Compendium chronicum
Gold-bearing, glistening with robes studded with pearls. the fragrant violet shone, the rose shone back. every kind of violet's color smiled from ever
The fine-spun ones. the large-winged, large-hooked-beaked, hooked-clawed, boasting their claws like javelins, having a beak sharper than daggers, for
Having made him a composite of soul and body, and having bestowed the grace of a will moved by itself, and having formed him according to his likeness
Of yours, and you will be called gods, and you will know all things. the woman heard these things, she heeded the flattery, she was conquered by the
Land-born, winged, walking but god, opening the floodgates of heaven, brought down from there whole seas of rain, covered the peaks of the deep-cliff
They stole, they committed adultery, and finally they looked toward idolatry. seruch was the first to begin to use carved images and pillars, being th
Javelin-bowmen, armor-bearers, spearmen, men furious in battle, and having taken an allied force from the nation of the huns, and having made allies o
Chaldeans, and the plaything of fortune and the dice of affairs, having sufficiently mocked others, passed over to others. and when these things were
Mandane, and that the liquid poured forth was so great as to be able to cover the face of the land of asia. this was the first dream, and a second one
Not even among the most famous, like that of the medes and persians, or that of the assyrians. candaules was king of lydia and phrygia, tracing his li
To be contrived by such devices. he, having learned and discerned which mare the horse of darius loved more than all the others, after the two of them
Having heard that joseph, the one born of rachel, was governing the land of egypt for pharaoh, and also contriving to find a release from his sufferin
Was sung. and a light of gladness rose for the hebrews, but the darkness of calamities overshadowed the egyptians. the israelites who fled egypt then
He exposes him in a place called parion after paris himself. he was therefore cast aside carelessly. shepherds found him, pitied him, took him up. the
Because helen had been seized by someone, all fought on her behalf with their own bodies. so after much entreating and importuning, they persuade the
While strong-handed achilles was present, the counsels of the son of laertes were ineffective, and every plot devised and scheme stitched together aga
The swarm of trojans mingled with each other, daring to do nothing. and there was a temple before the walls of beautifully-towered troy, where achille
To proteus, he also finds his consort there in memphis, and having been hosted and honored he receives helen, and after considerable toils he reaches
Flapping its wings, a great-winged bird, fanned the fire into flame with its wings. but a certain cunning fox, vying with these and contending against
To be called, remaining faithful, keepers of the house and guardians of what is within. then taking a clod of earth in his hand from outside, he throw
The most unjust slaughter of his father, and perceiving as a man of sense that he would share the danger with his father and brother and would die wit
Caesar wished to take into the fellowship of marriage a woman who was in the sixth month of her pregnancy, and he urged nero to betroth his wife to hi
And his whole character was lecherous, and worse than others, lusting after women joined to men, and commanding their spouses to serve his abomination
You will cause me pain for those who are sated on my rotten limbs will vex me for a short time, but if others fall upon me, they will cling more viol
Bringing with them a chariot-driver mime, they came upon him to kill him. and nero, knowing this, killed himself, saying this at the end: what an art
Extinguishes it, and dogs, running up and eating the bonds, release the stargazer who was invoking the gods many times. and these things indeed were a
Ravaging and plundering, being in want of money, pressed by need and having no army from anywhere to arm against them, set forth in the marketplace th
Of great things, what terror was not present, what was not dared! slaughters and toils everywhere, and pools of blood. and the gloom of the prison hel
Their names were constans and constantine) manages the western parts and rome and the gauls. but these were extinguished rather quickly and before the
But when that woman again added that her husband was plotting against gratian himself, he replied again, what is that to you, woman? and they say th
Orestes, and after orestes the son of romulus was the last to take hold of the rule. and the great-named city, the city of the romans, having had romu
They set aside the young woman. athenais the maiden, exceedingly distressed at these things and wounded in her soul, goes to her maternal aunt, she sh
Learning of the emperor, she arrives in the city of jerusalem as quickly as possible, and there, having completed the remainder of her life, she pays
When a fierce battle had broken out and he was leading the romans against the arrogant persians, marcian, seized by a death-threatening illness, remai
A man, a treasure of wisdom, was slandered as a hellene, isocasius by name, a quaestor by rank and from there, stripped of both honor and money, he i
Having reigned over the romans for eighteen years. but this one, having tasted power for a short time, departed from the earth rather quickly, leaving
The poison with the trisagion hymn, and when he saw the whole crowd immediately run wild and drive the eparch from the temple with stones and burn dow
Justin, but being inflamed with zeal for the pious religion, kindled an implacable war against the manichaeans and a persecution more severe than thos
Manly minds for with this man he joined mighty battles, and so terrified chosroes that he wished to exchange peace for man-slaying wars. and rome the
With graces and bear torches for creation, and appear as bright stars to those on earth but the sun leaped up from a most beautiful lake, and the tor
Such power, and being filled with greater zeal, he held to what must be done. and it happened that not long after something like this occurred, worthy
Into the judgments of the judge shook the hearts of all. from there a calm of justice-doing was spread everywhere, instead of a winter and a gloomy te
And by the things that will be said and the khagan, having attacked the garrisons of the romans (the khagan was king of the northern scythians) and h
Of dregs. therefore, he is caught fleeing together with the empress and the purple-born branches sprung from him. but the most god-hated, man-slaying
With golden helmets, delicate, all quiver-bearing, on snorting, gold-phalerad horses. so when the emperor saw it was impossible to engage with the arm
Having embarked in boats, they came on, covering the back of the sea with their dense light boats, with their single-log vessels. thus there were many
But nevertheless he did not long enjoy his fortune, but it quickly grew cold, but appearing he was hidden, just as a rose might spring up and immediat
Him, only one thing troubled, lest the scepter reach justinian again, and he who was formerly deprived of it, and of his nose along with it, might aga
Infancy was subjected to murderous hands for slaughter but here, boys of fifteen, girls in their early bloom, young men, soft-skinned women, little g
You will see a dreadful thing, and he bespattered the ground, flowing away like water. thus it was said well and wisely by the ancients, nothing beyo
But the emperor theodosios, shrinking from the audacity and the beast-like heart of leo, yielded the throne and the crown to his enemy, willingly or u
From the kandys and the torc i will know, and the croaking raven from its blackness. near the precinct of the wisdom of god a splendid house had been
He plundered beauty, he cut out the sacred images from the churches, and in their place with the same colors and mosaics he engraved his beloved hunti
From there he is rolled towards lawless deeds, and he shaves the head of his most temperate consort, and introduces the union with another woman into
They drive him from the throne and the city as a fugitive. and he, having indicated these things in writing to the empress and having besought to rece
They were supplicating, even employing force. but he, not knowing the turn of the balancing scale of fortune, and fearing its wavering will, approache
And again the tail of the dragon was moved. the abomination, i mean, of iconoclasm, like a great dragon, crept, dreadful and gaping, it rushed to devo
And from there what was being built was overturned from its roots, and having stained his own war-loving hands with murders and having made every spea
The king, on account of the bruises and the numerous wounds, or rather cases of paralysis, was shaken in his soul at what had happened, and wishing to
Finding their catch, they write to the just man while he is fishing with nets a short writing in iambic meter, which, since i have deemed it not right
Having been persuaded and having received complete assurance that theophilos was delivered from the torments there, she became a fellow-diner with the
Of the ancient kings, both the golden trees, and the chattering sparrows, and lions made of hammered gold, and simply every royal thing gleaming in th
By his hand, but the contriver of evils paid the penalty, and the preparer of terrible things drank a cup of wrath. bardas, therefore, while digging a
Scarcely the temple-keeper he immediately makes basil a member of his household, and deems him worthy of fitting care. and basil was handsome, noble,
To earth-born men, and certain innate dooms accompany men. for this one, great in understanding among emperors, having been persuaded by certain serpe
By the transgression of tetragamy. but leo, the most philosophical among emperors, having fallen into the natural necessities of the body and being af
He arms himself on behalf of the one who had been out-generaled with an army drawn from many places, from the lycaonians, from the thracians, from the
Raising him from a lowly state to the summit, he makes him father and guardian of the empire. and drawing romanos further into his affection, he gives
Of unstained rule, and being about to be released from the bonds of nature, he appointed his son romanos as sole ruler. but he, entrusting all strengt
He conveys everything, and says, alas, o general, for the fortune of the romans! until when will woman-souled eunuchs steer the ship of state, resour
Medimni of grain to be sold for a nomisma. thus phocas managed the matter meanly, and this though he was rich in thousand-bushel granaries, laden with
Near the ister cutting down the phalanxes, breaking the scytharchs, killing, pursuing, routing the champions, as if some lion falling upon broad-flank
Slumber to his eyelids, nor sleep to his eyes, until he drove out the wolves, the devourers of sheep. the mighty ones of the bulgars recognized his st
And having been taught by certain people that after him the rule would pass to romanos, one of the senate, surnamed argyropoulos, he compels the man t
Having the care of those in the home for the aged, he managed all other matters of state up and down and was seen openly as the keeper of the ruler. t
Rushing into the inner sanctuary, from there they seize the wretched man, crying out with groans from the heart, with hot tears, and they gouge out hi
Bloody streams, but murderous outpourings. he seized the fortresses, he seized the cities. he went on, roaring in his anger, breathing fire more than
Of the power to comnenus. but those who were allotted to steer the ship of state, wishing not to save it but to sink it and swamp the most wretched th
But suddenly the tempests of the flesh, having grown wild, stirred up a hard-to-calm, wave-tossed wind, they brought on nausea, vomiting, dizziness, t
To sheep-guarded folds. but a winged dove, flying up from somewhere, alighted on his knees with a silent flutter, not like the one before that flew to
Promising down on his temples, using caesar his uncle as a rival and the most powerful men and those in high military command, he at once seats himsel
Shining with purple dye and gold, and using in turn overlapping garments, he sat upon high, silver-studded thrones, adorning with dignities all who ca
to earth-born men, and certain innate dooms accompany men. For this one, great in understanding among emperors, having been persuaded by certain serpent-like men, who stitch together deceits and weave plots and separate dearest ones, children from fathers, a little daughter from her mother, a bride from her bridegroom, such as that wretched Santabarenos, imprisons Leo, his own son, as one supposedly setting snares of murder against his father, a most philosophical man, full of all knowledge and trained in all subjects, whom the furnace of misfortunes and the crucible of evils showed to be gold, sounding with no admixture of brass. Here were the wails and laments of a mother supplicating and begging the father on behalf of her unfortunate son; but he was unyielding, unsoftened like a rock, and towards natural affection, another hard Adamas. There were there women mourners and singers of dirges, bitterly weeping over that misfortune. That house was a house of grief and groans. There was also a song-bird there in the house, where bitter lamentation and wailing resounded, which, constantly hearing the voices of mourning and having been taught those doleful cries, wailed along with them for the young man and uttered the name Leo and seemed to mourn with them. Basil, once hearing this bird talking and bringing up Leo by name, and seeing those present shedding a warm tear (and it was then a richly-laden, savory dinner), gives in, he is softened from his harsh judgment, ashamed, as it seems, lest in nature he should appear more unsympathetic than the bird. Therefore he brings him out of the prison, and looks upon him with a father's eye. And so, having reigned over the Romans for eight years, and being now about to die and come to the tomb, he transfers the imperial power to this one. Once, to this emperor, as he was making a procession and had come to be in the church of the martyr Mocius, some wild man like those possessed by demons leaps upon him, a man unsettled in his appearance and his gaze, and with a staff strikes a fatal blow upon his head. And having been seized and forced to name his accomplices, he had nothing to say; for he was disturbed by a passion. But a certain holy man, shining with the divine Spirit and full of graces (his name was Mark), seeing the emperor terribly despondent and thinking he would suffer something terrible from this, sprinkling his words as a pain-healing medicine, prophetically cried out with an eloquent mouth: "O emperor, do not yet expect your end, nor let death be pleasing to you; for ten years of life and reign have been graciously granted to you from the hand above." Having spoken, he fell silent, and the emperor immediately recovered from the blow and from his despondency. And the prophecy of Mark did not prove to be in vain. This Leo was joined to four wives, not overcome by pleasure, but thirsting to beget children and to see sons sprung from his own loins. Therefore from the fourth and last, she conceives a purple-born son, Constantine by name. But what was done by the emperor seemed most improper to the ministers of God, to introduce a fourth marriage, and to defile the incorruptible and pure bride, the Church. And so Nicholas, being the first arch-pastor and governing Constantinople at that time, speaks, he speaks freely, he fulfills that of the prophet, speaking the testimony of God before kings, and not cowering nor trembling at the threats from them. Thus the fear of God casts far away the fear of powerful men and of rulers. For this he is driven out from the flock and from the throne, and indeed he is also condemned to exile. But another is brought in his place, a man great in divine things, who from his tender nails and from his first youth, having come under the divine yoke of the solitary life, had his dwelling on Olympus in Mysia, and shone with graces that revealed the future. This man, at God's command, unites the Church, which had been torn into many segments and divisions on account of
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γηγενέσι, καὶ κῆρες σύμφυτοί τινες σύνεισι τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. ὁ γὰρ πολὺς τὴν σύνεσιν οὗτος ἐν βασιλεῦσιν ὑπό τινων ἀναπεισθεὶς
ἀνδρῶν ὀφιοτρόπων, οἳ δόλους ὑπορράπτουσι καὶ μηχανοπλοκοῦσι καὶ φίλτατα διχάζουσιν ἀπὸ πατέρων τέκνα, ἀπὸ μητρὸς θυγάτριον,
ἀπὸ νυμφίου νύμφην, οἷος ὁ Σανταβαρηνὸς ἐκεῖνος ὁ δυσδαίμων, καθείργνυσι τὸν Λέοντα τὸν παῖδα τὸν οἰκεῖον ὡς δῆθεν κατὰ τοῦ
πατρὸς βρόχους ἱστάντα φόνου, ἄνδρα φιλοσοφώτατον, γνώσεως πάσης πλήρη καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς μαθήμασιν ἐμπαιδοτριβηθέντα, ὃν συμφορῶν
ἡ κάμινος καὶ τῶν κακῶν χωνεία χρυσὸν ἀπέδειξεν μηδὲν ὑπόχαλκον ἠχοῦντα. ἐνταῦθα γόοι καὶ κλαυθμοὶ μητρὸς ποτνιωμένης καὶ
δεομένης τοῦ πατρὸς ὑπὲρ υἱοῦ δυστήνου· ἀλλ' ἦν ἐκεῖνος ἄτεγκτος ἀμάλακτος ὡς πέτρα, καὶ πρὸς στοργὴν τὴν φυσικὴν ἄλλος σκληρὸς
Ἀδάμας. ἦσαν ἐκεῖ θρηνήτριαι καὶ μονῳδοὶ γυναῖκες πικρῶς ἀνακλαιόμεναι τὴν συμφορὰν ἐκείνην. οἶκος ἐκεῖνος πένθους ἦν καὶ
στεναγμάτων οἶκος. ἦν καὶ στρουθίον μουσικὸν ἐκεῖ κατὰ τὸν οἶκον, ἔνθα πικρὸς ὀλοφυρμὸς καὶ γόος ἐξηχεῖτο, ὅπερ ἀκοῦον συνεχῶς
φωνῶν θρηνητηρίων καὶ τὰς βοὰς ἐκδιδαχθὲν τὰς γοερὰς ἐκείνας συνανωλόλυζεν αὐταῖς περὶ τοῦ νεανίου καὶ προύφερε τὸν Λέοντα
καὶ συνθρηνεῖν ἐῴκει. τούτου ποτὲ Βασίλειος ἀκούσας τοῦ στρουθίου λαλοῦντος καὶ τὸν Λέοντα φέροντος ἀνὰ στόμα, καὶ τοὺς παρόντας
ἔνθερμον στάξαντας βλέψας δάκρυ (ἦν δὲ λιπαροτράπεζον εὔοψον δεῖπνον τότε), ἐνδίδωσι, μαλάσσεται τῆς σκληρογνωμοσύνης, αἰδούμενος,
ὡς ἔοικε, μή πως περὶ τὴν φύσιν ἀσυμπαθέστερος αὐτοῦ φαίνοιτο τοῦ στρουθίου. ἐξάγει τοίνυν τῆς εἱρκτῆς, καὶ πατρικὸν προσβλέπει.
καὶ τοίνυν ἔτεσιν ὀκτὼ Ῥωμαίων βασιλεύσας, καὶ μέλλων ἤδη τελευτᾶν καὶ καταντᾶν εἰς τύμβον, εἰς τοῦτον τὸ βασίλειον κράτος
μεταβιβάζει. Τούτῳ ποτὲ τῷ βασιλεῖ πρόοδον ποιουμένῳ κἀν τῷ ναῷ τοῦ μάρτυρος Μωκίου γενομένῳ ἐπιπηδᾷ τις ἄγριος κατὰ τοὺς
δαιμονῶντας, ἄνθρωπος ἀστατούμενος τὸ σχῆμα καὶ τὸ βλέμμα, καὶ ῥάβδῳ κατὰ κεφαλῆς πλήττει πληγὴν καιρίαν. καὶ συλληφθεὶς καὶ
βιασθεὶς εἰπεῖν τοὺς συνειδότας οὐκ εἶχεν ὅ τι φθέγξαιτο· πάθει καὶ γὰρ ὠχλεῖτο. ἄνθρωπος δέ τις ἱερὸς πνεύματι θείῳ λάμπων
καὶ χάρισι κατάκομος (ὄνομα τούτῳ Μάρκος), ἰδὼν βαρυθυμήσαντα δεινῶς τὸν βασιλέα καί τι καὶ πείσεσθαι δεινὸν ἐντεῦθεν οἰηθέντα,
φάρμακον ἀκεσώδυνον τοὺς λόγους ἐπιπάττων προφητικῶς ἀνέκραγε στόματι καλλιγλώττῳ "ὦ βασιλεῦ, μηδέπω μοι τὴν τελευτὴν προσδόκα,
μηδέ σοι καταθύμιος ὁ θάνατος γενέσθω· δέκα καὶ γὰρ ἐνιαυτοὶ ζωῆς καὶ βασιλείας παρὰ τῆς ἄνωθεν χειρὸς πεφιλοτίμηνταί σοι."
ὁ μὲν εἰπὼν ἐσίγησεν, ὁ βασιλεὺς δ' εὐθέως καὶ τῆς πληγῆς ἐρράϊσε καὶ τῆς βαρυθυμίας. ἡ δὲ τοῦ Μάρκου πρόρρησις γέγονεν οὐκ
εἰς μάτην. Οὗτος ἀλόχοις τέσσαρσιν ὁ Λέων συνεζύγη, οὐχ ἡδονῇ νικώμενος, ἀλλὰ διψῶν τεκνῶσαι καὶ παῖδας βλέψαι τῆς αὐτοῦ βλαστήσαντας
ὀσφύος. ἐκ τῆς τετάρτης τοιγαροῦν καὶ τελευταίας κύει παῖδα πορφυροβλάστητον τοὔνομα Κωνσταντῖνον. ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἀτοπώτατον τοῖς
τοῦ θεοῦ προσπόλοις ἐδόκει τὸ γινόμενον παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως, τὸν γάμον ἐπεισαγαγεῖν τέταρτον, καὶ μολῦναι τὴν ἄφθαρτον καὶ καθαρὰν
νύμφην τὴν ἐκκλησίαν. καὶ τοίνυν ὁ Νικόλαος, πρῶτος ὢν ἀρχιποίμην καὶ τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν διέπων τηνικαῦτα, λαλεῖ, παρρησιάζεται,
πληροῖ τὸ τοῦ προφήτου, λαλῶν θεοῦ μαρτύριον ἔναντι βασιλέων, καὶ τὰς ἐκεῖθεν ἀπειλὰς οὐ πτήσσων οὐδὲ τρέμων. οὕτως ὁ φόβος
τοῦ θεοῦ βάλλει μακρὰν τὸν φόβον τὸν ἐξ ἀνθρώπων δυνατῶν καὶ τὸν ἐκ τῶν κρατούντων. ἐντεῦθεν ἐκδιώκεται τῆς ποίμνης καὶ τοῦ
θρόνου, καὶ δὴ καὶ κατακρίνεται τὰ τῆς ὑπερορίας. ἕτερος δ' ἀντεισάγεται, πολὺς ἀνὴρ τὰ θεῖα, ὃς ἐξ ὀνύχων ἁπαλῶν κἀκ πρώτης
ἡλικίας ζυγὸν τὸν θεῖον ὑπελθὼν τὸν τοῦ μονήρους βίου οἴκησιν ἔσχεν Ὄλυμπον τὸν κατὰ τὴν Μυσίαν, καὶ χάρισιν ἐξέλαμψε τὸ μέλλον
προδηλούσαις. οὗτος θεοῦ κελεύσαντος ἑνοῖ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, κατασχισθεῖσαν εἰς πολλὰς τομὰς καὶ διαιρέσεις ἐπὶ
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