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they petition Valens through Euphilas, their Arian-minded bishop, who had formerly associated under Constantius with Eudoxius and Acacius the Arians. He taught the Goths to be Arians. The Goths were divided into two; Athanaric was general of the one part, and Fritigern of the other; the latter, having been defeated and having received help from Valens, conquered the forces of Athanaric; and to gratify Valens, he taught the Goths to be Arians even more. Years of the world, 5870. Years of the divine incarnation, 370. Emperor of the Romans, Valens, year 3. 3. King of the Persians, Sapor, year 5. 1. Bishop of Rome, Damasus, year 28. 26. Bishop of Constantinople, Demophilus, year 12. 8. Bishop of Jerusalem, Cyril, year 35. 12. Bishop of Alexandria, Lucius, year 6. 5. Bishop of Antioch, Meletius, year 25. 6. In this year, the Goths, uniting again, went out into the 65 land of the Romans and devastated many provinces, Scythia, Moesia, Thrace, Macedonia, and Achaia, and all of Greece, about twenty provinces. And at this time there were seen in the air in the clouds armed men formed. And there was born in Antioch a child, complete in its other parts, but having one eye in the middle of its forehead, and four hands and four feet and a beard. But Valens, while staying in Antioch and learning about the Goths, came to Constantinople, and the Byzantines insulted him as unmanly and a shirker of battle. And Isaac, the holy monk, taking hold of the bridle of the horse of Valens as he was going out for the last time to war against the Goths, said to him: "Where are you going, O Emperor, warring against God and having God as your adversary?" At which, being enraged, he handed him over to a guard, threatening him with death if he should return, as Ahab once did to Micaiah. And after his departure, some of those around him confessed that by his commission divination had been made concerning his impending campaign in the war. In which, Valens, having engaged with the Goths and been defeated, fled with a few men into a small house. And the barbarians, having caught up with him and set fire to the house, burned everyone inside, not knowing who was in it. And they say that the divine Isaac, in his prison, perceived the stench of Valens being burned by a divine gift and purity of soul, and foretold his destruction to his companions, before those arrived who reported from the war what had been done. After the defeat and the death by fire of Valens, the Goths, elated by the victory, terribly ravaged the suburbs of Constantinople. And Mavia, the queen of the Saracens, having sent an army of Saracens, and Domnica, the wife of Valens, leading out the people of the city, pursued the barbarians. And things being so disposed, Gratian the Augustus, knowing this, coming down into Pannonia as if to help in place of Valens, invested 66 Theodosius as Augustus and proclaimed him emperor and sent him to the war against the Goths. And Trajan the patrician says in his history that the Scythians are locally called Goths. Dorotheus, one of the saints, was martyred under the impious Valens in Alexandria, having been given over to wild beasts in the Cynegium by the Arians. Years of the world, 5871. Years of the divine incarnation, 371. Emperor of the Romans, Theodosius, year 16. 1. King of the Persians, Sapor, year 5. 2. Bishop of Rome, Damasus, year 28. 27. Bishop of Constantinople, Demophilus, year 12. 9. Bishop of Jerusalem, Cyril, year 35. 13. Bishop of Alexandria, Lucius, year 6. 6. Bishop of Antioch, Meletius, year 25. 7. In this year Gratian the emperor took Theodosius as a partner in the empire, an Iberian from the West by race, and someone noble and wonderful in matters of war. He immediately conquered the barbarians in Thrace by force, being pious and orthodox. And Gratian and Valentinian by law recalled the exiled bishops, and the

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αἰτοῦνται παρὰ Οὐάλεντος δι' Εὐφίλα, ἐπισκόπου αὐτῶν Ἀρειανόφρονος, προσυνδιατρίψαντος ἐπὶ Κωνσταντίου Εὐδοξίῳ καὶ Ἀκακίῳ τοῖς Ἀρειανοῖς. οὗτος ἀρειανίζειν τοὺς Γότθους ἐδίδαξεν. οἱ δὲ Γότθοι διῃρέθησαν εἰς δύο· καὶ τῶν μὲν ἐστρατήγει Ἀθανάριχος, τῶν δὲ Φριτιγέρνης· οὗτος ἡττηθεὶς καὶ βοήθειαν λαβὼν παρὰ Οὐάλεντος νικᾷ τοὺς περὶ Ἀθανάριχον· Οὐάλεντι δὲ χαριζόμενος ἀρειανίζειν ἐπὶ πλεῖον τοὺς Γότθους ἐδίδαξεν. Κόσμου ἔτη εωοʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη τοʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Οὐάλης ἔτη γʹ. γʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Σαβώρης ἔτη εʹ. αʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος ∆άμασος ἔτη κηʹ. κϛʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος ∆ημόφιλος ἔτη ιβʹ. ηʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Κύριλλος ἔτη λεʹ. ιβʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Λούκιος ἔτη ϛʹ. εʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Μελέτιος ἔτη κεʹ. ϛʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει οἱ Γότθοι πάλιν ἑνωθέντες ἐξῆλθον εἰς τὴν 65 γῆν τῶν Ῥωμαίων καὶ ἠρήμωσαν πολλὰς ἐπαρχίας, Σκυθίαν, Μυσίαν, Θρᾴκην, Μακεδονίαν, καὶ Ἀχαΐαν, καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν Ἑλλάδα, περὶ τὰς εἴκοσιν ἐπαρχίας. ἐθεάθησαν δὲ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ χρόνῳ ἐν τῷ ἀέρι [ἐν] ταῖς νεφέλαις ἐσχηματισμένοι ἄνδρες ἔνοπλοι. ἐγεννήθη δὲ καὶ ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ παιδίον ἐντελῆ μὲν τὰ ἄλλα μέρη, ὀφθαλμὸν δὲ ἕνα ἔχον ἐν μέσῳ τῷ μετώπῳ, χεῖρας δὲ τέσσαρας καὶ πόδας τέσσαρας καὶ πώγωνα. Οὐάλης δὲ διάγων ἐν τῇ Ἀντιοχέων καὶ μαθὼν περὶ τῶν Γότθων ἦλθεν ἐπὶ Κωνσταντινούπολιν, οἱ δὲ Βυζάντιοι ὕβριζον αὐτὸν ὡς ἄνανδρον καὶ φυγοπόλεμον. Ἰσαάκιος δέ, ὁ ἱερὸς μοναχός, κρατήσας τοῦ χαλινοῦ τοῦ ἵππου Οὐάλεντος ἐξερχομένου κατὰ Γότθων τὸ ἔσχατον εἰς πόλεμον ἔφη πρὸς αὐτόν· "ποῦ βαδίζεις, βασιλεῦ, κατὰ θεοῦ στρατευόμενος καὶ θεὸν ἔχων ἀντίπαλον;" ᾧ τινι ὀργισθεὶς φρουρᾷ παρέδωκεν ἀπειλήσας αὐτῷ θάνατον, εἰ ἐπανέλθοι, ὡς τῷ Μιχαίᾳ ποτὲ Ἀχαάβ. μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἔξοδον αὐτοῦ ἐξωμολογήσαντό τινες τῶν περὶ αὐτόν, ὡς κατ' ἐπιτροπὴν αὐτοῦ γενέσθαι μαντείας περὶ τῆς προκειμένης αὐτῷ ὁρμῆς ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ. ἐν ᾧ συμβαλὼν τοῖς Γότθοις Οὐάλης καὶ ἡττηθεὶς φεύγει σὺν ὀλίγοις ἐν οἰκίσκῳ. τοῦτον δὲ καταλαβόντες οἱ βάρβαροι καὶ τὴν οἰκίαν ἀνάψαντες, ἀγνοοῦντες τοὺς ἐν αὐτῇ πάντας κατέκαυσαν. φασὶ δὲ ὅτι ὁ θεῖος Ἰσαάκιος ἐν τῇ φρουρᾷ τῆς δυσωδίας Οὐάλεντος ἐμπριζομένου ἀντελάβετο θείῳ χαρίσματι καὶ ψυχῆς καθαρότητι προεῖπέ τε τὴν ἀναίρεσιν αὐτοῦ τοῖς συνοῦσιν, πρὶν ἢ παραγενέσθαι τοὺς ἀπαγγέλλοντας ἐκ τοῦ πολέμου τὰ πεπραγμένα. μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἧτταν καὶ τὸν διὰ πυρὸς θάνατον Οὐάλεντος ἐπαρθέντες οἱ Γότθοι τῇ νίκῃ δεινῶς τὰ προάστεια Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐδῄουν. Μαυΐα δέ, ἡ τῶν Σαρακηνῶν βασίλισσα, πέμψασα Σαρακηνῶν στρατόν, καὶ ∆ομνίκα, ἡ γαμετὴ Οὐάλεντος, ἐξαγαγοῦσα τὸν δῆμον τῆς πόλεως τοὺς βαρβάρους ἐδίωξεν. τούτων δὲ οὕτω διατεθέντων, γνοὺς Γρατιανὸς ὁ Αὔγουστος, ἐν τῇ Πανονίᾳ κατερχόμενος ὡς πρὸς βοήθειαν ἀντὶ Οὐάλεντος ἐνέδυσε 66 Θεοδόσιον Αὔγουστον καὶ ἀνηγόρευσε βασιλέα καὶ ἀπέστειλεν εἰς τὸν κατὰ τῶν Γότθων πόλεμον. Γότθους δὲ ἐπιχωρίως τοὺς Σκύθας λέγεσθαι Τραϊανὸς ὁ πατρίκιος ἐν τῇ κατ' αὐτὸν ἱστορίᾳ φησίν. ∆ωρόθεος ὁ ἐν ἁγίοις ἐπὶ τοῦ δυσσεβοῦς Οὐάλεντος ἐμαρτύρησεν ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ θηρίοις παραδοθεὶς ἐν τῷ Κυνηγίῳ ὑπὸ Ἀρειανῶν. Κόσμου ἔτη εωοαʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη τοαʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Θεοδόσιος ἔτη ιϛʹ αʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Σαβώρης ἔτη εʹ. βʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος ∆άμασος ἔτη κηʹ. κζʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος ∆ημόφιλος ἔτη ιβʹ. θʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Κύριλλος ἔτη λεʹ. ιγʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Λούκιος ἔτη ϛʹ. ϛʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Μελέτιος ἔτη κεʹ. ζʹ Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Γρατιανὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς κοινωνὸν τῆς βασιλείας Θεοδόσιον προσελάβετο, τῷ γένει μὲν Ἴβηρα Ἑσπέριον, εὐγενῆ δέτινα καὶ θαυμάσιον περὶ τοὺς πολέμους γενόμενον. οὗτος εὐθὺς τοὺς ἐν Θρᾴκῃ βαρβάρους κατὰ κράτος ἐνίκησεν, εὐσεβὴς ὢν καὶ ὀρθόδοξος. Γρατιανὸς δὲ καὶ Οὐαλεντινιανὸς νόμῳ τοὺς ἐν ἐξορίᾳ ἐπισκόπους ἀνεκαλέσαντο, τοὺς δὲ