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
when the drungarius Romanos was ordered to cross. But when they came to battle, the Patzinaks, seeing them quarreling, withdrew to their own lands. When the war had already come to an end, and both Romanos and Bogas had returned to the city, the city turned against them, and they put the drungarius Romanos in such peril that he was condemned to the loss of his eyes, on the grounds of negligence, or rather malice, for not crossing to engage the Patzinaks nor receiving the fleeing Romans on his ships 725. And he would have suffered this, if the sentence had not been overturned by the patrician Constantine Gongyles and the magistros Stephen, who had great influence with the Augusta. 11. When the Bulgarians had campaigned as far as the city, Leo the domestikos of the schools and Nicholas his son and John the hetaireiarch went out to Katasyrtai with a very large army; and when the Bulgarians fell upon them unexpectedly at night, they were all utterly destroyed. 12. Theodore, therefore, the tutor of the emperor Constantine, seeing Constantine the parakoimomenos usurping the imperial power for his own son-in-law Leo, suggested to the emperor Constantine that he should take Romanos the drungarius as his father's servant and one well-disposed towards him, so that he might be with him and protect him, and that he might have an ally and a helper in whatever he might need. For Romanos, having been spoken to many times about this, refused. Therefore the emperor Constantine, having written a note with his own hand, sent it to Romanos against the parakoimomenos. As this rumor was spreading, and the parakoimomenos was compelling Romanos to depart with the fleet, he made the excuse that it was impossible to sail, since the fleet had not received its customary pay. The parakoimomenos Constantine, compelling him, went out to the fitting-out. But he met him in the manner of a servant, and coming near him, he seized him, and 726 cried out, "Take him!"; and those with him brought him into the trireme of the drungarius Romanos and held him in safety. But the emperor Constantine, drawing power to himself from his mother, on the next day sent John Toubakes to bring the Augusta Zoe down from the palace. But she, with wailing and tears, clung to her son and moved him to motherly sympathy and pity; and he said, "Let my mother be with me." And at his word, they let her go. And the emperor, with the advice of the patriarch, appointed John Garidas as domestikos of the schools; for he feared that Leo Phokas might proceed to rebellion. But he did not consent for this to happen, unless they appointed his brother-in-law Theodore Zouphinexeros and his son Symeon as hetaireiarchs. Therefore, he went out immediately to Romanos, and having given and received oaths, he became of one mind and one spirit with him. (13) On the 24th of the month of March, therefore, Romanos sent to the palace to apologize, that "fearing an attack by Phokas, lest some revolution be attempted against the emperor, I have done this in order to ensure the emperor's protection." He was therefore instructed to come with the entire fleet as far as the Boukoleon, and on the day of the Annunciation (it was a Thursday) he came armed with the entire fleet to the Boukoleon; and immediately the patrician Stephen came out of the palace, and Niketas, the father of Romanos' daughter-in-law, went up into the palace and brought out from there 727 the patriarch Nicholas. And those of the palace, having been assured by an oath from Romanos, sent to him the precious and life-giving cross. And having venerated it, and having assured them with an oath, he went up with them and a few others into the palace. Therefore, having paid homage to the emperor and entered with him into the church in the Pharos, and having given him pledges of loyalty, he was immediately appointed magistros and great hetaireiarch. Forthwith, therefore, an order was sent to Leo Phokas, commanding him in no way to contemplate any rebellion, but to
κελευσθέντος τοῦ δρουγγαρίου Ῥωμανοῦ διαπερᾶσαι. εἰς μάχας δὲ ἐλθόντων, ὁρῶντες αὐτοὺς οἱ Πατζινάκοι στασιάζοντας ὑπεχώρησαν
εἰς τὰ ἴδια. τοῦ δὲ πολέμου ἤδη τέλος λαβόντος, καὶ ὑποστρέψαντος ἐν τῇ πόλει τοῦ τε Ῥωμανοῦ καὶ τοῦ Βογᾶ, κατ' αὐτῶν ἐκίνησεν
ἡ πόλις, καὶ εἰς τοσοῦτον κίνδυνον τὸν δρουγγάριον Ῥωμανὸν περιέστησαν ὥστε τὴν τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν στέρησιν καταδικασθῆναι, ὡς ἀμελείᾳ,
μᾶλλον δὲ κακουργίᾳ μὴ διαπερᾶσαι τοὺς Πατζινάκους μηδὲ τοὺς φεύγοντας Ῥωμαίους ἐν τοῖς πλοίοις ὑπο 725 δέξασθαι. καὶ τοῦτο
ἂν ἐπεπόνθει, εἰ μὴ παρὰ Κωνσταντίνου πατρικίου τοῦ Γογγύλη καὶ Στεφάνου μαγίστρου πολλὰ δυναμένων παρὰ τῇ Αὐγούστῃ τὰ τῆς
καταδίκης ἀνετράπη. 11. Τῶν δὲ Βουλγάρων μέχρι τῆς πόλεως ἐκστρατευσάντων ἐξῆλθε Λέων ὁ δοὺξ τῶν σχολῶν καὶ Νικόλαος ὁ υἱὸς
αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἰωάννης ἑταιρειάρχης εἰς Κατασύρτας ἅμα πλείστῳ λαῷ· καὶ τῇ νυκτὶ ἀδοκήτως ἐπιπεσόντων αὐτοῖς τῶν Βουλγάρων πάντες
ἄρδην ἀπώλοντο. 12. Θεόδωρος οὖν ὁ τοῦ βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου παιδαγωγός, ὁρῶν Κωνσταντῖνον παρακοιμώμενον εἰς Λέοντα τὸν ἴδιον
γαμβρὸν τὴν βασιλείαν σφετεριζόμενον, ὑπέθηκε τῷ βασιλεῖ Κωνσταντίνῳ προσλαβέσθαι Ῥωμανὸν τὸν δρουγγάριον ὡς πατρικὸν αὐτοῦ
δοῦλον καὶ εὔνουν τὰ πρὸς αὐτόν, ὡς ἂν ᾖ σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ διαφυλάττῃ αὐτόν, καὶ σύμμαχον ἔχῃ καὶ βοηθὸν ἐν οἷς ἂν δέῃ. πολλάκις
γὰρ περὶ τούτου λαληθεὶς Ῥωμανὸς ἀπείπατο. αὐτοχείρως οὖν ὁ βασιλεὺς Κωνσταντῖνος γραμματεῖον ποιήσας τῷ Ῥωμανῷ ἔπεμψε κατὰ
τοῦ παρακοιμωμένου. τῆς φήμης οὖν ταύτης διαθεούσης, καὶ τοῦ παρακοιμωμένου καταναγκάζοντος Ῥωμανὸν ἀποκινῆσαι μετὰ τοῦ στόλου,
αὐτὸς προεφασίζετο ἀδυνάτως ἔχειν τοῦ ἀποπλεῖν, μὴ τοῦ στόλου τὴν νενομισμένην ῥόγαν λαβόντος. ὁ παρακοιμώμενος Κωνσταντῖνος
καταναγκάζων αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ἐξαρτύσει ἔξεισιν. ὁ δὲ τοῦτον δουλικῷ τῷ σχήματι προυπήντησεν, καὶ πλησίον αὐτοῦ γενόμενος ἀνήρπασεν
αὐτόν, καὶ 726 "ἄρατε αὐτόν" ἐφώνησεν· καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ τοῦτον εἰς τὴν τοῦ δρουγγαρίου Ῥωμανοῦ τριήρη εἰσήγαγον καὶ ἐν ἀσφαλείᾳ
εἶχον. Κωνσταντῖνος δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς τὴν ἐξουσίαν ἀπὸ τῆς μητρὸς εἰς ἑαυτὸν ἐπισπώμενος, τῇ ἐπαύριον ἀπέστειλεν Ἰωάννην τὸν Τουβάκην
τὴν Αὐγούσταν Ζωὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ παλατίου καταβιβάσαι. ἡ δὲ μετ' ὀλολυγῆς καὶ δακρύων τῷ ἑαυτῆς προσπλακεῖσα υἱῷ πρὸς συμπάθειαν
μητρικὴν καὶ οἶκτον ἐκίνησεν· καὶ "ἐάσατε" εἶπεν "εἶναι μετ' ἐμοῦ τὴν μητέρα." οἱ δὲ ἅμα τῷ λόγῳ ταύτην ἀφῆκαν. προβάλλεται
δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς μετὰ τῆς συμβουλῆς τοῦ πατριάρχου Ἰωάννην τὸν Γαριδᾶν δομέστικον τῶν σχολῶν· ἐδεδίει γὰρ μὴ εἰς ἀνταρσίαν χωρήσῃ
ὁ Φωκᾶς Λέων. ὁ δὲ οὐ κατένευσε τοῦτο γενέσθαι, εἰ μὴ Θεόδωρον τὸν γυναικάδελφον αὐτοῦ τὸν Ζουφινέξερον καὶ Συμεὼν τὸν υἱὸν
αὐτοῦ προεβάλοντο ἑταιρειάρχας. εὐθὺς οὖν ἐξῆλθεν πρὸς Ῥωμανόν, καὶ ὅρκους δοὺς καὶ λαβὼν σύμφρων αὐτοῦ καὶ σύμπνους ἐγένετο.
(13) τῇ οὖν κδʹ τοῦ Μαρτίου μηνὸς ἀποστέλλει Ῥωμανὸς εἰς τὸ παλάτιον ἀπολογησόμενος, ὅτι τὴν τοῦ Φωκᾶ ἐπίθεσιν φοβούμενος,
μή τι νεωτερισθείη εἰς τὸν βασιλέα, τοῦτο πεποίηκα πρὸς τὸ τὴν φυλακὴν ποιεῖσθαι τοῦ βασιλέως. μηνύεται οὖν μετὰ τοῦ στόλου
παντὸς ἐλθεῖν μέχρι τοῦ Βουκολέοντος, καὶ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ εὐαγγελισμοῦ (πέμπτη δὲ ἦν) ἦλθεν ἔνοπλος ἅμα τῷ στόλῳ παντὶ ἐν τῷ
Βουκολέοντι· καὶ παρευθὺ Στέφανος μὲν πατρίκιος ἐξῆλθεν τοῦ παλατίου, Νικήτας δὲ ὁ συμπένθερος Ῥωμανοῦ ἀνελθὼν ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ
ἐξήγαγεν ἐκεῖ 727 θεν τὸν πατριάρχην Νικόλαον. καὶ ὅρκῳ βεβαιωθέντες οἱ τοῦ παλατίου παρὰ Ῥωμανοῦ ἀπέστειλαν πρὸς αὐτὸν τὸν
τίμιον καὶ ζωοποιὸν σταυρόν. καὶ προσκυνήσας, καὶ ὅρκῳ βεβαιώσας αὐτούς, ἀνῆλθεν μετ' αὐτῶν καὶ ὀλίγων τινῶν ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ.
προσκυνήσας οὖν τὸν βασιλέα καὶ εἰσελθὼν μετ' αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ ναῷ τῷ ἐν τῷ Φάρῳ, καὶ πίστεις αὐτῷ δούς, παρευθὺ προχειρίζεται
μάγιστρος καὶ μέγας ἑταιρειάρχης. αὐτίκα οὖν γέγονε κέλευσις πρὸς Λέοντα τὸν Φωκᾶν, παρεγγυωμένη μηδαμῶς στάσιν τινὰ ἐννοῆσαι,
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