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 persuaded me to act accordingly, and he has become for me the cause of this undertaking. But since what the eye is to living creatures, this truth is

 they err on both sides or again for the sake of the permanence of their own writing, and thus they run far from the mark, not laying the foundations

 of laughter and at the same time of mockery. But these solemn men, whether not knowing or hating the truth, not only did not subtract even the small e

 they sacked the ruling city. Dividing it into three parts, they distributed it among themselves, both Baldwin, count of Flanders, and Louis, count of

 he passed a long time wandering through the Peloponnese. But having heard late that his son-in-law by his daughter, Theodore Laskaris, was already rul

 of a power not yet a year ago torn into ten thousand pieces, and with some scattered here and there, and others having become the work of a Latin swor

 provided him with necessities. In these circumstances, the emperor, after his wife died, takes for a second wife the sister of Robert, who was then re

 Justinian had honored from of old, it having become his homeland, and he named it Justiniana Prima. and indeed he had also ordered that it be autonomo

 islands, and in a short time 1.29 he takes all of them, Lesbos and Chios, Samos and Icaria and Kos and as many as are near to these and not only this

 theaters of ambition, nor council-chambers concerning naval stations and trierarchies and market-masterships but all peace from these things, and a l

 having made it their own, they were then called both Celts and Galatians. I omit to mention those who late in time crossed the Alps and again marched

 war, by means 1.37 of hides filled with straw instead of another kind of raft, they crossed the Ister together with women and children. And for no sma

 first a teacher If at least want does not constrain one in these things, but fortune provides them to be set forth in abundance, then nature, as if b

 the king exhorted (these were homes for the aged and poor-houses, and whatever institutions treated the wounded from all kinds of ailments), and appoi

 empress, the one within the metropolis of the Prusaeans, situated near Mount Olympus, in the name of the honorable prophet, forerunner, and Baptist a

 Michael, the illegitimate son of the first rebel Michael Angelos, ruled Thessaly and Aetolia and the surrounding regions. For since all of his other k

 of the brain being afflicted and bringing dizziness upon them, they are unable to endure such turns and changes. And speechless and, except for breath

 to bind a crown. But at that time the patriarchal throne was bereft of its guide, since a short time before the patriarch Germanos had departed from a

 were performed for the emperor, and Theodora departed for her husband Michael, bringing with her Maria, the bride for her son. 2. While the emperor wa

 Mytzes himself to cross over. Therefore he also collapsed. The man was sluggish and unmanly, and for this very reason, gradually slipping into being d

 still being nursed, and now, if ever, most in need of parents, he who was deprived of both. For the emperor had 1.63 four daughters of a more mature a

 floods destroyed. For the ninth day was at hand after the death of the emperor and all the noble women were gathering at the monastery of the Sosandra

 Palaiologos, about whom we have made much mention above, was beyond the other men in authority, bearing much cheerfulness upon his face, and was pleas

 having assumed all authority. This became for Michael the beginning and first establishment of his elevation to the empire for from this point 1.71 h

 of the Roman dominion, just as some rich river from some high mountain crashes violently down into the lowlands fools of desperation, hoping for thes

 then he would willingly yield to him alone both the imperial thrones and at the same time all the royal insignia. And upon these things, oaths more dr

 the river 1.82 Thermodon, and to the south both Cilicia and the parts of the Taurus that are divided in many ways a little after their beginnings, whi

 and so it was. (C.) For when the Caesar met those men, who were Romans by race, and natives of Constantinople, but living outside the city for the nee

 on the contrary, whenever the rich man boasted in his wealth and the powerful in his power, he stretched out his hands in thanksgiving to the Lord and

 but knowing that with excesses of good fortune, more excessive sorrows arise, he was more moderately disposed towards what had happened, and he had a

 decided to hold on to the kingdom now, and for the future he intended to cut out by the root every lingering fear, fearing lest late in time, having f

 being greatly vexed by affairs, he had gladly given himself up to those leading him away and indeed on the third day he was led away to Proconnesus.

 became master of it without their help. Of those sent to rule at appointed times, the one from Venice is called bailo, the one from Pisa consul, and t

 And having learned that the emperor was returning from Thessaly to Byzantium, he sends for more than twenty thousand of the Danubian Scythians with w

 both Gauls and the most manly Galatians and Celts inhabiting them. It seemed good to these men, bearing a certain fiery zeal in their heart for the to

 it was their time what they encountered there was not like what lay behind. For the Arabs who occupied this place, a foreign race full of arrogance,

 moon. the sun, just passing the fourth degree of Gemini, around the third hour before noon on the twenty-fifth day of May, in the year 7075. The entir

 the 1.111 understanding, was not at peace, content with his own possessions, and this after having recently received the dignity of Sebastoskrator fro

 as deep darkness accompanying the sun ran over the earth, he let himself down outside from the wall by a rope and then, as there was no other way out

 this, coming down from above through succession always to the descendants, was inviolate, not only for the Romans and Thessalians, but also for the Il

 with crowned, most vigorous soldiers. The commander of the Roman navy, Philanthropenos, being on the flagship, went about encouraging the soldiers for

 to most easily show his thought perfected in his deeds and simply speaking, by the power of his nature and the strength of his intellect he far surpa

 From this a disturbance was raised and the affairs were culminating in the greatest tempest and it was necessary for the emperor, being detached from

 With many other things and also with resourcefulness and sharpness of mind toward everything set before him, with all these things nature had armed hi

 Lachanas was in control, but also the second husband of Constantine's wife. who was intending, when winter was ending, at the start of spring, to send

 when it was overthrown and the royal power was scorned, he was thus zealous and rose up and very quickly he led the army around all their houses. For

 one upon another, and three upon two, and four upon many, until, having completely prevailed, they took from there as many of the enemy as had not bee

 is their custom. For they show their backs, pretending to flee then they turn back very quickly and continue doing this frequently, so that they migh

 from one another because they did not fall under a single master, standing face to face with one another they showed to be inferior in their laments b

 mentioned, that if such an emperor had not been in charge of the Romans' affairs at that time, the Ro 1.145 man dominion would have easily fallen unde

 of the enemy would be very much vexed immediately. Sometimes also the matter of their innate drivel and arrogance greatly harmed them by being easily

 the places being named in this way, while he was staying there and reviewing the Scythian army and enrolling Roman generals to lead them and exhorting

 an imitation of oracles, then secretly sow them among the people, so as to confound the truth of the latter with the falsehoods of the former for not

 he surpassed all the kings before him in all things which draw a multitude of encomia. But it was necessary, as it seems, for the sandal to be stitche

 always receiving. For he says it is among the most unjust things for him, if, being called ruler of the world, he then should not be the leader 1.161

 already hidden for a time in the depths of oblivion, by the dexterity of his nature and a more perfect industry he brought to light and granted it, as

 to install on the patriarchal throne, whomever they themselves wished, so that setting out from the brilliant and great dignity of this as from some s

 The sharpness of Bekkos' tongue and mind troubled Gregory, and it was a terrible thing for him, if he, who had become famous alone among the Greeks of

 of the high priests and of all the clergy, as many as had shared in the dogma with the emperor Michael, they condemned to harshness, using their fortu

 kept under guard in Bithynia, both to see him and to console him as was fitting and, moreover, to provide him with all necessities in abundance for hi

 is it managed by a providence leading to what is beneficial? He too is abandoned by God with a certain providential and disciplinary abandonment, so t

 bearing his hand and for the most part, it is accustomed to easily steal away unsettled souls and lead them astray to unnatural boldness and unseemly

 For those who commanded that a synod of the metropolitans with the patriarch be held twice or once a year, so that they might examine among themselves

 the church who on different days and in different places of Constantinople would teach, one the songs of the prophet David, another the epistles of t

 bonds having once fallen between them and having sown in the soul of Andronikos a thought not at all free from suspicion against his brother. (B.) Sec

 the reception of slanders, as many as are attached to unrestrained ambitions. (E.) But let us return to the account. For at that time Porphyrogennetos

 attached the greatest to the man. So the emperor, having sent the paper to Athanasius, asked the reason for the deed, gently and humanely reproaching

 Although the Turks were being driven back and turned away from the Roman borders (and these were at that time the regions to the east of the Maeander)

 the waves of such a tempest surging upon him. And before he could proceed with one plan, another came against it, and a certain confusion at the same

 Furthermore, having summoned a great amount of imperial funds from Philadelphia, he set forth everything in abundance, supplying the army, adding even

 since she resisted the unlawful act for a long time, he sends her away too after a long time. And he takes as wife the sister of the ruler of Bulgaria

 they withdraw into the thickets, doing this their usual practice, so that from there, they themselves, protected by the difficult terrain, might see 1

 had procured security. But when the emperor responded that their demand had no reasonable basis, and that he was not able to inflict a punishment befi

 the eastern parts of the Roman dominion were left, the satraps of the Turks, having formed an alliance, overran everything as far as the entire sea an

 A tanner had a weasel, white in color, which used to hunt one of the mice in the house each day. This weasel once, without being noticed, falls down i

 he departs, leading with him, so to speak, a festival of afflictions. Therefore, being driven in his mind into a state of complete helplessness, he no

 the misfortunes of Roman affairs. And for this reason, by the ineffable decrees of providence, the obstacles to those who would help seemed very many,

 causes, which we willingly forget, avoiding the unpleasantness from them out of self-love 1.225 but Justice, having inscribed them on her own tablet,

 to seek death. For when sixteen triremes, splendidly armed on account of rumors of pirates, were putting to sea from Genoa after a short time, they th

 The Massagetae, who for a long time had been travailing with rebellion because they were not at all pleased with Roman customs, and had now also recei

 Pharentzas Tzymes flees to the emperor Andronikos and so, contrary to expectation, he meets with a splendid reception, such that he is both raised to

 most people. Finally, he even detested the sharing of her bed. (C.) His wife Irene, however, having been thus unexpectedly and so quickly deprived of

 among the Latins, a marquis. (E.) But so that we might use a fuller account for the sake of clarity in what is said when affairs converged under the

 became an obstacle to her impulse, saying that he too was a father and cared for his son no less than the mother and since it was added that the fath

 again she makes an attempt and does not rest and she persuades the Kral, being superior in many and innumerable gifts, now that it had been forbidden

 for those wishing to cross from Macedonia into Thrace, and for those from Thrace into Macedonia. Then when he learned that the Catalan force was expec

 they had moved towards dissolution. And when he eagerly accepted the request (for now that they were rid of the Romans, the foreign military campaign

 It breaks forth from Mount Parnassus, and its current moves downwards towards the east, and on the north having both the Opuntian and Epicnemidian Loc

 they delivered themselves from a long error and always for the more they quietly do not cease even until today increasing the boundaries 1.254 of the

 as though for a ready hunt, intending to overwhelm the fortress itself along with its enemies. Whence, setting out, both the generals and the army alo

 Thus holding the footstool, they went away and placed it where it had lain before, that is, beside the patriarchal throne. Then some, having witnessed

 they propose questions that not moderately irritate the hearing, so that they might show to the many that they were not, as it were, separating themse

 with a contrite heart and a spirit of humility. Therefore, to my son and emperor Michael, I think, being hostile because of the offenses of those who

 calling upon him as an ally. Then, therefore, the Roman infantry forces, coming to grips with the barbarian infantry, hurled missiles and were struck

 that those not identified should be sought by the Romans. But the rest they kept alive in bonds for the time being then some of them they brought to

 having followed some winter and sea, he puts forth his tongue and thence he scratches and irritates the hearing of those who approach, just as the th

 he renovated and how many he raised from their foundations, let us mention only the works in Constantinople, as many as stand even to this day through

 custom to call. And after these things, the emperor Michael departed for Thessalonica with the empress Maria his wife where indeed, after a whole yea

 to delight and rejoice in a royal education and at the same time in the constant contemplation of him 1.284 by night and by day. (B.) But when the you

 But we will speak of these things as we proceed. (D.) At this time it happened that a certain sedition and no small disturbance arose for the inhabita

 resignation. For these reasons, then, the emperor also approves his decisions and grants him the Kyriotissa monastery for his residence to which he i

 I saw all had already flowed out, and sons of physicians being so not in name, but differing almost in nothing, as far as I was concerned, from the ma

 When he was growing up, the old emperor Andronikos sent for him and brought him in, enrolling him among the domestic serving boys. First, so that he w

 actions, having crept in, debased them all and, just as something that terribly takes away the features of a body that is beautiful, graceful, and nob

 having undertaken the contest, I will accomplish it most swiftly if only you are also willing to promise me and give faithful pledges concerning the

 to the senate, then to send the prisoner to the jail. But at that time the logothete of the genikon, Theodore Metochites, postponed the plan, divining

 of all however, it was possible for us later to conjecture from certain signs, that they had seen some prophetic books, in which some future events w

 and slightly altering those sayings of Job, so as to say, 1May those days perish, in which I was joined to a wife and became the father of children.

 routed their adversaries and left whole books full of their own trophies. Croesus the Lydian hoped that by crossing the Halys he would destroy the gre

 of the one, that he would leave no one at all as successor to the empire except his grandson and emperor Andronicus of the grandson in turn, that he

 of both providence and truth not at all worthy. For whenever He wishes to punish whomever He wishes, exacting payment for sins old and new, like a wis

 the leader Svyatoslav and the despot of the Aetolians and Acarnanians has been murdered by his nephew, the count of Cephallenia and the last success

 such cares to be a matter of will for the young man. For to a man by nature inclined towards relaxation and hunting and such occupations, such things

 He left the succeeding age full of himself. Already someone from Asia sets out for the laurel at Pytho and for the wild olive at Olympia. For he knew

 having been pushed out of its nest by someone or other, now goes about, wandering for a long time. For the time being, then, it is in danger either of

 I dare neither to say everything in general, as many as are your encomia, nor not everything and the reasons are as splendid as they are splendidly i

 rising from a root it winds many circles and always produces shoot from shoot very ingeniously indeed. for you have not been allotted such a one that

 to do so deliberately for the sake of greater display. For you showed, by your course through all things, how the things they reported for wonder and

 he mixes a song so you too with your wisdom, as with certain musical rhythms, conduct affairs, fitting together the harmony through all the notes, so

 it seems reasonable to me too, having sailed past the shores, so to speak, of your good qualities, to bring my discourse to anchor with a prayer, as w

 to serve anyone, but to hold equally in everything always to reveal sufficiently the nature of things but he himself has already changed without noti

 escapes the things in the world, but one recovers the defeat of the other. Those beautiful things, then, which proceed uncertainly to the hearing, mig

 heavens, so may they make clear your memorial always in all their revolutions and present you to those who come after as a most manifest archetype of

 he was seen sitting again on the saddle-cloth. And from there 1.350 again, letting himself down from the one side of the saddle-cloth and circling wit

 seeing at the same time those around him, both small and great, who had been deprived by the younger one of the inheritances of their own lands and we

 Seeing that his affairs were being driven into a tight spot, he handed over the Thracian armies to the protostrator Synadenos and sent him as a guard

 and being in a very most unfortunate state. But to pass over the other terrible things, gloomy I say and suffocating, how shall I present that greater

 the justice of God was despised for the sake of human desire, God has permitted these men to be deposed from their own authority by this most simple m

 And yet he was worthy of great offices, namely of Sebastokrator and greater, both because of his military experience, which he possessed in abundance

 a portion of the sphere of the zodiac should coincide with the sun, when one perpendicular touches both. Since, therefore, our Pascha follows the lega

 having made. For thus the method of astronomy professes it should be for the so many intervening years. But when this does not happen, the error is no

 and at the full moon the Passover was sacrificed by the Jews and at that time also were the things of the equinox and at that time the savior, as we

 a certain marshy lake on the road formed from rain waters and such an event seemed to the more prudent to be no good omen for the fallen one. (B.) In

 And after these things, night was upon us. for the sun was setting and all the streets were growing dark. And the moon was absent. For having just com

 And the barking of dogs also reached us from afar, all but 1.379 inviting us and showing the village that bore them to be populous and sufficient to o

 to extinguish the flame of her grief, on the one hand her all-excellent brother, on the other the fellow-ambassadors, and now I, now each of them, and

 but also the foot of the emperor so that he spent a long time in pain from such a wound. In these times, since the eastern parts were neglected, most

 and it had happened that he immediately looked towards nobler marriages. For which reason, having cast off his former wife, with whom he had also beco

 Having heard these things, the emperor, and placing them alongside the many other things with which his hearing was already filled, and having investi

 after his mother's death he returned to his father and emperor, leaving his children and wife there and for the rest of the time he was staying in By

 This is customary not only for emperors, on account of the envy of their rule, but also for those whom fortune, having exiled from their parents and k

 he was continually adding to his victories and was cutting back, as one might say, the ambition of his son, leaving for him more modest opportunities

 authority and the royal possessions, wanting him to live in poverty and to have no other care, except for feeding dogs and birds no fewer than a thou

 We think it sufficient in the present exposition of the history to set forth verbatim the eighteenth canon of the synod in Chalcedon, unchanged. 1.407

 not to allow the Byzantines going out to linger as far as Rhegium and indeed with secret letters and promises to win over and make the Byzantines his

 always full of care and full of the future, not at all considering the approaching future propitious. At any rate, on one of the nights he seemed to s

 having immediately made a treaty with the new emperor and having received splendid rewards from him, he had given over the fortress and for the futur

 magnificence. For not one of all those men deigned to go out and take anything at all without the price of silver, and this though so very great and m

 days there he had constructed a ladder of rope, such as the largest merchant ships hang about the mast. And when the appointed night had come, the tra

 of the couch, seized with great terror and having no one to help him, neither soldier, nor general for besides the young chamberlains, a great empti

 From there he goes away to the monastery of the Mangana, where the word, having arrived, had revealed that the patriarch Isaiah was being held in open

 Niphon asked what he wished to do concerning his grandfather and when he spoke of humane and royal things, he was greatly displeased and found fault.

 Thirty days passed and the emperor, hearing that Michael, the ruler of the Bulgarians, was going out and ravaging the neighboring cities and lands of

 An accurate test for human souls, are the pieces of good fortune which arise over time, inasmuch as they elevate the foolish to a mass of hubris, just

 he broke off the battle. In this, the emperor was also wounded in one of his feet by a light and not very dangerous missile. (C.) And on this night a

 in the middle of the divine 1.438 temple, the emperor entrusted the authority to judge, handing over to them both the divine and holy gospel and also

 of the affairs of the kingdom being unexpectedly introduced and for this reason they had been at enmity for a long time now. For this reason then, fin

 broken by the waves of terrible things and furthermore still bound, not only in hands and feet, but also my very tongue, through which, if nothing mor

 the words. But when Cambyses also asked the reason, how it was that while he had not wept for his sons nor uttered anything, he wept for his companion

 often full. But since these things must be conceded in whatever way it seemed good to us, having once proposed to accept the burdens of such things as

 and whatever things obtained a nature harder than the air, or by a diffusion of quality, that is, whatever things had it being poured out and mixed qu

 of the Lydian, the sun continually crosses the horizon after every night. There were ten thousand other things for refutation, but for the sake of len

 For the Kral, after his brilliant successes, a harsh and most terrible winter, which flooded and buried for him the pleasant things of life and even t

 he took up lodging for long ago, as we had said, 1.459 when the emperor entered Byzantium this had been destroyed and completely laid waste by the co

 of opinion and disposition towards both the emperor and his daughter the Kralaina, and who had the same intimacy with them as I. And that conversation

 eyes the sun and moon, and the earth as you see it shaking from below and the sea raging with storm to announce clearly that the perception of the cal

 maliciously stir up our souls and hasten to tear them up by the roots. O who, coming secretly by night, has cut down the blooming meadow of so many go

 water for our heads and springs of tears for our eyes, that we may lament new sufferings greater than those of Jerusalem. Give me the power of Orpheus

 consolation. But he, having nothing with which he might console the man, ordered that that medicine prepared on account of his own weakness be given t

 the greatness of our present misfortunes would be sufficiently shown. He was the best helmsman of the imperial ship of the Romans this one who best o

 the suffering passes on, cutting my heart all day long more cruelly than any sword, or rather, whole nights too, if I must say the greater thing? For

 to the deceased emperor. 1.482 3. When summer came, the emperor's wife, the empress Anna, being pregnant and staying in Didymoteichon, gave birth to a

 he rebuilt some from the foundations, and built upon others through Glabas the protostrator, who was then governor of Thrace, so that they might be an

 and to fight from the rear having encircled them, they turned back and fled headlong into the fortress. But those living inside, seeing their defeat a

 those around the emperor against him and for this reason he wished to stay far away from such things, for fear of being destroyed by treachery. And t

 a watchful mind from necessary cares it distracts and if not completely and for the most part perfectly, yet at least in so great a tempest of circum

 giving freedom to my tongue, let us allow it to sail easily upon the seas of your praises, and culling from all your praises the best parts, let us cr

 he overcame the Medes with political arrangements and deceits, since he was not able otherwise. (5) Now, while the emperor was considering such things

 remembering his humanity but now thoughts of despair bitterly fed upon his soul. Therefore he sent thirty soldiers as day-scouts outside before the w

 For, as it seems, it comes to such men to know, that the 1.503 tongue cannot make the occasions effective, but the occasions the tongue nor that no m

 wishing even so to run the greatest double-course, and brandishing the greatest harm to souls and bodies alike, but that no judge should be set over t

 by experience they become manifest it is not possible, therefore, to reason syllogistically according to demonstrative knowledge here. For the argume

 thinking that they should be divided, they hold opinions entirely unworthy of divine things with their own notions. Since so much dissension 1.511 pre

 God and God,2 he answers, saying: 1Give me also another god and a nature of God, and I will give you the same trinity with the same names and realit

 to suppose the doctrines and ordinances of teachers, so as to receive in silence what is said to them, offering neither a doubting ear, nor putting fo

 having only dared, he perished, God guarding, he says, the sanctity of the ark. And if a king would very quickly remove from among men, if one of his

 to rouse himself for this common need. And since the imperial treasuries were lacking in funds, he sent with all speed men to collect money from the l

 and being transformed for them, greatly increased the Latin wealth, but greatly diminished the Roman. This indeed had made them harsher against the Ro

 against the Latins of Phocaea because of the rather frequent damages inflicted by them upon him, he thus encamped around the fortress, besieging it fr

 for the common race of the Romans and for them who were living luxuriously at home, wandering far from my fatherland and being exposed to dangers from

 Scythians, having crossed the Ister, overran Roman Thrace as far as the Hellespontine sea. There indeed, it so happened somehow, that encountering som

 alienation. But they were expelled from the queen of cities by order of the emperor. (4.) And at the beginning of summer, the Thracians were suffering

 barbarian, having killed the guards inside. For the ten fled immediately, as some of the barbarians perceived it and rushed into them. At dawn, when t

 she had a firmer [disposition] toward her husband. While things were thus, it happened in the following year that the former wife of the said man was

 greater, since 1.546 he saw that his paternal inheritance had come under the emperor, and that his mother had agreed to follow the emperor as far as T

 five parts, until it arrived at the lion, and there it was completely dissolved. (ʹ.) And eight thousand of the Turks, having crossed the Hellespontin

 remaining in the country, to report by letters to the emperor the cause of their arrival. (D.) Since, when power flatters the desirous part of a woman

 1.554 still having one expectation to return to the paternal succession of the hegemonic office. Thus the silence of the great domestic has become a c

 to some, to refute them openly, so that setting out from there as from a supposedly safe base of operations he might inflict some insolence and turmoi

 of that discussion and from the splenic disease. But since, having sat down around midnight, he had dined more than he ought, on the next day he was i

 Cease sowing the life-giving rays upon the earth or having gathered the bowls of all your fire, cast it upon her, so that every tree might shed its f

 of the divine ordinances and of truth itself. Remember what he uttered before coming to the pulpit and the sacred assembly and what, having come, he

 more humble, not being annoyed by any of all things. (H.) Now concerning the headdress, among the earlier emperors it was the custom for those advance

 poverty against wealth, and seemly silence against deceitful lips and a boastful and long-winded tongue flowing with unseemly nonsense and to show by

 of himself first, or of ruling others, clearly showing. For being taught from history that nothing in life is permanent and secure, nor that the found

 goodness is extremely necessary for the emperor's long-term plan so that you might at once co-administer the affairs of the empire with them, and at

 the waves of grief inundated him, and how, except for me, of all men there was no one to be a skilled comforter for him then, a staff for a falling so

 defining these things, I mean both the guardianship and administration of the imperial affairs and the betrothal of the new emperor to my daughter, th

 by those corrupted by envy and malice, or rather, ignorant of every good thing, as many as are known to benefit cities, and to frighten enemies, and t

 Since virtue and vice are opposites, I think one must not examine them from the end, but from the beginning and the first undertaking of the matters.

 Apokaukos, again plotting, does not cease from wiles and ambushes against him, and having rested for not long, he will see a plot break out, full of m

 and for both of them, hastening to fill up the soul's love-charm of affection but I remained within the bounds of my original intention. But surely a

 Amour. (B.) For when the empire of the Persians was divided into satrapies, as we have spoken of these matters more extensively somewhere above, diffe

 such things as were somehow skillfully slapping both the fickleness of his ways and the instability of his mind and how, being at odds with himself,

 But he enjoyed nothing worthy from him in return for his own wickedness. Nevertheless, being both ashamed and fearful for himself, lest he, having cas

 to preserve the existing tranquility in public affairs. But he, being least willing to alter his humane and cheerful disposition, evaded their advice.

 he might be able in some way. He, however, put the powerful among the friends and relatives of Cantacuzenus, both those in Byzantium and in every city

 it could not be but now his mind was torn, and his thoughts about what should be done were wavering. For he did not see that remaining inactive was w

 sicknesses with a frank and unrestrained tongue to pour out into the ears of all, and to justify themselves for having long ago rightly discerned thei

 and at the same time, as was likely, having suspected danger both for themselves and for him, they departed, having escaped from there to the Byzantin

 When the confusion of affairs had not yet burst into the light, but was still being conceived in birth pangs and meditations, it happened in a dream t

 that he could come very quickly and take the city without effort. And he, immediately rising up, both armed the army and sent a message to John Angelo

 reaped very many purses of money. And bringing charges against all the wealthy men under his governorship, that they were of one mind with Kantakouzen

 to his brother Manuel Asan, he arrived immediately and fortified the fortress, which, formerly called Polystylon, he himself now established at his ow

 would see the clear and self-evident outcomes of the battle. Wherefore he himself also, using words towards him that promised a long friendship, and a

 none of the provisions that are ready for soldiers for distribution and taking of necessities, he backed water 2.635 and immediately changed his mind,

 having found much friendliness, for this reason he immediately changed both his manner and way of life from those of the Triballians to the customs of

 to his wife some costly treasures from his own hoards and the Krales gives in return to the emperor what was fitting, and at the same time pastures,

 deliverance. What, therefore, that man dared against himself, this the Byzantines were fittingly doing against the emperor, sparing neither any of the

 Of these things, only those which are in accordance with judgment and will have power over blame and praise. But as many things as seem to flow automa

 having crossed the Hellespontine strait with his army, he sought his friend very ardently. And since it was not easy for him either to see that man wi

 one of the most absurd things, for him to live in comforts while his friend was wasting away with the greatest hardship in a foreign and distant land.

 an opposing force near the forward passes of Christoupolis, it happened that they resisted the decree out of cowardice and fear, and being otherwise r

 bounty. (Z.) He wanted, therefore, to take up war against him, and to begin a conspicuous battle. But fearing, on the other hand, lest he, being the f

 Apokaukos, having arranged matters that same day as he wished, and at the same time having armed and prepared for the next day both the military force

 I wish to leave what is yours as your own even here, and what is mine to me. For it is always your own to rejoice in falsehoods but mine by nature to

 if you should obstinately persist in remaining under guard, having fallen into dangers and reproaches alike, you would not escape being made a great l

 to bestow a complete and unblemished salvation would it not drive one to absurdity, to choose the truth which is ultimately harmful over a beneficial

 of the house to strike the emperor a fatal blow from the wall, and immediately slipping out by a rope through the battlements to procure his unharmed

 naval station, very near the city of the Thessalonians. (B.) The majority, therefore, leaving a sufficient guard for the ships, immediately rushed for

 slaughtering unsparingly, and emptying bowls of citizens' blood in the city squares. But indeed the elite, and as much as was the face of the city, wa

 in another way, proper and very much 2.678 sharing in the Roman histories. For this reigning city is, so to speak, a common hearth of the whole inhabi

 they escaped to the triremes, while some had been cut down, and others had been sent to prison. And on the next day, they had sent him overseas to be

 At this time a famine of grain pressed the Byzantines and most of the Roman cities in Thrace. For while the Romans were distracted by civil wars, the

 had become the leading and dominant power and sending a message, he commanded the Latins to depart from their own place as quickly as possible. But t

 are now driven out of the city in a rather ignoble way and another duke is appointed, similar to the previous one, he too drawing the fortunes of his

 she prepared to arouse them now flattering, now reproaching and now setting the sharpness of her own mind against the quick and varied changes of th

 connection and it remained even until the summer itself, day and night, providing a sensation both greater and lesser. (D.) However, in the time peri

 to her orphan child, the new emperor and that she should yield as much as to a good leader and the only one able to save the empire safely, and as to

 revering Diogenes, he blessed his simple and unsuperfluous life, rather than the pomp and wealth of his own kingdom kings and rulers would surely hav

 he showed in practice the activity of his 2.704 soul, now falling upon the heights of the Mysians like a sudden thunderbolt, now secretly attacking th

 he threw into confusion both the emperor and as many as happened to be with him, these also unprepared, and very few in number, and with fortune so br

 other lands and abundance of revenues, for the time being in written guarantees but when he should become master of the entire empire, the things pro

 like some fire brought upon fire. For the damage to the ears of corn and to the other fruits was abundant but of the vines, and of these most of all,

 First, let here be set down a narrative of the Messalians and Bogomils who were captured in these times around Mount Athos. (C.) For in other respects

 being arrogant, since, having dug through the isthmic neck of this very mountain, he was transforming and refashioning the place into an island, and w

 flying about, and tapping all over the bark with their beaks, and passing by every healthy part, they linger perched only on the unsound and rotten pa

 And there came from the Celtic and Gallic pits a certain man, a Gaul, wise and not wise, asserting that he foresaw many things that had not yet 2.723

 the purpose of this preface tends and secondly, because many things having been said and contended for by many on behalf of the subject, as was possi

 awaited Momitilos. But the Persian forces, being very numerous, he drove into a tight circle, so that in the middle, as in a prison and a net, Momitil

 it was judged not necessary for the plan to proceed further, lest it be discovered by being divulged. For indeed the obviousness of their hopes sugges

 to have suffered unlawful things and at the same time a place of instruction, drawing the more reckless toward moderation, and for those by whom the

 He gives them to be filled abundantly, so that, thus departing from proper reasoning, they might proceed like madmen to the slaughter of men. But sinc

 displaying the pollution of their wickedness, to the astonishment and fear of the onlookers, and filling every street with human blood and flesh. (14.

 Apokaukos was now dead, having fallen to the sword, and the Byzantines needed a more ardent man with a suitably active disposition, frequent letters c

 there was, the cities were sick and matters were in a very bad state for all the Romans. For neither any beasts of burden, nor any flocks were left to

 when these things had happened, with the rumor spreading from morning and being diffused throughout the whole city, a greater shout and lamentation ar

 similarly to those physicians, with God bringing upon the common and private affairs of the Romans the healing punishment, who use not the sharpest an

 I myself was a demolisher, opposing engines with engines and city-takers with city-takers, and becoming for you a mightiest tower and an unshakable fo

 he uttered. (B.) 1One might reasonably censure both (he says), Kantakouzenos and me, for being humanly disposed toward the present rivalry, and for n

 counselor, and with both palms was pushing the man far from his eyes. This becomes the beginning of scandals and the first situation against the patri

 having sent to the satraps around Philadelphia, she gathered Carians and Lydians, and Ionians, and as many of the select Persian horsemen as were from

 Phakeolatos, having prepared imperial triremes, sailed out ostensibly for the sake of vengeance for the Chians, being one of the very wealthy, but of

 to test my opinion. And even though I was unwilling, she summoned me again as a judge, and as a kind of arbiter of her and the patriarch’s disputes co

 having completed the double course of their struggle, have neither persuaded the tyrants, nor, failing to persuade them, were their heads not taken of

 we had said that he had an order of watchmen and guards with all of whom, having become more than one hundred, going to the gate, which is called Gol

 In the same way, I myself today, having summoned you as witnesses of the things said long ago by me to you and through you to the empress Anna, have j

 of those untimely hopes, and fearing lest, with her affairs hanging on a razor's edge, she might be destroyed by the others who had suffered irreparab

 to be gathered. (E.) And just as the sun had risen over the earth, a man who led a monastic and quiet life, who was accustomed to visit her often to h

 having a coordinated 2.785 course to the end it is very easy for those who wish to encounter them and at the same time to learn more accurately the a

 the proclamation by no means seemed to the Palamites to be complete. (B.) And it happened that such things took place in the divine church at Blachern

 and to speak of the Epicurean atoms, nothing more was found in them. It was necessary, therefore, to seek and to take what was from the empress Anna f

 Different tongues of those then present there were shooting jests against him and gathering in twos and threes at a distance, they were perplexed wit

 The emperor’s two brothers of the empress Eirene have been appointed, John and Manuel, and have been adorned with the insignia befitting such a rank,

 the empress Anna, contriving persecutions and deaths against your father, unable to put forward any pretext whatsoever bearing the appearance of truth

 of thoughts, like some cargo ships and triremes an island, full of fears and long anxieties, which, as if from a piratical raid, bring and carry to us

 immediately. For he did not dare to go from Byzantium to the meeting without arms, as he was just then swimming in the heights of his ambition nor, o

 to dive headlong, for him it is necessary also to endure the great billows of dangers but for whom it is considered sufficient to live in smaller cir

 For those upon whom terrible things come unwillingly, a certain forgiveness mixed with pity usually follows. But for those who happen to dig up founta

 is the cause for them, from whom an abundance for a toil-free table is set forth but peace, on the contrary, becomes a lavish and real expense. But y

 A virtue that is effortless and unrivaled is deemed worthy of splendid prizes, such as award conspicuous crowns. Since neither appearance, nor any man

 power. Then what soul do you think I have, O dearest friend, or by what 2.818 coals of pain do you think the core of my paternal affections is set on

 that his tongue is masterful in abuse against himself, and his hand all too ready for punishments, seems to me to be unknown by no one. Therefore, as

 It was my lot to visit him, with nothing else at all stirring my enthusiasm for the task, if I must here reveal the secret of my heart and not misrepr

 they were saying was the destruction of the dogmas of which his father, having made his heart a firm habitation, had given the greatest impetus to th

 he was thinking, he had ordered that the new canons of that Isidore be given over to oblivion by fire and that the customary ones from of old be open

 apostle, I build again, I prove myself a transgressor.2 To which I have the following arguments to oppose what was said, before I had cast myself int

 and as he traced the similarity of such a one to Arius and Sabellius and Nestorius, and to as many as attempted to construct their own heresies from t

 to the son, who possessed the command, as has been related above, it was not at all thought tolerable to allow the Persians to make the removal of the

 betraying souls until a horse was brought alongside, which he mounted and rode at full speed, striking down the enemies so that not even one was lef

 their power, having been diverted from the Romans, would with the abundance of profit very quickly augment the Romans. But what was especially breakin

 when it was possible to be rich from commerce and a maritime life, having given up selling and buying in the relaxation of peace, and from such a luxu

 2.848 a work better than an enemy's fire, together with all that was being burned, came about on that day. (C.) Therefore the enemies, delaying not at

 they had put forward their merchant ships as a sort of bulwark, they were already plowing furrows contrary to their expectations, thinking the war wou

 that they might accomplish, they both hauled in the stern-cables and, having called together the triremes to aid in the withdrawal, utterly defeated a

 they condemned themselves for their previous neglect, and they made promises, to voluntarily contribute what they had to a collection, and even to exc

 of a hoe but those having advanced a little slacken their oars, not at all with military order and discipline, but for the most part in disorder, and

 to astound them from the very first sight, but they, having fallen from proper understanding, rounding that headland one by one, came into view. First

 and both monoremes and pinnaces, because of their numbers, escaped capture and were beyond the dangers. (2.) But as these had been brought to this sta

 that is, the Latins, having transgressed their own boundaries, wrongfully held the territory of the Romans and to restore the loss they had inflicted

 to be put forward, who would not be a striker and a drunkard and so devoid of all and every kind of education as those who, departing late in the hour

 it was a task to hide such men in the earth, for those who were swayed by the similarity of nature. To such an extent did the worse things then increa

 stitching and putting together. 2. Now as the autumnal turns of the sun were lodging at the year's gateway, the Emperor Cantacuzenus, having set out f

 For in this way somehow, dragged away into forgetfulness, the name of the new emperor Andronicus has been silenced, and at the same time that of the p

 would perhaps be granted by some, as many as are overcome by such friendships and are otherwise by nature unloving towards slander but where God is w

 a rising up of dialectical apes, just as the myths of old the giants? Why do you kindle the flame of your own punishment? Why do you cultivate for you

 from thrones unjustly and with no reason at all, and to bring in others in their place, after having demanded and received from them beforehand the si

 have I ever wished to be attached to lands and vineyards and forests of many kinds, nor have I endured to exchange my freedom for all the honors and g

 being present, they were saying, brothers, let us give the final farewell to one another, that we may dine in Hades or rather in paradise with God le

 Immediately, having offered a brief veneration to the Gospel lying nearby, while we for our part often and repeatedly demanded that the acts of the di

 we have provided a monument of his wickedness to time. I omit to mention the labors we undertook in the histories of events, which we also committed t

 truth. Then it is not otherwise paradoxical, in matters that flow and are carried in different ways at different times, and complete an indefinite voy

 A judicial power separated from the royal power would indeed be worth much, if a king had to do what was commanded while another was judging. But sinc

 will provide the opportunity, nor, if he wished to say what he has practiced, will he stand far from shipwreck but in an instant he will recount all

 that the passion happens to become deeply dyed and hard to wash out for him, 2.914 so that he is in danger of one of two things happening: either that

 on the foundation of the apostles and prophets they built their own struggles and the contests of the martyrs. But you, unless you enslave the freedom

 a diverse one, which would be corrected when a small ecumenical synod was gathered, with almost all bishops coming together along with patriarchs and

 you rebuke not small things but you threaten more, and drive us from all sides to understand none of the necessary things, but, so to speak, to cons

 When Palamas muttered something in anger because of the ironies, I held to what followed, not at all caring that he was buzzing beside me. But perhap

 this law is written throughout all the earth, the author of the greatest evils. For no longer will fitting customs and laws be kept for rulers and rul

 praising the simplicity of the divine dogmas, he considers the superfluous and varied aspect of theology to be worthy of long laments, since it become

 the hope of abundance, giving a hand to rival the acquisitiveness of the one in need and this one seeks, but that one gives and again the opposite,

 by the changes of figures, there the being weighed down with fruits, but here the wretchedness of emptiness. So be it.2 2.936 2. But for my part (to

 compared to all human nobility, differing as much as a tourmaline from an obol, so much must the company of the wise differ, when compared to servile

 not having it contemplated in herself? But if it is a substance, is it angelic? Since an angel is also a light and a flashing and radiance of the firs

 of the divine nature, in which the angels who minister to God also participate, according to which the righteous also will shine like the sun, being n

 with the divinity or a fourth hypostasis, and the divine father and teacher shows how great the absurdity is. But if it is some non-essential quality

 already shows that the change is in the very substance, concerning which generation and corruption are considered. Since, therefore, it has been agree

 and this divine teacher has already stated the principle, the principle of energy would also be the same, even if they seem to differ in names, that i

 joined here. For who would not have mourned for those, who for their whole life were thus deprived of the light of their eyes? And who would not have

 Thus also Basil, great in divine matters: 1Be content to speak as you were taught and do not tell me these sophistries, that it is unbegotten, or be

 he renders his saying thus: 1For we shall not be accused,2 he says, 1at the departure of the soul, because we have not theologized, but because we

 using concealments so that, being a thief, he may drive back the dragnet of truth, leading the mind from here to there, and from there to here. And j

 energy, both uncreated and essential and natural? For it is not lawful to suppose that the essence of God descends to earthly things and makes wise an

 and to this day to no one, neither by him, nor by us, nor by any other of all men. For indeed he would have set it forth and filled everyone's ears, b

 never in any way to utter any such things? For they say that the divine is simple and uncompounded but that which is composed of many and different t

 make their departure, lest perhaps the orgies of iconoclasm, always nursed and milk-fed by them, be carried away unnoticed by the roaring waves of sil

 we are not of the opinion of others, but of the impulse toward the good of zeal and of the arguments for the truth but of the things resulting from t

 time, by which one learned and was assured by the apostolic canons and statutes. And why must I mention all those things one by one? For all know, as

 announcing beforehand the turmoil in their soul and now sinking down and hiding themselves but now emerging, as from the gates of Hades, and appeari

 the difference of the uncreated energies from the divine essence is great and infinite, and from the energies we know God and as the great Basil says

 I showed them either reading without understanding at all what they were reading. For the divine father, having said that we know God from his energie

 and doctrines, newer than old ones 2.993 and very recent nor did he trample on oaths of the worshipped God. (C.) But if someone should object, admiri

 of us, the party of Palamas praised the emperor with very many hymns, as he provided them a fair wind to sail according to their will and with such f

 not confusing and corrupting and at the same time misinterpreting, and as it were fighting with himself. For he who is unable to make his own words ac

 offered our introduction to the public in vain willingly, because looking to God, and running such a double course of contest under him as the judge

 eager to pour libations to Palamas, as if to some god, not only of whatever land and sea produce as offerings for purses and tables, nor of whatever h

 understanding of speech. For not 2.1009 only from that many-tongued clamor and tempest and from the disorder of what was being said but also the clap

 So it happened, by the rush of that unrestrainable violence which offered no opportunity for reflection, that they paid attention in darkness both to

 to the strangeness of phenomena, but to persevere firmly with a steadfast mind even in the midst of misfortunes, and especially those according to God

 hatred instead of my love for them, they slander me now for those things, for which they themselves are found putting forth written confessions.2 and

 similarly said. But we were taught by scripture that the name of the holy and of the incorruptible and of the upright and of the good is nowhere made

 they anathematize, by whom they themselves were deposed for the impiety of the innovated dogmas, thinking thus to escape the reproofs for impiety, hav

 to hide. For in other respects being and appearing to be a noble and good man, this man here was secretly a lover of human glory and utterly overcome

 that one should at least repay the one who offered a cup of cold water, but not even to have one who might minister this to me. Therefore I bear it, b

 the opposite continent, the Genoese who inhabit this tiny fort drove the affairs of the Romans into such a tight spot, so that every sea-gate was secu

 and from there to another, and again from there to here and for it to be possible, when one part is in danger, while the others are still healthy and

 has happened, written volumes and new decrees were established by all of us, that is both the bishops and senators, along with the emperor and the pat

 we hear, but now some by the other. For sight, being perceptive only of things that are present and at hand, nevertheless for the most part provides a

 Therefore, when those others heard, it was pleasing and decided that those letters be given to us. But to Palamas the proposal seemed a certain burden

 They confirmed for themselves an evil word. They sharpened, like a sword, their tongues. They said, who will see? Come and let us destroy him, and no

 This man also suffered what that other one did when he took the saving bread from the supper with his hands. For just as it happened that the devil im

 ungoverned, you also, carrying yourself along, have thrown yourself to the adversaries, and you unsparingly wield your tongue against us just like the

 to the depths. But I must return 2.1055 to that point. (D.) For the friend, straining for a deposition of words, and having pushed aside all the previ

 an ebb tide, taking it away, submerged it. Therefore, more sharply for him who had taken up such a struggle, he approached the argument concerning the

 of the essence, which we hear from the saints is above every name and thought but the wonders seen in the universe give the matter for the theologica

 given to the sun, to illuminate the whole inhabited world. For since in the case of other things, having first established the matter, He later gave i

 introducing, that is defining, is by nature the beginning of the motion contemplated in it according to potential, and every essential motion towards

 full of mercy.2 What then? Do they say these things have the significance of an energy, or of a nature? No one would say anything other than the ener

 It must be considered from this point also, how Palamas had remained continually completely insensible of the one God and without any understanding of

 And this too seems to me to be one of the very finest things. For you have solved a long-standing problem for me, best of men, very effortlessly and

 Rightly so. For they do not answer those who refute them but they persuade themselves, as they wish. When, therefore, does an acquittal of the charge

 having collected Hellenic terms, which those men use concerning their own dogmas, and shamelessly mixing and 2.1082 sowing them himself among the divi

 nature.2 But also the wonderful Maximus expounds these things. 1Without the rational,2 he says, 1power, there is no scientific knowledge and with

 a man vain by nature and of any need whatsoever, having taken a sword of any kind greater than his own strength, then being unable from elsewhere, set

 if one calls disposition providence, let him understand it thus: that before this world there is a standing Mind of the universe, from which and accor

 one who encounters his theological writings will know clearly the agreement. For the pains in my head do not permit me to have leisure for these thing

 proceeds from a monad, by so much it is distinguished and multiplied just as also in a center all the lines of a circle subsist together in a single

 and it is to be seen in the case of the science of words. For as many as use the same dialect, it is necessary for them to use the science and art of

 of all things, but unpartaken of and it is divided, but indivisibly in the image of our soul, which is also a simple substance. For it too, being wh

 and they cling fast to his things. For the madman has grown shameless, and his face has become that of a harlot and an adulteress, who, when she has d

 of the dogmas of Pythagoras. For neither did he consider the divine to be sensible or passible, but he supposed the first principle to be invisible an

 of testimony, and very splendidly, which God showed, and Moses set up, and Bezalel completed.2 1And angels,2 says Chrysostom, 1appearing among men

 of the energies being and being called uncreated? Fear much more, lest you make God a creature, by considering His natural energies to be created. Wha

 confusing the argument a little, 2.1117 he calls those many and infinite energies hypostases, and conversely, the many hypostases, which to this day

 Therefore, having from the first instance brought forward the saying of the Savior himself, which he had spoken to the apostles, that there would be n

 about to blossom the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and godliness, the spirit of the fe

 as God most wise, and of manifold energies.2 And why must we here unfurl greater ranks of arguments, having taken from there these moderate things f

 only, but among many other things also to act naturally as we also say the sun is the maker of the day, since it naturally brings it to completion, s

 of his own refutations 2.1133 passing over in silence the things said to them, but shadowily inserting here and there some bare names, so that through

 Therefore, one must be rid of such things more quickly, lest the matters of our more serious occupation somehow become weaker in the future, being mix

 celebrating, this great teacher provided us some very great assistance for the need mentioned above and now again it would be my intention and not at

 being itself also, but without substance and somehow subdued and not possessing a fire that burns very brightly. For he has never heard any of the oth

 as I was attempting to bring forth the books, they, not tolerating it even a little, rose up, pouring much mockery upon me and saying many other thing

 to supply the lamps from their own rays. I, for my part, perceiving from there some unusual and strange noise, was at first greatly astonished on acco

 I was seeking the manner of his sojourn abroad, both how it came about and how he himself lived, and where and what kind of life the intervening time

 had most of all urged to hasten the departure, were the shipwrecks of the church, and whatever sicknesses then grew upon the civil affairs on account

 having acquired a better opinion from above, but let anyone speak who might know better than I. So be it. As spring was already advancing, in which th

 there from all sides and everywhere, since the dominion of the Arabs extends from Egypt, or rather from Cyrene and Pentapolis and the parts still furt

 of the affairs of Egypt and Arabia, I quickly departed from there, going back to Cilicia, a place having a fine position, and at the same time a most

 he himself was going around villages and cities, and to meet especially the patriarchs themselves, namely Gregory of Alexandria and Ignatius of Antioc

 it would do, and from what provocations to worse things would it abstain? That state would be far from being saved, and would not, like a pilotless sh

 of the rest of the dignity of his life. For sacred feasts and festivals adorned that house, and lavish provisions for the needy. Indeed, he took the g

 that man whom I made known through Barlaam the Calabrian. And it was through his very long and, no less to say, utterly earnest care that he not only

 of the lesser in both respects. But it would quickly be taken away, if not the head, then at least whatever members of the body the laws of the state

 having sworn the oath which he promised to abjure. This greatly vexed that wise man, George Lapithes, not because Kantakouzenos took the empire, but b

 an exit from the labyrinth, and at the same time for him, having slain that Minotaur, to become immediately an exile across the sea to his fatherland

 they blockaded the mouth of the harbor. When the Genoese ships were thus unexpectedly shut up as if in a net, four of them immediately unfurled their

 I was present there, and I myself will immediately go on to tell it in a more detailed and particular manner. We must therefore take up the account ag

 And as soon as the report was spread over the whole island, many ran together from all sides, each one holding in his hands whatever weapon came to ha

 in a single day the decline for the amount of those ten coins of mine to go down to eight. And one of my old acquaintances, coming up to my ear, urged

 In response, concerning grief, I said at this point, best of friends Agathangelos, I do not think I will need a long speech to you. For I have as much

 one who has chosen to live piously would hate. But God will certainly care for his church, to whom the scepters of piety have been committed and the m

 to learn your situation, that is, how it was decreed by the rulers to proceed more violently against you than against others, and at the same time wha

 of your students to adorn and manage the judicial rolls, and others the council chambers of senatorial work, and others the embassies abroad, and for

 Most people say what compelled them to bring such desolation upon you, so that they might act without fear, doing what such murderers must do. Come th

 they provoke wrath against themselves, for these reasons, therefore, it is necessary to be silent, and especially because it did not happen that we ha

 they bring against us through persecutions. For one of two things would follow: either to believe that God is unjust for opposing those who, as they t

 to answer with another of the usual frowns now, and indeed also that, if you served the one God, the creator of all, that is, it would have been possi

 The next morning, the admirals ordered the trumpeters to sound the military signals, and so all, leaping out armed for defense, encamped around the ci

 to cast out the impious shepherd, but since instead of punishing him, he also made him a victor, God then brings the penalty of loss common to both, m

 for all to be slaughtered there together by the hands of the enemy, but for one returning otherwise, the penalty to be a most shameful death, far supe

 anchoring at a harbor called thus, Therapias, near the temple of Sarapis, while the Genoese, on the other hand, were bobbing adrift to the east along

 and of all sorts of hopes, and in addition still to bury their own dead in a foreign land somewhere far from their own country, without their wives an

 to speak of it as unlegislated, having reaped a growth that had sprung up upon affairs from of old, and not being able easily to bring about the chang

 it has happened. But since I have been of one mind with Palamas, I have also immediately prevailed as emperor. And she, taking him up, answered in tu

 the governor had sent, seeking to join his own daughter in a marriage partnership with one of the sons of this Hyrcanus, so that with a relationship o

 but on the other hand, the opposite. The difference between them is not at all minimal or insignificant, that which good things have in relation to go

 that some were being vaguely hunted. But you might know likewise even from this, if, omitting the greater part for the sake of brevity, we should reco

 she condemned him. For since she was very eager to celebrate a splendid and costly annual festival to the Theotokos 3.109 on the regular day, she henc

 to speak, in short, to the house. And although he knew that the doctrines of Palamas had been allotted a destructive and abominable fate, nevertheless

 restraining with authoritative commands and fears, and, so to speak, burying in a tomb of silence in brief, I think, imitating that wicked steward, wh

 by those who had divided, .... the barbarian always vehemently and very arrogantly insisted on demanding what was left, and always taking he was alway

 to those whom it has been decided to attack more forcefully, it is necessary, if ever, now especially has it been decided by me as well to arm myself

 how great a rebuke from this he attaches to communion with the heterodox? For what things someone does not do at all when a master commands them to be

 they testified. Least of all, then, should you be of one mind with those petty reasoners, who, with their souls disturbed by a certain cowardice amids

 to make our deeds appear as wonders to the many, and from contrary things to accomplish contrary things paradoxically to the quite unexpected benefit

 to run a race. But where the end of hopes would not meet the hopes, and the flight from suffering evil becomes a provision for suffering evil, the pre

 to cast off the covenants of their harmony and the noble arbiter and charioteer of their friendship, just as long ago that audacious Lydian Pelops cas

 his mother and of all the saints. Amen. But concerning Barlaam the Calabrian and Akindynos, having nothing more to say at present, I say only this, th

 let it be the peak for after the risings of Orion, the sun, the arbiter and steward of the ethereal torches, recently traversing its celestial circui

 the expectation, now after the naval battle, of the Genoese who had made a truce with Hyrcanus, the Persian leader of the Bithynians, having come out

 to the emperor Cantacuzenus were exceedingly terrible, and, so to speak, touching the very marrow of his soul, as fitting rewards for that struggle, w

 and the affair advanced to open malice and already a truceless battle. And at the same time the inhabitants of the Thracian cities voluntarily went ov

 strength, and since there was nothing grim for which she had to lie in wait, she showed a certain mild form of rebukes to the young emperor, introduci

 Therefore in silence, both before it is spoken by the doer and before it is considered by the sufferer, experience outstrips knowledge, appearing very

 harmony and forcing the sources of rivers to flow upwards. For if nature had not given him a talkative tongue, he would have easily kept his plan unsp

 the distance being about fifteen stades, having sent his daughter, he arranges those marriages with foreigners for himself, in order that from nearby

 to bring forward what has been done For one who has set fire to a house, because he has not set fire to the whole city, does not remain unpunished. A

 I doing nothing wrong. But why must I recount what is clear to all? For from that time, when my father-in-law had decided to get me out of the way, th

 I was returning. As for the ensuing contrivances and practices and 3.171 actions, as many as are carried out by him with all zeal from that place agai

 Let these things be preferred to all those, with you being saved and God helping you, that is, to return to us again, to recount the public affairs, h

 to be shorn, but even to be stripped of their very skin, not only paying to him the ever newer exactions of 3.178 the annual taxes, but also to the ba

 of the inhabitants, almost crying out to other cities through their deserted plots of land not to do the same things, so that they might not fall into

 would finish. Just now, therefore, at the end of last summer, he set out from Crete and arrived with full sails at Mount Athos, on the border, so to s

 the light did not comprehend that most of all and for this very reason, tending toward non-being, it is most invisible of all. Wherefore, having also

 they voluntarily overlook and endure injustices, bearing them from both their own people and foreign nations for the sake of not being drawn into publ

 is raised, from the stern for the Catalans and Venetians together, but head on for the Genoese who were at sea. And so then, having unfurled the sails

 astringent, before the wretched were consumed by the ulcer, the whole sum of their substance having been completely distributed. But while these thing

 of the state of the soul, and confuses the nature of truth, and what he destroys by his deeds, these things he boasts with his tongue are being set ri

 the insolence. To one who has fallen into such a great abyss of evils, then, what adamantine reason or what stony soul would ever wish to partake of h

 he settles some in cities, so as to now use the wretched Romans there altogether as perpetual slaves, having now taken the emperor's yielding as a hel

 a bold deed. But nevertheless I wish to learn the exact truth from your wisdom, O best of men for if you should persuade me that this holds true, you

 I had heard that what is called divine providence exists unhindered not only for the wiser sons of the Hellenes, but also for some of our own people.

 Thus, not even God's knowledge, whether one ought to call it foreknowledge or knowledge, by which he sees things happening, brings any violence to any

 to the predictions and foreknowledge of those who see, if there were any physicians who, rightly conjecturing from that untimely food, proclaimed befo

 to all the more ancient of your ancestors and you will see that your deeds are so much heavier and more varied as all the barren sand of the seashore

 it happened again, as the Palamite faction, on account of envy, had both provoked the anger of the emperors and fanned it to its highest point and so

 of Palaiologos the son-in-law, they for their part did not endure to remain in their place for the future, but always sallying forth little by little,

 by the man's polytheism, and so a more novel excess of evil and third, that he might also grant to the emperor Cantacuzenus his own prayers as an amu

 he says the incarnate Word is the Son of God, but a certain unsubstantial and non-existent energy, divided into ten 3.230 thousand uncreated divinitie

 he does not know how to be admonished, but just as if one of the murderers, being led to prison so that by fearing he might become temperate for the f

 using a foreign shelter and dominion as a saving harbor. Thus the instruments of impiety, along with their own dogmas, held out for a short time, and

 to adorn, since indeed many diseases of those who approach her tomb are very quickly driven away, God thereby refuting the folly and impiety of her pe

 And as the present year was ending, and the next one arriving, the affairs of the Romans were in a worse state than usual both because of the usual as

 He himself also followed them compliantly, with the emperor Palaiologos yielding out of respect for the affinity. But we must speak briefly of what th

 at the cock's crowing, a rumor quietly spread through the city, that the Emperor Palaiologos had entered within the walls through the sea gates of the

 together with the hope of the dignity, and having been excommunicated by that one before he himself [received] an excommunication from God, he attacks

 being able. And this was what for the time being quenched the restoration of the church and of the divine doctrines, along with my zeal in this matter

 to somehow collect traces and any kind of images of the truth and to heal the diseases of such deceit. For the distance from the top of the head to th

 of the monastic men who lived on Mount Athos, with Niphon accusing a certain one of the monks there, a priest surnamed Scorpius, who had been previous

 he happened, these violent and at least final breaths were stored up for the man by God for no other reason than for the declaration of the things tha

 it was better for me to return home for the time being, paying little heed to those contrived invitations but so that we might not give the mockers a

 if one should wish to examine it closely. I fear, however, lest a judgment from God be brought against me as well, because I myself, having been prese

 the scrutiny of what remains is a matter of choice, whether of recklessness or of providence. We too are the product of such turmoil, not wishing to y

 explicitly many uncreated deities and different from that divine essence, just as I now bring forward these witnesses who say that the divine and tri-

 timeless, the eternal, the creative, the just, the unoriginate, the unending, the unsearchable, the infinite, the unknowable, the will, the power, the

 nature but also multi-hypostatic, this you have dared here too, 3.281 worshipping hypostases without substance and deities without hypostasis. And fou

 and you suddenly ran to the general's tent, I mean, to theologize with unwashed hands and an unsound mind, come, be taught by us, even in your old age

 imposing them, through them we communicate to one another the movements of the mind. And for this reason, to one of the beings we gave the name heaven

 we name similar things, with many names, or to speak more accurately, with different names. But such names are entirely by convention and not by natur

 is the result of essence. Do you see how the scientific knowledge of nouns and verbs, through which all discourses and declarative doctrines come int

 that the divine energy is both whole energy and self-energy, I pass over on account of the abundance of material, considering these things sufficient

 of the Father the Son to one who hears Scripture saying, to preach that the Son is unlike the Father and without essence and very different in nature.

 According to you, then, God will be non-existent and the existence of God will be godless. And concerning the energy, it must be similarly said and as

 this uncreated thing becomes non-existent for you, or one of two things, it must be called either created-uncreated or uncreated-uncreated and at odds

 whiteness, but not at all a part of whiteness for whiteness is without mass and without quantity in itself and without magnitude, as has been shown.

 You have heard them speak of the identity of the word, or rather, of the definition, and in absolutely no other way. For if according to pronunciation

 being substance which if someone were to call a soul-nourishing meadow and a chamber of truth, he would not, I think, err. For being essentially one,

 with voices, so that the movement of the mind might not remain uncommunicated and unknown within us. And besides, since the whole life of men is orde

 they see things that are according to nature, but they seem to see different things in place of others, as their vision undulates from the moisture ar

 of some pouring out. And indeed, Concerning the powers, he says, I wish to discourse today and let whoever wishes come forward and tell me why God

 therefore scripture speaks of [God] being angry or grieved or repentant or treating someone unworthily, it is fitting to seek the intention of the exp

 of God, the true wisdom through which and in which he made all things, you call an unsubstantial divinity, or the artistic wisdom in creatures, this t

 According to which meaning, David also says that the heavens declare the glory of God with unspeakable voices, and at the same time he exhorts all cre

 is the colors of subjects. Therefore, all sciences and wise arts depend on this technical wisdom, just as different shoots from one root. And just as

 co-eternal are the creations for since the creator always is and is always creating according to you, then the world was also always with the creator

 to pass by impiety3. Again, Gregory of Nyssa, himself also contending against Eunomius and running the same double course as his brother, says, 3it

 to which of two things, either that neither the emperor nor anyone else understood the things spoken by the impious man against piety, or that, unders

 assuming a wholly deceitful guise, emptied the cup of poison for those who loved without deceit, before the victims perceived the plot. And so those m

 and they gathered together whatever still flowed around in memory, and whatever of it had flowed away far from the tribunal, perhaps giving way to oth

 nations dwell near the Britons. For where is the solution either consistent with or contrary to what was proposed, that what is composed of many and d

 he says that the uncreated and the immortal and such things are not essential differences, but here the essential difference is preserved in the union

 has essential ones but on the contrary, even if someone were to grant this here, because it does not have essential differences, for this reason perh

 with a brief example, since the cause is spoken of in many ways, there is a productive cause, as the builder of the house a final cause, as the shelt

 he vomits out ignorance from the wicked treasures of his absurd belly, and how the wretch has filled piety, which is both lacking in nothing and healt

 the one is the unitive and cohesive principle of all elements, as many as generation and corruption nurture. For otherness, by introducing a differenc

 a multitude of names to the straight lines gathered from the ends of the circle to the center, being divisible on the outside, but unable to divide th

 be eager to accomplish God’s will. For I have heard that Joasaph Cantacuzenus, the former emperor, being greatly vexed at Gregoras for having committe

 a minister of falsehood, an annihilation of compunction, a door to slander, that is, of reviling against men, and in no way of that against God for t

 and he himself is numbered among the other heretics. Gregoras, therefore, having heard for himself so many words possessing such great impiety, was ex

 all-wise to the wise men of the iconoclasts then and to the three tyrants who succeeded one another against him for twenty-five years, speaking boldly

 a title long ago was placed on the head of the King, Christ, inscribed on the wood of the cross but your title, O all-wise one, has been carved more

 corresponding and consistent. And since they had already gathered with Gregoras beside the house, they were carrying on the continuation of that discu

 to hear it, you have heard from me, who have recounted it from the beginning until now as best I could but if I should attempt to speak about the won

 they are indifferent for the rest of the time of their own lives to such an extent as to practice every absurdity fearlessly, wallowing in adulteries,

 the streams of religion gushing forth from here, 3.400 and today need some Proteus, who is able to change himself frequently according to the differen

 God, that is one uncreated divinity in three, and as Gregory the great in theology says, God is one unapproachable and unsuccessive light, ever-shinin

 reasonings. For the principles of syllogisms must be self-taught and possess from themselves what is credible and irrefutable everywhere, and what is

 being for the eye of the soul, the intellect, for the knowledge of sensible things, of both sense-perception and thought together, from these we see k

 what is useful for the occasions and for the subjects of those writing and discoursing according to a certain economy, being adapted and altered. And

 the divine to be present to these earthly things, being for the most part, so to speak, filthy and foul-smelling and polluted. Or how could God be cal

 they thrust together their own divinities, the uncreated and unapproachable, and especially of all that distinct light. For just as both bring to both

 Of the good and God-loving men who have ever been, one was, so to speak, also that great Moses, through whom God had worked the greatest of wonders th

 He says the face of Christ was then made brilliant. For the mystery of the economy of the incarnation was not a fantasy and if a body, then its subst

 First, then, you have done this absurd thing, by putting forward half-cut sayings of the divine scripture second, that having hidden in silence the m

 and the divine Chrysostom, expounding on he shone like the sun, says, the glory of incorruptible bodies does not emit as much light as this corrupti

 when spoken remains unspeakable and when conceived unknown. And a little later, For indeed, to speak concisely, He was not a man, not as not being a

 showing one uncreated Holy Spirit, so also that light which appeared on Tabor was not uncreated, but the divinity shown through it. From where, then,

 they do not hesitate to bring forward, let them bring them to those common notions of divine scripture, which were also set forth by us in the introdu

 of the more manifest revelations first and those more suitable for infants, so it leads by a smooth path to a more perfect state. For to Moses also, s

 nothing new nor far from Scriptural custom for indeed we receive the royal commands proclaimed by the public heralds in the cities as if spoken from

 speaking of things that are, and whatever are the characteristics of that one, according to the divine Gregory, whether the manifestation through fles

 and thus from the things appearing to the senses and from the timely 3.452 wonders, it harmoniously raises the soul and directs it towards that intell

 he said it was a type, not to mention that those things of the ancient prophets are what the divine scriptures have defined as types and shadows of th

 I shall return to that point, obeying these teachers even in this, who command us to concede and put aside such profane novelties 3.458 of words and m

 it has transferred to itself towards the uncreated, and that which has a beginning towards that which has no beginning, and the temporal towards the t

 they nurtured. One of these, being put forward for the present, will suffice to restore us who are weary, and at the same time to present sufficiently

 will put on immortality, there being nothing in which these things will be seen. But it is absurd even to think such things, or rather impossible. And

 not recounting from myself, but from the great father and teacher of the church of God, whose trustworthiness I think not even the devil himself could

 to refute him both at that time and continually from then on at opportune intervals, so that these things which I now happen to be recounting in your

 the refutation of depravity for he seems like someone composing riddles for anyone. Wherefore I decided it was necessary to consider whether Palamas

 he is testified to have known, he knew only so much as to appear more luminous than another who had not been equally illumined and his superiority wa

 participating and being participated in and inferior to the first, and at the same time a mean between the imperfect and the perfect, but in the third

 of all things, nothing is more prone to impiety than for everyone to be always, night and day, shaken and overturned, just like an unballasted ship on

 for how is it possible to see an incorporeal substance?) but the transformed energy, he almost even let go of his soul, and 3.488 so great and of such

 the glory of bodies does not emit so much light as this corruptible body, nor is it of such a kind as to be perceptible to mortal eyes, but requiring

 it was other than that, and not that, nor an uncreated divinity, that is, essence. For just as that which is other than power is not power, according

 simply necessary, as if someone were showing only the purse in which pearls are covered for this one showed, but did not reveal the thing sought as

 saying that he transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore one should not pursue the ascetic life with this hope, lest Satan from this find t

 he had paused his journey. For since that winter had become very harsh, because a very great amount of snow had fallen for a very long time and filled

 being ashamed, he immediately showed the involuntariness of his entry from the royal gates, resisting and pulling against the hand of the emperor that

 whom fortune had forced to serve the barbarians, bringing all sorts of gifts, sheep and oxen and furniture and such things, very many and of various k

 mixed and very complex, reduced to one thread of history. It has been said by us above, therefore, that Russia is a most populous nation, and the land

 Theognostus the bishop decided to have for the future, and at the same time gladly, he to whom the rule of that land was entrusted, both received it a

 of the rulers of Russia together with their subjects to hold the orthodox faith and to be of one mind with us, but the fourth, not at all who, having

 Palaeologus and the very thrones of the patriarchate again to the one named Kallistos. Therefore, the patriarch, having judged it to be one of the mos

 unmusically, and in no way better than those who are blind and altogether unable to see what is at their feet for these men too, seeing the fruits of

 filling every day and night with pollutions, and being so greatly condemned by me? For not the hearers of the law are just, he says, before God, but t

 Having more and greater things than have been said to add to the history for the correction of some who know how to listen well (for we are persuaded

 A certain man from Trebizond in Constantinople, Symeon by name, having been ordained archbishop for the metropolis not a few years before, was sent ou

 constantly pouring the clamor of the case into my ears for whom it is just to put forward something in opposition and cessation of the accusations ag

 that is, both once and twice. which indeed I endured to hear with the tips of my ears, but being confident in the emperor's good will toward me, I sen

 at a varied table. And when we, they say, asked the reason for his audacity once and twice, he said that this was nothing new for dogs and weasels ur

 of no one. For who would ever believe a man who boasts of refuting others, when from the beginning he has possessed his friendship inseparably and, as

 of reviling, and from what shamelessness would they refrain against my books, they who are caught continually daring such things against the holy scri

 of life. And then the heretics and the 3.550 most genuine and home-bred slaves, being dragged down in their mind by ambition and at the same time hast

 they were delivered to the eternal fire. And these things happened in this way, but I will now return to that other matter. For those holding the fort

 the children of friends resembling Latins in their head, but their whole body dressed in the Persian and Median style, and on the contrary, on the nex

 and dividing on both sides, and itself becoming like an isthmus, checking and breaking the waves from either side, and making those like two straits,

 he was showing the zeal of the emperor, the emperor, having gathered from Byzantium three very large triremes, and more small biremes and monoremes fr

 The emperor Matthew was completely defeated, and he himself was taken alive, and nearly all those with him were captured, as many as had not become th

 

already hidden for a time in the depths of oblivion, by the dexterity of his nature and a more perfect industry he brought to light and granted it, as it were, a certain revival. The emperor considered and was eager to raise this man to the patriarchal throne, who had just recently also adopted the monastic habit, except he did not wish him to have received the imposition of hands from any of all those who had participated in the innovation of the dogma, but from one who had kept himself out of communion; so that from this there was a risk that the business at hand would be delayed. He was nevertheless nominated by the emperor after the required votes and testimonies and had received the pastoral staff at the imperial dais from the hand of the emperor, according to the custom that prevailed of old. And he was performing and administering 1.164 some of the patriarchal rights, as many as did not require the priesthood. (2.) A short time passed, and thus, so to speak, by chance, or rather by the providence of God, an ambassador sent from Aetolia by the ruler there, the despot Nikephoros, the bishop of Kozyle, arrives in Constantinople; and upon this, from Macedonia, the bishop of Debroi, not himself arriving as an ambassador from anywhere, but on account of other business. Since both of these had kept their opinion out of communion from association with the others, as many as had willingly been led into the innovation of the dogma, the bishop of Kozyle was preferred over the bishop of Debroi. For the bishop of Kozyle was under the metropolis of Naupaktos, and Naupaktos was under the throne of Constantinople, while the bishop of Debroi was under the throne of Justiniana Prima; and for this reason indeed the bishop of Kozyle was more suitable than the one from Debroi to serve the present need. For these reasons then, and urged on by the patriarch-nominate to the emperor, as has been said, Gregory of Cyprus, this bishop of Kozyle ordains a certain monk Germanos to the metropolis of Heraclea in Thrace. For to this one, according to ancient privileges, it is permitted to ordain the bishop of Constantinople, whether because Constantine the Great, who established Byzantium as a new and greatest Rome, did not wish to abolish the privileges of the ancient kings, but rather confirmed them out of respect for the long time and for the one who established the law, the emperor Severus, when with very many sweats 1.165 and toils he had subdued it, while it was still Byzantium, and having shamed it in its other defenses and demolished its walls, he finally granted to these Heracleans in Thrace that they use it as a village; whether, then, for this reason such a privilege is continuously observed, or I know not how, it has nevertheless been done at this time, as has been said; and the aforesaid bishop of Heraclea, having promoted Gregory of Cyprus from lector to both deacon and priest, then also ordained this man patriarch, using as concelebrants both those bishops, the one of Kozyle and the one of Debroi. But we must return to the point from which we digressed into these matters. (7.) So those factions of the Zealots were being split, as we have already said, for the reasons which we have stated. And they were being split further also on account of the patriarch himself; on the pretext, on the one hand, that having come from Cyprus at the age of twenty to the customs of the Romans and having brought with him certain Latin customs, he scattered suspicion in the minds of the many that he had received the imposition of hands as a lector from Latins, whether one of the malicious had muttered this first, or the occasion at that time had contrived it for the ill-will of the Zealots, or rather the demon who was provoking them and dancing over their strife had suggested this, so that the spectacle of that turmoil and confusion might be constructed in many ways and from many sources. So on this pretext, then, the patriarch was unacceptable to them; but in truth, priding themselves and being puffed up beyond what is proper by their exiles and the other suf 1.166 ferings of their zeal, they themselves wished to have charge of the other matters, as many as are permitted to be performed in the affairs of the church, laying down the law to all as if from a scepter, and in addition, one of their own

ἤδη χρόνον λήθης κρυβέντα βυθοῖς, φύσεως δεξιότητι καὶ φιλοπονίᾳ τελεωτέρᾳ πρὸς φῶς ἤγαγε καὶ οἱονεί τινα ἐχαρίσατο ἀναβίωσιν. τοῦτον ἐμελέτησέ τε καὶ προὐτεθύμητο ἐς τὸν πατριαρχικὸν ἀναγαγεῖν θρόνον ὁ βασιλεὺς, ἄρτι καὶ τὸ μοναχικὸν ἀλλαξάμενον σχῆμα πλὴν οὐχ ὑπ' οὐδενὸς τῶν ἁπάντων ἐβούλετο τὴν χειροθεσίαν αὐτὸν εἰληχέναι, ὁπόσοι τῇ τοῦ δόγματος καινοτομίᾳ κεκοινωνήκεσαν, ἀλλ' ὃς ἀκοινώνητον ἑαυτὸν συνετήρησεν· ὡς κινδυνεύειν ἐντεῦθεν βραδύνειν τὰ τῆς σπουδῆς. προεβλήθη μέντοι παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως μετὰ τὰς ψήφους καὶ μαρτυρίας τὰς ὀφειλούσας καὶ τὴν ποιμαντικὴν ῥάβδον ἐπὶ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ βήματος παρὰ τῆς τοῦ βασιλέως εἰλήφει χειρὸς κατὰ τὸ πάλαι κρατῆσαν ἔθος. καὶ ἦν διενεργῶν καὶ διοικῶν 1.164 ἔστιν ἃ τῶν πατριαρχικῶν δικαίων, ὅσα οὐχ ἱερωσύνης ἐδεῖτο. (ʹ.) Βραχὺ τὸ μεταξὺ, καὶ οὑτωσί πως εἰπεῖν κατὰ τὸ αὐτόματον ἢ μᾶλλον προνοίᾳ θεοῦ πρέσβυς ἐξ Αἰτωλίας σταλεὶς παρὰ τοῦ ἐκεῖσε κρατοῦντος Νικηφόρου τοῦ δεσπότου ἐς τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν ἀφικνεῖται ὁ Κοζύλης ἐπίσκοπος· καὶ ἐπ' αὐτῷ ἐκ Μακεδονίας ὁ ∆εβρῶν ἐπίσκοπος, οὐ πρέσβυς αὐτὸς ἀφικόμενος ὁθενοῦν, ἀλλ' ἑτέρας εἵνεκα χρείας. τούτων ἀμφοτέρων ἀκοινώνητον διατηρησάντων τὴν γνώμην τῆς τῶν ἄλλων ἐπιμιξίας, ὁπόσοι τῇ καινοτομίᾳ τοῦ δόγματος ἑκόντες ὑπήχθησαν, προὐκρίθη ὁ Κοζύλης ἐπίσκοπος τοῦ ∆εβρῶν. ὁ μὲν γὰρ ὁ Κοζύλης ὑπὸ τὴν τῆς Ναυπάκτου ἐτέλει μητρόπολιν, ἡ δὲ Ναύπακτος ὑπὸ τὸν τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως θρόνον, ὁ δέ γε ∆εβρῶν ὑπὸ τὸν θρόνον ἐτέλει τῆς πρώτης Ἰουστινιανῆς· καὶ ἦν διὰ τοῦτό γε οἰκειότερος τῇ παρούσῃ χρείᾳ διακονῆσαι μᾶλλον ὁ Κοζύλης ἢ ὁ ∆εβρῶν. ταῦτ' ἄρα καὶ παρὰ τοῦ ἤδη ὡς εἴρηται προβληθέντος τῷ βασιλεῖ πατριάρχου Γρηγορίου τοῦ ἐκ Κύπρου προτραπεὶς ὁ τοιοῦτος Κοζύλης χειροτονεῖ Γερμανόν τινα μοναχὸν εἰς τὴν τῆς Θρᾳκικῆς Ἡρακλείας μητρόπολιν. τούτῳ γὰρ κατὰ τὰ πάλαι ἐφεῖται προνόμια χειροτονεῖν τὸν Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, εἴτε καὶ τοῦ μεγάλου Κωνσταντίνου, τοῦ τὸ Βυζάντιον ἐς νέαν καὶ μεγίστην καταστήσαντος Ῥώμην, μὴ καταλύειν ἐθελήσαντος τὰ τῶν πάλαι βασιλέων προνόμια, ἀλλ' ἐπικυρώσαντος μᾶλλον αἰδοῖ τοῦ μακροῦ χρόνου καὶ τοῦ τὸν νόμον θέντος Σεβήρου τοῦ αὐτοκράτορος, ὁπότε σὺν μάλα τοι πλείστοις ἱδρῶσι 1.165 καὶ πόνοις ἐκεῖνος αὐτὴν παρεστήσατο, Βυζάντιον οὖσαν ἔτι, καὶ τά τε ἄλλα πρὸς ἄμυναν καταισχύνας αὐτὴν καὶ τὰ τείχη καθῃρηκὼς τὸ τελευταῖον τούτοις δὴ τοῖς ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης Ἡρακλεώταις ὅσα καὶ κώμῃ χρῆσθαι αὐτῇ ἐχαρίσατο· εἴτε οὖν διὰ ταύτην τὴν αἰτίαν τηρεῖται διηνεκῶς τὸ τοιοῦτον προνόμιον, εἴτ' οὐκ οἶδ' ὅπως, πέπρακται δ' οὖν ὅμως ἐπὶ τοῦδε τοῦ χρόνου τουτί γε, ὡς εἴρηται· καὶ ἐς διάκονόν τε καὶ ἱερέα ἐξ ἀναγνώστου προβιβάσας ὁ ῥηθεὶς Ἡρακλείας Γρηγόριον τὸν ἐκ Κύπρου, εἶτα καὶ πατριάρχην κεχειροτόνηκε τοῦτον, συλλειτουργοῖς χρησάμενος ἀμφοτέροις ἐκείνοις τοῖς ἐπισκόποις, τῷ τε Κοζύλης καὶ τῷ ∆εβρῶν. ἀλλ' ἐπανιτέον ὅθεν εἰς ταῦτα ἐξέβημεν. (Ζ.) Ἐσχίζοντο μὲν οὖν, ὡς ἔφθημεν εἰρηκότες, τὰ τῶν Ζηλωτῶν ἐκεῖνα συστήματα δι' ἅς γε εἰρήκειμεν τὰς αἰτίας. ἐσχίζοντο δ' ἔτι καὶ δι' αὐτόν γε τὸν πατριάρχην· πρόφασιν μὲν, ὅτι περ εἰκοσαετὴς Κυπρόθεν τοῖς Ῥωμαίων ἐπιδημήσας ἤθεσι καὶ τῶν Λατινικῶν ἠθῶν ἔστιν ἃ ἐπαγόμενος ὑποψίαν ταῖς τῶν πολλῶν διεσκέδασε γνώμαις, ὡς ἀναγνώστου χειροθεσίαν παρὰ Λατίνων ἐδέξατο, εἴτε του τῶν ἐπιχαιρεκάκων γρύξαντος τοῦτο πρότερον, εἴτε τοῦ καιροῦ σχεδιάσαντος τηνικαῦτα τῇ κακοηθείᾳ τῶν Ζηλωτῶν, ἢ μᾶλλον τοῦ ἐρεθίζοντος ἐκείνους δαίμονος καὶ τῆς ἐκείνων καταχορεύοντος ἔριδος τοῦτο ὑπαγορεύσαντος, ἵνα πολλαπλοῦν τε καὶ πολλαχόθεν ᾖ συγκεκροτημένον τὸ τῆς ταραχῆς καὶ συγχύσεως ἐκείνης θέατρον. πρόφασιν μὲν οὖν διὰ τοῦτο τούτοις ὁ πατριάρχης ἀπρόσδεκτος ἦν· τῇ δ' ἀληθείᾳ ταῖς ἐξορίαις καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις τοῦ ζήλου πα 1.166 θήμασι πέρα τοῦ δέοντος ἐγκαλλωπιζόμενοι καὶ ἐπαιρόμενοι ἤθελον αὐτοὶ τὰς αἰτίας ἔχειν τῶν τε ἄλλων, ὅσα ἐφεῖται τοῖς τῆς ἐκκλησίας τελεῖσθαι πράγμασι, καθάπερ ἀπὸ σκήπτρου τοῖς ἅπασι θεμιστεύοντες, καὶ πρός γε ἔτι ἕνα σφῶν αὐτῶν