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of Constantina, Manos of Hemerias, and Andreas of Theodosiopolis, on the pretext of their goodwill towards the tyrants, but in truth because they did not accept the Henotikon of Zeno, he ordered to be driven from their own churches. But Peter the Fuller, having entered Antioch, committed many evils: anathemas of the synod and expulsions of blameless bishops, and unlawful substitutions and ordinations and things similar to these. But earlier he added to the Trisagion: "Christ the King, who was crucified for us." But Peter, coming again, removed, "Christ the King." And Xenaias, the slave of Satan, taught not to accept the icon of the Lord and of the saints. For he was a Persian by race, but a slave by fortune; having fled his own master in the time of Calendion, he unsettled the villages around Antioch from the faith, being unbaptized and calling himself a cleric. Calendion drove this man out, but Peter the Fuller ordained him bishop of Hierapolis and renamed him Philoxenus. But later, learning that he was unbaptized, he said that the ordination was sufficient for him instead of baptism. But the most orthodox Euphemius pursued Anastasius the silentiary, who later reigned wickedly, from the church as a heretic and of the same mind as Eutyches; seeing him causing a disturbance, he overturned his seat in the church, threatening him that, if he did not stop, he would cut off his head and make a spectacle of him to the crowds. He also brought charges against Zeno and received authority over him. And Zeno asked Maurianus, the most wise count (for he knew certain mystical things and foretold them to him), "Who will reign after me?" And he said to him, "Someone from the silentiaries will succeed to both your kingdom and your wife." And Zeno arrested Pelagius the patrician, from the silentiaries, who had become a wise and pious and prudent and virtuous man, 135 whom he unjustly expropriated and, casting him into a prison, ordered to be killed by the excubitors who were guarding him. When the prefect Arcadius heard that this had happened, he reviled the emperor; and when the emperor heard this, he ordered him to be slaughtered upon entering the palace; but the prefect, learning this, fled to the church. And he was saved from a bitter death; but he expropriated his house. Years of the world, 5583. Years of the divine incarnation, 483. Emperor of the Romans, Zeno, 17 years. 17th. King of the Persians, Kavadh, 11 years. 11th. Bishop of Rome, Felix, 9 years. 8th. Bishop of Constantinople, Euphemius, 7 years. 2nd. Bishop of Jerusalem, Anastasius, 18 years. 15th. Bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius, 7 years. 1st. Bishop of Antioch, Palladius, 10 years. 2nd. In this year Felix accepted the synodical letters of Euphemius and was added to him as orthodox, but he did not accept him as bishop because he did not remove the name of Acacius from the diptychs, and of Fravitta after him. In the same year Peter the Fuller also died, and Palladius was put forward as bishop, a presbyter of the church of the holy protomartyr Thekla in Seleucia. And John of Constantine and Anastasius the silentiary, who later reigned wickedly, were elected together with Palladius. And Zeno, elated by the elimination of the tyrants, proceeded to unjust confiscations and murders, accusing every man of either having allied with them or having advised the attack. And he irrationally put to death Cottäes, who along with John the Scythian had prevailed in the siege of Illus and Leontius, and the admirable Pelagius the patrician, who was noteworthy in the writing of verse, as being prudent and just; and after these things Zeno died, seized by epilepsy and unceasingly bearing on his lips the name of Pelagius, who had been unjustly murdered by him; leaving behind no child, but Longinus his brother, who had twice been consul and was leader of the entire senatorial council, but was senseless and oppressive and dissolute; 136 who, also having many Isaurians in Byzantium and the

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Κωνσταντίνης, Μάνον Ἡμερίας καὶ Ἀνδρέαν Θεοδοσιουπόλεως, προφάσει μὲν τῆς πρὸς τοὺς τυράννους εὐνοίας, τῇ δὲ ἀληθείᾳ διὰ τὸ ἑνωτικὸν Ζήνωνος μὴ δέξασθαι τῶν ἰδίων ἀπελαθῆναι προσέταξεν ἐκκλησιῶν. Πέτρος δὲ ὁ Κναφεὺς εἰσελθὼν εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν πολλὰ κακὰ πέπραχεν, ἀναθεματισμοὺς τῆς συνόδου καὶ ἐκβολὰς ἐπισκόπων ἀνεπιλήπτων ἀντεισαγωγάς τε καὶ χειροτονίας ἀθέσμους καὶ τὰ τούτοις ὅμοια. πρότερον δὲ τῷ τρισαγίῳ προσέθηκεν. "Χριστὲ βασιλεῦ ὁ σταυρωθεὶς δι' ἡμᾶς." Πέτρος δὲ πάλιν ἐλθὼν περιεῖλε τό, "Χριστὲ βασιλεῦ." Ξεναΐας δέ, ὁ δοῦλος τοῦ Σατανᾶ, τὴν δεσποτικὴν εἰκόνα καὶ τῶν ἁγίων ἐδίδασκε μὴ δέχεσθαι. Πέρσης μὲν γὰρ ἦν τῷ γένει, δοῦλος δὲ τὴν τύχην, φυγὼν τοῦ ἰδίου δεσπότου ἐπὶ Καλανδίωνος τὰς περὶ Ἀντιόχειαν κώμας ἀνεστάτου ἀπὸ τῆς πίστεως, ἀβάπτιστος ὢν καὶ κληρικὸν ἑαυτὸν λέγων. τοῦτον Καλανδίων ἀπήλασεν, Πέτρος δὲ ὁ Κναφεὺς ἐπίσκοπον Ἱεραπόλεως αὐτὸν χειροτονήσας Φιλόξενον μετωνόμασεν. μαθὼν δὲ ὕστερον ἀβάπτιστον αὐτὸν εἶναι ἀρκεῖν αὐτῷ τὴν χειροτονίαν ἀντὶ βαπτίσματος ἔφησεν. Εὐφήμιος δὲ ὁ ὀρθοδοξότατος Ἀναστάσιον σιλεντιάριον, τὸν κακῶς μετὰ ταῦτα βασιλεύσαντα, τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐδίωκεν ὡς αἱρετικὸν καὶ ὁμόφρονα Εὐτυχοῦς, ὃν ὀχλοποιοῦντα ὁρῶν τὴν ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ καθέδραν αὐτῷ ἀνέτρεψεν, ἀπειλήσας αὐτῷ, ὡς, εἰ μὴ παύσοιτο, ἀποκεῖραι τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῖς ὄχλοις αὐτὸν θριαμβεῦσαι. ἐνεκάλεσε δὲ καὶ Ζήνωνι καὶ τὴν κατ' αὐτοῦ ἐξουσίαν ἔλαβεν. Ζήνων δὲ ἠρώτησε Μαυριανόν, τὸν σοφώτατον κόμητα, (ἦν γὰρ μυστικά τινα εἰδὼς καὶ προέλεγεν αὐτῷ) ὅτι, "τίς μετ' ἐμὲ βασιλεύσει;" ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, ὅτι "καὶ τὴν βασιλείαν σου καὶ τὴν γυναῖκά σου διαδέχεταί τις ἀπὸ σιλεντιαρίων." ὁ δὲ Ζήνων συνέσχε Πελάγιον τὸν ἀπὸ σιλεντιαρίων πατρίκιον, [δὲ] γενόμενον ἄνδρα σοφὸν καὶ εὐσεβῆ καὶ συνετὸν καὶ ἐνάρετον, 135 ὃν δημεύσας ἀδίκως καὶ εἰς φρουρὰν ἐμβαλὼν ὑπὸ τῶν φυλαττόντων ἐκσκουβιτόρων ἀναιρεθῆναι προσέταξεν. τούτου δὲ γενομένου ἀκούσας ὁ ἔπαρχος Ἀρκάδιος ἐλοιδόρησε τὸν βασιλέα· καὶ ἀκούσας ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐκέλευσεν αὐτὸν εἰσερχόμενον εἰς τὸ παλάτιον σφαγῆναι· ὁ δὲ ἔπαρχος μαθὼν τοῦτο προσέφυγε τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ. καὶ ἐρρύσθη τοῦ πικροῦ θανάτου· τὸν δὲ οἶκον αὐτοῦ ἐδήμευσεν. Κόσμου ἔτη εϠπγʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη υπγʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Ζήνων ἔτη ιζʹ. ιζʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Καβάδης ἔτη ιαʹ. ιαʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Φίλιξ ἔτη θʹ. ηʹ. Κωνσταντιν. ἐπίσκοπος Εὐφήμιος ἔτη ζʹ. βʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ἀναστάσιος ἔτη ιηʹ. ιεʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Ἀθανάσιος ἔτη ζʹ. αʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Παλλάδιος ἔτη ιʹ. βʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει τὰ συνοδικὰ Εὐφημίου Φίλιξ ἀπεδέξατο καὶ ὡς ὀρθοδόξῳ αὐτῷ προσετέθη, ἐπίσκοπον δὲ αὐτὸν οὐκ ἐδέξατο διὰ τὸ μὴ ἐκβαλεῖν τὸ ὄνομα Ἀκακίου ἐκ τῶν διπτύχων καὶ τοῦ μετ' αὐτὸν Φραυΐτα. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει καὶ Πέτρος ὁ Κναφεὺς τέθνηκεν, καὶ προεβλήθη ἐπίσκοπος Παλλάδιος, πρεσβύτερος τῆς ἐν Σελευκείᾳ ἐκκλησίας τῆς ἁγίας πρωτομάρτυρος Θέκλης. συνεψηφίσθη δὲ Παλλαδίῳ καὶ Ἰωάννης ὁ Κωνσταντίνου καὶ Ἀναστάσιος σιλεντιάριος, ὁ κακῶς μετὰ ταῦτα βασιλεύσας. ὁ δὲ Ζήνων ἐπαρθεὶς τῇ τῶν τυράννων ἀναιρέσει πρὸς δημεύσεις καὶ φόνους ἀδίκους χωρεῖ, [καὶ] πάντα ἄνθρωπον αἰτιώμενος ὡς ἐκείνοις ἢ συμμαχήσαντα ἢ συμβουλεύσαντα τὴν ἐπίθεσιν. ἀναιρεῖ δὲ καὶ Κοττάϊν ἀλόγως, τὸν ἅμα Ἰωάννῃ τῷ Σκύθῃ πολιορκίᾳ περιγενόμενον Ἴλλου καὶ Λεοντίου, καὶ τὸν θαυμαστὸν καὶ περὶ ποίησιν ἐπῶν ἀξιόλογον Πελάγιον τὸν πατρίκιον, ὡς φρόνιμον καὶ δίκαιον· καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοις τελευτᾷ Ζήνων ἐπιληψίᾳ κατασχεθεὶς καὶ ἐπὶ στόματος φέρων ἀπαύστως τὴν Πελαγίου προσηγορίαν τοῦ παρ' αὐτοῦ φονευθέντος ἀδίκως· παῖδα μὲν μὴ καταλιπών, Λογγῖνον δὲ τὸν ἀδελφόν, δὶς μὲν ὑπατεύσαντα καὶ τῆς συγκλήτου βουλῆς πάσης ἡγούμενον, ἀνόητον δὲ καὶ βαρὺν καὶ ἀκόλαστον ὄντα· 136 ὃς καὶ πολλοὺς Ἰσαύρους ἐν Βυζαντίῳ ἔχων καὶ τὸν