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

their names were Constans and Constantine) manages the western parts and Rome and the Gauls. But these were extinguished rather quickly and before their time, alas, having fallen into a civil war against each other and wishing to seize each other’s dominions; and so the entire power passed to Constantius alone, who at first honored Gallus as Caesar, his own first cousin, the son of Constantius, but learning that he was aspiring to be king and was eager to be a tyrant and was contriving everything in order to attain his desire, he took off his head, forestalling every attempt. And Gallus's brother, the foul-smelling pig, Julian, he adorned with the Caesar's crown; at this, the apostate, feigning a jest, and showing his own garment of purple, kept repeating to those near him that famous saying, "Purple death and fate seized him," as Gallus too had died in a purple cloak. But a short time after he apostatized from God and the emperor, he forswore the reverence which he had for the creator, and attached himself to the thrice-sinful demons, and alas, he washed away the divine bath with blood, he takes up arms and war against the one who saved him, and assumes for himself the imperial power. When Constantius learned this, and boiled with anger, he was afflicted by a terrible disease, and after a short time died, having begun his reign of twenty years, bitterly weeping for and having on his tongue these three evil things done by him: the killing of Gallus which had happened unjustly, the perversion and innovation of the faith, and the proclamation of him, the most God-hated man. But indeed, justice did not slumber for long, nor did the all-seeing eye close for long, but it raised its eyelid, saw the apostate, it looked down upon the sacrifices and the slaughtering of animals, the rivers of blood, the murders of men, and every shameful and abominable thing and all full of impiety that was being performed by him, and being disgusted by his madness, handed him over to the Persians like savage lions to tear apart bitterly the mud-wallowing pig. And so the impious one falls, having appeared as the work of a sword, having impiously disturbed and thrown into confusion the glorious power of the empire for two years and seven months; But the earth does not receive the body of the profane one, but in an earthquake and tremor spits him out from below, who with a shock of impiety had shaken creation. And again the grace of the faith shines brightly when Jovian received the crown of power. But he too, having tasted of fortune for a short while and having passed away rather quickly and departed from the earth (for he held the rule of the Romans for eight months) the scepters pass to Valentinian, who placed the crown upon his brother Valens and appointed him ruler of the East, and the good Gratian of the elder Rome, who was born to him from his wife Severa. Valens, then, the impious one, adhering to Arius who wickedly raged against my master, and having embittered and oppressed the pious people, not long after becomes food for the all-consuming fire, having taken refuge in a barn while fleeing the Scythians, having held the rule of the East for fourteen years. But the good Gratian, after Valens fell, and the entire rule had already passed to him (for Valentinian had already paid his debt, he who appeared as the cause of his coming into the light, a good man, God-fearing, valiant in battles, having held the rule of the Ausonians for twelve years), sends the first Theodosius to rule the East, a weighty, warlike man, born from Spain, not bestowing the power upon him thoughtlessly, but giving it as a prize for the victory which against the barbarians who were more numerous than the sand on the seashore the noble man, guarded by God, achieved. The emperor Gratian therefore, having made him king and having set him as monarch over the eastern peoples, takes possession of the western parts and Rome. This emperor, they say, when a woman came to him and complained to him about her husband that he frequently inflicted blows and beatings upon her, "This is nothing to me, woman," he said aptly.

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αὐτοῖς ὀνόματα Κώνστας καὶ Κωνσταντῖνος) χειρίζει τὰ προσέσπερα καὶ Ῥώμην καὶ Γαλλίας. ἀλλ' οὗτοι μὲν ἀπέσβησαν τάχιον καὶ πρὸ χρόνου, πόλεμον φεῦ εἰς ἔμφυλον ἀλλήλοις καταστάντες καὶ τὰς ἀλλήλων θέλοντες ἁρπάσαι κρατορίας· εἰς μόνον δὲ Κωνστάντιον τὸ πᾶν μετέβη κράτος, ὃς τὰ μὲν πρῶτα Καίσαρα τετίμηκε τὸν Γάλλον, τὸν αὐτανεψιὸν αὐτοῦ, τὸν Κωνσταντίου παῖδα, βασιλειῶντα δὲ μαθὼν καὶ τυραννεῖν ὁρμῶντα καὶ πάντα μηχανώμενον ὥστε τυχεῖν τοῦ πόθου τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀφείλετο, πᾶσαν ὁρμὴν προφθάσας. τὸν ἀδελφὸν τοῦ Γάλλου δέ, τὸν χοῖρον τὸν δυσώδη, Ἰουλιανὸν τῷ Καίσαρος ἐκόσμησε στεφάνῳ· ἐφ' οἷς ἀστεϊζόμενος δῆθεν ὁ παραβάτης, καὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα τὴν αὑτοῦ δεικνὺς τὴν ἐκ πορφύρας, ἐκεῖνο τὸ θρυλούμενον ἐπέλεγε τοῖς πέλας "πορφύρεός τε θάνατος κατέλαβε καὶ μοῖρα," ὡς ἐν χλαμύδι πορφυρᾷ καὶ Γάλλου τεθνηκότος. μετὰ μικρὸν δ' ἀποστατεῖ θεοῦ καὶ βασιλέως, ἐξόμνυται τὸν σεβασμὸν ὃν εἶχεν εἰς τὸν κτίστην, καὶ προσκολλᾶται δαίμοσι τοῖς τρισαλιτηρίοις, αἵμασιν ἀποπλύνει δὲ φεῦ τὸ λουτρὸν τὸ θεῖον, ὅπλα κινεῖ καὶ πόλεμον κατὰ τοῦ σεσωκότος, καὶ περιτίθησιν αὐτῷ τὴν αὐτοκρατορίαν. ὅπερ μαθὼν Κωνστάντιος, καὶ τῷ θυμῷ καχλάσας, νόσῳ πιέζεται δεινῇ, καὶ μετ' ὀλίγον θνήσκει, κατάρξας τὸ βασίλειον εἴκοσι κράτος ἔτη, ταῦτα τὰ τρία πονηρὰ τὰ παρ' αὐτοῦ πραχθέντα ἀνακλαιόμενος πικρῶς καὶ φέρων ἐπὶ γλώττης, τοῦ Γάλλου τὴν ἀναίρεσιν ἀδίκως γεγονυῖαν, πίστεως τὴν παρατροπὴν καὶ τὴν καινοτομίαν, καὶ τὴν ἀνάρρησιν αὐτοῦ τοῦ θεομισεστάτου. Ἀλλὰ γὰρ οὐκ ἐνύσταξεν ἐπὶ μακρὸν ἡ δίκη, οὐδ' ὁ παντόπτης ὀφθαλμὸς ἐκάμμυσεν εἰς πλέον, ἀλλ' ἤγειρε τὸ βλέφαρον, εἶδε τὸν ἀποστάτην, κατεῖδε τοὺς ἐναγισμοὺς καὶ τὰς ζωοσφαγίας, τοὺς τῶν αἱμάτων ποταμούς, τὰς ἀνθρωποκτονίας, καὶ πᾶν αἰσχρὸν καὶ μυσαρὸν καὶ πλῆρες δυσσεβείας τὸ παρ' αὐτοῦ τελούμενον, καὶ μυσαχθεὶς τὴν λύσσαν τοῖς Πέρσαις παραδέδωκεν ὡς λέουσιν ἀγρίοις τὸν χοῖρον τὸν πηλόφυρτον πικρῶς διασπαράξαι. καὶ πίπτει μὲν ὁ δυσσεβὴς ἔργον φανεὶς ῥομφαίας, μῆνας ἑπτὰ τὸ εὐκλεὲς κράτος τῆς βασιλείας σὺν ἔτη δύο δυσσεβῶς ταράξας καὶ κυκήσας· ἡ γῆ δ' οὐ παραδέχεται τὸ σκῆνος τοῦ βεβήλου, ἀλλ' ἐν σεισμῷ καὶ τιναγμῷ κάτωθεν ἀποπτύει τὸν ἀσεβείας συσσεισμῷ δονήσαντα τὴν κτίσιν. καὶ πάλιν λάμπει φαιδρωπὸν τῆς πίστεως ἡ χάρις τὸ στέφος Ἰωβιανοῦ τοῦ κράτους δεξαμένου. Ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτου πρὸς μικρὸν τῆς τύχης γευσαμένου καὶ παρελθόντος τάχιον καὶ γῆθεν μεταστάντος (μῆνας ὀκτὼ γὰρ τῆς ἀρχῆς ἐκράτησε Ῥωμαίων) εἰς Οὐαλεντινιανὸν τὰ σκῆπτρα μεταβαίνει, ὃς ἀδελφὸν Οὐάλεντα τὸ στέφος περιβάλλει καὶ τῆς ἑῴας κράτορα τοῦτον ἀναδεικνύει, τὸν δὲ καλὸν Γρατιανὸν τῆς πρεσβυτέρας Ῥώμης, τὸν ἐκ Σεβήρας γαμετῆς αὐτῷ γεγεννημένον. Οὐάλης μὲν οὖν ὁ δυσσεβὴς προσθέμενος Ἀρείῳ τῷ κατὰ τοῦ δεσπότου μου κακῶς φρυαξαμένῳ, καὶ τὸν λαὸν τὸν εὐσεβῆ πικράνας καὶ συνθλίψας, πυρὸς τροφὴ μετ' οὐ πολὺ γίνεται τοῦ παμφάγου, ἀχυρμιὰν καθυποδὺς ἐν τῷ τοὺς Σκύθας φεύγειν, δέκα πρὸς τέσσαρσιν ἀρχῆς κρατήσας τῆς ἑῴας. ὁ δὲ καλὸς Γρατιανὸς Οὐάλεντος πεσόντος, καὶ πάσης ἤδη τῆς ἀρχῆς εἰς τοῦτον μεταστάσης (καὶ γὰρ Οὐαλεντινιανὸς ἔφθη δοῦναι τὸ χρέος, ὁ τῆς παρόδου τῆς εἰς φῶς αἴτιος φανεὶς τούτῳ, χρηστὸς ἀνήρ, θεοσεβής, ἄλκιμος τὰ πρὸς μάχας, δύο πρὸς δέκα τῆς ἀρχῆς κρατήσας τῶν Αὐσόνων), τὸν πρῶτον Θεοδόσιον ἄρχειν τῆς ἕω πέμπει, ἄνδρα βριθύν, ἀρεϊκόν, ἐξ Ἱσπανίας φύντα, οὐ χαρισάμενος αὐτῷ τὸ κράτος ἀλογίστως, δοὺς δὲ τῆς νίκης ἔπαθλον ἥνπερ κατὰ βαρβάρων ὑπερβαινόντων ψάμαθον τὴν παραγιαλῖτιν ὑπὸ θεοῦ φρουρούμενος ἤνυσεν ὁ γεννάδας. ὁ κράτωρ οὖν Γρατιανὸς ἐκεῖνον βασιλεύσας καὶ τοῖς ἑῴοις γένεσι μόναρχον ἐπιστήσας, τὰ μέρη τὰ προσέσπερα καὶ Ῥώμην οἰκειοῦται. Οὗτος, φασίν, ὁ βασιλεὺς γυναίου προσελθόντος καὶ κατειπόντος πρὸς αὐτὸν τοῦ συνομοζυγοῦντος ὅτι πληγὰς καὶ ῥαβδισμοὺς αὐτῇ συχνῶς ἐπάγει, "οὐδέν, ὦ γύναι, πρὸς ἐμὲ τοῦτ' ἔφησεν εὐστόχως.

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