Chronography (partim edita e cod. Paris. gr. 1712)
to appear but if not, the opposite, countless terrors and a swift destruction. Therefore, when night fell, the emperor went with Kassiteras to the mo
he exiled Patriarch Nicephorus and 609 Theodore at which time it is also said that when Patriarch Nicephorus was being sent into exile, Theophanes, c
less. For when the renowned patriarch Tarasios had long since departed this life, he heard him call a certain Michael by name, and having leaped 612 u
the east, they burned the areas outside the Golden Gate as far as Rhegion. And coming to Athyras, they destroyed the fortress there and the bridge, wh
he marched, having gathered a great army and the Avars and all the Sklavinias and in addition to these he prepares instruments of various city-takers
The Stammerer and Iconoclast, 8 years, 9 months. This man took as his wife Euphrosyne, the daughter of Constantine who had been blinded, who had embra
with freedom to practice the Christian ways having been conceded who until now have been called tributaries. And indeed the islands would have been c
he did in the following way. It was a custom for the Persians that the proclamation of a king be from the royal line whence, the royal line having fa
that there were many for her in the chest, and she places these on our head and face after 629 the kisses. These things drove the emperor to madness
to venerate and honor the holy icons and to denounce his impiety. And not long after, when the patriarch arrived at the great church and reproached hi
he made him commander of the Scholae, and received his children from holy baptism. 11. In his 7th year the emperor goes out with Manuel and the senate
of Oxyartes, brother of Dareios, who, having married Dionysios the tyrant of Heraclea, named the city, which was under him, after his wife. and having
they devoured. 20. But the student of Leo the philosopher, who was also the informer of the betrayal, was asked by the amermoumnes about his knowledge
Theodore, whose relic the founder Michael himself later brought to the monastery of Michaelitzes in Chalcedon. The renowned Theophanes lived until the
they requested. So he withdrew and looked at the house and, being pleased, moved the nuns to another monastery, and having adorned it with every kind
the wicked one is driven out of the church and is confined in a certain monastery in Kleidio. In which, having scraped the icons of the saints, the em
the divine mystery having been celebrated purely, all the heretics under the whole sun having been subjected to deposition along with their chief prie
And although many were killed, those who were captured were more numerous. But Theoktistos, having gone to the empress, again enjoyed the same familia
and to come to the palace. Having befriended also the protospatharios Theophanes Phalganes and some others, he kills Theoktistos in the palace, with t
At this the protonotary became sullen, and reported with dejection the response from the Domestic of the Schools, and at the same time bringing and sh
it was sealed, the fool with the fools raising his voice in laughter, laughing at the renowned Ignatius as not being accommodating in matters and as o
and the generals bring his head and those of many others into the city. From this a great peace comes about in the east. And the toils and the heroic
of whom Sergius said, even if he is to be such, I will kill him along with his mother. To whom the saint said, You will not be able to hinder the p
I said to this pious and discerning monk that we too, when serving the liturgy with him, never heard him speak a prayer, but rather whisper the words
as he was passing by in a procession, the patrician Damianos, the *parakoimomenos*, who was sitting in the Horologion, did not rise to honor him. And
waiting for him gives a sword to two men dressed in gold, as if praepositi, and says that having quickly slipped away he assigned the emperor to the r
Mamas, they bring Peganes with an earthenware censer smoking brimstone, and he meets and censes Symbatios. And he himself is blinded in one 681 eye, a
the emperor ordered one of his guards to throw a spear at Basil. And during dinner time, not only this one but others too, whenever he got drunk with
dejected, and as one might guess, pondering his own affairs. He had set out from Adrianople of Macedonia, which was formerly called Orestias from Ores
having learned the land and the affairs, and having written down the book, and having made this very ancient by his practices, it was deposited in the
Constantine, the son of Michael by Eudokia, died, but according to rumor, the son of Basil whom, after mourning greatly, he laid in the tombs of the
The possession of these castles is not safe for you, as long as their rulers are dwelling here but if you wish to rule them securely, send them as pr
And when once a banquet was being held for the emperor, and the first of the senate were dining with him, and the bird often uttered the aforesaid say
Having beaten Santabarenos, they exiled him to Athens. Then the emperor, sending men after him, blinded him and exiled him to the east. But after many
he deposited the body of Saint Lazarus and of Mary Magdalene. At this time Tauromenium was surrendered to the Hagarenes. 10. In the 15th year the isla
having run through the traditions of those who made use of some counsel or oracle and who surpassed them, they are so named. The name Dromitai came to
of the Saracens went out against the Romans. And the emperor appointed Himerios the logothete as head of all the naval forces. And he also writes to A
When Pantaleon the metropolitan was coming in to the emperor, Samonas asked him Against whom is the misfortune? And he said, Against you and if th
having sent immediately, he brought Nicholas from Galakrenoi and enthroned him, having deposed 716 Euthymius, whom he exiled to the monastery of Agath
ruling, there being sufficient men, 719 and having entered by night through a side-gate of the protovestiarios Michael, which was near the acropolis,
(Alexander had brought down from the palace) they bring her up again. And having gained control of the empire, she brings up to the palace Constantine
when the drungarius Romanos was ordered to cross. But when they came to battle, the Patzinaks, seeing them quarreling, withdrew to their own lands. Wh
to rest for a short while in his own house. Likewise Constantine the parakoimomenos was ordered to write a letter, ordering him the same things, and t
tyrannically rising up wherefore I neither wish him to be domestic from now on, nor do I say that he has committed this rebellion with my counsel, bu
and when they used an indistinct and terrible shout, and most violently charged against them, the rector immediately fled, but fighting for him Photen
to be in the middle, where they were about to speak to one another. At this, Symeon sent men and burned down the church of the Most Holy Theotokos at
they did not judge it a good omen for they said that both would part on irreconcilable terms regarding the peace. But Symeon, reaching his own camp,
When Apolasath, a prudent and intelligent man, died, the inhabitants of Melitene broke the peace. Therefore, John Kourkouas, the Domestic of the Schoo
his father. And they deposed Patriarch Tryphon after he had completed the appointed time, 745 and he died in his own monastery. And the church was vac
those who survived and ended up on the shore of Koile, escaped when night fell. But Theophanes, returning after a great victory, was received honorabl
only a face, but the son-in-law Constantine said he saw eyes and ears. To them the celebrated Sergios said, You both saw well. And they replied, An
evil communications. What becomes of his kinsmen? After feasting and entertaining them, while the food was still in their mouths, men prepared for thi
his son Romanos, and he is buried in the church of the Holy Apostles with Leo the emperor, his father. In appearance he was tall in stature, fair in c
of the army wished to return home. But the most prudent Nicephorus and doux restrained them with the sweetness of his words. So the emperor, learning
having run through the traditions of those who made use of some counsel or oracle and who surpassed them, they are so named. The name Dromitai came to them from their swift running. And they are of the race of the Franks. And the hill Trikephalos in the Opsikion is so named from being three-headed in its shape, just as Radenos is named from the village of Rade in the Anatolikon theme. 14. The emperor therefore sends Eustathios the droungarios of the fleet with the present fleet and soldiers against him; who, not being able to draw up in battle against him, turned away empty-handed. And when the Hagarenes came to Abydos, they asked those leading them, "Do we wish to return again by this road, or do we have another by which we may depart to our homes." And when they said, "We wish to turn back by this one," fearing the narrowness of the road—such are the judgments of God—they immediately turn back, and seizing Thessalonica they sack it, and they cause great slaughter and captivity. And as they were wishing to destroy the city as well, Symeon the protoasekretis was found, having received from Rodophyllios, who had been sent to the Franks, with 708 a basket of 100 litras of gold. who also gave both the gold and the basket to the Saracens; and they left the city and the walls. 15. In his nineteenth year, when Samonas took flight toward Syria, since they were pursuing him from behind, and he came to the Halys, Nikephoros the droungarios Kamytzes met him, not allowing him to cross. He therefore takes refuge at the precious cross of Sericha, pretending to have gone there for the sake of a vow. Constantine, the son of Doukas, therefore took him up and returned to the city. The emperor therefore orders him to be guarded in the house of Bardas the Caesar. And since the emperor wished Samonas to be cleared, he instructed Doukas not to say before the senate that Samonas had fled to Syria, but that he had gone to Sericha for a vow. The emperor therefore asked Constantine before the senate thus: "By God and my head, as things are, was Samonas fleeing or not?" But he, having told the emperor that he was fleeing, was dismissed by him in anger. And Samonas spent four months in the house of Bardas. 16. And then a comet star appeared, sending its rays toward the east, and being visible for forty days and nights. 17. In his 20th year, Samonas was cleared at the birth of the emperor's son Constantine, born of Zoe, his fourth 709 wife, and he was baptized at Holy Theophany by Nicholas the patriarch, and he also became a patrikios. 18. In his 21st year, Leo and Zoe were blessed after the festival by Thomas the presbyter, who was also deposed, and he proclaimed his wife Zoe as Augusta. Whence the patriarch forbade the emperor from entering the church. Therefore he would only come from the right side up to the metatorikion, not passing through at all to the customary places. 19. In his 22nd year, the emperor promotes Samonas to parakoimomenos because he was his collaborator in every transgression and wickedness, and they begin to plot against the church. For they summon Nicholas the patriarch, and they entreat him greatly to accept the fourth marriage. And since he was not persuaded, putting him on a small boat through the Boukoleon they ferry him to Hiereia, from where he went away on foot with difficulty as far as Galakrenai, with much snow lying on the ground. And in his place Euthymios the synkellos is ordained to the patriarchate, a man of sacred appearance, very temperate and pious; whom they say accepted the fourth marriage from a divine revelation, as the emperor wished to create a heresy and to introduce a law for a man to have three or four wives, with many of the most reasonable men collaborating with him in this. 20. In the month of June there was a violent south-westerly Tritonaios 710 wind, such as to shake buildings and churches, and for everyone to flee into the open and to say that it was the end of the world. But by the loving-kindness of God it was stopped by rains. 21. In the 23rd year, a fleet
διαδραμόντες ἀπηχήματα τῶν χρησαμένων ἐξ ὑποθήκης ἢ θεοκλυτίας τινὸς καὶ ὑπερσχόντων αὐτούς, ἐπικέκληνται. ∆ρομῖται δὲ ἀπὸ
τοῦ ὀξέως τρέχειν αὐτοῖς προσεγένετο. ἐκ γένους δὲ τῶν Φράγγων καθίστανται. ὁ δὲ Τρικέφαλος βουνὸς κατὰ τὸ Ὀψίκιον ἀπὸ τοῦ
τριχῇ κεφαλοῦσθαι τῷ σχήματι εἴρηται, ὥσπερ καὶ Ῥαδηνὸς ἀπὸ Ῥάδης κώμης τοῦ τῶν ἀνατολικῶν θέματος. 14. Ἀποστέλλει οὖν ὁ βασιλεὺς
Εὐστάθιον δρουγγάριον τῶν πλωΐμων μετὰ παρόντος τοῦ στόλου καὶ τῶν στρατιωτῶν κατ' αὐτοῦ· οἳ καὶ μὴ δυνηθέντες ἀντιπαρατάξασθαι
ἀπεστράφησαν κενοί. ἐλθόντων δὲ τῶν Ἀγαρηνῶν ἐν Ἀβύδῳ, ἠρώτησαν τοὺς ἀπάγοντας αὐτοὺς ὅτι πάλιν ταύτην τὴν ὁδὸν θέλομεν ὑποστρέψαι,
ἢ ἔχομεν ἄλλην δι' ἧς ἀπέλθωμεν εἰς τὰ οἰκεῖα. τῶν δὲ εἰπόντων ὅτι διὰ ταύτην βουλόμεθα ἀποστραφῆναι, φοβηθέντες τὸ στενὸν
τῆς ὁδοῦ, οἷα τὰ κρίματα τοῦ θεοῦ, εὐθὺς ὑποστρέφουσι, καὶ τὴν Θεσσαλονίκην καταλαβόντες πορθοῦσιν αὐτήν, καὶ πολλὴν σφαγὴν
καὶ αἰχμαλωσίαν ποιοῦσι. βουλομένων δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν πόλιν καταστρέψαι, Συμεὼν ὁ πρωτοασηκρῆτις εὑρεθείς, λαβὼν πρὸς Ῥοδοφυλλίου
τοῦ ἀποσταλέντος πρὸς τοὺς Φράγγους μετὰ 708 κανισκίου χρυσίου λίτρας ρʹ. ὃς καὶ δέδωκεν τό τε χρυσίον καὶ τὸ κανίσκιον τοῖς
Σαρακηνοῖς· καὶ εἴασαν τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὰ τείχη. 15. Τῷ ιθʹ ἔτει αὐτοῦ τοῦ Σαμωνᾶ φυγῇ πρὸς Συρίαν χρησαμένου, ἐπεὶ κατεδίωκον
αὐτὸν ὄπισθεν, ἦλθε δὲ καὶ εἰς τὸν Ἅλυν, συναντᾷ αὐτῷ Νικηφόρος δρουγγάριος ὁ Καμύτζης, μὴ ἐῶν αὐτὸν διαπερᾶσαι. προσφεύγει
οὖν τῷ τιμίῳ σταυρῷ τοῦ Σηριχᾶ, προφασισάμενος εὐχῆς χάριν ἐκεῖσε ἐληλυθέναι. ἀναλαβόμενος οὖν τοῦτον ὁ τοῦ ∆ουκὸς Κωνσταντῖνος
ὑπέστρεψεν ἐν τῇ πόλει. προστάσσει οὖν ὁ βασιλεὺς φυλάττεσθαι αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ Βάρδα τοῦ Καίσαρος. ἐπεὶ δὲ ἤθελεν ὁ βασιλεὺς
ἀποσυνοψισθῆναι τὸν Σαμωνᾶν, παρήγγειλεν τῷ ∆ουκὶ μὴ εἰπεῖν ἐνώπιον τῆς συγκλήτου ὅτι ἐπὶ Συρίαν ἔφυγεν ὁ Σαμωνᾶς, ἀλλ' ὅτι
δι' εὐχὴν ἀπῆλθεν ἐν τῷ Σηριχᾷ. ἠρώτησεν οὖν ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸν Κωνσταντῖνον ἐνώπιον τῆς συγκλήτου οὕτως, ὡς ἔχει, τὸν θεὸν καὶ
τὴν κεφαλήν μου, ἔφευγεν ὁ Σαμωνᾶς ἢ οὐχί; ὁ δέ, ὡς εἰπόντος τῷ βασιλεῖ ὅτι ἔφευγεν, μετ' ὀργῆς τοῦτον ἀπεπέμψατο. ὁ δὲ Σαμωνᾶς
ἐποίησεν ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ Βάρδα μῆνας δʹ. 16. Ἐφάνη δὲ τότε καὶ κομήτης ἀστήρ, τὰς ἀκτῖνας πέμπων κατ' ἀνατολάς, καὶ φαινόμενος
ἐν ἡμέραις καὶ νυξὶ τεσσαράκοντα. 17. Τῷ κʹ τούτου ἔτει ἀποσυνώψισε Σαμωνᾶς ἐν τῇ γέννᾳ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου,
τοῦ ἀπὸ Ζωῆς τέταρτον 709 αὐτοῦ γαμετῆς οὔσης, καὶ ἐβαπτίσθη τὰ ἅγια Θεοφάνεια ὑπὸ Νικολάου πατριάρχου, καὶ γέγονε καὶ πατρίκιος.
18. Τῷ καʹ ἔτει αὐτοῦ εὐλογήθη Λέων καὶ Ζωὴ μετὰ τὴν ἑορτὴν παρὰ Θωμᾶ πρεσβυτέρου τοῦ καὶ καθαιρεθέντος, καὶ ἀνηγόρευσε τὴν
ἑαυτοῦ γαμετὴν Ζωὴν Αὐγούσταν. ὅθεν ὁ πατριάρχης ἐκώλυσε τὸν βασιλέα εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν εἰσέρχεσθαι. διὸ καὶ ἤρχετο ἀπὸ τοῦ
δεξιοῦ μέρους μέχρι τοῦ μιτατωρικίου, μηδ' ὅλως εἰς τὰ κατὰ συνήθειαν διερχόμενος. 19. Τῷ κβʹ τούτου ἔτει προβάλλεται τὸν
Σαμωνᾶν ὁ βασιλεὺς παρακοιμώμενον διὰ τὸ εἶναι συνεργὸν αὐτοῦ πρὸς πᾶσαν παρανομίαν καὶ κακίαν, καὶ κατὰ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἄρχονται
μελετᾶν. προσκαλοῦνται γὰρ Νικόλαον τὸν πατριάρχην, καὶ πολλὰ λιπαροῦσι δεχθῆναι τὴν τετραγαμίαν. ἐπεὶ δὲ οὐκ ἔπεισε, διὰ
τοῦ Βουκολέοντος εἰς μικρὸν πλοιάριον ἐμβιβάσαντες εἰς τὴν Ἱερείαν περῶσιν, ἀφ' ἧς πεζῇ μέχρι Γαλακρηνῶν μόλις ἀπῄει, χιόνος
ἐπικειμένης πολλῆς. χειροτονεῖται δὲ ἀντ' αὐτοῦ Εὐθύμιος σύγκελλος εἰς πατριαρχίαν, ἀνὴρ ἱεροπρεπής, ἐγκρατής τε καὶ εὐλαβὴς
πάνυ· ὅν φασι καταδέξασθαι τὴν τετραγαμίαν ἐξ ἀποκαλύψεως θείας, ὡς τοῦ βασιλέως βουλομένου αἵρεσιν ποιῆσαι καὶ νόμον ἐνθεῖναι
τοῦ ἔχειν ἄνδρα τρεῖς γυναῖκας ἢ τέσσαρας, πολλῶν τοῦτο λογικωτάτων ἀνδρῶν συνεργούντων αὐτῷ. 20. Τῷ Ἰουνίῳ μηνὶ γέγονεν ἄνεμος
λὶψ Τριτωναῖος σφο 710 δρός, ὡς συσσεῖσαι οἰκήματα καὶ ἐκκλησίας, καὶ πάντας φεύγειν ἐν ὑπαίθροις καὶ λέγειν κοσμικὴν συντέλειαν
εἶναι. ἀλλὰ τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ φιλανθρωπίᾳ δι' ὄμβρων ἐπαύθη. 21. Τῷ κγʹ ἔτει στόλος
