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of Rufinus, with much Scythian aid, and he marched against them along with Godilas by land from Odessopolis and Badourios the general. And hearing this, the Huns fled and disappeared. And peace came to the Bosporus, and the Romans held it without fear. And the emperor Justinian took away all the churches of the heretics and gave them to the orthodox, except for those of the Exakionite Arians. And the emperor issued a decree concerning bishops and stewards and directors of orphanages and hospices, so that they should not be inherited, except for what they possessed in substance before they were appointed, so that he might dispose of these things; but from the hour he was appointed, he should not have permission to dispose of property, but the holy house should inherit all his possessions. The same emperor also completed the public bath in the quarter of Dagistheus, which the emperor Anastasius had begun to build, and he made the middle court of the basilica of Illus into a great cistern.

177 Years of the world 6021. Years of the divine incarnation 521. Justinian, emperor of the Romans, for 38 years, the 2nd. Chosroes, king of the Persians, for 48 years, the 4th. Felix, bishop of Rome, for 4 years, the 3rd. Epiphanius, bishop of Const., for 16 years, the 9th. Elias, bishop of Jerusalem, for 23 years, the 18th. Timothy, bishop of Alexandria, for 17 years, the 9th. Ephraimius, bishop of Antioch, for 18 years, the 2nd. In this year, Isaiah, bishop of Rhodes, and Alexander, bishop of Diospolis in Thrace, were deposed, having been found to be pederasts, and were punished terribly by the emperor, being castrated and paraded, with the herald shouting: "Being bishops, do not dishonor the venerable habit." And the emperor set forth harsh laws against the licentious, and many were punished. And there was great fear and security. And the pious emperor renewed all the old laws, making a single book and calling it the New Constitutions, in which he does not permit a governor in the places he governs to buy an estate, or build a house, or inherit from a stranger, unless some relative of his exists. In the same year, on the 29th of the month of November, at the 3rd hour, on the 4th day of the 7th indiction, Antioch the great suffered again by the wrath of God, two years after its first suffering. And there was a great earthquake for one hour, and there was a terrible roaring from the sky; and all the buildings fell to the ground, and the walls, and of the old buildings that had not fallen in the first earthquake, they were now brought down; and all the beauty that had come to be in the city, both from the emperor's benefactions and what the citizens had built from their own resources, all fell down. Learning these things, the neighboring cities held litanies with mourning. And in this fall four thousand eight hundred and seventy died. And those who were saved fled to the other cities and lived in huts in the mountains. And there was also a great and most severe winter; and all those who remained performed litanies bare-178 foot, weeping and throwing themselves face down into the snows, crying out, "Lord have mercy." And it was revealed in a vision to a certain God-fearing man, that he should tell all who were left to inscribe upon their lintels: "Christ is with us; stand fast." And when this was done, the wrath of God ceased. And again the emperor and the empress gave much money for the renewal and building of the city of the Antiochians; and he renamed it Theopolis. And on the 21st of the month of March of the 7th indiction, Alamoundaros of Zekike, the chieftain of the Saracens, attacked and plundered Syria Prima as far as the borders of Antioch, to the place called Litargon, and the estates of Scaphathon. And he killed many and burned the lands outside Chalcedon and the estate of Sermion and the country of Kynegia. And hearing this, the commanders of the Romans went out against him. And the Saracens with the Persians, realizing this, took the booty and the captives and fled through the inner frontier. And in the month of April of the same 7th indiction, a reinforcement of the army arrived

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Ῥουφίνου, μετὰ βοηθείας Σκυθικῆς πολλῆς, καὶ ἐστράτευσε κατ' αὐτῶν ἅμα καὶ Γώδιλαν διὰ γῆς ἀπὸ Ὀδυσσοπόλεως καὶ Βαδούριον στρατηγόν. καὶ ἀκούσαντες οἱ Οὖννοι ἔφυγον ἀφανεῖς γενόμενοι. καὶ γέγονεν εἰρήνη ἐν Βοσφόρῳ, καὶ ἐκράτησαν αὐτὴν οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι ἀφόβως. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Ἰουστινιανὸς ἀπέσπασε πάσας τὰς ἐκκλησίας τῶν αἱρετικῶν καὶ ἀπέδωκεν αὐτὰς τοῖς ὀρθοδόξοις δίχα τῶν Ἐξακιονιτῶν Ἀρειανῶν. ἐξεφώνησε δὲ τύπον ὁ βασιλεὺς περὶ τῶν ἐπισκόπων καὶ οἰκονόμων καὶ ὀρφανοτρόφων καὶ ξενοδόχων, ὥστε μὴ κληρονομεῖσθαι, εἰ μὴ ἃ πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι εἶχεν ἐν ὑποστάσει, εἰς ταῦτα ἵνα διατίθεται· ἀφ' ἧς δὲ ὥρας προεχειρίσθη, μὴ ἔχειν αὐτὸν ἄδειαν διατίθεσθαι, ἀλλὰ τὰ ἑαυτοῦ πάντα τὸν εὐαγῆ οἶκον κληρονομεῖν. ὁ δ' αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς ἐπλήρωσε καὶ τὸ δημόσιον λουτρὸν τὸ εἰς τὰ ∆αγισθέου, ὃ ἤρξατο κτίζειν Ἀναστάσιος ὁ βασιλεύς, καὶ τὸ μεσίαυλον τῆς βασιλικῆς Ἴλλου κιστέρναν μεγάλην ἐποίησεν. 177 Κόσμου ἔτη ϛκαʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη φκαʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Ἰουστινιανὸς ἔτη ληʹ. βʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Χοσρόης ἔτη μηʹ. δʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Φίλιξ ἔτη δʹ. γʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Ἐπιφάνιος ἔτη ιϛʹ. θʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ἡλίας ἔτη κγʹ. ιηʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Τιμόθεος ἔτη ιζʹ. θʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Ἐφραΐμιος ἔτη ιηʹ. βʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Ἡσαΐας, ἐπίσκοπος Ῥόδου, καὶ Ἀλέξανδροςἐπίσκοπος ∆ιοσπόλεως τῆς Θρᾴκης, καθῃρέθησαν ὡς παιδερασταὶ εὑρεθέντες, καὶ ἐτιμωρήθησαν δεινῶς ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως, καυλοτομηθέντες καὶ πομπεύσαντες, τοῦ κήρυκος βοῶντος· "ἐπίσκοποι ὄντες τὸ τίμιον σχῆμα μὴ ἐνυβρίζετε." καὶ ἐξέθετο ὁ βασιλεὺς νόμους σφοδροὺς κατὰ τῶν ἀσελγαινόντων, καὶ πολλοὶ ἐτιμωρήθησαν. καὶ ἐγένετο φόβος πολὺς καὶ ἀσφάλεια. ἀνενέωσε δὲ ὁ εὐσεβὴς βασιλεὺς πάντας τοὺς παλαιοὺς νόμους ποιήσας μονόβιβλον καὶ καλέσας αὐτὸ τὰς νεαρὰς διατάξεις, ἐν αἷς οὐ καταδέχεται τὸν ἄρχοντα ἐν οἷς ἄρχει τόποις ἀγοράζειν κτῆμα, ἢ κτίζειν οἶκον, ἢ κληρονομεῖν ξένον πρόσωπον, εἰ μή τις συγγενὴς αὐτῷ ὑπάρχει. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει μηνὶ Νοεμβρίῳ κθʹ, ὥρᾳ γʹ, ἡμέρᾳ δʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος ζʹ ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας πάλιν Ἀντιόχεια ἡ μεγάλη μετὰ δύο ἔτη τοῦ πρώτου αὐτῆς πάθους. καὶ ἐγένετο σεισμὸς μέγας ἐπὶ ὥραν μίαν, καὶ ἐγένετο βρυγμὸς ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ φοβερός· καὶ ἔπεσον πάντα τὰ κτισθέντα ἕως ἐδάφους καὶ τὰ τείχη, καὶ ἐκ τῶν μὴ πεσόντων παλαιῶν κτισμάτων ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ σεισμῷ κατηνέχθησαν νῦν· καὶ πᾶσα ἡ εὐπρέπεια, ἡ γενομένη ἐν τῇ πόλει ἔκ τε τῶν τοῦ βασιλέως φιλοτιμιῶν καὶ ὧν ἐξ ἰδίων οἱ πολῖται ᾠκοδόμησαν, πάντα κατέπεσον. ταῦτα μαθοῦσαι αἱ πλησιάζουσαι πόλεις μετὰ πένθους ἐλιτάνευον. ἀπέθανον δὲ καὶ ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ πτώσει χιλιάδες τέσσαρες καὶ ὀκτακόσιοι ἑβδομήκοντα. οἱ δὲ σωθέντες ἔφυγον εἰς τὰ ἄλλας πόλεις καὶ εἰς τὰ ὄρη ἐν καλύβαις ᾤκουν. γέγονε δὲ καὶ χειμὼν μέγας καὶ βαρύτατος· καὶ ἐλιτάνευον οἱ ἀπομείναντες πάντες ἀνυπό178 δητοι, κλαίοντες καὶ ῥίπτοντες ἑαυτοὺς πρηνεῖς εἰς τὰς χιόνας, κράζοντες τό, "Κύριε ἐλέησον." ἐφάνη δὲ ἐν ὁράματί τινι θεοσεβεῖ ἀνθρώπῳ, ὥστε εἰπεῖν πᾶσι τοῖς ὑπολειφθεῖσιν, ἵνα ἐπιγράψωσι εἰς τὰ ὑπέρθυρα αὐτῶν· "Χριστὸς μεθ' ἡμῶν· στῆτε." καὶ τούτου γενομένου, ἔστη ἡ ὀργὴ τοῦ θεοῦ. καὶ πάλιν ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ ἡ αὐγούστα πολλὰ ἐδωρήσαντο χρήματα εἰς ἀνανέωσιν καὶ οἰκοδομὴν τῆς Ἀντιοχέων πόλεως· καὶ μετωνόμασεν αὐτὴν Θεούπολιν. ἐν δὲ τῇ καʹ τοῦ Μαρτίου μηνὸς τῆς ζʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος ἐπέρριψεν Ἀλαμούνδαρος ὁ Ζεκικῆς, ὁ βασιλίσκος τῶν Σαρακηνῶν, καὶ ἐπραίδευσε τὴν πρώτην Συρίαν ἕως τῶν ὁρίων Ἀντιοχείας, εἰς τὸ λεγόμενον Λίταργον, καὶ Σκαφαθῶν τῶν κτημάτων. καὶ ἐφόνευσε πολλοὺς καὶ ἔκαυσε τὰ ἔξω Χαλκηδόνος καὶ τὸ Σέρμιον κτῆμα καὶ τὴν Κυνηγίαν χώραν. καὶ ἀκούσαντες οἱ ἔξαρχοι τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἐξῆλθον κατ' αὐτοῦ. καὶ γνόντες οἱ Σαρακηνοὶ σὺν τοῖς Πέρσαις λαβόντες τὴν πραῖδαν καὶ τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους διὰ τοῦ ἐσωτέρου λιμιτοῦ ἔφυγον. τῷ δὲ Ἀπριλλίῳ μηνὶ τῆς αὐτῆς ζʹ ἐπινεμήσεως κατέλαβε βοήθεια στρατοῦ