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the king, in addition to his own evils, also persecuted the Christians under his hand. And Constans in the west ravaged the Franks. And when a great earthquake occurred in Cyprus, most of the city of Salamis collapsed. Paul the Confessor, bishop of Constantinople, 3 years. 7. 41. 13. 1. 3. 14. 8. In this year, when a great earthquake occurred, Neocaesarea of Pontus collapsed, except for the church and the bishop's residence and the pious men found there. And the Romans joined battle with the Persians and killed many of them. And in the same year Paul the Confessor is ordained bishop of Constantinople. 26th bishop of Antioch, Flacitus, 12 years. 8. 42. 14. 2. 4. 15. 1. In this year, when a great earthquake occurred, the island of Rhodes collapsed. And the Alexandrians. They killed Gregory, who had brigandishly attacked Athanasius and held the throne of Alexandria for six years. And George the Arian is ordained by the Arians, a certain Cappadocian monster. 9. 43. 15. 3. 5. 16. 2. In this year Dyrrhachium of Dalmatia was destroyed by an earthquake; and Rome was in danger for three days, being shaken; and 12 cities of Campania were destroyed. But Paul, the bishop of Constantinople, Constantius came to Byzantium and drove from the throne and 38 introduced in his place, like a brigand and unlawfully, the most impious Eusebius of Nicomedia, the abode of evils. Bishop of Rome, Liberius, 6 years. Bishop of Constantinople, Eusebius of Nicomedia, 12 years. 10. 44. 1. 1. 6. 17. 3. In this year Constantius made the harbor in Seleucia of Syria by cutting through a mountain for a great distance, and he rebuilt the city. And he founded a city in Phoenicia, which he called Constantia, formerly called Antaradus. And Sabores, the king of the Persians, having attacked Mesopotamia, besieged Nisibis for 78 days and again, put to shame, withdrew. And in the same year there was an eclipse of the sun, so that stars appeared in the sky at the third hour of the day on the 6th of the month Dasius. And Athanasius and Paul, and as many as were expelled for the sake of the right doctrine, took refuge in Rome with Julius, and each informed Julius of his own affairs; each of whom he restored to his own church with letters. 5839 years of the world. 339 years of the divine incarnation. Roman emperor Constantius, 24 years. 11. King of the Persians Sabores, 70 years. 45. Bishop of Rome Liberius, 6 years. 2. Bishop of Constantinople Eusebius, 12 years. 2. Bishop of Jerusalem Cyril, 15 years. 7. Bishop of Alexandria Athanasius, 46 years. 18. 26th bishop of Antioch Flacitus, 12 years. 4. In this year Athanasius and Paul and those with them, encouraged by the letters of Julius, the pope of Rome, took possession of their own thrones. But Constantius, who was staying in Antioch, upon learning that Julius by letters had restored their own thrones to Paul and Athanasius, became angry and ordered them to be driven from their own thrones. 39 And in the same year the sun again became dimmer at the second hour of the Lord's day. 12. 46. 3. 3. 8. 19. 5. In this year, when a great earthquake occurred in Berytus of Phoenicia, most of the city fell; so that a multitude of the pagans came into the church, professing to become Christians like us. From there some innovators, as if having stripped the rites of the church, went out, and naming a place a place of prayer they received the multitude in it, imitating all things of the church, having become similar to us, as the sect of the Samaritans is to the Jews, living as pagans. 13. 47. 4. 4. 9. 20. 6. In this year Sabores again, the king of the Persians, having besieged Nisibis, troubled it greatly, so as to bring a multitude of elephants suitable for alliance and hired kings and all sorts of engines, with which, if they should not be willing to withdraw, to wipe out the city from

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βασιλεύς, πρὸς τοῖς αὐτοῦ κακοῖς καὶ τοὺς ὑπὸ χεῖρα Χριστιανοὺς ἐδίωκεν. Κώνστας δὲ ἐν τῇ δύσει Φράγγους ἐπόρθησεν. σεισμοῦ δὲ γενομένου μεγάλου ἐν Κύπρῳ, Σαλαμίνης τῆς πόλεως τὰ πλεῖστα διαπέπτωκεν. Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπίσκοπος Παῦλος ὁ ὁμολογητὴς ἔτη γʹ. ζʹ. μαʹ. ιγʹ. αʹ. γʹ. ιδʹ. ηʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει σεισμοῦ μεγάλου γενομένου, Νεοκαισάρεια Πόντου κατεπτώθη πλὴν τῆς ἐκκλησίας καὶ τοῦ ἐπισκοπείου καὶ τῶν ἐκεῖ εὑρεθέντων εὐλαβῶν ἀνδρῶν. οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι συνέβαλον πόλεμον μετὰ Περσῶν καὶ πολλοὺς αὐτῶν ἀνεῖλον. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει καὶ Παῦλος ὁ ὁμολογητὴς χειροτονεῖται ἐπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος κϛʹ Φλάκιτος ἔτη ιβʹ. ηʹ. μβʹ. ιδʹ. βʹ. δʹ. ιεʹ. αʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει σεισμοῦ γενομένου μεγάλου, Ῥόδος ἡ νῆσος κατέπεσεν. οἱ δὲ Ἀλεξανδρεῖς. Γρηγόριον τὸν λῃστρικῶς ἐπιβάντα Ἀθανασίῳ καὶ τὸν θρόνον κατασχόντα τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπὶ ἓξ ἔτεσιν ἀνεῖλον. καὶ χειροτονεῖται Γεώργιος Ἀρειανὸς ὑπὸ Ἀρειανῶν, τέρας τι Καππαδόκιον. θ. μγʹ. ιεʹ. γʹ. εʹ. ιϛʹ βʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ∆υρράχη τῆς ∆αλματίας ὑπὸ σεισμοῦ διεφθάρη· καὶ Ῥώμη ἡμέρας τρεῖς ἐκινδύνευσε σειομένη· τῆς δὲ Καμπανίας ιβʹ πόλεις διεφθάρησαν. Παῦλον δέ, τὸν ἐπίσκοπον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, ἐλθὼν Κωνστάντιος εἰς τὸ Βυζάντιον τοῦ θρόνου ἀπήλασε καὶ τὸν 38 ἀσεβέστατον Εὐσέβιον τὸν Νικομηδείας ἀντεισήγαγε λῃστρικῶς καὶ ἀθέσμως, τὸ τῶν κακῶν καταγώγιον. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Λιβέριος ἔτη ϛʹ. Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπίσκοπος Εὐσέβιος ὁ Νικομηδείας ἔτη ιβʹ. ιʹ. μδʹ. αʹ. αʹ. ϛʹ. ιζʹ. γʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Κωνστάντιος τὸν ἐν Σελευκείᾳ τῆς Συρίας λιμένα πεποίηκεν ὄρος ἐπὶ πολὺ διατεμών, καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἀνῳκοδόμησεν. καὶ πόλιν ἔκτισεν ἐν τῇ Φοινίκῃ, ἣν Κωνσταντίαν κέκληκεν, τὸ πρότερον καλουμένην Ἀντάραδον. Σαβώρης δέ, ὁ τῶν Περσῶν βασιλεύς, ἐπελθὼν τῇ Μεσοποταμίᾳ Νισίβιν παρεκάθισεν ἡμέρας οηʹ καὶ πάλιν αἰσχυνθεὶς ἀνεχώρησεν. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει ἔκλειψις ἡλίου ἐγένετο, ὥστε καὶ ἀστέρας φανῆναι ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ἐν ὥρᾳ τρίτῃ τῆς ἡμέρας μηνὶ ∆αισίῳ ϛʹ. Ἀθανάσιος δὲ καὶ Παῦλος, καὶ ὅσοι ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀρθοῦ λόγου ἐξεβλήθησαν, ἐν Ῥώμῃ πρὸς Ἰούλιον κατέφυγον, καὶ τὰ καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἕκαστος Ἰούλιον ἐδίδαξεν· ὧν ἕκαστον τῇ ἰδίᾳ ἐκκλησίᾳ μετὰ γραμμάτων ἀπεκατέστησεν. Κόσμου ἔτη εωλθʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη τλθʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Κωνστάντιος ἔτη κδʹ. ιαʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Σαβώρης ἔτη οʹ. μεʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Λιβέριος ἔτη ϛʹ βʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Εὐσέβιος ἔτη ιβʹ. βʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Κύριλλος ἔτη ιεʹ. ζʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Ἀθανάσιος ἔτη μϛʹ. ιηʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος κϛʹ Φλάκιτος ἔτη ιβʹ. δʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Ἀθανάσιος καὶ Παῦλος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς τοῖς γράμμασιν Ἰουλίου, τοῦ πάπα Ῥώμης, θαρρήσαντες τοὺς ἰδίους θρόνους κατέλαβον. ὁ δὲ Κωνστάντιος ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ διάγων, μαθών, ὅτι Παύλῳ καὶ Ἀθανασίῳ διὰ γραμμάτων ὁ Ἰούλιος τοὺς ἰδίους ἀπέδωκε θρόνους, καὶ ὀργισθεὶς κελεύει αὐτοὺς ἀπελασθῆναι τῶν ἰδίων θρόνων. 39 Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει ὁ ἥλιος πάλιν αὐχμηρότερος γέγονεν ἐν ὥρᾳ δευτέρᾳ τῆς κυριακῆς ἡμέρας. ιβʹ. μϛʹ. γʹ. γʹ. ηʹ. ιθʹ. εʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει σεισμοῦ γενομένου μεγάλου ἐν Βηρυτῷ τῆς Φοινίκης, τὸ πλεῖστον τῆς πόλεως πέπτωκεν· ὥστε πλῆθος τῶν ἐθνικῶν εἰσεληλυθέναι εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ὁμοίως ἡμῖν χριστιανίζειν ἐπαγγελλόμενοι. ἐντεῦθεν νεωτερίσαντές τινες τοὺς τύπους τῆς ἐκκλησίας ὥσπερ ἀποσυλήσαντες ἐξῄεσαν, καὶ τόπον εὐχῆς ἐπονομάσαντες τὸ πλῆθος ἐν αὐτῷ ὑπεδέξαντο, ἅπαντα τὰ τῆς ἐκκλησίας μιμούμενοι, παραπλήσιον γεγονότες πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ὡς ἡ τῶν Σαμαρειτῶν πρὸς Ἰουδαίους αἵρεσις, ἐθνικῶς ζῶντες. ιγʹ. μζʹ. δʹ. δʹ. θʹ. κʹ. ϛʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Σαβώρης πάλιν, ὁ βασιλεὺς Περσῶν, τὴν Νισίβιν παρακαθεσθεὶς ἱκανῶς αὐτῇ διηνόχλει, ὡς καὶ ἐλεφάντων πλῆθος ἀγαγεῖν ἐπιτηδείων πρὸς συμμαχίαν καὶ βασιλεῖς μισθωτοὺς μάγγανά τε παντοῖα, οἷς, εἰ μὴ βούλοιντο ἐκχωρήσειν, τὴν πόλιν ἐξαφανίζειν ἐκ