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of Rome, through the zeal of Vitalian, while John the Cappadocian, bishop of Constantinople, was still living, they also placed the holy synod of Chalcedon in the * diptychs with the other three synods in the sacred diptychs. And when the impious Severus was out of the way, Paul was ordained bishop of Antioch, the host of the house of Eubulus. And the emperor donated to the city of Antioch a thousand pounds of gold; and he provided great order to the other cities as well, having also prevented popular disturbances. And Xenaias, also called Philoxenus, bishop of Hierapolis, who was of Manichaean mind, and Peter of Apamea, the pious emperor Justin exiled, along with all who shared in their disgrace. And Amantius the praepositus and Andrew the cubicularius and Theocritus the comes of Amantius, whom he wanted to make emperor, he put to death as they had plotted a tyranny. For the praepositus had given money to Justin to distribute as a donative, so that Theocritus might become emperor. But the army and the people did not choose Theocritus to be emperor, but proclaimed Justin 166. But they, being displeased, plotted a tyranny and were put to death. And the emperor recalled all those unjustly exiled by Anastasius, and Appion the patrician, whom he had forcibly ordained a presbyter in Nicaea; whom the emperor, as he was prudent, made praetorian prefect, and Diogenianus magister militum of the East. In the same year a star appeared in the east, a fearsome comet, which had a ray pointing downwards, which the astronomers said was a "bearded star"; and they were afraid. Of the world, year ϛιβʹ. Of the divine incarnation, year φιβʹ. Justin, emperor of the Romans, years θʹ. βʹ. Kavadh, king of the Persians, years λʹ. κεʹ. Hormisdas, bishop of Rome, years ιʹ. ζʹ. John, bishop of Constantinople, years βʹ. βʹ. Elias, bishop of Jerusalem, years κγʹ. θʹ. Dioscorus, bishop of Alexandria, years γʹ. γʹ. Paul, bishop of Antioch, years γʹ. αʹ. In this year Vitalian was assassinated by the Byzantines who were angry at him because he had killed many during the time of his revolt against Anastasius. And when John the Cappadocian, bishop of Constantinople, died, Epiphanius, a presbyter of the same church and syncellus, was ordained on the 25th of the month of February. Likewise, when Hormisdas of Rome fell asleep, John succeeded to the episcopate. In the same year the Blue faction rioted, raising disturbances in all the cities and carrying out stonings and many murders. And they even attacked the magistrates. And the evil of this disorder began from Antioch, and thus it was spread in all the cities, and it prevailed for 5 years; and they slaughtered with swords the Greens they met and going up, they murdered those hiding in their homes, with the magistrates not daring to avenge the murders. These things were done until the sixth year of the pious Justin. 167 Epiphanius, bishop of Constantinople, years ιϛʹ. Timothy, bishop of Alexandria, years ιζʹ. γʹ. κϛʹ. ηʹ. αʹ. ιʹ. αʹ. βʹ. In this year, when a war began between the Romans and Persians, Justin sent ambassadors and gifts to Zilgibin, the king of the Huns; and he agreed with ancestral oaths to ally with the emperor against the Persians. And Kavadh also sending to him, he made an agreement with him as well. And Justin, learning this, was greatly distressed. And Zilgbi went to the Persians with 20 thousand men to make war on the Romans. But Justin informed Kavadh, the king of the Persians, sending an embassy concerning peace and writing as if about some other matter, also about Zilgbi, that he has oaths of alliance with the Romans, and that he has received many gifts and wishes to become a betrayer of the Persians, and that "it is necessary for us, being brothers, to come to friendship and not be mocked by these dogs." And Kavadh asked Zilgibin in private, if he had received gifts from the Romans, having been incited against the Persians? And he said: yes. And Kavadh, being angry, killed him, and sending a multitude of Persians during the night, he destroyed his people,

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Ῥώμης, σπουδῇ Βιταλιανοῦ, ἔτι ζῶντος Ἰωάννου τοῦ Καππάδοκος, ἐπισκόπου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, καὶ τὴν ἁγίαν ἐν Χαλκηδόνι σύνοδον συνέταξαν τοῖς * διπτύχοις καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις τρισὶ συνόδοις ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς διπτύχοις. Σευήρου δὲ τοῦ δυσσεβοῦς ἐκποδὼν γεγονότος, Παῦλος ἐχειροτονήθη ἐπίσκοπος Ἀντιοχείας, ὁ ξενοδόχος τῶν Εὐβούλου. καὶ ἐδωρήσατο ὁ βασιλεὺς τῇ πόλει Ἀντιοχείας χιλίας λίτρας χρυσίου· καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις δὲ πόλεσι πολλὴν εὐνομίαν παρέσχεν, κωλύσας καὶ τὰς δημώδεις ταραχάς. Ξεναΐαν δὲ τὸν Φιλόξενον, ἐπίσκοπον Ἱεραπόλεως, μανιχαιόφρονα ὄντα, καὶ Πέτρον Ἀπαμείας ἐξώρισεν ὁ εὐσεβὴς βασιλεὺς Ἰουστῖνος σὺν πᾶσι τοῖς μετέχουσι τῆς λώβης αὐτῶν. Ἀμάντιον δὲ τὸν πραιπόσιτον καὶ Ἀνδρέαν τὸν κουβικουλάριον καὶ Θεόκριτον τὸν κόμητα Ἀμαντίου, ὃν ἐβούλετο ποιῆσαι βασιλέα, ὡς τυραννίδα μελετήσαντας ἀνεῖλεν. ὁ γὰρ πραιπόσιτος τῷ Ἰουστίνῳ δέδωκε χρήματα ῥογεῦσαι, ὅπως Θεόκριτος βασιλεύσῃ. ὁ δὲ στρατὸς καὶ οἱ δῆμοι οὐχ εἵλαντο Θεόκριτον βασιλεῦσαι, ἀλλ' Ἰουστῖνον 166 ἀνεκήρυξαν. αὐτοὶ δὲ δυσφορήσαντες τυραννίδα ἐμελέτησαν καὶ ἀνηρέθησαν. ἀνεκαλέσατο δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς πάντας τοὺς ἀδίκως ἐξορισθέντας ὑπὸ Ἀναστασίου καὶ Ἀππίωνα τὸν πατρίκιον, ὃν ἐν Νικαίᾳ πρεσβύτερον βίᾳ ἐχειροτόνησεν· ὃν ὁ βασιλεὺς ὡς ἐχέφρονα ἐποίησεν ἔπαρχον πραιτωρίων, καὶ ∆ιογενιανὸν ἀνατολῆς στρατηλάτην. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει ἐφάνη ἀστὴρ ἐν τῇ ἀνατολῇ, φοβερὸς κομήτης, ὃς εἶχεν ἀκτῖνα πέμπουσαν ἐπὶ τὰ κάτω, ὃν ἔλεγον οἱ ἀστρονόμοι πωγωνίαν εἶναι· καὶ ἐφοβοῦντο. Κόσμου ἔτη ϛιβʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη φιβʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Ἰουστῖνος ἔτη θʹ. βʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Καβάδης ἔτη λʹ. κεʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Ὁρμίσδας ἔτη ιʹ. ζʹ. Κωνσταντιν. ἐπίσκοπος Ἰωάννης ἔτη βʹ. βʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ἡλίας ἔτη κγʹ. θʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος ∆ιόσκορος ἔτη γʹ. γʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Παῦλος ἔτη γʹ. αʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Βιταλιανὸς ἐδολοφονήθη ὑπὸ τῶν Βυζαντίων μηνιώντων αὐτῷ διὰ τὸ πολλοὺς ἀνῃρηκέναι ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τῆς ἐπαναστάσεως αὐτοῦ κατὰ Ἀναστασίου. Ἰωάννου δὲ τοῦ Καππάδοκος, ἐπισκόπου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, τελευτήσαντος, Ἐπιφάνιος, πρεσβύτερος τῆς αὐτῆς ἐκκλησίας καὶ σύγκελλος, ἐχειροτονήθη μηνὶ Φεβρουαρίῳ κεʹ. ὁμοίως καὶ Ὁρμίσδα τοῦ Ῥώμης κοιμηθέντος, Ἰωάννης τὴνἐπισκοπὴν διεδέξατο. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει ἐδημοκράτησε τὸ βένετον μέρος, ἐν πάσαις ταῖς πόλεσι ταραχὰς ἐγείροντες καὶ λιθασμοὺς καὶ φόνους πολλοὺς ἀπεργαζόμενοι. ἐπήρχοντο δὲ καὶ τοῖς ἄρχουσιν. ἀπὸ δὲ Ἀντιοχείας ἤρχθη τὸ κακὸν τῆς ἀταξίας, καὶ οὕτω διεδόθη ἐν πάσαις ταῖς πόλεσιν, καὶ ἐκράτησεν ἐπὶ χρόνους εʹ· καὶ ἔσφαζον ξίφεσι τοὺς ἀπαντῶντας Πρασίνους καὶ τοὺς κατ' οἶκον κρυπτομένους ἀνιόντες ἐφόνευον, μὴ τολμώντων τῶν ἀρχόντων ἐκδίκησιν τῶν φόνων ποιῆσαι. ταῦτα διεπράττοντο ἕως ἔτους ἕκτου Ἰουστίνου τοῦ εὐσεβοῦς. 167 Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπίσκοπος Ἐπιφάνιος ἔτη ιϛʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Τιμόθεος ἔτη ιζʹ. γʹ. κϛʹ. ηʹ. αʹ. ιʹ. αʹ. βʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει πολέμου κινηθέντος μεταξὺ Ῥωμαίων καὶ Περσῶν ὁ Ἰουστῖνος ἀπέστειλε πρέσβεις καὶ δῶρα πρὸς Ζιλγβίν, τὸν ῥῆγα τῶν Οὔννων· καὶ συνέθετο μεθ' ὅρκων πατρίων συμμαχήσειν τῷ βασιλεῖ κατὰ Περσῶν. ἀποστείλας δὲ καὶ Κουάδης πρὸς αὐτόν, συνέθετο καὶ αὐτῷ. τοῦτο δὲ μαθὼν Ἰουστῖνος ἐλυπήθη σφόδρα. ἀπῆλθε δὲ πρὸς τοὺς Πέρσας ὁ Ζιλγβὶ μετὰ χιλιάδων κʹ τοῦ πολεμῆσαι Ῥωμαίους. ὁ δὲ Ἰουστῖνος ἐδήλωσε Κουάδῃ, τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν Περσῶν, πρεσβεύων περὶ εἰρήνης καὶ ὡς ἐπ' ἄλλῳ τινὶ γράψας, καὶ περὶ Ζιλγβί, ὅτι συμμαχίας ὅρκους ἔχει μετὰ Ῥωμαίων, καὶ ὅτι δῶρα ἔλαβε πολλὰ καὶ βούλεται προδότης γενέσθαι τῶν Περσῶν, καὶ ὅτι "δεῖ ἡμᾶς ἀδελφοὺς ὄντας εἰς φιλίαν ἐλθεῖν καὶ μὴ ὑπὸ τῶν κυνῶν τούτων παίζεσθαι." ὁ δὲ Κουάδης ἠρώτησε κατ' ἰδίαν τὸν Ζιλγβίν, εἰ ἔλαβε παρὰ Ῥωμαίων δῶρα προτραπεὶς κατὰ Περσῶν; ὁ δὲ εἶπεν· ναί. καὶ ὀργισθεὶς ὁ Κουάδης ἐφόνευσε αὐτόν, καὶ διὰ τῆς νυκτὸς πέμψας πλῆθος Περσῶν ἀνεῖλε τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ,