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holding wrong opinions, pretended to have changed from the belief of the Monothelites, and having been asked for a statement concerning the faith by the then pope, he gave one and was accepted. Then, having withdrawn from Rome and gone to Ravenna, it was discovered that he had not departed from the heresy. Therefore the pope, having learned this and gathered the bishops under him, decreed his complete deposition. This one, therefore, having held the throne of Constantine’s city for four months, died; and Peter was appointed patriarch, this one also of the same opinion as the one before him, and having ruled the church for twelve years, he dies. After whom Thomas presided over the orthodox, holding the right opinion, who after two years and seven months departed this life and had John as a successor. This emperor Constans killed his own brother Theodosius and was hated by those of the city both for this reason and 221 for the things that happened to Pope Martin and the great Maximus. He therefore departed from Byzantium and went down to Sicily, spending time around Syracuse, wishing also to transfer the empire to the elder Rome. For he said that it was necessary to honor the mothers rather than the daughters. Therefore he also summoned the empress and his sons (for there were three, Constantine, Heraclius, and Tiberius) to himself. But some of those close to him prevented this. But others say that the populace of the city did not permit them to go to him. And Constans, indeed, having spent six years in Sicily, did not return from there; for having been plotted against by those around him while bathing, he was struck a fatal blow on the head with the bucket with which the boiling water was poured over him, and he died, having ruled the Romans for twenty-seven years. And when he died, the military with him immediately appointed as emperor a certain Armenian, Mizizius by name, who was handsome as a statue and most beautiful. Having heard this, the eldest of the sons of Constans 222, called Pogonatus, who was also adorned with the diadem of the empire, having been crowned by his father, with a great fleet seized Sicily and, having captured Mizizius, killed him and those who had committed the murder of his father, and among the others also the patrician Justinian, the father of Germanus the patriarch; but Germanus himself he made a eunuch, who had already passed his prime and was past the age at which it has been approved to be made a eunuch. And being beardless when this emperor departed to avenge the murder of his father, he returned with a long beard; therefore from that time he was called Pogonatus by the citizens. But those of the Anatolic theme, having arrived at Chrysopolis, were shouting that it was necessary to crown also the other two brothers of Constantine, saying that, "Just as we believe in a Trinity, so also it is necessary for us to be ruled by three." Constantine, therefore, having sent to them, promised to fulfill their request and summoned the leaders of the people, so that the proclamation of his brothers might happen in their presence. But when they came to Byzantium, he killed them as seditious; which 223 the others, having learned, full of fear, returned to their own lands. And he cut off the noses of both of his brothers. But the descendants of Hagar did not cease ravaging and plundering the whole land under the Romans, both on foot and by ship. Then with a heavy fleet they came even against the queen of cities herself and made the anchorage for their fleet from the western promontory at the Hebdomon as far as the Cyclobion. But the emperor Constantine, having armed a fleet in opposition, arrayed himself against them every day, and naval battles took place from the spring season until the autumn. And since the barbarians accomplished nothing, they set sail and seized Cyzicus, and having taken it, they spent the winter in it. And with the spring they again seized Constantine's city, and again there were frequent naval battles. And as time was being spent, when autumn arrived, the men of Hagar again anchored their own fleet at Cyzicus; and they were doing this in this way into the seventh year. Therefore, despairing,

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κακῶς δοξάζων ὑπεκρίθη μετατεθῆναι τῆς δόξης τῶν Μονοθελητῶν, καὶ ἀπαιτηθεὶς παρὰ τοῦ τότε πάπα λίβελλον περὶ πίστεως δέδωκε καὶ ἐδέχθη. εἶτα τῆς Ῥώμης ὑποχωρήσας καὶ εἰς Ῥάβενναν ἀπελθὼν ἐγνώσθη τῆς αἱρέσεως μὴ ἐκστάς. ὅθεν ὁ πάπας τοῦτο μαθὼν καὶ τοὺς ὑπ' αὐτὸν ἐπισκόπους ἀθροίσας καθαίρεσιν αὐτοῦ τελείαν κατεψηφίσατο. οὗτος οὖν τὸ δεύτερον μῆνας τέσσαρας τὸν θρόνον τῆς Κωνσταντίνου κατεσχηκὼς τέθνηκε· καὶ προεχειρίσθη πατριάρχης Πέτρος, ὁμόδοξος καὶ οὗτος τοῖ πρὸ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπὶ δώδεκα τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἄρξας ἐνιαυτοὺς θνήσκει. μεθ' ὃν προέστη τῶν ὀρθοδόξων Θωμᾶς, τῆς ὀρθῆς ἐχόμενος δόξης, ὃς μετὰ δύο ἔτη καὶ μῆνας ἑπτὰ τὸν βίον μετηλλαχὼς Ἰωάννην ἔσχε διάδοχον. Οὗτος ὁ βασιλεὺς Κώνστας τὸν ἴδιον ἀνεῖλεν ὁμαίμονα Θεοδόσιον καὶ ἐμισήθη ὑπὸ τῶν τῆς πόλεως διά τε τοῦτο καὶ 221 διὰ τὰ εἰς τὸν πάπαν Μαρτῖνον καὶ τὸν μέγαν γενόμενα Μάξιμον. ἀπῆρεν οὖν τοῦ Βυζαντίου καὶ εἰς Σικελίαν κατῆρε, διάγων περὶ Συράκουσαν, βουλόμενος καὶ τὴν βασιλείαν εἰς τὴν πρεσβυτέραν Ῥώμην μετενεγκεῖν. ἔλεγε γὰρ δεῖν μᾶλλον τὰς μητέρας ἢ τὰς θυγατέρας τιμᾶν. διὸ καὶ τὴν βασίλισσαν καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ (τρεῖς δ' ἦσαν, Κωνσταντῖνος, Ἡράκλειος καὶ Τιβέριος) μετεκαλεῖτο πρὸς ἑαυτόν. ἀλλὰ τοῦτο μέν τινες τῶν ᾠκειωμένων αὐτῷ διεκώλυσαν. ἄλλοι δέ φασι τὸ πλῆθος τῆς πόλεως μὴ παραχωρῆσαι αὐτοῖς τῆς πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ἀφίξεως. ὁ δέ γε Κώνστας ἓξ ἐν Σικελίᾳ διαγαγὼν ἔτη, ἐκεῖθεν οὐκ ἐπανῆλθεν· ἐπιβουλευθεὶς γὰρ παρὰ τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν λουόμενος ἐπλήγη καιρίως τὴν κεφαλὴν μετὰ τοῦ ἀντλήματος, ᾧ αὐτοῦ κατεχεῖτο τὸ ζέον ὕδωρ, καὶ ἀπέθανεν, ἄρξας Ῥωμαίων ἐνιαυτοὺς ἑπτά τε καὶ εἴκοσι. Τούτου δὲ θανόντος τὸ μετ' αὐτοῦ στρατιωτικὸν εὐθὺς Ἀρμένιόν τινα, Μιζίζιον ὄνομα, ἀγαλματίαν ὄντα καὶ ὡραιότατον, βασιλέα προεχειρίσαντο. ὅπερ ἀκούσας ὁ τῶν Κών222 σταντος υἱέων πρεσβύτερος ὁ Πωγωνάτος κληθείς, ὃς καὶ τῷ τῆς βασιλείας κεκόσμητο διαδήματι, στεφθεὶς παρὰ τοῦ πατρός, μετὰ στόλου μεγάλου τὴν Σικελίαν κατέλαβε καὶ τόν τε Μιζίζιον χειρωσάμενος ἀνεῖλε καὶ τοὺς τὸν φόνον κατεργασαμένους αὐτῷ τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ πρὸς τοῖς ἄλλοις καὶ τὸν πατρίκιον Ἰουστινιανὸν τὸν πατέρα Γερμανοῦ τοῦ πατριάρχου· αὐτὸν δὲ τὸν Γερμανὸν ἐκτομίαν ἐποίησεν, ἤδη παρηβηκότα καὶ ὑπερβεβηκότα τὴν ἡλικίαν, καθ' ἣν εὐνουχίζεσθαι δεδοκίμασται. λειοπώγων δ' ὢν ὅτ' ἀπεδήμησεν οὗτος ὁ βασιλεύς, ἐκδικήσων τὸν φόνον τὸν τοῦ πατρός, καθειμένον ἔχων ἐπανῆγε τὸν πώγωνα· διὸ ἐξ ἐκείνου Πωγωνάτος παρὰ τῶν πολιτῶν ἐπεκέκλητο. Οἱ δὲ τοῦ θέματος τῶν ἀνατολικῶν εἰς Χρυσόπολιν ἀφικόμενοι ἐβόων δεῖν καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς δύο συγγόνους τοῦ Κωνσταντίνου στεφθῆναι, λέγοντες ὅτι "ὥσπερ εἰς τριάδα πιστεύομεν, οὕτως καὶ παρὰ τῶν τριῶν ἡμᾶς χρεὼν βασιλεύεσθαι." ὁ γοῦν Κωνσταντῖνος στείλας πρὸς αὐτοὺς πληροῦν τὴν αἴτησιν αὐτῶν ἐπηγγέλλετο καὶ τοὺς τοῦ λαοῦ προεξάρχοντας μετεκαλεῖτο, ἵν' αὐτῶν ἐνώπιον ἡ τῶν αὐτοῦ ἀδελφῶν ἀνάρρησις γένηται. ἐλθόντας δ' εἰς τὸ Βυζάντιον ἀνεῖλεν ὡς στασιώδεις αὐτούς· ὃ 223 γνόντες οἱ ἄλλοι μεστοὶ δέους ὑπενόστησαν εἰς τὰ ἑαυτῶν. καὶ ἀμφοῖν δὲ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ τὰς ῥῖνας ἀπέτεμεν. Οἱ δὲ τῆς Ἄγαρ ἀπόγονοι οὐ διέλιπον τὴν ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίους ἅπασαν καὶ πεζῇ καὶ πλοϊζόμενοι δῃοῦντες καὶ ληιζόμενοι. εἶτα στόλῳ βαρεῖ καὶ κατ' αὐτῆς ἐπῆλθον τῆς βασιλίδος τῶν πόλεων καὶ ναύσταθμον τοῦ σφετέρου στόλου πεποίηντο ἀπὸ τοῦ πρὸς δύσιν ἀκρωτηρίου τοῦ κατὰ τὸ Ἕβδομον μέχρι τοῦ Κυκλοβίου. στόλῳ δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς Κωνσταντῖνος ἀνθοπλισάμενος καθ' ἑκάστην αὐτοῖς ἀντετάσσετο, καὶ ναυμαχίαι ἐγίνοντο ἐξ ὥρας ἐαρινῆς μέχρι δὴ φθινοπωρινῆς. ὡς δ' οὐδὲν οἱ βάρβαροι ἤνυον, ἀπάραντες τὴν Κύζικον κατειλήφασι καὶ ταύτην ἑλόντες ἐν αὐτῇ τὸν χειμῶνα διήγαγον. ἅμα δ' ἔαρι αὖθις τὴν Κωνσταντίνου κατέλαβον, καὶ αὖθις ναυμαχίαι συχναί. τριβομένου δὲ τοῦ καιροῦ, ἐπεὶ κατέλαβε τὸ μετόπωρον, τῇ Κυζίκῳ καὶ πάλιν τὸν οἰκεῖον στόλον οἱ τῆς Ἄγαρ ἐνώρμισαν· καὶ τοῦτο οὕτως εἰς ἕβδομον ἐποίουν ἐνιαυτόν. ἀπογνόντες οὖν,