Chronography (partim edita e cod. Paris. gr. 1712)
to appear but if not, the opposite, countless terrors and a swift destruction. Therefore, when night fell, the emperor went with Kassiteras to the mo
he exiled Patriarch Nicephorus and 609 Theodore at which time it is also said that when Patriarch Nicephorus was being sent into exile, Theophanes, c
less. For when the renowned patriarch Tarasios had long since departed this life, he heard him call a certain Michael by name, and having leaped 612 u
the east, they burned the areas outside the Golden Gate as far as Rhegion. And coming to Athyras, they destroyed the fortress there and the bridge, wh
he marched, having gathered a great army and the Avars and all the Sklavinias and in addition to these he prepares instruments of various city-takers
The Stammerer and Iconoclast, 8 years, 9 months. This man took as his wife Euphrosyne, the daughter of Constantine who had been blinded, who had embra
with freedom to practice the Christian ways having been conceded who until now have been called tributaries. And indeed the islands would have been c
he did in the following way. It was a custom for the Persians that the proclamation of a king be from the royal line whence, the royal line having fa
that there were many for her in the chest, and she places these on our head and face after 629 the kisses. These things drove the emperor to madness
to venerate and honor the holy icons and to denounce his impiety. And not long after, when the patriarch arrived at the great church and reproached hi
he made him commander of the Scholae, and received his children from holy baptism. 11. In his 7th year the emperor goes out with Manuel and the senate
of Oxyartes, brother of Dareios, who, having married Dionysios the tyrant of Heraclea, named the city, which was under him, after his wife. and having
they devoured. 20. But the student of Leo the philosopher, who was also the informer of the betrayal, was asked by the amermoumnes about his knowledge
Theodore, whose relic the founder Michael himself later brought to the monastery of Michaelitzes in Chalcedon. The renowned Theophanes lived until the
they requested. So he withdrew and looked at the house and, being pleased, moved the nuns to another monastery, and having adorned it with every kind
the wicked one is driven out of the church and is confined in a certain monastery in Kleidio. In which, having scraped the icons of the saints, the em
the divine mystery having been celebrated purely, all the heretics under the whole sun having been subjected to deposition along with their chief prie
And although many were killed, those who were captured were more numerous. But Theoktistos, having gone to the empress, again enjoyed the same familia
and to come to the palace. Having befriended also the protospatharios Theophanes Phalganes and some others, he kills Theoktistos in the palace, with t
At this the protonotary became sullen, and reported with dejection the response from the Domestic of the Schools, and at the same time bringing and sh
it was sealed, the fool with the fools raising his voice in laughter, laughing at the renowned Ignatius as not being accommodating in matters and as o
and the generals bring his head and those of many others into the city. From this a great peace comes about in the east. And the toils and the heroic
of whom Sergius said, even if he is to be such, I will kill him along with his mother. To whom the saint said, You will not be able to hinder the p
I said to this pious and discerning monk that we too, when serving the liturgy with him, never heard him speak a prayer, but rather whisper the words
as he was passing by in a procession, the patrician Damianos, the *parakoimomenos*, who was sitting in the Horologion, did not rise to honor him. And
waiting for him gives a sword to two men dressed in gold, as if praepositi, and says that having quickly slipped away he assigned the emperor to the r
Mamas, they bring Peganes with an earthenware censer smoking brimstone, and he meets and censes Symbatios. And he himself is blinded in one 681 eye, a
the emperor ordered one of his guards to throw a spear at Basil. And during dinner time, not only this one but others too, whenever he got drunk with
dejected, and as one might guess, pondering his own affairs. He had set out from Adrianople of Macedonia, which was formerly called Orestias from Ores
having learned the land and the affairs, and having written down the book, and having made this very ancient by his practices, it was deposited in the
Constantine, the son of Michael by Eudokia, died, but according to rumor, the son of Basil whom, after mourning greatly, he laid in the tombs of the
The possession of these castles is not safe for you, as long as their rulers are dwelling here but if you wish to rule them securely, send them as pr
And when once a banquet was being held for the emperor, and the first of the senate were dining with him, and the bird often uttered the aforesaid say
Having beaten Santabarenos, they exiled him to Athens. Then the emperor, sending men after him, blinded him and exiled him to the east. But after many
he deposited the body of Saint Lazarus and of Mary Magdalene. At this time Tauromenium was surrendered to the Hagarenes. 10. In the 15th year the isla
having run through the traditions of those who made use of some counsel or oracle and who surpassed them, they are so named. The name Dromitai came to
of the Saracens went out against the Romans. And the emperor appointed Himerios the logothete as head of all the naval forces. And he also writes to A
When Pantaleon the metropolitan was coming in to the emperor, Samonas asked him Against whom is the misfortune? And he said, Against you and if th
having sent immediately, he brought Nicholas from Galakrenoi and enthroned him, having deposed 716 Euthymius, whom he exiled to the monastery of Agath
ruling, there being sufficient men, 719 and having entered by night through a side-gate of the protovestiarios Michael, which was near the acropolis,
(Alexander had brought down from the palace) they bring her up again. And having gained control of the empire, she brings up to the palace Constantine
when the drungarius Romanos was ordered to cross. But when they came to battle, the Patzinaks, seeing them quarreling, withdrew to their own lands. Wh
to rest for a short while in his own house. Likewise Constantine the parakoimomenos was ordered to write a letter, ordering him the same things, and t
tyrannically rising up wherefore I neither wish him to be domestic from now on, nor do I say that he has committed this rebellion with my counsel, bu
and when they used an indistinct and terrible shout, and most violently charged against them, the rector immediately fled, but fighting for him Photen
to be in the middle, where they were about to speak to one another. At this, Symeon sent men and burned down the church of the Most Holy Theotokos at
they did not judge it a good omen for they said that both would part on irreconcilable terms regarding the peace. But Symeon, reaching his own camp,
When Apolasath, a prudent and intelligent man, died, the inhabitants of Melitene broke the peace. Therefore, John Kourkouas, the Domestic of the Schoo
his father. And they deposed Patriarch Tryphon after he had completed the appointed time, 745 and he died in his own monastery. And the church was vac
those who survived and ended up on the shore of Koile, escaped when night fell. But Theophanes, returning after a great victory, was received honorabl
only a face, but the son-in-law Constantine said he saw eyes and ears. To them the celebrated Sergios said, You both saw well. And they replied, An
evil communications. What becomes of his kinsmen? After feasting and entertaining them, while the food was still in their mouths, men prepared for thi
his son Romanos, and he is buried in the church of the Holy Apostles with Leo the emperor, his father. In appearance he was tall in stature, fair in c
of the army wished to return home. But the most prudent Nicephorus and doux restrained them with the sweetness of his words. So the emperor, learning
and to come to the palace. Having befriended also the protospatharios Theophanes Phalganes and some others, he kills Theoktistos in the palace, with the connivance of the emperor. When Theodora learned this, she was indignant with the emperor and the others who had committed the murder, crying out against them. But also, terrified by a mighty voice, she shut herself in her chamber, wailing; for one of the former generals, deriving his descent from the Melissenoi, declared to her to go back home, calling such a day one of strokes. And while Michael tried by every means 658 to appease his mother, she remained inconsolable; wherefore the emperor, changing just as his soul and mind, so also his appearance and actions, hastened to vex her with as many persons as he had before pretended to serve her. And he transferred his sisters Thekla, Anastasia and Anna to the Karianou monastery, but Pulcheria, as she was beloved by her mother, to the monastery of Gastria. Then after a short while, having united them all in the monastery of Gastria, he had them tonsured. Then indeed he is acclaimed by the entire senate and rules as sole emperor, and he promotes Bardas to magistros and domestikos of the scholae. At which things his mother, being grieved as one who was being ordered about, but also because of the unjust murder of Theoktistos, there was implacable enmity between them. Therefore he brings her down also to Gastria; she, with her mind overwhelmed by despondency, and deprived of her reason by shock, devised for herself an unworthy plot against Bardas, choosing as an associate, along with many others, the emperor's protostrator, so that they might assassinate Bardas as he was returning from his suburb of Kosmidion. But when the plot was revealed before the deed, it was brought against those very ones who had plotted the evil; for having been caught and seized, they were beheaded in the Sphendone. And Michael promoted Basil in place of the deceased protostrator, and likewise Bardas his uncle to kouropalates. 659 14. In the second year of this emperor, a blood-red dust fell from the sky, and many people found stones as red as blood. Michael, giving himself over to every wickedness, squandered the money in the palace, being over one thousand and ninety centenaria of gold, and a countless quantity of silver, which his mother had kept. And having adopted the sons of the charioteers from holy baptism, he gave to each 100 nomismata or at least 50. And once to a certain patrician (this was Himerios, called the Pig, so named on account of the wildness of his face) who was speaking obscenely at the table and let out a sound from his profane belly in the face of the emperor and his fellow-diners, so that the chandelier that illuminated them was extinguished by the great sound in a strange marvel, he gave 100 gold nomismata. (15) Thus he spent the public funds for no good reason. And before one year had passed, when the time for the military pay was at hand and there was no supply of money, he melted down and minted that golden and much-storied plane tree, and the two lions and the two griffins, being of solid gold and hammered, and the all-gold organ, but also other works having a weight of 6 centenaria and 860 all-gold and gold-embroidered robes, and he made the soldiers' pay. But when Basil came, he found nothing else except 660 thirteen centenaria and nine sacks of miliaresia; at which, being at a loss, he ordered what is now called the senzatón to be minted and to take thought for the public treasury. 16. So that, by saying a little, I may confirm what has been related and the man's, if indeed one must call him a man, misconduct and folly may become clearer, as he stood upon his chariot and was about to leap from the starting-gate, a message arrived that Amer was terribly plundering the Thrakesion and Opsikion themes and having penetrated, was approaching the Malagina, and that terrors such as never before were expected, and upon
καὶ εἰς τὸ παλάτιον ἔρχεσθαι. οἰκειωσάμενος δὲ καὶ τὸν πρωτοσπαθάριον Θεοφάνην τὸν Φαλγάνην καὶ ἄλλους τινὰς ἀποκτείνει τὸν
Θεόκτιστον ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ, μετὰ καὶ τῆς τοῦ βασιλέως συνειδήσεως. τοῦτο μαθοῦσα Θεοδώρα ἠγανάκτησε κατὰ τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ τῶν
ἄλλων οἳ τὸν φόνον κατειργάσαντο, καταβοωμένη αὐτῶν. ἀλλὰ καὶ φωνῇ βριαρᾷ καταπτοηθεῖσα θρηνωδῶς θαλαμεύεται· τῶν ἀποστρατήγων
γάρ τις, ἐκ Μελισσηνῶν κατάγων τὸ γένος, αὐτῇ ἀπεφθέγξατο παλινδρομεῖν οἴκαδε, τὴν τοιαύτην ἡμέραν κρουόντων ἀποκαλῶν. τοῦ
δὲ Μιχαὴλ παντὶ τρόπῳ μηχανωμένου 658 τὴν μητέρα ἐξιλεώσασθαι αὐτὴ ἀπαρηγόρητος ἔμεινεν· ὅθεν καὶ μεταβαλὼν ὁ βασιλεὺς ὥσπερ
τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ τὴν γνώμην, οὕτω δὴ καὶ τὸ σχῆμα καὶ τὴν ἐνέργειαν, τοσούτοις προσώποις αὐτὴν λυπεῖν κατηπείγετο ὅσοις πρὸ τούτου
θεραπεύειν ἐσχηματίζετο. καὶ τὰς μὲν ἀδελφὰς αὐτοῦ Θέκλαν Ἀναστασίαν καὶ Ἄνναν εἰς τὰ Καριανοῦ μεθιστᾷ, Πουλχερίαν δὲ ὡς ἠγαπημένην
τῇ μητρὶ ἐν τῇ μονῇ τῶν Γαστρίων. εἶτα μετ' ὀλίγον καὶ πάσας ἑνώσας ἐν τῇ μονῇ τῶν Γαστρίων ἀπέκειρεν. τότε δὴ καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς
συγκλήτου πάσης ἀναγορεύεται καὶ αὐτοκρατορεῖ, καὶ τὸν Βάρδαν προβάλλεται μάγιστρον καὶ δομέστικον τῶν σχολῶν. ἐφ' οἷς ἡ μήτηρ
αὐτοῦ λυπουμένη ὡς διατασσομένη, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ διὰ τὴν ἄδικον σφαγὴν Θεοκτίστου, ἔχθρα ἦν ἀναμέσον αὐτῶν ἄσπονδος. κατάγει
τοίνυν καὶ αὐτὴν εἰς τὰ Γαστρία· ἥτις τῇ ἀθυμίᾳ καταβαπτισθεῖσα τὸν νοῦν, καὶ ὑπ' ἐκπλήξεως ἀφαιρεθεῖσα καὶ τὸ φρονεῖν, ἀναξίαν
ἑαυτῇ συσκευάζει κατὰ Βάρδα βουλήν, ἑλομένη κοινωνὸν σὺν ἄλλοις πολλοῖς καὶ τὸν τοῦ βασιλέως πρωτοστράτορα, ὅπως ὑποστρέφοντος
τοῦ Βάρδα ἀπὸ τοῦ προαστείου αὐτοῦ τοῦ Κοσμηδίου ἀναιρήσουσιν αὐτόν. τῆς δὲ μελέτης πρὸ τοῦ ἔργου φανερωθείσης, κατ' αὐτῶν
ἐκείνων τῶν μελετησάντων τὸ κακὸν ἐξηνέχθη· φωραθέντες γὰρ καὶ κατασχεθέντες ἐν τῇ σφενδόνῃ τὰς κεφαλὰς ἀπετμήθησαν. καὶ προβάλλεται
τὸν Βασίλειον ὁ Μιχαὴλ ἀντὶ τοῦ τελευτήσαντος πρωτοστράτορος, ὁμοίως καὶ Βάρδαν τὸν θεῖον αὐτοῦ κουροπαλάτην. 659 14. Τῷ βʹ
τούτου ἔτει ἔπεσε κόνις ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ πλήρης αἱματώδης, καὶ λίθους εὕρισκον πολλοὶ ἐρυθροὺς ὡς αἷμα. ἐπιδοὺς ἑαυτὸν εἰς πᾶσαν
κακίαν ὁ Μιχαήλ, τὰ ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ χρήματα κακῶς ἀναλίσκων, ὑπὲρ τῶν χιλίων ἐνενήκοντα κεντηναρίων ὄντα χρυσίου, ἄργυρος δὲ
πλῆθος ἀναρίθμητος, ἅπερ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ ἐφυλάξατο. καὶ τοὺς τῶν ἡνιόχων παῖδας ἀπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου βαπτίσματος υἱοθετησάμενος ἑκάστῳ
ἐδίδου νομίσματα ρʹ ἢ τὸ ἐλάχιστον νʹ. καί τινί ποτε πατρικίῳ (Ἱμέριος οὗτος ἐκαλεῖτο ὁ Χοῖρος, διὰ τὴν τοῦ προσώπου ἀγριότητα
οὕτως κατονομαζόμενος) ἄλλως αἰσχρολογοῦντι κατὰ τὴν τράπεζαν καὶ ψόφον ἐκ τῆς βεβήλου αὐτοῦ γαστρὸς κατὰ πρόσωπον τοῦ βασιλέως
καὶ τῶν συνδειπνούντων ἀφιέντι, ὡς καὶ τὸ φατλίον τὸ τούτους φωταγωγοῦν ἐκ τοῦ τηλικούτου ψόφου ἀποσβέσαι τῷ παραδόξῳ θαύματι,
χρυσίου νομίσματα δέδωκεν ρʹ. (15) οὕτως ἐκεῖνος εἰς οὐδὲν δέον τὰ δημόσια κατανάλισκεν. καὶ μήπω καιροῦ παρελθόντος ἑνός,
ἐπεὶ τῆς στρατιωτικῆς ῥόγας παρῆν ὁ καιρὸς καὶ χρημάτων πόρος οὐκ ἦν, τήν τε χρυσῆν ἐκείνην καὶ πολυθρύλητον πλάτανον καὶ
τοὺς δύο λέοντας καὶ τοὺς δύο γρῦπας, ὁλοχρύσους ὄντας καὶ σφυρηλάτους, καὶ τὸ ὁλόχρυσον ὄργανον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἕτερα ἔργα ὁλκὴν
ἔχοντα τῶν ςʹ κεντηναρίων καὶ στολὰς ωξʹ ὁλοχρύσους καὶ χρυσοϋφάντους χωνεύσας ἐχάραξε, καὶ τὴν τῶν στρατιωτῶν ῥόγαν ἐποίησεν.
ὅτε δὲ ὁ Βασίλειος ἦλθεν, οὐδὲν ἄλλο εὗρεν εἰ μὴ 660 κεντηνάρια ιγʹ καὶ μιλιαρίσια σακία θʹ· ἐφ' οἷς ἀπορῶν τὸ νῦν σενζάτον
καλούμενον χαραχθῆναι ἐκέλευσε καὶ τοῦ δημοσίου ποιήσασθαι πρόνοιαν. 16. Ἵνα δὲ μικρόν τι λέξας βεβαιώσω τὰ διηγούμενα καὶ
σαφεστέρα γένηται ἡ τοῦ ἀνδρός, εἴ γε δὴ καὶ ἄνδρα αὐτὸν καλεῖν δεῖ, ἀναγωγία καὶ ἄνοια, ἐφ' ἅρματος ἱσταμένου καὶ τῆς βαλβῖδος
μέλλοντος ἐκπηδῆσαι, ἐπαγγελίας φθασάσης ὅτι δεινῶς ὁ Ἄμερ καταληΐζεται τὸ Θρᾳκήσιον καὶ τὸ Ὀψίκιον ὑπεισελθὼν τοῖς Μαλαγίνοις
πλησιάζει καὶ προσδοκῶνται ὡς οὐδέπω δεινά, καὶ ἐπὶ
