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
When a fierce battle had broken out and he was leading the Romans against the arrogant Persians, Marcian, seized by a death-threatening illness, remained in a certain village of the illustrious province of the Lycians for the sake of bodily care. There, having formed a friendship with some countrymen, he lived and spent his time as a friend among friends, and was deemed worthy of the necessary care from them. When these men were once going out for a hunt, Marcian followed along to share in the chase. When, therefore, they had become soaked with much sweat, running up impassable, beast-nurturing hills and running under thickets and searching about, lying down on the ground they slept a sweet sleep. But one of the brothers, quickly awakening, sees Marcian still sleeping and bearing the deepest sleep on his eyelids, and a long-winged bird, a kingly bird, having spread its own air-travelling wings and granting him the refreshment of shade. So great and august a thing is kingship, worthy of honor even by irrational animals; so most venerable to flesh-eating birds is the one predestined by God to assume it. He sees, he marvels at the event, he wakes his brother, he shows the portent, both are amazed, and to Marcian, when he had woken up from sleep a little later, they foretell the scepter of supreme rule, and they beseech the man to remember them. And he agrees and promises good things to them. And indeed, when they had given him sufficient gold, departing for the most glorious city of Byzas, he approached the very wealthy Ardaburius. And Ardaburius was commander of all the regiments, having Aspar as his fellow-general and fellow-commander, with whom he also sailed against Gizeric. And Gizeric was ruler of the Libyan Vandals, against whom Aspar was warring from land and from sea, with cavalry and with infantry, with seamen, and when a strong attack was made by the Libyans, and the Roman phalanx turned to flight, Marcian too was taken alive with not a few others, and was imprisoned with them in the house of Gizeric. Gizeric, therefore, wishing to see the captives, standing above on a high place was observing the men, and he sees an unbelievable thing, Marcian sleeping and a wondrous shade being fashioned for him by the wings of an eagle. Seeing this he is amazed, he reckons the man to be some divine oracle and worthy of the rule and power of the Romans. He judges it therefore inhuman to kill such a man, who was promoted from above to the height of kingship (for who of mortals would have the strength to destroy before the appointed time the one guarded by the mighty palms of God? If the strong hand of God should guard you, you will not fear iron, you will not shrink from the sword, not fire, not a barbarian rage, not a murderous character); but sending for him, he binds him with oaths, that if he should rule the Romans, if he should obtain the power, he would not wage war on the Libyans, nor join battle. Thus even a barbarian man respects kingship, and a bestial character reveres those honored by God, showing them humanity. Therefore, being released from there by Gizeric, he runs back again to Constantinople, and when Theodosius had already departed from the earth, he is proclaimed sovereign by the judgment of Pulcheria and leader of the Romans and ruler with absolute power. And he was good and intelligent, urbane, prudent, a tree planted with grace, a grove of good character. And having wielded the scepters well for six years, he gave his dust to the dust, his spirit to the Lord. When indeed nature demanded the dust from this one and enclosed the earth-born flesh in a tomb, the senate with Aspar, the patrician at that time, transfer the rule of the scepter to Leo, the steward and accountant of Aspar's affairs, who had promised him to adorn the head of one of his sons with the crown of a Caesar; for it was not possible for Aspar to take power, being held by the madness of the profane Arius. Thus often profit makes men lowly, thus hopes deceive the minds of men. To this Leo, on one occasion, who was practicing piety well
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ἰσχυρᾶς μάχης ἀναρραγέντος καὶ Πέρσαις τοῖς ὑπέρφροσιν ἐπάγοντος Ῥωμαίους, νόσῳ ληφθεὶς Μαρκιανὸς θάνατον ἀπειλούσῃ ἔν τινι
κώμῃ τῆς λαμπρᾶς Λυκίων ἐπαρχίας κατέμεινε σωματικῆς χάριν νοσοκομίας. ἔνθα φιλίαν ἐσχηκὼς πρός τινας αὐθομαίμους συνῆν καὶ
συνδιέτριβεν ὡς φίλος παρὰ φίλοις, καὶ τῆς δεούσης παρ' αὐτῶν προνοίας ἠξιοῦτο. τούτοις πρὸς κυνηγέσιον ποτὲ πορευομένοις
Μαρκιανὸς συνείπετο τῆς θήρας κοινωνήσων. ὡς οὖν διάβροχοι πολλοῖς γεγόνασιν ἱδρῶσι, πρὸς λόφους ἀνατρέχοντες δυσβάτους θηροτρόφους
καὶ λόχμας ὑποτρέχοντες καὶ πολυπραγμονοῦντες, κατακλιθέντες ἐπὶ γῆς νήδυμον ὕπνον ὕπνουν. ἅτερος δὲ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἀφυπνισθεὶς
ταχέως ὁρᾷ καταδαρθάνοντα Μαρκιανὸν εἰσέτι καὶ φέροντα βαθύτατον ὕπνον ἐν τοῖς βλεφάροις, ὄρνιν δὲ τανυσίπτερον, ὀρνεοκράτην
ὄρνιν, ἀεροπόρους πτέρυγας ἰδίας ἡπλωκότα καὶ χαριζόμενον σκιᾶς αὐτῷ ψυχαγωγίαν. οὕτω τι μέγα καὶ σεπτὸν ἡ βασιλεία χρῆμα,
αὐτοῖς ἀξιοτίμητον τοῖς ζῴοις τοῖς ἀλόγοις· οὕτως αἰδεσιμώτατος ὀρνέοις σαρκοβόροις ὁ ταύτην ἀναζώσασθαι θεῷ προωρισμένος.
βλέπει, θαυμάζει τὸ συμβάν, τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἐγείρει, δείκνυσι τὸ τεράστιον, ἀμφότεροι θαμβοῦνται, καὶ νήψαντι Μαρκιανῷ μετὰ μικρὸν
ἐξ ὕπνου τὸ σκῆπτρον προαγγέλουσι τῆς αὐτοκρατορίας, καὶ σφῶν ἐπιμνησθήσεσθαι λιτάζονται τὸν ἄνδρα. ὁ δ' ἐπινεύει καὶ χρηστὰ
καθυπισχνεῖται τούτοις. καὶ δὴ χρυσίον ἱκανὸν ἐκείνων δεδωκότων ἀπάρας πρὸς τὴν Βύζαντος εὐκλεεστάτην πόλιν Ἀρδαβουρίῳ πρόσεισι
τῷ πολυχρυσοτάτῳ. ἦν δ' ἄρχων Ἀρδαβούριος ἁπάντων τῶν ταγμάτων, συστράτηγον τὸν Ἄσπαρα καὶ συστρατάρχην ἔχων, μεθ' οὗ καὶ
συναπέπλευσε κατὰ τοῦ Γιζερίχου. ἦν δ' ἄρχων ὁ Γιζέριχος Λιβύων Οὐανδήλων, ᾧ πολεμοῦντος Ἄσπαρος ἐκ γῆς ἀπὸ θαλάττης, ἐξ ἱπποτῶν
ἀπὸ πεζῶν, ἀπὸ θαλασσοπλόων, καὶ καρτερᾶς τῆς προσβολῆς Λιβύων γενομένης, καὶ τῆς Ῥωμαίων φάλαγγος ἐπὶ φυγὴν βλεψάσης, ζωγρεῖται
καὶ Μαρκιανὸς σὺν ἄλλοις οὐκ ὀλίγοις, καθείργνυταί τε σὺν αὐτοῖς ἐν δόμοις Γιζερίχου. θελήσας οὖν Γιζέριχος ἰδεῖν τοὺς δορυκτήτους
ἄνωθεν στὰς ἐφ' ὑψηλοῦ τοὺς ἄνδρας ἐπεσκόπει, καὶ βλέπει πρᾶγμα δύσπιστον, Μαρκιανὸν ὑπνοῦντα καὶ δυσμηχάνητον αὐτῷ σκιὰν
σκευαζομένην ὑπὸ πτερύγων ἀετοῦ. τοῦτο θαμβεῖται βλέψας, θεῖόν τινα λογίζεται τὸν ἄνδρα χρηματίζειν καὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς κατάξιον
Ῥωμαίων καὶ τοῦ κράτους. κτεῖναι μὲν οὖν ἀπάνθρωπον ἄνδρα τοιοῦτον κρίνει, προβεβλημένον ἄνωθεν εἰς βασιλείας ὕψος (τὸν γὰρ
θεοῦ ταῖς κραταιαῖς φρουρούμενον παλάμαις τίς ἂν ἰσχύσειε θνητῶν ὀλέσαι πρὸ τῆς ὥρας; ἂν ἡ θεοῦ μεγαλαλκὴς χείρ σε περιφρουροίη,
οὐ δειλιάσῃς σίδηρον, οὐ ξίφος ὑποτρέσῃς, οὐ πῦρ, οὐ θυμοβάρβαρον, οὐ μιαιφόνον ἦθος)· μεταστειλάμενος δ' αὐτὸν ὅρκοις καταλαμβάνει,
ἂν τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἄρξειεν, ἂν τεύξοιτο τοῦ κράτους, μὴ πολεμῆσαι Λίβυσι, μὴ μάχην συγκροτῆσαι. οὕτω καὶ βάρβαρος ἀνὴρ αἰδεῖται
βασιλείαν, καὶ τοὺς θεόθεν τιμητοὺς καὶ θηριῶδες ἦθος σεβάζεται, φιλάνθρωπον αὐτοῖς ἐπεντρανίζων. ἐκεῖθεν οὖν ἀπολυθεὶς ἀπὸ
τοῦ Γιζερίχου πρὸς τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν αὖθις ἐπανατρέχει, καὶ γῆθεν μεταλλάξαντος ἤδη Θεοδοσίου ἄναξ ἀναγορεύεται κρίσει
τῆς Πουλχερίας καὶ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀρχηγὸς καὶ κράτωρ αὐτοκράτωρ. ἦν δ' ἀγαθὸς καὶ συνετός, ἀστεῖος, φιλοσώφρων, δένδρον χαριτοφύτευτον,
ἄλσος χρηστοτροπίας. ἓξ δὲ καλῶς ἐν ἔτεσι τὰ σκῆπτρα διιθύνας, χοῒ τὸν χοῦν παρέδωκε, τὸ πνεῦμα τῷ κυρίῳ. Ὡς δὴ τὸν χοῦν ἀπῄτησεν
ἡ φύσις ἀπὸ τούτου καὶ μνήματι κατέκλεισε τὸ γηγενὲς σαρκίον, ἡ σύγκλητος σὺν Ἄσπαρι τῷ τότε πατρικίῳ εἰς Λέοντα μετάγουσι
τὴν σκηπτροκρατορίαν, τὸν φροντιστὴν καὶ λογιστὴν τῶν Ἄσπαρος πραγμάτων, καθυποσχόμενον αὐτῷ θατέρου τῶν υἱέων τῷ στέφει τῷ
τοῦ Καίσαρος τὴν κεφαλὴν κοσμῆσαι· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἦν τὸν Ἄσπαρα κράτους ἐπιλαβέσθαι τῇ λύσσῃ κατεχόμενον Ἀρείου τοῦ βεβήλου. οὕτω
πολλάκις ταπεινοὺς ἐργάζεται τὸ κέρδος, οὕτως ἐλπίδες πλάζουσι τὰς τῶν ἀνθρώπων φρένας. τούτῳ ποτὲ τῷ Λέοντι καλῶς φιλευσεβοῦντι
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