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
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 were sixty myriads in number, without infants and women and young children. Moses, therefore, led so great a multitude, and he endured the murmurings of the seditious crowd, and bore the bitterness from them with a good heart. And Moses led them in impassable deserts, God having commanded this and judged it expedient. Water gushed from a rock, he rained down the flesh of birds, he gave manna, and fed them the food of angels, as an eagle he sheltered his featherless eaglets. They journeyed, therefore, steadfastly to the promised land, and they passed through the land from Egypt to the borders of Palestine in forty whole years. And every unconquerable and fearsome nation and every foreign and impious race they reaped from the root, like reapers reaping a harvest. But the divine Moses departed this life, leaving behind great longing for him among his kinsmen, and having given the law inscribed by God on tablets, he was hidden under the earth like a day-shining star. After Moses, Jesus the son of Nave was appointed to lead and command the swarm of the Hebrews. He gave them the land of Palestine as an inheritance, which God had promised to their divine forefathers, and he divided to each of the tribes its proper share, except for the tribe of Levi; for to this tribe, instead of a lot, the things of God and for God were given as an inheritance. He destroyed the rulers of Canaan and all the neighboring peoples from their very roots with a great arm. And when he indeed had crossed the brine of life, judges ruled the people and ordered all things until Eli and Samuel the most prophetic. Therefore, as long as they abided by the divine laws and revered God with unwavering hearts, they were kept superior to every nation and race, and their whole life flowed smoothly. But when they were carried away to idolatry and attached themselves to lifeless and vain gods, they were immediately delivered as slaves to their enemies. Therefore, until Samuel, judges ruled them; but after these things, a king was given to them upon their request, from the tribe of Benjamin, Saul the offspring of Kish. And after him David, great among the prophets, became ruler of the race, then tending flocks, and thirteen in succession down to Jechoniah, in whose time Nebuchadnezzar came for the third time and set the city and the divine temple on fire, and resettled the people in the land of Babylon. And when David had just begun to rule his kinsmen, the war against the Trojans was stirred up by the Greeks, on account of Helen, who was the wife of Menelaus. I, wishing to narrate this battle as it is written by those who have recorded it, and intending to speak not as Homer records, will ask pardon from the fair-minded; for Homer, honey-tongued and using charming and clever methods, arranges his tales, but in some places he twists and turns many things. But now it remains for me to narrate these things. To the son of Laomedon, Priam, who was ruler of the Trojans, Hecuba the daughter of Cisseus was joined as wife, and she became the mother of many children by him. For when she was with child and about to give birth, she was terrified by the fears of nocturnal dreams; for she seemed to see a flaming firebrand emerging from her womb, and burning the whole city together with the forests of Ida. Priam hears this, he consults with the seers; he learns that it would be useful for him and for the city, if the one to be born were exposed to wild beasts or thrown for destruction into the burning fire. After a short while Alexander sprang forth into the light, a graceful baby, comely, and charming in countenance. It was necessary, then, for Priam, without any delay at all, to destroy the baby as soon as it came from the womb, which was destined to destroy utterly the whole country; but he, overcome by nature, spares the one who was born. But thinking to outwit the power of fate, to be reared by others
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ὑμνεῖτο. καὶ φέγγος μὲν ἀνέτελλεν Ἑβραίοις εὐφροσύνης, τοὺς δ' Αἰγυπτίους σκοτασμοὶ τῶν συμφορῶν ἐζόφουν. οἱ δὲ φυγόντες Αἴγυπτον
Ἰσραηλῖται τότε ἑξήκοντα τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἦσαν μυριανδρίαι, ἄνευ βρεφῶν καὶ γυναικῶν καὶ παίδων ἀνιούλων. ἡγεῖτο γοῦν ὁ Μωϋσῆς
τοῦ πλήθους τοῦ τοσούτου, καὶ γογγυσμῶν ἠνείχετο τοῦ στασιώδους ὄχλου, καὶ πικρασμοὺς τοὺς ἀπ' αὐτῶν ἔφερεν εὐκαρδίως. ἦγε
δὲ τούτους Μωϋσῆς ἐρήμοις ἐν ἀβάτοις, τοῦτο θεοῦ κελεύσαντος καὶ κρίναντος συμφέρον. ὕδωρ ἐκ πέτρας ἔβλυζε, πτηνῶν ἔβρεχε
σάρκας, ἐμαννοδότει, καὶ τροφὴν ἐψώμιζεν ἀγγέλων, ὡς ἀετὸς ἐσκέπαζεν ἀετιδεῖς ἀπτέρους. ὥδευον τοίνυν ἀκλινῶς εἰς τὴν ἐπηγγελμένην,
τὴν ἀπ' Αἰγύπτου δ' ἕως γῆς ὁρίων Παλαιστίνης ἐν ὅλοις τεσσαράκοντα τοῖς ἔτεσι διῆλθον. καὶ πᾶν δυσκαταμάχητον ἔθνος καὶ φρικαλέον
καὶ γένος πᾶν ἀλλόφυλον καὶ πλῆρες δυσσεβείας ὡς δρεπανῖται λήϊον ἐθέρισαν ῥιζόθεν. Ἀλλ' ὁ μὲν θεῖος Μωϋσῆς τὸν βίον ἀπολείπει,
πολὺν αὐτοῦ καταλιπὼν πόθον τοῖς ὁμοφύλοις, καὶ νόμον δοὺς ὑπὸ θεοῦ πλαξὶν ἐγγεγραμμένον, ὥσπερ ἀστὴρ ἡμεραυγὴς ὑπὸ τὴν γῆν
ἐκρύβη. μετὰ Μωσῆν δ' ὁ τοῦ Ναυῆ παῖς Ἰησοῦς κυροῦται τοῦ δημαρχεῖν καὶ προστατεῖν τοῦ τῶν Ἑβραίων σμήνους. οὗτος αὐτοῖς κληροδοτεῖ
τὴν γῆν τῆς Παλαιστίνης, ἣν ἐπηγγείλατο θεὸς προπάτορσι τοῖς θείοις, καὶ τῶν φυλῶν ἐμέρισεν ἑκάστῃ τὸ προσῆκον, ἄνευ φυλῆς
τῆς τοῦ Λευί· ταύτῃ γὰρ ἀντὶ λάχους τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τῷ θεῷ κατεκληροδοτήθη. οὗτος δυνάστας Χαναὰμ καὶ πάντας τοὺς προσχώρους
ῥιζῶν ἀνεῖλεν ἀπ' αὐτῶν βραχίονι μεγάλῳ. καὶ τούτου διαβάντος δὴ τὴν ἅλμην τὴν τοῦ βίου, κριταὶ κατῆρχον τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ πάντα
διεκόσμουν μέχρις Ἠλεὶ καὶ Σαμουὴλ τοῦ προφητικωτάτου. ἕως μὲν οὖν ἐνέμενον τοῖς νόμοις τοῖς ἐνθέοις καὶ τὸν θεὸν ἐσέβοντο
καρδίαις ἀδιστάκτοις, ἔθνους ὑπέρτεροι παντὸς καὶ γένους ἐτηροῦντο, καὶ κατὰ ῥοῦν ἐφέρετο τούτοις ὁ βίος ἅπας. ἡνίκα δ' ἐξεφέροντο
πρὸς εἰδωλολατρείαν καὶ προσετίθεντο θεοῖς ἀψύχοις καὶ ματαίοις, εὐθέως παρεδίδοντο τοῖς δυσμενέσι δοῦλοι. μέχρι μὲν οὖν καὶ
Σαμουὴλ κριταὶ τούτων κατῆρχον· μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα βασιλεὺς αἰτήσασιν ἐδόθη ἀπὸ φυλῆς Βενιαμὶν Σαοὺλ τοῦ Κὶς ὁ γόνος. καὶ μετὰ
τοῦτον ὁ ∆αβὶδ ὁ μέγας ἐν προφήταις τοῦ γένους κράτωρ γίνεται, θρέμματα τότε νέμων, καὶ καθεξῆς τρισκαίδεκα μέχρις Ἰεχονίου,
ἐφ' οὗ τὸ τρίτον ἐπελθὼν ὁ Ναβουχοδονόσορ τὴν πόλιν ἐνεπύρισε καὶ τὸν ναὸν τὸν θεῖον, καὶ τὸν λαὸν μετῴκισεν ἐν χώρᾳ Βαβυλῶνος.
Τοῦ δὲ ∆αβὶδ κατάρξαντος ἄρτι τῶν ὁμοφύλων, ὁ πρὸς τοὺς Τρῶας πόλεμος Ἕλλησιν ἐκροτήθη, χάριν Ἑλένης γαμετῆς οὔσης τοῦ Μενελάου.
ταύτην ἐγὼ βουλόμενος τὴν μάχην ἱστορῆσαι καθὼς τοῖς ἱστορήσασι γράφεται περὶ ταύτης, καὶ μέλλων λέγειν οὐ καθὼς Ὅμηρος ἀναγράφει,
συγγνώμην ἐξαιτήσομαι παρὰ τῶν εὐγνωμόνων· Ὅμηρος γὰρ ὁ μελιχρὸς τὴν γλῶτταν καὶ θελξίνους μεθόδοις χρώμενος σοφαῖς οἰκονομεῖ
τοὺς λόγους, ἐνιαχοῦ δὲ τὰ πολλὰ στρέφει καὶ μεταστρέφει. ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἤδη μοι λοιπὸν ταῦτα διηγητέον. Τῷ Λαομέδοντος παιδὶ τῷ
φυλαρχοῦντι Τρώων Πριάμῳ σύζυγος συνῆν Ἑκάβη παῖς Κισσέως, καὶ μήτηρ ἐχρημάτισε πολλῶν ἐκ τούτου παίδων. ἔχουσα γοῦν κατὰ
γαστρὸς καὶ πρὸς τὸ τίκτειν οὖσα φοβήτροις ἐκτεθρόητο νυκτέρων ὀνειράτων· βλέπειν γὰρ ἔδοξε δαλὸν φλόγεον ἀνθρακίαν ἐκ τῆς
αἰδοῦς προκύπτοντα ταύτης, καὶ πυρπολοῦντα τὴν πόλιν ἅπασαν ὁμοῦ καὶ τὰς τῆς Ἴδης ὕλας. ἀκούει τοῦτο Πρίαμος, τοῖς μάντεσι
κοινοῦται· μανθάνει χρήσιμον αὐτῷ γενέσθαι καὶ τῇ πόλει, ἂν τὸ γεννηθησόμενον θηρίοις ἐκτεθείη ἢ τῷ πυρὶ τῷ καυστικῷ πρὸς
ὄλεθρον ῥιφείη. μετὰ μικρὸν δ' Ἀλέξανδρος ἐξέθορεν εἰς φάος, χαρίεν βρέφος, εὐπρεπές, ἀστεῖον τῷ προσώπῳ. ἐχρῆν μὲν οὖν τὸν
Πρίαμον μελλήσαντα μηδ' ὅλως εὐθὺς προκύψαν ἐκ γαστρὸς τὸ βρέφος ἀφανίσαι, ἐξαφανίζειν παντελῶς ἅπασαν χώραν μέλλον· ὁ δὲ
τῇ φύσει νικηθεὶς φείδεται τοῦ τεχθέντος. νομίζων δὲ σοφίσασθαι τὸ δραστικὸν τῆς τύχης, ἄλλοις ἐκτραφησόμενον
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