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he made war on Chalcis, his city. And Zeno sent John the Scythian against Illus and Leontius with 130 a very large force both by land and by sea. When a fierce war broke out, both Illus and Leontius, having been defeated, fled to the fortress of Papyrius with Pamprepius the magister, who was said to be a sorcerer. Then John, capturing Trocundus, the brother of Illus, as he was going off to gather barbarians, cut off his head. And Illus and Leontius, being besieged for four years, waited for him, being deceived by Pamprepius the magister, the sorcerer. Wherefore, learning of his death, they cut off the head of Pamprepius as an imposter and threw him down from the wall. In the same year, the partisans of Peter Mongus, through money and trickery, persuaded Zeno that John, the bishop of Alexandria, the Tabennesiot, should be expelled, as having been ordained against his will, and that Peter Mongus should return again to Alexandria from Euchaïta. Then Zeno also made a Henoticon and sent it out everywhere, dictated by Acacius of Constantinople, as some say. And Zeno ordered Peter Mongus, before his return to Alexandria, to be in communion with Simplicius of Rome and Acacius. And this Acacius wrote to the Alexandrians to receive Mongus and to cast out John. But John, hearing of Peter's arrival, although the clergy with the people begged him not to leave, as they were ready to die for him, he, wisely and calmly considering what was about to be dared by Peter, departed. Years of the world Ϡοζʹ. Years of the divine incarnation 477. Emperor of the Romans Zeno, 17 years. 11. King of the Persians Kavadh. 11 years. 5. Bishop of Rome Felix, 9 years. 2. Bishop of Const., Acacius, 17 years. 14. Bishop of Jerusalem Anastasius, 18 years. 9. Bishop of Alexandria Peter Mongus, 6 years. 1. Bishop of Antioch Calendion, 4 years. 4. In this year Theudericus, son of Valamer, of whom there was much talk among both barbar- 131 ians and Romans as being brave and provident and not without eloquence; for having once been a hostage at Byzantium, he studied with the best teachers, after his father Valamer, after the sons of Attila, had led the Goths during the reign of Leo. Zeno, therefore, having summoned this man from Thrace to Byzantium and having appointed him consul and commander of Thrace, sent him out with John the Scythian against Illus; who also, after Illus and Leontius were shut up in the fortress of Papyrius, leaving John to besiege them, himself went to Zeno. And going out into Thrace and having encamped, he advances against Byzantium; and being restrained, as they say, only by a sparing of the city, he returns to Thrace and, being urged by Zeno, goes down to Italy. And having conquered Odoacer in a great battle, he puts on the royal attire in Ravenna. And he subdued many other barbarians, and especially brought the Vandals into subjection without even taking up arms against them, as Gizeric had already died before he came to Rome; and he took possession of Rome and all of the west. 43rd bishop of Antioch Peter the Fuller, for a 2nd time, 3 years. 12. 6. 3. 15. 10. 2. 1. In this year the bishops of the east wrote to Acacius reproaching him for receiving Mongus into communion. But he, not paying attention to them, shamelessly forced everyone to be in communion with Mongus. And those of the imperial city and of the East besought Felix, after the death of Simplicius the bishop of Rome, indicating that Acacius was the cause of the evils. Among whom also John of Alexandria, saying the same things, reached Rome. And Felix, having held a synod in the church of the chief apostle Peter, sent two bishops and a defensor to Constantinople, having written to Zeno and Acacius to expel Peter Mongus from Alexandria as a heretic. 13. 7. 4. 16.

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ἐπολέμησε Χαλκίδι, πόλει αὐτοῦ. ὁ δὲ Ζήνων Ἰωάννην τὸν Σκύθην ἀπέστειλε κατὰ Ἴλλου καὶ Λεοντίου μετὰ 130 πλείστης δυνάμεως κατά τε γῆν καὶ θάλασσαν. πολέμου δὲ συρραγέντος σφοδροῦ, Ἴλλος τε καὶ Λεόντιος ἡττηθέντες εἰς τὸ Παπυρίου καστέλλιν ἔφυγον σὺν Παμπρεπίῳ μαγίστρῳ, γόητι λεγομένῳ εἶναι. τότε καὶ Τροκοῦνδον, τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἴλλου, ἐπὶ συλλογῆς βαρβάρων ἀπιόντα Ἰωάννης συλλαβὼν ἀπέτεμεν. τοῦτον δὲ Ἴλλος καὶ Λεόντιος ἐπὶ τέσσαρα ἔτη φρουρούμενοι ἀνέμενον ἀπατώμενοι ὑπὸ Παμπρεπίου μαγίστρου τοῦ γόητος. ὅθεν τὴν τούτου ἀναίρεσιν μαθόντες Παμπρέπιον ὡς ἀπατεῶνα ἀποτεμόντες τοῦ τείχους κατεκρήμνισαν. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει οἱ Πέτρου τοῦ Μογγοῦ σπουδασταὶ διὰ χρημάτων καὶ φενακισμῶν ἔπεισαν Ζήνωνα ἐκβληθῆναι Ἰωάννην, τὸν ἐπίσκοπον Ἀλεξανδρείας, τὸν Ταβεννησιώτην, ὡς παρὰ γνώμην αὐτοῦ χειροτονηθέντα, καὶ Πέτρον τὸν Μογγὸν πάλιν εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἀπὸ Εὐχαΐτων ὑποστρέψαι. τότε καὶ ἑνωτικὸν ἐποίησε Ζήνων καὶ πανταχοῦ ἐξέπεμψεν, ὑπὸ Ἀκακίου τοῦ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ὑπαγορευθέν, ὥς φασί τινες. Πέτρῳ δὲ τῷ Μογγῷ πρὸ τῆς εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἐπανόδου ἐκέλευσε Ζήνων κοινωνῆσαι Σιμπλικίῳ τῷ Ῥώμης καὶ Ἀκακίῳ. ὅστις καὶ ἔγραψεν Ἀκάκιος τοῖς Ἀλεξανδρεῦσι δέξασθαιτὸν Μογγὸν καὶ Ἰωάννην ἀποβαλέσθαι. Ἰωάννης δὲ ἀκούσας τὴν Πέτρου παρουσίαν, τοῦ κλήρου σὺν τῷ λαῷ δεομένων αὐτοῦ μὴ ἐξελθεῖν ὡς ἑτοίμως ἐχόντων ὑπεραποθνήσκειν αὐτοῦ, ὁ δὲ τὰ μέλλοντα τολμᾶσθαι Πέτρῳ διανοούμενος σοφῶς καὶ ἀταράχως ἐξῆλθεν. Κόσμου ἔτη Ϡοζʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη υοζʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Ζήνων ἔτη ιζʹ. ιαʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Καβάδης. ἔτη ιαʹ. εʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Φίλιξ ἔτη θʹ. βʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Ἀκάκιος ἔτη ιζʹ. ιδʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ἀναστάσιος ἔτη ιηʹ. θʹ. Ἀλεξανδρεία ἐπίσκοπος Πέτρος ὁ Μογγὸς ἔτη ϛʹ. αʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Καλανδίων ἔτη δʹ. δʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Θευδέριχος ὁ Οὐαλάμερος οὗ πολὺς ἐν βαρβά131 ροις τε καὶ Ῥωμαίοις λόγος ὡς ἀνδρείου τε καὶ προμηθοῦς καὶ οὐδὲ λόγων ἀμοίρου· κατὰ γὰρ τὸ Βυζάντιον ὁμηρεύσας ποτὲ τοῖς ἀρίστοις τῶν διδασκάλων ἐφοίτησεν, τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ Οὐαλάμερος μετὰ τοὺς Ἀττίλα παῖδας ἡγησαμένου τῶν Γότθων ἐπὶ τῆς Λέοντος βασιλείας. τοῦτον οὖν ὁ Ζήνων ἐκ Θρᾴκης μετακαλεσάμενος εἰς τὸ Βυζάντιον καὶ ὕπατον ἀναδείξας καὶ Θρᾴκης ἡγούμενον, μετὰ Ἰωάννου τοῦ Σκύθου κατὰ τοῦ Ἴλλου ἐξέπεμψεν· ὃς καὶ μετὰ τὸ ἀποκλεισθῆναι Ἴλλον καὶ Λεόντιον εἰς τὸ Παπυρίου καστέλλιν καταλιπὼν Ἰωάννην πολιορκοῦντα αὐτοὺς αὐτὸς πρὸς Ζήνωνα ἦλθεν. καὶ ἐξελθὼν ἐν τῇ Θρᾴκῃ καὶ σταρτοπεδευσάμενος ἐπέρχεται τῷ Βυζαντίῳ· καὶ μόνῃ φειδοῖ τῇ περὶ τὴν πόλιν, ὥς φασι, κρατηθεὶς ἐπανέρχεται εἰς τὴν Θρᾴκην καὶ προτραπεὶς ὑπὸ Ζήνωνος κατέρχεται εἰς Ἰταλίαν. καὶ Ὀδοάκρου μάχῃ μεγάλῃ κρατήσας τὸ ῥηγὸς ἐν Ῥαβέννῃ περιτίθεται σχῆμα. ἐχειρώσατο δὲ καὶ ἄλλους πλείστους τῶν βαρβάρων, μάλιστα καὶ τοὺς Οὐανδήλους ὑπηγάγετο μηδὲ ὅπλα κατ' αὐτῶν κινήσας, Γιζερίχου τελευτήσαντος ἤδη πρὶν ἢ ἐκεῖνον ἐλθεῖν εἰς Ῥώμην· ἐκράτησε δὲ καὶ Ῥώμης καὶ πάσης τῆς ἑσπερίου. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος μγʹ Πέτρος ὁ Κναφεὺς τὸ βʹ ἔτη γʹ. ιβʹ. ϛʹ. γʹ. ιεʹ. ιʹ. βʹ. αʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει οἱ τῆς ἀνατολῆς ἐπίσκοποι ἔγραψαν Ἀκακίῳ μέμψεις διὰ τὸ δέξασθαι τὸν Μογγὸν εἰς κοινωνίαν. ὁ δὲ μὴ προσχὼν αὐτοῖς πάντας ἀναιδῶς κοινωνεῖν τῷ Μογγῷ κατηνάγκαζεν. οἱ δὲ τῆς βασιλίδος καὶ τῆς ἑῴας ἐδεήθησαν Φίλικος μετὰ θάνατον Σιμπλικίου τοῦ Ῥώμης ἐπισκόπου σημαίνοντες Ἀκάκιον εἶναι αἴτιοντῶν κακῶν. ἐν οἷς καὶ Ἰωάννης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρείας τὰ αὐτὰ λέγων τὴν Ῥώμην κατέλαβεν. Φίλιξ δὲ σύνοδον ἐν τῷ ναῷ τοῦ κορυφαίου ἀποστόλου Πέτρου ποιήσας δύο ἐπισκόπους καὶ ἔκδικον ἔπεμψεν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει, γράψας Ζήνωνι καὶ Ἀκακίῳ ἐκβαλεῖν Πέτρον τὸν Μογγὸν ὡς αἱρετικὸν τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας. ιγʹ. ζʹ. δʹ. ιϛʹ.