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
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 violently and embitter me more." Tiberius said these things about the tax collectors, saying that they must be kept in office for a long time, so that having had their fill they might deal more gently with the taxpayers. And if he learned of any of those collecting taxes who was carried away beyond what was ordered and was acquiring money oppressively and beyond measure, he subjected him to the most painful punishments, shouting and crying out another proverb "I want the fleece of my sheep to be shorn, but not to be shaved hostilely down to the skin." Such he was in the beginning, but not until the end; for he punished bitterly many of the innocent, slaughtering them without sympathy, and was so hated as to be called clay kneaded with blood. For he took off the head of a man who was both a consular and of the noblest birth, and with it his wealth, saying only this, that carrying my coin in his bosom and having entered into filthy and squalid places, he emptied the burden of his stomach. While this Tiberius was ruling the Romans, the Hebrews and Pilate nailed my sweet Jesus, the steward of life, to a cross. And after the abolition of that hateful death and the resurrection of the creator from the tomb and after the bodily ascension from the regions below, Mary Magdalene ran even to Rome, denouncing with her tongue those who had transgressed the law, and she so inflamed the anger of Tiberius that he punished all the priests and scribes, and also Pilate, with a most heavy and bitter fate. And when Tiberius was at last snatched by death, having reigned for twenty-three years, the power of the Romans passed to Gaius, who was the grandson of Caesar Tiberius; who, being both filthy in his life and murderous in his character, deflowered genuine virgins of the same blood, and he gambled with dice players until dawn. And once while dicing in Gaul with his drinking companions and having bad luck and faring poorly in this game, and seeing the treasurer despondent because all the gold of the treasury had been emptied, rising up he ordered many men who were laden with gold, thriving in wealth, to be harvested by the sword. From there, then, he drew off whole lakes of gold. He, seeing mud once in a narrow street of Rome, ordered it to be thrown into the folds of the garment of the most excellent general Vespasian; for he was a market-inspector. And when Gaius was slain in the midst of the palace, having steered the royal power for four years, Claudius took over the power and became ruler; who was so cowardly and fearful that he ordered those who came to him to be searched, lest someone might happen to be hiding a sword in his bosom. And if ever he held a cheerful symposium, armed bodyguards stood around him. And having held the kingdom for thirteen years, the most cowardly Claudius is destroyed by poisons. And when Claudius had been poisoned, Nero the matricide most wretchedly crept into the scepter of the Romans. He was licentious and abominable and full of debauchery, a slave to his stomach and the things of the stomach, a lover of wine, a lover of drink. He subjected many to the most bitter deaths, and his mother along with them. One might justly say that he introduced such an evil to those in life. And he sacrificed his wife upon her as well. And increasing evils with evils, and adding worse ones, he joined himself to a eunuch for the fellowship of the bed. And he delighted in cithara players and in female dancers, and he filled up every evil and every shameful thing by doing unspeakable acts with dancers, buffoons, mimes, and charioteers. At that time the Parthians also seized for themselves the rule of the Persian power, having enslaved the Persians. And as the abominable Nero gave many to the sword, like an unbridled horse, like a wet sow, a drinker of unmixed wine, he was hated with extreme hatred by the whole populace, and everyone turned away even from the sight of him; for he did everything shameful in the midst of the theaters. The Romans therefore not enduring to see these things, nor to serve
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ἄλγος μοι προξενήσῃς· αἱ μὲν γὰρ κορεσθεῖσαί μου μελῶν τῶν σεσηπότων βραχέα με λυπήσουσιν, ἂν δ' ἐπιπτῶσιν ἄλλαι, προσφῦσαι
βιαιότερον εἰς πλέον πικρανοῦσι." ταῦτ' ἔλεγε Τιβέριος περὶ τῶν φορολόγων, χρονίζειν λέγων δεῖν αὐτούς, ὡς κόρον ἐσχηκότας
πραότερον προσφέρεσθαι τοῖς φορολογουμένοις. εἰ δέ τινα κατέμαθε τῶν εἰσπραττόντων φόρους εἰς πλέον ἐκφερόμενον τοῦ διατεταγμένου
καὶ χρηματίζοντα βαρὺν καὶ πέρα τοῦ μετρίου, κολάσεσιν ὑπέβαλεν αὐτὸν ἀλγεινοτέραις, ἀναβοῶν καὶ κεκραγὼς ἑτέραν παροιμίαν
"τὸν πόκον περικείρεσθαι βούλομαι τῶν προβάτων, ἀλλ' οὐ ξυρᾶσθαι δυσμενῶς μέχρις ἐπιδερμίδος." τοιοῦτος ἦν ἐν ταῖς ἀρχαῖς,
ἀλλ' οὐχὶ μέχρι τέλους· καὶ γὰρ ἐκόλαζε πικρῶς πολλοὺς τῶν ἀναιτίων, ἀσυμπαθῶς μιαιφονῶν, καὶ τόσον ἐμισήθη ὡς ὀνομάζεσθαι
πηλὸς αἵματι πεφυρμένος. ἄνδρα καὶ γὰρ ὑπατικὸν καὶ τῶν εὐγενεστέρων τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀφείλετο καὶ σὺν αὐτῇ τὸν πλοῦτον, τοῦτο
καὶ μόνον ἐπειπών, ὅτι τὸ νόμισμά μου φέρων ἐπικολπίδιον καὶ ῥυπαροὺς εἰς τόπους καὶ σκυβαλώδεις παρελθὼν βάρος γαστρὸς ἐκένου.
Τοῦ Τιβερίου τούτου δὲ κατάρχοντος Ῥωμαίων τὸν Ἰησοῦν μου τὸν γλυκύν, τὸν τῆς ζωῆς ταμίαν, ἐπὶ σταυροῦ καθήλωσαν Ἑβραῖοι καὶ
Πιλᾶτος. μετὰ δὲ τὴν καθαίρεσιν τοῦ στυγητοῦ θανάτου καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ μνήματος ἐξέγερσιν τοῦ κτίστου καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἐνσώματον
ἔπαρσιν ἐκ τῶν κάτω μέχρι καὶ Ῥώμης ἔδραμε Μαγδαληνὴ Μαρία τῇ γλώσσῃ κατατρέχουσα τῶν παρηνομηκότων, καὶ Τιβερίῳ τὸν θυμὸν
τοσοῦτον ὑπανῆψεν ὡς βαρυτάτῳ καὶ πικρῷ πάντας κολάσαι πότμῳ τοὺς ἱερεῖς καὶ γραμματεῖς, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν Πιλᾶτον. Ὡς δέ ποτε
Τιβέριος ἡρπάγη τῷ θανάτῳ, ἐν ἔτεσιν πρὸς τοῖς τρισὶν εἴκοσι βασιλεύσας, εἰς Γάϊον μετέπεσε τὸ τῶν Ῥωμαίων κράτος, θυγατριδοῦν
ὑπάρχοντα Καίσαρος Τιβερίου· ὃς ὢν καὶ ῥυπαρόβιος καὶ φονικὸς τὸν τρόπον παρθένους διεκόρησε γνησίας αὐθομαίμους, ἔπαιζε δὲ
σὺν κυβευταῖς ἄχρι τοῦ περιόρθρου. σὺν τοῖς συμπόταις δέ ποτε κυβεύων ἐν Γαλλίαις καὶ δυσκληρῶν καὶ δυσπραγῶν ἐν τῷ παιγνίῳ
τούτῳ, καὶ τὸν θησαυροφύλακα βλέψας βαρυθυμοῦντα ὅτι τὸ πᾶν κεκένωτο τοῦ θησαυροῦ χρυσίον, ἐξαναστὰς ἐκέλευσεν ἐκθερισθῆναι
ξίφει πολλοὺς χρυσίῳ βρίθοντας, εὐθηνουμένους πλούτῳ. ἐκεῖθεν οὖν μετήντλησεν ὅλας χρυσίου λίμνας. οὗτος ἰδών ποτε πηλὸν ἐν
στενωπῷ τῆς Ῥώμης κόλποις Οὐεσπασιανοῦ τοῦ στρατηγικωτάτου βληθήσεσθαι προσέταξεν· ἦν γὰρ ἀγορανόμος. Ὡς δ' ἀπεσφάγη Γάϊος
ἐν μέσοις ἀνακτόροις, ἰθύνας τὸ βασίλειον τέσσαρσι χρόνοις κράτος, ὁ Κλαύδιος ἡγήσατο παραλαβὼν τὸ κράτος· ὃς οὕτω δειλοκάρδιος
καὶ τρομερὸς ὑπῆρχεν ὡς τοὺς φοιτῶντας παρ' αὐτὸν ἀνερευνᾶν προστάττειν, μήπως ἐπικολπίδιον τύχοι τις κρύπτων ξίφος. εἰ δέ
ποτε συμπόσιον γηθόσυνον συνίστη, περιεστήκεσαν αὐτὸν ὁπλῖται δορυφόροι. κρατήσας δὲ τρισκαίδεκα τῆς βασιλείας ἔτη Κλαύδιος
ὁ δειλότατος φαρμάκοις ἀναιρεῖται. Κλαυδίου φαρμαχθέντος δὲ Νέρων ὁ μητροκτόνος παρεισεφθάρη κάκιστα τοῖς τῶν Ῥωμαίων σκήπτροις.
ἦν δ' ἀσελγὴς καὶ βδελυρὸς καὶ πλήρης ἀσωτείας, ἥττων γαστρὸς καὶ τῶν γαστρός, φίλοινος, φιλοπότης. οὗτος πολλοὺς ὑπήγαγε
θανάτοις πικροτάτοις, καὶ τὴν μητέρα σὺν αὐτοῖς. εἴποι τις ἂν δικαίως ὅτι κακὸν εἰσήνεγκε τοιοῦτον τοῖς ἐν βίῳ. ἐπικατέθυσε
δ' αὐτῇ καὶ τὴν ὁμοζυγοῦσαν. κακοῖς δ' ἐπαύξων τὰ κακά, καὶ προστιθεὶς κακίω, εὐνούχῳ προσηρμόσατο πρὸς λέχους κοινωνίαν.
ἔχαιρε δὲ κιθαρῳδοῖς καὶ γυναιξὶ παιστρίαις, καὶ πᾶν κακὸν καὶ πᾶν αἰσχρὸν ἀρρητουργῶν ἐπλήρου σὺν ὀρχησταῖς, γελοιασταῖς,
μίμοις, ἁρματοστρόφοις. τότε καὶ Πάρθοι τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς Περσικῆς ἰσχύος εἰς ἑαυτοὺς παρέσπασαν, Πέρσας δεδουλωκότες. ὡς δὲ πολλοὺς
ὁ μυσαρὸς Νέρων ἐδίδου ξίφει, ὡς ἀκροχάλιξ, ὡς ὑγρὸς χοῖρος ἀκρατοπότης, ὑπὸ παντὸς μεμίσητο τοῦ πλήθους μῖσος ἄκρον, καὶ
πάντες ἀπεστρέφοντο καὶ τὴν ἐκείνου θέαν· αἰσχρὸν γὰρ σύμπαν ἔπραττεν ἐν μέσοις τοῖς θεάτροις. μὴ τοίνυν ἀνεχόμενοι Ῥωμαῖοι
ταῦτα βλέπειν, μηδὲ δουλεύειν
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