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saying, that: "I did not write to the protospatharios and manglabites Constantine about such a castle and its territory to take it, but he did this out of his own foolishness, so to speak." And the emperor said these things, wishing to completely placate them, and the same protospatharios and manglabites Constantine received an order containing insults and threats: "Who ordered you to do this? But rather, depart from the castle, and take Ashotios, the son of the deceased Adranase, the kouropalates, and bring him here, so that we may honor him with his father's dignity of kouropalates." Having received these things, the patrikios Constantine left the patrikios Ashotios, also called Kiskases, in his own castle, Ardanoutzin, and he, having departed, went to David the Great, and delivered to him the order which he had for him, and returned, and entered Iberia, and found gathered in the same place both the magistros Kourkenios and the magistros David, the brother of Ashotios the kouropalates. And they began to contend with and reproach the patrikios Constantine, saying, that: "You are a deceitful and wicked man, because you did not reveal to us concerning the castle of Ardanoutzin, that you intend to hold it" and that: "It is not expedient for this to be held by the emperor, for we too have reported to the emperor about such a matter, and we have received that the emperor knows nothing at all about this matter, but that you did this because of your love for the patrikios Ashotios, also called Kiskases." But the patrikios Constantine, having made a fitting defense to them, took Ashotios, the son of Adranase the kouropalates, and brought him into the City, and he was honored by the emperor as kouropalates. But what also of the events that have occurred at certain times between the Romans and various nations? For it is worthwhile, dearest son, that not even the memory of these things escape you, so that at similar times, when the same things befall, correction may be easy for you through foreknowledge. 47 Concerning the migration of the Cypriots, the history holds the following. The island having been captured by the Saracens and having remained uninhabited for seven years, and Archbishop John with his people having arrived at the reigning city, an arrangement was made by the Emperor Justinian at the holy sixth synod for him to take over Cyzicus with his bishops and the people of the island and to perform ordinations, whenever a bishop should be wanting, so that the authority and rights of Cyprus should not be lost (for indeed Justinian the emperor was himself a Cypriot, as the story has prevailed among the old Cypriots even to this day), so that it was also decreed at the holy sixth synod that the prelate of Cyzicus should ordain the archbishop of Cyprus, as is written in the 39th chapter of the same holy sixth synod. After seven years, by the will of God, the emperor was moved to resettle Cyprus, and he sent to the amermoumnes of Baghdad three of the notable Cypriots, who were natives of the same island, called the Phaggoumeis, along with a certain shrewd and notable imperial official, writing to the amermoumnes that he should release the people of the island of Cyprus who were in Syria to their own place. And the amermoumnes, obeying the emperor's letter, sent notable Saracens throughout all the lands of Syria, and he gathered all the Cypriots and transported them to their own place. And the emperor also sent an imperial official, and transported those living in Romania, that is, in Cyzicus and the Kibyrrhaiot and Thrakesion themes, and the island was resettled. 48 Chapter 39 of the holy sixth synod, which was held in the Trullus of the great palace. Of our brother and fellow-minister John, the prelate of the island of Cyprus, together with his own people to the Hellespontine province on account of the barbarian invasions, and in order to be freed from the heathen

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λέγων, ὅτι· "Οὐκ ἔγραψα τὸν πρωτοσπαθάριον Κωνσταντῖνον καὶ μαγγλαβίτην περὶ τοῦ τοιούτου κάστρου καὶ τῆς χώρας αὐτοῦ τοῦ παραλαβεῖν αὐτήν, ἀλλ' ἐξ οἰκείας ὡς εἰπεῖν ἀφροσύνης τοῦτο ἐποίησεν." Καὶ ταῦτα εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεύς, τελείως ἀποθεραπεῦσαι τούτους βουλόμενος, καὶ ἐδέξατο ὁ αὐτὸς πρωτοσπαθάριος Κωνσταντῖνος καὶ μαγγλαβίτης κέλευσιν μετὰ ὕβρεων καὶ ἀπειλῶν περιέχουσαν· "Τίς διωρίσατό σοι τοῦτο ποιῆσαι; Ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἔξελθε ἐκ τοῦ κάστρου, καὶ ἀναλαβοῦ Ἀσώτιον, τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ τελευτηκότος Ἀδρανασέ, τοῦ κουροπαλάτου, καὶ εἰσάγαγε αὐτὸν ἐνταῦθα, ὅπως τιμήσωμεν αὐτὸν τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ ἀξίαν τοῦ κουροπαλάτου." Ταῦτα δεξάμενος ὁ πατρίκιος Κωνσταντῖνος, κατέλιπεν τὸν πατρίκιον Ἀσώτιον, τὸν καὶ Κισκάσην, εἰς τὸ ἑαυτοῦ κάστρον, τὸ Ἀρδανούτζιν, κἀκεῖνος ἐξελθὼν ἀπῄει πρὸς τὸν ∆αυίδ, τὸν μέγαν, καὶ ἐπιδέδωκεν αὐτῷ, ἥνπερ εἶχεν πρὸς αὐτὸν κέλευσιν, καὶ ὑπέστρεψεν, καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς Ἰβηρίαν, καὶ εὗρεν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ συνηθροισμένους τόν τε μάγιστρον Κουρκένιον καὶ τὸν μάγιστρον ∆αυίδ, τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἀσωτίου τοῦ κουροπαλάτου. Καὶ ἤρξαντο φιλονικεῖν καὶ κατονειδίζειν τὸν πατρίκιον Κωνσταντῖνον, λέγοντες, ὅτι· "Κρυπτὸς ἄνθρωπος καὶ κακὸς τυγχάνεις, ὅτι οὐκ ἐφανέρωσας ἡμᾶς περὶ τοῦ κάστρου Ἀρδανουτζίου, ὅτι μέλλεις τοῦτο κρατῆσαι" καὶ ὅτι· "Οὐ συμφέρει τοῦτο κρατεῖσθαι παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως, ἡμεῖς γὰρ καὶ περὶ τῆς τοιαύτης ὑποθέσεως ἀνηγάγομεν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα, καὶ ἐδεξάμεθα μηδαμῶς γινώσκειν τὸν βασιλέα περὶ τῆς ὑποθέσεως ταύτης, ἀλλὰ σὲ τοῦτο ποιῆσαι διὰ τὴν ἀγάπην τοῦ πατρικίου Ἀσωτίου, τοῦ καὶ Κισκάση." Ὁ δὲ πατρίκιος Κωνσταντῖνος προσαπολογησάμενος τούτοις τὰ εἰκότα, ἀνελάβετο Ἀσώτιον, τὸν υἱὸν Ἀδρανασὲ τοῦ κουροπαλάτου, καὶ εἰσήγαγεν αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ πόλει, καὶ ἐτιμήθη παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως κουροπαλάτης. Τί δὲ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἔν τισι καιροῖς μεταξὺ Ῥωμαίων καὶ διαφόρων ἐθνῶν συμβεβηκότων; Ἄξιον γάρ, φίλτατε υἱέ, μηδὲ τὴν περὶ τούτων μνήμην διαφυγεῖν σε, ἵν' ἐν ὁμοίοις καιροῖς, τῶν αὐτῶν προσπιπτόντων, εἴη σοι εὐχερὴς ἡ ἐπανόρθωσις διὰ τῆς προγνώσεως. 47 Περὶ τῆς τῶν Κυπρίων μεταναστάσεως ἔχει ἡ ἱστορία τάδε. Τῆς νήσου ἁλωθείσης ὑπὸ τῶν Σαρακηνῶν καὶ ἐπὶ ἑπτὰ ἔτεσιν ἀοικήτου μεινάσης, καὶ τοῦ ἀρχιεπισκόπου Ἰωάννου μετὰ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὴν βασιλεύουσαν καταλαβόντος, ἐγένετο οἰκονομία παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως Ἰουστινιανοῦ ἐν τῇ ἁγίᾳ ἕκτῃ συνόδῳ τοῦ τὴν Κύζικον παραλαβεῖν μετὰ τῶν ἐπισκόπων αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ λαοῦ τῆς νήσου καὶ ποιεῖσθαι καὶ χειροτονίας, ἡνίκα ἂν λείψῃ ἐπίσκοπος, πρὸς τὸ μὴ διαπεσεῖν τὴν αὐθεντίαν καὶ τὰ δίκαια τῆς Κύπρου (καὶ γὰρ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ Ἰουστινιανὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς Κύπριος ἦν, καθὼς καὶ παρὰ τῶν παλαιῶν Κυπρίων ὁ λόγος μέχρι τῆς σήμερον ἐπεκράτησεν), ὥστε καὶ ὡρίσθη ἐν τῇ ἁγίᾳ ἕκτῃ συνόδῳ χειροτονεῖν τὸν ἀρχιεπίσκοπον Κύπρου τὸν τῆς Κυζίκου πρόεδρον, καθὼς ἐν τῷ λθʹ κεφαλαίῳ τῆς αὐτῆς ἁγίας ἕκτης συνόδου ἀναγέγραπται. Μετὰ δὲ ἑπτὰ ἔτη θελήσει Θεοῦ ἐκινήθη ὁ βασιλεὺς πάλιν οἰκίσαι τὴν Κύπρον, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν πρὸς τὸν ἀμερμουμνῆν τοῦ Βαγδὰδ τρεῖς τῶν ἐνδόξων Κυπρίων, αὐτόχθονας τῆς αὐτῆς νήσου τυγχάνοντας, τοὺς λεγομένους Φαγγουμεῖς, μετὰ καὶ βασιλικοῦ τινος ἀγχίνου τε καὶ ἐνδόξου, γράψας τῷ ἀμερμουμνῇ, ἵνα τὸν ἐν Συρίᾳ ὄντα λαὸν τῆς νήσου Κύπρου ἀπολύσῃ εἰς τὸν ἴδιον τόπον. Καὶ ὑπακούσας ὁ ἀμερμουμνῆς τῇ τοῦ βασιλέως γραφῇ, ἀπέστειλε κατὰ πάσας τὰς Συρίας ἐνδόξους Σαρακηνούς, καὶ ἐπεσώρευσεν πάντας τοὺς Κυπρίους καὶ διεπέρασεν εἰς τὸν ἴδιον τόπον. Ἀπέστειλεν δὲ καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς βασιλικόν, καὶ διεπέρασεν καὶ τοὺς ἐν Ῥωμανίᾳ οἰκήσαντας, ἤγουν ἔν τε τῇ Κυζίκῳ καὶ τῷ Κιβυρραιωτῶν καὶ τῷ Θρᾳκησίων, καὶ ἐνῳκίσθη ἡ νῆσος. 48 Κεφάλαιον λθʹ τῆς ἁγίας ἕκτης συνόδου, τῆς ἐν τῷ Τρούλλῳ τοῦ μεγάλου παλατίου γεγονυίας. Τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ καὶ συλλειτουργοῦ ἡμῶν Ἰωάννου, τοῦ τῆς Κυπρίων νήσου προέδρου, ἅμα τῷ οἰκείῳ λαῷ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλησπόντιον ἐπαρχίαν διά τε τὰς βαρβαρικὰς ἐφόδους, διά τε τὸ τῆς ἐθνικῆς ἐλευθερωθῆναι