Chronography (partim edita e cod. Paris. gr. 1712)
to appear but if not, the opposite, countless terrors and a swift destruction. Therefore, when night fell, the emperor went with Kassiteras to the mo
he exiled Patriarch Nicephorus and 609 Theodore at which time it is also said that when Patriarch Nicephorus was being sent into exile, Theophanes, c
less. For when the renowned patriarch Tarasios had long since departed this life, he heard him call a certain Michael by name, and having leaped 612 u
the east, they burned the areas outside the Golden Gate as far as Rhegion. And coming to Athyras, they destroyed the fortress there and the bridge, wh
he marched, having gathered a great army and the Avars and all the Sklavinias and in addition to these he prepares instruments of various city-takers
The Stammerer and Iconoclast, 8 years, 9 months. This man took as his wife Euphrosyne, the daughter of Constantine who had been blinded, who had embra
with freedom to practice the Christian ways having been conceded who until now have been called tributaries. And indeed the islands would have been c
he did in the following way. It was a custom for the Persians that the proclamation of a king be from the royal line whence, the royal line having fa
that there were many for her in the chest, and she places these on our head and face after 629 the kisses. These things drove the emperor to madness
to venerate and honor the holy icons and to denounce his impiety. And not long after, when the patriarch arrived at the great church and reproached hi
he made him commander of the Scholae, and received his children from holy baptism. 11. In his 7th year the emperor goes out with Manuel and the senate
of Oxyartes, brother of Dareios, who, having married Dionysios the tyrant of Heraclea, named the city, which was under him, after his wife. and having
they devoured. 20. But the student of Leo the philosopher, who was also the informer of the betrayal, was asked by the amermoumnes about his knowledge
Theodore, whose relic the founder Michael himself later brought to the monastery of Michaelitzes in Chalcedon. The renowned Theophanes lived until the
they requested. So he withdrew and looked at the house and, being pleased, moved the nuns to another monastery, and having adorned it with every kind
the wicked one is driven out of the church and is confined in a certain monastery in Kleidio. In which, having scraped the icons of the saints, the em
the divine mystery having been celebrated purely, all the heretics under the whole sun having been subjected to deposition along with their chief prie
And although many were killed, those who were captured were more numerous. But Theoktistos, having gone to the empress, again enjoyed the same familia
and to come to the palace. Having befriended also the protospatharios Theophanes Phalganes and some others, he kills Theoktistos in the palace, with t
At this the protonotary became sullen, and reported with dejection the response from the Domestic of the Schools, and at the same time bringing and sh
it was sealed, the fool with the fools raising his voice in laughter, laughing at the renowned Ignatius as not being accommodating in matters and as o
and the generals bring his head and those of many others into the city. From this a great peace comes about in the east. And the toils and the heroic
of whom Sergius said, even if he is to be such, I will kill him along with his mother. To whom the saint said, You will not be able to hinder the p
I said to this pious and discerning monk that we too, when serving the liturgy with him, never heard him speak a prayer, but rather whisper the words
as he was passing by in a procession, the patrician Damianos, the *parakoimomenos*, who was sitting in the Horologion, did not rise to honor him. And
waiting for him gives a sword to two men dressed in gold, as if praepositi, and says that having quickly slipped away he assigned the emperor to the r
Mamas, they bring Peganes with an earthenware censer smoking brimstone, and he meets and censes Symbatios. And he himself is blinded in one 681 eye, a
the emperor ordered one of his guards to throw a spear at Basil. And during dinner time, not only this one but others too, whenever he got drunk with
dejected, and as one might guess, pondering his own affairs. He had set out from Adrianople of Macedonia, which was formerly called Orestias from Ores
having learned the land and the affairs, and having written down the book, and having made this very ancient by his practices, it was deposited in the
Constantine, the son of Michael by Eudokia, died, but according to rumor, the son of Basil whom, after mourning greatly, he laid in the tombs of the
The possession of these castles is not safe for you, as long as their rulers are dwelling here but if you wish to rule them securely, send them as pr
And when once a banquet was being held for the emperor, and the first of the senate were dining with him, and the bird often uttered the aforesaid say
Having beaten Santabarenos, they exiled him to Athens. Then the emperor, sending men after him, blinded him and exiled him to the east. But after many
he deposited the body of Saint Lazarus and of Mary Magdalene. At this time Tauromenium was surrendered to the Hagarenes. 10. In the 15th year the isla
having run through the traditions of those who made use of some counsel or oracle and who surpassed them, they are so named. The name Dromitai came to
of the Saracens went out against the Romans. And the emperor appointed Himerios the logothete as head of all the naval forces. And he also writes to A
When Pantaleon the metropolitan was coming in to the emperor, Samonas asked him Against whom is the misfortune? And he said, Against you and if th
having sent immediately, he brought Nicholas from Galakrenoi and enthroned him, having deposed 716 Euthymius, whom he exiled to the monastery of Agath
ruling, there being sufficient men, 719 and having entered by night through a side-gate of the protovestiarios Michael, which was near the acropolis,
(Alexander had brought down from the palace) they bring her up again. And having gained control of the empire, she brings up to the palace Constantine
when the drungarius Romanos was ordered to cross. But when they came to battle, the Patzinaks, seeing them quarreling, withdrew to their own lands. Wh
to rest for a short while in his own house. Likewise Constantine the parakoimomenos was ordered to write a letter, ordering him the same things, and t
tyrannically rising up wherefore I neither wish him to be domestic from now on, nor do I say that he has committed this rebellion with my counsel, bu
and when they used an indistinct and terrible shout, and most violently charged against them, the rector immediately fled, but fighting for him Photen
to be in the middle, where they were about to speak to one another. At this, Symeon sent men and burned down the church of the Most Holy Theotokos at
they did not judge it a good omen for they said that both would part on irreconcilable terms regarding the peace. But Symeon, reaching his own camp,
When Apolasath, a prudent and intelligent man, died, the inhabitants of Melitene broke the peace. Therefore, John Kourkouas, the Domestic of the Schoo
his father. And they deposed Patriarch Tryphon after he had completed the appointed time, 745 and he died in his own monastery. And the church was vac
those who survived and ended up on the shore of Koile, escaped when night fell. But Theophanes, returning after a great victory, was received honorabl
only a face, but the son-in-law Constantine said he saw eyes and ears. To them the celebrated Sergios said, You both saw well. And they replied, An
evil communications. What becomes of his kinsmen? After feasting and entertaining them, while the food was still in their mouths, men prepared for thi
his son Romanos, and he is buried in the church of the Holy Apostles with Leo the emperor, his father. In appearance he was tall in stature, fair in c
of the army wished to return home. But the most prudent Nicephorus and doux restrained them with the sweetness of his words. So the emperor, learning
Mamas, they bring Peganes with an earthenware censer smoking brimstone, and he meets and censes Symbatios. And he himself is blinded in one 681 eye, and they cut off his right hand, and they set him also in the [quarter] of Tzauses to beg, and after three days they lead them in the city to their own houses. 45. The emperor Michael therefore casts out through the engineer called Lamaris Constantine Caballinus from the tomb, and John the impious patriarch, him also with his omophorion, from the tomb, and he shuts [them] up through the eparch in the praetorium, and on a day of the Hippodrome, having brought and stripped them, he beat [them] with scourges, and burned their bones in the [quarter] of Maurianus. And the sarcophagus of Copronymus, which was green and wonderful, having sawn it apart, he made panels in the church built by him in the palace of the Pharos. 46. In the month of September of the 15th indiction, the emperor Constantine was born from Michael and Eudocia Ingerina while Michael was still alive; and when a hippodrome was held at Saint Mamas, the emperor rode as a Blue, while Constantine the Armenian, the father of Thomas the patrikios and Genesios the droungarios of the Vigla, [rode as] a White, Agallianos as a Green, and Krassos as a Red. And the emperor wins. And what happens from this? For this too is part of the wickedness of the emperor Michael himself, inasmuch as he diminished the strength of the Romans. The philosopher Leo of Thessalonica, having become proedros, having advised the emperor Theophilus, how he made two clocks working equally; and the one 682 he set up on the fort near Tarsus in Cilicia, and the other was kept in the palace, which had written for each hour the things that happened in Syria, for instance, at the first hour if a raid of the Saracens occurred, at the second if a war, at the third if a fire, at the fourth if something else, and similarly for the rest. From the twelve written scenarios, therefore, if anything at all happened in Syria, at the hour in which the scenario occurred, a beacon being lit from those there, since those who kept watch and were looking intently and accurately at the things engraved on them, the beacon was immediately transmitted from the fort called Loulon to those at Mount Argaeus and again to those at Samos and to those at Aigilon, then to those at Mount Mamas again, from which Kyrizos, then Mokilos, from which the mountain of Saint Auxentios to the observers assigned in the palace at the sundial of the Pharos made it known in a short time. Therefore, while the emperor Michael was riding in the hippodrome, as has been said, the beacon signaled a raid of the Saracens. He, so that the spectators of the hippodrome would not be less enthusiastic on the morrow, ordered that such beacons should no longer be operated. 47. As has been said, therefore, when the emperor had won, he sat down to dinner together with Basil and Eudocia, Basiliskianos the patrikios was praising the emperor for having driven the chariot skillfully. Therefore the emperor immediately orders this man to stand up, and to take off his 683 boots and put them on himself. But as he was refusing and looking at Basil, since the emperor ordered with anger and Basil nodded, he put them on. And the emperor says with an oath to Basil "They suit him better. For do I not have the power, as I made you emperor, to make another also." And he was getting angry against Basil. And Eudocia, weeping, said to the emperor "The dignity of your empire, my lord, is great, by which we too have been honored unworthily; and it is not right that it be despised." And to Basil he said "Do not be grieved at this; I wish to make Basiliskianos emperor also." And to those present he said "Is it not fitting that he be emperor? First, his appearance is worthy of rule. Second, the crown is a natural fit. And all things are in harmony with his worthiness. And so how much better for me to make this man emperor!" But Basil was in great anger and grief. 48. When the emperor went out for a hunt, a certain monk gave him a paper containing the plot against him being planned by the emperor, as to one of the
Μάμαντα, φέρουσιν τὸν Πηγάνην μετὰ θυμιάματος ὀστρακίνου καπνίζοντα θέαφον, καὶ ἀπαντᾷ καὶ θυμιᾷ τὸν Συμβάτιον. ἀποτυφλοῦται
δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς τὸν ἕνα 681 ὀφθαλμόν, καὶ ἐκκόπτουσι τὴν δεξιὰν αὐτοῦ χεῖρα, καὶ καθίζουσι καὶ αὐτὸν εἰς τὰ Τζαύσου προσαιτεῖν,
καὶ μεθ' ἡμέρας τρεῖς ἄγουσιν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ πόλει εἰς τοὺς ἰδίους οἴκους. 45. Ἐκβάλλει οὖν ὁ βασιλεὺς Μιχαὴλ διὰ τοῦ μηχανικοῦ
τοῦ λεγομένου Λάμαρι Κωνσταντῖνον τὸν Καβαλῖνον ἐκ τοῦ τάφου, καὶ Ἰωάννην τὸν ἀσεβῆ πατριάρχην μετὰ τοῦ ὠμοφορίου καὶ αὐτὸν
ἐκ τοῦ τάφου, καὶ κατακλείει διὰ τοῦ ὑπάρχου ἐν τῷ πραιτωρίῳ, καὶ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἱππικοῦ ἀγαγὼν καὶ ἀπογυμνώσας ἔτυψε μαγγλάβια,
καὶ τὰ ὀστᾶ αὐτῶν ἔκαυσεν ἐν τοῖς Μαυριανοῦ. τὴν δὲ λάρνακα τοῦ Κοπρωνύμου πράσινον οὖσαν καὶ θαυμαστὴν διαπρίσας ἐποίησε
στήθεα ἐν τῷ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ κτισθέντι ναῷ ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ τοῦ Φάρου. 46. Τῷ δὲ Σεπτεμβρίῳ μηνὶ τῆς ιεʹ ἐπινεμήσεως ἐγεννήθη Κωνσταντῖνος
ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐκ Μιχαὴλ καὶ Εὐδοκίας τῆς Ἰγγηρίνης ἔτι περιόντος τοῦ Μιχαήλ· καὶ ἱππικοῦ γενομένου ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ Μάμαντι ἵππευσεν
ὁ βασιλεὺς βένετος, Κωνσταντῖνος δὲ ὁ ἐξ Ἀρμενίων ὁ πατὴρ Θωμᾶ πατρικίου καὶ Γενεσίου δρουγγαρίου τῆς βίγλας λευκός, πράσινος
δὲ Ἀγαλλιανὸς καὶ ῥούσιος ὁ Κρασσός. νικᾷ δὲ ὁ βασιλεύς. καὶ τί συμβαίνει ἐντεῦθεν; καὶ τοῦτο γὰρ τῆς αὐτοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως τοῦ
Μιχαὴλ κακίας ἐστίν, εἰς ὅσον τὴν τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἰσχὺν ἠλάττωσεν. ὁ φιλόσοφος Λέων ὁ Θεσσαλονίκης γενόμενος πρόεδρος, τῷ βασιλεῖ
Θεοφίλῳ συμβουλεύσας, ὡς ὡρολόγια ἐποίησεν δύο ἐξ ἴσου κάμνοντα· καὶ τὸ μὲν ἓν 682 ἐπὶ τῷ φρουρίῳ τῷ κατὰ Κιλικίαν τῇ Ταρσῷ
πλησιάζον ἀπέθετο, τὸ δὲ ἕτερον ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ ἐφυλάττετο, ἅπερ εἶχον γεγραμμένα εἰς ἑκάστην ὥραν τὰ ἐν Συρίᾳ γενόμενα, οἷον
τὴν πρώτην ὥραν εἰ ἐκδρομὴ τῶν Σαρακηνῶν γέγονε, τὴν βʹ εἰ πόλεμος, τὴν γʹ εἰ ἐμπρησμός, τὴν δʹ εἰ ἄλλο τι, καὶ εἰς τὰς λοιπὰς
ὁμοίως. ἐκ τῶν γεγραμμένων οὖν δώδεκα ὑποθέσεων εἴ τι κἂν συνέβη ἐν Συρίᾳ, ἐν τῇ ὥρᾳ ἐν ᾗ ἡ ὑπόθεσις γέγονεν, ἀνάπτων ἀπὸ
τῶν ἐκεῖσε φανός, ἐπεὶ καὶ οἱ φυλάσσοντες καὶ ἀτενῶς καὶ ἀκριβῶς βλέποντες τὰ τετυπωμένα ἐν αὐτοῖς ἦσαν, μετεδίδοτο εὐθὺς
ὁ φανὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ φρουρίου τοῦ λεγομένου Λούλου τοῖς κατὰ τὸν Ἀργαίαν βουνὸν καὶ αὖθις τοῖς κατὰ τὴν Σάμον καὶ τοῖς κατὰ τὸ
Αἴγιλον, εἶτα τοῖς κατὰ τὸν Μάμαντα πάλιν βουνόν, ἀφ' οὗ ὁ Κύριζος, εἶτα ὁ Μώκιλος, ἀφ' οὗ ὁ τοῦ ἁγίου Αὐξεντίου βουνὸς τοῖς
ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ κατὰ τὸν ἡλιακὸν τοῦ Φάρου διαιταρίοις ἀφωρισμένοις ἐν βραχεῖ ἐποίει φανερόν. ἱππευομένῳ οὖν τῷ βασιλεῖ Μιχαήλ,
ὡς εἴρηται, ὁ φανὸς ἐσήμανεν ἐκδρομὴν τῶν Σαρακηνῶν. αὐτὸς πρὸς τὸ μὴ τοὺς θεατὰς τοῦ ἱπποδρόμου χαλαρωτέρους τῇ αὔριον γενέσθαι,
προσέταξεν μηκέτι τοιούτους φανοὺς ἐνεργεῖν. 47. Ὡς οὖν εἴρηται, νικήσαντος τοῦ βασιλέως ἐπὶ δεῖπνον καθέσθη ἅμα Βασιλείῳ
καὶ Εὐδοκίᾳ, Βασιλισκιανὸς ὁ πατρίκιος ἐπῄνει τὸν βασιλέα ὡς εὐφυῶς ἐλάσαντα εἰς τὸ ἅρμα. εὐθὺς οὖν κελεύει τοῦτον ὁ βασιλεὺς
ἀναστῆναι, τὰ τζάγγια δὲ αὐτοῦ σῦραι 683 καὶ ἑαυτῷ ὑποδῆσαι. τοῦ δὲ ἀνανεύοντος καὶ πρὸς Βασίλειον βλέποντος, ἐπεὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς
μετὰ θυμοῦ προσέταξεν καὶ ὁ Βασίλειος ἐπένευσεν, ὑπέδησεν τὰ αὐτά. καὶ λέγει ὁ βασιλεὺς μεθ' ὅρκου πρὸς Βασίλειον "κάλλιον
αὐτῷ πρέπουσιν. καὶ γὰρ οὐκ ἔχω ἐξουσίαν, ὡς σὲ βασιλέα ἐποίησα, καὶ ἄλλον ποιῆσαι." καὶ ὠργίζετο κατὰ Βασιλείου θυμούμενος.
δακρύουσα δὲ ἡ Εὐδοκία ἔφη τῷ βασιλεῖ "τὸ τῆς βασιλείας σου ἀξίωμα, δέσποτά μου, μέγα ἐστίν, ᾧ ἀναξίως καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐτιμήθημεν·
καὶ οὐ δίκαιόν ἐστι καταφρονεῖσθαι αὐτό." καὶ τῷ Βασιλείῳ ἔφη "μὴ λυποῦ ἐπὶ τούτῳ· καὶ τὸν Βασιλισκιανὸν βασιλέα θέλω ποιεῖν."
καὶ πρὸς τοὺς παρόντας εἶπεν "ἆρα οὐ πρέπει αὐτὸν εἶναι βασιλέα; πρῶτον μὲν εἶδος ἄξιον τυραννίδος. τὸ δεύτερον δὲ συμφυὲς
πέλει στέφος. ἅπαντα δ' ἁρμόζουσι πρὸς τὴν ἀξίαν. καὶ ὅτι πόσον οὖν κάλλιον τοῦτόν με ποιῆσαι βασιλέα!" Βασίλειος δὲ ἐν θυμῷ
καὶ λύπῃ μεγάλῃ γέγονεν. 48. Ἐξελθόντος δὲ τοῦ βασιλέως εἰς κυνήγιον, μοναχός τις δέδωκεν αὐτῷ χαρτίον ἔχον τὴν κατ' αὐτοῦ
μελετωμένην ὑπὸ βασιλέως ἐπιβουλήν, ὥς τινι τῶν
