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
ruling, there being sufficient men, 719 and having entered by night through a side-gate of the protovestiarios Michael, which was near the acropolis, he remained sleepless in the house of his father-in-law Gregoras with those who were with him. But Niketas the asekretis, who after this became protonotarios, reported the arrival of Constantine to the patrikios Constantine and monk, the Helladikos. And both on the same night came to Constantine Doukas; and at dawn, while the day had not yet dawned but it was still dark, with torches and many people and weapons, having seized the gate of the hippodrome, they acclaimed Constantine as emperor in the hippodrome. There indeed his groom was killed, having been speared by those inside the gates of the hippodrome. Therefore Constantine, not being received there but driven away, as if driven to a frenzy by some demon and not having his reason under control because of his love for the empire, withdrew in the hippodrome, both sullen and dejected, judging the slaughter of the groom a bad omen. From there he came as far as the Chalke; and having entered through the Iron Gate of the Chalke, he came as far as the skoutarioi. So the magistros John Eladas, making a selection from the Hetaireia and the others, sent them with arms against Doukas. When they came therefore as far as the Chalke, many from both sides fell, and so many that the place was flooded with blood. And Gregoras the son 720 of Doukas was also killed, and Michael his cousin, and that Kourtikes of the Armenians. Constantine Doukas, learning these things, when the greatest confusion had arisen, was riding out his horse; but it, having slipped on the paving stones laid there, threw its rider to the ground, and someone cut off his head with a sword; which was brought to the emperor as a manifest deterrent to all from the deception. 3. And this sort of undertaking of his had been revealed in a certain other way. For a certain Nicholas, entrusted with the collection of public revenues in Chaldia, arrived in Syria, having denied our piety, and had rather taken up a certain astrology or astronomy. This man, having written on a fabric dyed with black, had sent this to the logothete Thomas; which, when it was steeped in water by Manuel the interpreter of the Hagarenes, the letters on it were revealed, saying thus: "Do not be afraid of the red cock of Doukas; for he will make a revolution foolishly, and will immediately be destroyed." 4. When these things were thus accomplished, Gregoras his father-in-law, with Leo, whom they called Choirosphaktes, took refuge in the church of the Holy Wisdom of God, whom they also, having dragged them from there by force, tonsured in the monastery of Stoudios. And Constantine the Helladikos, having beaten with ox-hide whips, they paraded in triumph with a coarse garment and a donkey and made him a prisoner in the prison of the Dalmatoi. and 721 some they exiled after blinding them, and others they beheaded; but those of the army, who were brave and handsome and many, they impaled all of them from Damalis to Leukation. And the so-called regents would have destroyed many others, if some of the judges had not restrained them from their unjust impulse, saying that: since the emperor is a child, how do you dare to do such things without his command? So, having tonsured the wife of Doukas and having castrated his son, they sent them to their house in Paphlagonia. 5. In the month of August, Symeon the Bulgar with a heavy host came down upon Constantinople, and threw a rampart around it from sea to sea, being buoyed up by hopes; but having been disappointed in his hopes by the vastness of the population and their arms and by the security of the walls, he returned at the Hebdomon, having asked for a peace treaty. And when the regents most gladly accepted the peace, having been treated kindly with both immeasurable and very great gifts, Symeon and his sons returned to their own land. 6. Since the emperor Constantine was a child and was seeking his own mother (for already this one
βασιλεύουσαν, ἱκανῶν ὄν 719 των, καὶ νυκτὸς διὰ παραπυλίδος εἰσελθὼν τοῦ πρωτοβεστιαρίου Μιχαήλ, οὔσης πλησίον ἀκροπόλεως,
ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ πενθεροῦ αὐτοῦ Γρηγορᾶ ἄϋπνος μετὰ τῶν συνόντων αὐτῷ διετέλεσεν. Νικήτας δὲ ἀσηκρῆτις, ὁ μετὰ ταῦτα πρωτονοτάριος
γεγονώς, τὴν Κωνσταντίνου ἄφιξιν τῷ πατρικίῳ Κωνσταντίνῳ καὶ μοναχῷ τῷ Ἐλαδικῷ κατεμήνυσεν. καὶ ἄμφω τῇ αὐτῇ νυκτὶ πρὸς τὸν
∆οῦκαν Κωνσταντῖνον παρεγένοντο· καὶ ἅμα πρωΐ, οὔπω τῆς ἡμέρας καταλαβούσης ἀλλ' ἔτι σκοτίας οὔσης, μετὰ λαμπάδων καὶ λαοῦ
πολλοῦ καὶ ὅπλων τὴν τοῦ ἱπποδρόμου πύλην καταλαβόντες, Κωνσταντῖνον εὐφήμουν βασιλέα ἐν τῷ ἱππικῷ. ἔνθα δὴ ὁ τούτου ἱπποκόμος
λογχευθεὶς παρὰ τῶν ἔσωθεν τῶν τοῦ ἱπποδρόμου πυλῶν ἀνῃρέθη. μὴ δεχθεὶς οὖν ἐκεῖσε ὁ Κωνσταντῖνος ἀλλ' ἀποσοβηθείς, ὥσπερ
ἐκβακχευθεὶς ὑπό τινος δαίμονος καὶ μὴ ἐφεστηκότα ἔχων τὸν λογισμὸν τῷ τῆς βασιλείας ἔρωτι, ἐν τῷ ἱπποδρόμῳ ἀνεχώρησε στυγνός
τε καὶ κατηφής, κακὸν οἰωνὸν τὴν τοῦ ἱπποκόμου κρίνας σφαγήν. ἐκεῖθεν ἧκε μέχρι Χαλκῆς· καὶ διὰ τῆς Σιδηρᾶς πόρτης τῆς Χαλκῆς
εἰσεληλυθὼς μέχρι τῶν σκουταρίων παρεγένετο. ὁ οὖν μάγιστρος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ἐλαδᾶς ἐκλογὴν τῶν τῆς ἑταιρείας καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ποιούμενος,
μεθ' ὅπλων τούτους ἀπέστειλεν κατὰ τοῦ ∆ουκός. ἐλθόντων οὖν μέχρι τῆς Χαλκῆς, πολλοὶ ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν μερῶν ἔπεσον, καὶ τοσοῦτοι
ὡς τὸν τόπον ἐνλιμνασθῆναι τῷ αἵματι. ἀνῃρέθη δὲ καὶ Γρηγορᾶς ὁ υἱὸς 720 τοῦ ∆ουκὸς καὶ Μιχαὴλ ἐξάδελφος αὐτοῦ καὶ Κουρτίκης
ἐκεῖνος ὁ ἐξ Ἀρμενίων. ταῦτα ὁ ∆οὺξ Κωνσταντῖνος μαθών, ταραχῆς ὅτι πλείστης γενομένης, τὸν ἵππον ἐξήλαυνεν· ὁ δὲ ταῖς ἐκεῖσε
ὑπεστρωμέναις ἐνολισθήσας πλαξὶν εἰς γῆν τὸν ἐπιβάτην κατέβαλεν, καί τις αὐτοῦ ξίφει τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀπέτεμεν· ἥτις τῷ βασιλεῖ
προσενήνεκτο καταφανὴς ἅπασιν τῆς ἀπάτης εἰς ἀποτροπήν. 3. Τὸ δὲ τοιοῦτον αὐτοῦ ἐγχείρημα κατά τινα καὶ ἄλλον τρόπον ἐδεδήλωτο.
Νικόλαος γάρ τις τὰ ἐν Χαλδίᾳ τῶν δημοσίων εἰσπράξεων πεπιστευμένος εἰς Συρίαν ἀφίκετο, τῆς καθ' ἡμᾶς εὐσεβείας ἔξαρνος γεγονώς,
καὶ ἀστρολογίας ἢ ἀστρονομίας τινὸς μᾶλλον μεταπεποίητο. οὗτος ἐν μελανεμβαφεῖ γράψας ὑφάσματι ἀπεστάλκει τοῦτο πρὸς τὸν λογοθέτην
Θωμᾶν· οὗ δὴ ῥυφθέντος παρὰ Μανουὴλ τοῦ τῶν Ἀγαρηνῶν ἑρμηνέως ἐν ὕδατι τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ πεφανέρωται γράμματα, οὕτω διαγορεύοντα
"μὴ φοβήθητι ἀπὸ τοῦ πυρροῦ πετεινοῦ τοῦ ∆ουκός· νεωτερισθήσεται γὰρ ἀφρόνως, καὶ εὐθὺς ὀλοθρευθήσεται." 4. Τούτων οὕτω τελεσθέντων,
Γρηγορᾶς τούτου πενθερὸς μετὰ Λέοντος, ὃν Χοιροσφάκτην ὠνόμαζον, τῇ ἁγίᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ σοφίᾳ ἐκκλησίᾳ προσέφυγον, οὓς καὶ βίᾳ ἐκεῖθεν
ἀποσπάσαντες ἀπέκειραν ἐν τῇ τῶν Στουδίου. Κωνσταντῖνον δὲ τὸν Ἑλλαδικὸν βουνεύροις τύψαντες μετὰ ῥάσου καὶ ὄνου ἐθριάμβευσαν
καὶ ἐν τῇ τῶν ∆αλμάτων καταδίκῃ ἔγκλειστον πεποιήκασι. καὶ 721 ἄλλους μὲν τυφλώσαντες ἐξώρισαν, καὶ ἑτέρους ἀπεκεφάλισαν·
τοὺς δὲ τοῦ φοσσάτου, ἀνδρείους καὶ καλοὺς ὄντας καὶ πολλούς, ἀπὸ τοῦ ∆αμαλίου μέχρι τοῦ Λευκατίου πάντας ἀνεσκολόπισαν. πολλοὺς
δὲ καὶ ἄλλους οἱ λεγόμενοι ἐπίτροποι ἀπώλεσαν ἄν, εἰ μή τινες τῶν δικαστῶν τούτους τῆς ἀδίκου ὁρμῆς ἀνεχαίτισαν, εἰπόντες
ὅτι παιδὸς ὄντος τοῦ βασιλέως πῶς ἄνευ τῆς αὐτοῦ κελεύσεως τολμᾶτε τοιαῦτα διαπράττεσθαι; τὴν οὖν γυναῖκα τοῦ ∆ουκὸς ἀποκείραντες
καὶ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ εὐνουχίσαντες ἐν Παφλαγονίᾳ αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτῶν ἀπέστειλαν. 5. Τῷ δὲ Αὐγούστῳ μηνὶ Συμεὼν ὁ Βούλγαρος
σὺν ὄχλῳ βαρεῖ κατέλαβε τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν, καὶ χάρακα περιέβαλεν ἀπὸ θαλάσσης εἰς θάλασσαν, ἐλπίσι μετέωρος ὤν· ἀπειρότητι
δὲ τῇ ἐκ τοῦ πλήθους καὶ τῶν ὅπλων καὶ τῶν περιβόλων ἀσφαλείᾳ τῶν ἐλπίδων ἀποσφαλεὶς ἐν τῷ Ἑβδόμῳ ὑπέστρεψεν, εἰρηνικὰς σπονδὰς
αἰτησάμενος. τῶν δὲ ἐπιτρόπων τὴν εἰρήνην ἀσμενέστατα ἀποδεξαμένων, δώροις τε ἀμέτροις καὶ μεγίστοις φιλοφρονηθέντες Συμεὼν
καὶ οἱ τούτου υἱοὶ εἰς τὴν ἰδίαν χώραν ὑπέστρεψαν. 6. Τοῦ οὖν βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου παιδὸς ὄντος καὶ τὴν ἰδίαν μητέρα ἐπιζητοῦντος
(ἤδη γὰρ ταύτην
