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he had completed his life in it; for he was slain in exile by divine justice. In this year, having reigned 2 years and 9 months, he was slain by God in Persia on the 26th of the month of January, in the sixth indiction, being 31 years of age. And a sign occurred while he was in Persia in the month of Daesius. A water jar filled with water in the house of a certain Christian countrywoman was changed into boiling new wine in the evening hour. At that very hour they brought the filled vessel to the church of the village. And the local presbyter, having filled a small vessel from it, brought it to bishop Augarus. In Carrhae a woman was found hanging by her hair, and in Antioch many human skulls, through which the transgressor, performing divinations for the war against the Persians, had placed seals and locks on the places. Year of the world 5856. Year of the divine incarnation 356. Emperor of the Romans, Jovian, year 1. 1. King of the Persians, Sapor, year 70. 62. Bishop of Rome, Damasus, year 28. 12. Bishop of Constant., Eudoxius, year 10. 5. Bishop of Jerusalem, Hilarion, year 12. 10. Bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius, year 46. 38. Bishop of Antioch, Leontius, year 8. 6. In this year Jovian, a chiliarch, a most gentle man and an orthodox Christian, was proclaimed emperor of the Romans by the whole army and the generals and the consuls in the same place of the Persian land where the transgressor was slain. and after one engagement of war, peace as if from God was proclaimed in concert by both Romans and Persians and was set for 30 years. But he declined the emperorship, saying that he could not rule an army that had become Hellenist under Julian. to whom all with one voice shouted that they were Christians. Jovian ceded the great city of Nisibis to the Persians for the salvation of the remaining people and made peace. And he sent out general laws in favor of the churches to all the Roman land, restoring to the Catholic church the status and honor it had under the blessed Con54stantine the great; and he recalled the bishops in exile and wrote to the holy Athanasius to signify to him in writing the precision of the blameless faith; which he did, writing a letter of all orthodoxy to Jovian. Wherefore Jovian, having become more confirmed in orthodoxy, gave many gifts to those who confessed the homoousion and made them exempt from taxes. But Acacius, the most wicked Arian of Caesarea, coming together with other bishops to Antioch, composed a document of pretended orthodoxy, confessing the homoousion and the synod in Nicaea out of fear of the pious emperor, and not according to God. And the emperor Jovian arrived in Antioch in the month of Hyperberetaeus. And a child was born outside the gate of the city at the place called Tripylon to a rustic gardener, a female, seven months old, having two distinct heads, each perfectly formed, as separated from the neck of each head. But this was born dead in the month of Dius, which is November. Jovian set out from Antioch for Constantinople and having come to Ancyra of Galatia, he came forth as consul with his son Varronianus, having proclaimed him as such when he appeared, without clothing him in the purple. In the same year, having reigned 9 months and 15 days, the most Christian Jovian, being in Dadastana, a place in Bithynia, died; and Valentinian Augustus was proclaimed emperor for 11 years by the army because he was approved as a Christian in his confession and he immediately set out for Constantinople and having reached the imperial city, he proclaimed Valens, his own brother, as partner of his reign, allotting to him the eastern parts, while he himself held the western. Year of the world 5857. Year of the divine incarnation 357. Emperor of the Romans, Valentinian, year 10. 1. King of the Persians, Sapor, year 70. 63. Bishop of Rome, Damasus, year 28. 13. Bishop of Constantinople

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βίον ἐν αὐτῷ πεπλήρωκεν· ὑπερόριος γὰρ θείᾳ δίκῃ ἀνῃρέθη. τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει, βασιλεύσας ἔτη βʹ μῆνας θʹ, κατὰ τὴν Περσικὴν θεόκταντος γέγονε τῇ κϛʹ τοῦ Ἰαννουαρίου μηνὸς ἰνδικτιῶνος ἕκτης ἐτῶν ὑπάρχων λαʹ. ἐγένετο δὲ σημεῖον ὄντος αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ Περσίδι μηνὶ ∆αισίῳ. ὑδρία πεπληρωμένη ὕδατος ἐν οἰκίᾳ ἀγροικίδος τινὸς Χριστιανῆς μετεβλήθη εἰς οἶνον βράζοντα μοῦστον κατὰ τὴν δειλινὴν ὥραν. αὐτῇ δὲ τῇ ὥρᾳ τὸ ἀγγεῖον πεπληρωμένον προσήνεγκαν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦ χωρίου. ὁ δὲ κατὰ τὸν τόπον πρεσβύτερος πληρώσας μικρὸν ἀγγεῖον ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἐκόμισε τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ Αὐγάρῳ. ἐν Κάρραις εὑρέθη γυνὴ ἐκ τῶν τριχῶν κρεμαμένη, καὶ ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ κρανία ἀνθρώπων πολλά, δι' ὧν ὁ παραβάτης τὰ μαντεῖα τοῦ κατὰ Περσῶν πολέμου ποιούμενος σφραγῖδας καὶ κλεῖθρα τοῖς τόποις ἐπέθηκεν. Κόσμου ἔτη εωνϛʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη τνϛʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Ἰουβιανὸς ἔτος αʹ. αʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Σαβώρης ἔτη οʹ. ξβʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος ∆άμασος ἔτη κηʹ. ιβʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Εὐδόξιος ἔτη ιʹ. εʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ἱλάριος ἔτη ιβʹ. ιʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Ἀθανάσιος ἔτη μϛʹ. ληʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Λεόντιος ἔτη ηʹ. ϛʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Ἰουβιανὸς χιλίαρχος, ἀνὴρ πρᾳότατος καὶ ὀρθόδοξος Χριστιανός, βασιλεὺς Ῥωμαίων ὑπὸ παντὸς τοῦ στρατοῦ καὶ τῶν στρατηγῶν καὶ τῶν ὑπάτων ἀνηγορεύθη ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ τόπῳ τῆς Περσῶν γῆς, ἐν ᾧ ὁ παραβάτης ἀνῃρέθη. καὶ μετὰ μίαν συμβολὴν πολέμου εἰρήνη ὡς ἀπὸ θεοῦ συμφώνως ἀνεβοήθη ὑπό τε Ῥωμαίων καὶ Περσῶν καὶ ὡρίσθη ἔτη λʹ. ὁ δὲ παρῃτεῖτο τὴν βασιλείαν φάσκων μὴ δύνασθαι αὐτὸν ἄρχειν στρατοῦ ἑλληνίσαντος ἐπὶ Ἰουλιανοῦ. πρὸς ὃν πάντες ὁμοφώνως ἐβόησαν Χριστιανοὶ ὑπάρχειν. Ἰουβιανὸς πόλιν μεγάλην Νισίβιν Πέρσαις παρεχώρησε σωτήρια τοῦ περιλειφθέντος λαοῦ καὶ εἰρήνευσεν. νόμους δὲ γενικοὺς κατέπεμψεν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν εἰς πᾶσαν γῆν Ῥωμαίων, τὴν ἐπὶ τοῦ μακαρίου Κων54 σταντίνου τοῦ μεγάλου κατάστασιν καὶ τιμὴν τῇ καθολικῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἀποδιδούς· τοὺς δὲ ἐν ἐξορίᾳ ἐπισκόπους ἀνεκαλέσατο καὶ τῷ ἱερῷ Ἀθανασίῳ ἔγραψε τῆς ἀμωμήτου πίστεως ἐγγράφως σημᾶναι αὐτῷ ἀκρίβειαν· ὅπερ καὶ πέπραχε πάσης ὀρθοδοξίας Ἰουβιανῷ ἐπιστολὴν γράψας. ὅθεν Ἰουβιανὸς βεβαιότερος εἰς ὀρθοδοξίαν γενόμενος τοῖς δοξάζουσι τὸ ὁμοούσιον ἐδωρήσατο πολλὰ καὶ ἀτελεῖς ἐποίησεν. Ἀκάκιος δέ, ὁ κάκιστος Καισαρείας Ἀρειανός, συνελθὼν μεθ' ἑτέρων ἐπισκόπων εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν λίβελλον ὀρθοδοξίας δῆθεν συνέταξε τὸ ὁμοούσιον καὶ τὴν ἐν Νικαίᾳ σύνοδον ὁμολογῶν φόβῳ τοῦ εὐσεβοῦς βασιλέως, καὶ οὐ κατὰ θεόν. ὁ δὲ αὐτοκράτωρ Ἰουβιανὸς ἐπέβη τῇ Ἀντιοχέων μηνὶ Ὑπερβερεταίῳ. καὶ ἐγεννήθη παιδίον ἔξω τῆς πύλης τῆς πόλεως ἐπὶ τὸ λεγόμενον Τρίπυλον ἀγροίκῳ κηπωρῷ θῆλυ ἑπταμηναῖον ἔχον κεφαλὰς δύο διωρισμένας, ἑκάστῃ τὸ πλάσμα τετελειωμένον, ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ τραχήλου ἑκάστης κεφαλῆς κεχωρισμένης. νεκρὸν δὲ τοῦτο ἐτέχθη μηνὶ ∆ίῳ, ὅ ἐστι Νοέμβριος. ἐξώρμησεν Ἰουβιανὸς ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀντιοχέων ἐπὶ Κωνσταντινούπολιν καὶ ἐλθὼν ἐν Ἀγκύρᾳ τῆς Γαλατίας ὕπατος προῆλθε σὺν τῷ αὐτοῦ υἱῷ Οὐαρωνιανῷ ἐπιφανέντα τὸν αὐτὸν ἀναγορεύσας ἄνευ τοῦ ἐνδῦσαι αὐτῷ πορφύραν. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει βασιλεύσας μῆνας θʹ ἡμέρας ιεʹ Ἰουβιανὸς ὁ χριστιανικώτατος ἐν ∆αδασθάνοις, χωρίῳ τῆς Βιθυνίας, γενόμενος ἐτελεύτησεν· καὶ ἀνηγορεύθη βασιλεὺς Οὐαλεντινιανὸς Αὔγουστος ἔτη ιαʹ ὑπὸ τοῦ στρατοπέδου διὰ τὸ εὐδοκιμῆσαι αὐτὸν ὡς Χριστιανὸν ἐν τῇ ὁμολογίᾳ καὶ εὐθέως ἐξώρμησεν ἐπὶ Κωνσταντινούπολιν καὶ φθάσας τὴν βασιλεύουσαν Οὐάλεντα, τὸν ἴδιον ἀδελφόν, κοινωνὸν τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἀνηγόρευσεν, ἀπονείμας αὐτῷ τὰ ἀνατολικὰ μέρη, αὐτὸς δὲ τὰ δυτικὰ κατέσχεν. Κόσμου ἔτη εωνζʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη τνζʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Οὐαλεντινιανὸς ἔτη ιʹ. αʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Σαβώρης ἔτη οʹ. ξγʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος ∆άμασος ἔτη κηʹ. ιγʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος