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
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 Greeks to march against the Trojans. And so many run together from islands, from mainlands, coastal people, those dwelling far from the sea, autochthonous people from Athens, from all of Euboea, from Thessaly, from Achaea, from all of Greece. There were also allied islands, Ithaca, Rhodes, Scyros and Salamis, and with them the thrice-greatest Crete. Corinthians came together, Argives were allied, and their fleet of ten thousand ships was assembled. There was Menestheus from Athens, Nestor from Pylos, from Ithaca Odysseus, from Salamis Ajax, from Crete was Idomeneus, Tlepolemus from Rhodes, all tracing their lineage from noble blood, distinguished, heaven-born, warlike, noble, valiant, lion-hearted, all men of blood. But Achilles the Phthian shone above all, a man of battle-din, mighty, strong-handed. And so, having equipped the thousand-ship fleet, they appoint Agamemnon admiral and general, a noble and fine man, a robust hero, preeminent in beauty and in the strength of his arms. They depart from their fatherlands and friends and parents, and eagerly sail against the enemy land. And having deliberated together they judge it necessary to plunder and ravage the lands neighboring Troy, so that they might have a supply of necessities and the Trojans' means for alliance might be cut off. So Achilles is sent forth, and others of the best men, and they attack islands and lay waste to mainlands, and completely destroy all the enemy's possessions. Now, it had been heard by the Greeks concerning Helen, that Proteus the king had taken her from Paris, and that she was being kept by him in the city of Memphis; but they strove, they say, to overcome Troy, as a rumor prevailed among them that it abounded in treasures of gold, and was weighed down with much wealth. And they also wished to punish those who had wronged them before; for they considered it unmanly and weak and base not to take the fitting retribution for the outrage. So when the Trojans saw such a great fleet, and learned of the multitude that had sailed, having gathered allies for themselves from all quarters, Carians, Lycians and Mysians and Maeonians and Phrygians, and having taken as comrades the entire nation of Asia, as much from the mainland, as much on the coast, they led out against them a countless swarm of an army. And a long time was spent in the war. The inhabitants of the city of Troy itself were more than fifty thousands of people. So at first they armed themselves mightily for battle, breaking the phalanxes with stout-hearted clashes; but when at last they had experienced the rush of Achilles and saw his fiery and hot agility, and his manliness and spirited courage, they sat shut up within their walls, not daring at all to go out against the Greeks, until she who twists all things and throws all things into confusion and is the mother of all evils, envy I mean, blunted the vigorous impulse of Achilles and encouraged the Trojans when he became enraged. The cause of the grief that embittered him was the murder of Palamedes, who had perished unjustly. But how it happened, and who contrived it, I will tell. The islander Odysseus cherished an implacable hatred and envy from his heart against Palamedes, because among the Greeks the fame of Palamedes was great and everyone, paying attention to him as if to a god, nourished a heartfelt love for him. For he foresaw the fire-bearing arrow of the plague, and he forewarned all the commanders of the Greeks, and while all of these were being bitterly overcome by the evil, he kept the Greeks unharmed, partly by advising and instructing them with words, and partly by teaching them what was advantageous by his very deeds. Therefore, because of this, Odysseus was consumed with envy, seeing Palamedes exceedingly loved by all, while he himself was considered as one of the crowd. From this, he contrived deceits and machinations, and concocted plans full of slander. So of the one
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τινος Ἑλένην ἁρπαγῆναι, πάντες ἰδίοις σώμασιν αὐτῆς ὑπερμαχοῦνται. πολλὰ γοῦν ἱκετεύσαντες καὶ δεδυσωπηκότες συμπείθουσι τοὺς
Ἕλληνας στρατεῦσαι κατὰ Τρώων. καὶ δὴ πολλοὶ συντρέχουσιν ἐκ νήσων, ἐξ ἠπείρων, παραθαλάσσιοι, μακρὰν τῆς ἅλμης ἀφεστῶτες,
ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν αὐθιγενεῖς, ἐκ πάσης τῆς Εὐβοίας, ἐκ Θετταλῶν, ἐξ Ἀχαιῶν, ἐκ πάσης τῆς Ἑλλάδος. ἦσαν καὶ νῆσοι σύμμαχοι, Ἰθάκη,
Ῥόδος, Σκῦρος καὶ Σάλαμις, καὶ σὺν αὐταῖς ἡ τρισμεγίστη Κρήτη. Κορίνθιοι συνῄεσαν, Ἀργεῖοι συνεμάχουν, καὶ στόλος μυριόστολος
αὐτῶν συνεκροτεῖτο. ἦν Μενεσθεὺς ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν, Νέστωρ ἀπὸ τῆς Πύλου, ἐκ τῆς Ἰθάκης Ὀδυσσεύς, ἐκ Σαλαμῖνος Αἴας, ἐκ Κρήτης ἦν
Ἰδομενεύς, Τληπόλεμος ἐκ Ῥόδου, πάντες τὸ γένος ἕλκοντες ἐξ εὐγενῶν αἱμάτων, ἀριπρεπεῖς, διογενεῖς, ἀρεϊκοί, γεννάδαι, γενναῖοι,
θυμολέοντες, ἄνδρες αἱμάτων πάντες. ὁ δὲ Φθιώτης Ἀχιλλεὺς ἔλαμπεν ὑπὲρ πάντας, ἄνθρωπος πολεμόκλονος, ἄλκιμος, βριαρόχειρ.
καὶ τοίνυν ἐξαρτύσαντες τὸν χιλιόναυν στόλον ἱστῶσιν Ἀγαμέμνονα στολάρχην καὶ στρατάρχην, ἄνδρα γενναῖον καὶ καλόν, ἥρωα ῥωμαλέον,
καὶ κάλλει διαπρέποντα καὶ βραχιόνων σθένει. πατρίδων μὲν ἀπαίρουσι καὶ φίλων καὶ τοκέων, ἐκθύμως ναυστολοῦνται δὲ κατὰ τῆς
πολεμίας. κοινῇ δὲ συσκεψάμενοι κρίνουσιν εἶναι δέον λεηλατεῖν τε καὶ πορθεῖν τὰ πρόσοικα τῇ Τροίᾳ, ὡς ἂν καὶ τούτοις γένοιτο
τῶν ἀναγκαίων πόρος καὶ τοῖς Τρωσὶν ἐκκόπτοιτο τὰ πρὸς τὴν συμμαχίαν. στέλλεται τοίνυν Ἀχιλλεὺς καὶ τῶν ἀρίστων ἄλλοι, καὶ
νήσοις ἐπιτίθενται καὶ κείρουσιν ἠπείρους, καὶ τέλεον ἐκτρίβουσιν ὅσα τῶν πολεμίων. ἤκουστο μὲν οὖν Ἕλλησι τὰ περὶ τῆς Ἑλένης,
ὡς ὁ Πρωτεὺς ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀφέλοιτο τὸν Πάριν, ὡς παρ' αὐτοῦ φυλάττοιτο κατὰ τὴν πόλιν Μέμφιν· ἀλλ' ἠγωνίζοντό, φασι, περιγενέσθαι
Τροίας, φήμης κρατούσης παρ' αὐτοῖς ὡς θησαυροῖς χρυσίου ἐνευθηνοῖτο, καὶ πολλῷ τῷ πλούτῳ περιβρίθοι. ἤθελον δὲ καὶ τίσασθαι
τοὺς προλελυπηκότας· ἄνανδρον γὰρ καὶ μαλακὸν καὶ ταπεινὸν ἡγοῦντο μὴ λήψεσθαι τῆς ὕβρεως ποινὰς τὰς προσηκούσας. ὡς οὖν οἱ
Τρῶες ἔβλεψαν τὸν τηλικοῦτον στόλον, καὶ τὴν πληθὺν ἱστόρησαν τὴν νεναυστοληκυῖαν, ἁπανταχόθεν ἑαυτοῖς ἀθροίσαντες συμμάχους,
Κᾶρας Λυκίους καὶ Μυσοὺς καὶ Μαίονας καὶ Φρύγας, καὶ προσεταιρισάμενοι σύμπαν Ἀσίας ἔθνος, ὁπόσον ἠπειρωτικόν, ὅσον ἐν παραλίᾳ,
ἀντεπεξῆγον στρατιᾶς σμῆνος ἀπειραρίθμου. καὶ χρόνος διηνύετο μακρὸς ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ. οἱ δὲ τῆς πόλεως αὐτῆς οἰκήτορες τῆς Τροίας
ἦσαν ὑπὲρ πεντήκοντα λαοῦ χιλιανδρίας. τὰ μὲν οὖν πρῶτα κραταιῶς ὡπλίζοντο πρὸς μάχην, ἀνδροκαρδίοις συμβολαῖς τὰς φάλαγγας
ῥηγνύντες· ὡς δ' ἐπειράθησαν ὀψὲ τῆς Ἀχιλλέως ῥύμης καὶ τὴν πυρώδη καὶ θερμὴν εἶδον εὐκινησίαν, καὶ τὴν ἀρρενωπότητα καὶ τὴν
θυμοτολμίαν, ἐκάθηντο τοῖς τείχεσιν αὑτοὺς συγκεκλεικότες καὶ μηδαμῶς τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἀντεπελθεῖν τολμῶντες, ἕως ἡ πάντα στρέφουσα
καὶ πάντα συγκυκῶσα καὶ πάντων μήτηρ τῶν κακῶν, ἡ βασκανία λέγω, τὴν Ἀχιλλέως ἤμβλυνεν ὁρμὴν τὴν δραστηρίαν καὶ Τρῶας παρεθάρρυνεν
ἐκείνου χολωθέντος. τὸ δὲ τῆς λύπης αἴτιον τῆς τοῦτον πικρανάσης ὁ Παλαμήδους φόνος ἦν ἀδίκως ὀλωλότος. τὸ δ' ὅπως γέγονε,
καὶ τίς ὁ συσκευάσας, λέξω. Ὁ νησιώτης Ὀδυσσεὺς κατὰ τοῦ Παλαμήδους ἄσπονδον μῖσος ἔτρεφε καὶ φθόνον ἐκ καρδίας, ὅτι παρὰ
τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἦν Παλαμήδους κλέος καὶ πάντες οἷάπερ θεῷ προσέχοντες ἐκείνῳ καρδιακὴν τὴν πρὸς αὐτὸν ὑπέτρεφον ἀγάπην. καὶ γὰρ
προέγνω τοῦ λοιμοῦ τὸ βέλος τὸ πυρφόρον, καὶ πᾶσι προεμήνυσεν Ἑλλήνων στρατιάρχαις, καὶ πάντων τούτων τῷ κακῷ πικρῶς δαμαζομένων
ἐκεῖνος διετήρησεν Ἕλληνας ἀπημάντους, τὸ μὲν ὑποτιθέμενος καὶ λόγοις καταρτίζων, τὸ δὲ καὶ πράγμασιν αὐτοῖς διδάσκων τὸ συμφέρον.
ἐκ τούτου τοίνυν Ὀδυσσεὺς ἐτήκετο τῷ φθόνῳ, βλέπων ὑπερφιλούμενον πᾶσι τὸν Παλαμήδην, αὐτὸν δὲ νομιζόμενον ὡς ἕνα τῶν τοῦ
πλήθους. ἐντεῦθεν δόλους ἤρτυε καὶ μηχανορραφίας, καὶ συνεσκεύαζε βουλὰς πλήρεις συκοφαντίας. τοῦ μὲν οὖν
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