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Constantinople, because he was intensely hated by the Byzantines, he moved to Syracuse in Sicily, where while being scrubbed in a bath with a bucket by a certain Andrew, he received a blow to the head and died. And after Constans, his son Constantine reigned for 17 years, who also castrated Germanus, who became patriarch, 48 having killed his father. He was called Pogonatus because he went to Sicily beardless to avenge his father and returned with a beard. And he slit the noses of his two brothers, Heraclius and Tiberius, as they were being proclaimed by the people, against his will. And he crowned his son Justinian to reign with him. And in the 13th year of his reign he convened an ecumenical council in Constantinople of the 170 holy fathers against Theodore bishop of Pharan, Honorius of Rome and Cyrus of Alexandria, Sergius and Pyrrhus and Paul and Peter who had been bishops of Constantinople and against others saying there is one will and one energy in our savior Christ, and having anathematized them, it proclaimed that two natural wills, that is, volitions, and two natural energies are to be demonstrated in the one Christ our God. But the emperor, having been seized by dysentery, died. And after Constantine, his son Justinian reigned for 10 years, who built the so-called Triclinium of Justinian in the palace. But later, having his nose slit by Leontius, he was exiled to Cherson. And after Justinian, Leontius reigned for 3 years, who sends the patrician John with a Roman fleet against the Hagarenes in Africa; who, having routed the enemy and freed Africa, was proceeding as emperor. But the army, having been turned to an evil plan by its own leaders, and 49 having murdered the patrician John, and having anathematized the emperor, proclaimed Apsimar, droungarios of the Cibyrrhaeots, emperor, renaming him Tiberius, who, entering the city when a betrayal occurred at the Blachernae gate, and having seized Leontius and slit his nose, confined him in the monastery of the Dalmatians. And after Leontius, Apsimar, also known as Tiberius, reigned for 7 years. But Justinian, whose nose had been slit by Leontius, having secretly taken some men from Cherson, sailed to the mouth of the Ister, and having been saved, he sent to Tervel the Bulgar to give him an alliance to seize his ancestral empire. And he not only gave an alliance but also himself, arriving with him at the reigning city. Justinian therefore entered with a few countrymen through the aqueduct by the betrayal of some from the city, and he came out at St. Anna, called on his account the second, and he encamped in the palaces of the Blachernae; which Apsimar learned and flees to Apollonias, having taken much money with him. Justinian therefore, having brought out both Leontius and Apsimar, the one from the reign and the other from prison, and having placed both under his own feet, punished them capitally in the Hippodrome. And after Apsimar, Justinian reigned again for 7 years, having given many gifts to Tervel and Roman land, now called 50 Zagoria. And he impaled his brother Heraclius and those who sided with him. And having blinded Callinicus the patriarch, he exiled him to Rome; in his place he appointed Cyriacus who was on the island of Amastris, as he had foretold to him the restoration of his reign. And holding a grudge against the Chersonites from his exile, he equipped a fleet against them, and he sent it, having entrusted it to the patrician Maurus. But they reviled Justinian, and quickly proclaimed as emperor Philippicus, son of the patrician Nicephorus, who was in exile there under Apsimar. When the tyrant Justinian learned this, and being more enraged and afraid, he went up to Sinope to learn about this more accurately. And when Philippicus arrived with a fleet, Justinian fled to Demetrias, abandoned by all;

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Κωνσταντινούπολιν διὰ τὸ μισηθῆναι ὑπὸ τῶν Βυζαντίων σφοδρῶς μετέστη ἐν Συρακούσαις τῆς Σικελίας, ἔνθα ἐν βαλανείῳ σμηχόμενος μετὰ κάδου παρὰ Ἀνδρέου τινὸς κατὰ κορυφῆς λαβὼν ἐτεθνήκει. Μετὰ δὲ Κώνσταν ἐβασίλευσε Κωνσταντῖνος υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη ιζʹ, ὃς καὶ Γερμανὸν τὸν γενόμενον πατριάρχην εὐνούχισεν, 48 ἀνελὼν τὸν αὐτοῦ πατέρα. ἐκλήθη δὲ Πωγωνάτος διὰ τὸ ἀγένειον ἀπελθεῖν εἰς Σικελίαν ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκδίκησιν καὶ ἐπανελθεῖν μετὰ πώγωνος. τοὺς δὲ δύο ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ Ἡράκλειον καὶ Τιβέριον ἐρινοτόμησεν ὡς ὑπὸ τοῦ λαοῦ ἀναγορευομένους, αὐτοῦ τοῦτο μὴ θέλοντος. ἔστεψε δὲ Ἰουστινιανὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ συμβασιλεύειν αὐτῷ. ἐν δὲ τῷ ιγʹ ἔτει τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας σύνοδον οἰκουμενικὴν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει συνήθροισε τῶν ροʹ ἁγίων πατέρων κατὰ Θεοδώρου τῆς Φαρὰν ἐπισκόπου, Ὁνωρίου Ῥώμης καὶ Κύρου Ἀλεξανδρείας, Σεργίου τε καὶ Πύρρου καὶ Παύλου καὶ Πέτρου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως γεγονότων ἐπισκόπων καὶ καθ' ἑτέρων λεγόντων ἓν θέλημα καὶ μίαν ἐνέργειαν κατὰ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Χριστοῦ, καὶ ἀναθεματίσασα ἐξεφώνησε δύο θελήματα φυσικὰ ἤγουν θελήσεις καὶ δύο φυσικὰς ἐνεργείας ἐπὶ τοῦ ἑνὸς Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἐπιδείκνυσθαι. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς δυσεντερίᾳ ληφθεὶς ἀπεβίω. Μετὰ δὲ Κωνσταντῖνον ἐβασίλευσεν Ἰουστινιανὸς υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη ιʹ, ὃς τὸν Ἰουστινιανοῦ λεγόμενον τρίκλινον ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ ἔκτισεν. ὕστερον δὲ ὑπὸ Λεοντίου ῥινοτμηθεὶς ἐξωρίσθη ἐν Χερσῶνι. Μετὰ δὲ Ἰουστινιανὸν ἐβασίλευσε Λεόντιος ἔτη γʹ, ὃς τὸν πατρίκιον Ἰωάννην μετὰ Ῥωμαϊκοῦ στόλου κατὰ τῶν Ἀγαρηνῶνἐκπέμπει ἐν Ἀφρικῇ· ὃς τοὺς ἐχθροὺς τροπωσάμενος καὶ τὴν Ἀφρικὴν ἐλευθερώσας εἰς βασιλέα ἐπορεύετο. ἀλλ' ὁ στρατὸς ὑπὸ τῶν ἰδίων ἀρχόντων εἰς βουλὴν πονηρὰν ἐκτραπείς, καὶ τὸν 49 πατρίκιον Ἰωάννην φονεύσας, καὶ τὸν βασιλέα ἀναθεματίσας, Ἀψίμαρον δρουγγάριον τῶν Κιβυρραιωτῶν βασιλέα ἀνηγόρευσαν, Τιβέριον αὐτὸν μετονομάσαντες, ὃς διὰ τῆς τῶν Βλαχερνῶν πόρτης προδοσίας γενομένης ἐν τῇ πόλει εἰσελθὼν καὶ τὸν Λεόντιον χειρωσάμενος καὶ ῥινοκοπήσας ἐν τῇ μονῇ τῶν ∆αλμάτων περιώρισεν. Μετὰ δὲ Λεόντιον ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀψίμαρος ὁ καὶ Τιβέριος ἔτη ζʹ. ὁ δὲ Ἰουστινιανὸς ὁ παρὰ Λεοντίου ῥινοκοπηθεὶς ἐκ Χερσῶνος λάθρα τινὰς ἀναλαβόμενος ἀπέπλευσεν ἐπὶ τὸ στόμιον τοῦ Ἴστρου, καὶ διασωθεὶς ἀπέστειλε πρὸς Τέρβελον τὸν Βούλγαρον δοῦναί οἱ συμμαχίαν τοῦ κρατῆσαι τῆς προγονικῆς βασιλείας. ὁ δὲ οὐ μόνον συμμαχίαν ἀλλὰ καὶ ἑαυτὸν ἐπιδέδωκε, σὺν αὐτῷ ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλεύουσαν παραγενόμενος. εἰσῆλθεν οὖν Ἰουστινιανὸς σὺν ὀλίγοις ὁμοφύλοις διὰ τοῦ ἀγωγοῦ προδοσίᾳ τινῶν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως, καὶ ἐξῆλθεν εἰς τὴν ἁγίαν Ἄνναν τὴν λεγομένην δι' αὐτὸν δευτέραν, καὶ κατεσκήνωσεν ἐν τοῖς παλατίοις τῶν Βλαχερνῶν· ὅπερ μαθὼν ὁ Ἀψίμαρος εἰς Ἀπολλωνιάδα φεύγει,λαβὼν μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ πολλὰ χρήματα. ὁ οὖν Ἰουστινιανὸς τόν τε Λεόντιον καὶ Ἀψίμαρον τὸν μὲν τῆς βασιλείας τὸν δὲ τῆς φυλακῆς ἐξαγαγών, καὶ ἀμφοτέρους τοῖς ποσὶν αὑτοῦ ὑποθείς, ἐν τῷ Ἱπποδρομίῳ κεφαλικῶς αὐτοὺς ἐτιμωρήσατο. Μετὰ δὲ Ἀψίμαρον ἐβασίλευσε πάλιν Ἰουστινιανὸς ἔτη ζʹ, δῶρα πολλὰ τῷ Τέρβελι δοὺς καὶ χώραν Ῥωμαϊκὴν τὴν λεγομέ 50 νην νῦν Ζαγόρια. Ἡράκλειον δὲ ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς συνασπιζομένους αὐτῷ ἀνεσκολόπισεν. Καλλίνικον δὲ τὸν πατριάρχην τυφλώσας ἐν Ῥώμῃ ἐξώρισεν· ἀνθ' οὗ προεβάλετο Κυριακὸν τὸν ἐν τῇ νήσῳ Ἀμάστριδος ὄντα ὡς προαγορεύσαντα αὐτῷ τὴν τῆς βασιλείας ἀποκατάστασιν. Χερσωνίταις δὲ μνησικακῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐξορίας στόλον ἐξώπλισεν κατ' αὐτῶν, καὶ ἀπέστειλε τῷ πατρικίῳ Μαύρῳ τοῦτον ἐγχειρισάμενος. οἱ δὲ τὸν μὲν Ἰουστινιανὸν καθύβρισαν, τὸν δὲ ἐκεῖσε ἐξόριστον ὄντα ὑπὸ Ἀψιμάρου Φιλιππικόν, υἱὸν Νικηφόρου πατρικίου, βασιλέα θᾶττον ἀνηγόρευσαν. ὅπερ γνοὺς ὁ τύραννος Ἰουστινιανός, καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖον θυμωθεὶς καὶ φοβηθείς, ἀνῆλθε μέχρι Σινώπης ἀκριβέστερον περὶ τούτου μαθησόμενος. τοῦ δὲ Φιλιππικοῦ σὺν στόλῳ καταλαβόντος Ἰουστινιανὸς πρὸς τὸν ∆ημήτριον ἀπέδρα, καταλειφθεὶς ὑπὸ πάντων·