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
Chaldeans, and the plaything of fortune and the dice of affairs, having sufficiently mocked others, passed over to others. And when these things were happening to the Assyrians, king Uzziah was ruling over the Hebrews, being the seventh from David the most prophetic. And over the Chaldeans, along with other kings, reigned Sennacherib the arrogant, and of the land of the Assyrian nation and of the Babylonians and of the race of the Medes; who, having campaigned arrogantly against Judea, and having blasphemed against God with madness of heart, and having used most haughty words, reaped the reward of his vanity. For an angel sent by God during the night destroyed the entire army, cutting them down without a sword, numbering one hundred full chiliads along with another eighty-five thousand. He, therefore, who was formerly lordly, who was formerly exalted, became a swift-footed fugitive like a hare. And after some time, Nebuchadnezzar was king. This man, since fortune was favorably disposed to him, ruled over all the nations in Asia and brought them all under annual tribute: Chaldeans and Assyrians, Medes, Babylonians. He also made the race of the Jews subject, and he enslaved their most renowned metropolis, Jerusalem, and he was the first to make their kings tributary. And when they revolted, at last he came up with countless weapons (for the army of Nebuchadnezzar was more numerous than the sand), razed the blessed city to the ground, and taking all those of royal blood and race captive by the spear, he resettled them in the land of Babylon, so that they might be chamberlains for him. Among them was also Daniel, great among prophets, and the three youths with him, along with other nobles. But after a short time, Nebuchadnezzar, becoming arrogant and unable to bear fortune's favor, and from there rolling into extreme madness (for he deified himself out of insanity), was humbled by God with a dreadful humiliation, being turned into the form of a swine from his human appearance and suffering this penalty for his arrogance. But that I may bring the account back to the beginning again, Nebuchadnezzar reigned over the Chaldeans, and after him, Marodach, and after him, Balthasar, both offspring of Nebuchadnezzar. Balthasar, therefore, reveling in the greatness of his rule, took his magnates as drinking companions, and welcomed them with rich tables. and wishing to display the abundance of his wealth, he used costly vessels of jeweled gold. along with all the others, he also brought in the vessels of the temple, which Nebuchadnezzar had formerly taken away, when he sheared Jerusalem of its beauty. using these, therefore, fearlessly for service (for being drunk with affairs he did not understand at all that God is indignant when these are profaned), he saw a knucklebone writing upon the wall. And the letters said Mene, Tekel, and Phares; which, when no one else was able to explain, Daniel interpreted clearly and truthfully: "Dividing, your creator has divided your dominion; he has cut off and harvested the times of your rule. The tyranny therefore will be transferred, and the royal throne to another tribe." The prophet said these things before Balthasar, holding nothing back, nor cowering at all. And after a short time, Darius the Mede, attacking with a great force, whom the sons of the Hellenes, writing Persian histories, call Astyages, deposed the overweening Balthasar the Chaldean, and bent the stiff neck of Babylon, and made it tributary to Median power. And from that time the Medes ruled Asia. But not even for them did the royal power remain for many days, but it flowed away rather quickly. And how the power flew away from the Medes themselves, the account will relate summarily and clearly. Astyages, the king of the Medes, had a daughter, fair of face, fair of cheek, fair of complexion, most comely; he who begot her named the maiden Mandane. Her father, therefore, conceived a jealousy toward her, being troubled by extraordinary nightly dreams. He seemed to see the maiden urinating, the
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Χαλδαῖοι, καὶ τὸ τῆς τύχης παίγνιον καὶ κύβος τῶν πραγμάτων ἄλλοις ἐμπαῖξαν ἱκανῶς μετέπεσεν εἰς ἄλλους. ἡνίκα δὲ συνέβαινε
ταῦτα τοῖς Ἀσσυρίοις, Ἑβραίων ἐκυρίευεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Ὀζίας, ἕβδομος ὢν ἀπὸ ∆αβὶδ τοῦ προφητικωτάτου. Χαλδαίων δ' ἐβασίλευσε
σὺν ἄλλοις βασιλεῦσι Σεναχηρὶμ ὁ σοβαρὸς καὶ γῆς τῶν Ἀσσυρίων ἔθνους Βαβυλωνίων τε καὶ γένους τοῦ τῶν Μήδων· ὃς ἐκστρατεύσας
σοβαρῶς κατὰ τῆς Ἰουδαίας, καὶ βλασφημήσας εἰς θεὸν καρδίας ἀπονοίᾳ, καὶ ῥήμασι χρησάμενος ὑπερηφανεστάτοις, ἐδρέψατο τἀπίχειρα
τῆς ματαιοφροσύνης. ἄγγελος γὰρ ὑπὸ θεοῦ πεμφθεὶς κατὰ τὴν νύκτα ὤλεσε πάντα τὸν στρατὸν ξίφους συγκόψας ἄνευ, εἰς ἑκατὸν
ποσούμενον χιλιανδρίας ὅλας σὺν ἄλλοις ὀγδοήκοντα πρὸς πεντακισχιλίοις. ὁ τοίνυν πρὶν ἀγέρωχος, ὁ πρὶν ὑπερῃρμένος ὡς λαγωὸς
ἐγένετο ταχύπους φυγαδίας. Μετὰ δὲ χρόνους βασιλεὺς ἦν Ναβουχοδονόσορ. οὗτος τῆς τύχης εὐμενῶς αὐτῷ προσφερομένης πάντων κατεδυνάστευσεν
ἐθνῶν τῶν ἐν Ἀσίᾳ καὶ πάντας ὑπηγάγετο πρὸς ἐτησίους φόρους, Χαλδαίους Ἀσσυρίους τε, Μήδους, Βαβυλωνίους. ὑπήκοον ἐποίησε
καὶ γένος Ἰουδαίων, καὶ τὴν μητρόπολιν αὐτῶν τὴν περιφανεστάτην Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐδούλωσε, καὶ πρῶτος ὑποφόρους τοὺς βασιλεῖς κατέστησεν.
ὡς δ' ἀπεστάτουν οὗτοι, τὸ τελευταῖον ἐπελθὼν μετὰ μυρίων ὅπλων (ὑπὲρ γὰρ ἄμμον ὁ στρατὸς ἦν Ναβουχοδονόσορ) κατέσκαψεν εἰς
ἔδαφος τὴν πόλιν τὴν ὀλβίαν, καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἐξ αἵματος καὶ γένους βασιλείου δορυαλώτους συλλαβὼν ἐν χώρᾳ Βαβυλῶνος μετῴκισεν,
ὡς ἔσοιντο τούτῳ θαλαμηπόλοι. ἦν ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ ∆ανιὴλ ὁ μέγας ἐν προφήταις, οἱ τρεῖς τε παῖδες σὺν αὐτῷ σὺν ἄλλοις εὐγενέσι.
μετὰ μικρὸν δ' ὑπεραρθεὶς ὁ Ναβουχοδονόσορ καὶ τὴν τῆς τύχης εὔνοιαν οὐ δυνηθεὶς βαστάσαι, κἀντεῦθεν εἰς ἀπόνοιαν ἐκκυλισθεὶς
ἐσχάτην (αὐτὸν ἐθεοποίει γὰρ ὑπὸ φρενοπληξίας), ἐταπεινώθη πρὸς θεοῦ ταπείνωμα φρικῶδες, εἰς χοίρου μόρφωσιν τραπεὶς ἐξ εἴδους
ἀνθρωπείου καὶ ταύτην δίκην ὑποσχὼν τῆς ὑπερηφανίας. Ἀλλ' ἵνα πάλιν εἰς ἀρχὴν τὸν λόγον ἀναγάγω, Χαλδαίων ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ Ναβουχοδονόσορ,
καὶ μετ' ἐκεῖνον Μαροδάχ, καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν Βαλτάσαρ, ἀμφότεροι βλαστήματα τοῦ Ναβουχοδονόσορ. Βαλτάσαρ τοίνυν ἐντρυφῶν τῷ τῆς
ἀρχῆς μεγέθει συμπότας παρελάμβανεν αὐτοῦ τοὺς μεγιστᾶνας, καὶ ταῖς τραπέζαις λιπαραῖς αὐτοὺς ἐδεξιοῦτο. καὶ θέλων ἐπιδείκνυσθαι
τὸ δαψιλὲς τοῦ πλούτου πολυτελέσι σκεύεσιν ἐχρῆτο λιθοχρύσοις. σὺν πᾶσι παρεισέφερε καὶ τοῦ ναοῦ τὰ σκεύη, ἅπερ ἀφείλετο τὸ
πρὶν ὁ Ναβουχοδονόσορ, ἡνίκα Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἀπέκειρε τὸ κάλλος. χρώμενος τοίνυν ἀδεῶς τούτοις εἰς ὑπουργίαν (μεθύων γὰρ τοῖς πράγμασιν
οὐδ' ὅλως ἐνενόει ὡς ὁ θεὸς ἀγανακτεῖ τούτων ὑβριζομένων) ἀστράγαλον ἑώρακε γράφοντα πρὸς τῷ τοίχῳ. ἔλεγον δὲ τὰ γράμματα
μανῆ θεκὲλ φάρες τε· ἃ μηδενὸς ἰσχύσαντος ἑτέρου σαφηνίσαι ὁ ∆ανιὴλ ἡρμήνευσε τρανῶς καὶ φιλαλήθως "μερίζων διεμέρισεν ὁ κτίστης
σου τὸ κράτος· ἐξέκοψεν ἐθέρισε τοὺς χρόνους τῆς ἀρχῆς σου. μετατεθήσεται λοιπὸν ἡ καταδυναστεία καὶ θρόνος ὁ βασίλειος εἰς
ἄλλην φυλαρχίαν." ταῦθ' ὁ προφήτης ἔφησεν ἐνώπιον Βαλτάσαρ, μηδὲν ὑποστειλάμενος, μηδ' ὅλως ὑποτρέσας. μετὰ μικρὸν ὁ Μῆδος
δὲ ∆αρεῖος ἐπελάσας μετὰ πολλῆς δυνάμεως, ὅν φασιν Ἀστυάγην παῖδες Ἑλλήνων Περσικὰς γράφοντες ἱστορίας, καθεῖλε τὸν ὑπέροφρυν
Βαλτάσαρ τὸν Χαλδαῖον, καὶ Βαβυλῶνος ἔκαμψε τὴν σκληροτραχηλίαν, καὶ Μηδικῆς ὑπόφορον ἐποίησεν ἰσχύος. κἀντεῦθεν ἐκυρίευσαν
οἱ Μῆδοι τῆς Ἀσίας. ἀλλ' οὐδ' αὐτοῖς παρέμεινεν ἄχρι πολλῶν ἡλίων τὸ κράτος τὸ βασίλειον, ἀλλ' ἀπερρύη θᾶττον. τὸ κράτος δ'
ὅπως ἀπ' αὐτῶν τῶν Μήδων ἐξαπέπτη, ἐπιδρομάδην καὶ σαφῶς ὁ λόγος ἱστορήσει. Θυγάτηρ ἦν τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν Μήδων Ἀστυάγει εὐπρόσωπος
εὐπάρῃος εὔχρους εὐπρεπεστάτη· Μανδάνην τὸ κοράσιον ὠνόμασεν ὁ σπείρας. πρὸς ταύτην τοίνυν ὁ πατὴρ ἔσχε ζηλοτυπίαν ἐξ ὀνειράτων
θροηθεὶς νυκτέρων ἐξαισίων. οὐροῦσαν βλέπειν ἔδοξε τὴν κόρην τὴν
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