοντος, ὁ πρῶτος αὐτῶν Κωνσταντῖνος τῆς οἰκείας μερίδος ἀπαναστὰς καὶ πρὸς τὴν τοῦ ἐσχάτου ἀδελφοῦ κληροδοσίαν ἐπανελθὼν, ἐκείνου πρὸς τὴν Ῥώμην ἀποδημήσαντος, ἐπεχείρει τι τῶν ἀδίκων κατὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ διαπράξασθαι· καὶ αὐτὸν μὴ παρόντα διέβαλλεν, ὡς