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
Infancy was subjected to murderous hands for slaughter; but here, boys of fifteen, girls in their early bloom, young men, soft-skinned women, little girls, little boys, were indiscriminately dismembered as in a butcher's shop. And everywhere a loud cry and shrill wailing. And the hills echoed with a heavy sound to the mourners, and the wave-washed shores terribly roared back. Thus then, populous Cherson was suddenly transformed into a Scythian wasteland, as they say, and became the all-receiving, gaping belly of Hades and a tomb of countless dead and the gate of death. But the emperor, having heard that some pity was shown for the delicate infants and newborns, is more inflamed in his anger, is burned with madness. So then, heavy-minded wrath against those who had spared them, and immediately a sentence of punishment against them. And again there was an outfitting of swift-sailing ships, and an army of ten thousand as if for an enemy land, and with it Philippicus, whom they called Bardanes, to lead the army and marshal the people, so that they might pierce with swords the infants too, even if they had just first seen the beauty of the day, even if they were being given suckling draughts of milk, and that they should plow with oxen all the main roads, and drive furrows around their plains, and turn into a desert the place that was once prosperous, the streets into a field heavy with grain, the populous city into a plain of annihilation. This became the cause of evils for the ruler, and again trials, and again mighty waves and surges of wild-blowing force dashed. For the expeditionary force that had been dispatched, loathing his inhuman intention as that of a savage-minded tiger, as that of a bloodthirsty wolf, and finding the remaining Chersonites having thrown off his bridle and looking to revolt, considered his orders as nonsense (for they did not wish to be stained by so many defilements). And they make Philippicus lord and ruler, and they place upon him the crown of sceptred power. Justinian then, being greatly agitated by fear, and, like the shrewd man he was, taking their slow sailing and tardy journey as a foul omen, himself travels by land as far as Sinope, bringing with him an army of foot soldiers, so that those who had sailed out before might not revolt. And looking out on the sea at the sail-winged ships and sea-faring boats, sea-coursing triremes, sailing swiftly and borne by favorable winds, his thoughts are shaken and his soul is in turmoil, and turning back he immediately runs to return, mounting swift, flying, storm-footed horses, praying, if possible, to become winged. But the favorable wind of swift-sailing fortune made the sea-faring vessels sail fast. And so Philippicus, using a swift-winged fleet, hastening, reaches the queen city first, and having seized it and entered into the palace he places upon himself the crown of autocracy. But the slit-nosed autocrat, arriving late, as one worn out by impassable roads with no exit and by ravined places and steep hills, encamps opposite near the earthen hills which we customarily call of Damatrys. And so Philippicus sends out commanders to fight him in face-to-face battles; who, seeing the lion's skin, the strength from his armies, not reaching to the whole body of the war, they stitched on the fox's skin of trickery, and having softened the people with him with hopes they capture the thrice-wretched man alive. And what followed upon these things? They cut his throat like a voiceless ox at a manger, and the surge of their fury and the whole force of their anger they empty out upon him, having surrounded him, like a lion, one might say, seizing a fawn of a deer. And finding his son Tiberius who had fled for refuge to the church of the virgin mother of a husband, they tore him from the church (alas, most horrible thing! for Tiberius was still a little boy) and they dashed him against the doorpost just like a puppy, and they threshed the sutures of his head like grain. and the brain flowed onto the ground, a thing
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νηπιότης ταῖς φονευτρίαις εἰς σφαγὴν ὑπέκειτο παλάμαις· ἐνταῦθα δὲ τριπέμπελοι, πρωθῆβαι, νεανίαι, γυναῖκες ἁπαλόχροοι, κορίσκαι,
μειρακίσκοι, φύρδην κατεμελίζοντο καθάπερ ἐν μακέλλῳ. ὀλολυγὴ δὲ πανταχοῦ καὶ γόος ὀξυβόας. καὶ λόφοι μὲν ἀντίδουπα τοῖς θρηνηταῖς
ἀντήχουν, ἀκταὶ δὲ κυματόκλυστοι δεινὸν ἀντεπερρόθουν. οὕτω μὲν οὖν εἰς Σκυθικήν, ὅ φασιν, ἐρημίαν Χερσὼν ἡ πολυάνθρωπος αἴφνης
μετεποιήθη, καὶ γέγονε πολυχανδὴς Ἅιδου γαστὴρ πανδόχου καὶ τάφος μυριόνεκρος καὶ τοῦ θανάτου πύλη. ὁ βασιλεὺς δ' ἀκηκοὼς
ὅτι τῶν βρεφυλλίων τῶν τρυφερῶν καὶ νεογνῶν οἶκτος ἐγένετό τις, φλεγμαίνει πλέον τῷ θυμῷ, καίεται τῇ μανίᾳ. κότος οὐκοῦν βαρύμηνις
κατὰ τῶν φεισαμένων, καὶ τιμωρίας κατ' αὐτῶν ἀπόφασις αὐτίκα. καὶ πάλιν ἦν ναυστόλησις ἀκάτων γοργοπλόων, καὶ στράτευμα μυρίανδρον
ὥσπερ εἰς πολεμίαν, καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ Φιλιππικός, ὃν ἔλεγον Βαρδάνην, ἀρχηγετήσων τοῦ στρατοῦ καὶ τὸν λαὸν κοσμήσων, ὡς ἂν συνεκκεντήσωσι
ῥομφαίαις καὶ τὰ βρέφη, κἂν ἄρτι πρώτως βλέποιεν τὸ κάλλος τῆς ἡμέρας, κἂν γάλακτος ποτίζοιντο συρμάδας βρεφοτρόφους, καὶ
ταῖς βουσὶ πολεύσωσι πάσας τὰς λεωφόρους, καὶ περιαυλακίσωσιν αὐτῶν τὰς πεδιάδας, καὶ θήσωσιν εἰς ἔρημον τὴν πρὶν εὐθηνουμένην,
τὰς ἀγυιὰς εἰς ἄρουραν στάχυσι βριθομένην, τὴν πόλιν πολυάνδριον, ἀφανισμοῦ πεδίον. τοῦτο κακῶν παραίτιον γέγονε τῷ κρατοῦντι,
καὶ πάλιν πειρατήρια, καὶ πάλιν τρικυμίαι καὶ κλύδωνες ἐπάφλασαν ἀγριοπνόου βίας. ἡ γὰρ στρατεύσιμος ἰσχὺς ἡ νεναυστοληκυῖα
τὴν γνώμην τὴν ἀπάνθρωπον ἐκείνου μυσαχθεῖσα ὡς τίγριν ἀγριόθυμον, ὡς λύκον αἱμοβόρον, εὑροῦσα καὶ Χερσωνιτῶν τοὺς ὑπολελειμμένους
ἀφηνιάσαντας αὐτοῦ καὶ βλέψαντας εἰς στάσιν, ὡς λῆρον μὲν λογίζονται τὰ διατεταγμένα (κηλῖσι γὰρ οὐκ ἤθελον καταχρανθῆναι
τόσαις). ἄνακτα δὲ καὶ κράτορα Φιλιππικὸν ποιοῦσι, καὶ στέφος περιβάλλουσι τῆς σκηπτροκρατορίας. Ὁ γοῦν Ἰουστινιανὸς ἐκταραχθεὶς
τῷ φόβῳ, καὶ τὴν βραδύπλοιαν αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν ἀργοπορίαν εἰς οἰωνὸν ἀπαίσιον θέμενος ὡς ἀγχίνους, αὐτὸς αὐτῷ χερσοπορεῖ μέχρι
καὶ τῆς Σινώπης, στρατὸν συνεπαγόμενος ὁπλίτην πεζοπόρον, ὡς μὴ νεωτερίσαιεν οἱ προεκπεπλευκότες. καὶ βλέψας ἐπὶ τῆς ὑγρᾶς
ἀκάτους λαιφοπτέρους καὶ σκάφη πελαγόπλοα, τριήρεις ὑγροπόρους, ταχυπλοούσας καὶ φοροῖς πνεύμασι φερομένας, δονεῖται μὲν τοὺς
λογισμοὺς καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν σοβεῖται, καὶ παλιμπόρευτος εὐθὺς ἀνθυποστρέφειν τρέχει, ἵππων ὠκέων ἐπιβὰς πτηνῶν ἀελλοπόδων, εἰ
δυνατόν, καὶ πτερωτὸς εὐχόμενος γενέσθαι. ἀλλὰ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ φορὸν τῆς γοργοπλόου τύχης ταχυναυτεῖν ἐποίησε τὰς ποντοπλόους
σκάφας. στόλῳ μὲν οὖν Φιλιππικὸς χρώμενος ὠκυπτέρῳ προφθάνει τὴν βασίλισσαν πόλιν καταταχήσας, καὶ κατασχὼν καὶ παρελθὼν ἔσω
τῶν βασιλείων τὸ στέφος περιτίθεται τῆς αὐτοκρατορίας. ὁ δέ γε ῥινολώβητος αὐτάναξ ὑστερήσας οἷα τριβόμενος ὁδοῖς δυσβάτοις
δυσεξόδοις καὶ τόποις φαραγγώδεσι καὶ λόφοις ἀποκρήμνοις, ἀντιστρατοπεδεύεται πρὸς ὄρεσι γηλόφοις, ἅπερ κατὰ συνήθειαν φαμὲν
τοῦ ∆αματρύος. καὶ τοίνυν ὁ Φιλιππικὸς ἐκπέμπει ταγματάρχας αὐτῷ πολεμησείοντας ἀντενωπίοις μάχαις· οἳ βλέψαντες τὴν λεοντῆν,
τὴν ἐκ τῶν στρατευμάτων ἰσχύν, μὴ φθάνουσαν εἰς πᾶν τὸ σῶμα τοῦ πολέμου, ἀλωπεκῆν προσέρραψαν τὴν ἐκ δολιευμάτων, καὶ τὸν
λαὸν τὸν σὺν αὐτῷ θηλύναντες ἐλπίσι ζωγροῦσι τὸν τρισάθλιον. τὰ δ' ἐπὶ τούτοις οἷα; λαιμοτομοῦσιν ὥσπερ βοῦν ἄφωνον ἐπὶ φάτνης,
καὶ τοῦ θυμοῦ τὸν καχλασμὸν καὶ τῆς ὀργῆς τὴν ῥύμην ὅλην κενοῦσι κατ' αὐτοῦ κύκλῳ περιλαβόντες, ὥσπερ λέων, ἂν εἴποι τις,
μάρψας νεβρὸν ἐλάφου. τὸν παῖδα δὲ Τιβέριον αὐτοῦ καταλαβόντες προσπεφευγότα τῷ ναῷ τῆς μητρανάνδρου κόρης, ἀπέσπασάν τε τοῦ
νεὼ (φεῦ τοῦ φρικωδεστάτου! ὑπῆρχε δὲ Τιβέριος εἰσέτι παιδαρίσκος) καὶ τῇ φλιᾷ προσέρρηξαν ἐπ' ἴσης σκυλακίῳ, καὶ τὰς ῥαφὰς
τῆς κεφαλῆς ἠλόησαν ὡς σῖτον. ἔρρει δ' ἐγκέφαλος χαμαί, πρᾶγμα
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