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perjured. But the lawless one shamelessly said that there was a law ordering the emperor to commit perjury and lie out of necessity. These things the most lawless Manichaean-minded one. 24. 20. 2. 3. 4. 9. 3. In this year, Vitalian, indignant at Anastasius because of his perjury, inflicted many evils on the camps under Anastasius and the rest of the state, killing and plundering and disarming; and finally, as an insult, he sold each soldier for a single follis. Years of the world 6008. Years of the divine incarnation 508. Emperor of the Romans, Anastasius, 27 years. 25. Emperor of the Persians, Kavadh, 30 years. 21. Bishop of Rome, Hormisdas, 10 years. 3. Bishop of Constantinople, Timothy, 6 years. 4. Bishop of Jerusalem, Elias, 23 years. 5. Bishop of Alexandria, John, 11 years. 10. Bishop of Antioch, Severus, 7 years. 4. In this year, the Huns called Sabirs, having crossed the Caspian Gates, overran Armenia, plundering Cappadocia and Galatia and Pontus, so as almost to subdue Euchaita. Wherefore also the holy Macedonius, fleeing, being in great danger, was saved at Gangra. When Anastasius learned this, he bitterly ordered him to be guarded there too, having sent, as they say, even one to kill him. Having met his end 162 in Gangra, he was laid to rest in the church of the holy martyr Callinicus near his relics, performing many healings. They say that while the body of Macedonius was lying there, it was sealed by hand with the cross. But a certain Theodore, one of his companions, saw Macedonius in a dream, saying to him: "Take this, and having gone, read it to Anastasius, and say: I am departing to my fathers, whose faith I have kept, but I will not cease troubling the Master until you come, and we may enter into judgment." In the same year in Alexandria, very many men and women and infants, terribly afflicted by demons, suddenly began to bark; and in a dream someone saw a fearsome figure saying that they were suffering these things because of the anathemas of the council. In the same year the empress Ariadne also died. But the monks of the desert, moved by divine zeal, having composed four protests, sent two to the emperor, one to the rulers of the country, and one to John, the bishop of Jerusalem, protesting neither to depart from the holy council in Chalcedon, nor to have communion with the impious Severus; since they were ready for death, setting fire even to the holy places. But when the bishop of Thessalonica, through fear of the emperor, had communion with Timothy, the bishop of Constantinople, 40 bishops of Illyricum and Greece, having come together as one, by a written confession broke away from him as from their own metropolitan, and having sent to Rome, they agreed in writing to have communion with the bishop of Rome. But Theodore the historian names the bishop of Thessalonica a patriarch, irrationally, not knowing why. 26. 22. 4. 5. 6. 11. 5. In this year, when John of Nikiou, the heretical bishop of Alexandria, died, Dioscorus the Younger, nephew of Timothy Aelurus, was appointed bishop of Alexandria. But having come to Byzantium to serve as an ambassador to the emperor on behalf of the Alexandrians concerning the murder of the son of Calliopius the augustalis, he was publicly insulted by the orthodox during a procession, as they thought he had come against 163 the orthodox dogmas. Therefore, having served as an ambassador concerning the murder, he departed with haste. The cause of the murder was this: when Dioscorus was ordained, the multitude of the clergy withdrew, saying: that "unless it is according to the canons of the holy apostles, a bishop is not installed." For the magistrates had enthroned him. But Dioscorus went to Saint Mark's. And the clergy came and vested him a second time and ordained him again. And so he came to Saint John's and completed the synaxis. And while Theodosius, the son of Calliopius the augustalis, and Acacius the stratelates were there, the disorderly mobs began to insult the augustalis because of the

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ἐπίορκον. ὁ δὲ παράνομος ἀναιδῶς ἔλεγε νόμον εἶναι κελεύοντα βασιλέα κατ' ἀνάγκην ἐπιορκεῖν καὶ ψεύδεσθαι. ταῦτα ὁ παρανομώτατος μανιχαιόφρων. κδʹ. κʹ. βʹ. γʹ. δʹ. θʹ. γʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Βιταλιανὸς ἀγανακτήσας κατὰ Ἀναστασίου διὰ τὴν ἐπιορκίαν πολλὰ κακὰ τοῖς ὑπὸ Ἀναστάσιον στρατοπέδοις καὶ τῇ λοιπῇ πολιτείᾳ ἐπεδείκνυτο, ἀναιρῶν καὶ ἁρπάζων καὶ ἀφοπλίζων· καὶ τέλος πρὸς ὕβριν ἕκαστον στρατιώτην μιᾶς φόλλεως ἐπίπρασκεν. Κόσμου ἔτη ϛηʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη φηʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Ἀναστάσιος ἔτη κζʹ. κεʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Καβάδης ἔτη λʹ. καʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Ὁρμίσδας ἔτη ιʹ. γʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Τιμόθεος ἔτη ϛʹ. δʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ἡλίας ἔτη κγʹ. εʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Ἰωάννης ἔτη ιαʹ. ιʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Σευῆρος ἔτη ζʹ. δʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Οὖννοι οἱ λεγόμενοι Σαβὴρ περάσαντες τὰς Κασπίας πύλας τὴν Ἀρμενίαν ἐξέδραμον, Καππαδοκίαν τε καὶ Γαλατίαν καὶ Πόντον ληϊζόμενοι, ὡς καὶ Εὐχάϊτα μικροῦ παραστήσασθαι. ὅθεν καὶ φυγὼν ὁ ἱερὸς Μακεδόνιος κινδυνεύων σχεδὸν εἰς Γάγγραν διεσώθη. ὅπερ μαθὼν Ἀναστάσιος πικρῶς αὐτὸν κἀκεῖ προσέταξε φυλάττεσθαι, πέμψας, ὥς φασι, καὶ τὸν ἀναιρήσοντα αὐτόν. τελειωθεὶς 162 δὲ ἐν Γάγγραις κατετέθη ἐν τῷ ναῷ τοῦ ἁγίου μάρτυρος Καλλινίκου ἐγγὺς τῶν λειψάνων αὐτοῦ πολλὰς ἰάσεις ἐπιτελῶν. Μακεδονίου νεκροῦ κειμένου φασὶ τῇ χειρὶ κατασφραγίσασθαι τῷ σταυρῷ. Θεόδωρος δέ τις τῶν συνόντων αὐτῷ εἰς ὄναρ εἶδε Μακεδόνιον λέγοντα αὐτῷ· "ἔκλαβε, καὶ ἀπελθὼν ἐπανάγνωθι Ἀναστασίῳ, καὶ εἰπέ· ἐγὼ μὲν ἀπέρχομαι πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας μου, ὧν τὴν πίστιν τετήρηκα, οὐ παύσομαι δὲ ὀχλῶν τῷ δεσπότῃ ἄχρις οὗ ἔλθῃς, καὶ εἰς δίκην εἰσέλθωμεν." Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ πλεῖστοι ἄνδρες καὶ γυναῖκες καὶ νήπια δεινῶς πληγέντες ὑπὸ δαιμόνων ἀθρόως ὑλάκτουν· καθ' ὕπνους δέ τις εἶδέ τινα φοβερὸν λέγοντα, ὅτι διὰ τοὺς ἀναθεματισμοὺς τῆς συνόδου ταῦτα πάσχουσιν. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει καὶ Ἀρεάδνη ἡ βασίλισσα ἐτελεύτησεν. οἱ δὲ μοναχοὶ τῆς ἐρήμου θείῳ ζήλῳ κινούμενοι, τέσσαρας διαμαρτυρίας συντάξαντες δύο μὲν ἔπεμψαν τῷ βασιλεῖ, μίαν δὲ τοῖς ἄρχουσι τῆς χώρας, καὶ μίαν τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ Ἱεροσολύμων Ἰωάννῃ, διαμαρτυρόμενοι, μήτε τῆς ἁγίας ἐν Χαλκηδόνι συνόδου παρεξελθεῖν, μήτε τῷ δυσσεβεῖ Σευήρῳ κοινωνῆσαι· ἐπεὶ πρὸς θάνατον ἑτοίμως ἔχουσιν, ἐμπυρίζοντες καὶ τοὺς ἁγίους τόπους. τοῦ δὲ ἐπισκόπου Θεσσαλονίκης διὰ φόβον τοῦ βασιλέως κοινωνήσαντος Τιμοθέῳ τῷ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπισκόπῳ, μʹ ἐπίσκοποι τοῦ Ἰλλυρικοῦ καὶ τῆς Ἑλλάδος συνελθόντες εἰς ἓν δι' ἐγγράφου ὁμολογίας ὡς ἀπὸ ἰδίου μητροπολίτου ἀπέστησαν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ, καὶ εἰς Ῥώμην πέμψαντες τῷ Ῥώμης κοινωνεῖν ἐγγράφως συνέθεντο. τὸν δὲ Θεσσαλονίκης ἐπίσκοπον Θεόδωρος ὁ ἱστορικὸς πατριάρχην ὀνομάζει ἀλόγως, μὴ εἰδὼς τὸ διατί. κϛʹ. κβʹ. δʹ. εʹ. ϛʹ. ιαʹ. εʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Ἰωάννου τοῦ Νικαιώτου, ἐπισκόπου Ἀλεξανδρείας αἱρετικοῦ, ἀποθανόντος, ∆ιόσκορος ὁ μικρός, Τιμοθέου τοῦ Ἐλούρου ἀνεψιός, προεβλήθη ἐπίσκοπος Ἀλεξανδρείας. ἐλθὼν δὲ ἐν τῷ Βυζαντίῳ ὑπὲρ Ἀλεξανδρέων πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα πρεσβεύσασθαι διὰ τὸν φόνον τοῦ υἱοῦ Καλλιοπίου τοῦ αὐγουσταλίου, ὑπὸ τῶν ὀρθοδόξων δημοσίως ὑβρίζετο κατὰ πρόοδον νομιζόντων αὐτὸν κατὰ 163 τῶν ὀρθῶν δογμάτων ἐληλυθέναι. πρεσβεύσας οὖν διὰ τὸν φόνον μετὰ σπουδῆς ἀνεχώρησεν. ἡ δὲ τοῦ φόνου αἰτία γέγονεν αὕτη χειροτονηθέντος ∆ιοσκόρου, ἀνεχώρησαν τὰ πλήθη τῶν κληρικῶν λέγοντες· ὅτι "εἰ μὴ καθὼς περιέχουσιν οἱ κανόνες τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων, οὐ καθέζεται ἐπίσκοπος." ἦσαν γὰρ οἱ ἄρχοντες ἐνθρονίσαντες αὐτόν. ὁ δὲ ∆ιόσκορος ἦλθεν εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Μάρκον. καὶ ἐλθόντες οἱ κληρικοὶ ἐνέδυσαν αὐτὸν ἐκ δευτέρου καὶ πάλιν ἐχειροτόνησαν. καὶ οὕτως ἐλθὼν εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ἰωάννην ἐπετέλεσε τὴν σύναξιν. ὄντος δὲ ἐκεῖ Θεοδοσίου, τοῦ υἱοῦ Καλλιοπίου τοῦ αὐγουσταλίου, καὶ Ἀκακίου στρατηλάτου, ἀτακτήσαντες οἱ ὄχλοι ἤρξαντο ὑβρίζειν τὸν αὐγουστάλιον διὰ τὸ