one robed in this purple 114 must not be false." "But indeed this also," said the emperor, "befits an emperor, not to yield or submit to anyone, especially when it is for the common good." In his time the robe of the most holy Theotokos was brought from Jerusalem, having been found with a certain most pious Hebrew woman and virgin, and the relics of Saint Anastasia, and it was deposited in her martyrium. in his time also the great fire occurred, beginning from the dockyard and coming down as far as Saint Thomas, after which ash also fell from heaven, so that it lay on the roof-tiles up to a span deep. And in his days was also Saint Daniel the Stylite at Anaplus, in whom this emperor also had great faith. And he died of a disease. In the time of Leo, after Anatolius died, Gennadius was appointed patriarch; and he put forward Marcian as oikonomos, who was of the religion of the Cathari, but converted to the church. who during the fire, having gone up onto the roof-tiles of Saint Anastasia, holding the Gospel, saved the house unharmed, as the fire passed over it like an arch from above. In the time of Gennadius the hand of the painter withered who had painted the Savior in the form of Zeus, whom Gennadius healed through prayer. But they say the other form of the Savior is the one with curly and sparse hair; but the more true one exists. In the time of Leo 115 Stoudios, a magnate, built the church of Saint John, and he installed in it monks from the Acoemetae. In the time of Leo the body of the prophet Elisha was transferred to Alexandria to the monastery of Paul the leper; for he healed a leper, and made a leper, and was placed in the leper's place. In his time Isocasius the quaestor, having been slandered as a Hellene, was brought to the prefect of the city with his hands tied behind his back. Then Paseas the prefect said to him, "Do you see yourself, Isocasius, in what a state you are?" And he said, "I see and I am not surprised; for being a man I have fallen into human misfortunes. But judge me as you used to judge with me." When the emperor learned these things, and was moved with pity for him, he let him go free. In the time of Leo, thirteen hundred years after the reign of Romulus, who founded Rome, Romulus reigns, and the reign ended with a Romulus, having begun with a Romulus, when Odoacer the Goth, a king, seized power. This Leo, having appointed Zeno general, made him his son-in-law to Ariadne his own daughter by Verina; and this Leo, having been seized by a disease, and his body was placed in a green sarcophagus in the heroon of Saint Constantine. And his wife Verina was the sister of Basiliscus. 116 Leo the Younger. Leo the Younger, his grandson, the son of Zeno and Ariadne, reigned for one year, and after crowning his own father Zeno, he died. Zeno. Zeno reigned for seven years, in the 2nd indiction. In his time Amorium was built. And he was crowned by Acacius the patriarch in the kathisma of the Hippodrome, and the office of the high priesthood was held by Phrabitas, presbyter of Saint Thecla, and after him Acacius. And when he died, having been placed in a green sarcophagus in the heroon in the church of the Holy Apostles. And Zeno was driven from the throne by Basiliscus; for while Zeno was staying in Thrace, with Verina collaborating with her brother Basiliscus and her nephew Armatus, they revolted against Zeno; whom Zeno feared, and coming from Thrace with Ariadne and sufficient money, he fled to Isauria to a certain strong fortress. But after some time, as Basiliscus was governing badly, and for this reason the senate bore a grudge against him, Zeno again with Ariadne seized the reigning city and was received by the senate, having done away with Basiliscus and Armatius. In his time the terrible earthquake occurred in Constantinople, and 117 many churches, houses, and porticoes fell to the ground, and Nicomedia the metropolis also suffered. This Zeno was of the most wicked and hideous race of the Isaurians; for they happened to be descendants of their forefather Esau. hairy and

ταύτην τὴν ἁλουργίδα περιβεβλημένον 114 οὐ χρὴ διαψεύδεσθαι." "ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τοῦτο" φησὶν ὁ βασιλεὺς "προσήκει τῷ βασιλεῖ, τὸ μὴ ὑπείκειν τινὶ καὶ ὑποκεῖσθαι, μάλισθ' ὅταν τοῦ κοινοῦ σύμφορον ᾖ." Ἐπὶ τούτου δὲ ἠνέχθη ἐσθὴς τῆς ὑπεραγίας θεοτόκου ἐξ Ἱεροσολύμων, εὑρεθεῖσα παρά τινι γυναικὶ εὐλαβεστάτῃ Ἑβραΐδι καὶ παρθένῳ, καὶ τὰ λείψανα τῆς ἁγίας Ἀναστασίας, καὶ κατετέθη ἐν τῷ μαρτυρίῳ αὐτῆς. ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ δὲ γέγονε καὶ ὁ μέγας ἐμπρησμὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ νεωρίου ἀρξάμενος καὶ μέχρι τοῦ ἁγίου Θωμᾶ κατελθών, ἀφ' οὗ καὶ κόνις ἐξ οὐρανοῦ κατηνέχθη, ὥστε κεῖσθαι εἰς τοὺς κεράμους ἕως σπιθαμῆς. ἐν δὲ ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτοῦ ἦν καὶ ὁ ἅγιος ∆ανιὴλ ὁ στυλίτης ἐν τῷ Ἀνάπλῳ, εἰς ὃν καὶ πολλὴν πίστιν εἶχεν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεύς. νόσῳ δὲ τελευτᾷ. Ἐπὶ Λέοντος, Ἀνατολίου τελευτήσαντος, Γεννάδης προχειρίζεται πατριάρχης· προεβάλετο δὲ Μαρκιανὸν οἰκονόμον τῆς τῶν καθαρῶν ὄντα θρησκείας, εἰς δὲ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν μετελθόντα. ὃς ἐν τῷ ἐμπρησμῷ εἰς τοὺς κεράμους ἀνελθὼν τῆς ἁγίας Ἀναστασίας, κατέχων τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, ἀβλαβῆ τὸν οἶκον διέσωσε, τοῦ πυρὸς καμαροειδῶς ὑπερβάντος ἄνωθεν αὐτῆς. Ἐπὶ Γενναδίου ἡ χεὶρ τοῦ ζωγράφου ἐξηράνθη τοῦ ἐν σχήματι ∆ιὸς τὸν σωτῆρα ζωγραφήσαντος, ὃν δι' εὐχῆς ἰάσατο ὁ Γεννάδιος. φασὶ δὲ ἄλλο σχῆμα τοῦ σωτῆρος τὸ οὖλον καὶ ὀλιγότριχον· ὑπάρχει δὲ τὸ ἀληθέστερον. ἐπὶ Λέον115 τος Στούδιος δυνάστης ἔκτισε τὸν ναὸν τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰωάννου, καὶ μοναχοὺς ἐκ τῶν ἀκοιμήτων αὐτῷ ἐγκατέστησεν. ἐπὶ Λέοντος τὸ τοῦ προφήτου Ἐλισσαίου σῶμα μετετέθη ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ ἐν τῇ μονῇ Παύλου τοῦ λεπροῦ· λεπρὸν γὰρ ἰάσατο, καὶ λεπρὸν ἐποίησε, καὶ εἰς τὰ τοῦ λεπροῦ ἐτέθη. ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ Ἰσοκάσιος κοιαίστωρ, ὡς Ἕλλην διαβληθείς, εἰσήχθη πρὸς τὸν ἔπαρχον τῆς πόλεως δεδεμένος ὀπισθάγκωνα. ἔφη οὖν αὐτῷ Πασέως ὁ ἔπαρχος "ὁρᾷς ἑαυτόν, Ἰσοκάσιε, ἐν ποίῳ σχήματι καθέστηκας;" ὁ δὲ εἶπεν "ὁρῶ καὶ οὐ ξενίζομαι· ἄνθρωπος γὰρ ὢν ἀνθρωπίναις περιέπεσα συμφοραῖς. ἀλλὰ δίκασον ἐπ' ἐμοὶ ὡς ἐδίκαζες σὺν ἐμοί." ταῦτα μαθὼν ὁ βασιλεύς, καὶ σπλαγχνισθεὶς ἐπὶ τούτῳ, ἐλεύθερον εἴασεν. Ἐπὶ Λέοντος μετὰ χίλια τριακόσια ἔτη τῆς τοῦ Ῥωμύλου βασιλείας, τοῦ τὴν Ῥώμην κτίσαντος, βασιλεύει Ῥωμύλος, καὶ κατέπαυσεν ἡ βασιλεία ἐπὶ Ῥωμύλου, ἀρξαμένη ἐπὶ Ῥωμύλου, Ὀδοάκρου Γότθου ῥηγὸς τὴν ἀρχὴν χειρωσαμένου. οὗτος δὲ ὁ Λέων Ζήνωνα στρατηλάτην προχειρισάμενος εἰσεποιήσατο γαμβρὸν εἰς Ἀριάδνην τὴν ἰδίαν θυγατέρα τὴν ἐκ Βερνίκης· νόσῳ δὲ ληφθεὶς ὁ αὐτὸς Λέων ἐτέθη δὲ τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ἐν λάρνακι πρασίνῃ ἐν τῷ τοῦ ἁγίου Κωνσταντίνου ἡρώῳ. ἡ γυνὴ δὲ τούτου Βερνίκη ἀδελφὴ Βασιλίσκου. 116 Λέων ὁ μικρός. Λέων ὁ μικρὸς ὁ ἔγγονος αὐτοῦ, ὁ ἀπὸ Ζήνωνος καὶ Ἀριάδνης, ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτος ἕν, καὶ στέψας τὸν ἴδιον πατέρα Ζήνωνα ἐτελεύτησε. Ζήνων. Ζήνων ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη ἑπτὰ ἰνδικτιῶνος βʹ. ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ ἐκτίσθη τὸ Ἀμώριον. ἐστέφθη δὲ ὑπὸ Ἀκακίου πατριάρχου ἐν τῷ καθίσματι τοῦ ἱπποδρομίου, τὴν δὲ τῆς ἀρχιερωσύνης τιμὴν κατεῖχε Φραβίτας πρεσβύτερος τῆς ἁγίας Θέκλης, καὶ μετ' ἐκεῖνον Ἀκάκιος. τελευτήσαντος δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ ναῷ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων ἐν τῷ ἡρώῳ ἐν λάρνακι τεθέντος πρασίνῃ. ὁ δὲ Ζήνων διωχθεὶς μὲν τῆς βασιλείας ὑπὸ Βασιλίσκου· τοῦ γὰρ Ζήνωνος ἐν τῇ Θρᾴκῃ διατρίβοντος, συνεργούσης Βερίνης τῷ αὐτῆς ἀδελφῷ Βασιλίσκῳ καὶ Ἀρμάτῳ ἀνεψιῷ, ἐστασίασαν κατὰ Ζήνωνος· οὓς φοβηθεὶς ὁ Ζήνων, ἐλθὼν ἐκ τῆς Θρᾴκης σὺν Ἀριάδνῃ καὶ χρημάτων ἱκανῶν, φεύγει ἐν Ἰσαυρίᾳ εἴς τι φρούριον ὀχυρόν. μετὰ δέ τινας χρόνους τοῦ βασιλίσκου κακῶς διοικοῦντος, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἄχθος τῆς συγκλήτου πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐχούσης, Ζήνων πάλιν σὺν τῇ Ἀριάδνῃ τὴν βασιλεύουσαν καταλαβὼν ἐδέχθη ὑπὸ τῆς συγκλήτου, ἀνελὼν Βασιλίσκον καὶ Ἀρμάτιον. ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ δὲ γέγονε σεισμὸς ὁ φοβερὸς ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει, καὶ ἔπεσον 117 ἐκκλησίαι πολλαὶ οἰκίαι τε καὶ ἔμβολοι ἕως ἐδάφους, ἔπαθέ τε καὶ Νικομήδεια μητρόπολις. Οὗτος δὲ ὁ Ζήνων ἦν τῆς κακίστης καὶ εἰδεχθοῦς γενεᾶς τῶν Ἰσαύρων· ἀπόγονοι γὰρ τοῦ προπάτορος αὐτῶν Ἠσαῦ ἐτύγχανον. δασὺς καὶ