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the emperor died before the first Kalends of May; and Leo the Great reigned. In this same year the Trajanic bath and the great basilica in the Stoicheion were restored in Alexandria. And Marcian was very pious and God-fearing, who during the litanies of the Campus would go out on foot, doing much good for those in need; for which reason, seeing him, the patriarch Anatolius himself no longer processed carried in a litter according to custom, but on foot. In this year, Timothy Aelurus, using sorcery, went around at night among the cells of the monks, calling 110 each one by name. And when one answered, he would say: "I am an angel, and I was sent to tell everyone to withdraw from communion with Proterius and those at Chalcedon, and to appoint Timothy Aelurus as bishop of Alexandria." In the same year Eudoxia, the daughter of the emperor Theodosius, and wife of Valentinian III, returned from Africa with one daughter, Placidia, the wife of Olybrius. For Eudocia was married to Honoric, the son of Gizeric, and did not return. Year of the world 5954. Year of the divine incarnation 454. Emperor of the Romans, Leo, for 17 years. 1st. Emperor of the Persians, Peroz, for 24 years. 6th. Bishop of Rome, Leo, for 21 years. 16th. Bishop of Constantinople, Anatolius, for 9 years. 9th. Bishop of Jerusalem, Juvenal, for 38 years. 20th. Bishop of Alexandria, Proterius, for 6 years. 6th. Bishop of Antioch, Martyrius, for 13 years. 3rd. In this year Leo began to reign, a Thracian by race, a tribune in rank, in the month of February, the 10th indiction, having been crowned by the patriarch Anatolius. In the same year, a terrible earthquake having occurred in Antioch, almost the whole city fell down. And there came to Alexandria a giraffe and bull-stags and other beasts. and with them also Timothy, surnamed Aelurus, was disturbing the city of the Alexandrians. For having bought crowds of disorderly men, he tyrannically seized the throne of Alexandria, and although he was deposed, he was ordained by two who had been deposed. From this all the scandals in Alexandria arose. For while all the priests of the world had accepted the definition of the council in Chalcedon, this polluted one with a certain uncontrollable rage reviled it and performed ordinations of bishops though he himself was unordained, and celebrated baptisms though he was not a presbyter. But the blessed Proterius, perceiving the plot being prepared against him by Aelurus, gave place to wrath and fled to the holy baptistery on the first day of Pascha. But the forerunner of the Antichrist, 111 reverencing neither the holy day nor the venerable places, sent men and slaughtered the blameless high priest along with six others who were with him. And dragging his remains with ropes, they cast them out of the holy font, and having paraded them through the whole city, they abused them mercilessly; finally they burned them with fire and scattered the ash to the air. In the same year the relic of Saint Anastasia was brought from Sirmium and was deposited in her church in the Porticoes of Domninus. And Timothy Aelurus, having found the unpublished writings of Cyril the Great, adulterated them in many places, as Peter, the presbyter of Alexandria, relates. Bishop of Constantinople, Gennadius, for 13 years. Timothy Aelurus held Alexandria by brigandage for 2 years. 2nd. 7th. 17th. 1st. 21st. 1st. 4th. In this year the emperor Leo, having learned of the unjust death of Proterius and the lawless promotion of Aelurus, sent Caesarius, cut out his tongue and exiled both of them, as having participated in the murder of Proterius; but he did not proceed against the unholy Timothy, saying that the judgment concerning him was fitting for bishops. In the same year Zeno was also joined to Ariadne, the daughter of Leo. 3rd. 8th. 18th. 2nd. 22nd. 2nd. 5th. In this year the emperor sent letters to the bishops of each province, for each to write his own opinion to him, whether to the

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βασιλεὺς ἐτελεύτησε πρὸ αʹ καλανδῶν Μαΐων· καὶ ἐβασίλευσε Λέων ὁ μέγας. αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ ἔτει ἀνενεώθη ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ τὸ Τραϊανὸν βαλανεῖον καὶ ἡ βασιλικὴ ἡ μεγάλη εἰς τὸ Στοιχεῖον. πάνυ δὲ ἦν εὐλαβὴς καὶ φοβούμενος τὸν θεὸν ὁ Μαρκιανός, ὅστις ἐν ταῖς λιταῖς τοῦ Κάμπου πεζὸς ἐξῄει πολλὰ τοῖς δεομένοις εὖ ποιῶν· ὅθεν τοῦτον ὁρῶν ὁ πατριάρχης Ἀνατόλιος καὶ αὐτὸς οὐκέτι φορείῳ φερόμενος κατὰ τὸ ἔθος ἐλιτάνευεν, ἀλλὰ πεζός. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Τιμόθεος ὁ Ἐλοῦρος μαγγανείᾳ χρησάμενος νυκτὸς ἐν τοῖς κελλίοις τῶν μοναχῶν περιήρχετο, ἐξ ὀνόματος καλῶν 110 ἕκαστον. τοῦ δὲ ἀποκριναμένου ἔλεγεν· "ἐγὼ ἄγγελός εἰμι, καὶ ἀπεστάλην εἰπεῖν πᾶσιν ἀποστῆναι μὲν τῆς κοινωνίας Προτερίου καὶ τῶν ἐν Χαλκηδόνι, Τιμόθεον δὲ τὸν Ἐλοῦρον ἐπίσκοπον προχειρίσασθαι Ἀλεξανδρείας." Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει Εὐδοξία, ἡ θυγάτηρ Θεοδοσίου τοῦ βασιλέως, γυνὴ δὲ Οὐαλεντινιανοῦ τοῦ τρίτου, μετὰ μιᾶς θυγατρὸς Πλακιδίας, γυναικὸς Ὀλυβρίου, ἐπανῆλθεν ἐξ Ἀφρικῆς. ἡ γὰρ Εὐδοκία τῷ υἱῷ Γιζερίχου Ὀνωρίχῳ ἐζεύχθη καὶ οὐκ ἐπανῆλθεν. Κόσμου ἔτη εϠνʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη υνʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Λέων ἔτη ιζʹ. αʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Περόζης ἔτη κδʹ. ϛʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Λέων ἔτη καʹ. ιϛʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Ἀνατόλιος ἔτη θʹ. θʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ἰουβενάλιος ἔτη ληʹ. κʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Προτέριος ἔτη ϛʹ. ϛʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Μαρτύριος ἔτη ιγʹ. γʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Λέων ἐβασίλευσεν, Θρᾷξ τῷ γένει, τριβοῦνος τὴν ἀξίαν, μηνὶ Φεβρουαρίῳ, ἰνδικτιῶνι ιʹ στεφθεὶς ὑπὸ Ἀνατολίου τοῦ πατριάρχου. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει σεισμοῦ φοβεροῦ γενομένου ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ, σχεδὸν πᾶσα ἡ πόλις κατέπεσεν. ἦλθε δὲ ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ καμηλοπάρδαλις καὶ ταυρέλαφοι καὶ ἄλλα θηρία. σὺν αὐτοῖς δὲ καὶ Τιμόθεος, ὁ ἐπίκλην Ἐλοῦρος, τὴν Ἀλεξανδρέων πόλιν διετάραττεν. πλήθη γὰρ ἀτάκτων ἀνδρῶν ὠνησάμενος τυραννικῶς τὸν θρόνον Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐκράτησεν, καὶ καθῃρημένος ὢν ὑπὸ δύο καθῃρημένων χειροτονεῖται. ἐντεῦθεν πάντα τὰ σκάνδαλα ἀνεφύη ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ. πάντων γὰρ τῶν τῆς οἰκουμένης ἱερέων τὸν ὅρον τῆς εν Χαλκηδόνι συνόδου ἀποδεξαμένων, οὗτος ὁ μιαρὸς μετὰ λύττης τινὸς ἀσχέτου ταύτην καθύβριζε καὶ χειροτονίας ἐπισκόπων ἐποίει ἀχειροτόνητος ὢν καὶ βαπτίσματα ἐπετέλει πρεσβύτερος μὴ ὤν. ὁ δὲ μακάριος Προτέριος αἰσθόμενος τὴν κατ' αὐτοῦ σκευαζομένην ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἐλούρου ἐπιβουλὴν δίδωσι τόπον τῇ ὀργῇ καὶ τῷ σεπτῷ προσφεύγει βαπτιστηρίῳ εν τῇ πρώτῃ τῆς πασχαλίας ἡμέρᾳ. ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἀντιχρίστου πρόδρομος 111 μὴ αἰδεσθεὶς μήτε τὴν ἁγίαν ἡμέραν, μήτε τοὺς σεβασμίους τόπους, ἀποστείλας κατασφάζει τὸν ἀνεύθυνον ἀρχιερέα μετὰ καὶ ἄλλων ἓξ τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ. καὶ σχοινίοις περισύραντες τούτου τὸ λείψανον ἀπὸ τῆς ἁγίας ἐξέβαλον κολυμβήθρας, καὶ πομπεύσαντες αὐτὸ κατὰ πᾶσαν τὴν πόλιν ᾔκιζον αὐτὸ ἀνηλεῶς· τέλος πυρὶ κατέκαυσαν καὶ τὴν σποδὸν τῷ ἀέρι παρέπεμπον. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει ἠνέχθη τὸ λείψανον τῆς ἁγίας Ἀναστασίας ἀπὸ τοῦ Σερμίου καὶ κατετέθη ἐν τῷ ναῷ αὐτῆς ἐν τοῖς ∆ομνίνου ἐμβόλοις. Τιμόθεος δὲ ὁ Ἐλοῦρος τὰ συγγράμματα Κυρίλλου τοῦ μεγάλου μὴ ἐκδοθέντα εὑρὼν ἐνόθευσεν ἐν πολλοῖς τόποις, ὡς ἱστορεῖ Πέτρος, ὁ πρεσβύτερος Ἀλεξανδρείας. Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπίσκοπος Γεννάδιος ἔτη ιγʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐκράτησε λῃστρικῶς Τιμόθεος ὁ Ἐλοῦρος ἔτη βʹ. βʹ. ζʹ. ιζʹ. αʹ. καʹ. αʹ. δʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει μαθὼν Λέων ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸν ἄδικον θάνατον Προτερίου καὶ τὴν τοῦ Ἐλούρου ἄθεσμον προαγωγήν, πέμψας Καισάρειον ἐγλωσσοτόμησε καὶ ἀμφοτέρους ἐξώρισεν, ὡς κοινωνήσαντας τῷ φόνῳ Προτερίου· Τιμοθέῳ δὲ τῷ ἀνιέρῳ οὐκ ἐπεξῆλθεν, τὴν ἐπ' αὐτῷ κρίσιν ἐπισκόποις εἰπὼν ἁρμόζειν. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει καὶ Ζήνων ἐζεύχθη Ἀρεάδνῃ, τῇ θυγατρὶ Λέοντος. γʹ. ηʹ. ιηʹ. βʹ. κβʹ βʹ. εʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει γράμματα πρὸς τοὺς ἑκάστης ἐπαρχίας ἀπέστειλεν ἐπισκόπους ὁ βασιλεύς, γράψαι αὐτῷ τὴν οἰκείαν γνώμην ἕκαστον, πότερον εἰ τοῖς