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awaiting the murder of Aspar, they helped the city and scattered the rebels, there would have been a great disturbance in affairs. But the youngest son of Aspar, Armenarichus, having been secretly taken away by the plan of Zeno, escapes, having been sent to Isauria and becomes the son-in-law of Zeno's illegitimate son, 118 who after the death of Leo, returned to Byzantium and lived prosperously until the end. In Italy, Ricimer the general, whom I mentioned before, and son-in-law of Anthemius, who reigned piously in Rome, rises up against his own father-in-law. And with war gripping the land, the forces of the emperor were so starved that they touched even hides and other unaccustomed foods, and the emperor Anthemius himself was slain in the seventh year of his reign. At that time Leo, on account of the disturbances still existing in Rome, sends out Olybrius, the husband of Placidia, to Rome and proclaims him emperor. But Ricimer, after the slaughter of Anthemius, having lived for only three months, dies of a disease, with Olybrius departing with him from a bodily illness. And when these men had died, Majorian succeeded to the imperial rule, a man of sound mind and experienced in wars. He, finding the cities had been sacked by Gizerich, invaded Liana, and seizing Liguria, he appeared terrible to the Vandals; and as he was about to claim the victory, in the meantime he was seized by the disease of dysentery and died. But the general * having crossed to Patmos was saved. Therefore while those around Gizerich were occupied with these things, the young Eudocia, granddaughter of Theodosius, after spending sixteen years in Africa with her husband Honoricus and bearing him a son, Hilderich, being displeased with her husband as he was an Arian, found an opportunity and taking to flight, she came to Jerusalem, and after venerating the holy places and greeting the tomb of Eudocia, her own grandmother, having spent a few days in the holy city she died in peace, leaving all her possessions in the holy Anastasis, entrusting also Bourkos with his children to the archbishop of Jerusalem, as he had been her co-worker and faithful in escaping the Arian Honoricus, her husband. 119 Years of the world 5965. Years of the divine incarnation 465. Emperor of the Romans, Leo, 17 years. 16th. King of the Persians, Perozes, 24 years. 21st. Bishop of Rome, Simplicius, 14 years. 4th. Bishop of Constantinople, Acacius, 17 years. 2nd. Bishop of Jerusalem, Juvenal, 38 years. 35th. Bishop of Alexandria, Timothy, 15 years. 13th. Bishop of Antioch, Julian, 6 years. 5th. In this year Leo the emperor crowned Leo, the son of Zeno and of his own daughter Ariadne, his own grandson, and proclaimed him emperor. After the death of Olybrius and Ricimer and Majorian, Glycerius is proclaimed emperor of Italy, a not undistinguished man, whom, after he had held power for 5 months, Nepotianus the Dalmatian casts out of power and he himself also reigns for a short time, a certain Orestes having cast him out, whom his own son Romulus, surnamed Augustulus, succeeding and having ruled for only two years, is established as emperor of the realm in Italy after 1303 years of the reign of Romulus, who founded Rome. And it is to be noted that from Romulus the flourishing empire of the West again ended with a Romulus after so many years, Odoacer, a Goth by race but raised in Italy, then having seized power with barbarian force; who, having taken for himself the title of king, appointed every office for the Romans according to their ancestral law and held power for 10 years. He lived in Ravenna, a city of Italy by the sea, which was prosperous and beautiful. 17th. 22nd. 5th. 3rd. 36th. 14th. 6th. In this year dust fell down as fiery clouds appeared, so that everyone thought that it was raining fire. And everyone trembled, making supplications. And it was laid on the roof tiles to the height of a palm's breadth. And everyone was saying that

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