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 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 suffering, he decided to leave his own [land] and migrate there. Therefore, having gathered his own servants, sons, grandsons, the whole seventy souls with five others, he went straight to Egypt, is looked upon kindly by Pharaoh and those under him, and before all others, the great Joseph looks upon him with sweet eyes. He is settled in the land of Goshen, a region of Arabia. He enjoys the good things, is fed to satiety, and escapes the destructive tooth of famine. What then were the things after this? The old patriarch, Jacob of the twelve sons, dies, having reached extreme old age, and after him Joseph, and Pharaoh with them, but another bitter ruler arises for the Egyptians. And his name was Pharaoh; for it was a mark of honor for the rulers of the Egyptians to be called Pharaoh, appropriating to themselves the glory of the Pharaoh who was the first ruler of the Egyptians, just as the kings of the Romans in later times wished to call themselves all Caesars, inserting themselves into the lineage and fortune of the first Caesar who had ruled as monarch. This Pharaoh, therefore, seeing the race of the Hebrews growing exceedingly and advancing in population like the blossoms of flourishing trees, like the sand of the sea, and being hostile towards them, he devised treacheries against them. And first he instructed the midwives to kill the [male infants] now first emerging from their mothers' wombs; but when the scheme did not proceed according to his mind, he devises another plan, and he compels the Hebrews to make bricks and to build fortified cities. Therefore, the commanded task was done; they toiled, they suffered, they made bricks, they worked, they built the cities. They also had harsh overseers of the works; they oppressed, they intensified, they increased the afflictions, simply put, they treated the wretched ones as enemies. Therefore the most long-suffering and miserable Hebrews cried out with pitiable voices to the living God, and they asked Him to become the redeemer from their distresses. God is therefore moved by their groans, He sees their heavy toil, He pities, He is prevailed upon, and He sends to them Moses the great, the God-seer, to deliver them from their distresses, to lighten their labors, and to lead them out of bitter and hateful Egypt. Moses therefore comes down, reports to Pharaoh what was commanded by God, and advises him to send the Israelites away from there and not to detain them any longer. Pharaoh is not prevailed upon by the words of the prophet, he does not fear the all-powerful hands of God, and having promised many times, he lies just as many times, and becomes a many-colored, varied chameleon. From this the prophet, the God-seer, is compelled, God so commanding, to bring on punishments. But the viperous Pharaoh, that creature of wickedness, was humbled while the plagues were being severely brought upon him, and he earnestly beseeched Moses to grant a release from the terror and the weight of the sufferings, he lamented, and he propitiated God with weeping, and he promised to award release to the Hebrews; but when the plagues were lifted, he was stiff-necked, unbending, unyielding, no longer that same man. Finally, by a heavy plague, more grievous than all, suffering greatly from the bitter death of the firstborn, he gives freedom to the race of the Hebrews. And again he repents of it, and having armed an army, charioteers, horsemen, hoplites, shield-bearers, and he himself mounting a golden chariot, pursued after them as if they were fugitives, so that he might turn the Hebrews back again to Egypt. From this came the striking of the Red [Sea] and a strange parting, and the crossing of the people as upon the middle of dry land, and the drowning of the arrogant-faced commanders and of Pharaoh the reckless and bold-hearted, and a tomb of water spread over the hoplite force. They all sank into the deep, captains, charioteers; they became food for the sea-dwelling fish; for not even a messenger of the disaster was left. From this came victory choirs to God; God was magnified, and Moses
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ἀκούσας Ἰωσὴφ τὸν ἐκ Ῥαχὴλ τεχθέντα ἐπιτροπεύειν Φαραὼ τὴν τῆς Αἰγύπτου χώραν, τὸ δὲ καὶ μηχανώμενος λύσιν εὑρεῖν τοῦ πάθους,
ἔγνω λιπεῖν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ κἀκεῖ μεταναστεῦσαι. ἀθροίσας οὖν τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ δούλους υἱοὺς ἐγγόνους, τὰς ὅλας ἑβδομήκοντα ψυχὰς σὺν
ἄλλαις πέντε, εὐθυδρομεῖ πρὸς Αἴγυπτον, βλέπεται φιλοφρόνως τῷ Φαραὼ τοῖς ὑπ' αὐτόν, καὶ πρὸ τῶν ἄλλων πάντων ὁ μέγας τοῦτον
Ἰωσὴφ βλέπει γλυκείαις κόραις. ἐν γῇ Γοσὲμ οἰκίζεται, χώρᾳ τῆς Ἀρραβίας. ἐνευπαθεῖ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς, ψωμίζεται προσκόρως, καὶ
τὸν ὀδόντα τοῦ λιμοῦ τὸν φθαρτικὸν ἐκφεύγει. τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα τίνα δέ; θνήσκει μὲν ὁ τριγέρων, ὁ δωδεκάπαις Ἰακώβ, ἔσχατον γῆρας
φθάσας, καὶ μετ' ἐκεῖνον Ἰωσήφ, καὶ Φαραὼ σὺν τούτοις, ἄλλος δ' ἀνίσταται πικρὸς ἄρχων τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις. καὶ τούτῳ κλῆσις Φαραώ·
τοῖς γὰρ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἄρχουσιν ἦν εἰς εὔκλειαν τὸ Φαραὼ καλεῖσθαι, οἰκειουμένοις ἑαυτοῖς τοῦ Φαραὼ τὸ κλέος τοῦ πρώτου χρηματίσαντος
κράτορος Αἰγυπτίων, ὡς οἱ Ῥωμαίων βασιλεῖς ἐν τοῖς ὑστέροις χρόνοις Καίσαρας πάντας ἤθελον αὐτοὺς ἐπονομάζειν, εἰς τὸ τοῦ
πρώτου Καίσαρος τοῦ μεμοναρχηκότος γένος εἰσάγοντες αὑτοὺς καὶ τὴν ἐκείνου τύχην. οὗτος οὐκοῦν ὁ Φαραὼ τὸ γένος τῶν Ἑβραίων
ὑπεραυξόμενον ὁρῶν εἰς πληθυσμὸν ἐλαύνειν ὡς ἄνθη δένδρων εὐθαλῶν, ὡσεὶ θαλάσσης ἄμμον, καὶ δυσμεναίνων κατ' αὐτῶν ἤρτυε τούτοις
δόλους. καὶ πρῶτα μὲν ἐπέσκηπτε ταῖς μαίαις ὥστε κτείνειν τὰ πρώτως νῦν προκύπτοντα τῶν μητρικῶν θαλάμων· ὡς δ' οὐκ ἐχώρει
κατὰ νοῦν ἡ μηχανορραφία, ἄλλην βουλὴν βουλεύεται, καὶ πλινθουργεῖν Ἑβραίους καὶ πόλεις κτίζειν ὀχυρὰς αὐτοὺς καταναγκάζει.
ἔργον οὖν ἦν τὸ κελευσθέν· ἐμόχθουν, ἐτληπάθουν, ἐπλίνθευον, εἰργάζοντο, τὰς πόλεις ᾠκοδόμουν. ἦσαν αὐτοῖς καὶ χαλεποὶ τῶν
ἔργων ἐπιστάται· ἐβάρυνον, ἐπέτεινον, ηὔξανον τὰς κακώσεις, ἁπλῶς εἰπεῖν, ὥσπερ ἐχθροῖς ἐχρῶντο τοῖς δειλαίοις. οἱ τοίνυν
τληπαθέστατοι καὶ τάλανες Ἑβραῖοι οἰκτραῖς ἐβόησαν φωναῖς πρὸς τὸν θεὸν τὸν ζῶντα, καὶ λυτρωτὴν τῶν ἀναγκῶν ᾔτουν αὐτὸν γενέσθαι.
κάμπτεται τοίνυν ὁ θεὸς τοῖς στεναγμοῖς ἐκείνων, βλέπει τὸν μόχθον τὸν βαρύν, οἰκτείρει, δυσωπεῖται, καὶ πέμπει τούτοις Μωϋσῆν
τὸν μέγαν, τὸν θεόπτην, τῶν ἀναγκῶν ῥυσόμενον, κουφίσοντα τοὺς πόνους, καὶ τῆς πικρᾶς ἐξάξοντα καὶ στυγητῆς Αἰγύπτου. κάτεισι
τοίνυν Μωϋσῆς, τῷ Φαραὼ μηνύει τὸ κελευσθὲν ὑπὸ θεοῦ, καὶ τοὺς Ἰσραηλίτας πέμπειν ἐκεῖθεν παραινεῖ καὶ μὴ κατέχειν ἔτι. οὐ
δυσωπεῖται Φαραὼ τοῖς λόγοις τοῦ προφήτου, οὐ δειλιᾷ τὰς τοῦ θεοῦ παντοδυνάμους χεῖρας, πολλάκις δ' ὑποσχόμενος ψεύδεται τοσαυτάκις,
καὶ γίνεται πολύχροος ποικίλος χαμαιλέων. ἐντεῦθεν ἐκβιάζεται προφήτης ὁ θεόπτης, οὕτω θεοῦ κελεύσαντος, ἐπαγαγεῖν κολάσεις.
ὁ δ' ἐχιδνώδης Φαραώ, τὸ τῆς κακίας θρέμμα, τῶν μὲν μαστίγων αὐστηρῶς αὐτῷ προσαγομένων ἐταπεινοῦτο, καὶ Μωσῆν ἱκέτευεν ἐκθύμως
νεῦσαι πρὸς λύσιν τοῦ δεινοῦ καὶ τοῦ τῶν πόνων βάρους, ἐποτνιᾶτο, καὶ θεὸν κλαυθμοῖς ἐξιλεοῦτο, καὶ λύσιν ἐπηγγέλλετο βραβεῦσαι
τοῖς Ἑβραίοις· τῶν δὲ πληγῶν ἀνεθεισῶν ἐσκληροτραχηλία, ἄκαμπτος ἦν ἀνένδοτος, οὐκέτ' αὐτὸς ἐκεῖνος. τέλος βαρείᾳ μάστιγι,
πασῶν χαλεπωτέρᾳ, τῶν πρωτοτόκων τῷ πικρῷ θανάτῳ δυσπαθήσας ἐλευθερίαν δίδωσι τῷ γένει τῶν Ἑβραίων. καὶ πάλιν μεταμέλεται,
καὶ στρατιὰν ὁπλίσας, ἁρματηλάτας, ἱππαστάς, ὁπλίτας, σακεσφόρους, αὐτός τ' ἐποχησάμενος ἅρματι χρυσηλάτῳ, ὀπίσω κατεδίωκεν
ἐκείνων ὡς φυγάδων, ὡς πάλιν πρὸς τὴν Αἴγυπτον Ἑβραίους ἀποστρέψῃ. ἐντεῦθεν πλῆξις ἐρυθρᾶς καὶ σχίσις καινοτέρα, καὶ τοῦ λαοῦ
διαβάσις ὡς ἐπὶ μέσης χέρσου, καὶ βυθισμὸς ταγματαρχῶν τῶν σοβαροπροσώπων καὶ Φαραὼ τοῦ θερμουργοῦ καὶ τολμηροκαρδίου, καὶ
τάφος ὑδατόστρωτος ὁπλιτικῆς ἰσχύος. ἔδυσαν πάντες εἰς βυθόν, τριστάται, διφρηλάται· ἰχθύσιν ἐχρημάτισαν τροφὴ θαλασσοβίοις·
οὐδὲ γὰρ κἂν τῆς συμφορᾶς ἄγγελος κατελείφθη. ἐντεῦθεν ἐπινίκιοι θεῷ χοροστασίαι· ἐμεγαλύνετο θεός, καὶ Μωϋσῆς
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