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they remained entreating him; and taking a diptych he wrote these things. And you, wretched Antioch, may you suffer twice; but again a time will come, when you will lie there in calamities from earthquakes; and twice again with fire may the one by the shores of Arethesi burn you; unless you suffer again. and he gave the diptych to the same Antiochene founders. and setting out from the city of Antiochus he went down to Seleucia in Syria; and he sailed away to Egypt. And the same Apollonius lived thirty-four years and eight months, as Domninus the most wise chronographer wrote these things. And the same most divine emperor Domitian founded a city in Isauria, which he called Domitianopolis. And the same Domitian, being indignant, killed the famous Asclepion, who had said to him, "You will die being slaughtered." and after a short time the same Domitian, being plotted against by the senate, as he en 267 tered the temple of Zeus to sacrifice, and having become invisible, died, at the age of 45, everyone saying that he was lifted up from the earth into the air, like a philosopher. But he was killed, being slaughtered in the same temple of Zeus by the senate, as he was arrogant and insulting to them. which senators caused the purple cloak that he wore to be hung on one of the chains of the lamps that were in the temple; and all who entered the temple were deceived, thinking that he had been lifted into the air. But it was known after this that he was slaughtered; and there was a great disturbance, because he was slaughtered in the temple. And after the reign of Domitian, Nerva Augustus reigned for 1 year and 1 month. He was of two-thirds portion, old, with fine eyes, long-nosed, well-built, with mixed gray hair, dark-skinned, with curly hair, thick-bearded, good. And during his reign Diocaesarea, a city of Cilicia, suffered its third disaster from the wrath of God, and Nicopolis and its region. and immediately the same emperor sent a certain Roman senator named Zarbus there to build it, having provided him with eight centenaria. and the same senator Zarbus, having reached Cilicia and seen the fallen parts, with great diligence renewed the city, making it better. wherefore the city was also called by his name, as the citizens were grateful to him. For the senator called it the city of Nerva, in the name of the emperor Nerva. 268 But it happened that the emperor died before it was completed; and they renamed it Anazarbus, instructing the notaries to designate it thus. For from the beginning the same city was called Cyinda; and it suffered its first disaster in the time of the consuls of Rome, and was renewed and renamed the city of Ciscus. and again it suffered its 2nd disaster in the time of Julius Caesar; and it was renewed and renamed Diocaesarea; and having suffered as was said before in the time of emperor Nerva it was renamed Anazarbus. And Zarbus, having made a sacrifice of a maiden named Cepara, a country girl, made for her a bronze stele for the good fortune of the city. And Zarbus reported to the same emperor concerning the citizens, and the same emperor, being generous, bestowed many things on the surviving citizens. which Nerva recalled the holy apostle John; and he came to Ephesus again from Patmos. And during his reign Manes appeared, dogmatizing and teaching, leading the crowds astray. Likewise also during his reign the gladiators and their spectacles were forbidden; and in their place the spectacle of the wild beast hunts was devised. And the same emperor, having fallen ill and wasted away, died, being 71 years old. BOOK 11: THE TIMES OF THE EMPEROR TRAJAN AND THE THIRD DISASTER OF ANTIOCH. And after the reign of Nerva, the most divine Trajan reigned for 19 years and

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ἐπέμειναν παρακαλοῦντες αὐτόν· καὶ λαβὼν δίπτυχον ἔγραψε ταῦτα. Καὶ σύ, τάλαινα Ἀντιόχεια, δὶς πάθοις· ἀλλὰ καὶ πάλιν ἐλεύσεται καιρός, ὅτε δὴ ἐπὶ πήμασι κεῖσε σεισμοῖς· δὶς δ' αὖθ' πυρὶ καύσαι ὁ παρ' αἰγιαλοῖς Ἀρέντησι· εἰ μὴ πάλιν πάθοις. καὶ ἐπιδέδωκε τὸ δίπτυχον τοῖς αὐτοῖς Ἀντιοχεῦσι κτήτορσι. καὶ ἐξορμήσας ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ Ἀντιόχου πόλεως κατῆλθεν εἰς Σελεύκειαν τῆς Συρίας· καὶ ἀπέπλευσεν ἐπὶ τὴν Αἴγυπτον. ἔζησε δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς Ἀπολλώνιος ἔτη τριάκοντα καὶ τέσσαρα καὶ μῆνας ὀκτώ, καθὼς ∆ομνῖνος ὁ σοφώτατος χρονογράφος συνεγράψατο ταῦτα. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς θειότατος ∆ομετιανὸς βασιλεὺς ἔκτισεν εἰς τὴν Ἰσαυρίαν πόλιν, ἥντινα ἐκάλεσε ∆ομετιανούπολιν. ἐφόνευσε δὲ ἀγανακτήσας ὁ αὐτὸς ∆ομετιανὸς τὸν περιβόητον Ἀσκληπίονα, εἰπόντα αὐτῷ ὅτι Σφαζόμενος τελευτᾷς· καὶ μετ' ὀλίγον καιρὸν κατασκευασθεὶς ὑπὸ τῆς συγκλήτου ὁ αὐτὸς ∆ομετιανός, ὡς εἰσ 267 ῆλθεν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τοῦ ∆ιὸς θυσιάσαι, καὶ ἀφανὴς γενόμενος, τελευτᾷ, ἐτῶν μέ, εἰπόντων πάντων ὅτι ἐπήρθη ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς εἰς τὸν ἀέρα, ὡς φιλόσοφος. ἐφονεύθη δὲ σφαγεὶς ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ ἱερῷ τοῦ ∆ιὸς ὑπὸ τῆς συγκλήτου, ὡς ὑπερήφανος καὶ ἐνυβρίζων αὐτούς. οἵτινες συγκλητικοὶ ἐποίησαν ἣν ἐφόρει χλαμύδα πορφυρᾶν κρεμασθῆναι εἰς μίαν ἅλυσιν τῶν ὄντων ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ κανδήλων· καὶ πάντες οἱ εἰσιόντες εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν ἠπατοῦντο, νομίζοντες ὅτι ἐπήρθη εἰς τὸν ἀέρα. ἐγνώσθη δὲ μετὰ ταῦτα ὅτι ἐσφάγη· καὶ ἐγένετο ταραχὴ μεγάλη, διότι εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν ἐσφάγη. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν ∆ομετιανοῦ ἐβασίλευσε Νερβᾶς Αὔγουστος ἔτος αʹ καὶ μῆνα αʹ. ἦν δὲ διμοιριαῖος, γέρων, εὐόφθαλμος, μακρόρινος, εὔσωμος, μιξοπόλιος, μελάγχροος, οὖλος, δασυπώγων, ἀγαθός. ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας τὸ τρίτον αὐτῆς πάθος ∆ιοκαισάρεια, πόλις τῆς Κιλικίας, καὶ Νικούπολις καὶ ἡ χώρα αὐτῆς. καὶ εὐθέως ἔπεμψέ τινα ἐκεῖ ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς συγκλητικὸν Ῥωμαῖον ὀνόματι Ζάρβον εἰς τὸ κτίσαι αὐτήν, παρασχὼν αὐτῷ ὀκτὼ κεντηνάρια. καὶ καταλαβὼν τὴν Κιλικίαν ὁ αὐτὸς Ζάρβος ὁ συγκλητικός, καὶ ἑωρακὼς τὰ πεπτωκότα, πολλὴν σπουδὴν θέμενος ἀνενέωσε τὴν πόλιν, βελτίω αὐτὴν ποιήσας. ὅθεν καὶ εἰς τὸ αὐτοῦ ὄνομα ἐκλήθη ἡ πόλις, τῶν πολιτῶν εὐχαριστούντων αὐτῷ. ὁ γὰρ συγκλητικὸς εἰς ὄνομα τοῦ βασιλέως Νερβᾶ ἐκάλεσεν αὐτὴν πόλιν Νερβάν. 268 συνέβη δὲ τελευτῆσαι τὸν βασιλέα πρὸ τοῦ πληρωθῆναι αὐτήν· καὶ μετεκάλεσαν αὐτὴν Ἀνάζαρβον, ἐπιτρέψαντες τοῖς συμβολαιογράφοις οὕτως αὐτὴν χρηματίζειν. ἐλέγετο γὰρ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἡ αὐτὴ πόλις Κύϊνδα· καὶ ἔπαθε πρῶτον πάθος ἐπὶ τῶν ὑπάτων Ῥώμης, καὶ ἀνενεώθη καὶ μετεκλήθη Κίσκος πόλις. καὶ πάλιν ἔπαθεν ἐπὶ τοῦ Καίσαρος Ἰουλίου τὸ βʹ αὐτῆς πάθος· καὶ ἀνενεώθη καὶ μετεκλήθη ∆ιοκαισάρεια· καὶ παθοῦσα ὡς προείρηται ἐπὶ Νερβᾶ βασιλέως μετωνομάσθη Ἀνάζαρβος. ποιήσας δὲ θυσίαν κόρην ὁ Ζάρβος ὀνόματι Κηπάραν χωρικήν, ἐποίησεν αὐτῇ στήλην χαλκῆν εἰς τύχην τῆς πόλεως. ἐμήνυσε δὲ τῷ αὐτῷ βασιλεῖ ὁ Ζάρβος περὶ τῶν πολιτῶν καὶ τοῖς σωθεῖσι πολίταις ἐχαρίσατο, ὡς φιλότιμος, πολλὰ ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεύς. ὅστις Νερβᾶς ἀνεκαλέσατο τὸν ἀπόστολον τὸν ἅγιον Ἰωάννην· καὶ ἦλθεν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ πάλιν ἀπὸ Πάτμων. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἀνεφάνη Μάνης δογματίζων καὶ διδάσκων ὀχλαγωγῶν. ὡσαύτως δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἐκωλύθησαν οἱ μονομάχοι καὶ αἱ θέαι αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐπενοήθη ἀντ' αὐτῶν τῶν κυνηγίων ἡ θέα. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς νοσήσας καὶ φθαρεὶς τελευτᾷ, ὢν ἐνιαυτῶν οαʹ. ΛΟΓΟΣ ΙΑʹ ΧΡΟΝΩΝ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΘΟΥΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΙΑΣ ΤΡΙΤΟΥ. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν Νερβᾶ ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ θειότατος Τραϊανὸς ἔτη ιθʹ καὶ