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me. For *Makel* 42 is what a butcher is called in Latin. During his reign the great fire also occurred, from the dockyards to Saint Thomas. And the robe of the Theotokos, having been found in Jerusalem in the possession of a most devout Hebrew woman and virgin, where it was sacredly kept, and having been transported to Constantinople, was deposited at Blachernae, where the emperor built a church to the Theotokos, and having constructed a reliquary of gold and silver, he laid it therein, which, though woven from perishable wool and threads of a similar type and color, is incorruptible and undissolved until now, clearly proclaiming the miracle of the ever-virgin. But the emperor Leo died of dysentery. After Leo, Leo the Younger, his grandson, the son of Zeno and Ariadne, reigned for one year. After Leo the Younger, Zeno the Isaurian, his father, reigned for 11 years, and died of dysentery. He, as soon as he became emperor, was plotted against by Verina his mother-in-law, the wife of Leo the Great, because he had become emperor against her will, and he fled to his own country. And Verina crowned Basiliscus her brother. After this, Zeno returned to Constantinople, and having captured him, who had taken refuge in the church along with his wife and children, he exiled him to the fortress of Cappadocia, where, having been thrown into a tower and the door walled up, they died. During his reign also Martyrius of Antioch, on account of Zeno's perversion regarding the orthodox faith, renounced the epis 43 copate and departed, and when he had departed, Peter the Fuller tyrannically leapt upon the throne; this Martyrius was the first to devise that the myron be consecrated in the church in the presence of all the people, and that in every prayer the Theotokos be named, and that in every synaxis the symbol of the faith be said, which previously was not said except once a year on Great Friday. And the relic of the apostle Barnabas was found under a cherry tree, having on its chest the Gospel according to Matthew, handwritten by Barnabas. On this pretext the Cypriots have come not to be under Antioch as their metropolis. This gospel, having been deposited by Zeno in the palace in the church of Saint Stephen, is read annually on Holy and Great Thursday. After Zeno, Anastasius Dicorus, one of the silentiaries, reigned for 13 years, being himself also one of the Acephali; who saw in his sleep a fearsome figure holding in his hand a written codex and saying to him, "Behold, because of your unbelief I am wiping away 14 years from your life." And with thunder and lightning occurring by the palace, and the emperor being left all alone and fleeing from place to place, in one of the small bedchambers (it was called Oaton) the wrath overtook him, so that he was suddenly found dead. And they say that after he was buried, days later he was shouting, "Have mercy on me and open up." When the recorders said, "Another is reigning," he said, "I don't 44 care; take me away to a monastery and make me a monk." But they left him. Not long after, when the tomb was opened, he was found to have eaten his own arms and the hose which he had been wearing. After Anastasius, Justin the Thracian reigned for 9 years, great among emperors, excellent in wars and a zealot of the orthodox faith, during whose reign also the events concerning Saint Arethas and those in the city of Najran took place, and those concerning the Homerites through Elesbaan the king of the Ethiopians. And when the emperor Justin died, he left as emperor Justinian his nephew. After Justin, Justinian his nephew reigned for 39 years, who made the Novellae Constitutiones. He also restored the great church of God to a beauty and size beyond what it was before, and handed down a troparion to be chanted in it, "O only-begotten Son and Word of God." And the Hypapante began to be celebrated, not having been numbered before among the Lord's feasts. And the fifth synod of the 165 holy fathers also took place against Origen and those who succeeded to his impious doctrines, Didymus and Evagrius, and the things set forth by them

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μοι. Μάκελ 42 γὰρ λέγεται Ῥωμαϊστὶ ὁ σφαγεύς. ἐφ' οὗ καὶ ὁ μέγας ἐμπρησμὸς γέγονεν ἀπὸ τοῦ νεωρίου μέχρι τοῦ ἁγίου Θωμᾶ. καὶ τῆς θεοτόκου ἡ ἐσθὴς εὑρεθεῖσα ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις παρά τινι εὐλαβεστάτῃ γυναικὶ Ἑβραΐδι καὶ παρθένῳ ἱερῶς φυλαττομένη, καὶ ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει διακομισθεῖσα, ἐν Βλαχέρναις ἀπετέθη, ἔνθα ὁ βασιλεὺς ναὸν ᾠκοδόμησε τῆς θεομήτορος, καὶ σορὸν ἐκ χρυσοῦ καὶ ἀργύρου κατασκευάσας κατέθετο ταύτην, ἥτις ἐξ ἐρίων εὐφθάρτων ἐξυφασμένη καὶ στημόνων ὁμοιοειδῶν καὶ ὁμοχρόων ἀδιάφθαρτός ἐστιν καὶ ἀδιάλυτος μέχρι τοῦ νῦν, τῆς ἀειπαρθένου τὸ θαῦμα σαφῶς κηρύττουσα. ὁ δέ γε βασιλεὺς Λέων δυσεντεριάσας ἀπέθανεν. Μετὰ δὲ Λέοντα ἐβασίλευσε Λέων ὁ μικρὸς ὁ ἔκγονος αὐτοῦ, ὁ ἀπὸ Ζήνωνος καὶ Ἀριάδνης, ἔτος ἕν. Μετὰ δὲ Λέοντα τὸν μικρὸν ἐβασίλευσε Ζήνων ὁ Ἴσαυρος καὶ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ ἔτη ιαʹ, καὶ ἀπέθανε δυσεντεριάσας. ὃς ἅμα τῷ βασιλεῦσαι ἐπιβουλευθεὶς παρὰ Βηρίνης τῆς πενθερᾶς αὐτοῦ, γυναικὸς Λέοντος τοῦ μεγάλου, ὡς παρὰ γνώμην αὐτῆς βασιλεύσας, προσέφυγε τῇ ἰδίᾳ πατρίδι. ἡ δὲ Βηρίνα ἔστεψε Βασιλίσκον τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτῆς. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα Ζήνων ὑποστρέψας ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει, καὶ τοῦτον χειρωσάμενος, τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ προσφυγόντα ἅμα γυναικὶ καὶ τέκνοις ἐξώρισεν ἐν τῷ φρουρίῳ Καππαδοκίας, ἐν ᾧ βληθέντες ἐν πύργῳ τῆς θύρας ἀναφραγείσης ἐτελεύτησαν. ἐφ' οὗ καὶ Μαρτύριος ὁ Ἀντιοχείας διὰ τὴν τοῦ Ζήνωνος περὶ τὴν ὀρθόδοξον πίστιν διαστροφὴν ἀποταξάμενος τῇ ἐπι 43 σκοπῇ ἀνεχώρησεν, οὗ ἀναχωρήσαντος Πέτρος ὁ Κναφεὺς τυραννικῶς τῷ θρόνῳ ἐπεπήδησεν· ὅστις Μαρτύριος πρῶτος ἐπενόησε τὸ μύρον ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἐπὶ παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ ἁγιάζεσθαι, καὶ ἐν ἑκάστῃ εὐχῇ τὴν θεοτόκον ὀνομάζεσθαι, καὶ ἐν πάσῃ συνάξει τὸ σύμβολον τῆς πίστεως λέγεσθαι, πρότερον μὴ λεγόμενον εἰ μὴ ἅπαξ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ ἐν τῇ μεγάλῃ παρασκευῇ. καὶ Βαρνάβα τοῦ ἀποστόλου τὸ λείψανον εὑρέθη ὑπὸ δένδρον κερασίαν, ἔχον ἐπὶ στήθους τὸ κατὰ Ματθαῖον εὐαγγέλιον ἰδιόγραφον τοῦ Βαρνάβα. ἐξ ἧς προφάσεως παραγεγόνασι Κύπριοι τοῦ μὴ τελεῖν ὑπὸ Ἀντιόχειαν τὴν κατ' αὐτοὺς μητρόπολιν. ὅπερ εὐαγγέλιον ἀποτεθὲν παρὰ Ζήνωνος ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ εἰς τὸν ναὸν τοῦ ἁγίου Στεφάνου ἀναγινώσκεται κατ' ἐνιαυτὸν τῇ ἁγίᾳ μεγάλῃ πέμπτῃ. Μετὰ δὲ Ζήνωνα ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀναστάσιος ὁ ∆ίκορος ἀπὸ σελεντίων, τῶν Ἀκεφάλων καὶ αὐτὸς ὤν, ἔτη ιγʹ· ὃς εἶδε καθ' ὕπνους φοβερόν τινα τῇ χειρὶ κατέχοντα κώδικα γεγραμμένον καὶ λέγοντα αὐτῷ "ἰδοὺ διὰ τὴν ἀπιστίαν σου ἀπαλείφω τῆς σῆς ζωῆς ἔτη ιδʹ." καὶ βροντῶν καὶ ἀστραπῶν παρὰ τὸ παλάτιον γενομένων, καὶ τοῦ βασιλέως μονωτάτου καταλειφθέντος καὶ ἀπὸ τόπου εἰς τόπον φεύγοντος, ἐν ἑνὶ τῶν κοιτωνίσκων (Ὤατον δὲ ἐλέγετο) κατέλαβεν αὐτὸν ἡ ὀργή, ὥστε αἰφνίδιον εὑρεθῆναι νεκρόν. φασὶ δὲ μετὰ τὸ ταφῆναι μεθ' ἡμέρας βοᾶν "ἐλεήσατέ με καὶ ἀνοίξατε." τῶν μνημοναρίων δὲ εἰπόντων "ἄλλος βασιλεύει," εἰπεῖν "οὐδέν 44 μοι μέλει· εἰς μοναστήριον ἀπαγάγετέ με καὶ ποιήσατε μοναχόν." οἱ δὲ εἴασαν αὐτόν. μετ' οὐ πολὺ δὲ τοῦ μνήματος ἀνοιγέντος εὑρέθη φαγὼν τοὺς βραχίονας αὑτοῦ καὶ τὰ καλήγια, ἅπερ ἐπεδέδυτο. Μετὰ δὲ Ἀναστάσιον ἐβασίλευσεν Ἰουστῖνος ὁ Θρᾲξ ὁ μέγας ἐν βασιλεῦσιν ἔτη θʹ, ἄριστος ἐν πολέμοις καὶ ζηλωτὴς τῆς ὀρθοδόξου πίστεως, ἐφ' οὗ καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸν ἅγιον Ἀρέθαν καὶ τοὺς ἐν Νεγρᾷ τῇ πόλει ἐπράχθη, καὶ τὰ κατὰ τῶν Ὁμηριτῶν δι' Ἐλεσβαᾶ τοῦ βασιλέως τῶν Αἰθιόπων. τελευτήσας δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἰουστῖνος κατέλιπε βασιλέα Ἰουστινιανὸν ἀνεψιὸν αὐτοῦ. Μετὰ δὲ Ἰουστῖνον ἐβασίλευσεν Ἰουστινιανὸς ἀνεψιὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη λθʹ, ὃς ἐποίησε τὰς νεαρὰς διατάξεις. ἀνεκαίνισε δὲ καὶ τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ μεγάλην ἐκκλησίαν εἰς κάλλος καὶ μέγεθος ὑπὲρ τὸ πρότερον, παραδοὺς καὶ τροπάριον ἐν αὐτῇ ψάλλεσθαι "ὁ μονογενὴς υἱὸς καὶ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ." καὶ ἡ Ὑπαπαντὴ ἔλαβεν ἀρχὴν ἑορτάζεσθαι, μὴ συναριθμουμένη πρότερον ταῖς δεσποτικαῖς ἑορταῖς. γέγονε δὲ καὶ ἡ πέμπτη σύνοδος τῶν ρξεʹ ἁγίων πατέρων κατὰ Ὠριγένους καὶ τῶν τὰ ἐκείνου ἀσεβῆ δόγματα διαδεξαμένων ∆ιδύμου καὶ Εὐαγρίου καὶ τῶν παρ' αὐτῶν ἐκτεθέντων