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
Justin, but being inflamed with zeal for the pious religion, kindled an implacable war against the Manichaeans and a persecution more severe than those recorded against those who held to the corrupt nonsense of Nestorius. Therefore, he held the kingship for nine years. And when it was necessary for him too, bearing the weight of mortal flesh, to pay the debt of mortal nature, the power passed to Justinian, the builder of this thrice-greatest temple, the most magnificent of former kings, who was the true nephew of Justin. And he, right at the beginning of his reign, stirred up a war against the Vandals and their king Gelimer as a most tyrannical man. For, possessing a pure friendship even before his reign with Hilderich, king of the Vandals, and having received letters that the wicked Gelimer had risen up against him and had imprisoned both Hilderich himself and his wife and children, and had taken away the entire rule of Hilderich, the emperor, having learned these things, and being struck to the heart and greatly suffering on behalf of the unfortunate one, sends out a fleet of ten thousand men against Gelimer, and he appoints as admiral and general of the battle the great Belisarius, the hand of the Romans, the one who outshone all commanders and phalanx-leaders in steadfastness of mind, in excellence of counsel; who, having gathered a multitude of marines and foot-soldiers, light-armed troops, heavy-armed troops, peltasts, cavalry, slingers, who were willing and eager to face danger for him, and refraining from the violence of unjust seizures, and causing all to hold to just conduct, routed every tribe of the Libyans, and bent the unbending neck of the Vandals, with the hostile Libyans themselves coming over to him and being eager to be ruled by Belisarius. Thus indeed is just conduct an invincible thing, and it knows how to make friends of those formerly hated, and it draws enemies to itself as a magnet does iron. An example of his goodness and philanthropic character. Someone from the army seized a domestic fowl; he from whom the fowl was wrongly taken raised a clamor. Belisarius heard, was vexed by what had happened, and found the plunderer. But boiling over with zeal he exacts a terrible penalty, a great one for a small matter; for he orders the wretch to be impaled and to suffer this punishment for his unjust mind. For even if he behaved philanthropically toward the crowds and mixed his words with sweetening honey, yet he also knew to mix in bitterness at times in the manner of approved and more experienced physicians. From this, on the one hand, a great fear came upon the army, and dread froze the hearts of the multitude; but on the other hand, love was added from the Libyans, their enemies, and all praised the general as if he were a god. From this he prevailed over the strong forts and every splendid, well-towered, strong-walled city. And the thrice-blessed city of the Carthaginians itself threw open its gates; for all loved Belisarius eagerly, as children a father. And finding there the palace of Gelimer he drew up seas of wealth and rivers of money, and generously distributed the spoils to the army. And having engaged Gelimer himself many times, and having made the plains of Libya gore-defiled, and having revealed every sword to be blood-drenched, and having covered the land with the corpses of the barbarians, making it appear body-strewn from the slain, after many clashes and slaughters, after many engagements and cavalry battles and the shattering of spears and the smashing of shields, finally taking Gelimer himself and his wife and children captive by the spear in a pitiful state, from there the commander, victorious ten thousand times, departed, a commander of noble victory, distinguished by many victories; whom the ruler of the Ausonians, the emperor, rewarding well, on his own gold and silver coins engraved him as a hoplite with a drawn sword, and prepared a triumph for the thrice-excellent performer, in which Gelimer also marched before him. Chosroes the ruler of the Persians shuddered at his spear and his great ambition and the
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Ἰουστῖνος, τῷ ζήλῳ δὲ πυρούμενος τῆς εὐσεβοῦς θρησκείας τοῖς Μανιχαίοις ἄσπονδον πόλεμον ἐξανῆψε καὶ διωγμὸν βαρύτερον τῶν
μνημονευομένων τοῖς συντηροῦσι τοὺς σαθροὺς λήρους τοῦ Νεστορίου. τῆς βασιλείας τοιγαροῦν κρατεῖ χρόνους ἐννέα. Ὡς δὲ καὶ
τοῦτον φέροντα πάχος θνητοῦ σαρκίου ἐχρῆν τὸ χρέος τῆς θνητῆς φύσεως ἀποδοῦναι, πρὸς τὸν Ἰουστινιανὸν τὸ κράτος μεταβαίνει,
τὸν τοῦ ναοῦ δομήτορα τούτου τοῦ τρισμεγίστου, τὸν μεγαλοπρεπέστερον ἀνάκτων τῶν προτέρων, ὃς ἀδελφόπαις γνήσιος ὑπῆρχεν Ἰουστίνου.
οὗτος δ' εὐθὺς ἐν ταῖς ἀρχαῖς τῆς αὐτοκρατορίας πόλεμον συνεκρότησε κατὰ τῶν Οὐανδήλων καὶ τοῦ ῥηγὸς Γελίμερος ὡς τυραννικωτάτου.
φιλίαν γάρ τοι καθαρὰν καὶ πρὸ τῆς βασιλείας πρὸς τὸν Ἰνδέριχον πλουτῶν τῶν Οὐανδήλων ῥῆγα, καὶ γράμματα δεξάμενος ὡς ὁ σκαιὸς
Γελίμερ ἐπανασταίη κατ' αὐτοῦ καὶ κατακλείσας ἔχοι αὐτόν τε τὸν Ἰνδέριχον καὶ γαμετὴν καὶ τέκνα, καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀφέλοιτο σύμπασαν
Ἰνδερίχου, ταῦτα μαθὼν ὁ βασιλεύς, πληγείς τε τὴν καρδίαν καὶ μέγα παθηνάμενος ὑπὲρ τοῦ δυσπραγοῦντος, στόλον κατὰ Γελίμερος
μυρίανδρον ἐκπέμπει, στολάρχην δὲ καθίστησι καὶ στρατηγὸν τῆς μάχης τὸν μέγαν Βελισάριον, τὴν τῶν Ῥωμαίων χεῖρα, τὸν πάντας
ἀποκρύψαντα στρατάρχας φαλαγγάρχας ἐπὶ στερρότητι φρενῶν, ἐπ' ἀριστοβουλίαις· ὃς συλλεξάμενος πληθὺν ναυμάχων πεζομάχων, ψιλούς,
ἐνόπλους, πελταστάς, ἱππότας, σφενδονήτας, ἐθέλοντας καὶ σπεύδοντας αὐτοῦ προκινδυνεύειν, καὶ βίας ἀπεχόμενος ἀδίκων ἁρπαγμάτων,
καὶ πάντας ἔχεσθαι ποιῶν τῆς δικαιοπραγίας, πᾶσαν κατετροπώσατο Λιβύων φυλαρχίαν, καὶ τράχηλον τὸν ἄκαμπτον ἔκλινεν Οὐανδήλων,
αὐτῶν αὐτῷ τῶν δυσμενῶν Λιβύων προσχωρούντων καὶ σπουδαζόντων ἄρχεσθαι παρὰ Βελιζαρίου. οὕτω τοι πρᾶγμα δύσμαχον ἡ δικαιοπραγία,
καὶ φίλους οἶδε καθιστᾶν τοὺς πρώην μισουμένους, ἐφέλκεταί τε τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ὡς σίδηρον μαγνῆσις. δεῖγμα χρηστότητος αὐτοῦ καὶ
τρόπου φιλανθρώπου. ἥρπασέ τις τῶν τοῦ στρατοῦ κατοικδίαν ὄρνιν· ἤγειρε θροῦν ὁ μὴ καλῶς ἀφαιρεθεὶς τὴν ὄρνιν. ἤκουσε Βελισάριος,
ἠχθέσθη τῷ συμβάντι, ἀνεῦρε τὸν φιλάρπαγα. τῷ ζήλῳ δ' ὑπερζέσας δεινὸν εἰσπράττεται ποινὴν ὑπὲρ μικροῦ μεγάλην· κελεύει γὰρ
τὸν ἄθλιον ἀνασκολοπισθῆναι καὶ ταύτην δίκην ὑποσχεῖν τῆς φιλαδίκου γνώμης. εἰ γὰρ καὶ προσεφέρετο τοῖς ὄχλοις φιλανθρώπως
καὶ μέλιτι γλυκάζοντι τοὺς λόγους συνεκίρνα, ἀλλ' ᾔδει καὶ πικράζοντα ποτὲ παραμιγνύειν κατὰ δοκίμους ἰατροὺς καὶ πολυπειροτέρους.
ἐντεῦθεν τῇ μὲν στρατιᾷ φόβος ἐπῆλθε μέγας, καὶ δέος ἐκρυστάλλωσε τοῦ πλήθους τὰς καρδίας· ἐκ δὲ Λιβύων τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἀγάπη προσετέθη,
καὶ πάντες ἶσα καὶ θεὸν τὸν στρατηγὸν εὐφήμουν. ἐντεῦθεν ὑπερίσχυσε τῶν ἐρυμνῶν φρουρίων καὶ πάσης πόλεως λαμπρᾶς εὐπύργου
στερροτείχου. αὐτό τε τὸ τρισεύδαιμον Καρχηδονίων ἄστυ τὰς πύλας ἀνεπέτασεν· ἅπαντες γὰρ ἐκθύμως ἐφίλουν Βελισάριον οἷα πατέρα
παῖδες. εὑρὼν δὲ τὰ βασίλεια Γελίμερος ἐκεῖσε πλούτου θαλάσσας ἤντλησε καὶ ποταμοὺς χρημάτων, καὶ τῷ στρατῷ διένειμε τὰ σκῦλα
φιλοτίμως. αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ Γελίμερι συμμίξας πλεονάκις, καὶ λυθροφύρτους θέμενος Λιβύης πεδιάδας, καὶ πᾶσαν αἱματόβαπτον ῥομφαίαν
ἀναδείξας, καὶ τῶν βαρβάρων τοῖς νεκροῖς τὴν γῆν κατακαλύψας, φανεῖσαν σωματόστρωτον ἐκ τῶν ἀναιρουμένων, μετὰ πολλὰς τὰς
συμβολὰς καὶ τὰς ἀνδροκτασίας, μετὰ πολλὰς τὰς συμπλοκὰς καὶ τὰς ἱππομαχίας καὶ τῶν δοράτων τὸν θραυσμὸν καὶ συντριβὴν ἀσπίδων,
τέλος αὐτὸν Γελίμερα καὶ γαμετὴν καὶ παῖδας ἐλεεινοῖς ἐν σχήμασι λαβὼν δορυαλώτους ἐκεῖθεν μυριόνικος ἀνέζευξε στρατάρχης,
στρατάρχης ἀριστόνικος, νίκαις πολλαῖς ἐμπρέπων· ὃν ἀμειβόμενος καλῶς Αὐσονοκράτωρ κράτωρ ἰδίοις ἐν νομίσμασι χρυσέοις ἀργυρέοις
ὁπλίτην ἐνεχάραξε ῥομφαίαν ἐσπασμένον, καὶ θρίαμβον ἡτοίμασε τῷ τρισαριστεργάτῃ, ἐν ᾧ προπορευόμενος ἦν αὐτοῦ καὶ Γελίμερ.
ἔφριξε τούτου τὴν αἰχμὴν Χοσρόης ὁ Περσάρχης καὶ τὸ μεγαλεπήβολον καὶ τὰς
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