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
those who survived and ended up on the shore of Koile, escaped when night fell. But Theophanes, returning after a great victory, was received honorably and magnificently by the emperor and was honored as *parakoimomenos*. 748 47. In the month of April, of the 1st indiction, the Turks came again with a very large force; but the *parakoimomenos* went out and made a peace treaty with them, whence peace was kept for 5 years. 48. In the 2nd indiction, Paschalios, *protospatharios* and *strategos* of Langobardia, was sent to the king of the Franks, to bring his daughter to Romanos, the son of Constantine his son-in-law, as a bride. whom Paschalios also brought with much wealth; and the marriage took place in the month of September, of the 3rd indiction. and she lived with her husband for 5 years, and died in the days of the reign of Constantine, her father-in-law. 49. In the month of December, of the 4th indiction, a violent and strong wind having blown, the so-called Demoi in the hippodrome, opposite the imperial throne, fell down, and crushed the seats and parapets beneath them. And as time passed, in the same month, the sons of the emperor Romanos brought him down from the palace. 50. And as the city of Edessa, in which the holy image of Christ was kept, was being besieged by the Roman army, its inhabitants sent an embassy to the emperor Romanos to hand it over, if he would lift the siege. which also came to pass; and a golden bull was given that their land 749 would no longer be plundered by the Romans. And when the holy image was sent, Theophanes the *parakoimomenos* met it with a splendid procession of lights and with the appropriate honor and hymn-singing at the Sangarius river. On the 19th of the same month he entered the city with it. And while the emperor was in Blachernae and venerated it from there, on the next day the emperor's two sons, Stephen and Constantine, and his son-in-law Constantine, along with the patriarch Theophylact and the whole senate, came out at the Golden Gate, and with the people going before them in a procession of lights, they carried it on foot as far as the temple of the holy wisdom of God, and having been venerated there, they brought it up to the palace. 51. In these days a certain Armenian monster had visited the city, male children joined together, having come from one womb, complete in all the members of the body; but from the opening of the stomach down to the parts below the stomach they were grown together with each other, face to face. who, having spent a very long time in the city, were marveled at by all as some extraordinary monster; whence also, as a certain evil omen, it was driven from the city. But again, during the sole rule of the reign of Constantine, it entered. And since one of them had died, certain experienced physicians skillfully cut the joined part in the hope that the other would live. But he too, having survived for three days, died. 750 52. Therefore, as has been said above, the emperor had immeasurable faith in all the monks, but he especially honored and revered Sergius, who shone among the monks, who was the brother of the *magistros* Thomas, and nephew of the patriarch Photius; whom the nobility of his soul honored more than his noble birth, both the rectitude of his judgment and the grace of his person and the modesty of his mind and of his character; for his speech was sweeter than dripping honey, his character firm and steady, and his mind very natural and humble. Indeed, the emperor had this famous man unceasingly with him, as a rule, one might say, always regulating his life. He often advised the emperor to take care of his sons and not to let them, uneducated, incline toward wickedness, lest he himself suffer the fate of Eli, paying the penalty for the lawlessness of his sons. Which also came to pass. For a few days before this, while all were contemplating the undefiled image on the holy impression of the son of God, the sons of the emperor said they saw nothing but
περισωθέντων καὶ ἐν τῇ τῆς Κοίλης περιπεσόντων ἀκτῇ, νυκτὸς ἐπελθούσης διέφυγον. Θεοφάνης δὲ μετὰ νίκης μεγάλης ὑποστρέψας
ἐντίμως καὶ μεγαλοπρεπῶς παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως ὑπεδέχθη καὶ παρακοιμώμενος ἐτιμήθη. 748 47. Τῷ δὲ Ἀπριλλίῳ μηνί, τῆς αʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος,
πάλιν ἦλθον οἱ Τοῦρκοι μετὰ πλείστης δυνάμεως· ὁ δὲ παρακοιμώμενος ἐξελθὼν σπονδὰς εἰρηνικὰς μετ' αὐτῶν ἐποιήσατο, ὅθεν καὶ
ἐπὶ χρόνους εʹ ἡ εἰρήνη διεφυλάχθη. 48. Τῇ δὲ βʹ ἰνδικτιῶνι, Πασχάλιος πρωτοσπαθάριος καὶ στρατηγὸς Λαγουβαρδίας ἀποστέλλεται
πρὸς ῥῆγα τῶν Φράγγων, ἀγαγεῖν τὴν αὐτοῦ θυγατέρα Ῥωμανῷ τῷ Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ γαμβροῦ αὐτοῦ υἱῷ εἰς νύμφην. ἣν καὶ μετὰ πλούτου
πολλοῦ ὁ Πασχάλιος ἀνήγαγεν· καὶ γέγονεν ὁ γάμος Σεπτεμβρίῳ μηνί, ἰνδικτιῶνος γʹ. ἥτις καὶ ἔζησε μετὰ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη
εʹ, καὶ ἐτελεύτησεν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῆς αὐτοκρατορίας Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ αὐτῆς πενθεροῦ. 49. Τῷ ∆εκεμβρίῳ μηνί, τῆς δʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος,
ἀνέμου βιαίου καὶ σφοδροῦ πνεύσαντος οἱ λεγόμενοι ἐν τῷ ἱππικῷ ἐξ ἐναντίας τοῦ βασιλικοῦ θρόνου ∆ῆμοι κατέπεσον, καὶ συνέτριψαν
τὰ ὑποκάτω αὐτῶν βάθρα καὶ στήθεα. χρόνου δὲ διελθόντος τῷ αὐτῷ μηνὶ τὸν βασιλέα Ῥωμανὸν οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ παλατίου κατήγαγον.
50. Τῆς δὲ πόλεως Ἐδέσης, ἐν ᾗ τὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἅγιον ἐκμαγεῖον ἀπέκειτο, παρὰ τοῦ Ῥωμαϊκοῦ πολιορκουμένης στρατεύματος, οἱ
οἰκήτορες ταύτης πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα διαπρεσβεύουσι Ῥωμανὸν τοῦτο παρέχειν, εἰ τὴν πολιορκίαν λύσειεν. ὅπερ καὶ γέγονε· καὶ χρυσόβουλλον
ἐδόθη μηδ' ἔτι ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων τὴν χώ 749 ραν αὐτῶν ληΐζεσθαι. τοῦ δὲ ἁγίου ἐκμαγείου ἀποσταλέντος, ἀπήντησεν αὐτῷ Θεοφάνης ὁ
παρακοιμώμενος μετὰ λαμπρᾶς φωταγωγίας καὶ τῆς δεούσης τιμῆς καὶ ὑμνῳδίας κατὰ τὸν Σάγγαριν ποταμόν. τῇ δὲ ιθʹ τοῦ αὐτοῦ μηνὸς
σὺν αὐτῷ ἐν τῇ πόλει εἰσῆλθε. τοῦ δὲ βασιλέως ὄντος ἐν Βλαχέρναις κἀκεῖθεν αὐτὸ προσκυνήσαντος, τῇ ἐπαύριον ἐξῆλθον ἐν τῇ
Χρυσῇ πόρτῃ οἵ τε βασιλέως δύο υἱοί, Στέφανος καὶ Κωνσταντῖνος, καὶ ὁ γαμβρὸς αὐτοῦ Κωνσταντῖνος σὺν τῷ πατριάρχῃ Θεοφυλάκτῳ
καὶ τῇ συγκλήτῳ πάσῃ, καὶ τοῦ λαοῦ προπορευομένου μετὰ φωταγωγίας μέχρι τοῦ ναοῦ τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ ἁγίας σοφίας πεζοὶ τοῦτο διεκόμισαν,
καὶ προσκυνηθὲν ἐκεῖσε ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ τοῦτο ἀνήγαγον. 51. Ἐν ταύταις ταῖς ἡμέραις Ἀρμένιόν τι τέρας τῇ πόλει ἐπεφοιτήκει, παῖδες
συμφυεῖς ἄρρενες, ἐκ μιᾶς προελθόντες γαστρός, ἄρτιοι μὲν πάντα τὰ μέλη τοῦ σώματος· ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ στόματος τῆς γαστρὸς καὶ μέχρι
τῶν ὑπὸ γαστέρα συμπεφυκότες ἀλλήλοις ὑπῆρχον, ἀντιπρόσωποι. οἳ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐν τῇ πόλει ἐνδιατρίψαντες ὑπὸ πάντων ὡς ἐξαίσιόν
τι τέρας ἐθαυμάζοντο· ὅθεν καὶ ὡς πονηρός τις οἰωνὸς τῆς πόλεως ἐξηλάθη. πάλιν δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς μονοκρατορίας τῆς βασιλείας Κωνσταντίνου
εἰσῆλθε. καὶ ἐπειδὴ ὁ ἕτερος αὐτῶν ἐτεθνήκει, ἰατροί τινες ἔμπειροι τὸ συγκεκολλημένον μέρος διέτεμον εὐφυῶς ἐλπίδι τοῦ τὸν
ἕτερον ζήσεσθαι. ἀλλὰ καὶ οὗτος τρεῖς ἡμέρας ἐπιβιοὺς ἐτελεύτησεν. 750 52. Ἐν πᾶσι μὲν οὖν, ὡς ἀνωτέρω εἴρηται, τοῖς μοναχοῖς
ὁ βασιλεὺς πίστιν ἐκέκτητο ἄμετρον, διαφερόντως δὲ ἐτίμα καὶ ὑπερέσεβε Σέργιον τὸν ἐν μοναχοῖς διαλάμποντα, ὃς ἀδελφὸς μὲν
τοῦ μαγίστρου ἐπεφύκει Θωμᾶ, ἀνεψιὸς δὲ τοῦ πατριάρχου Φωτίου· ὃν πλέον τῆς σαρκικῆς εὐγενείας ἡ κατὰ ψυχὴν ἐτίμα εὐγένεια
τό τε τῆς διακρίσεως εὐθὺ καὶ τὸ τοῦ προσώπου χάριεν τὸ μέτριόν τε τοῦ φρονήματος καὶ τοῦ ἤθους· τὸν μὲν γὰρ λόγον εἶχε γλυκύτερον
μέλιτος ἀποστάζοντα, τὸ ἦθος πάγιον καὶ σταθηρόν, τὸ δὲ φρόνημα πολὺ φυσικὸν καὶ ταπεινόν. τοῦτον δὴ τὸν ἀοίδιμον ἀδιαλείπτως
μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ εἶχεν ὁ βασιλεύς, κανόνα, ὡς ἄν τις εἴποι, τὸν αὐτοῦ βίον ἀεὶ ῥυθμίζοντα. οὗτος πολλὰ παρῄνει τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν παίδων
ἐπιμελεῖσθαι καὶ μὴ ἀπαιδεύτους ἐᾶν εἰς πονηρίαν ἐκκλίνοντας, μή ποτε καὶ αὐτὸς πάθοι τὸ τοῦ Ἠλί, τιμωρίαν ἐκτίσας ὑπὲρ τῆς
τῶν παίδων παρανομίας. ὃ καὶ γέγονε. καὶ γὰρ πρὸ ὀλίγων ἡμερῶν τούτων, πάντων καθιστορούντων τὸν ἄχραντον χαρακτῆρα ἐν τῷ
ἁγίῳ ἐκμαγείῳ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ, ἔλεγον οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ βασιλέως μὴ βλέπειν τι ἢ
