Chronography (partim edita e cod. Paris. gr. 1712)
to appear but if not, the opposite, countless terrors and a swift destruction. Therefore, when night fell, the emperor went with Kassiteras to the mo
he exiled Patriarch Nicephorus and 609 Theodore at which time it is also said that when Patriarch Nicephorus was being sent into exile, Theophanes, c
less. For when the renowned patriarch Tarasios had long since departed this life, he heard him call a certain Michael by name, and having leaped 612 u
the east, they burned the areas outside the Golden Gate as far as Rhegion. And coming to Athyras, they destroyed the fortress there and the bridge, wh
he marched, having gathered a great army and the Avars and all the Sklavinias and in addition to these he prepares instruments of various city-takers
The Stammerer and Iconoclast, 8 years, 9 months. This man took as his wife Euphrosyne, the daughter of Constantine who had been blinded, who had embra
with freedom to practice the Christian ways having been conceded who until now have been called tributaries. And indeed the islands would have been c
he did in the following way. It was a custom for the Persians that the proclamation of a king be from the royal line whence, the royal line having fa
that there were many for her in the chest, and she places these on our head and face after 629 the kisses. These things drove the emperor to madness
to venerate and honor the holy icons and to denounce his impiety. And not long after, when the patriarch arrived at the great church and reproached hi
he made him commander of the Scholae, and received his children from holy baptism. 11. In his 7th year the emperor goes out with Manuel and the senate
of Oxyartes, brother of Dareios, who, having married Dionysios the tyrant of Heraclea, named the city, which was under him, after his wife. and having
they devoured. 20. But the student of Leo the philosopher, who was also the informer of the betrayal, was asked by the amermoumnes about his knowledge
Theodore, whose relic the founder Michael himself later brought to the monastery of Michaelitzes in Chalcedon. The renowned Theophanes lived until the
they requested. So he withdrew and looked at the house and, being pleased, moved the nuns to another monastery, and having adorned it with every kind
the wicked one is driven out of the church and is confined in a certain monastery in Kleidio. In which, having scraped the icons of the saints, the em
the divine mystery having been celebrated purely, all the heretics under the whole sun having been subjected to deposition along with their chief prie
And although many were killed, those who were captured were more numerous. But Theoktistos, having gone to the empress, again enjoyed the same familia
and to come to the palace. Having befriended also the protospatharios Theophanes Phalganes and some others, he kills Theoktistos in the palace, with t
At this the protonotary became sullen, and reported with dejection the response from the Domestic of the Schools, and at the same time bringing and sh
it was sealed, the fool with the fools raising his voice in laughter, laughing at the renowned Ignatius as not being accommodating in matters and as o
and the generals bring his head and those of many others into the city. From this a great peace comes about in the east. And the toils and the heroic
of whom Sergius said, even if he is to be such, I will kill him along with his mother. To whom the saint said, You will not be able to hinder the p
I said to this pious and discerning monk that we too, when serving the liturgy with him, never heard him speak a prayer, but rather whisper the words
as he was passing by in a procession, the patrician Damianos, the *parakoimomenos*, who was sitting in the Horologion, did not rise to honor him. And
waiting for him gives a sword to two men dressed in gold, as if praepositi, and says that having quickly slipped away he assigned the emperor to the r
Mamas, they bring Peganes with an earthenware censer smoking brimstone, and he meets and censes Symbatios. And he himself is blinded in one 681 eye, a
the emperor ordered one of his guards to throw a spear at Basil. And during dinner time, not only this one but others too, whenever he got drunk with
dejected, and as one might guess, pondering his own affairs. He had set out from Adrianople of Macedonia, which was formerly called Orestias from Ores
having learned the land and the affairs, and having written down the book, and having made this very ancient by his practices, it was deposited in the
Constantine, the son of Michael by Eudokia, died, but according to rumor, the son of Basil whom, after mourning greatly, he laid in the tombs of the
The possession of these castles is not safe for you, as long as their rulers are dwelling here but if you wish to rule them securely, send them as pr
And when once a banquet was being held for the emperor, and the first of the senate were dining with him, and the bird often uttered the aforesaid say
Having beaten Santabarenos, they exiled him to Athens. Then the emperor, sending men after him, blinded him and exiled him to the east. But after many
he deposited the body of Saint Lazarus and of Mary Magdalene. At this time Tauromenium was surrendered to the Hagarenes. 10. In the 15th year the isla
having run through the traditions of those who made use of some counsel or oracle and who surpassed them, they are so named. The name Dromitai came to
of the Saracens went out against the Romans. And the emperor appointed Himerios the logothete as head of all the naval forces. And he also writes to A
When Pantaleon the metropolitan was coming in to the emperor, Samonas asked him Against whom is the misfortune? And he said, Against you and if th
having sent immediately, he brought Nicholas from Galakrenoi and enthroned him, having deposed 716 Euthymius, whom he exiled to the monastery of Agath
ruling, there being sufficient men, 719 and having entered by night through a side-gate of the protovestiarios Michael, which was near the acropolis,
(Alexander had brought down from the palace) they bring her up again. And having gained control of the empire, she brings up to the palace Constantine
when the drungarius Romanos was ordered to cross. But when they came to battle, the Patzinaks, seeing them quarreling, withdrew to their own lands. Wh
to rest for a short while in his own house. Likewise Constantine the parakoimomenos was ordered to write a letter, ordering him the same things, and t
tyrannically rising up wherefore I neither wish him to be domestic from now on, nor do I say that he has committed this rebellion with my counsel, bu
and when they used an indistinct and terrible shout, and most violently charged against them, the rector immediately fled, but fighting for him Photen
to be in the middle, where they were about to speak to one another. At this, Symeon sent men and burned down the church of the Most Holy Theotokos at
they did not judge it a good omen for they said that both would part on irreconcilable terms regarding the peace. But Symeon, reaching his own camp,
When Apolasath, a prudent and intelligent man, died, the inhabitants of Melitene broke the peace. Therefore, John Kourkouas, the Domestic of the Schoo
his father. And they deposed Patriarch Tryphon after he had completed the appointed time, 745 and he died in his own monastery. And the church was vac
those who survived and ended up on the shore of Koile, escaped when night fell. But Theophanes, returning after a great victory, was received honorabl
only a face, but the son-in-law Constantine said he saw eyes and ears. To them the celebrated Sergios said, You both saw well. And they replied, An
evil communications. What becomes of his kinsmen? After feasting and entertaining them, while the food was still in their mouths, men prepared for thi
his son Romanos, and he is buried in the church of the Holy Apostles with Leo the emperor, his father. In appearance he was tall in stature, fair in c
of the army wished to return home. But the most prudent Nicephorus and doux restrained them with the sweetness of his words. So the emperor, learning
Theodore, whose relic the founder Michael himself later brought to the monastery of Michaelitzes in Chalcedon. The renowned Theophanes lived until the time of Michael and Theodora, and was ordained metropolitan of Nicaea by Methodius who became patriarch among the saints; so that some were vexed at his ordination, and said that he is a Syrian, and who knows if he is orthodox, with no one vouching for him? Saint Methodius answered, saying, "I do not wish for a better testimony than this which he bears," pointing to the writing on his face. 24. It is now worthwhile also to relate the recall of the holy Methodius from the tomb. For having been shut up for seven years in a most terrible and narrow tomb with two robbers, condemned to this by Theophilus with unbearable floggings and the shattering of his jawbones and the uprooting of his teeth on account of his veneration of the 644 holy icons, the tomb having only a small opening through which he received his meager food and water, it happened in the second year that one of the robbers died there. You surely know what a stench and devouring by worms of the body is produced when the soul has departed. So the noble ones, both the holy Methodius and the remaining robber, endured such a hardship. Therefore, when the seven years were completed, the holy man was drawn out of the tomb in the following way. The emperor Theophilus, having leisure for studies, found by God's providence in the palace library a writing which he could not understand. He therefore sent it to the patriarch John, and likewise to the philosopher Leo, who was teaching philosophy in the Magnaura, as has been said before; and both were baffled. The emperor was grieved and vexed about this, for some days spending his time downcast and without food. One of the cubicularii took courage and said to the emperor, "This writing, my lord, no one else can explain except Methodius who is shut up in the tomb. But if your majesty commands, I will take the requested things and go to him by night as if against the will of your majesty; and you will certainly receive their interpretation without a doubt." And he consented. And when the cubicularius went away to the island, while he was still far off, he heard the holy man saying, "Welcome, brother John the cubicularius." For so he was named. "I know why you have come, sent 645 from Theophilus. But give me paper and ink." And having taken them, he set these things out in three solutions. When Theophilus read these, he was astonished, and sending for him, he brought him to the palace, and lodged him in the so-called Sigma near him, having ordered that no one from the outside should enter to him except for the one who ministered to Theophilus. And he himself went in to him each day and made an inquiry of the things he sought. But the robber who was left there, although he was released, did not want to leave, but died right there, having been adorned with great signs and wonders. 25. At the same time the golden tuft of the lantern in the Augustaeum of Justinian fell down, and 100 nomismata were given to the scaffolder by the emperor. And Theophilus crowns his son Michael in the Great Church, bestowing honors upon all, as was customary, at the coronation. 26. In his twelfth year the hospice he had built, now called Theophilus', was completed, at first the house of Isidore the patrician, who came from Rome with Olybrius in the time of Constantine the Great, but after some time given as a curatoria for noble women who did not know how to be chaste to live there. In the time of Leo the Isaurian, it was designated by him as a hostel, from having been a brothel. Then it became the house of Constantine, the son of Irene, after the blinding 646 done to him by his mother. And when he died, his wife became a nun and established it as a monastery and called it Metanoia. Therefore a very large beam of the triclinium, having broken, threatened to fall, and the nuns, as the emperor was passing by, concerning it
Θεόδωρος, οὗ τὸ λείψανον ἐν τῇ Χαλκηδόνι μονῇ τοῦ Μιχαηλίτζη αὐτὸς ὁ κτίσας Μιχαὴλ ὕστερον ἀπεκόμισεν. ὁ δὲ ἀοίδιμος Θεοφάνης
μέχρι Μιχαὴλ καὶ Θεοδώρας διήρκεσε, καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐν ἁγίοις Μεθοδίου πατριάρχου γενομένου χειροτονεῖται μητροπολίτης Νικαίας·
ὡς καί τινας ἀσχάλλοντας ἐπὶ τῇ τούτου χειροτονίᾳ, καὶ λέγοντας ὅτι Σύρος ἐστί, καὶ τίς οἶδεν εἰ ὀρθόδοξος ὑπάρχει, μηδενὸς
αὐτοῦ μαρτυροῦντος; ἀπεκρίθη ὁ ἅγιος Μεθόδιος λέγων "ἐγὼ ὑπὲρ ταύτην τὴν μαρτυρίαν ἣν ἐπιφέρεται" δείξας τὴν ἐν τῷ προσώπῳ
γραφήν "κρείττονα οὐ θέλω." 24. Ἄξιον δὲ λοιπὸν καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ τάφου ἀνάκλησιν τοῦ ὁσίου Μεθοδίου διηγήσασθαι. ἐπὶ ἑπτὰ γὰρ
χρόνοις ἐν τῷ δεινοτάτῳ καὶ στενωτάτῳ τάφῳ μετὰ δύο λῃστῶν κατάκλειστος γεγονώς, ὑπὸ Θεοφίλου τοῦτο μετὰ δαρμῶν ἀφορήτων καὶ
τὴν τῶν σιαγόνων θλάσιν καὶ τὴν τῶν ὀδόντων ἐκρίζωσιν διὰ τὴν τῶν 644 ἁγίων εἰκόνων προσκύνησιν καταδικασθείς, ὀπὴν μικρὰν
μόνον ἔχοντος τοῦ μνήματος, δι' ἧς τὴν εὐτελῆ τροφήν τε καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ ἐλάμβανεν, συνέβη τῷ δευτέρῳ ἔτει τὸν ἕνα τῶν λῃστῶν ἐκεῖσε
ἀποθανεῖν. ἴστε δὲ πάντως οἵα δυσωδία καὶ σκωλήκων βρῶσις τοῦ σώματος τοῦ τῆς ψυχῆς ἐξελθούσης τίκτεσθαι. ἐκαρτέρησαν οὖν
οἱ γενναῖοι, ὅ τε ὅσιος Μεθόδιος καὶ ὁ ἐναπολειφθεὶς λῃστής, τὴν τοιαύτην ἀνάγκην. ἑπταετίας οὖν πληρωθείσης ἐξέλκεται ὁ ὅσιος
τοῦ τάφου τρόπῳ τοιῷδε. ὁ βασιλεὺς Θεόφιλος σχολὴν ἐν μελέταις ἔχων εὑρίσκει θεοῦ προνοίᾳ ἐν τῇ βιβλιοθήκῃ τοῦ παλατίου γραφὴν
ἣν νοῆσαι οὐκ ἠδύνατο. πέμπει οὖν ταύτην τῷ πατριάρχῃ Ἰωάννῃ, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τῷ φιλοσόφῳ Λέοντι ἐν τῇ Μαγναύρᾳ τὴν φιλοσοφίαν,
ὡς προείρηται, διδάσκοντι· καὶ ἀμφότεροι ἐματαιώθησαν. λυπεῖται ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀγανακτῶν περὶ τούτου, ἐπί τισιν ἡμέραις κατηφὴς
καὶ ἄτροφος διάγων. θαρρεῖ τις τῶν κουβικουλαρίων, καὶ φησὶ τῷ βασιλεῖ "ταύτην, δέσποτά μου, οὐδεὶς ἄλλος διασαφῆσαι δύναται
τὴν γραφὴν εἰ μὴ ὁ ἐν τῷ μνήματι ἀποκεκλεισμένος Μεθόδιος. ἀλλ' εἰ κελεύει τὸ κράτος σου, λαμβάνω ἐγὼ τὰ ζητούμενα, καὶ πορεύομαι
πρὸς αὐτὸν διὰ τῆς νυκτὸς ὡς παρὰ γνώμην τῆς βασιλείας σου· καὶ πάντως λαμβάνῃ τὴν τούτων ἑρμηνείαν ἀναμφίβολον." ὁ δὲ κατένευσε.
καὶ τοῦ κουβικουλαρίου ἀπελθόντος πρὸς τὴν νῆσον, μακρόθεν ἔτι ὄντος αὐτοῦ, ἤκουεν τοῦ ὁσίου λέγοντος "καλῶς ἦλθες, ἀδελφὲ
Ἰωάννη κουβικουλάριε." οὕτως γὰρ ὠνόμαστο. "οἶδα δι' ὃ ἦλθες ἀπο 645 σταλεὶς παρὰ Θεοφίλου. ἀλλ' ἐπίδος μοι χάρτην καὶ μέλαν."
καὶ λαβὼν ἐπὶ τρισὶν λύσεσι ταῦτα ἐξέθετο. ἅπερ ἀναγνοὺς ὁ Θεόφιλος ἐθαύμασεν, καὶ ἀποστείλας ἤνεγκεν αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ,
καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν εἰς τὸ λεγόμενον Σίγμα πλησίον αὐτοῦ, παραγγείλας μηδένα ἀπὸ τῶν ἔξω εἰς αὐτὸν εἰσέρχεσθαι πλὴν τοῦ ὑπουργοῦντος
τῷ Θεοφίλῳ. αὐτὸς δὲ καθ' ἑκάστην πρὸς αὐτὸν εἰσήρχετο καὶ τῶν ζητουμένων ἐποιεῖτο τὴν ἔρευναν. ὁ δέ γε καταλειφθεὶς ἐκεῖσε
λῃστής, καίπερ ἀφεθείς, οὐκ ἠθέλησεν ἐξελθεῖν, ἀλλὰ αὐτόθι ἐτελεύτησεν, σημείοις καὶ τέρασι μεγάλοις κατακοσμηθείς. 25. Τῷ
αὐτῷ καιρῷ ἔπεσεν ἡ χρυσῆ τοῦ φανοῦ τοῦφα ἐν τῷ Αὐγουστείῳ Ἰουστινιανοῦ, καὶ ἐδόθη τῷ σκαλωτῇ παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως νομίσματα
ρʹ. στέφει δὲ Θεόφιλος Μιχαὴλ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ μεγάλῃ ἐκκλησίᾳ, φιλοτιμησάμενος πάντας, ὡς ἔθος, ἐν τῷ στεψίμῳ. 26. Τῷ
ιβʹ αὐτοῦ ἔτει πεπλήρωται ὃν κατεσκεύασε ξενῶνα, τὸν νῦν Θεοφίλου λεγόμενον, οἶκον μὲν τὰ πρῶτα γεγονότα Ἰσιδώρου πατρικίου
τοῦ ἀπὸ Ῥώμης μετὰ Ὀλυβρίου ἀνελθόντος ἐπὶ Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ μεγάλου, μετὰ δὲ χρόνους ἐκδοθέντα κουρατώρια εἰς τὸ κατοικεῖν
ἐκεῖσε γυναῖκας τῶν εὐγενῶν μὴ εἰδυίας σωφρονεῖν. ἐπὶ δὲ Λέοντος τοῦ Ἰσαύρου ξενοδοχεῖον ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἐκ πορνείου ἐχρημάτισεν.
εἶτα γέγονεν οἶκος Κωνσταντίνου τῆς Εἰρήνης υἱοῦ μετὰ ὑπὸ τῆς μητρὸς γεγονυῖαν εἰς αὐτὸν τύφλω 646 σιν. τελευτήσαντος δὲ αὐτοῦ
ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ μονάσασα μοναστήριον αὐτὸν κατεσκεύασεν καὶ τὰ Μετανοίας ἐκάλεσεν. ξύλον οὖν μέγιστον τοῦ τρικλίνου ἀποκλασθὲν
ἠπείλει πτῶσιν, αἱ δὲ μονάζουσαι τοῦ βασιλέως διερχομένου περὶ αὐτοῦ
