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among them, let him be anathema and accursed from the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, of the consubstantial and adorable Trinity, and of every heavenly power, and of the choir of the holy Apostles and Prophets, and of the infinite multitude of the martyrs, and of every spirit made perfect in righteousness, now and forever and unto the infinite ages of ages. Amen.

And weeping, they prayed for him, saying: God will strengthen you, father, and will deem you worthy to complete this course without stumbling.

And when these things were said, many soldiers gathered, listening to the many good words that were stirring them, and one of the general’s domestics, seeing that a large army was piling up and was being edified and was condemning the things being done to him, what he suspected God knows, he allowed him to be snatched away and cast two miles from the camp, until they should hold the assembly and those who were supposed to lead him away 15Γ_064 to Perberis. Nevertheless, overcome by divine love, the clerics traversed the two miles, and came and embraced him and prayed for him and, carrying him with their own hands, they placed him on the beast, and returned in peace to their own places, and he was carried away to Perberis, in the guard that held him.

32. And this too must be known, that in Rhegium Troilus, addressing abba

Maximus, said, that the consiliarius John had written to him about an agreement proposed to them, and that this should happen for the time being, the disorder of your disciples prevented it. But I think that the said consiliarius John did not write to Troilus, but to Menas the monk, and he told those of the palace.

33. And after these things they brought them to Constantinople, and took action against

them, and after they had anathematized and exhumed Maximus among the saints and the blessed Anastasius, his disciple, and the most holy pope Martin, and the holy Sophronius the patriarch of Jerusalem, and all the orthodox who were of one mind with them, they brought the other blessed Anastasius, and using the same anathemas and insults against him also, they handed him over to the magistrates, saying thus:

You then, Anastasius, having put on the grey cloak of the universal curse of anathemas, depart from the canonical hearing, to which you have chosen a stance, bringing with you the sentence of gehenna, with the renowned and venerable and sacred senate that has adjudicated all things being present with us, which will immediately take up the judgment after us, and will execute upon you what seems right to the civil laws, as they shall decide, on account of your great blasphemies and tyrannies. For the vote of the present synod against them, and with the cooperation of the almighty Christ our true God having canonically decreed the necessary things against you, Maximus, Anastasius and Anastasius, since what was lacking 15Γ_066 with respect to what was impiously said and done by you, was to be subjected to the strict penalties of the laws, even if a worthy penalty for such transgressions and blasphemies of yours does not exist, leaving you to the righteous Judge concerning the greater judgment, and in this present life emptying the rigor of the laws, allowing you to gain your life, we decree for you, the all-honorable prefect present with us, immediately

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ἐν αὐτοῖς, ἔστω ἀνάθεμα καί κατάθεμα ἀπό τοῦ Πατρός καί τοῦ Υἱοῦ καί τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος, τῆς ὁμοουσίου καί προσκυνητῆς Τριάδος, καί πάσης ἐπουρανίου δυνάμεως, καί τοῦ χοροῦ τῶν ἁγίων Ἀποστόλων καί Προφητῶν, καί τοῦ ἀπείρου δήμου τῶν μαρτύρων, καί παντός πνεύματος ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ τετελειωμένου, νῦν καί ἀεί καί εἰς τούς ἀπείρους αἰώνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.

Καί κλαύσαντες ηὔξαντο αὐτῷ, λέγοντες· Ὁ Θεός ἐνδυναμώσει σε, πάτερ, καί ἀξιώσει σε ἀπρόσκοπον τελειῶσαι τόν

δρόμον τοῦτον. Καί τούτων εἰρημένων, ἠθροίσθησαν πολλοί στρατιῶται, πολλῶν καλῶν

κινηθέντων λόγων ἀκροώμενοι, καί θεωρήσας τίς τῶν δομεστίκων τοῦ στρατηγοῦ, ὅτι πολύς ἐπισωρεύεται στρατός καί οἰκοδομεῖται καί καταγινώσκει τῶν εἰς αὐτόν γινομένων, τί ὑπονοήσας ὁ Θεός οἶδεν, ἐπέτρεψεν ἀνάρπαστον αὐτόν γενέσθαι, καί βληθῆναι ἀπό δύο μιλίων τοῦ φοσσάτου, ἕως ἄν τήν σύναξιν ποιήσωσι καί ἔλθωσιν οἱ ὀφείλοντες ἀπαγαγεῖν αὐτόν 15Γ_064 ἐν Περβέροις. Πλήν ὅτι θείᾳ ἀγάπη νικώμενοι οἱ κληρικοί, ἐπέζευσαν τά δύο μίλια, καί ἦλθον καί ἠσπάσαντο αὐτόν καί ηὔξαντο αὐτῷ καί, χερσίν ἰδίαις βαστάσαντες αὐτόν, ἔθηκαν ἐπί τό κτῆνος, καί ὑπέστρεψαν μετ' εἰρήνης εἰς τούς τόπους αὑτῶν, καί αὐτός ἀπηνέχθη ἐν Περβέροις, ἐν τῇ συνεχούσῃ αὐτόν φρουρᾷ.

ΛΒ'. Καί τοῦτο δέ ἰστέον, ὅτι ἐν τῷ Ρηγίῳ ἀποτεινόμενος Τρώϊλος πρός τόν ἀββᾶν

Μάξιμον, εἶπεν, ὡς ὁ κονσιλάριος Ἰωάννης ἔγραψεν αὐτῷ περί συμβάσεως προταθείσης αὐτοῖς, καί τοῦτο γενέσθαι τέως, ἡ τῶν σῶν μαθητῶν ἀταξία διεκώλυσε. Οἶμαι δε, ὅτι οὐκ ἔγραψεν ὁ εἰρημένος κονσιλάριος Ἰωάννης πρός τόν Τρώϊλον, ἀλλά πρός Μεννᾶν τόν μοναχόν, κἀκεῖνος εἶπε τοῖς τοῦ παλατίου.

ΛΓ'. Καί μετά ταῦτα ἤγαγον αὐτούς ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει, καί ἐποίησαν κατ'

αὐτῶν πρᾶξιν, καί μετά τό ἀναθεματίσαι καί ἀνασκάψαι αὐτούς τόν ἐν ἁγίοις Μάξιμον καί τόν μακάριον Ἀναστάσιον, τόν μαθητήν αὐτοῦ, τόν τε ἁγιώτατον πάπαν Μαρτῖνον, καί τόν ἅγιον Σωφρόνιον τόν πατριάρχην Ἱεροσολύμων, καί πάντας τούς ὀρθοδόξους καί σύμφρονας αὐτῶν, ἤνεγκαν καί τόν ἄλλον μακάριον Ἀναστάσιον, καί τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἀναθέμασι καί ὕβρεσι χρησάμενοι καί ἐπ' αὐτόν παρέδωκαν τοῖς ἄρχουσιν, εἰπόντες οὕτως·

Σύ μέν οὖν, Ἀναστάσιε, τό φαῖον τῆς πανδήμου τῶν ἀναθημάτων τῆς ἀρᾶς ἐνδυσάμενος περιβόλαιον, ἀπαλλάσσου τῆς κανονικῆς ἀκροάσεως, πρός ἥν ἠρετίσω στάσιν τῆς γεέννης ἀποφερόμενος, συνούσης ἡμῖν τῆς εὐκλεοῦς καί πάντα συνδιαιτησάσης τίμιας τε καί ἱερᾶς συγκλήτου, παραχρῆμα τήν μεθ' ἡμᾶς παραληψομένης κρίσιν, καί τά τοῖς πολιτικοῖς δοκοῦντα νόμοις ἐπί σοι διαπραξομένης, ὡς αὐτοί δοκιμάσειεν, τῶν τηλικούτων σου βλασφημιῶν ἕνεκα καί τυραννίδων. Ψῆφος γάρ κατ' αὐτῶν τῆς παρούσης συνόδου, καί συνεργείᾳ τοῦ παντοδυνάμου Χριστοῦ τοῦ ἀληθινοῦ ἡμῶν Θεοῦ κανονικῶς ψηφισαμένης τά δέον- τα καθ' ὑμῶν, Μάξιμε, Ἀναστάσιε καί Ἀναστάσιε, ἐπεί τό λεῖπον 15Γ_066 ὑπῆρχε πρός τά παρ' ὑμῶν λεχθέντα τε δυσσεβῶς καί πραχθέντα, ταῖς αὐστηραῖς τῶν νόμων καθυποβληθῆναι ποιναῖς, εἰ καί ἀξία ποινή τῶν τοιούτων ὑμῶν πλημμελημάτων καί βλασφημιῶν οὐχ ὕπεστι, τῷ δικαίῳ ὑμᾶς περί τῆς μείζονος καταλιπόντες κριτῇ, ἐν τῷ παρόντι βίῳ καί ἐν τούτῳ τήν τῶν νόμων κενοῦντες ἀκρίβειαν, κερδαινόντων ὑμῶν τό ζῆν, ψηφηζόμεθα ὑμῖν, τόν παρόντα ἡμῖν πανεύφημον ἔπαρχον, αὐτίκα