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

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 and image, He settles him in the beautifully planted place of Eden like a pearl in a chamber, another world within the world, small in appearance as to bulk of size, but in value much greater than the world. This one, formed from red earth, the potter of the clay substance named Adam. And having made him the first citizen of the beauty of Eden, he commanded him to eat the fruit of all the trees, but not to lay hands on the plant of knowledge. Then he brought to Adam every tame animal and every pasture-dwelling animal and every animal displaced to woody thickets, walking, air-traveling, so that they might receive from him names suitable to their natures. The blood-red, long-maned, bull-slaying lion was brought, grim-eyed bears, all-spotted leopards, the dappled-skinned deer, the bushy-tailed fox, the broad-browed elephant, shaking its trunk, the shaggy-footed, stub-horned creature, the horn-striking bull; the partridge was brought, red in its feet and its beak. The black-winged starlings were shaking their plumage and wore certain hail-like spots of whiteness. The golden-winged peacock displayed its beauty. It shone with many colors, its plumage was golden, a sea-purple hue glistened in the peacock's color; and gold bloomed in the middle like a flashing eye, and the creature made a garden planted with feathers. They all circled Adam as slaves circle a master; they fawned, they ran up, they wagged their tails at the first father. And he stroked with his hands the untamable beasts as if they were newborn, young, milk-fed lambs, and in no way did he tremble at the dangers from them; for arrogant and evil and passionate malice had not yet danced upon his heart. Thus nothing boasts against the passionless soul, not beast, not fire, not the boldness of a loud-roaring river. If you reign over the passions, if you rule over sin, you will tread on basilisks and dreadful scorpions, and you will humble the lion, and you will tame the tiger. Amidst these things Adam slept, but a sleep of bitterness, a sleep that was the beginning of catastrophe and all-destroying ruin. The creator touched his side as he slept, took it, and from it formed the woman. And Adam, formed of earth, the first among men, became the side-father of Eve, the mother of all. Therefore, within the place of delight they both lived as if without flesh, not bearing material cares, as if not at all clothed with the weight of a body. And to both of them God again gave a law. "O earth-born ones and first citizens of this Eden, all these things have been produced for the sake of your need; for your enjoyment you tend all the trees. Therefore, be filled with all things, delight in all things. But this alone is the harmful tree of knowledge; this alone you should flee, do not touch this for my sake. Touching brings corruption, and tasting brings gall. If you taste of this alone, you will fall a great fall; for it bears bitter fruit and brings forth death. If you keep this for me, you will flee the sting of fate and you will gain the breadth of an indestructible life." So it was, and the first parents feared the word, they trembled at the threat, they shuddered at the command, and they hated the plant from their soul as most hostile. But Satan was envious, he gnashed his teeth, he raged like a foaming, savage-tusked boar. He could not bear to see them living like angels. And so he finds the crafty-minded and crooked serpent as an instrument of his evil design. He flatters the first mother, he shows her the fruit, beautiful to see, lovely, nectar-like to taste. She saw the fruit; the fruit was comely, it was pleasing to the sight and most beautiful to the taste. It enticed the sight, it charmed the heart, it seemed to drip a heart-charming sweetness of spirit. Satan showed her this, and smeared the cup of deceit with the sweetening honey of flattery. The terrible serpent crept, it hissed deceitfully. "If you taste," he says, "of this fair-fruited tree, if you only bring the fruit to your mouth, the circles of your eyelids will be opened

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σύνθετον ἀπὸ ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος ποιήσας, καὶ χάριν δωρησάμενος ἐθελορμήτου γνώμης, καὶ καθ' ὁμοίωσιν αὐτοῦ πλάσας καὶ κατ' εἰκόνα, ἐγκατοικίζει τῆς Ἐδὲμ τῷ καλλιφύτῳ χώρῳ ὡς ἐν θαλάμῳ μάργαρον, ἄλλον ἐν κόσμῳ κόσμον, μικρὸν μὲν τὸ φαινόμενον ὡς ἐν μεγέθους ὄγκῳ, τῇ δέ γε τιμιότητι κρείττω πολλῷ τοῦ κόσμου. τοῦτον Ἀδὰμ ὡς ἐκ πυρροῦ χώματος πεπλασμένον ὁ τῆς πηλίνης κεραμεὺς ὠνόμασεν οὐσίας. καὶ θέμενος τοῦ τῆς Ἐδὲμ κάλλους πρωτοπολίτην ἐκ πάντων ὀπωροφαγεῖν ἐκέλευσε τῶν δένδρων, τῷ δὲ φυτῷ τῆς γνώσεως μὴ χεῖρας ἐπιβάλλειν. τότε καὶ πᾶν χειρόηθες καὶ πᾶν ἡμερονόμον καὶ πᾶν ἐκτοπιζόμενον εἰς λόχμας πολυξύλους ἤγαγε ζῷον πρὸς Ἀδάμ, πεζόν, αἰθεροπόρον, ὡς σχοῖεν κλήσεις παρ' αὐτοῦ ταῖς φύσεσι προσφόρους. ἤγετο λέων δαφοινὸς χαιτήεις ταυρολέτωρ, ἄρκτοι βλοσυροβλέφαροι, παντόστικτοι παρδάλεις, ἔλαφος ποικιλόδερμος, δασύκερκος ἀλώπηξ, ἐλέφας εὐρυμέτωπος, τὴν προνομαίαν σείων, δασύπους κολοβόκερκος, κερατοπλήκτωρ ταῦρος· ἤγετο πέρδιξ ἐρυθρὸς τοὺς πόδας καὶ τὸ ῥάμφος. οἱ ψᾶρες οἱ μελάμπτεροι τὸ πτίλον ἐπεσόβουν καὶ χαλαζώματά τινα λευκότητος ἐφόρουν. τὸ κάλλος ἐπεδείκνυτο ταὼς ὁ χρυσοπτέρυξ. ἔλαμπε βάμμασι πολλοῖς, ἐχρύσιζε τὸ πτίλον, ἔστιλβεν ἁλουργόχροον ἐν τῷ ταῶνι χρῶμα· ἐπήνθει μέσον καὶ χρυσὸς ὡς ὀφθαλμὸς μαρμαίρων, καὶ κῆπον πτεροφύτευτον εἰργάζετο τὸ ζῷον. ἐκύκλουν πάντα τὸν Ἀδὰμ ὥσπερ δεσπότην δοῦλοι· ἐθώπευον ὑπέτρεχον ἔσαινον τὸν γενάρχην. ὁ δὲ κατέψα ταῖς χερσὶ τὰ δύσμαχα θηρία ὡς ἀρτιτόκους νεαροὺς ἄρνας γαλακτοφάγους, καὶ τοὺς ἐκ τούτων οὐδαμῶς ὑπέτρεμε κινδύνους· ἡ γὰρ σοβὰς καὶ πονηρὰ καὶ θερμουργὸς κακία οὐδέπω κατεχόρευσε καρδίας τῆς ἐκείνου. οὕτως οὐδὲν τῆς ἀπαθοῦς ψυχῆς κατακαυχᾶται, οὐ θήρ, οὐ πῦρ, οὐ ποταμοῦ μεγαλοδούπου θράσος. ἂν βασιλεύῃς τῶν παθῶν, ἂν ἁμαρτίας ἄρχῃς, καὶ βασιλίσκων καὶ δεινῶν σκορπίων ἐπιβήσῃ, καὶ ταπεινώσεις λέοντα, καὶ τίγριν ἡμερώσεις. Ἐν τούτοις ὕπνωσεν Ἀδάμ, ἀλλὰ πικρίας ὕπνον, ὕπνον ἀρχὴν καταστροφῆς καὶ παντολέθρου φθόρου. ἥψατο τούτου τῆς πλευρᾶς καθεύδοντος ὁ κτίστης, ἔλαβε ταύτην, ἔπλασεν ἐντεῦθεν τὴν γυναῖκα. Ἀδὰμ δ' ὁ χωματόπλαστος, ὁ πρῶτος ἐν ἀνθρώποις, Εὔας τῆς παντομήτορος γέγονε πλευροπάτωρ. ἔνδοθεν οὖν τοῦ τῆς τρυφῆς χώρου διέζων ἄμφω ὡς ἄσαρκοι, μὴ φέροντες φροντίδας φιλοΰλους, ὡς μηδὲ περικείμενοι σώματος ὅλως βάρος. ἀμφοῖν δὲ τούτοιν ὁ θεὸς πάλιν ἐνομοθέτει. "ὦ γηγενεῖς καὶ τῆς Ἐδὲμ ταύτης πρωτοπολῖται, ἅπαντα ταῦτα τῆς ὑμῶν χάριν παρῆκται χρείας· πρὸς τὴν ὑμῶν ἀπόλαυσιν πάντα δενδροκομεῖτε. ἁπάντων οὖν κορέννυσθε, πάντων κατατρυφᾶτε. τοῦτο δὲ μόνον βλαβερὸν τῆς γνώσεως τὸ ξύλον· τοῦτο καὶ μόνον φεύγοιτε, τούτου μὴ ψαύσητέ μοι. ἡ ψαῦσις φέρει τὴν φθοράν, καὶ τὴν χολὴν ἡ γεῦσις. ἂν τούτου μόνου γεύσησθε, πτῶμα πεσεῖσθε μέγα· πικρῶς γὰρ ὀπωροδοτεῖ καὶ θάνατον ἐκφύει. ἂν τοῦτό μοι φυλάξησθε, φεύξησθε κέντρον πότμου καὶ πλατυσμὸν κερδάνησθε ζωῆς ἀκαταλύτου." Ἦν ταῦτα, καὶ πεφόβηντο τὸν λόγον οἱ γενάρχαι, τὴν ἀπειλὴν ὑπέτρεμον, ὑπέφρισσον τὸ ῥῆμα, καὶ τὸ φυτὸν ὡς ἔχθιστον ἀπὸ ψυχῆς ἐστύγουν. ἀλλ' ὁ Σατὰν ἐβάσκαινεν, ἔβρυχε τοὺς ὀδόντας, ὡς ἀφριστὴς ἐθύμαινεν, ὡς ἀγριόδους κάπρος. βλέπειν οὐκ ἔφερεν αὐτοὺς βιοῦντας ὡς ἀγγέλους. καὶ τοίνυν ὄργανον αὐτοῦ τῆς κακομηχανίας τὸν ὄφιν τὸν δολόμητιν καὶ σκολιὸν εὑρίσκει. θωπεύει τὴν προμήτορα, δείκνυσι τὴν ὀπώραν, καλὴν ἰδεῖν, ἐπέραστον, γεύσασθαι νεκτάρεαν. εἶδεν ἐκείνη τὸν καρπόν· ἦν ὁ καρπὸς ὡραῖος, χαρίεις ἦν εἰς ὅρασιν καὶ κάλλιστος εἰς γεῦσιν. ὑπέσαινε τὴν ὅρασιν, ἔθελγε τὴν καρδίαν, ἐῴκει θελξικάρδιον γλυκυθυμίαν στάζειν. ἔδειξε τοῦτον ὁ Σατάν, καὶ τὸν τοῦ δόλου σκύφον ἐπέχρισε γλυκάζοντι μέλιτι κολακείας. εἵρπυσε δράκων ὁ δεινός, ἐσύριξεν ὑπούλως. "ἂν τούτου γεύσησθέ" φησι "τοῦ καλλικάρπου ξύλου, ἂν μόνον προσενέγκητε στόματι τὴν ὀπώραν, κύκλοι διανοιγήσονται βλεφάρων

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