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6 years. 1. King of the Persians, Yazdegerd, 17 years. 16. Bishop of Rome, Leo, 21 years. 9. Bishop of Constantinople, Anatolius, 9 years. 2. Bishop of Jerusalem, Juvenal, 38 years. 13. Bishop of Alexandria, Dioscorus, 5 years. 4. Bishop of Antioch, Maximus, 4 years. 2. In this year Marcian the pious, having been proclaimed emperor by divine vote, recalled all those in exile. And the blessed Pulcheria handed over the all-hated Chrysaphius the eunuch to Jordanes, the son of John, who had acted as tyrant in Rome and had gone over to Ardaburius and Aspar and had come to Byzantium and been deemed worthy of honor, and who was treacherously killed by Chrysaphius; whom Jordanes took and killed. And it is worthy to also note God's choice from the beginning of 104 emperor Marcian. In times past, in which the Persian war was stirred, Marcian, being a humble soldier, with his own numerus was going from Greece against the Persians and having come into Lycia, he fell ill. And having been left behind in the city of Sidyma and having spent time there, he attached himself to two certain brothers, called Julius and Tatianus, who, taking him into their own house, gave him rest; and going out on a hunt, they took him with them. And having grown weary around midday, they fell asleep. But Tatianus, having woken up first, sees Marcian sleeping in the sun, and an enormous eagle having come over him and having spread its wings and making a shadow over him. And having seen this, he wakes his brother and points out the marvel; and marveling greatly at the bird's benevolent service, they wake him and say: "If you become king, what will you grant us?" And he said: "For who am I, that this should happen to me?" But they spoke the word a second time. Marcian says: "If this comes from God, I will proclaim you fathers." Then they give him 200 nomismata, saying: "Go to Constantinople and remember us, when God exalts you." And having departed, he attached himself to Ardaburius and Aspar, the generals, who were Arians, and having spent 15 years with them and having become their domesticus, he went down with Aspar to Africa to fight against Gaiseric, and in the war he was captured by Gaiseric; and when Gaiseric had shut up the captured men in his own courtyard, from the upper rooms he observes them, and having leaned out around midday, he sees Marcian sleeping, and an eagle having come and stretching out its wings and shading him; and seeing this, Gaiseric reckoned this to be a divine providence. And having summoned the man and having learned that he was the domesticus of Aspar, he knew that he was about to be raised to the kingship. And he did not wish to kill him, reasoning that no one is able to hinder the will of God, but he demanded an oath from him, that, if it were pleasing to God 105 for him to be king, he would never make war on the Vandals. And so Marcian, having been released unharmed, came to Byzantium. And when a short time had passed, and Theodosius had died, he was proclaimed emperor, as we said before. And he became kind toward all his subjects. But Attila rises up against the emperors ..... of Rome, Valentinian, because he did not give him his own sister Honoria as a wife; and having come as far as the city of Aurelia, having engaged with Aetius, the general of the Romans, and having been defeated, having lost most of his force by the river Liger, he returned in shame. And Marcian, remembering the kindness that had been done for him in Lycia, having summoned Tatianus and Julius, proclaimed them fathers. And he made Tatianus prefect of the city, and to Julius he entrusted the rule of the Lycians. And the blessed Pulcheria erected many other churches to Christ, but especially the one in Blachernae of our all-hymned lady the Theotokos at the beginning of the reign of the pious Marcian. And Leo, the blessed pope of Rome, wrote

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ἔτη ϛʹ. αʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Ἰσδιγέρδης ἔτη ιζʹ. ιϛʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Λέων ἔτη καʹ. θʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Ἀνατόλιος ἔτη θʹ. βʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ἰουβενάλιος ἔτη ληʹ. ιγʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος ∆ιόσκορος ἔτη εʹ. δʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Μάξιμος ἔτη δʹ. βʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Μαρκιανὸς ὁ εὐσεβὴς θείᾳ ψήφῳ αὐτοκράτωρ ἀναδειχθεὶς τοὺς ἐν ἐξορίᾳ πάντας ἀνεκαλέσατο. ἡ δὲ μακαρία Πουλχερία τὸν παμμίσητον Χρυσάφιον τὸν εὐνοῦχον ἐκδέδωκεν Ἰορδάνῃ, τῷ παιδὶ Ἰωάννου, τοῦ ἐν Ῥώμῃ τυραννήσαντος καὶ προσχωρήσαντος πρὸς Ἀρδαβούριον καὶ Ἄσπαρα καὶ εἰς τὸ Βυζάντιον ἐλθόντος καὶ τιμῆς ἀξιωθέντος, ἀναιρεθέντος τε δόλῳ ὑπὸ Χρυσαφίου· ὃν λαβὼν Ἰορδάνης ἀνεῖλεν. ἄξιον δέ ἐστι καὶ τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆς τοῦ θεοῦ εἰς 104 Μαρκιανὸν τὸν βασιλέα ἐκλογὴν σημᾶναι. ἐν τοῖς παρῳχηκόσι χρόνοις, ἐν οἷς ὁ Περσικὸς ἐκινήθη πόλεμος, στρατιώτης ὢν λιτὸς ὁ Μαρκιανὸς μετὰ τοῦ ἰδίου νουμέρου ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑλλάδος κατὰ Περσῶν ἀπῄει καὶ γενόμενος ἐν Λυκίᾳ ἀρρωστίᾳ περιέπεσεν. καὶ καταλειφθεὶς ἐν πόλει Σιδήμᾳ κἀκεῖσε χρονοτριβήσας προσκολλᾶται δύο ἀδελφοῖς τισιν, Ἰουλίῳ καὶ Τατιανῷ καλουμένοις, οἵ τινες εἰς τὸν ἴδιον οἶκον λαβόντες αὐτὸν διανέπαυον· εἰς θήραν δὲ ἐξελθόντες ἔλαβον αὐτὸν μεθ' ἑαυτῶν. κοπιάσαντες δὲ περὶ μεσημβρίαν ἐκοιμήθησαν. προεξυπνισθεὶς δὲ ὁ Τατιανὸς θεωρεῖ τὸν Μαρκιανὸν εἰς τὸν ἥλιον κοιμώμενον, καὶ ἀετὸν παμμεγεθέστατον ἐπ' αὐτὸν ἐλθόντα καὶ τὰς ἑαυτοῦ πτέρυγας διαπετάσαντα καὶ σκιὰν ἐπ' αὐτῷ περιποιούμενον. καὶ τοῦτο θεασάμενος ἐγείρει τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ἀδελφὸν καὶ τὸ θαῦμα ὑποδείκνυσιν· καὶ ἐπὶ πολὺ θαυμάζοντες τὴν τοῦ πετεινοῦ εὐνοϊκὴν δουλείαν ἐξυπνίζουσιν αὐτὸν καὶ λέγουσιν· "ἐὰν βασιλεύσῃς, τί ἡμῖν χαρίζῃ;" ὁ δὲ εἶπεν· "τίς γάρ εἰμι, ἵνα εἰς ἐμὲ τοῦτο γένηται;" οἱ δὲ ἐκ δευτέρου τὸν λόγον εἶπον. λέγει ὁ Μαρκιανός· "ἐὰν τοῦτο ἐκ θεοῦ γένηται, πατέρας ὑμᾶς ἀνακηρύξω." τότε διδόασιν αὐτῷ σʹ νομίσματα λέγοντες· "πορεύου ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει καὶ μέμνησο ἡμῶν, ὅταν ὁ θεός σε ὑψώσῃ." ὁ δὲ ἀπελθὼν προσκολλᾶται Ἀρδαβουρίῳ καὶ Ἄσπαρι τοῖς στρατηγοῖς Ἀρειανοῖς οὖσιν, καὶ ποιήσας παρ' αὐτοῖς ιεʹ χρόνους καὶ δομέστικος αὐτῶν γεγονὼς κατῆλθε μετὰ τοῦ Ἄσπαρος εἰς Ἀφρικὴν παρατάξασθαι πρὸς Γιζέριχον, καὶ ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ ἐκρατήθη ὑπὸ Γιζερίχου· τοῦ δὲ Γιζερίχου ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ αὐλῇ τοὺς αἰχμαλωτισθέντας ἀποκλείσαντος ἐκ τῶν ὑπερῴων κατανοεῖ αὐτούς, καὶ περὶ μεσημβρίαν παρακύψας ὁρᾷ τὸν Μαρκιανὸν καθεύδοντα, καὶ ἀετὸν ἐλθόντα καὶ τὰς πτέρυγας ἐκτείνοντα καὶ σκιάζοντα αὐτόν· καὶ τοῦτον ἰδὼν ὁ Γιζέριχος θείαν εἶναι οἰκονομίαν ἐλογίσατο ταύτην. καὶ μεταπεμψάμενος τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ γνοὺς εἶναι αὐτὸν δομέστικον τοῦ Ἄσπαρος ἔγνω, ὅτι εἰς βασιλείαν ἀνάγεσθαι μέλλει. καὶ ἀποκτεῖναι αὐτὸν οὐκ ἠθέλησε λογισάμενος, ὅτι τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ βουλὴν οὐδεὶς δύναται κωλῦσαι, ὅρκον δὲ αὐτὸν ἀπῄτησεν, ὅτι, εἰ τῷ θεῷ φίλον 105 βασιλεύειν αὐτόν, οὐ πολεμήσει ποτὲ Οὐανδήλοις. καὶ οὕτως ἀβλαβὴς ἀπολυθεὶς ὁ Μαρκιανὸς ἦλθεν εἰς τὸ Βυζάντιον. χρόνου δὲ ὀλίγου διελθόντος, καὶ Θεοδοσίου τελευτήσαντος, βασιλεὺς ἀνεδείχθη, ὡς προέφημεν. ἐγένετο δὲ χρηστὸς περὶ πάντας τοὺς ὑπηκόους. ὁ δὲ Ἀττίλας ἐπανίσταται τοῖς βασιλεῦσι ..... Ῥώμης Οὐαλεντινιανῷ, διότι οὐκ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ εἰς γυναῖκα τὴν οἰκείαν ἀδελφὴν Ὀνωρίαν· καὶ ἐλθὼν μέχρι πόλεως Αὐρηλίας, συμπλακεὶς Ἀετίῳ, τῷ στρατηγῷ Ῥωμαίων καὶ ἡττηθείς, πλείστους ἀποβαλὼν τῆς δυνάμεως παρὰ Λίγυν ποταμὸν ὑπέστρεψε κατῃσχυμμένος. ὁ δὲ Μαρκιανὸς τῆς ἐν Λυκίᾳ γεγενημένης αὐτῷ ἀναμνησθεὶς εὐεργεσίας, Τατιανὸν καὶ Ἰούλιον μεταπεμψάμενος πατέρας αὐτοὺς ἀνεκήρυξεν. καὶ τὸν μὲν Τατιανὸν ἔπαρχον ἐποίησε τῆς πόλεως, τῷ δὲ Ἰουλίῳ τὴν τῶν Λυκίων ἐνεχείρισεν ἀρχήν. ἡ δὲ μακαρία Πουλχερία πολλὰς μὲν καὶ ἄλλας ἀνήγειρε τῷ Χριστῷ ἐκκλησίας, ἐξαιρέτως δὲ τὴν ἐν Βλαχέρναις τῆς πανυμνήτου δεσποίνης ἡμῶν θεοτόκου ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ εὐσεβοῦς Μαρκιανοῦ. Λέων δέ, ὁ μακάριος πάπας Ῥώμης, ἔγραψε