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
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 unwillingly withdrawing without arms and battle, and he put on a black robe instead of the purple, having only moistened his lips with the honey of power, but not being able to sweeten his palate itself, having tasted power for only two years. So when the affairs of the Romans passed to the most wicked Leo, alas for the judgments of God! From then on a heavy wave from a terrible, fiercely-blowing tempest surged against the church, and again a cloud of ruin-bringing violence, and again a dark cloud pregnant with, as it were, a spirit of murder and destruction for mankind, and blood instead of rain. For indeed this thrice-cursed autocrat Leo was in labor, as it seems, with monstrous designs against Christ and his revered images, but being unable to bring the offspring of his wickedness to light (for lack of free speech forced him to hold back), when he later seized the opportunity and freedom of speech, he burst forth in birth; for the womb was rent, and an offspring of vipers leaped forth from there. It is not untimely to say who and from where and from what root this abomination Leo sprang. From the Isaurians he drew the line of his ancestry, having had parents who lived by their hands and were poor, wrestling with hunger in its destructive pangs; and having passed his incomplete and early years, he pursued a life of petty trade and commerce. So once as he was traveling with his wares, driving a heavily laden, buckthorn-eating little donkey, never filled with spelt nor having eaten barley, it so happened that he met with Jewish merchants, and having shared the road with those crooked men and rested with them, he fell asleep from weariness. Then the serpent-like, God-hated Hebrews, having considered among themselves and come to an agreement, foretold to him the rule and the sovereignty, whether they inferred the matter from learning or from evil arts or from some signs. And for their prophecy they asked a reward, such as they might ask of him when he held the imperial power. The all-daring one heard this, and immediately consented, to the destruction of his soul and of the fortune of the Romans. So, having become known to the governors of the provinces and the rulers of the districts, and having gradually revealed his bold heart, he was appointed patrician and a great commander, and finally emperor. Do you not groan, O Justice? The impious Hebrews who had prophesied the imperial power to him learned of his proclamation; having arrived with wingless feet to appear before the tyrant, they sought to have the things of the promise fulfilled. However, they did not ask for gold or silver, nor for precious stones, nor anything else of the humble and more worldly things, but for the destruction of the venerable painted icons, but for the demolition of the divine and revered images, the very destruction of the impious religion, overturning its towers from their foundations. The awkward evildoer is persuaded by these evildoers, the offspring of the viper by the brood of the asp, and having summoned the one who offered sacred rites (and Germanos was at that time the protector of piety) and having communicated to him the things of his depravity, when he would not be persuaded by his impiety, but rather rebuked his audacity and madness, he thrust him out of the church, alas, the wolf the shepherd, the raving Cerberus the gentle flock-leader. And immediately taking to himself sheep-destroying wolves, he tears apart, alas, the flock, and he takes down the images of the virgin mother and of Christ's martyrs, he strips the temples of their beauty, he disfigures the sanctuaries, he scatters murky darkness over them, and he pours down a gloomy, very black day. How much bitter venom and spittle-like juice, therefore, he vomited forth against Christ and His martyrs, from which a deadly plant has sprouted, and with how many afflictions he oppressed those pursuing the celibate life, appearing as another Belshazzar, the books and accounts of older men relate; but I, having selected one thing from all these, the Persian from
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ὁ δ' ἄναξ Θεοδόσιος τοῦ Λέοντος τὸ θράσος καὶ τὴν θηριογνώμονα καρδίαν ὑποπτήξας παραχωρεῖ τῷ δυσμενεῖ τοῦ θρόνου καὶ τοῦ
στέφους, ἑκὼν ἀέκων ὑπεκστὰς ἄτερ ὅπλων καὶ μάχης, καὶ μέλαιναν ἀμπίσχεται στολὴν ἀντὶ πορφύρας, μόνα τὰ χείλη μέλιτι τῷ τῆς
ἀρχῆς διάνας, αὐτὴν τὴν ὑπερώαν δὲ μὴ δυνηθεὶς γλυκᾶναι, ἔτεσι μόνοις ἐν δυσὶ γευσάμενος τοῦ κράτους. Ὡς οὖν ἐπὶ τὸν Λέοντα
τὸν κάκιστον μετέβη τὰ τῶν Ῥωμαίων πράγματα, βαβαὶ θεοῦ κριμάτων! ἐντεῦθεν ἐπεκύμαινε κατὰ τῆς ἐκκλησίας κλύδων βαρὺς ἐκ λαίλαπος
δεινῆς ἀγριοπνόου, καὶ πάλιν νέφος τετρυγὸς ὀλεθροφόρου βίας, καὶ πάλιν νέφος ζοφερὸν ἐγκυμονοῦν ὡς πνεῦμα φόνους ἀνθρώπων
καὶ φθοράς, ἀντὶ τῶν ὄμβρων αἷμα. ὁ γάρ τοι τρισκατάρατος οὗτος αὐτάναξ Λέων ὤδινε μέν, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἐκτόπους ἐπινοίας κατὰ
Χριστοῦ καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ τιμίων μορφωμάτων, εἰς φῶς δ' οὐκ ἔχων ἐνεγκεῖν τὸν τῆς κακίας τόκον (τὸ γὰρ ἀπαρρησίαστον ἠνάγκαζεν
ἐπέχειν), ὡς ὕστερον ἐδράξατο καιροῦ καὶ παρρησίας, ἐξέρρηξε τὸν τοκετόν· ἡ γὰρ νηδὺς ἐρράγη, καὶ γόνος ἐχιδνότοκος ἐξέθορεν
ἐκεῖθεν. Ἐστὶ δ' οὐκ ἄκαιρον εἰπεῖν τίς καὶ πόθεν καὶ ποίας ἐκ ῥίζης ἀνεβλάστησεν ὁ βδελυγμίας Λέων. ἐκ μὲν Ἰσαύρων τὴν σειρὰν
εἷλκε τῆς γεναρχίας, χειροβιώτων καὶ λυπρῶν τυχὼν τῶν γεννητόρων καὶ παλαιόντων τοῦ λιμοῦ ταῖς φθαρτικαῖς πυράγραις· τὰς ἀτελεῖς
δὲ παρελθὼν καὶ πρώτας ἡλικίας μετῄει παλιγκάπηλον ἐμπορικόν τε βίον. ὡς οὖν ποτὲ παρώδευε τοῖς ἐμπεπορευμένοις ῥαμνοφαγοῦν
ὀνάριον κατάφορτον ἐλαύνων, ζειᾶς μηδέποτε πλησθὲν μηδὲ κριθοφαγῆσαν, οὕτω συμβὰν συνέκυρσεν ἐμπόροις Ἰουδαίοις, καὶ κοινωνήσας
τῆς ὁδοῦ τοῖς σκολιοῖς ἐκείνοις καὶ συναναπαυσάμενος ὕπνωσεν ἐκ καμάτου. οἱ τοίνυν ὀφιότροποι θεομισεῖς Ἑβραῖοι καθ' ἑαυτοὺς
σκεψάμενοι καὶ συννενοηκότες προεῖπον τούτῳ τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν, εἴτ' οὖν ἀπὸ μαθήσεως εἴτ' ἐκ κακοτεχνίας ἢ τεκμηρίων
ἔκ τινων τὸ πρᾶγμα συμβαλόντες. καὶ τῆς προρρήσεως αὐτῶν ᾔτουν ἀντιμισθίαν, ὁποίαν ἂν αἰτήσαιεν σχόντος τὴν κρατορίαν. ἤκουσε
ταῦθ' ὁ πάντολμος, κατένευσεν αὐτίκα ἐπ' ἀπωλείᾳ τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ τῆς Ῥωμαίων τύχης. τοῖς γοῦν χωράρχαις γνωρισθεὶς καὶ τοῖς
κλιματαρχοῦσι, καὶ τὸ τολμηροκάρδιον κατὰ μικρὸν ἐκφήνας, πατρίκιος καθίσταται καὶ μέγας ταγματάρχης καὶ τελευταῖον βασιλεύς.
οὐ σὺ στενάζεις, δίκη; ἔμαθον τὴν ἀνάρρησιν οἱ δυσσεβεῖς Ἑβραῖοι οἱ προφοιβάσαντες αὐτῷ τὴν αὐτοκρατορίαν· ἀπτέροις φθάσαντες
ποσὶ φανῆναι τῷ τυράννῳ καὶ τὰ τῆς ὑποσχέσεως ζητοῦσι τελεσθῆναι. πλὴν οὐ χρυσὸν οὐκ ἄργυρον αἰτοῦσιν, οὐδὲ λίθους, οὐκ ἄλλο
τι τῶν ταπεινῶν καὶ τῶν κοσμικωτέρων, ἀλλὰ καθαίρεσιν σεπτῶν εἰκονογραφημάτων, ἀλλὰ κατάλυσιν στηλῶν θείων ἀξιοσέπτων, αὐτόχρημα
καταστροφὴν τῆς δυσσεβοῦς θρησκείας τοὺς πύργους ἀνατρέπουσαν αὐτῆς ἀπὸ κρηπίδων. πείθεται τούτοις ὁ σκαιὸς κακοῦργος τοῖς
κακούργοις, ὁ τῆς ἐχίδνης τοκετὸς τοῖς τῆς ἀσπίδος γόνοις, καὶ μετακαλεσάμενος τὸν ἱεροθυτοῦντα (ἦν δὲ προστάτης Γερμανὸς
τότε τῆς εὐσεβείας) καὶ κοινωσάμενος αὐτῷ τὰ τῆς κακοτροπίας αὐτὸν μὲν μὴ πειθόμενον αὐτοῦ τῇ δυσσεβείᾳ, μᾶλλον μὲν οὖν ἐλέγχοντα
τὴν τόλμαν καὶ τὴν λύσσαν, τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐξωθεῖ, φεῦ τὸν ποιμένα λύκος, ὁ Κέρβερος ὁ λυσσητὴρ τὸν πρᾶον ἀγελάρχην. εὐθὺς δὲ
προσλαβόμενος προβατοφθόρους λύκους σπαράσσει φεῦ τὸ ποίμνιον, καὶ καθαιρεῖ τοὺς τύπους τοὺς τῆς παρθενομήτορος καὶ τῶν Χριστοῦ
μαρτύρων, ἀπαγλαΐζει τοὺς ναούς, ἀποκοσμεῖ τεμένη, ὀρφναίαν σκοτεινότητα τούτοις κατασκεδάζει, καὶ καταχέει σκυθρωπὴν ἡμέραν
μελαντάτην. ὅσον μὲν οὖν κατὰ Χριστοῦ καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ μαρτύρων ἰὸν ἀπήμεσε πικρὸν χυμόν τε σιελώδη, ἐξ ὧν ἀναβεβλάστηκε βοτάνη
θανασίμη, ὁπόσαις τε τοὺς ἄζυγα μετερχομένους βίον κακώσεσιν ἐξέθλιψεν ἄλλος φανεὶς Βαλτάσαρ, βίβλοι καὶ λόγοι φέρουσιν ἀνθρώπων
παλαιτέρων· ἐγὼ δ' ἀπολεξάμενος ἓν ἀπὸ πάντων τούτων τὸν Πέρσην ἐκ
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