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
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 the debt of her aged nature. This Theodosius was in other respects refined, gracious, magnanimous, always devoted to books, but with his good qualities there also grew a certain evil tare, like a blight on his life. For if anyone brought any document whatsoever to him, he would sign it in red letters, without considering or learning what had been written. Thus nothing is pure in human nature, nothing is unmixed with the stain of failings. Therefore the grace-crowned and divine Pulcheria showed great concern for the emperor, wishing him to be freed from this sin; but when, having woven many and continuous exhortations and having admonished him with corrective words, she accomplished nothing more, she devises something of this sort, and traps her brother with clever stratagems. she forges a document, as if from the emperor himself, forsooth, giving her the empress as a handmaiden. She gives this to her brother, she asks the emperor for the document to be signed with the imperial letters. He consented to her as she pleaded these things, and at once a pen was in the emperor’s hands, and a purple-dipped stylus authenticated the document; and she, having taken the signed document as a godsend, began to drag the empress as a slave bought with silver. When he said that he was being greatly insulted by this, she produced the imperial document, and said that from it she was justified in this. Therefore the emperor understood, he felt shame, he was abashed, and henceforth he refrained from this folly. And this matter indeed came to a good end, showing that it is indeed thrice-blessed and a part of good fortune to live with well-disposed people who love purely and do not defile the things of mutual affection. While this emperor still held the scepter, seven most steadfast young martyrs were seen, having been awakened from a long sleep. for fleeing the madness of the impious Decius, having entered together into a self-roofed cave situated near the borders of the city of the Ephesians, they had been sleeping a deep and long-slumbering sleep. and then having been awakened, and having been made known to the faithful, and having been honored by them and by the emperor, they fell into the unwaking and final sleep. And while successive earthquakes were moving the earth from its foundations and shaking and vibrating the souls of men, and the devout multitude was propitiating God, suddenly a child, snatched up to the upper air, heard the Trisagion hymn from angels. and having been brought back down, O, what awesome power! he cried out in their midst how the hymn ought to be woven; for not long before they had been mistaken concerning it. This Theodosius, having been deceived by Chrysaphius and embittered against Pulcheria, often tormented with many thorns of temptations her who was adorned with all forms of virtues. Now Chrysaphius was a eunuch, an avenging spirit, malicious, accursed and murderous and abominable in his ways; whose wickedness the ruler later came to know, and having confiscated the property of the accursed one and having made him poor, he justly sent him into harsh exile. And when Theodosius had now paid the common debt and laid aside the clay of his body into the earth, having ruled for thirty-three years, the power passes to the fair Pulcheria, who, having deliberated very wisely and prudently that the affairs of the Romans required an emperor, immediately summons the good Marcian, a man distinguished by his venerable and God-loving ways, and having bound him with awesome and most heavy oaths to keep her chastity inviolate, and finding the man consenting, she places on him the crown of the empire, and she subjects Chrysaphius to a bitter death. It is certainly not inopportune, nor far from the art [of history], to speak about Marcian, from where and who he was. He was poor and of humble station, but good in his ways; and not being of a glorious family, nor of the notable, he was enrolled in the ranks of the soldiers. but just as a cloud
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γνοῦσα τοῦ βασιλέως εἰς πόλιν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ὡς τάχος ἀφικνεῖται, κἀκεῖσε τὸ λειπόμενον ἀνύσασα τοῦ βίου τῆς φύσεως τῆς γεηρᾶς
ἐκτίννυσι τὸ χρέος. Οὗτος ὁ Θεοδόσιος τἆλλα μὲν ἦν ἀστεῖος, χαρίεις, μεγαλόδωρος, βίβλοις ἀεὶ σχολάζων, ἀλλὰ τοῖς προτερήμασιν
εἶχε συναναβαῖνον καί τι κακὸν ζιζάνιον οἷα τοῦ βίου κῆρα. ἂν γάρ τις οἷον δήποτε τούτῳ προσῆξε χάρτην, ἐν ἐρυθρώοις γράμμασιν
αὐτὸν ἐσημειοῦτο, μὴ συσκοπήσας μὴ μαθὼν οἷα τὰ γεγραμμένα. οὕτως οὐδὲν ἀκέραιον ἐν ἀνθρωπίνῃ φύσει, οὐδὲν τῆς λώβης ἀμιγὲς
τῆς τῶν ἀποπτωμάτων. ἡ τοίνυν χαριτόστεπτος καὶ θεία Πουλχερία πολλὴν ἐδείκνυ τὴν σπουδὴν περὶ τὸν βασιλέα, ἀπαλλαγῆναι θέλουσα
τοῦτον τῆς ἁμαρτάδος· ὡς δὲ πολλὰς καὶ συνεχεῖς πλέξασα παραινέσεις καὶ λόγοις συνετίσασα τοῖς σωφρονιστηρίοις πλέον ἐπέραινεν
οὐδέν, τεχνᾶταί τι τοιοῦτον, θηρεύει τε τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἀστείαις ἐπινοίαις. πλάττεται χάρτην ὡς αὐτοῦ δῆθεν τοῦ βασιλέως οἰκέτιν
χαριζόμενον αὐτῇ τὴν βασιλίδα. δίδωσι τοῦτον τἀδελφῷ, δεῖται τοῦ βασιλέως ἐνσημανθῆναι τὴν γραφὴν γράμμασι βασιλείοις. ὁ μὲν
ἐπένευσεν αὐτῇ ταῦτα λιταζομένῃ, καὶ καλαμὶς ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν εὐθὺς τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ πορφυρόβαπτος γραφὶς τὸν χάρτην ἐπιστοῦτο·
ἡ δὲ τὸ γράμμα σημανθὲν ὡς ἕρμαιον λαβοῦσα, ὡς δούλην ἀργυρώνητον εἷλκε τὴν βασιλίδα. τοῦ δὲ περιυβρίζεσθαι φήσαντος ἐπὶ τούτῳ,
ἐκείνη τὸ βασίλειον προύφερε γραμματεῖον, κἀκεῖθεν ἔλεγεν αὑτὴν εἰς τοῦτο δικαιοῦσθαι. συνῆκεν οὖν ὁ βασιλεύς, ᾐδέσθη, κατῃσχύνθη,
ἀπέσχετό τε τοῦ λοιποῦ ταύτης τῆς ἀφροσύνης. καὶ τοῦτο μὲν εἰς ἀγαθὸν κατέληξε τὸ τέλος, ὡς ἄρα γε τρισεύδαιμον καὶ μέρος
εὐποτμίας εὔνοις ἀνθρώποις συνοικεῖν καὶ καθαρῶς φιλοῦσι καὶ μὴ καταρυπαίνουσι τὰ τῆς φιλαλληλίας. Ἔτι σκηπτροκρατοῦντο δὲ
τούτου τοῦ βασιλέως, ἀφυπνισθέντες ὤφθησαν ἐξ ὕπνου μακρολέκτρου ἑπτὰ καρτερικώτατοι μάρτυρες νεανίαι. τὴν λύσσαν γὰρ ἐκφεύγοντες
τοῦ δυσσεβοῦς ∆εκίου, εἰς σπήλαιον αὐτόροφον ὁμοῦ συνεισελθόντες τοῖς ὅροις παρακείμενον πόλεως Ἐφεσίων, βαθὺν καὶ μακροκοίμητον
ἦσαν ὑπνοῦντες ὕπνον. ἀφυπνισθέντες τότε δὲ καὶ τοῖς πιστοῖς γνωσθέντες καὶ τιμηθέντες παρ' αὐτῶν καὶ παρὰ βασιλέως τὸν νήγρετον
κατέδαρθον καὶ τελευταῖον ὕπνον. Σεισμῶν ἀλλεπαλλήλων δὲ γῆν κινούντων ῥιζόθεν καὶ συσσειόντων τὰς ψυχὰς ἀνθρώπων καὶ δονούντων,
καὶ πλήθους τοῦ φιλευσεβοῦς θεὸν ἱλεουμένου, αἴφνης παιδίον ἁρπαγὲν μέχρις αἰθέρος ἄνω τὸν ὕμνον τὸν τρισάγιον ἤκουσεν ὑπ'
ἀγγέλων. ἔμπαλιν δὲ κατενεχθέν, βαβαὶ φρικτῆς ἰσχύος! ἐν μέσοις ἐξεβόησε πῶς χρὴ τὸν ὕμνον πλέκειν· ἦσαν καὶ γὰρ οὐ πρὸ πολλοῦ
πρὸς τοῦτον ἐσφαλμένοι. Οὗτος ὁ Θεοδόσιος παρὰ τοῦ Χρυσαφίου ἀπατηθεὶς καὶ πικρανθεὶς κατὰ τῆς Πουλχερίας πολλαῖς πολλάκις
πειρασμῶν κατέκνισεν ἀκάνθαις τὴν πάσαις κατακόσμητον τῶν ἀρετῶν ἰδέαις. εὐνοῦχος δ' ἦν Χρυσάφιος, ἀλάστωρ, κακοήθης, ἐξάγιστος
καὶ φόνιος καὶ βδελυρὸς τοὺς τρόπους· οὗ τὴν κακίαν ὁ κρατῶν ὡς ὕστερον ἐπέγνω, δημεύσας τὸν κατάρατον καὶ πένητα ποιήσας
ὑπερορίᾳ χαλεπῇ παρέπεμψεν ἐνδίκως. ἤδη δὲ χρέος τὸ κοινὸν τοῦ Θεοδοσίου δόντος καὶ τὴν τοῦ σώματος πηλὸν εἰς γῆν ἀποθεμένου,
κρατήσαντος ἐν ἔτεσι τριάκοντα τρισί τε, εἰς Πουλχερίαν τὴν καλὴν τὸ κράτος μεταβαίνει, ἥ τις σοφῶς καὶ συνετῶς ἄγαν βουλευσαμένη
ὡς βασιλέως χρῄζουσι τὰ πράγματα Ῥωμαίων, μετακαλεῖται τὸν χρηστὸν Μαρκιανὸν αὐτίκα, ἄνδρα σεμνοῖς ἐμπρέποντα καὶ φιλοθέοις
τρόποις, καὶ καταδήσασα φρικτοῖς καὶ βαρυτάτοις ὅρκοις ἀδιαλώβητον αὐτῆς τηρῆσαι τὴν ἁγνείαν, καὶ συγκατατιθέμενον εὑροῦσα
καὶ τὸν ἄνδρα, τὸ στέφος περιτίθησιν αὐτῷ τῆς βασιλείας, τὸν δὲ Χρυσάφιον πικρῷ θανάτῳ καθυπάγει. Πάντως δ' οὐκ ἄκαιρόν ἐστιν,
οὐδὲ τῆς τέχνης πόρρω, εἰπεῖν περὶ Μαρκιανοῦ πόθεν καὶ τίς ὑπῆρχε. πένης μὲν ἦν καὶ ταπεινός, ἀλλὰ χρηστὸς τοὺς τρόπους· οὐκ
ὢν δὲ γένους εὐκλεοῦς, οὐδὲ τῶν ἐπισήμων, ταῖς τάξεσι συνείλεκτο ταῖς τῶν στρατευομένων. ἄρτι δὲ νέφους
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