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
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 accomplished concerning this man; but he himself, the lion-hearted beast, when about to die, seemed to see in his sleep that he was royally riding a very black horse, being clad in armor, and when the weapons spontaneously fell from him, he was wretchedly carried down into a chasm of the earth and a pit, along with his horse and robe, and finally disappeared. And so, when this man violently breathed his last, having reigned for fifteen years, Nerva takes up the royal scepter, a good man, gentle, a garden of many graces, who, disgusted by the castration of male members, did not allow Romans to be made eunuchs, but also drove away and punished those who performed castrations. And he continuously gave naked swords to the officials, ostensibly, so that they might see if the swords were sharp, but in truth, because he was not afraid he would die immediately; for he said he was conscious of no evil in himself. But death also quickly snatched this man away, who had reigned for a year and four months, and established Trajan in the emperorship, a most skilled general, a victor in ten thousand battles, steadfast, courageous, noble, steadfast in battle, in his judgments a most unwavering balance of justice. This man bent the unbending necks of the Celts, this man checked the attacks of the warlike Parthians. For at that time, having spread out, they had overrun all the borders of Asia, and they overran every land, killing and burning, and pitched their tents as far as the streams of the Euphrates. But Trajan, learning that these things had just been dared, and having ascertained the audacity of the Parthian attack, quickly moves from one end of the earth to the other, and having engaged and broken their phalanxes, and having shown the plains there strewn with bodies, he forced them to remain within their own borders, and having contracted and narrowed the territories of the Parthians, he withdrew as a glorious victor, celebrating the victory. This man sympathized with sufferers, toiled with the weary, was considerate to strangers, comforted friends, bore all reviling with forbearance, saying that the emperor ought to be equal to God and endure a reviling and blasphemous mouth. And when the senate and all the officials were present, he unsheathed a sword and gave it to the prefect of Rome, saying, "Take this sword, and if I rule unjustly, use the sword against me, do not spare my life; but if I rule lawfully and well and with upright justice, let the sword be for me, avenging me." But this man, distinguished by many victories, departed this life, having ruled for nine years and seven months, and left the power to Hadrian, his son-in-law. This man delighted in books and reveled in letters, and he often honored all whom he knew to be cultivators of learning with magnificent gifts. And he took with him wise men to accompany him in camps, in schools, in all his travels, and he enriched every land with lavish provisions. Therefore, he was thrice-beloved by all, by both senators and the people. This man, marching against the malevolent Hebrews who had revolted and kicked against the yoke of Roman power, utterly destroyed them, completely rubbing them all out with famine and sword and fire. And having dug up the city of Jerusalem from its foundations, he renamed it Aelia, as this too was unfortunate. But let my discourse now turn to others. When Hadrian ended his life from dropsy, having reigned for twenty-four years, the scepter passes after him to Antoninus, who was named Pius on account of his good character, and having wielded the scepter for twenty-two years, he is deprived of life by death. And after him Marcus Antoninus ruled. This man was nurtured in all wisdom and education, and he was richly endowed with the graces of the virtues, and was adorned with all forms of the virtues; wherefore he also treated all wise men with honor, and irrigated them with continuous magnificent gifts. Those who wrote ancient history say of this man, that when myriads of enemies were overrunning many places and all the Roman
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ἀποσβεννύει, καὶ κύνες ἐπελάσαντες καὶ τοὺς δεσμοὺς φαγόντες τὸν ἀστρολέσχην λύουσι πολλὰ θεοκλυτοῦντα. καὶ ταῦτα μὲν τετέλεστο
περὶ τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦτον· αὐτὸς δὲ μέλλων τελευτᾶν ὁ θὴρ ὁ θυμολέων ἐν ὕπνοις βλέπειν ἔδοξεν ὡς ἵππου μελαντέρου βασιλικῶς ἐπέβαινε
κατάφρακτος ὢν ὅπλοις, ἀπορρυέντων δ' ἀπ' αὐτοῦ τῶν ὅπλων αὐτομάτως εἰς χάσμα γῆς καὶ βόθυνον ἀθλίως κατηνέχθη αὐτῷ σὺν ἵππῳ
καὶ στολῇ, καὶ τέλος ἠφαντώθη. Καὶ τοίνυν τούτου τὴν ψυχὴν ἐκρήξαντος βιαίως, ἐν ἔτεσι κρατήσαντος πέντε σὺν ἄλλοις δέκα,
Νερούας τὰ βασίλεια σκῆπτρα παραλαμβάνει, χρηστὸς ἀνήρ, ἐπιεικής, κῆπος πολλῶν χαρίτων, ὃς μυσαχθεὶς τὴν ἐκτομὴν τῶν ἀνδρικῶν
κυλίνδρων οὐ συνεχώρει γίνεσθαι Ῥωμαίους ἐκτομίας, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἐκτέμνοντας ἀπήλαυνε κολάζων. καὶ τοῖς ἐν τέλει συνεχῶς ἐδίδου
γυμνὰ ξίφη, τὸ μὲν δοκεῖν, ὡς βλέψαιεν εἰ τμητικὰ τὰ ξίφη, τὸ δ' ἀληθές, μὴ δεδοικὼς ἂν παραυτίκα θάνῃ· οὐδὲν γὰρ ἔλεγε κακὸν
αὑτῷ συνεγνωκέναι. Ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτον θάνατος ταχέως ἀφαρπάσας, κρατήσαντα πρὸς τέσσαρσι μησὶ καὶ χρόνον ἕνα, Τραϊανὸν κατέστησεν
ἐν αὐτοκρατορίᾳ, ἄνδρα στρατηγικώτατον, μυριονικηφόρον, καρτερικόν, εὐκάρδιον, γενναῖον, μενεμάχον, τὰς κρίσεις ἀρρεπέστατον
ζυγὸν δικαιοσύνης. οὗτος Κελτῶν συνέκαμψε τοὺς ἀκαμπεῖς τραχήλους, οὗτος ὁρμὰς ἀνέκοψε Πάρθων φιλοπολέμων. τότε καὶ γὰρ εἰς
πλατυσμὸν ἐληλακότες οὗτοι πάντας κατενεμήσαντο τοὺς τῆς Ἀσίας ὅρους, καὶ πάσης γῆς κατέδραμον κτείνοντες πυρπολοῦντες, καὶ
τὰς αὐλαίας ἔπηξαν ἕως Εὐφράτου ῥείθρων. ταῦτα δὲ γνοὺς Τραϊανὸς ἄρτι τετολμημένα, καὶ τῆς ὁρμῆς τῆς Παρθικῆς ἀναμαθὼν τὸ
θράσος, ἀπ' ἄκρων γῆς εἰς ἄκρα γῆς ὀξέως μεταβαίνει, καὶ συμπλακεὶς καὶ τὰς αὐτῶν ῥήξας φαλαγγαρχίας, καὶ πεδιάδας τὰς ἐκεῖ
δείξας σωματοστρώτους, τοῖς ὅροις κατηνάγκασεν ἐμμένειν τοῖς ἰδίοις, καὶ Πάρθων τὰ σχοινίσματα συστείλας καὶ στενώσας καλλίνικος
ἀνέζευξε, τὴν νίκην ἑορτάζων. οὗτος συνήλγει πάσχουσι, συνέκαμνε πονοῦσι, τοῖς ξένοις ἐπεκάμπτετο, φίλους παρεμυθεῖτο, ἀνεξικάκως
ἔφερεν ἅπασαν λοιδορίαν, δεῖν ἐξισοῦσθαι τῷ θεῷ λέγων τὸν βασιλέα καὶ στόματος ἀνέχεσθαι λοιδόρου καὶ βλασφήμου. παρούσης
δὲ καὶ τῆς βουλῆς καὶ τῶν ἐν τέλει πάντων ξίφος γυμνώσας δέδωκεν ἐπάρχῳ τῷ τῆς Ῥώμης, "δέξαι τὸ ξίφος" ἐπειπών, "κἂν μὲν ἀδίκως
ἄρχω, χρῆσαι τῷ ξίφει κατ' ἐμοῦ, μὴ φείσῃ τῆς ζωῆς μου· εἰ δὲ νομίμως καὶ καλῶς καὶ μετ' εὐθυδικίας, ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ γενέσθω σοι
τὸ ξίφος ἐκδικοῦν με." Ἀλλ' οὗτος μὲν ἐξέλιπε πολλαῖς ἐμπρέψας νίκαις, χρόνοις ἐννέα σὺν ἑπτὰ μησὶν ἡγεμονεύσας, Ἀδριανῷ δὲ
τῷ γαμβρῷ κατέλιπε τὸ κράτος. οὗτος ταῖς βίβλοις ἔχαιρε καὶ λόγοις ἐνετρύφα, καὶ πάντας οὓς ἐγίνωσκε θεραπευτὰς τοῦ λόγου
μεγαλοδώροις δωρεαῖς συχνῶς ἐδεξιοῦτο. ἄνδρας δ' ἐπήγετο σοφοὺς αὐτῷ συνεπομένους ἐν στρατοπέδοις, ἐν σχολαῖς, ἐν πάσαις ἐκδημίαις,
καὶ πᾶσαν γῆν ἐπίανεν ἀφθόνοις χορηγίαις. πᾶσιν οὖν ἦν τρισέραστος, καὶ βουλευταῖς καὶ δήμῳ. οὗτος τοὺς κακογνώμονας Ἑβραίους
ἀποστάντας καὶ ζεύγλην ἐκλακτίσαντας Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἰσχύος ἐπιστρατεύσας κατ' αὐτῶν ἀπώλεσεν εἰς τέλος, λιμῷ καὶ ξίφει καὶ πυρὶ
πάντας ἐκτρίψας ἄρδην. καὶ πόλιν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐκ βάθρων ἀνασκάψας Αἰλίαν μετωνόμασεν ὡς δυστυχῆ καὶ τοῦτο. ἀλλὰ μεταπιπτέτω
μοι πρὸς ἄλλους τὰ τοῦ λόγου. Ὑδέρῳ καταλύσαντος Ἀδριανοῦ τὸν βίον, εἴκοσι πρὸς τοῖς τέσσαρσι χρόνοις βασιλευκότος, εἰς Ἀντωνῖνον
μετ' αὐτὸν τὸ σκῆπτρον μεταβαίνει, ὃς εὐσεβὴς ὠνόμαστο διὰ χρηστοτροπίαν, τὰ σκῆπτρα διιθύνας τε ἐν ἔτεσι δὶς δέκα πρὸς ἄλλοις
δύο τῆς ζωῆς θανὼν ἀποστερεῖται. καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν ἐκράτησεν ὁ Μάρκος Ἀντωνῖνος. οὗτος ἐν πάσῃ τέθραπτο σοφίᾳ καὶ παιδείᾳ, καὶ
χάρισι τῶν ἀρετῶν κατάκομος ὑπῆρχε, καὶ πάσαις κατηγλάϊστο τῶν ἀρετῶν ἰδέαις· διὸ καὶ προσεφέρετο πᾶσι σοφοῖς ἐντίμως, καὶ
συνεχέσιν ἤρδευε ταῖς μεγαλοδωρίαις. τοῦτόν φασιν οἱ παλαιὰν γράψαντες ἱστορίαν, ἐπιτρεχόντων πολλαχοῦ μυρίων πολεμίων καὶ
πᾶσαν τὴν Ῥωμαϊκὴν
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