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to praise the emperor Anastasius. But as the displeasure was stirred up, some men, leaping down from the throne, seized the son of the augustal prefect and killed him. And the general Acacius killed as many as he was able to capture. And when the emperor heard this, he was angry with them. But Dioscorus, serving as an ambassador, pacified him. Between the Indians and the Persians there is a fortress named Tzoundadeer, where Kavadh, having learned that there was much money and many precious stones, sought to take it. But demons lying in wait in the place prevented it from being subdued. Therefore, having employed every device of the magi with him, and then also of the Jews, and not achieving his goal, being persuaded that he could become master of this through the prayer of the Christians to God, he summoned a certain bishop of the Christians in Persia concerning this, who, after celebrating a service and partaking of the divine mysteries, approached the place, drove out the demons there, and delivered the fortress to Kavadh without effort; Kavadh, astonished by this sign, honored the bishop with the first seat, whereas until then the Manichaeans and the Jews had sat first, and he granted permission also to those wishing to be baptized. Bishop of Alexandria, Dioscorus, for 3 years. 27. 23. 5. 6. 7. 1. 6. In this year Anastasius the emperor saw in a vision a fearsome man holding a codex; and unrolling it and finding 164 the emperor's name he said to him: "Behold, because of your wrong belief I am erasing 14." And he erased them. And having awakened and summoned Amantius the praepositus, he told him the vision. And he said: "I too saw this night that while I was attending your majesty, a great boar came and, seizing my cloak, threw me to the ground and consumed me." And summoning Proclus the dream-interpreter, he told him what had been seen. And he said to them: "Both of you will die before long." And when Timothy, the bishop of Constantinople, died, the emperor appointed John the Cappadocian, a presbyter and syncellus of Constantinople, as bishop. He, having been consecrated on the third day of Easter, put on the apostolic vestment. But the people made a great tumult for John to anathematize Severus. In the same year, in the 11th indiction, on the 9th of the month of April, Anastasius the impious emperor died, having reigned 27 years and 7 months, in the 234th year from Diocletian; and Justin the pious reigned in his place, an old and very experienced man, having begun as a soldier and advanced as far as the senate, an Illyrian by birth. But some say that Anastasius, struck by a divine thunderbolt, was thunderstruck. Year of the world 6011. Year of the divine incarnation 511. Emperor of the Romans, Justin, 9 years. 1. King of the Persians, Kavadh, 30 years. 24. Bishop of Rome, Hormisdas, 10 years. 6. Bishop of Constantinople, John, 2 years. 1. Bishop of Jerusalem, Elias, 23 years. 8. Bishop of Alexandria, Dioscorus, 3 years. 2. Bishop of Antioch, Severus, 7 years. 7. In this year Justin, having become emperor, was shown to be excellent in all things, 165 a fiery zealot for the orthodox faith and successful in wars, having a consort named Lupicina. The demes called her Euphemia when she was crowned augusta. And Vitalian, who was mentioned before, after the death of Anastasius became very intimate with Justin the Great, so that he received from him the rank of general and became consul, coming to Byzantium and being proclaimed consul and comes praesentalis, and having such great freedom of speech with the emperor that he also ordered Severus to be expelled and killed. For Vitalian was exceedingly orthodox. But Severus, hearing this, fled, and also Julian, bishop of Halicarnassus; and going to Egypt they disturbed it, raising the dispute concerning the corruptible and incorruptible, while Dioscorus was bishop of Alexandria. And bishops and clerics came from Rome, having received authority from Hormisdas, the bishop

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ἐπαινεῖν τὸν βασιλέα Ἀναστάσιον. τῆς δὲ ἀηδίας κινουμένης, εἰσπηδήσαντές τινες ἀπὸ τοῦ θρόνου καθεῖλαν τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ αὐγουσταλίου καὶ ἀνεῖλον αὐτόν. ὁ δὲ στρατηλάτης Ἀκάκιος, ὅσους ἠδυνήθη πιάσαι, ἀνεῖλεν. καὶ ἀκούσας ὁ βασιλεὺς ὠργίσθη κατ' αὐτῶν. ὁ δὲ ∆ιόσκορος πρεσβεύσας κατεπράϋνεν αὐτόν. μεταξὺ δὲ Ἰνδῶν καὶ Περσῶν κάστρον ἐστὶν ὀνόματι Τζουνδαδεέρ, ἔνθα πολλὰ χρήματα καὶ λίθους τιμίους εἶναι πολλοὺς Κουάδης μαθὼν ἐπεζήτει τοῦτο λαβεῖν. δαίμονες δὲ τῷ τόπῳ παρεδρεύοντες ἐκώλυον αὐτὸ χειρωθῆναι. πᾶσαν οὖν κινήσας τῶν παρ' αὐτῷ μάγων ἐπίνοιαν, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ Ἰουδαίων, καὶ τοῦ σκοποῦ μὴ ἐπιτυχών, πεισθεὶς διὰ τῆς πρὸς θεὸν εὐχῆς τῶν Χριστιανῶν τούτου κυριεῦσαι, ἐπίσκοπόν τινα Χριστιανῶν τῶν ἐν Περσίδι περὶ τούτου παρεκάλεσεν, ὃς σύναξιν ἐπιτελέσας καὶ τῶν θείων μυστηρίων μεταλαβών, προσελθὼν τῷ τόπῳ τοὺς ἐκεῖσε δαίμονας ἐξεδίωξε καὶ τῷ Κουάδῃ τὸ κάστρον ἀπόνως παρέδωκεν· τούτῳ Κουάδης καταπλαγεὶς τῷ σημείῳ πρωτοκαθεδρίᾳ τὸν ἐπίσκοπον ἐτίμησεν, ἕως τότε Μανιχαίων καὶ Ἰουδαίων προκαθεζομένων, ἄδειαν δὲ παρέσχε καὶ τοῖς βουλομένοις βαπτίζεσθαι. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος ∆ιόσκορος ἔτη γʹ. κζʹ. κγʹ. εʹ. ϛʹ. ζʹ. αʹ. ϛʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Ἀναστάσιος ὁ βασιλεὺς εἶδεν ἐν ὁράματι ἄνδρα φοβερὸν βαστάζοντα κώδικα· καὶ τοῦτον ἀναπτύξας καὶ εὑρὼν 164 τὸ τοῦ βασιλέως ὄνομα εἶπεν αὐτῷ· "ἰδού, διὰ τὴν κακοπιστίαν σου ἀπαλείφω ιδʹ." καὶ ἀπήλειψεν αὐτά. διυπνισθεὶς δὲ καὶ προσκαλεσάμενος Ἀμάντιον τὸν πραιπόσιτον εἶπεν αὐτῷ τὸ ὅραμα. ὁ δὲ εἶπεν· "κἀγὼ ἐθεασάμην ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτί, ὅτι παρισταμένου μου τῷ κράτει σου, χοῖρος μέγας ἐλθὼν καὶ δραξάμενός μου τῆς χλαίνης κατέρραξέ με εἰς τὴν γῆν καὶ ἀνήλωσεν." προσκαλεσάμενος δὲ Πρόκλον τὸν ὀνειροκρίτην ἐξεῖπεν αὐτῷ τὰ ὁραθέντα. ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· ὅτι "ἀμφότεροι οὐ μετὰ πολὺ τελειοῦσθε." τοῦ δὲ ἐπισκόπου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Τιμοθέου ἀποθανόντος, Ἰωάννην τὸν Καππαδόκην, πρεσβύτερον καὶ σύγκελλον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, ἐπίσκοπον ὁ βασιλεὺς προεχειρίσατο. οὗτος χειροτονηθεὶς τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ πάσχα τὴν ἀποστολικὴν ἐνεδύσατο στολήν. ὁ δὲ λαὸς πολλὴν στάσιν ἐποίησε τῷ Ἰωάννῃ τοῦ ἀναθεματίσαι Σευῆρον. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει ἰνδικτιῶνος ιαʹ, μηνὶ Ἀπριλλίῳ θʹ, τέθνηκεν Ἀναστάσιος ὁ δυσσεβὴς βασιλεύς, βασιλεύσας ἔτη κζʹ μῆνας ζʹ, τῷ σλδʹ ἔτει ἀπὸ ∆ιοκλητιανοῦ· καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἰουστῖνος ὁ εὐσεβὴς ἀντ' αὐτοῦ, ἀνὴρ πρεσβύτης καὶ πολύπειρος, ἀπὸ στρατιωτῶν ἀρξάμενος καὶ ἕως τῆς συγκλήτου προκόψας, Ἰλλύριος τῷ γένει. τινὲς δέ φασιν ὅτι θείῳ σκηπτῷ κεραυνωθεὶς Ἀναστάσιος ἐμβρόντητος γέγονεν. Κόσμου ἔτη ϛιαʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη φιαʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Ἰουστῖνος ἔτη θʹ. αʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Καβάδης ἔτη λʹ. κδʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Ὁρμίσδας ἔτη ιʹ. ϛʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Ἰωάννης ἔτη βʹ. αʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ἡλίας ἔτη κγʹ. ηʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος ∆ιόσκορος ἔτη γʹ. βʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Σευῆρος ἔτη ζʹ. ζʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Ἰουστῖνος βασιλεύσας πᾶσιν ἄριστος ἀνεδείχθη, 165 ζηλωτὴς μὲν τῆς ὀρθοδόξου πίστεως ἔμπυρος καὶ ἐν πολέμοις εὐδοκιμῶν, σύμβιον δὲ ἔχων ὀνόματι Λουπικίαν. ταύτην Εὐφημίαν οἱ δῆμοι ἐκάλεσαν στεφθεῖσαν αὐτὴν αὐγούσταν. Βιταλιανὸς δὲ ὁ προρρηθεὶς μετὰ θάνατον Ἀναστασίου Ἰουστίνῳ τῷ μεγάλῳ σφόδρα ᾠκειώθη, ὥστε στρατηλάτου ἀξίαν παρ' αὐτοῦ δέξασθαι καὶ ὑπατεῦσαι ἐλθόντα ἐν Βυζαντίῳ καὶ ὕπατον ἀναγορευθῆναι καὶ κόμητα Πραισέντου παρρησίαν τε ἔχειν τοσαύτην πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα, ὥστε καὶ Σευῆρον προστάξαι ἐκβληθῆναι καὶ ἀναιρεθῆναι. λίαν γὰρ ἦν ὀρθόδοξος ὁ Βιταλιανός. ὁ δὲ Σευῆρος ἀκούσας ἔφυγεν, καὶ Ἰουλιανὸς Ἁλικαρνασοῦ ἐπίσκοπος· καὶ εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἀπελθόντες ταύτην ἐτάραξαν, τὸν περὶ φθαρτοῦ καὶ ἀφθάρτου λόγον κινήσαντες, ∆ιοσκόρου ἐπισκοποῦντος Ἀλεξανδρείας. ἐπίσκοποι δὲ καὶ κληρικοὶ ἀπὸ Ῥώμης ἦλθον λαβόντες αὐθεντίαν ὑπὸ Ὁρμίσδου, τοῦ ἐπισκόπου