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
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 shares what has befallen her, weeps over the calamity, dramatizes her suffering with passionate groans. The maternal aunt pities the grieving girl, her heart is inflamed on behalf of her niece, and with her and in her company she goes just as she was to the first city, to the city of the empire. She goes to Pulcheria, the grace-adorned, begs for assistance, prays that the maiden unjustly deprived of her own possessions be helped. The empress marvels at the young woman's beauty, is astounded by the brilliant graces of her face, admires her intelligent magnanimity. She asks if she has lost her virginity, and learning that the maiden is inexperienced of the marriage bed and keeps the fine treasure of her purity unadulterated, she purifies her in the sacred font, changes her name, renames the beautiful young woman Eudocia, and joins her to the emperor and yokes her in marriage, with Paulinus, who was ranked among the first of the emperor's friends, having greatly assisted in this. From her Theodosius begot Eudoxia, whom he sent into the fellowship of marriage to Valentinian, who held the scepter of elder Rome. But there was, it seems, no good fortune in life unmixed with storm and grief, nor any prosperity that did not also have something irritating growing up with it; for even a fragrant rose bristles with thick thorns, and clouds darken the eye of the sun, and envy grows upon those who practice the good, and every brilliant success and every august thing of life also brings misfortune mingled in with it. But why this prelude to my account? The empress was sailing over the brine of life, carried by fair and calm winds; she was completing the voyage of her prosperity untroubled, like a cargo ship sailing with a fair wind. But suddenly envy blew forth like a hurricane, and a storm and a wave stirred up the sea; a murky cloud broke, brought down a tempest, shook and rattled the vessel like a leaf, and raised terrible roarings and a heavy-sounding tumult, and it shattered the ship, and for the one sailing it opened the dread mouth of an inescapable chasm. From this the empress was filled with bitterness and wrestled with most calamitous trials. The account will relate what befell her. A certain poor man brought to the Emperor Theodosius, her husband, a beautiful, large apple. He, admiring the beautiful appearance of the fruit, and delighted by its fine color and also its size, sends the gift to the empress as something novel. This became the beginning of great temptations, no less than the apple of envious Strife, which burst in for the ruin of those then celebrating the wedding feast of Thetis and Peleus. For what things happened because of this apple! The empress marveled at the beauty of the fruit, considered the matter of the apple extraordinary, and feeling generously toward the good Paulinus, as one who had helped her to the height of imperial power, she presents the man with the bitter-making apple. But he sends the gift back to the emperor, not knowing, it seems, from where it had come; for the poor man happened not to be with the emperor when Theodosius received the apple, a bitter, deadly fruit of Hades, one might say, whose gardener is Death and planter is Hades. The ruler sees the apple, recognizes the fruit, hides the apple by him, keeps it in silence, he asks his wife where the apple might be, and when she said she had eaten it, he binds her with oaths. And she, tripped up, it seems, by bitter fortune, swears in return that she had eaten it. What followed after this? The ruler falls into suspicions that were not good, he shows the hidden thing, convicts her of lying, he becomes angry, he rages, he hates and loathes the empress. From this the wave of temptations roared on, and the sea of calamity and the surge of evils; from this, O sun, you saw an unbearable suffering. Paulinus for his part reaped death from this, and a blood-thirsty sword was made drunk with the murder; and the empress the hatred
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ἔθεντο τὴν νεᾶνιν. ἐφ' οἷς ὑπερπαθήσασα καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν πληγεῖσα τῇ μητραδέλφῃ πρόσεισιν Ἀθηναῒς ἡ κόρη, κοινοῦται τὰ καθ' ἑαυτήν,
τὴν συμφορὰν δακρύει, περιπαθέσι στεναγμοῖς ἐκτραγῳδεῖ τὸ πάθος. οἰκτείρει τὸ κοράσιον πενθοῦν ἡ μητραδέλφη, ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀδελφόπαιδος
πιμπρᾶται τὴν καρδίαν, καὶ σὺν αὐτῇ καὶ μετ' αὐτῆς ὡς εἶχεν ἀφικνεῖται πρὸς πόλιν τὴν πρωτόπολιν, πρὸς πόλιν τὴν τοῦ κράτους.
τῇ Πουλχερίᾳ πρόσεισι τῇ χαριτοκοσμήτῳ, ἐπικουρίαν ἐξαιτεῖ, δεῖται βοηθηθῆναι τὴν κόρην τὴν τῶν ἑαυτῆς ἀδίκως στερουμένην.
θαυμάζει τῆς νεάνιδος ἡ βασιλὶς τὸ κάλλος, ἐκπλήττεται τὰς φεραυγεῖς χάριτας τοῦ προσώπου, θαυμάζει τὴν εὐσύνετον μεγαλογνωμοσύνην.
πυνθάνεται εἰ τὴν αὐτῆς ἔφθαρται παρθενίαν, καὶ γνοῦσα κοίτης ἄπειρον τὴν κόρην χρηματίζειν καὶ τὸ καλὸν ἀκίβδηλον φυλάττειν
τῆς ἁγνείας λουτρῷ καθαίρει τῷ σεπτῷ, τὴν κλῆσιν μεταμείβει, μετονομάζει τὴν καλὴν νεᾶνιν Εὐδοκίαν, συνάπτει τε τῷ βασιλεῖ
καὶ ζεύγνυσιν εἰς λέχος, συναραμένου τὰ πολλὰ πρὸς τοῦτο καὶ Παυλίνου, ὃς ἐν τοῖς πρώτοις τέτακτο τῶν βασιλέως φίλων. ἐκ ταύτης
Θεοδόσιος ἔτεκεν Εὐδοξίαν, ἣν Οὐαλεντινιανῷ σκηπτροκρατοῦντι Ῥώμης τῆς πρεσβυτέρας ἔπεμψεν εἰς γάμου κοινωνίαν. Ἀλλ' ἦν οὐδέν,
ὡς ἔοικεν, εὐτύχημα τοῦ βίου ζάλης καὶ λύπης ἀμιγές, οὐδέ τις εὐποτμία μὴ συναναφυόμενον ἔχουσα καὶ τὸ κνίζον· καὶ γὰρ καὶ
ῥόδον εὔοσμον φρίσσει πυκναῖς ἀκάνθαις, ἡλίου τε τὸ βλέφαρον σκοτίζουσι νεφέλαι, καὶ φθόνος ἐπιφύεται τοῖς τὸ καλὸν ἀσκοῦσι,
καὶ πᾶν εὐτύχημα λαμπρὸν καὶ πᾶν σεμνὸν τοῦ βίου φέρει καὶ τὸ δυστύχημα συνανακεκραμένον. Ἀλλὰ γὰρ τί μοι βούλεται τὸ πρόᾳσμα
τοῦ λόγου; ἡ βασιλὶς ἐπέπλεε τὴν ἅλμην τὴν τοῦ βίου εὐδιεινοῖς καὶ γαληνοῖς πνεύμασι φερομένη· ἀτάραχον διήνυε τὸν πλοῦν τῆς
εὐποτμίας, ὡσπερεὶ πλοῖον φορτηγὸν ὡς ἐξ οὐρίας πλέον. ἀλλ' αἴφνης ἐξεφύσησεν ὡς καταιγὶς ὁ φθόνος, καὶ λαῖλαψ συνετάραξε
τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ κλύδων· νέφος ἐρράγη θολερόν, κατήγαγε χειμῶνα, συνέσεισεν ἐδόνησε τὴν σκάφην ὡς φυλλάδα, καὶ φλοίσβους ἤγειρε
δεινοὺς καὶ τάραχον βαρύθρουν, καὶ τὴν μὲν ναῦν συνέτριψε, τῇ δὲ ναυστολουμένῃ στόμα δεινὸν ὑπήνοιξε χάσματος δυσαλύκτου.
ἐντεῦθεν ἡ βασίλισσα πικρίας ἐνεπλήσθη καὶ πειρασμοῖς ἐπάλαισε βαρυσυμφορωτάτοις. τί δ' ἦν αὐτῇ τὸ συμπεσὸν ὁ λόγος ἱστορήσει.
Θεοδοσίῳ βασιλεῖ τῷ συζυγοῦντι ταύτῃ μῆλον καλὸν εὐμέγεθες πένης προσήνεγκέ τις. ὁ δὲ τὸ καλλιπρόσωπον θαυμάσας τῆς ὀπώρας,
καὶ τῆς εὐχροίας ἀγασθεὶς ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦ μεγέθους, ὥς τι καινὸν τὸ δώρημα τῇ βασιλίδι πέμπει· ὅπερ μεγάλων γέγονεν ἀρχὴ πειρατηρίων,
οὐχ ἧττον ἢ τῆς Ἔριδος τῆς φθονερᾶς τὸ μῆλον, ὅπερ ἐπεισικώμασεν ἐπὶ κακῷ τοῖς τότε θύουσι γαμοδαίσια Θέτιδος καὶ Πηλέως.
οἷα καὶ γὰρ συμβέβηκε διὰ τὸ μῆλον τοῦτο! ἐθαύμασεν ἡ βασιλὶς τὴν ὥραν τῆς ὀπώρας, ὑπερφυὲς ἡγήσατο τὸ χρῆμα τὸ τοῦ μήλου,
καὶ φιλοτίμως ἔχουσα πρὸς τὸν καλὸν Παυλῖνον ὡς συναράμενον αὐτῇ πρὸς ὕψος βασιλείας, τῷ μήλῳ τῷ πικροποιῷ τὸν ἄνδρα δεξιοῦται.
ἐκεῖνος δὲ τῷ βασιλεῖ τὸ δῶρον ἀντιπέμπει, μὴ κατειδώς, ὡς ἔοικεν, ὅθεν παρεισεφθάρη· ἔτυχε γὰρ τῷ βασιλεῖ μὴ συμπαρὼν ὁ τάλας
ἡνίκα Θεοδόσιος ἐδέχετο τὸ μῆλον, Ἅιδου πικράν, ἂν εἴποι τις, ὀπώραν θανασίμην, ἧς κηπευτὴς ὁ θάνατος καὶ φυτηκόμος Ἅιδης.
ὁρᾷ τὸ μῆλον ὁ κρατῶν, γνωρίζει τὴν ἀπώραν, κρύπτει τὸ μῆλον παρ' αὐτῷ, σιγῇ παρακατέχει, πυνθάνεται τῆς γαμετῆς ὅπῃ τὸ μῆλον
εἴη, εἰποῦσαν ὅτι βέβρωκεν ὅρκοις καταλαμβάνει. ἡ δέ, τῆς τύχης τῆς πικρᾶς, ὡς ἔοικε, σφαλλούσης ἀντόμνυσι καταφαγεῖν. τίνα
τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα; εἰς ὑπονοίας ὁ κρατῶν οὐκ ἀγαθὰς ἐμπίπτει, δείκνυσι τὸ κρυπτόμενον, ἐλέγχει ψευδομένην, θυμοῦται, μαίνεται,
μισεῖ στυγεῖ τὴν βασιλίδα. ἐντεῦθεν ἐπεμόρμυρε τῶν πειρασμῶν τὸ κῦμα καὶ συμφορᾶς ἡ θάλασσα καὶ τῶν κακῶν ὁ κλύδων· ἐντεῦθεν
ἀνυπόφορον, ἥλιε, πάθος εἶδες. ὁ μὲν Παυλῖνος θάνατον ἐτρύγησεν ἐκεῖθεν, καὶ ξίφος αἱματόχαρτον ἐμέθυσε τῷ φόνῳ· ἡ βασιλὶς
τὸ μῖσος δὲ
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