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
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 his homeland, in the eighth year after the fall of Troy, during his wandering to Proteus. He also finds his kinsman wretchedly slain by the deceit of a most wicked woman, an adulterous viper; he finds his nephew Orestes had destroyed the one who shamed his father's family and bed, and with him his shameless mother Clytemnestra. Now the matters concerning Troy have been completed by me, summarily and clearly. And so it remains to write of the strong and mighty good fortune of the Romans, from what beginning they came to rule all the earth. After the fall of Troy, Aeneas son of Anchises, whether fleeing or released by the enemy, migrates with all his kin to the land of Italy, which some have recorded was so named from Italus, who first ruled parts of the Hesperian lands, while others said it got its name for the following reason. The great hero Heracles, having gathered the cattle of Geryon into a herd, was leading them from Erytheia. One of them, then, a calf from the herd, having broken away, as they say, from the drove, by swimming the intervening expanse of the sea was able to cross over to Italy. And when he asked those he came to everywhere if any of them had seen a stray bull, they, not understanding the Greek language, called the calf ouitoulon in their native tongue. From this animal, therefore, all the land that bull had run over was named Ouitalia, but in time this changed to the name Italy. Aeneas then, with the Trojans who had sailed out with him, having received oracles, sailed away towards Italy. And the oracles commanded them to sail toward the west, until it was given to them to reach a place in which they would eat their own tables; and when this happened, using a four-footed animal as a guide for the journey, they were to found a city there where the animal, tired from its running, should stop. Having received these oracles they came to Laurentum; and Laurentum is a plain of Italy. There, having pitched their tents, they were taking their meal on the ground. And the whole ground was strewn with celery, and these served them in the place of tables. Therefore, when the food set before them had been consumed, someone tasted the celery, and after him another, and after him his messmate, and after him his neighbor. And some shouted, "Our tables have been consumed along with our food." And there was applause at this, as their oracle had reached its fulfillment. Then, intending to sacrifice, they built an altar, and they set upon it for sacrifice a pregnant sow which was about to give birth. But as the sacrificers were about to begin with the sow, she, shaking off the hands of those holding her, ran out and rushed to run toward a certain hill. And Aeneas followed with slower steps, deliberately falling a little behind her, so that the animal, alarmed by the swiftness of the pursuit, might not be turned from its divinely guided course; for he understood that the oracle had meant this four-footed creature. So she sat down, tired from much running (for she had run twenty-four stades); but Aeneas, seeing the prophecies fulfilled, but the place unsuitable for founding a city, brought great accusations against those who gave the oracle. And as he was thus reviling and blaming them, a voice was heard coming from somewhere unseen, which told him to stay and found a city there; for this was to be their lodging for now, but then, after a time and years equal in number to the tender piglets the sow would bear, another, more magnificent one would be theirs. So the sow bore a full thirty, and that many years later the city of Alba was founded by the descendants of Aeneas, splendid and thrice-blessed. But at that time Aeneas, persuaded by the divine voice, began to establish the city of Lavinium there. And something marvelous and worth telling happened. First, fire was given up spontaneously from the glen, then a wolf, leaping out from some oak-coppice, taking dry wood in its mouth, placed it on top. An eagle
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πρὸς Πρωτέα, εὑρίσκει καὶ τὴν σύνοικον ἐκεῖ κατὰ τὴν Μέμφιν, καὶ ξενισθεὶς καὶ τιμηθεὶς λαμβάνει τὴν Ἑλένην, καὶ μετὰ μόχθους
ἱκανοὺς φθάνει πρὸς τὴν πατρίδα, μετὰ τὴν Τροίας ἅλωσιν ὄγδοον ἔτος τρέχων κατὰ τὴν περιπλάνησιν τὴν ἐπὶ τὸν Πρωτέα. εὑρίσκει
καὶ τὸν σύναιμον ἀθλίως ὀλωλότα δόλῳ κακίστης γυναικός, ἐχίδνης μοιχαλίδος· εὑρίσκει τὸν ἀδελφιδοῦν Ὀρέστην ἐφθαρκότα τὸν
τοῦ πατρὸς αἰσχύνοντα τὸ γένος καὶ τὸ λέχος καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ τὴν ἀναιδῆ μητέρα Κλυταιμνήστραν. Ἤδη μοι συντετέλεσται καὶ τὰ κατὰ
τὴν Τροίαν ἐπιδρομάδην καὶ σαφῶς. καὶ δὴ λοιπὸν γραπτέον τὴν σθεναρὰν καὶ κραταιὰν Ῥωμαίων εὐποτμίαν, πόθεν ἀρξάμενοι τῆς
γῆς ἐκράτησαν ἁπάσης. Μετὰ τὴν Τροίας ἅλωσιν Αἰνείας παῖς Ἀγχίσου, εἴτε φυγὼν εἴτε λυθεὶς ἀπὸ τῶν πολεμίων, μεταναστεύει παγγενεὶ
πρὸς γῆν τῆς Ἰταλίας, ἣν ἄλλοι μὲν ἱστόρησαν οὕτως ὀνομασθῆναι ἐξ Ἰταλοῦ κατάρξαντος μερῶν τῶν Ἑσπερίων, οἱ δ' ἐξ αἰτίας ἔφασαν
τοιᾶσδε σχεῖν τὴν κλῆσιν. ὁ μέγας ἥρως Ἡρακλῆς τὰς Γηρυόνος βόας ἀγεληδὸν συναγαγὼν ἦγεν ἐξ Ἐρυθείας. εἷς οὖν ἐκείνων δάμαλις
τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ἀγέλης, ἀποσκιρτήσας, ὥς φασιν, ἀπὸ τοῦ βουκολίου, τὸ μεταξὺ νηξάμενος πέλαγος τῆς θαλάσσης εἰς Ἰταλίαν ἴσχυσε
διαπεραιωθῆναι τοῦ δὲ καθ' οὓς ἀφίκοιτο πάντῃ πυνθανομένου εἴ τις αὐτῶν ἑώρακε βοῦν ἀποπλανηθέντα, ἐκεῖνοι τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς μὴ
συνιέντες γλώσσης οὐίτουλον τὸν δάμαλιν ἐκάλουν ἐγχωρίως. ἀπὸ τοῦ ζῴου τοιγαροῦν Οὐιταλία πᾶσα ὅσην ὁ βοῦς ἐπέδραμεν ἐκεῖνος
ὠνομάσθη, τῷ χρόνῳ δὲ μετέπεσεν εἰς κλῆσιν Ἰταλίας. Αἰνείας οὖν σὺν τοῖς Τρωσὶ τοῖς συνεκπεπλευκόσι χρησμοὺς λαβὼν ἀπέπλεε
παρὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν. οἱδὲ χρησμοὶ προσέταττον ἐπὶ δυσμῶν ἐκπλέειν, μέχρις αὐτοῖς ἐγγένηται καταλαβεῖν χωρίον ἐν ᾧ κατασιτήσονται
τὰς ἑαυτῶν τραπέζας· ἐπὰν δὲ τοῦτο γένηται, τετράποδι χρωμένους καθηγεμόνι τῆς ὁδοῦ κτίζειν ἐκεῖσε πόλιν ὅπου τὸ ζῷον ἐρεισθῇ
καμὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ δρόμου. τούτους λαβόντες τοὺς χρησμοὺς εἰς Λωρεντὸν ἱκνοῦνται· πεδίον δὲ τὸ Λωρεντόν ἐστι τῆς Ἰταλίας. ἐνταῦθα
πήξαντες σκηνὰς ἠρίστων ἐν δαπέδῳ. σελίνοις δὲ τὸ δάπεδον ἦν ἅπαν ἐστρωμένον, καὶ ταῦτα χρείαν τραπεζῶν ἐκείνοις ἀπεπλήρουν.
ἀναλωθέντων τοιγαροῦν τῶν παρατεθειμένων σελίνου τις ἐγεύσατο, καὶ μετ' ἐκεῖνον ἄλλος, καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν ὁ συσσιτῶν, καὶ μετ'
αὐτὸν ὁ πέλας. καί τινες ἀνεβόησαν "ἡμῖν σὺν τοῖς σιτίοις ἀνάλωνται καὶ τράπεζαι." κρότος δ' ἦν ἐπὶ τούτοις ὡς τοῦ χρησμοῦ
τοῦ παρ' αὐτοῖς εἰς τέλος πεφθακότος. ἔπειτα θύειν μέλλοντες βωμὸν ἐδημιούργουν, καὶ θήλειαν ἐφίστασαν ἐπὶ θυσίᾳ χοῖρον ἐγκύμονα
τυγχάνουσαν καὶ πρὸς τὸ τίκτειν οὖσαν. μελλόντων δὲ κατάρχεσθαι τῆς χοίρου τῶν θυτήρων, ἐκείνη διασείσασα χεῖρας τῶν κατεχόντων
ἐξέδραμε καὶ πρός τινα λόφον ὡρμήθη τρέχειν. Αἰνείας δὲ παρείπετο βήμασι σχολαιτέροις, μικρὸν ὑπολειπόμενος ἐκείνης ἑκουσίως,
ὡς μὴ τοῦ δρόμου τῷ γοργῷ θορυβηθὲν τὸ ζῷον ἀπὸ τῆς κατὰ δαίμονα πορείας ἐκτραπείη· συνῆκε γὰρ ὡς ὁ χρησμὸς τοῦτο τετράπουν
εἶπεν. ἡ μὲν οὖν ἐκαθέζετο δρόμῳ πολλῷ καμοῦσα (εἴκοσι γὰρ πρὸς τέσσαρσιν ἀνέδραμε σταδίους)· Αἰνείας δὲ τὰ θέσφατα βλέπων
τετελεσμένα, τὸ δὲ χωρίον ἀφυὲς εἰς τὸ συστῆσαι πόλιν, μεγάλαις αἰτιάσεσι τοὺς χρήσαντας ὑπῆγεν. οὕτω δ' αὐτοὺς κακίζοντι
καὶ καταμεμφομένῳ φωνή ποθεν ἐξ ἀφανοῦς ἠκούσθη προϊοῦσα, ἥτις καὶ μένειν ἔλεγε καὶ πόλιν ἐκεῖ κτίζειν· καταγωγὴν μὲν γὰρ
αὐτοῖς ἄρτι γενέσθαι ταύτην, ἔπειτα δὲ μετὰ καιρὸν καὶ χρόνους ἰσαρίθμους οἷς ἂν ἡ χοῖρος ἁπαλοῖς ἐκτέκῃ δελφακίοις ἄλλην
αὐτοῖς γενήσεσθαι μεγαλοπρεπεστέραν. ἡ μὲν οὖν χοῖρος ἔτεκεν ὅλην τριακοντάδα, καὶ χρόνοις τόσοις ὕστερον παρὰ τῶν ἐξ Αἰνείου
ἡ πόλις Ἄλβα γέγονε λαμπρὰ καὶ τρισευδαίμων. τότε δ' Αἰνείας τῇ φωνῇ τῇ θείᾳ πεπεισμένος ἐκεῖ πολίζειν ἤρξατο πόλιν Λαουινίαν.
καί τι συνέβη θαυμαστὸν ἀξιαφήγητόν τε. πρῶτα μὲν πῦρ αὐτόματος τῆς νάπης ἀνεδόθη, ἔπειτα λύκος ἐκπηδῶν ποθὲν ἀπὸ δρυμῶνος
ὕλην ξηρὰν τῷ στόματι λαμβάνων ἐπετίθει. ἀετὸς
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