John Malalas, Chronography

and destroyed all of Palestine and the temple of the Jews on the same day of the festival, when he took the city, and destroyed 110 myriads of souls, cutting them down with swords; and he sold another 15 myriads of captive young men and male children and virgin maidens, just as the most wise Josephus wrote; for he was a Hebrew and was present at the war. And Titus destroyed all the provinces of Judaea. But the wise Eusebius, son of Pamphilus, wrote thus, that on their feast the Jews crucified Christ, and on the same feast they all perished, the Savior having given them up. There are three sackings of Jerusalem after this one, as the most wise Eusebius wrote. And Titus, celebrating his victory in a triumph, went to Rome; Vespasian, from the Judaean booty, built in Antioch 261 the Great the so-called Cherubim before the gate of the city. For there he set up the bronze Cherubim which Titus his son found fixed in the temple of Solomon, and when he overthrew the temple, he took them from there and brought them to Antioch with the Seraphim, celebrating in triumph the victory over the Jews that occurred during his reign, setting up above a bronze column in honor of the moon with four bulls facing towards Jerusalem; for he took it by night when the moon was shining. He also built the theatre of Daphne, inscribing in it, "From the booty of Judaea." The site of this theatre was formerly a synagogue of the Jews; and as an insult to them, he demolished their synagogue and made it a theatre, setting up a marble statue of himself there, which stands to this day. The same Vespasian also built in Caesarea of Palestine, from the same Judaean booty, a very large odeon, with the great dimensions of a theatre, the site itself having also formerly been a synagogue of the Jews. He also created a second province of Macedonia, having separated it from the first. And during his reign Corinth, the metropolis of Greece, suffered from a divine wrath, in the month of June, which is also Daisios, on the 20th, late in the evening. And he bestowed many things on the survivors and on the city. He also built many things in the provinces 262 of Pannonia and Commagene. And he divided Europe from Thrace, founding the city of Heraclea, formerly called Perinthus; which he made a metropolis, giving it a governor. He also built a temple in Antioch the Great near the theatre, which he called of the Winds. And being struck by a disease and becoming paralyzed, he died, being 71 years old. After his reign, his son Titus reigned for 2 years. He was tall, thin, of good complexion, with straight, thin, short hair, and small eyes. And being struck by an incurable disease, he died, being 42 years old. After the reign of Titus, the most divine Domitian reigned for 15 years and 2 months. He was tall, thin, white-skinned, blond, short-haired, grey-eyed, slightly stooped, an excellent philosopher. And during his reign there was a persecution of Christians; he brought the holy John the Theologian to Rome and examined him. And admiring the wisdom of the same apostle, he secretly released him to go to Ephesus, saying to him, "Go and be at peace where you came from." And he was reviled; and he exiled him to Patmos. He punished many other Christians, so that a multitude of them fled to Pontus, as Vottius the wise chronicler wrote about them. The same emperor Domitian was fond of the dancer of the 263 Green faction of Rome, who was called Paris. On account of whom he was also reviled by the senate of Rome and by Juvenal the Roman poet, as one who delighted in the Greens. which emperor exiled the same Juvenal the poet to Pentapolis in Libya, and after enriching the dancer, he sent him to Antioch the Great to live there outside the city.

καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν Παλαιστίνην καὶ τὸ ἱερὸν τῶν Ἰουδαίων κατέστρεψεν ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ τῆς ἑορτῆς ἡμέρᾳ, ὅτε παρέλαβε τὴν πόλιν, καὶ ἀπώλεσε ψυχῶν μυριάδας ριʹ, ξίφεσιν αὐτοὺς κατακόψας· ἄλλας δὲ μυριάδας ιεʹ διαπέπρακεν αἰχμαλώτων νεανίσκων καὶ παίδων ἀῤῥενικῶν καὶ παρθένων κορασίων, καθὼς καὶ Ἰώσηπος ὁ σοφώτατος συνεγράψατο· Ἑβραῖος γὰρ ὑπῆρχε καὶ παρῆν ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ. καὶ πάσας δὲ τὰς ἐπαρχίας τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἀπώλεσεν ὁ Τίτος. ὁ δὲ σοφὸς Εὐσέβιος ὁ Παμφίλου συνεγράψατο οὕτως, ὅτι ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ αὐτῶν τὸν Χριστὸν ἐσταύρωσαν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι καὶ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ ἑορτῇ πάντες ἀπώλοντο, τοῦ σωτηρὸς ἐκδεδωκότος αὐτούς. τρεῖς δὲ μετὰ ταύτης πορθήσεις εἰσὶ τῆς Ἱερουσαλήμ, καθὼς ὁ σοφώτατος Εὐσέβιος συνεγράψατο. Ὁ δὲ Τίτος θριαμβεύσας τὴν νίκην ἀπῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν Ῥώμην· Οὐεσπασιανὸς δὲ ἐκ τῆς Ἰουδαϊκῆς πραίδας ἔκτισεν ἐν τῇ Ἀντιο 261 χείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ τὰ λεγόμενα Χερουβὶμ πρὸ τῆς πύλης τῆς πόλεως. ἐκεῖ γὰρ ἔπηξε τὰ Χερουβὶμ τὰ χαλκᾶ ἃ εὗρε Τίτος ὁ αὐτοῦ υἱὸς ἐν τῷ ναῷ Σολομῶντος πεπηγμένα, καὶ ὅτε τὸν ναὸν ἔστρεψεν, ἀφείλατο αὐτὰ ἐκεῖθεν καὶ ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ αὐτὰ ἤνεγκε σὺν τοῖς Σεραφίμ, θριαμβεύων τὴν κατὰ Ἰουδαίων γενομένην νίκην ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας, στήσας ἄνω στήλην χαλκῆν εἰς τιμὴν τῇ σελήνῃ μετὰ τεσσάρων ταύρων προσεχόντων ἐπὶ τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ· νυκτὸς γὰρ αὐτὴν παρέλαβε λαμπούσης τῆς σελήνης. ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ τὸ θέατρον ∆άφνης ἐπιγράψας ἐν αὐτῷ, Ἐξ πραίδα Ἰουδαία. ἦν δὲ πρῴην ὁ τοῦ αὐτοῦ θεάτρου τόπος συναγωγὴ τῶν Ἰουδαίων· καὶ πρὸς ὕβριν αὐτῶν τὴν συναγωγὴν αὐτῶν λύσας ἐποίησε θέατρον, στήσας ἑαυτῷ ἄγαλμα μαρμάρινον ἐκεῖ, ὅπερ ἕως τῆς νῦν ἵσταται. Ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ ἐν Καισαρείᾳ τῆς Παλαιστίνης ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς Ἰουδαϊκῆς πραίδας ὁ αὐτὸς Οὐεσπασιανὸς ᾠδεῖον μέγα πάνυ, θεάτρου ἔχον διάστημα μέγα, ὄντος καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ τόπου πρῴην συναγωγῆς τῶν Ἰουδαίων. Ἐποίησε δὲ καὶ ἐπαρχίαν Μακεδονίαν δευτέραν, ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης αὐτὴν ἀπομερίσας. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας ἡ Κόρινθος, μητρόπολις τῆς Ἑλλάδος, μηνὶ ἰουνίῳ τῷ καὶ δαισίῳ κʹ, ἑσπέρας βαθείας. καὶ ἐχαρίσατο τοῖς ζήσασι καὶ τῇ πόλει πολλά. ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ εἰς Παννονίαν καὶ εἰς Κομμαγενίαν τὰς ἐπαρχίας 262 πολλά. καὶ τὴν Εὐρώπην δὲ ἀπὸ Θρᾴκης ἐμέρισε, κτίσας Ἡράκλειαν πόλιν τὴν πρῴην λεγομένην Πείρινθον· ἥντινα ἐποίησε μητρόπολιν, δοὺς αὐτῇ ἄρχοντα. ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ πλησίον τοῦ θεάτρου ἱερόν, ὃ ἐπεκάλεσε τῶν Ἀνέμων. Νόσῳ δὲ βληθεὶς καὶ πάρετος γενόμενος ἐτελεύτα, ὢν ἐνιαυτῶν οαʹ. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ ἐβασίλευσε Τίτος ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη βʹ. ἦν δὲ μακρός, λεπτός, εὔχροος, ἁπλόθριξ, σπανός, μικρόφθαλμος, κονδόθριξ. καὶ πάθει ἀνιάτῳ βληθεὶς ἀπέθανεν, ὢν ἐνιαυτῶν μβʹ. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν Τίτου ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ θειότατος ∆ομετιανὸς ἔτη ιεʹ καὶ μῆνας βʹ. ἦν δὲ μακρός, λεπτός, λευκός, ξανθός, κονδόθριξ, γλαυκός, ὑπόκυρτος, φιλόσοφος ἄκρος. ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας διωγμὸς χριστιανῶν ἐγένετο· ὅστις καὶ τὸν ἅγιον Ἰωάννην τὸν θεολόγον ἀνήνεγκεν ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ καὶ ἐξήτασεν αὐτόν. καὶ θαυμάσας τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀποστόλου τὴν σοφίαν ἀπέλυσεν αὐτὸν λάθρᾳ ἀπελθεῖν εἰς Ἔφεσον, εἰπὼν αὐτῷ, Ἄπελθε καὶ ἡσύχασον ὅθεν ἦλθες. καὶ ἐλοιδορήθη· καὶ ἐξώρισεν αὐτὸν εἰς Πάτμον. πολλοὺς δὲ ἄλλους χριστιανοὺς ἐτιμωρήσατο, ὥστε φυγεῖν ἐξ αὐτῶν πλῆθος ἐπὶ τὸν Πόντον, καθὼς Βώττιος ὁ σοφὸς χρονογράφος συνεγράψατο κατ' αὐτῶν. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς ∆ομετιανὸς ἐφίλει τὸν ὀρχηστὴν τοῦ 263 Πρασίνου μέρους τῆς Ῥώμης τὸν λεγόμενον Πάριδα. περὶ οὗ καὶ ἐλοιδορεῖτο ἀπὸ τῆς συγκλήτου Ῥώμης καὶ Ἰουβεναλίου τοῦ ποιητοῦ τοῦ Ῥωμαίου, ὡς χαίρων εἰς τὸ Πράσινον. ὅστις βασιλεὺς ἐξώρισε τὸν αὐτὸν Ἰουβενάλιον τὸν ποιητὴν ἐν Πενταπόλει ἐπὶ τὴν Λιβύην, τὸν δὲ ὀρχηστὴν πλουτίσας ἔπεμψεν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ ἐπὶ τὸ ἐκεῖ αὐτὸν οἰκεῖν ἔξω τῆς πόλεως.