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
and his whole character was lecherous, and worse than others, lusting after women joined to men, and commanding their spouses to serve his abomination despotically and most tyrannically, he hastened to lead him away from the madness of this passion. But since Caesar did not change from his vile life, the admirable teacher contrived something of this sort. Seeing a man of the senate, both illustrious and most fortunate, lamenting and wailing (for he had been ordered to shut his wife in a covered litter and send her to the ruler) he urges him not to mourn nor to bear it heavily, but to shut himself in the litter instead of his wife and send it to Caesar; for this was the right thing to do. And with difficulty, he persuades him. What happened after this? Athenodorus goes in, he goes in carrying a sword. He is sent to Caesar, marked with a seal. Caesar receives it, he breaks the seals. Athenodorus comes out, brandishing his sword. Caesar is astonished when he sees him, he is frozen with fear. He binds him with oaths never again to do this nor henceforth to be defiled by others’ beds. This man, having spent a long time with Caesar, and being about to depart to his homeland, since he saw that Caesar was ill-tempered and wrathful and quick to issue punishing decrees, but also quick to extinguish the fire of his anger and to change his ways toward more humane ones, bending down to his ears as if to kiss him, said, "O Caesar Augustus, this alone is lacking for you: do not issue decrees before you say to yourself the number of the twenty-four letters." And he, groaning deeply and looking at him, said, "I still need your good instruction. Be with me again, and Rome will keep you." This Caesar drove out the idle babblers, honoring only the wise with fitting honors. And he was so loved by his subjects, that a certain Roman man, about to depart this life, instructed his children and successors to offer thanksgiving sacrifices to the gods, because, he said, I am leaving Augustus alive. And when Caesar too was about to depart from things here, having citizens with consuls stand by him, he said, "Having found the city of the Romans made of clay, I have made it one of fine towers, of solid stone. And since I am also departing from the turmoil of affairs, I want many to applaud at my death and to employ jests and clap their hands as at the death of a comic mime and actor." And he ordered these things, making sport of his life. And having ruled for fifty-six whole years, he paid what was owed, he settled the debt. While this Caesar was holding the scepters of rule, in the forty-second year, the Logos, co-eternal with the Father and creator of the world, having entered the pure womb of an incorrupt maiden, formed his flesh from her blood, and with it and through it he appeared to men, fully perfect in divinity and in mortal nature. And when Augustus Caesar departed this life, Tiberius became ruler, who at first was gentle and mild and of a generous disposition, but later deviated into a bloodthirsty character and a malevolent mind and filthiness of soul. Yet having just then come to the throne, he was so exceedingly loved by all his subjects as to walk about wherever he pleased, by night and by day, without guard, garrison, or spearmen. And if he entrusted to someone the generalship of a city or the collection of taxes, he would not in a short time remove him from the office and the command, saying that famous thing to those who asked. There was a man grievously sick, with ulcerated feet; he was filled with much ill-smelling, foul serum. The flies were dancing upon his wounds, they sucked the putrefaction, they drank the serum. And the sick man, being struck with pains and suffering patiently, did not shoo away the terrible and most audacious flies. And when someone pitied him, being moved by his suffering, and was about to drive the flies from there, the sufferer cried out, "Man, leave these, lest when they have been driven away
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καὶ τὸ μὲν ὅλον πορνικόν, τὸ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων χεῖρον, ὀρεκτιῶντα γυναικῶν ἀνδράσιν ἐζευγμένων, καὶ τοὺς ὁμόζυγας αὐτῶν ὑπηρετεῖν
τῷ μύσει δεσποτικῶς προστάττοντα καὶ τυραννικωτέρως, ἀπάγειν τοῦτον ἔσπευδε τῆς λύσσης τῆς τοῦ πάθους. ἐπεὶ δ' οὐ μετετίθετο
Καῖσαρ τοῦ φαύλου βίου, ὁ θαυμαστὸς καθηγητὴς τοιοῦτόν τι τεχνᾶται. ἰδὼν ὀλοφυρόμενον ἄνθρωπον καὶ θρηνοῦντα τῶν τῆς συγκλήτου
καὶ λαμπρῶν καὶ τῶν εὐτυχεστέρων (καὶ γὰρ αὐτῷ προστέτακτο φορείῳ καταστέγῳ τὴν γαμετὴν ἐγκλείσασθαι καὶ τῷ κρατοῦντι πέμψαι)
παρεγγυᾶται μὴ πενθεῖν μηδὲ βαρέως φέρειν, αὐτὸν δ' ἀντὶ τῆς γυναικὸς ἐγκλεῖσαι τῷ φορείῳ καὶ στεῖλαι πρὸς τὸν Καίσαρα· τοῦτο
γὰρ δέον εἶναι. καὶ μόλις μέν, συμπείθει δ' οὖν. τίνα τὰ μετὰ τοῦτο; εἴσεισιν Ἀθηνόδωρος, εἴσεισι ξίφος φέρων. πέμπεται πρὸς
τὸν Καίσαρα σημειωθεὶς σφραγῖδι. ὁ Καῖσαρ ὑποδέχεται, ῥήγνυσι τὰς σφραγῖδας. ἔξεισιν Ἀθηνόδωρος τὸ ξίφος ἐπισείων. θαμβεῖται
Καῖσαρ κατιδών, τῷ δέει κρυσταλλοῦται. ὅρκοις αὐτὸν καταδεσμεῖ μηκέτι τοῦτο πρᾶξαι μηδ' ἀλλοτρίαις τοῦ λοιποῦ καταχρανθῆναι
κοίταις. Οὗτος πολὺν τῷ Καίσαρι συνδιατρίψας χρόνον, καὶ μέλλων ἀπαλλάττεσθαι πρὸς τὴν ἐνεγκαμένην, ἐπείπερ εἶδε Καίσαρα δύσοργον
καὶ θυμώδη καὶ τάχιον ἐκφέροντα τὰς κολαζούσας ψήφους, ταχέως δὲ τὴν τοῦ θυμοῦ πυρκαϊὰν σβεννύντα καὶ τρόπους μεταπίπτοντα
πρὸς φιλανθρωποτέρους, κύψας αὐτοῦ πρὸς ἀκοὰς ὡς δὴ καταφιλήσων "ὦ Καῖσαρ" ἔφη "σεβαστέ, τοῦτό σοι λείπει μόνον· μὴ πρὶν τὰς
ψήφους ἔκφερε πρὶν ἐν σαυτῷ λαλήσῃς τὸν τῶν γραμμάτων ἀριθμὸν τῶν εἴκοσι τεσσάρων." ὁ δὲ στενάξας βύθιον καὶ πρὸς ἐκεῖνον
βλέψας "ἔτι σου χρῄζω τῆς καλῆς" ἔφη "παιδαγωγίας. καὶ πάλιν ἔσο σὺν ἐμοί, καὶ Ῥώμη σε καθέξει." Οὗτος ὁ Καῖσαρ ἤλαυνε τοὺς
μετεωρολέσχας, μόνους κυδαίνων τοὺς σοφοὺς τιμαῖς ταῖς προσηκούσαις. τοσοῦτον δὲ πεφίλητο παρὰ τῶν ὑπηκόων, ὥστε τὸν βίον
ἐκλείπειν μέλλων ἀνὴρ Ῥωμαῖος ἐπέτρεψε τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ παισὶ καὶ διαδόχοις χαριστηρίους τοῖς θεοῖς προσενεγκεῖν θυσίας, ὅτι, φησί,
τὸν σεβαστὸν ζῶντα καταλιμπάνω. Ὡς δὲ καὶ Καῖσαρ ἔμελλεν ἀπαίρειν τῶν ἐνθάδε, παραστησάμενος αὐτῷ δημότας σὺν ὑπάτοις "πηλίνην"
ἔφησεν "εὑρὼν τὴν τῶν Ῥωμαίων πόλιν καλλίπυργον πεποίηκα λιθίνην στερεμνίαν. ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ μεθίσταμαι τῆς τύρβης τῶν πραγμάτων,
κροτῆσαι βούλομαι πολλοὺς ἐπὶ τῇ τελευτῇ μου καὶ χρήσασθαι γελοιασμοῖς καὶ κροταλίσαι χεῖρας ὡς ἐπὶ μίμου τελευτῇ γελοιαστοῦ
καὶ παίκτου." καὶ ταῦτα διετάξατο τοῦ βίου καταπαίζων. ἐφ' ὅλοις δὲ πεντήκοντα σὺν ἓξ κρατήσας χρόνοις τὴν ὀφειλὴν ἀπέδοτο,
κατέβαλε τὸ χρέος. Τούτου τοῦ Καίσαρος ἀρχῆς τοῖς σκήπτροις ἐφεστῶτος ἐν ἔτει τεσσαρακοστῷ ναὶ μὴν πρὸς τῷ δευτέρῳ ὁ συναΐδιος
πατρὶ καὶ κοσμοκτίστωρ λόγος, εἰσδὺς νηδὺν τὴν καθαρὰν νεάνιδος ἀφθόρου, τὴν σάρκα συνεπήξατο ταύτης ἐκ τῶν αἱμάτων, καὶ σὺν
αὐτῇ καὶ μετ' αὐτῆς ἐπέφαινεν ἀνθρώποις, θεότητι παντέλειος καὶ φύσει βροτησίᾳ. Τοῦ σεβαστοῦ δὲ Καίσαρος τὸν βίον ἐκλιπόντος
ἀρχηγετεῖ Τιβέριος, ὃς τὰ μὲν πρῶτα πρᾶος ὑπῆρχε καὶ μειλίχιος καὶ τρόπου φιλοδώρου, ἀλλ' ὕστερον ἐξώκειλεν εἰς ἦθος μιαιφόνον
καὶ γνώμην ὑπομόχθηρον καὶ ῥυπαροψυχίαν. ἄρτι δὲ τέως παρελθὼν ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν οὕτως ὑπερπεφίλητο τοῖς ὑπὸ χεῖρα πᾶσιν ὡς
φυλακῆς τε καὶ φρουρᾶς καὶ δορυφόρων ἄτερ βαδίζειν ὅπου δή ποτε νύκτωρ καὶ μεθ' ἡμέραν. εἰ δέ τισιν ἐπέτρεψε πόλεως στρατηγίαν
ἢ τὴν τῶν φόρων εἴσπραξιν, οὐκ ἐν ὀλίγῳ χρόνῳ ἐκ τῆς ἀρχῆς παρέλυε καὶ τῆς ἡγεμονίας, ἐκεῖνο τὸ θρυλούμενον λέγων τοῖς ἐρωτῶσιν.
ἄνθρωπος ἦν κατάνοσος, τοὺς πόδας ἡλκωμένος· ἰχώρων πέπλητο πολλῶν δυσόδμων δυσιάτων. αἱ μυῖαι κατεχόρευον ἐκείνου τῶν τραυμάτων,
τὰς σηπεδόνας ἔβδαλλον, ἐμύζων τοὺς ἰχῶρας. ὀδύναις δὲ βαλλόμενος καὶ τληπαθῶν ὁ κάμνων οὐκ ἀπεσόβει τὰς δεινὰς καὶ θρασυτάτας
μυίας. ὡς δέ τις κατῳκτείρησεν ἐπικαμφθεὶς τῷ πάθει καὶ τὰς δὴ μυίας ἔμελλεν ἐκεῖθεν ἐκδιώκειν, ὁ πάσχων ἀνεβόησεν "ἄνθρωπε,
ταύτας ἄφες, μή πως αὐτῶν διωχθεισῶν
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