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 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 throws it inside the city, praying to increase the affairs of the city from those of foreigners. And having arranged these things, he signals the calling of the city with a trumpet, and names it Rome. And having gathered a multitude from the surrounding country—men, women, boys, old men, youths—he makes them equal citizens and settles them all. And he is established as the first king of the Romans, and after him Numa, and after him Tullus, and after them Marcius, named Ancus (for he had a crooked foot), and after him Tarquinius, the fifth from Romulus, taking the kingship which in no way belonged to him; for it was owed to the sons of king Marcius. And after him Tullius, the son-in-law of Tarquinius, who from infancy, as they say, and from his earliest age was surnamed Servius as having been born of a slave woman; for Servius means slave among the Romans. This man joined his daughters in marriage to the grandsons of king Lucius Tarquinius, by the plot and murderous manner of one of whom the wretched man was deprived of both his life and his rule. And after him Tarquinius Superbus began to rule, who, behaving cruelly and arrogantly toward both the senate and the people, was surnamed Superbus; the word among them means "the arrogant one". To this Tarquinius came a certain woman carrying nine books of the Sibylline oracles, and she wished to sell the books to the king. But since he would not give the requested price, she burned three of them with fire, and approaching again she offered to sell the remaining ones for the same price. But he seemed foolish in this to those present, and again three of the books were burned in the fire. She came to him a third time, and for the same price she offered the remaining three. The king, amazed at this, and having inquired of proven seers, ordered the gold to be given to the woman. But having received what was given, and having told him to guard the books with care, no one ever saw her again; and the books became the salvation of the city. When this man wished to build a temple in Rome, a trench was dug for the underground foundations, and when the digging had proceeded to a great depth, there was found below the head of a freshly slain man, showing warm and fresh blood being poured out, and having a face similar to the living. When a proven interpreter of prodigies among the Etruscans learned of this, he said that the city would become the head of many nations, but through the sword and slaughters and pools of blood. From this, the Tarpeian hill was renamed the Capitoline hill from the head that had appeared; for *caput* is the head according to the language of the Romans. For a considerable time, then, the city of the Romans, the great city, was under kings; but when the son of Tarquinius committed a transgression and shamed the most chaste Lucretia, the wife of Collatinus, a most noble man, then indeed all the Romans, having come together, vote for the abolition of the royal power, and ratify the appointment of consuls annually, which among the Greeks means councillors or chief-councillors, whom the Greeks afterwards named *hypatoi*, having observed the greatness of their dignity. Therefore, when the tyrants had been driven out of Rome, the first among others to receive the consular dignity were Lucius Tarquinius, the husband of Lucretia, and Lucius Junius, whom they called Brutus. But I must also relate the things concerning Brutus. There was a certain Marcius, a noble man among the Romans, abounding in excessive wealth and indeed preeminent in honor. The terrible Tarquinius, envying this man for his wealth, puts him to the sword, and with him his son, who was noble and handsome and admired in all things and who showed the bearing of a manly soul, and who, if he had survived, would not have endured not to avenge his father upon his murderers. So Tarquinius kills Marcius himself, and transfers his wealth into the royal house. This Brutus, therefore, being the son of Marcius, and seeing the
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χρηματίζειν, πιστὰς μενούσας, οἰκουροὺς καὶ φύλακας τῶν ἔνδον. ἔπειτα βῶλον τῇ χειρὶ λαβὼν ἀπὸ τῶν ἔξω ἔνδον ῥιπτεῖ τῆς πόλεως,
εὐχόμενος ἐπαύξειν τὰ πράγματα τῆς πόλεως ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων. καὶ ταῦτα διαθέμενος ἐν σάλπιγγι σημαίνει τὴν κλῆσιν τὴν τῆς
πόλεως, καὶ Ῥώμην ὀνομάζει. καὶ πλῆθος συλλεξάμενος ἀπὸ τῆς περιχώρου, ἄνδρας, γυναῖκας, μείρακας, τριγέροντας, ἐφήβους, ἰσοπολίτας
τίθησι καὶ κατοικίζει πάντας. Καὶ πρῶτος οὗτος βασιλεὺς καθίσταται Ῥωμαίων, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον ὁ Νουμᾶς, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον Τύλλος,
καὶ μετ' αὐτοὺς ὁ Μάρκιος Ἄγκος ὠνομασμένος (τὴν γὰρ ἀγκύλην τοῦ ποδὸς εἶχε πεπηρωμένην), καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν Ταρκύνιος πέμπτος
ἀπὸ Ῥωμύλου, μηδὲν αὐτῷ προσήκουσαν λαβὼν τὴν βασιλείαν· τοῖς γὰρ παισὶν ὠφείλετο Μαρκίου βασιλέως. γαμβρὸς τοῦ Ταρκυνίου
δὲ Τύλλιος μετ' ἐκεῖνον, ὃς ἀπὸ βρέφους, ὥς φασι, κἀκ πρώτης ἡλικίας ἐπωνομάσθη σέρβιος ὡς γεγονὼς ἐκ δούλης· δύναται γὰρ
τὸ σέρβιος δοῦλον παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις. οὗτος συνῆψε τὰς αὐτοῦ πρὸς γάμον θυγατέρας τοῖς βασιλέως υἱωνοῖς Λευκίου Ταρκυνίου, ὧνπερ
μιᾶς ἐπιβουλῇ καὶ τρόπῳ μιαιφόνῳ καὶ τῆς ζωῆς καὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς ὁ τάλας ἐστερήθη. καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν Ταρκύνιος ὁ Σούπερβος κατῆρξεν,
ὃς προσφερόμενος ὠμῶς καὶ φιλυπερηφάνως καὶ τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ κοινῷ Σούπερβος ἐπεκλήθη· τὸν δ' ἀλαζόνα παρ' αὐτοῖς ἡ λέξις ἑρμηνεύει.
πρὸς τοῦτον τὸν Ταρκύνιον ἀφίκετο γυνή τις βίβλους ἐννέα φέρουσα χρησμῶν τῶν Σιβυλλείων, ἀπεμπολῆσαι δ' ἤθελε τῷ βασιλεῖ τὰς
βίβλους. ἐπεὶ δὲ τὸ ζητούμενον ἐκεῖνος οὐκ ἐδίδου, πυρὶ τὰς τρεῖς κατέφλεξε, καὶ πάλιν προσελθοῦσα τιμῆς ἐπώλει τῆς αὐτῆς
τὰς καταλελειμμένας. ἀλλ' ἔδοξεν ἀσύνετος ἐν τούτῳ τοῖς παροῦσιν, καὶ πάλιν τρεῖς πυριφλεγεῖς ἐγένοντο τῶν βίβλων. ἦλθεν ἐκ
τρίτου πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ τῆς τιμῆς τῆς ἴσης τὰς τρεῖς ἐδίδου τὰς λοιπάς. θαυμάσας δ' ἐπὶ τούτοις ὁ βασιλεύς, καὶ μάντεων πυθόμενος
δοκίμων, ἐκέλευσε τῇ γυναικὶ δοθῆναι τὸ χρυσίον. τὴν δὲ λαβοῦσαν τὸ δοθέν, καὶ μετ' ἐπιμελείας τηρεῖν τὰς βίβλους φράσασαν,
εἶδεν οὐδεὶς οὐκέτι· αἱ βίβλοι δὲ γεγόνασι σωτήριοι τῇ πόλει. τούτου ναὸν οἰκοδομεῖν ἐν Ῥώμῃ βουληθέντος βόθρευμα μὲν ὠρύσσετο
θεμέθλων ὑπογαίων, τῆς δ' ὀρυγῆς ἐπὶ πολὺ τὸ βάθος προϊούσης εὑρέθη κάτω κεφαλὴ νεοσφαγοῦς ἀνθρώπου, αἷμα θερμὸν καὶ νεαρὸν
χεόμενον δεικνῦσα, καὶ πρόσωπον παρεμφερὲς ἔχουσα τοῖς ἐμπνόοις. ὅπερ μαθὼν ἐν Τυρρηνοῖς δόκιμος τερασκόπος ἔφη τὴν πόλιν
κεφαλὴν πολλῶν ἐθνῶν γενέσθαι, πλὴν διὰ ξίφους καὶ σφαγῶν καὶ λιμνασμῶν αἱμάτων. ἐντεῦθεν ὁ Ταρπήϊος μετωνομάσθη λόφος ἐκ
τῆς φανείσης κεφαλῆς Καπιτωλῖνος λόφος· κάπουτ γὰρ ἡ κεφαλὴ κατὰ Ῥωμαίων γλῶσσαν. Χρόνοις μὲν οὖν ἐφ' ἱκανοῖς ἡ τῶν Ῥωμαίων
πόλις, πόλις ἡ μεγαλόπολις, ἦν ὑπὸ βασιλεῦσιν· ἐπεὶ δὲ παρηνόμησεν ὁ παῖς τοῦ Ταρκυνίου καὶ Λουκρητίαν ᾔσχυνε τὴν σωφρονικωτάτην,
τὴν Κολατίνου γαμετὴν ἀνδρὸς εὐγενεστάτου, τότε δὴ πάντες εἰς ταὐτὸ Ῥωμαῖοι συνελθόντες κατάλυσιν ψηφίζονται τοῦ βασιλείου
κράτους, κυροῦσι δὲ προβάλλεσθαι κατ' ἔτος κονσυλίους, ὅπερ δηλοῖ καθ' Ἕλληνας συμβούλους ἢ προβούλους, οὓς Ἕλληνες ὠνόμασαν
ὑπάτους μετὰ ταῦτα, τὸ μεγαλεῖον τῆς αὐτῶν ἀξίας κατιδόντες. ἀπελαθέντων τοιγαροῦν ἐκ Ῥώμης τῶν τυράννων, πρῶτοι τῶν ἄλλων
ἔλαβον ὑπατικὴν ἀξίαν Ταρκύνιός τε Λεύκιος, ἀνὴρ τῆς Λουκρητίας, καὶ Λεύκιος Ἰούνιος, ὃν Βροῦτον ἐπεκάλουν. ἀλλὰ διηγητέον
μοι καὶ τὰ περὶ τοῦ Βρούτου. Μάρκιος ἦν τις εὐγενὴς ἀνὴρ παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις, καὶ πλούτῳ βρίθων περιττῷ καὶ δὴ τιμῇ προέχων. τούτῳ
βασκήνας ὁ δεινὸς Ταρκύνιος τοῦ πλούτου αὐτὸν μὲν ξίφει δίδωσι, καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ τὸν παῖδα, γενναῖον ὄντα καὶ καλὸν καὶ ζηλωτὸν
ἐν πᾶσιν καὶ φαίνοντα παράστημα ψυχῆς ἀνδροκαρδίου, κἂν εἰ τῷ βίῳ περιῆν οὐκ ἂν ὑπομενοῦντα μὴ τιμωρῆσαι τῷ πατρὶ κατὰ τῶν
ἀνελόντων. αὐτὸν μὲν οὖν τὸν Μάρκιον Ταρκύνιος κτιννύει, τὸν δ' ὄλβον μετατίθησιν ἐν δόμοις βασιλείοις. ὁ Βροῦτος οὗτος τοιγαροῦν
παῖς ὑπάρχων Μαρκίου, καὶ κατιδὼν τὴν τοῦ
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