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
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 had mated, took her urine and from this smeared the horse's nostrils. As soon as they mounted, the horse of Darius was first, agitated by the smell of the female's urine, and it began to snort and was seen to neigh. And the new and wondrous thing was that a thunderous sound and lightning occurred, astonishing those present, who, when they saw these things, dismounted from their horses and did obeisance to Darius, as is the custom among the Persians. Darius, therefore, having received the helms of the kingdom, acquired many sea-washed islands and mainland cities and all of Asia, but having sent an army of ten thousand against the Greeks, he risked everything when they all fell there. After Darius, his son Xerxes ruled the Persians, who, having attacked the Greeks from land and from sea, with naval forces, with cavalry, with every device, both lost his army and alone, fleeing with difficulty on a ship and escaping, shamefully returned. After Xerxes, Artaxerxes Longimanus ruled, and in succession there were many other Persian rulers, and they brought most of the nations into servitude, until Alexander the Macedonian, the Great, came and dissolved the Persian rule, and seized the dynasty, which had lasted from the first Cyrus for two hundred and thirty years, as is recorded in the books of the more ancient writers. This man conquered the Persians, this man ruled the Indians, to him were subjected Syria and Phoenicia and every nation and the rulers and satraps of all the earth from the farthest east to the uttermost west. And since he, being a man mortal by nature, had to pay the debt of mortal nature, a poison prepared from the earth snatches him away, and the great size of his kingdom passed to ten most daring men, that is, the chief bodyguards of Alexander, having been cut up and divided into ten divisions. For one became master of Syria and Phoenicia, another ruled the land of the Thracians, another Paphlagonia, and Asia fell to another. But Ptolemy appropriated for himself alone the land of Egypt, from which time Egypt again had a beginning of its power. Fortune looked upon him with gentle eyes, and everything turned out according to the mind of this Ptolemy; he overran many lands and Palestine, and became very rich in gold, and was weighed down with wealth. Therefore, those who ruled Egypt after him, envying his fortune and good fame, all wished to be called Ptolemies after him. When the first Ptolemy departed this life, Egypt had as its leader the one after him, Ptolemy surnamed Philadelphus, who was the first of the kings to establish the library of Alexandria as the mother of many books; for they say that he collected innumerable books, reaching a total of forty myriads. Thus the Ptolemaic power held on prosperously, and again Egypt had the good fame of a kingdom. But there was nothing, it seems, permanent in life, not wealth, not royal power, not dynasty. For in addition to the other rulers of the land of the Egyptians, Cleopatra also having become queen of Egypt, was deprived of her power by a Roman right hand, when Caesar Augustus subdued her. And from that time the scepters of Egypt flowed away again, having flourished and come to their peak for a total of two hundred and ninety years. And the hands of the Romans took not only Egypt, but also the whole world under the moon together. And these things have been recounted by my account as possible in a cursory and clear manner, as I persuade myself; but it seems to me fitting, and not far from artful, to mention for a little while Greek affairs, and to grant the language to those concerning the Hebrews. A severe famine once seized Canaan, and the fire-bearing evil fed upon all, and among others Jacob held his whole house. Therefore the divine Israel (for so he was renamed) the
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τεχνάζεσθαι τοιαύταις ἐπινοίαις. οὗτος μαθὼν καὶ διαγνοὺς ὁποίαν ἵππον στέργει τῶν ἄλλων πλέον ἁπασῶν ἵππος ὁ τοῦ ∆αρείου,
μετὰ τὴν μῖξιν τοῖν ἀμφοῖν οὖρον λαβὼν ἐκείνης ἐκ τούτου περιέχρισε μυκτῆρας τοὺς ἱππίους. ἅμα δὲ καθιππάσαντο, καὶ πρῶτος
ὁ ∆αρείου, ἐκ τῆς ὀσμῆς συγκινηθεὶς τῶν οὔρων τῆς θηλείας, καὶ φριμαγμοῖς ἐχρήσατο καὶ χρεμετίζων ὤφθη. καὶ τὸ καινὸν καὶ
θαυμαστὸν ὅτι βροντώδης ἦχος καὶ στεροπαὶ γεγόνασι θαμβοῦσαι τοὺς παρόντας, οἳ ταῦθ' ὡς ἐθεάσαντο, τῶν ἵππων ἀποβάντες ∆αρείῳ
προσεκύνησαν, ὡς ἔθος παρὰ Πέρσαις. Τῆς οὖν ἀρχῆς τοὺς οἴακας δεξάμενος ∆αρεῖος πολλὰς μὲν προσεκτήσατο καὶ νήσους ἁλικλύστους
καὶ πόλεις ἠπειρωτικὰς καὶ τὴν Ἀσίαν πᾶσαν στρατὸν δὲ μυριάριθμον καὶ κατὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐκπέμψας κεκινδύνευκε πάντων ἐκεῖ πεσόντων.
Μετὰ ∆αρεῖον τούτου παῖς Ξέρξης Περσῶν κατῆρξεν, ὃς προσβαλὼν τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἐκ γῆς ἀπὸ θαλάσσης, ἐκ ναυτικῶν ἐξ ἱπποτῶν, ἐκ
πάσης ἐπινοίας, καὶ τὸν στρατὸν ἀπώλεσε καὶ μόνος ἐπὶ πλοίου μόλις φυγὼν καὶ διαδρὰς αἰσχρῶς ἐπαλινόστει. Μετὰ τὸν Ξέρξην
ἦρξε δὲ μακρόχειρ Ἀρταξέρξης, καὶ καθεξῆς γεγόνασιν ἄλλοι πολλοὶ Περσάρχαι, καὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν ὑπήγαγον τὰ πλείονα δουλείᾳ, ἕως
Ἀλέξανδρος ἐλθὼν ὁ Μακεδὼν ὁ μέγας Περσῶν παρέλυσεν ἀρχήν, εἷλε τὴν δυναστείαν, εἰς ἔτη διαρκέσασαν ἀπὸ τοῦ πρώτου Κύρου δὶς
ἑκατὸν καὶ σὺν αὐτοῖς εἰς ἕτερα τρὶς δέκα, ὡς ἐν τοῖς βίβλοις φέρεται τῶν παλαιγενεστέρων. Οὗτος Περσῶν ἐκράτησεν, οὗτος Ἰνδῶν
κατῆρξε, τούτῳ καθυπετάγησαν Συρία καὶ Φοινίκη καὶ πᾶν ἔθνος καὶ πάσης γῆς χωράρχαι καὶ σατράπαι ἀπ' ἄκρων τῶν ἀνατολῶν μέχρι
δυσμῶν ἐσχάτων. ὡς δὲ καὶ τοῦτον ἄνθρωπον ὄντα θνητὸν τῇ φύσει ἐχρῆν τὸ χρέως τῆς θνητῆς φύσεως ἀποδοῦναι, φάρμακον μὲν συσκευασθὲν
γῆθεν αὐτὸν ἁρπάζει, τὸ δὲ τοσοῦτον μέγεθος αὐτοῦ τῆς βασιλείας εἰς δέκα μεταβέβηκεν ἄνδρας εὐτολμοτάτους, τῶν Ἀλεξάνδρου
δηλαδὴ τοὺς πρώτους δορυφόρων, κατατμηθὲν καὶ μερισθὲν εἰς δέκα διαιρέσεις. ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἐκυρίευσε Συρίας καὶ Φοινίκης, ὁ δὲ
κατῆρξε γῆς Θρᾳκῶν, ἄλλος Παφλαγονίας, Ἀσία δ' ἄλλον ἔλαχεν. ὁ δέ γε Πτολεμαῖος τὴν γῆν ἐσφετερίσατο μόνος τὴν τῆς Αἰγύπτου,
ἐξ οὗ καὶ πάλιν Αἴγυπτος ἔσχεν ἀρχὴν τοῦ κράτους. τοῦτον ἡμέροις ἔβλεψεν ἡ τύχη τοῖς βλεφάροις, καὶ πᾶν ἀπέβη κατὰ νοῦν τούτῳ
τῷ Πτολεμαίῳ· οὗτος κατέδραμε πολλῶν χωρῶν καὶ Παλαιστίνης, καὶ γέγονε πολύχρυσος, καὶ βρίθων ἦν τῷ πλούτῳ. οἱ μετὰ τοῦτον
τοιγαροῦν κατάρξαντες Αἰγύπτου, τὴν τύχην καὶ τὴν εὔκλειαν ζηλοῦντες τὴν ἐκείνου, καλεῖσθαι πάντες ἤθελον ἐκ τούτου Πτολεμαῖοι.
τοῦ πρώτου Πτολεμαίου δὲ τὸν βίον ἐκλιπόντος τὸν μετ' αὐτὸν Φιλάδελφον ἐπίκλην Πτολεμαῖον Αἴγυπτος ἔσχεν ἀρχηγόν, ὃς πρῶτος
βασιλέων τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου τέθεικε βίβλων πολλῶν μητέρα· ἀπειραρίθμους γάρ φασιν βίβλους αὐτὸν ἀθροῖσαι, εἰς ὅλας τεσσαράκοντα
φθανούσας μυριάδας. εἶχε μὲν οὕτως εὐτυχῶς τὸ Πτολεμαῖον κράτος, καὶ πάλιν εἶχεν Αἴγυπτος εὔκλειαν βασιλείας. ἀλλ' ἦν οὐδέν,
ὡς ἔοικε, μόνιμον ἐν τῷ βίῳ, οὐ πλοῦτος, οὐ βασίλειον κράτος, οὐ δυναστεία. πρὸς γὰρ τοῖς ἄλλοις κράτορσι τῆς χώρας Αἰγυπτίων
καὶ Κλεοπάτρα βασιλὶς Αἰγύπτου γεγονυῖα ἐκ δεξιᾶς Ῥωμαϊκῆς τὸ κράτος ἀφῃρέθη, τοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ σεβαστοῦ τήνδε χειρωσαμένου.
κἀντεῦθεν πάλιν ἔρρευσε τὰ τῆς Αἰγύπτου σκῆπτρα, ἐν ἔτεσιν ἀνθήσαντα καὶ πρὸς ἀκμὴν ἐλθόντα τοῖς ὅλοις ἐνενήκοντα πρὸς τοῖς
διακοσίοις. οὐ μόνην δὲ τὴν Αἴγυπτον εἷλον Ῥωμαίων χεῖρες, ἀλλὰ καὶ σύμπασαν ὁμοῦ τὴν ὑπὸ τὴν σελήνην. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ὡς δυνατὸν
ἱστόρηται τῷ λόγῳ ἐπιδρομάδην καὶ σαφῶς, ὡς ἐμαυτὸν συμπείθω· προσῆκον δ' ἔμοιγε δοκεῖ, καὶ τέχνης οὐχὶ πόρρω, ἐπιμνησθῆναι
πρὸς μικρὸν πραγμάτων Ἑλληνίων, τὴν γλῶττάν τε χαρίσασθαι τοῖς κατὰ τοὺς Ἑβραίους. Λιμός ποτε κατέλαβε βαρὺς τὴν Χαναναίαν,
καὶ πάντας ἐπεβόσκετο τὸ τοῦ κακοῦ πυρφόρον, καὶ πρὸς τοῖς ἄλλοις Ἰακὼβ εἶχε τὸν οἶκον πάντα. ὁ τοίνυν θεῖος Ἰσραὴλ (οὕτω
γὰρ μετεκλήθη) τὸ μὲν
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