Chronicon (sub nomine leonis grammatici vel theodosii melisseni vel julii pollucis) (redactio a + b operis sub titulo epitome fort. sub auctore
Does he call the gifts of the fruits of cain a sacrifice? it is possible to speak again to the question, using right reasoning. abel's sacrifice was c
This one is said to be the first to be buried in the earth from which he was taken, and a certain hebrew tradition recounts that his tomb was in the l
The flood happened in the six hundredth year of noah. from adam until noah and the flood there are two thousand two hundred and forty-two years. in th
Fortunate, coele-syria, commagene and all phoenicia and in his part is the river euphrates. and from the tribe of shem appeared a giant-born man, nam
Subject at hand. and having concluded with the generation from peleg of reu, let us begin again from him. reu, being 132 years old, begat serug. in hi
And it destroys the growth from the earth, and the waters of the sea before it are made dead. a little later, abraham, moving from the oak at mamre, e
Begets abraham abraham, being seventy years old, begets moses. they say that abraham, the father of moses, prayed to god not to overlook the destruct
Of mesopotamia, who reigned over them for eight years. during these times, prometheus is mythologized as being wise in culture, through which he refas
Seeking the donkeys, he came to samuel and samuel spoke to saul about the kingdom and about what he sought. saul, having gone out, told his relative
Altar. who was also killed for transgressing the commandment of god, having been met by a lion that encountered him on the road as he was returning. a
Having practiced idolatry no less than the canaanites but it is said that in his final time he lived piously. in his time isaiah the prophet departed
Rather, persuaded by these on the third day, he answers the people with the counsel of the young men. and they departed, having renounced his rule, an
Two. pekah son of remaliah, having slain pekahiah, reigned for twenty years. in his time, tiglath-pileser, king of the assyrians, campaigning against
Azarias, he himself being in the eighth year of his reign but the third time when he went up in the eleventh year of zedekiah, and burned the temple,
Conduct and the city was built with a broad street and a surrounding wall. from which the 70 weeks in daniel begin to be numbered, in the twentieth y
Into his own. ptolemy epiphanes, the son of philopator, reigned for 4 years. ptolemy philometor, the son of epiphanes, reigned for 35 years. under him
Him, as bucephalus did alexander. once, when he was about to go out the courtyard door to go to the senate-house, his statue standing in front of the
Having fallen upon it, erased the first letter of his name. therefore, having called together the consuls and senators, he said that having received r
To suppose him to be disturbed. he was slain by claudius. in the time of gaius, agrippa becomes king of judea, and simon magus is baptized by philip,
The senate proclaimed him emperor. vitalius. vitalius reigned for one year, being of a distinguished family. he ordered all astrologers and astronomer
Use him. and he was chosen by nerva because of his excellence, as he was most warlike and had achieved many successes in rome and everywhere. and whe
In his days. but a certain narcissus of his household staff choked him in the bath. in the time of commodus, clement the stromatist was known in alexa
Against alexander who had and honored many christians he raised a great persecution against the christians. maximus and balbinus. maximus and balbinus
In a fortress, and there he was buried. aurelian had a certain spy, who reported to him all that was being done and said. once having been threatened
A magister was martyred but when his wife and his two daughters were being sought, they, having resorted to flight 83 so that their chastity would no
He stole many and precious stones and pearls and he also received from the king of the indians gifts to bring to the emperor, and having returned to
Of constantinople, having provided him 89 public funds who, besides the other sacred books, having written sixty books on gazelle skins, beautified t
Most beautiful, but not according to the form and beauty and size now seen, and he performs its dedication under the patriarch eudoxius, a disciple of
A king conspicuously both pious and meek and gentle. who, having made a peace treaty also with the persians, while returning to byzantium, in ancyra o
He appointed as bishop whom they say exposed the unjust rulers before the emperor. the goths treated valens badly and he asked the most divine valen
Macedonius, who was blaspheming against the holy spirit, and with him sabellius and apollinaris. the second synod is therefore sixty years after the f
Leaving honorius in rome. this one created his own military unit, which he called the arcadiaci and he also set up the column of the xerolophos, 105
The third 108 synod also took place in ephesus, with two hundred fathers, among whom were cyril of alexandria, celestine pope of rome, juvenal of jeru
Being envied, therefore, he is slandered as a hellenist having been bound, therefore, and tonsured, he is ordained bishop in smyrna. in his last days
One robed in this purple 114 must not be false. but indeed this also, said the emperor, befits an emperor, not to yield or submit to anyone, espec
Zeno himself was also most hideous, just as the hellenes paint pan with goat-legs and shaggy-shinned, dark in complexion, of an indeterminate age, wra
He saw in his sleep a certain frightening one holding in his hand a written codex and saying to him behold, because of your unbelief i am erasing 14
Having made his plans, he himself seized the kingdom. in his time the events concerning saint arethas and those in the city of najran took place, and
And they burned the two porticoes as far as the forum, and they reviled justinian the emperor, anathematizing him, but they acclaimed the patrician hy
To defeat the vandals and to sack africa who, with sagacity and prudence having plundered everything and made gelimer captive, led him to the city wi
Desperate, ill-advised, and as i said, a lover of building and magnanimous. the same man, having gone up into the hippodrome while the demes were riot
He who made you, not i, gives you the form of the kingdom. honor him, so that you may be honored by him. do not rejoice in blood do not partake in mu
Having been appointed by maurice and having taken command of the armies, he marched against the persians, showing many deeds of valor against them, to
He ordered the chamberlain to leave, and when he had left, he himself fell at the feet of philippicus, saying forgive me, brother, for i have sinned
To be restored. and not long after, having accused maurice's wife along with her three daughters of plotting against him, he executed them at the mole
Emperor in the church by the whole senate and the people. and crispus, the son-in-law of phocas, concurred with and approved of these things. this her
Being lifted up by your inheritance. when george the pisidian saw him, he spoke with such humility: o emperor, having wrapped your feet in black-dye
But also being epileptic. but he devises a way to remedy it, saying thus, that i see a vision of an angel called gabriel, and not enduring the sight
Heraclius. he brought to hagia sophia the crown which constantine had taken from the tomb of his father. but heraklonas was not buried in a royal mann
In the gulf and at cyzicus, warring against constantinople for seven years. but by the grace of god, being warred against by the byzantines, and again
Having taken over multitudes, some by war and some by treaty, he returned, from whom he selected and enlisted thirty thousand, and named them a specia
The patrician john, a capable man, with a roman fleet who, having routed the enemies, liberated africa, and having reported these things to the emper
Brought theodora from khazaria and her son tiberius, and they reigned with him. and breaking the peace with the bulgars he marched against them, and b
A collector of the public taxes, pious and peaceable, and they proclaimed him emperor as they had no other ruler but he took to flight and hid in the
Sisinnius the patrician was then general of the anatolics under whom leo also, having been enlisted, in a short time was raised to the greatest advan
By him, moved against the imperial city, and having seized abydos and crossed over a very great force, he writes to suleiman the protosymboulos to com
Isaurian, copronymus. constantine his son, copronymus, reigned for 34 years, appearing from a most terrible lion as a many-colored leopard, from the s
And having cut off the hands and feet of baktagios in the hippodrome, he beheaded him and he killed many other leading men, and confiscated their pro
And by sea, and having routed them he entered the city, armed with the weapons of war, celebrating a triumph over the bulgars in chains. in his time t
He returned bedridden and having come to selymbria, and having sailed as far as the round castle, with a dying soul and body, shouting and saying tha
The ecclesiastical state having shone forth upon them. and after forty days of her ruling with her son, some of those in authority, having held a coun
Within earshot of the emperor and of all the people shouting, the scholarii of copronymus revolted against them, and drawing their swords they dispers
Having put them to flight, punished their leaders, having inscribed on their foreheads with tattooed ink armenian conspirator, having exiled them bo
With a prudent mind she said to the one who was yesterday a perjured slave and today a tyrant, i, o man, consider god my benefactor, the one who rais
Most holy patriarch. and the emperor, having campaigned against the bulgars, defeated them utterly, so that he even burned the so-called court of thei
Power, having performed abominable sacrifices in the meadow of the golden gate. and he asked the emperor to make peace or to fix his spear in the gold
Wearing, when the *papias* opened it as the priests entered with their chasubles, and when the emperor entered the church, they rushed in and, having
Stricken in his heart, he passed this one by, and gave the apple to theodora, who was from paphlagonia. and he crowns theodora in the oratory of saint
He adorned her coffin with silver, and established a charter of freedom for those who take refuge there for some crime which silver, after this, 217
And achieved a great victory. and he treated this man with greater honor than the first time, and he himself was all-powerful with 220 the ameroumnes.
Someone to him, and says that the horse on which your majesty rides, is mine. and as the horse was prancing and the emperor restrained it, the emperor
A mystery, in which whatever someone says in one corner, is heard in the other. 226 but theophilos himself, having learned that theophanes the poet an
Of a great multitude and fleet greatly terrified the hagarenes, but he himself was more greatly terrified, and chose flight, having learned that the a
Kordyle, and joining battle they killed many, and captured some. but the bulgarians who were not able to cross over scattered among the hungarians, an
Of the kouropalates. and with the bulgarians making raids in thrace and macedonia, and plundering such themes, theodora levied a force of soldiers, wh
Was being reviled, he appoints him sole general over the western themes, when he died there. and after a little while, on the fourth day of renewal we
They are propitiated. then, with hymnody, having brought out the holy omophorion of the theotokos, they touched it to the edge of the sea. and while t
And having gone down to the tent of the caesar at sunset and having met with procopius, protovestiarios of the caesar, he affirmed to him that tomorro
Having fallen into it, was drowned, and was buried there. but symbatios, the son-in-law of the caesar, having failed to obtain the rank of caesar, see
Against basil. and when his mother theodora invited the emperor to the palace of anthemius, he sent rentakios his protovestiarios along with other men
Those who had disposed of michael, and what each of them suffered at different times. iakobitzes, while hunting with the emperor in the philopation, w
At that time were under his hand, with all those in authority receiving them, he having treated them kindly and provided them with gifts. and he honor
He supposed, and that he was not mistaken for this reason, having built a monastery there, he named it after saint constantine. by these and many oth
And he brought michael out of the tomb, and placed him in a cypress-wood coffin, and having placed him on a bier, covering him royally and honoring hi
To receive allowances from the new church. santabarenos himself died during the reign of constantine and zoe his mother. therefore, during the reign o
Symeon deemed him worthy of an audience, but secured him in prison. and marching out against the turks, since their fortress had no assistance from th
Having buried him there. after the death of zautzes, basil epeiktes, the son of nicholas the hetaireiarch, became friends with samonas the cubiculariu
Droungarios of the fleet, and with karamalos being there and michael charaktos, a great slaughter of the romans occurred. and when they went up into t
Tripolites to leave the city which indeed also happened. but samonas, under the pretext of going out to his monastery 278 at speira, which is in dama
Contriving in every way and with all zeal from his flight. and he suborned someone to write secretly to andronikos 281 do not board the ships, lest y
Very slanderous against the emperor, written and composed by the rhodian notary samonas. and when the emperor came into the great church, finding it i
He also renewed, as things left to him. and trusting in his own error, having made a spectacle of the vestments of the churches and having taken the p
Constantine, learning that a very great disturbance had occurred, rode out his horse. but he, slipping on the slabs paved there, threw his rider to th
Promising to bring the pechenegs. having had his request granted and receiving many gifts, he departed for the land of the pechenegs, and taking hosta
Of condemnation was overturned. but the bulgarians, being elated by the victory and campaigning as far as the city, leo the domestic of the schools, j
It came to pass, so that they also agreed to make a marriage contract, by this further tightening the bond of love. therefore on the twenty-fourth of
Carrying an autographed letter of the emperor constantine, declaring the following: since i, having found no one under my hand more vigilant and more
When the bulgarians again raided as far as katasyrtai after the death of the domesticus adralestus, pothos argyros was appointed domesticus of the sch
His horse having become stuck in the mud, he is wounded in the buttocks and the thigh. therefore, when the horse was with difficulty pulled out of the
The emperor, having received communion, and having put on the faith in the most pure theotokos like a helmet, went out of the church, fortified with s
Romanos, john the mystikos, patrikios, anthypatos. and in the month of may, on the fifteenth, of the third indiction, the patriarch nicholas ended his
A splendid banquet at the landing-place of the pegai. but when the bulgarians made no small objection that christopher be acclaimed first, and then co
We have gone through the good deeds and alms but john his brother conspired against peter the bulgarian, along with other bulgarians of symeon. and w
Was waiting. when they arrived and came near the lighthouse, he, lying in wait at the mouth of the euxine sea at the place called hieron, and indeed s
Constantine and his son-in-law constantine, along with the patriarch theophylact, and having received this with due honor, with the entire senate goin
Marianos and the others who were prepared for this, both brought them down from the palace, and confined them to the nearby islands and tonsured them
And having cut off the hands and feet of Baktagios in the hippodrome, he beheaded him; and he killed many other leading men, and confiscated their property 184. And having held a hippodrome spectacle, he led away Artabasdos with his sons, along with the patriarch Anastasios and his friends, with the patriarch sitting backwards on a donkey and being paraded. For this man, once walking behind Germanos the patriarch while being his syncellus, stepped on his omophorion; and he, turning around, said to him, "Do not hurry; the Diippion awaits you." But Constantine, having terrified him with these things, again establishes him on the throne of the priesthood, as he was of the same mind as him. In his time, suddenly and invisibly signs began to appear both on people's clothes and on the sacred vestments of the churches, very many oily crosses, and thus the divine wrath of the bubonic plague struck, terribly destroying not only those in the city but also those in its surrounding areas. And in addition to these things, there were also certain phantoms for many of the people and some extraordinary terrors, which those who saw them died, so that even entire houses were completely shut up and there was no one who ought to bury the dead. And with every household being destroyed on account of the impiety of the tyrant, he brought all the wealth of the city's inhabitants into the palace and deposited it there. And the wrath also reached the unholy Anastasios, and with a most pitiable affliction called chordapsos he ends his life. But the tyrant, having heard that the Saracens were fighting against each other, marches out towards the regions of Syria, and 185 he took Germanicea and Theodosiopolis and Melitene, taking all those there captive. And on this pretext of the plague, taking his kinsmen, heretical Armenians and Syrians, he resettled them both in Byzantium and in Thrace, who to this day maintain the heresy of the tyrant. Then a son was born to the emperor Constantine from the daughter of the Khagan of the Khazars, whom he named Leo. And puffed up in spirit on account of the victory achieved by him, he assembles a synod against the holy icons in Blachernae, and having unlawfully gone up into the ambo, holding the hand of the bishop of Sylaeum, they proclaimed thus: "Many years to Constantine, ecumenical patriarch." In which synod the priests of shame, having uttered much nonsense against the Lord, and having raised their defiled hands on high, they broke forth with that wretched cry, saying: "Today is salvation for the world, because you, O emperor, have delivered us from idols." These things the unholy and Christ-trading men did. Not much time passed, and they committed unworthy deeds against the patriarch ordained by him. For the avenging spirit, having learned that the patriarch had informed many that the emperor had said to him, "Christ is not God, for this reason neither do I hold his mother to be Theotokos," he raged against him as one who had exposed his secret, and having inflicted many blows upon him he paraded him in a triumph before the people and at the hippodrome races, being spat upon 186 and dragged; then having secured him he sends patricians to him, and says, "What do you say now about our faith and the synod which we held?" But he, having become foolish in his mind, and thinking to appease him again, answered and said, "You believe rightly and you did rightly to hold the synod." But they, laughing at him, said to him, "We only wanted to hear this from your defiled mouth," and immediately bringing him out they beheaded him, and threw his body into the Pelagiou, where formerly was the church of the holy martyr Pelagius, which the God-hated one had destroyed and, making it a tomb for the condemned, called it the Pelagiou. And he appoints in his place as patriarch Nicetas the eunuch and Slav. Likewise also both the holy Peter and the divine Stephen of Auxentios, the God-bearing, having bitterly murdered them, he ordered them to be dragged and thrown into the Pelagiou. And many others, both rulers and monks, he handed over to a terrible death on account of the holy icons. And he marched out against the Bulgarians on foot
τοῦ δὲ Βακταγίου χεῖρας καὶ πόδας κόψας ἐν τῷ κυνηγίῳ ἀπεκεφάλισε· πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ ἄλλους τῶν προυχόντων ἀνεῖλε, καὶ τὰς οὐσίας
αὐτῶν 184 ἐδήμευσεν. ἱππικὸν δὲ ποιήσας ἀπήγαγε τὸν Ἀρτάβασδον σὺν τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ, ἅμα τῷ πατριάρχῃ Ἀναστασίῳ καὶ τοῖς φίλοις
αὐτοῦ, τοῦ πατριάρχου ἐπὶ ὄνου ἀντιστρόφως καθεζομένου καὶ πομπευομένου. οὗτος γὰρ περιπατῶν ποτὲ ὄπισθε Γερμανοῦ τοῦ πατριάρχου
σύγκελλος ὢν ἐπάτησε τὸ ὠμοφόριον αὐτοῦ· ὁ δὲ ἐπιστραφεὶς ἔφη αὐτῷ "μὴ σπεῦδε· τὸ ∆ιίππιον ἐκδέχεταί σε." πάλιν δὲ Κωνσταντῖνος
ὡς ὁμόφρονα αὐτοῦ ὄντα, ἐν τούτοις ἐκφοβήσας, ἐν τῷ θρόνῳ τῆς ἱερωσύνης καθίστησιν. ἐφ' οὗ ἤρξατο ἀθρόον καὶ ἀοράτως σημεῖα
ἔν τε ἱματίοις τῶν ἀνθρώπων γίνεσθαι καὶ εἰς τὰ τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἱερὰ ἐνδύματα, σταυροὶ ἐλαιώδεις πλεῖστοι, καὶ οὕτως κατέλαβεν
ἡ θεομηνία τοῦ βουβῶνος λοιμικὴ νόσος, οὐ μόνον τοὺς ἐν τῇ πόλει ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἐν τοῖς περιχώροις αὐτῆς δεινῶς ὀλοθρεύουσα.
καὶ πρὸς τούτοις ἐγίνοντο καὶ φαντασίαι τινὲς εἰς πολλοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ δείματά τινα ἐξαίσια, ἃ οἱ ὁρῶντες ἐτελεύτων, ὥστε
καὶ ὁλοκλήρους οἴκους κλεισθῆναι παντελῶς καὶ μὴ εἶναι τοὺς ὀφείλοντας θάπτειν τοὺς νεκρούς. παντὸς δὲ οἴκου διαφθαρέντος
διὰ τὴν ἀσέβειαν τοῦ τυράννου, πάντα τὸν πλοῦτον τῆς πόλεως τῶν οἰκητόρων εἰσκομίσας ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ ἀπέθετο. ἔφθασε δὲ καὶ
ἡ ὀργὴ εἰς Ἀναστάσιον τὸν ἀνίερον, καὶ οἰκτίστῳ πάθει τῷ λεγομένῳ χορδαψῷ καταλύει τὸν βίον. Ὁ δέ γε τύραννος τῶν Σαρακηνῶν
κατ' ἀλλήλων μαχομένων ἀκούσας ἐκστρατεύει πρὸς τὰ μέρη τῆς Συρίας, καὶ 185 τὴν Γερμανίκειαν παρέλαβε καὶ Θεοδοσιούπολιν καὶ
Μελιτηνήν, αἰχμαλωτίσας πάντας τοὺς ἐκεῖσε. διὰ δὲ τὴν τοιαύτην πρόφασιν τοῦ θανατικοῦ προσλαβόμενος τοὺς συγγενεῖς αὐτοῦ
Ἀρμενίους τε καὶ Σύρους αἱρετικοὺς εἴς τε τὸ Βυζάντιον μετῴκισε καὶ ἐν τῇ Θρᾴκῃ, οἳ μέχρι τοῦ νῦν τὴν αἵρεσιν τοῦ τυράννου
διακρατοῦσιν. ἐτέχθη δὲ τότε τῷ βασιλεῖ Κωνσταντίνῳ υἱὸς ἐκ τῆς χαγάνου τῆς Χαζάρας θυγατρός, ὃν ἐπωνόμασε Λέοντα. ἐπαρθεὶς
δὲ τῷ φρονήματι διὰ τὴν παρ' αὐτοῦ γενομένην νίκην σύνοδον ἀθροίζει κατὰ τῶν ἁγίων εἰκόνων ἐν Βλαχέρναις, καὶ ἀνελθὼν ἀθέσμως
ἐν τῷ ἄμβωνι, χειροκρατῶν ἐπίσκοπον τοῦ Συλαίου, ἐξεφώνησαν οὕτως "Κωνσταντίνου οἰκουμενικοῦ πατριάρχου πολλὰ τὰ ἔτη." ἐν
ᾗ συνόδῳ πολλὰ κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου κενολογήσαντες οἱ ἱερεῖς τῆς αἰσχύνης, καὶ τὰς μιαρὰς χεῖρας εἰς ὕψος ἄραντες, ἔρρηξαν τὴν
ἐλεεινὴν ἐκείνην φωνὴν λέγοντες "σήμερον σωτηρία τῷ κόσμῳ, ὅτι σὺ βασιλεῦ ἐλυτρώσω ἡμᾶς ἐκ τῶν εἰδώλων." Ταῦτα ἐπράξαντο οἱ
ἀνίεροι καὶ χριστέμποροι. οὐ πολὺ τὸ ἐν μέσῳ, καὶ ἀνάξια εἰς τὸν χειροτονηθέντα ὑπ' αὐτοῦ πατριάρχην διεπράξαντο ἔργα. μαθὼν
γὰρ ὁ ἀλάστωρ ὅτι ὁ πατριάρχης πολλοὺς ἐπληροφόρησεν εἰπεῖν τὸν βασιλέα πρὸς αὐτὸν ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι θεὸς ὁ Χριστός, διὰ τοῦτο
οὔτε τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ ἔχω θεοτόκον, ἐξεμάνη κατ' αὐτοῦ ὡς τὸ μυστήριον αὐτοῦ θριαμβεύσαντα, καὶ ἐπιθεὶς αὐτῷ πολλὰς πληγὰς
ἐθριάμβευσεν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ λαοῦ καὶ ἱπποδρομίας ἐμπτυόμενον 186 καὶ συρόμενον· εἶτα ἀσφαλισάμενος αὐτὸν ἀποστέλλει πρὸς αὐτὸν
πατρικίους, καὶ φησὶ "τί λέγεις ἄρτι περὶ τῆς πίστεως ἡμῶν καὶ τῆς συνόδου ἧς ἐποιήσαμεν;" ὁ δὲ ματαιωθεὶς ταῖς φρεσί, καὶ
οἰόμενος αὐτὸν πάλιν ἐξευμενίσασθαι, ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπε "καλῶς πιστεύεις καὶ καλῶς τὴν σύνοδον ἐποίησας." οἱ δὲ ἐπιγελάσαντες
εἶπον πρὸς αὐτὸν "ἡμεῖς τοῦτο μόνον ἠθέλομεν ἀκοῦσαι ἐκ τοῦ μιαροῦ σου στόματος," καὶ παραχρῆμα ἐξενεγκόντες αὐτὸν ἀπεκεφάλισαν,
καὶ τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ἔρριψαν εἰς τὰ Πελαγίου, ἔνθα πρώην ὑπῆρχεν ὁ τοῦ ἁγίου μάρτυρος Πελαγίου ναός, ὃν ὁ θεομισὴς καταλύσας
καὶ τάφον καταδίκων ποιήσας ἐκάλεσε τὰ Πελαγίου. καὶ ἀντιχειροτονεῖ πατριάρχην Νικήταν τὸν εὐνοῦχον καὶ Σκλάβον. ὡσαύτως δὲ
καὶ Πέτρον τὸν ἱερὸν καὶ τὸν θεῖον Στέφανον τὸν τοῦ Αὐξεντίου, τὸν θεοφόρον, πικρῶς φονεύσας εἰς τὰ Πελαγίου συρέντας ῥιφῆναι
προσέταξε. πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ ἑτέρους ἄρχοντάς τε καὶ μοναχοὺς διὰ τὰς ἱερὰς εἰκόνας δεινῷ θανάτῳ παρέδωκεν. Ἐστράτευσε δὲ κατὰ
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