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
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. They care for the infant, and raise him as a baby, having named him Paris. And when he had already approached the age of youths, Priam takes him as a table-companion, thinking that he had escaped the harm from him. But the threads of fate were unalterable, and what was once ratified could not be undone. For Alexander, having killed one of his kinsmen—not with willing impulses, but nevertheless having committed a murder—departs from Troy to Menelaus at Sparta. That one receives him kindly as a friend, treats him kindly, entertains him as a guest, welcomes him in every way. Here is your plaything, O Eros, tyrant of all, here is your plaything and the seed of enmity, from which you kindled the blazing furnace of the war. Menelaus goes abroad, Paris is left alone, he sees the wife of Menelaus in the house. The woman was most beautiful, with beautiful eyebrows, with the fairest complexion, with lovely cheeks, with a beautiful face, ox-eyed, snow-skinned, with darting glances, delicate, a grove full of graces, white-armed, dainty, truly a breathing beauty. Her face was all white, her cheek rose-colored, her face charming, her eyelid lovely, an unstudied beauty, self-dyed, with its own color; a rosy flush tinged her whiteness, as if one should stain ivory with bright purple. Her neck long, all white, whence it was fabled that the fair-faced Helen was called swan-born. Alexander sees her, he is captured by her beauty. And why speak at length and write many and superfluous things? He seizes her, she being willing, he runs away as a fugitive. And being unable to manage his flight well otherwise, having embarked on a sea-faring ship he departs for Phoenicia, having turned aside from the course that led to Troy; for he suspected pursuit from those he had wronged. But having been caught by violent and very tempestuous winds, he with difficulty came to anchor at one of the mouths of the Nile, called the Canopic in later times, where a temple of the hero Heracles had been built, granting asylum to fugitive men. Having fled then out of fear to this temple, those who had fled with Paris and sailed out with him poured out many insults and reproaches against him, recounting tragically the terrible things done by him: the insolence, the impiety towards his host, the seizure of his wife, and yes, also of his treasures. The general in charge of the place hears these things, and Proteus the king of Egypt also hears these things, and Paris is summoned to him with the woman, with the treasures, with his followers. So he inquired who the woman was and whose, and from where he had taken her and was wandering; but Alexander fabricated falsely composed stories. But Proteus, having been informed of the matter concerning Helen, used the following words to Alexander. "If it had not been established and ordained for me to kill no foreigner of those storm-tossed by a harsh surge and cast up here, I would have punished you with great and terrible torments for having been ungrateful toward your benefactor and for having trampled on the laws of mutual friendship. But now, I will not give back to you the treasures and this woman, even if you should use many flatteries, but I will keep them safe for the Greek who was harmed by you; but you, depart from here, and flee from Egypt." Proteus therefore with threats drove Paris away; and he returned to his fatherland with empty hands, having tasted of pleasure with only the tip of his finger, and having kindled a conflagration reaching to the sky. And indeed, after his flight from Sparta and the seizure of Helen, the following things had happened. Menelaus returns from his journey abroad, he learns what happened, he tears his garment, and with him Tyndareus, the father of Helen. and they come into the midst of the leaders of the Greeks with their faces smeared with soot and wearing black garments, they remind them of those dreadful oaths, which all the Greeks together had sworn, that if it should happen contrary to
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ἐκτίθησιν εἰς χῶρον τὸν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ τοῦ Πάριδος Πάριον κεκλημένον. ἔρριπτο τοίνυν ἀμελῶς. εὗρον αὐτὸ ποιμένες, ᾠκτείρησαν, ἀνείλοντο.
κήδονται τοῦ νηπίου, καὶ βρεφικῶς ἐκτρέφουσι Πάριν ὠνομακότες. ἤδη δ' αὐτὸν ἐγγίσαντα μειράκων ἡλικίᾳ ὁ Πρίαμος συνέστιον
αὐτὸν παραλαμβάνει, νομίσας ὡς ἐκπέφευγε τὴν ἀπ' ἐκείνου βλάβην. ἀλλ' ἦσαν ἀμετάκλωστα τὰ νήματα τῆς τύχης, καὶ τὸ καθάπαξ
κυρωθὲν οὐκ ἦν ἀναλυθῆναι. ὁ γὰρ Ἀλέξανδρός τινα τῶν ὁμογνίων κτείνας, οὐχ ἑκουσίαις μὲν ὁρμαῖς πλὴν ὅμως δράσας φόνον, ἀπαίρει
πρὸς Μενέλαον ἐκ Τροίας ἐπὶ Σπάρτην. δέχεται τοῦτον εὐμενῶς ἐκεῖνος οἷα φίλον, φιλοφρονεῖται, ξεναγεῖ, παντοίως δεξιοῦται.
ἐνταῦθά σου τὸ παίγνιον, τύραννε πάντων Ἔρως, ἐνταῦθά σου τὸ παίγνιον καὶ τὸ τῆς ἔχθρας σπέρμα, ὅθεν ἀνῆψας λιπαρὰν κάμινον
τοῦ πολέμου. ἀποδημεῖ Μενέλαος, λείπεται Πάρις μόνος, τὴν Μενελάου γαμετὴν κατὰ τὸν οἶκον βλέπει. ἦν ἡ γυνὴ περικαλλής, εὔοφρυς,
εὐχρουστάτη, εὐπάρῃος, εὐπρόσωπος, βοῶπις, χιονόχρους, ἑλικοβλέφαρος, ἁβρά, χαρίτων γέμον ἄλσος, λευκοβραχίων, τρυφερά, κάλλος
ἄντικρυς ἔμπνουν. τὸ πρόσωπον κατάλευκον, ἡ παρειὰ ῥοδόχρους, τὸ πρόσωπον ἐπίχαρι, τὸ βλέφαρον ὡραῖον, κάλλος ἀνεπιτήδευτον,
αὐτόβαπτον, αὐτόχρουν· ἔβαπτε τὴν λευκότητα ῥοδόχροια πυρσίνη, ὡς εἴ τις τὸν ἐλέφαντα βάψει λαμπρᾷ πορφύρᾳ. δειρὴ μακρά, κατάλευκος,
ὅθεν ἐμυθουργήθη κυκνογενῆ τὴν εὔοπτον Ἑλένην χρηματίζειν. ὁρᾷ ταύτην Ἀλέξανδρος, ἁλίσκεται τῷ κάλλει. καὶ τί πολλὰ καὶ περιττὰ
μακρηγορεῖν καὶ γράφειν; ἁρπάζει ταύτην θέλουσαν, φυγὰς ἀποδιδράσκει. καὶ τὴν φυγὴν ἀδυνατῶν ἄλλως εὖ διαθέσθαι, εἰς ναῦν
ἐμβὰς ἁλίπλοον ἀπαίρει πρὸς Φοινίκην, ἐκ τῆς φερούσης ἐκτραπεὶς πορείας πρὸς τὴν Τροίαν· δίωξιν γὰρ ὑπώπτευεν ἐκ τῶν ἀδικηθέντων.
ἀποληφθεὶς δὲ πνεύμασι σφοδροῖς πολυταράχοις μόλις εἰς ἓν ὡρμίσατο στομάτων τῶν τοῦ Νείλου, Κανωβικὸν ὀνομασθὲν ἐν χρόνοις
τοῖς ὑστέροις, ἔνθα δεδόμητο νεὼς ἥρωος Ἡρακλέος, τοῖς πρόσφυξι δωρούμενος ἀνθρώποις ἀσυλίαν. εἰς τοῦτον τοίνυν τὸν ναὸν φυγόντες
ὑπὸ δέους οἱ συμφυγόντες Πάριδι καὶ συνεκπεπλευκότες πολλὰς αὐτοῦ κατέχεον ὕβρεις καὶ λοιδορίας, ἐκτραγῳδοῦντες τὰ δεινὰ τὰ
παρ' αὐτοῦ πραχθέντα, τὴν ὕβριν, τὴν ἀσέβειαν τὴν εἰς τὸν ξενοδόχον, τὴν ἁρπαγὴν τῆς γυναικός, ναὶ μὴν καὶ τῶν χρημάτων. ἀκούει
ταῦθ' ὁ στρατηγὸς ὁ κληραρχῶν τοῦ τόπου, ἀκούει ταῦτα καὶ Πρωτεὺς ὁ βασιλεὺς Αἰγύπτου, καὶ γίνεται μετάπεμπτος ὁ Πάρις πρὸς
ἐκεῖνον σὺν γυναικί, σὺν χρήμασι, σὺν τοῖς συνεπομένοις. ὁ μὲν οὖν ἐπυνθάνετο τίς ἡ γυνὴ καὶ τίνος, καὶ πόθεν ἀφελόμενος ταύτην
περιπλανῷτο· Ἀλέξανδρος δ' ἀνέπλαττε ψευδοσυνθέτους λόγους. ὁ δὲ Πρωτεὺς ἐκδιδαχθεὶς τὰ κατὰ τὴν Ἑλένην τοιοῖσδε πρὸς Ἀλέξανδρον
ἐχρήσατο τοῖς λόγοις. "εἰ μή μοι προκεκύρωτο καὶ προτεθέσπιστό μοι μηδένα ξένον ἀναιρεῖν τῶν ὑπὸ κλυδωνίου χειμαζομένων χαλεποῦ
κἀνταῦθα ῥιπτουμένων, μεγάλαις ἄν σε καὶ δειναῖς βασάνοις ἐτισάμην ἀχάριστον γενόμενον περὶ τὸν εὐεργέτην καὶ τοὺς θεσμοὺς
πατήσαντα τοὺς τῆς φιλαλληλίας. νῦν δέ σοι τὰ μὲν χρήματα καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα ταύτην οὐκ ἀποδώσω, κἂν πολλαῖς χρήσῃ ταῖς κολακείαις,
τῷ δ' Ἕλληνι τῷ παρὰ σοῦ βλαβέντι συντηρήσω· σὺ δ' ἐξ αὐτῆς ἀπόστηθι, κἀκ τῆς Αἰγύπτου φεῦγε." Πρωτεὺς μὲν οὖν σὺν ἀπειλαῖς
ἀπώσατο τὸν Πάριν· ὁ δὲ κεναῖς ὑπέστρεψε χερσὶ πρὸς τὴν πατρίδα, τῆς ἡδονῆς γευσάμενος ἄκρῳ δακτύλῳ μόνῳ, καὶ πρὸς αἰθέρα
φθάνουσαν πυρκαϊὰν ἀνάψας. Καὶ γάρτοι μετὰ τὸν δρασμὸν τούτου τὸν ἀπὸ Σπάρτης καὶ τὴν Ἑλένης ἁρπαγὴν τοιάδε συμβεβήκει. ἐπάνεισι
Μενέλαος ἐκ τῆς ἀποδημίας, μανθάνει τὸ γενόμενον, ῥηγνύει τὴν ἐσθῆτα, καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ Τυνδάρεως πατὴρ ὁ τῆς Ἑλένης. εἰς μέσους
ἀφικνοῦνται δὲ τοὺς τῶν Ἑλλήνων πρώτους ἠσβολωμένοι πρόσωπα καὶ μελανειμονοῦντες, ὅρκων ἀναμιμνήσκουσι τῶν φρικωδῶν ἐκείνων,
οὓς ἦσαν Ἕλληνες ὁμοῦ πάντες ὀμωμοκότες, ὡς εἰ συμβῇ παρά
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