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
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 first city, the elder Rome, he rescued for the Romans after it was captured by the hands of the Goths; whose king, the great, the mighty, the dreadful, he captured alive and held in iron fetters. And he snatched the emperor himself, who was about to risk his life and wretchedly lose his rule, from the midst of the hands of the seditious mob. For the more popular part of the multitude, having risen in sedition when the charioteers yoke their horses and provoke races for contests, uttered ill-omened shouts against the ruler and spewed forth trifling endless chatter. And adding greater evils to lesser ones, it put forward a ruler, it showed forth the patrician Hypatius as monarch, a man of distinction, a relative of Anastasius who had been emperor. At this, Belisarius is fired up in his heart and acts manfully with strength and draws his sword, and with many stout, high-spirited bodyguards and with Narses the clever and most strategic, like a bold-hearted lion he rushed into their midst, and he cut down the swarm of the foolish populace as Moses did Midian, as Joshua did the Hittites. He made his sword drunk with their blood, and the delight was turned into immeasurable grief, a day of festival into a day of mourning; for the number of the fallen was found to be a full thirty-five thousand. So the crowd, being checked, desisted from its madness, and the emperor escaped the immediate dangers. This stratagem was more brilliant than the former ones, and great was Belisarius in strategies; but these things did not please most evil Envy. From there, it looked bitterly upon the glory of the general, and with all its might it drove against his reputation; for Envy, as they say, knows not what is advantageous. Hence the very wealthy, the great, the commander who terrified Chosroes the dreadful Persian monarch, who brought kings under the yoke of slavery, who by his sword subdued so many nations of the Libyans, the tumultuous warrior, the formerly lion-hearted in battle, out-generaled by Envy, that fierce beast, without army and fighters and quiver-bearing, has fallen a wretched fall, worthy of tears. Alas, he has become pitiable, more bare than a pestle; alas, he drank the overflowing cup of misfortunes; he was stripped of his own possessions like a fugitive slave; he sat awaiting the executioner, O what a suffering! for when he would cut off his neck with the sword. O Envy, fierce beast, robber, murderer, persecutor, scorpion of ten thousand stings, man-eating tiger, sorceress serpent, deadly herb, ironless dart, point sharper than all, what things you do and work evil, what terrible things you contrive! The suffering overcomes me, the grief confounds me, and calls forth a tear from my eyes. For how long, destroyer, will you thus prevail? Until when, most evil one, will you throw life into confusion, you evil-plotting tyrant, murderer, all-devouring. For I too, as I should not have, having fallen into your hands and having been tried by your darts, lie scarcely breathing. And these things were said by us in a digression; for the bitterness of the soul compels one to speak. But the emperor, being a zealot for piety, fanned the flames of war against the impious, and especially against the buffoonish error of the Hellenists, even if later, being deceived by certain profane men, he was captured by the impiety of the Aphthartodocetae. This man built the great, radiant temple, the sacred precinct of my God, the heaven below, which I think even the seraphim reverently admire. For if God deigns to dwell in things made by hand, He surely dwells in this one; for where else? If, then, one were to compare the fortunate city, the city of Constantine, to the celestial sphere, and the holy temples to the radiance of the stars, I do not think he would err from what is fitting. All, therefore, shine out with abundant beacons, and glitter
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ἀνδρώδεις φρένας· καὶ τούτῳ γὰρ συνέμιξεν ἰσχυρομάχους μάχας, καὶ τόσον κατεπτόησεν ὡς θέλειν τὸν Χοσρόην εἰρήνην ἀνταλλάξασθαι
πολέμων ἀνδροφθόρων. καὶ Ῥώμην τὴν πρωτόπολιν, τὴν παλαιτέραν Ῥώμην, Ῥωμαίοις ἀνεσώσατο Γότθων χερσὶν ἁλοῦσαν· ὧν καὶ τὸν
ῥῆγα τὸν πολύν, τὸν μέγαν, τὸν φρικώδη, ζωγρήσας σιδηρόδετον ἔσχεν ἐν χειροπέδαις. αὐτὸν δὲ τὸν αὐτάνακτα μέλλοντα κινδυνεύειν
καὶ τὴν ζωὴν καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀθλίως ζημιοῦσθαι μέσων ἀφήρπασε χειρῶν τοῦ στασιώδους ὄχλου. τὸ γὰρ δημοτικώτερον τοῦ πλήθους
στασιάσαν, ἡνίκα συζευγνύουσιν ἵππους ἁρματοστρόφοι καὶ δρόμους ἐρεθίζουσι πρὸς ἁμιλλητηρίους, βοὰς ἀφῆκε κατ' αὐτοῦ δυσφήμους
τοῦ κρατοῦντος καὶ φλήναφον ἀπέπτυσεν ἀπεραντολεσχίαν. κακοῖς κακὰ δὲ προστιθὲν ἐλάττοσι τὰ μείζω καὶ κράτορα προβάλλεται,
δείκνυσιν αὐσονάρχην πατρίκιον Ὑπάτιον, ἄνδρα τῶν ἐπισήμων, Ἀναστασίῳ προσγενῆ τῷ βεβασιλευκότι. ἐνταῦθα Βελισάριος πιμπρᾶται
τὴν καρδίαν ἀνδρίζεταί τε κραταιῶς καὶ σπᾶται τὴν ῥομφαίαν, καὶ δορυφόροις σὺν πολλοῖς ἀλκίμοις ὑπερθύμοις καὶ τῷ Ναρσῇ τῷ
δεξιῷ καὶ στρατηγικωτάτῳ ὡς λέων θρασυκάρδιος εἰσέπεσεν εἰς μέσους, καὶ τοῦ μωραίνοντος λαοῦ συνέκοψε τὸ σμῆνος ὡς Μωϋσῆς
τὸν Μαδιάμ, ὡς Ἰησοῦς Χετταίους. ἐμέθυσε τοῖς αἵμασι τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ῥομφαίαν, καὶ μετετράπη τὸ τερπνὸν εἰς λύπης ἀμετρίαν, ἡμέρα
πανηγύρεως ἡμέραν εἰς πενθίμην· τῶν γὰρ πεσόντων ἡ πληθὺς εὑρέθη ποσουμένη εἰς πέντε πρὸς τριάκοντα χιλιανδρίας ὅλας. τὸ μὲν
οὖν πλῆθος συσταλὲν ἀπέστη τῆς μανίας, ὁ δὲ κρατῶν ἐξέφυγε τοὺς ἐν ποσὶ κινδύνους. Ἦν τοῦτο τὸ στρατήγημα λαμπρότερον τῶν
πρώην, καὶ μέγας Βελισάριος ἦν ἐπὶ στρατηγίαις· ἀλλὰ γὰρ ταῦτ' οὐκ ἤρεσκε τῷ φθόνῳ τῷ κακίστῳ. ἔνθεν πικρὸν ἐνέβλεψε τοῦ στρατηγοῦ
τῷ κλέει, καὶ πάσαις ἤλασεν ὁρμαῖς κατὰ τῆς τούτου δόξης· ὁ φθόνος γάρ, ὡς λέγουσιν, οὐκ οἶδε τὸ συμφέρον. ἐντεῦθεν ὁ πολύολβος,
ὁ μέγας, ὁ στρατάρχης ὁ τὸν Χοσρόην ἐκφοβῶν τὸν φοβερὸν Περσάρχην, ὁ βασιλεῖς ὑπαγαγὼν ὑπὸ ζυγὸν δουλείας, ὁ σπάθῃ χειρωσάμενος
τόσα Λιβύων ἔθνη, ὁ πολεμόκλονος, ὁ πρὶν ἐν μάχαις θυμολέων, φθόνῳ καταστρατηγηθεὶς τῷ χαλεπῷ θηρίῳ ἄτερ στρατοῦ καὶ μαχητῶν
καὶ φαρετροφορίας, πέπτωκε πτῶμα δύστλητον, ἐπάξιον δακρύων. γέγονε φεῦ ἐλεεινός, γυμνότερος ὑπέρου· ἔπιε φεῦ τῶν συμφορῶν
ὑπερχειλῆ τὸν σκύφον· ἐγύμνωτο τῶν ἑαυτοῦ καθάπερ φυγὰς δοῦλος· ἐκάθητο τὸν δήμιον, ὢ πάθους! περιμένων, πότε τῷ ξίφει τὸν
αὐτοῦ τράχηλον ἀποκόψει. φθόνε, θηρίον χαλεπόν, λῃστά, φονεῦ, διῶκτα, σκορπίε μυριόκεντρε, τίγρις ἀνθρωποβόρε, δράκαινα φαρμακεύτρια,
βοτάνη θανασίμη, βέλος ἀσίδηρον, αἰχμὴ πασῶν τμητικωτέρα, οἷα ποιεῖς καὶ κακουργεῖς, οἷα δεινὰ τυρεύεις! ὑπερνικᾷ τὸ πάθος
με, συγχέει με τὸ πένθος, καὶ προκαλεῖται δάκρυον ἐκ τῶν ἐμῶν ὀμμάτων. ἕως καὶ πότε, λυμεών, οὕτως ὑπερισχύσεις; μέχρι καὶ
τίνος, κάκιστε, τὸν βίον συγκυκήσεις, τύραννε κακομήχανε, φόνιε, παντορέκτα. κἀγὼ γάρ, ὡς οὐκ ὤφελον, σαῖς ἐμπεσὼν παλάμαις
καὶ πειραθείς σου τῶν βελῶν κεῖμαι μικρὸν ἐμπνέων. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἐλέχθησαν ἡμῖν ἐν παρεκβάσει· ἡ γὰρ πικρία τῆς ψυχῆς λαλεῖν
καταναγκάζει. ὁ βασιλεὺς δὲ ζηλωτὴς ὑπάρχων εὐσεβείας πόλεμον ἀνερρίπισε κατὰ τῶν δυσσεβούντων, καὶ πλέον τῶν ἑλληνιστῶν τῆς
βωμολόχου πλάνης, κἂν ὕστερον ἀπατηθεὶς ὑπὸ τινῶν βεβήλων, τῇ τῶν ἀφθαρτοδοκητῶν ἑάλω δυσσεβείᾳ. Οὗτος ναὸν ἐδείματο τὸν φεραυγῆ
τὸν μέγαν, τὸ τοῦ θεοῦ μου τέμενος, τὸν οὐρανὸν τὸν κάτω, ὃν οἶμαι καὶ τὰ σεραφὶμ αἰδούμενα θαυμάζει. ἂν γὰρ θεὸς καταξιοῖ
μένειν ἐν χειροκμήτοις, ἐν τούτῳ πάντως κατοικεῖ· καὶ ποῦ γὰρ ἀλλαχόθι; ἂν οὖν τις παρεικάσειε σφαίρᾳ μὲν οὐρανίᾳ πόλιν τὴν
ὀλβιόπολιν, τὴν Κωνσταντίνου πόλιν, τοὺς δὲ ναοὺς τοὺς ἱεροὺς ἀστέρων φεραυγείαις, οὐκ οἶμαι τοῦ καθήκοντος οὗτος ἀποσφαλεῖται.
πάντες μὲν οὖν ἐκλάμπουσιν ἀφθόνοις φρυκτωρίαις, καὶ στίλβουσι
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