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
he exiled Patriarch Nicephorus and 609 Theodore; at which time it is also said that when Patriarch Nicephorus was being sent into exile, Theophanes, called "of Sigriane" and head of the monastery of the Great Field, saw him from afar with prophetic eyes, and burned incense and sent him off with a prayer, raising his hands and commending him to God and extending a greeting; and when someone asked the reason, he said that, "Behold, the great confessor, Patriarch Nicephorus, is passing by in exile, contending for the holy icons." But the holy Euthymius, since he had proclaimed the refutation of the heresy more sharply, he crushed his jaws with blows and so tore his back with scourges that he expired under them. After these things had happened, he ordained Theodotus Cassiteras as patriarch, an irrational man and more voiceless than fish, and openly stirred up an implacable persecution against the church, entrusting to his accomplices to accomplish three things he had proposed: the denial of our orthodox faith, the destruction of the divine icons, and the persecution of the pious. And first he destroyed every sacred image set up in the churches, and thereupon he condemned those found having an icon of Christ or of the saints to terrible punishments and death, and he murdered many of the glorious and illustrious, and indeed countless monks. 7. And since Michael of Amorium, whose child he had adopted from the 610 spiritual font, he had honored as a patrikios and excubitor, but he himself with the boldness of his tongue reproached Leo as a destroyer of the holy icons, and that his wife was joined in unholy wedlock, suspecting that he was plotting a revolt, he bound him in the palace bath called Pithekion, and ordered him to be tied to a pole and given to the furnace fire to be consumed; and as he was being led forth, the emperor stood watching him. But the empress Theodosia, having supplicated with tears, rescued him from the bloody murder, and the emperor ordered the culprit to be left alone. And to his wife he said, "O woman, you have freed my soul today from the punishment from on high, but perhaps you will soon deprive it of life; and you and our children will see what will come of it." For the time of his murder had been revealed to him from some prophetic book. For it had such a writing, a full image of a lion beast, having on its head the letter Chi, and on its hind parts Phi, and in the middle of the beast, at its very loin, a sword or saber plunged in and bloodied; which he showed to Stephen, surnamed Capitoliges, and said to him, "What does this mean?" And he said, "Let it be, master, that I may not see the writing." But he would not accept it. Therefore, after reflecting, Stephen said to the emperor, "This lion represents the person of the emperor, and between the letter Chi and the Phi something bad will happen to him." And the 611 emperor said, "What is the Phi and the Chi?" And he said, "Between the Nativity of Christ and the Epiphany." But also from what was said to him through the patrikios Bardanios by the monk in Philomelion, and from the putting on and wearing of the garments, when he was entering the palace for his reign. In addition, the vision of his mother also filled him with fear, which, though told at the time, was reckoned as nothing by him, but now lay very bitingly upon his soul. For there appeared to her, as she was always visiting the divine church in Blachernae, a certain maiden surrounded by many white-robed people, and the entire church was full of blood. This maiden then told one of those present to fill a pot with blood and give it to Leo's mother to drink. And when she put forward her long-standing practice of tasting neither meat nor anything with blood, and for this reason had no need of this pot, "And how," replied the maiden with anger, "does your son not cease filling me with much blood and provoking this my son and God?" And from that time on she often beseeched her son to abandon the heresy of the icon-burners, relating the vision dramatically. Another nocturnal vision terrified him, not of the first
πατριάρχην Νικηφόρον ἐξώρισε καὶ τὸν 609 Θεόδωρον· ὅτε καὶ λέγεται ὅτι τοῦ πατριάρχου Νικηφόρου ἐν ἐξορίᾳ παραπεμπομένου,
πόρρωθεν ἰδεῖν Θεοφάνην τὸν τῆς Σιγριανῆς λεγόμενον καὶ τῆς μονῆς τοῦ μεγάλου Ἀγροῦ προϊστάμενον προορατικοῖς ἀφθαλμοῖς, θυμιάματά
τε καῦσαι καὶ μετ' εὐχῆς ἀποπέμψαι, τὰς χεῖρας αἴροντα καὶ τῷ θεῷ τοῦτον παραδιδόντα καὶ τὸν ἀσπασμὸν ἐπιτείνοντα· καί τινος
ἐρομένου αἰτίαν εἰπεῖν ὅτι ἰδοὺ διέρχεται ἐν ἐξορίᾳ ὁ μέγας ὁμολογητὴς Νικηφόρος ὁ πατριάρχης, ὑπὲρ τῶν ἁγίων εἰκόνων ἀγωνιζόμενος.
τὸν δὲ ἱερὸν Εὐθύμιον, ἅτε δὴ τὸν ἔλεγχον τῆς αἱρέσεως ἀποτομώτερον ἐκφωνήσαντα, τὰς σιαγόνας τοῖς ῥαπίσμασι καταθλᾷ καὶ ταῖς
μάστιξι τὸν νῶτον καταξαίνει τοσοῦτον ὡς ἐν αὐταῖς τοῦτον ἐκπνεῦσαι. τούτων γενομένων Θεόδοτον τὸν Κασσιτηρὰν πατριάρχην χειροτονεῖ,
ἄλογον ἄνδρα καὶ ἰχθύων ἀφωνότερον, καὶ διωγμὸν ἄσπονδον κατὰ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἀναρριπίζει φανερῶς, τοῖς συμμύσταις αὐτοῦ καταπιστεύων,
τρία ὑποθέντας αὐτῷ ποιῆσαι, τῆς ὀρθοδόξου ἡμῶν πίστεως τὴν ἄρνησιν, τῶν θείων εἰκόνων τὴν καθαίρεσιν καὶ τῶν εὐσεβούντων
τὴν δίωξιν. καὶ πρῶτον μὲν καθαιρεῖ πᾶσαν ἱερὰν τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἀναστήλωσιν, κἀντεῦθεν τοὺς εὑρισκομένους ἔχοντας εἰκόνα Χριστοῦ
ἢ τῶν ἁγίων δειναῖς τιμωρίαις καὶ θανάτῳ κατεδίκασεν, πολλοὺς δὲ τῶν ἐν δόξῃ καὶ περιφανῶν, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ μοναχοὺς ἀπείρους,
πεφόνευκεν. 7. Ἐπεὶ δὲ Μιχαὴλ τὸν ἐξ Ἀμορίου, οὗ τὴν παῖδα ἐκ τῆς 610 πνευματικῆς κολυμβήθρας υἱοποιήσατο, πατρίκιον καὶ ἐκκούβιτον
ἐτίμησεν, αὐτὸς δὲ τῇ τολμηρίᾳ τῆς γλώττης τὸν Λέοντα ὠνείδιζεν ὡς καθαιρέτην τῶν ἁγίων εἰκόνων, καὶ τὴν γαμετὴν αὐτοῦ ἀνοσίοις
γάμοις ἐμμιγῆναι, ὑπολαβὼν αὐτὸν ἀνταρσίαν μελετᾶν εἰς τὸ τοῦ παλατίου λοῦτρον Πιθήκειον δεσμεῖ, κοντῷ τε προσδεθῆναι κελεύει
καὶ τῷ καμιναίῳ πυρὶ παραδοθῆναι ἀνάλωμα· οὗ προβιβασθέντος ὁ βασιλεὺς εἱστήκει θεωρῶν τοῦτον. ἡ δὲ βασίλισσα Θεοδοσία δάκρυσιν
ἱκετεύσασα τῆς μιαιφονίας ἐλυτρώσατο, καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸν ὑπεύθυνον ἐαθῆναι προσέταξεν. πρὸς δὲ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα εἶπεν "ὦ
γύναι, τὴν μὲν ἐμὴν ψυχὴν τῆς ἐκεῖθεν σήμερον δίκης ἀπήλλαξας, ἴσως μὲν καὶ τῆς ζωῆς συντόμως στερήσεις· σὺ δὲ καὶ τὰ τέκνα
ἡμῶν θεάσῃ τὸ ἀποβησόμενον." ἦν γὰρ αὐτῷ ἔκ τινος συμβουλικῆς βίβλου ὁ ἀναιρέσιμος χρόνος μεμυημένος. εἶχε γὰρ γραφὴν τοιαύτην,
Λέοντος εἰκόνα θηρίου ὁλόκληρον, ἐν μὲν τῇ κεφαλῇ ἔχουσαν Χ γράμμα, ἐν δὲ τοῖς ὄπισθεν Φ, καὶ μέσον τοῦ θηρίου πρὸς αὐτὴν
τὴν ψόαν ξίφος ἤγουν σπάθην ἐμπεπηγμένην καὶ ᾑμαγμένην· ἣν ὑποδείξας Στεφάνῳ, ᾧ ἐπίκλην Καπετωλίγης, ἔφη πρὸς αὐτὸν "τί δηλοῖ
ταῦτα;" ὁ δὲ ἔφη "ἄφες, δέσποτα, μὴ ἴδω καὶ τὴν γραφήν." ὁ δὲ οὐ κατεδέξατο. συλλογισάμενος οὖν ὁ Στέφανος λέγει τῷ βασιλεῖ
"οὗτος ὁ λέων εἰς πρόσωπον τῆς βασιλείας κεῖται, καὶ μέσον τοῦ Χ γράμματος καὶ τοῦ Φ κακόν τι συμβαίνει αὐτῷ." καὶ ὁ 611 βασιλεὺς
"τί ἐστι τὸ Φ καὶ τὸ Χ;" ὁ δέ φησι "μέσον τῆς Χριστοῦ γεννήσεως καὶ τῶν φώτων." ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ῥηθέντος αὐτῷ διὰ τοῦ πατρικίου
Βαρδανίου παρὰ τοῦ ἐν τῷ Φιλομηλίῳ μονάζοντος, καὶ ἐκ τῆς ἀμφιάσεως καὶ ἐπιβάσεως τῶν ἐσθήτων, ὅτε πρὸς τὰ βασίλεια εἰς τὴν
ἀρχὴν εἰσήρχετο. προσέτι δὲ καὶ ἡ τῆς μητρὸς ὄψις ἐπλήρου φόβου αὐτόν, ἣ τότε μὲν λεχθεῖσα εἰς οὐδὲν τούτῳ λελόγιστο, τὰ νῦν
δὲ καὶ σφόδρα δάκνουσα ἐπέκειτο τὴν ψυχήν. ἐφάνη γὰρ αὐτῇ, κατὰ τὸν ἐν Βλαχέρναις θεῖον ναὸν προσφοιτώσης ἀεί, κόρη τις ὑπὸ
πολλῶν λευχειμόνων περιστοιχιζομένη καὶ ὁ ναὸς ἅπας αἵματι πλήρης. ταύτην οὖν τὴν κόρην εἰπεῖν τινὶ τῶν παρεστώτων, χύτραν
πληρώσαντα αἵματι ἐπιδοῦναι τῇ μητρὶ τοῦ Λέοντος πιεῖν. αὐτῆς δὲ πολυετίαν προβαλλομένης δι' ἧς μήτε κρεῶν μήτε τινὸς τῶν
ἐναίμων γεύσασθαι, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο μηδὲ ταύτης χρῄζειν τῆς χύτρας, "καὶ πῶς" ἀντέφη ἡ κόρη μετὰ θυμοῦ "ὁ σὸς υἱὸς οὐ παύεται
ἐμὲ πολλῶν αἱμάτων πληρῶν καὶ τοῦτον τὸν ἐμὸν υἱὸν παροργίζων καὶ θεόν;" πολλά τε ἔκτοτε ἐλιτάνευε τὸν ἑαυτῆς υἱὸν τῆς τῶν
εἰκονοκαυστῶν αἱρέσεως ἀποστῆναι, τὴν ὄψιν αὐτὴν ἐκτραγῳδοῦσα. ἄλλη δὲ ὄψις τοῦτον ἐδειμάτου νυκτερινὴ τῆς πρώτης οὐκ
