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giving him this, he sent him with him against the Persians. But the guards, seeing the 124 woman, suspected Kavadh to be in the prison, as she was dressed in Kavadh's clothes for a sufficient number of days. And Kavadh, having invaded Persia with the Hunnic army, with no trouble both seized the kingdom and blinded Blases, that is Valas, and held him in prison, and he securely guarded the kingdom. For he was both shrewd and active. After this he ruled for 11 years. King of the Persians, Valas, for 4 years. Bishop of Jerusalem, Anastasius, for 18 years. 3. 1. 8. 6. 1. 2. 3. In this year Illus and Trocundus, who were besieging Zeno, since Basiliscus was not fulfilling what he had promised them, and since the senatorial council was burdened by the rule of Basiliscus because of the wickedness of his character and his folly and was writing to them, both Illus and Trocundus, having become friends with Zeno and taking him, were returning to the ruling city. When Basiliscus learned this, he sent Harmatius, his own nephew, who was general of Thrace, with his entire army and the people of Constantinople against Zeno, having made him swear on the holy baptism not to betray him. But Harmatius, having met Zeno near Nicaea in Bithynia, thus. he terrified him, so that he nearly turned back with all the Isaurian reinforcements. But he too, being for the most part blinded by gifts from Zeno and by the promise of the generalship for life, and to make his son Basiliscus Caesar and his co-ruler, returned with him against Basiliscus. And when Zeno with Ariadne had taken the ruling city, he was received by the people and the senate. But Basiliscus, coming into the church and laying aside the royal crown on the divine table, took refuge in the baptistery with Zenodia, his heretical wife. But Zeno, arriving, came to the church and thus entered the palace. And sending to the church, he took Basiliscus, giving him his word not to behead him and his children; whom he sent to Cucusus in Cappadocia and ordered to be shut up 125 in a tower with his wife and children and to be destroyed by hunger; but some say that while being led away he was slaughtered. And immediately holding a chariot race, Zeno appoints Basiliscus, the son of Harmatius, Caesar according to his promises, and he sat with the emperor in the senzos and honored the charioteers with the emperor. But Zeno, considering that "as Harmatius did not keep faith with Basiliscus to whom he had sworn, neither will he keep it with me; but if the Caesar, who is also his son, becomes a man, he will rise up against me; but I have fulfilled what I agreed with him and made him general and his son Caesar;" ordered him to be slain as a perjurer; and he was slain in the spiral staircase of the palace, as he was going up to the hippodrome, and he ordained his son, the Caesar, a reader; for Ariadne saved him as he was her cousin. He later served excellently as bishop of Cyzicus. And Zeno rejected Peter the Fuller because he supported Basiliscus. And he was deposed by a vote of the eastern synod, and John in his place. He was cast out after three months, and after him Stephen, a pious man, was appointed bishop of Antioch. But Peter, being exiled to Pityus, deceiving those who were leading him away, took refuge at the shrine of Saint Theodore of Euchaita. Meanwhile, Timothy Aelurus dies, and in his place Peter Mongus is brought in, an evil-doer and an enemy of the truth, who had already been deposed previously; and he is ordained by a single bishop who had also been deposed. The monks, attacking him out of zeal for God after he had held the episcopate like a robber for only 36 days, drive him out and restore Timothy Salophacialus again worthily to the throne. Bishop of Alexandria again, Timothy Salophacialus, for 4 years. Bishop of Antioch, Stephen, for 3 years. 4. 2. 9. 7. 2. 1. 1. In this year it happened

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τούτῳ δοὺς ἐπὶ Πέρσας συνέπεμψεν. οἱ δὲ φύλακες κατιδόντες τὴν 124 γυναῖκα ὑπετόπαζον Καβάδην εἰς τὸ δεσμωτήριον εἶναι τοῖς ἱματίοις Καβάδου ἠμφιεσμένην ἐπὶ ἡμέρας ἱκανάς. ὁ δὲ Καβάδης σὺν τῷ Οὐννικῷ στρατῷ εἰς Περσίδα εἰσβαλὼν πόνῳ οὐδενὶ τήν τε βασιλείαν ἐκράτησε καὶ Βλάσην, τὸν Οὐαλᾶν, ἐξετύφλωσε καὶ ἐν φυλακῇ εἶχεν, τὴν δὲ βασιλείαν ἀσφαλῶς διεφύλαξεν. ἦν γὰρ ἀγχίνους τε καὶ δραστήριος. ἐκράτησε δὲ μετὰ ταῦτα ἔτη ιαʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Οὐαλᾶς ἔτη δʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ἀναστάσιος ἔτη ιηʹ. γʹ. αʹ. ηʹ. ϛʹ. αʹ. βʹ. γʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Ἴλλος καὶ Τροκοῦνδος, οἱ πολιορκοῦντες Ζήνωνα, ὡς Βασιλίσκου τὰ ὑποσχεθέντα αὐτοῖς μὴ πληροῦντος, καὶ τῆς συγκλήτου βουλῆς βαρυνομένης τῇ ἀρχῇ Βασιλίσκου διὰ μοχθηρίαν τρόπων καὶ ἄνοιαν καὶ γραφούσης πρὸς αὐτούς, φιλιωθέντες τῷ Ζήνωνι ὅ τε Ἴλλος καὶ Τροκοῦνδος καὶ λαβόντες αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλεύουσαν ἐπανήρχοντο. τοῦτο δὲ μαθὼν ὁ Βασιλίσκος Ἁρμάτιον, τὸν ἴδιον ἀνεψιόν, στρατηγὸν ὄντα τῆς Θρᾴκης, μετὰ πάσης τῆς στρατιᾶς αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ λαοῦ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἀπέστειλε κατὰ Ζήνωνος, ὁρκίσας αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ ἅγιον βάπτισμα μὴ προδοῦναι. ὁ δὲ Ἁρμάτιος συναντήσας τῷ Ζήνωνι κατὰ Νίκαιαν τῆς Βιθυνίας οὕτως. αὐτὸν κατέπληξεν, ὡς μικροῦ δεῖν ἀναστρέψαι μετὰ τῆς Ἰσαυρικῆς βοηθείας πάσης. ἀλλὰ δώροις τοῖς παρὰ Ζήνωνος καὶ οὗτος ὡς ἐπὶ πολὺ τυφλωθεὶς καὶ ὑποσχέσει ἀδιαδόχου στρατηλατίας, καὶ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ Βασιλίσκον καίσαρα ποιῆσαι καὶ συγκάθεδρον αὐτοῦ, σὺν αὐτῷ κατὰ Βασιλίσκου ἐπανῆλθεν. τοῦ δὲ Ζήνωνος σὺν Ἀρεάδνῃ τὴν βασιλεύουσαν καταλαβόντος, ἐδέχθη ὑπὸ τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ τῆς συγκλήτου. ὁ δὲ Βασιλίσκος ἐλθὼν ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ καὶ τὸν βασιλικὸν ἀποθέμενος στέφανον ἐν τῇ θείᾳ τραπέζῃ ἐν τῷ βαπτιστηρίῳ προσέφυγε σὺν Ζηνωδίᾳ, τῇ κακοδόξῳ αὐτοῦ γυναικί. ὁ δὲ Ζήνων καταλαβὼν εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν παρεγένετο καὶ οὕτως εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὰ βασίλεια. ἀποστείλας δὲ εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ἔλαβε τὸν Βασιλίσκον, δοὺς αὐτῷ λόγον μὴ ἀποκεφαλίζειν αὐτόν τε καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ· ὃν ἀποστείλας εἰς Κουκουσὸν τῆς Καππαδοκίας ἀποκλεισθῆναι προσέταξεν 125 εἰς ἕνα πύργον σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ τέκνοις καὶ τῇ λιμῷ διαφθαρῆναι· τινὲς δέ φασιν, ὅτι ἀπαγόμενος ἀποσφάττεται. εὐθέως δὲ ἱππικὸν ποιήσας Βασιλίσκον, τὸν Ἁρματίου υἱόν, προβάλλεται ὁ Ζήνων καίσαρα κατὰ τὰς ὑποσχέσεις, καὶ συνεκάθισε τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐν τῷ σένζῳ καὶ ἐτίμα τοὺς ἡνιόχους σὺν τῷ βασιλεῖ. ὁ δὲ Ζήνων ἀναλογισάμενος, ὅτι "ὡς οὐκ ἐφύλαξεν Ἁρμάτιος πιστὰ τῷ Βασιλίσκῳ ὀμόσας, οὐδὲ ἐμοὶ φυλάξει· ἀλλ' ἐὰν ἀνδρειωθῇ ὁ καῖσαρ, ὁ καὶ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ, ἐπαναστήσεταί μοι· ἐγὼ δὲ ἃ συνεθέμην αὐτῷ ἐπλήρωσα καὶ αὐτὸν ἐποίησα στρατηλάτην καὶ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ καίσαρα·" ἐκέλευσε σφαγῆναι αὐτὸν ὡς ἐπίορκον· καὶ ἐσφάγη εἰς τὸν κοχλίαν τοῦ παλατίου, ὡς ἀνήρχετο εἰς τὸ ἱπποδρόμιον, τὸν δὲ υἱὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν καίσαρα ἐχειροτόνησεν ἀναγνώστην· Ἀρεάδνη γὰρ αὐτὸν ὡς ἐξάδελφον διέσωσεν. ὃς μετὰ ταῦτα Κυζίκου ἐπισκόπησεν ἄριστα. ὁ δὲ Ζήνων Πέτρον τὸν Κναφέα ἀπεστράφη διὰ τὸ συντρέχειν αὐτὸν τῷ Βασιλίσκῳ. ψήφῳ δὲ τῆς ἀνατολικῆς συνόδου καθῃρέθη, καὶ ἀντ' αὐτοῦ Ἰωάννης. ὁ μετὰ τρίμηνον ἐκβληθείς, καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν Στέφανος ἀνὴρ εὐλαβὴς προεβλήθη Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος. ὁ δὲ Πέτρος εἰς Πιτυοῦσσαν ἐξοριζόμενος, ἀπατήσας τοὺς ἀπάγοντας προσέφυγεν εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Θεόδωρον Εὐχαΐτων. Τιμόθεος δὲ ὁ Ἐλοῦρος ἐν τούτοις θνήσκει, ἀντ' αὐτοῦ δὲ Πέτρος ὁ Μογγὸς εἰσάγεται, ἀνὴρ κακοῦργος καὶ τῆς ἀληθείας ἐχθρός, προκαθῃρημένος ἤδη· χειροτονεῖται δὲ ὑπὸ ἑνὸς ἐπισκόπου καὶ αὐτοῦ καθῃρημένου. τούτῳ κατὰ θεοῦ ζῆλον ἐπελθόντες οἱ μοναχοὶ λϛʹ μόνας ἡμέρας λῃστρικῶς κρατήσαντι τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς ἀπελαύνουσι καὶ Τιμόθεον πάλιν τὸν Σαλοφακίαλον ἀποκαθιστῶσιν ἀξίως τῷ θρόνῳ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος πάλιν Τιμόθεος ὁ Σαλοφακίαλος ἔτη δʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Στέφανος ἔτη γʹ. δʹ. βʹ. θʹ. ζʹ. βʹ. αʹ. αʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἐγένετο