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he banishes and despises the book because of its inscription, "Tragedy, that is, a prophecy of the present state of affairs." just as they say was said by Basil the Great against Julian. But Macedonius was anathematizing Flavian of Antioch and all who dared to say anything against the synod, and he anathematized and drove away the apocrisiaries of Flavian who had come to him on some business. 20. 16. 10. 15. 8. 5. 12. In this year Anastasius decreed a synod to be convened in Sidon. For Soterichus, the bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, being ordained by Macedonius, confessed in writing to accept the dogmas of the synod in Chalcedon as a definition of faith. but after this he became so hostile, as to go to the east and confer with the impious Xenaias, and for both to ask the emperor for a synod to be held in Sidon for the complete rejection of the holy synod in Chalcedon; which was also convened and quickly dissolved, the emperor having sent for this purpose Eutropius the tribune, who, having dissolved it, induced Flavian of Antioch and Elias of Jerusalem with their bishops to write things pleasing to the emperor. And Flavian wrote that he accepted only the three synods and the Henoticon of Zeno, making no mention of the one in Chalcedon. But Elias of Jerusalem wrote that the one in Chalcedon should also be rejected. But Soterichus of Caesarea and Xenaias reported to the emperor against Flavian and Elias, that because they were unwilling to declare clearly against the synod in Chalcedon, they did not agree with each other. But Anastasius, being angry, instructed some falsely named monks to assemble in Antioch and to rise up against Flavian, asking him to anathematize the synod in Chalcedon and Diodore and Theo154dore and Ibas and Theodoret; which Flavian, being fainthearted, also did, and he anathematized them in the church along with the synod. In the same year the emperor was also plotting against Macedonius; and the schismatics with hired mobs, while chanting the Trisagion on a Sunday in the Archangel chapel of the palace and in the great church, would add, "who was crucified for us," so that the orthodox out of necessity drove them out with blows. And the emperor openly, through the schismatic monks and clerics and Julian, once bishop of Caria, but then of Halicarnassus, and Severus the impious, while he was still a monk, made war on Macedonius, inflicting on him shameful public insults. But the crowds with women and children, led by the orthodox monks, gathered and cried out: "It is time for martyrdom, Christians, let us not abandon our father;" insulting the emperor as a Manichaean and unworthy of the throne. But he, being afraid, shut the gates of the palace, and prepared ships in order to flee. But Macedonius, whom he had sworn never to see again, he then summoned to see, fearing the crowds. And as he was going to him, the people testified to the leaders and monks, saying: "We have our father from you." And the men of the scholae acclaimed him as he passed by. And entering before Anastasius, he rebuked him as an enemy of the church. But he pretended for the moment to be united with him. 52nd Bishop of Jerusalem, Elias, 23 years. 64. 504. 21. 17. 11. 16. 1. 6. 13. In this year the emperor deceived Macedonius through Celer the magister, having made a memorandum to him, in which he confesses to accept the first and second synods, but omitted the one in Ephesus and Chalcedon; which brought great blame upon Macedonius. For through this he also accepted the Henoticon of Zeno, to which also, when he was being 155ordained, he had subscribed. But Macedonius, going to the monastery of Dalmatus, made a defense through an address to the zealot monks and clerics who were scandalized at him, that he accepts the holy synod in Chalcedon and holds as heretics those not accepting it; and they celebrated the liturgy with him. But the emperor persuaded with gifts his like-minded monks and clerics

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ἐξορίζει καὶ τὴν βίβλον ἐξουθενεῖ διὰ τὸ ἐπιγράφειν, "Τραγῳδία, ἤγουν προφητεία τῆς νῦν καταστάσεως." ὥσπερ τῷ μεγάλῳ Βασιλείῳ φασὶν εἰρῆσθαι κατὰ Ἰουλιανοῦ. ὁ δὲ Μακεδόνιος Φλαβιανὸν τὸν Ἀντιοχείας καὶ πάντας τοὺς τολμῶντας λέγειν τι κατὰ τῆς συνόδου ἀνεθεμάτιζεν, καὶ τοὺς ἀποκρισιαρίους Φλαβιανοῦ ἐλθόντας πρὸς αὐτὸν διά τινας χρείας ἀνεθεμάτισε καὶ ἐδίωξεν. κʹ. ιϛʹ. ιʹ. ιεʹ. ηʹ. εʹ. ιβʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει σύνοδον κροτηθῆναι ἐν Σιδῶνι Ἀναστάσιος ἐθέσπισεν. Σωτήριχος γάρ, ὁ ἐπίσκοπος Καισαρείας Καππαδοκίας, ὑπὸ Μακεδονίου χειροτονούμενος ἐγγράφως ὡμολόγησε δέχεσθαι τὰ δόγματα τῆς ἐν Χαλκηδόνι συνόδου ὡς ὅρον πίστεως. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα πολεμιώτατος γέγονεν οὕτως, ὡς ἀπελθεῖν εἰς ἀνατολὴν καὶ τῷ δυσσεβεῖ Ξεναΐᾳ κοινολογήσασθαι, καὶ ἄμφω σύνοδον γενέσθαι εἰς Σιδῶνα τὸν βασιλέα αἰτήσασθαι ἐπὶ τελείᾳ ἐκβολῇ τῆς ἁγίας ἐν Χαλκηδόνι συνόδου· ἥτις καὶ συνέστη καὶ θᾶττον διελύθη, τοῦ βασιλέως πέμψαντος εἰς τοῦτο Εὐτρόπιον τριβοῦνον, ὃς καὶ διαλύσας αὐτὴν Φλαβιανὸν τὸν Ἀντιοχείας καὶ Ἡλίαν τὸν Ἱεροσολύμων σὺντοῖς ἐπισκόποις αὐτῶν τὰ πρὸς ἡδονὴν γράψαι τῷ βασιλεῖ παρεσκεύασεν. Φλαβιανὸς δὲ τὰς τρεῖς μόνας συνόδους καὶ τὸ Ζήνωνος ἑνωτικὸν δέχεσθαι ἔγραψεν, τῆς ἐν Χαλκηδόνι μνήμην μὴ ποιησάμενος. Ἡλίας δὲ ὁ Ἱεροσολύμων καὶ τὴν ἐν Χαλκηδόνι ἔγραψεν ἀποβάλλεσθαι. Σωτήριχος δὲ ὁ Καισαρείας καὶ Ξεναΐας κατὰ Φλαβιανοῦ καὶ Ἡλία ἀνήγαγον τῷ βασιλεῖ, ὅτι διὰ τὸ μὴ θέλειν αὐτοὺς τρανῶς κατὰ τῆς συνόδου τῆς ἐν Χαλκηδόνι ἀποφήνασθαι οὐ συνῆλθον ἀλλήλοις. Ἀναστάσιος δὲ ὀργισθεὶς ὑπέθετο μοναχοῖς τισι ψευδωνύμοις συνελθεῖν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ καὶ κατὰ Φλαβιανοῦ στασιάσαι, αἰτοῦντας αὐτὸν ἀναθεματίσαι τὴν ἐν Χαλκηδόνι σύνοδον καὶ ∆ιόδωρον καὶ Θεόδω154 ρον καὶ Ἰβᾶν καὶ Θεοδώρητον· ὃ καὶ ἐποίησε μικροψυχήσας Φλαβιανὸς καὶ ἐπ' ἐκκλησίας αὐτοὺς ἀνεθεμάτισε σὺν τῇ συνόδῳ. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει καὶ κατὰ Μακεδονίου ὁ βασιλεὺς συνεσκεύαζεν· καὶ οἱ ἀποσχισταὶ μετὰ μισθωτῶν ὄχλων ἐν τῷ Ἀρχαγγέλῳ τοῦ παλατίου καὶ ἐν τῇ μεγάλῃ ἐκκλησίᾳ ψάλλοντες ἐν κυριακῇ τὸ τρισάγιον προσετίθουν τό, "ὁ σταυρωθεὶς δι' ἡμᾶς," ὥστε τοὺς ὀρθοδόξους ἐξ ἀνάγκης μετὰ πληγῶν αὐτοὺς ἐλάσαι. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς προφανῶς διὰ τῶν ἀποσχιστῶν μοναχῶν καὶ κληρικῶν καὶ Ἰουλιανοῦ τοῦ Καρίας ποτὲ ἐπισκόπου, ἔπειτα δὲ Ἁλικαρνασοῦ καὶ Σευήρου τοῦ δυσσεβοῦς ἔτι μοναχοῦ ὄντος ἐπολέμει τὸν Μακεδόνιον ὕβρεσιν αὐτὸν δημοσίαις αἰσχραῖς συμβάλλων. τὰ δὲ πλήθη σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ τέκνοις ἡγουμένοις τε τῶν ὀρθοδόξων μοναχῶν ἔκραζον ἀθροισθέντα· "καιρὸς μαρτυρίου, Χριστιανοί, μὴ καταλείψωμεν τὸν πατέρα ἡμῶν·" ὑβρίζοντες τὸν βασιλέα Μανιχαῖον καὶ τοῦ κράτους ἀνάξιον. ὁ δὲ φοβηθεὶς ἀπέκλεισε τὰς θύρας τοῦ παλατίου, καὶ πλοῖα πρὸς τὸ φυγεῖν εὐτρέπισεν. τὸν δὲ Μακεδόνιον ὀμόσας μηκέτι θεάσασθαι τότε παρεκάλει ἰδεῖν, φοβηθεὶς τὰ πλήθη. τούτου δὲ ἐρχομένου πρὸς αὐτόν, ὁ λαὸς τοῖς ἡγουμένοις καὶ μοναχοῖς διεμαρτύρατο λέγων· "τὸν πατέρα παρ' ὑμῶν ἔχομεν." καὶ οἱ τῶν σχολῶν εὐφήμουν αὐτὸν διερχόμενον. εἰσελθὼν δὲ πρὸς Ἀναστάσιον ἤλεγξεν αὐτὸν ὡς πολέμιον τῆς ἐκκλησίας. ὁ δὲ ὑπεκρίθη πρὸς τὴν ὥραν ἑνοῦσθαι αὐτῷ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος νβʹ Ἡλίας ἔτη κγʹ. ϛδʹ. φδʹ. καʹ. ιζʹ. ιαʹ. ιϛʹ. αʹ. ϛʹ. ιγʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Μακεδόνιον ἠπάτησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς διὰ Κέλαρος μαγίστρου ὑπομνηστικὸν ποιήσας πρὸς αὐτόν, ἐν ᾧ τὴν πρώτην καὶ δευτέραν σύνοδον ὁμολογεῖ δέχεσθαι, τὴν δὲ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ καὶ Χαλκηδόνι εἴασεν· ὅπερ μέμψιν μεγάλην τῷ Μακεδονίῳ προσήγαγεν. διὰ γὰρ τούτου καὶ τὸ ἑνωτικὸν Ζήνωνος ἐδέξατο, ᾧ τινι καὶ χειρο155 τονούμενος ὑπέγραψεν. ὁ δὲ Μακεδόνιος ἀπελθὼν εἰς τὴν ∆αλμάτου μονὴν τοῖς μοναχοῖς καὶ κληρικοῖς ζηλωταῖς σκανδαλισθεῖσιν εἰς αὐτὸν ἀπελογήσατο διὰ προσφωνητικοῦ, ὅτι δέχεται τὴν ἁγίαν ἐν Χαλκηδόνι σύνοδον καὶ τοὺς μὴ δεχομένους αὐτὴν αἱρετικοὺς ἔχει· καὶ συνελειτούργησαν αὐτῷ. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς δώροις ἔπεισε τοὺς ὁμόφρονας αὐτοῦ μοναχοὺς καὶ κληρικοὺς