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32. And this also must be known, that in Rhegium, Troilus, addressing Abba Maximus, said that the consiliarius John had written to him about a compromise proposed to them; and the disorder of your disciples prevented this from happening for now. But I think that the aforementioned consiliarius John did not write to Troilus, but to Mennas the monk, and he told those of the palace.

33. And after these things they brought them to Constantinople, and took action against them, and after they had anathematized and reviled Maximus among the saints, and the blessed Anastasius his disciple; and the most holy Pope Martin, and the holy Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and all the orthodox who were of like mind with them, they brought also the other blessed Anastasius, and using the same anathemas and insults also against him they handed him over to the magistrates, saying thus: You then, Anastasius, having put on the grey cloak of the universal curse of the anathemas, depart from the canonical hearing, being carried off to the state of Gehenna which you have chosen, with the glorious and honorable and sacred synod being with us, which has adjudicated all things, which will immediately receive the judgment after us, and will execute upon you what seems right to the civil laws, as they shall judge, on account of your great blasphemies and tyrannies. For the sentence of the present synod against them, and which, by the cooperation of the almighty Christ our true God, has canonically decreed what is necessary against you Maximus, Anastasius, and Anastasius, since what was lacking in relation to the things impiously said and done by you was, (172) to be subjected to the severe penalties of the laws; even if there is no penalty worthy of such offenses and blasphemies of yours, leaving you to the just Judge concerning the greater judgment, in the present life, and in this relaxing the rigor of the laws, so that you may gain your life, we decree for you, that the most illustrious prefect present with us, immediately take you into his mighty praetorium; and after striking your backs with scourges, (Maximus, and Anastasius and Anastasius, the instrument of your Maximus's and Anastasius's and Anastasius's) intemperance, that is your blasphemous tongue, to cut out from within. Then also, your most wretched right hand, which ministered to your blasphemous reasoning, to cut off with a blade, while being paraded at the same time with the loss of these same abominable members, having gone around the twelve districts of this queen of cities, to hand you over to perpetual exile and imprisonment in addition to these things, perpetually, so that afterwards you, and for all the time of your life, may lament your own blasphemous errors, with the curse devised against us having been turned upon your own head. The prefect, therefore, having taken them, and having punished them, cut off their members; and having paraded them through the whole city, he exiled them to Lazica.

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ΛΒ΄. Καί τοῦτο δέ ἰστέον, ὅτι ἐν τῷ Ῥηγίῳ ἀποτεινόμενος Τρώϊλος πρός τόν ἀββᾶν

Μάξιμον, εἶπεν, ὡς ὁ κονσιλάριος Ἰωάννης ἔγραψεν αὐτῷ περί συμβάσεως προταθείσης αὐτοῖς· καί τοῦτο γενέσθαι τέως, ἡ τῶν σῶν μαθητῶν ἀταξία διεκώλυσε. Οἶμαι δέ, ὅτι οὐκ ἔγραψεν ὁ εἰρημένος κονσιλάριος Ἰωάννης πρός τόν Τρώϊλον, ἀλλά πρός Μεννᾶν τόν μοναχόν, κἀκεῖνος εἶπε τοῖς τοῦ παλατίου.

ΛΓ΄. Καί μετά ταῦτα ἤγαγον αὐτούς ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει, καί ἐποίησαν κατ᾿ αὐτῶν

πρᾶξιν, καί μετά τό ἀναθεματίσαι καί ἀνασκάψαι αὐτούς τόν ἐν ἁγίοις Μάξιμον, καί τόν μακάριον Ἀναστάσιον τόν μαθητήν αὐτοῦ· τόν τε ἁγιώτατον πάπαν Μαρτῖνον, καί τόν ἅγιον Σωφρόνιον τόν πατριάρχην Ἱεροσολύμων, καί πάντας τούς ὀρθοδόξους καί σύμφρονας αὐτῶν, ἤνεγκαν καί τόν ἄλλον μακάριον Ἀναστάσιον, καί τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἀναθέμασι καί ὕβρεσι χρησάμενοι καί ἐπ᾿ αὐτόν παρέδωκαν τοῖς ἄρχουσιν, εἰπόντες οὕτως· Σύ μέν οὖν, Ἀναστάσιε, τό φαῖον τῆς πανδήμου τῶν ἀναθημάτων τῆς ἀρᾶς ἐνδυσάμενος περιβόλαιον, ἀπαλλάσου τῆς κανονικῆς ἀκροάσεως, πρός ἥν ἡρετίσω στάσιν τῆς γεέννης, ἀποφερόμενος, συνούσης ἡμῖν τῆς εὐκλεοῦς καί πάντα συνδιαιτησάσης τιμίας τε καί ἱερᾶς συγκλήτου, παραχρῆμα τήν μεθ᾿ ἡμᾶς παραληψομένης κρίσιν, καί τά τοῖς πολιτικοῖς δοκοῦντα νόμοις ἐπί σοί διαπραξομένης, ὡς αὐτοί δοκιμάσειεν, τῶν τηλικούτων σου βλασφημιῶν ἕνεκα καί τυραννίδων. Ψῆφος γάρ κατ᾿ αὐτῶν τῆς παρούσης συνόδου, καί συνεργείᾳ τοῦ παντοδυνάμου Χριστοῦ τοῦ ἀληθινοῦ ἡμῶν Θεοῦ κανονικῶς ψηφισαμένης τά δέοντα καθ᾿ ὑμῶν Μάξιμε, Ἀναστάσιε καί Ἀναστάσιε, ἐπεί τό λεῖπον ὑπῆρχε πρός τά παρ᾿ ὑμῶν λεχθέντα τε δυσσεβῶς καί πραχθέντα, (172) ταῖς αὐστηραῖς τῶν νόμων καθυποβληθῆναι ποιναῖς· εἰ καί ἀξία ποινή τῶν τοιούτων ὑμῶν πλημμελημάτων καί βλασφημιῶν οὐχ ὕπεστι, τῷ δικαίῳ ὑμᾶς περί τῆς μείζονος καταλιπόντες κριτῇ, ἐν τῷ παρόντι βίῳ, καί ἐν τούτῳ τήν τῶν νόμων κενοῦντες ἀκρίβειαν, κερδαινόντων ὑμῶν τό ζῇν, ψηφηζόμεθα ὑμῖν, τόν παρόντα ἡμῖν πανεύφημον ἔπαρχον, αὐτίκα παραναλαμβάνοντα ὑμᾶς ἐν τῷ κατ᾿ αὐτόν πολυαρχικῷ πραιτωρίῳ· καί νεύροις τά μετάφρενα τύπτοντα, (Μάξιμον, καί Ἀναστάσιον καί Ἀναστάσιον, τό ὄργανον τῆς ὑμῶν Μαξίμου καί Ἀναστασίου καί Ἀναστασίου) ἀκολασίας, τουτέστι τήν βλάσφημον ὑμῶν γλῶσσαν, ἔνδοθεν ἐκτεμεῖν. Εἶτα δέ, καί τήν διακονήσασαν τῷ βλασφήμῳ ὑμῶν λογισμῷ σκαιοτάτην δεξιάν, σιδήρῳ διατεμεῖν, περιαχθησομένων ἅμᾳ στερήσει τῶν αὐτῶν βδελύκτων μερῶν, τά δύο καί δέκα τμήματα ταύτης τῆς κυρίας τῶν πόλεων περινοστεύσας, ἀειφυγίᾳ τε καί φυλακῇ πρός ἐπί τούτοις διηνεκεῖ παραδοῦναι ὑμᾶς, πρός τό μετέπειτα ὑμᾶς, καί εἰς τόν ἅπαντα τῆς ζωῆς ὑμῶν χρόνον, τά οἰκεῖα οἰμώζειν βλάσφημα σφάλματα, τῆς ἐπινοηθείσης καθ᾿ ἡμῶν ἀρᾷς, περιτραπείσης τῇ ὑμῶν κεφαλῇ. Παραλαβών οὖν αὐτούς ὁ ἔπαρχος, καί κολάσας, ἔτεμε τά μέλη αὐτῶν· καί περιαγαγών ὅλην τήν πόλιν ἐξώρισεν αὐτούς ἐν Λαζικῇ.