Georgius Pachymeres, Chronicle II

rather John, what great zeal he had for money, so that when he was accused by some that, having brought in money, they were not immediately accepted by those who had the liability in the common treasury, such anger was directed at those who had not received it at once, that, with one of them fleeing to the Lazoi, it happened that blows were inflicted by his order upon the other, so that he died a few days later. And he also brought forward as a witness of what was said Angelos, who was then the accountant of the court. And when he was immediately summoned from his home for this purpose, it was not possible for him to enter and speak himself; for the emperor did not think it right that he, being honored with an office, should stand while the others were seated, but it seemed inopportune for him to sit down again upon entering. Therefore, it was ordained by the emperor that the writer of such things, and a second honorable man 297 from among the clergy, should go out to ask and inquire of this man about what the emperor was saying. And these things happened, and what was said was testified to be true, with that man adding both the number of days and indeed the illness of death for the deceased; for he further testified that the cause of death was four days and a hemorrhage that occurred after the torture. And the discussion also came to the matter of the petitions, and after many things were said on which the reigning emperor showed his compliance with the patriarch in almost all or most things, he divided the petitions submitted, and set some as matters proposed out of necessity, which it was not right to overlook on account of the reverence for justice, and others as those proposed as a favor for resolution, concerning which if he complied it would be a favor to him, but if he did not assent it should not seem justly to grieve the one who failed. But that the patriarch should conflate these, and consider as one things that were as different as the borders of Mysia and Lydia, and for this reason to be grieved if the emperor disagreed in some matters, he argued had no reason. Meanwhile, having also added a promise that from then on he would be heard favorably and would cooperate, he both asked him to put away 298 his grief and, being freed from all faint-heartedness, to keep his honor. So he earnestly requested these things, and had the others joining in the request and persuading him. And thereupon that old man, being softened (for in truth he was also yielding in his judgment), urged to this also by his own people, consented, and obeyed the emperor's request, and promised that, remaining there for a little while, he would take possession of the patriarchate at first light. This came to pass, and the feast of the Presentation saw the patriarch in the church. But it was not possible for the envy of Telchines to rest even after this,

(10) but when spring came from that time and the Paschal season had passed, the matter concerning John of Ephesus was raised. And the emperor for his part, admitting that he had sinned against him (for there was no other who would depose him, but only his own will, because of the scandal concerning Gregory), so that his case would not be joined with the others, for which reason he also admitted openly that that man had erred in nothing concerning the dogmas, and then was to accept his resignation. And for this reason the emperor deliberately let him down from his high throne and shut him in his cell. So he himself, taking up the honor 299 again, wished to restore it to him, giving that which he had also taken away when he was angry: his favor. But the bishops, except for the one of Philadelphia and the one of Smyrna, and I do not know if also a third one, when the emperor had laid aside his anger, judged that he should have his own honor, being both moved by justice, and because that man was one of no little competence in virtue and speech and most useful to the church in the greatest matters; for the proceedings against him initiated when Athanasius was patriarch had not been valid at all, but the judgment had remained half-finished because of the disagreement of the bishops about the things that had been invalidly initiated. And so they were justifying the man, but the patriarch and the one of Philadelphia (for the third, the one of Smyrna, had been brought under a charge of sacrilege for having blessed Malakes—and Malakes was he who, in the time of Philanthropenus, Smyrna

μᾶλλον τὸν Ἰωάν νην, ὁπόσην τὴν ὑπὲρ τῶν χρημάτων εἶχε σπουδήν, ὡς ἐγκλη θὲν παρά των ὅτι χρήματα εἰσκομίσαντες οὐκ ἐξαπιναίως παρὰ τῶν ἐν τῷ κοινῷ ταμιείῳ ἐχόντων τὴν ἐνοχὴν προσδεχθεῖεν, ὀρ γὴν προστριβῆναι τοῖς μὴ παρευθὺς δεξαμένοις τόσην, ὥστε καὶ ἑνὸς εἰς Λαζοὺς φυγόντος θατέρῳ πληγὰς ἐκ προστάξεως ἐντει νάντων συμβῆναι τῷ τότε ἡμερῶν ὀλίγων τεθνάναι. παρῆγε δὲ καὶ μάρτυρα τῶν λεγομένων τὸν τότε λογαριαστὴν τῆς αὐλῆς Ἄγγελον. οὗ καὶ παρευθὺς ἐπὶ τούτῳ οἴκοθεν εἰσκληθέντος, τὸ μὲν εἰσελθεῖν καὶ αὐτὸν εἰπεῖν οὐκ ἐνεχώρει γίνεσθαι· ὀφφι κίῳ γὰρ τετιμημένον τῶν ἄλλων καθημένων ἐκεῖνον ἵστασθαι οὐκ ἐδικαίου ὁ βασιλεύς, καθέζεσθαι δὲ πάλιν εἰσιόντα παρακαίριον ἔδοξε. διὸ δὴ καί γε τῷ συγγραφεῖ τῶν τοιούτων, καὶ δευτέρῳ 297 τῶν ἐκ τοῦ κλήρου καὶ αὐτῷ τιμίων, παρὰ βασιλέως ὥριστο ἐξελθόντας ἐρωτᾶν καὶ πυνθάνεσθαι τούτου περὶ ὧν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἔλεγε. καὶ γέγονε ταῦτα, καὶ ἐμαρτυρεῖτο τὸ λεγόμενον ἀλη θές, πλέον εἰπόντος ἐκείνου καὶ τὸν τῶν ἡμερῶν ἀριθμὸν καί γε τὴν τοῦ θανάτου νόσον τῷ τελευτήσαντι· τέσσαρας γὰρ ἡμέρας καὶ αἱμόρροιαν ἐπισυμβᾶσαν τῷ αἰκισμῷ τὴν τοῦ θανάτου αἰτίαν προσεμαρτύρει. ἧκε δ' ὁ λόγος καὶ τῶν περὶ τῶν ἀναφορῶν, καὶ μεθ' ὅτι πλεῖστα δὴ τὰ λεχθέντα, ἐφ' οἷς ὁ βασιλεύων ἐδεί κνυ τὸ πρὸς τὸν πατριάρχην συγκεχωρηκὸς ἐφ' ἅπασι σχεδὸν ἢ τοῖς πλείστοις, διῄρει τὰ προσαναφερόμενα, καὶ ἄλλα μὲν ἐτί θει τὰ κατ' ἀνάγκην προκείμενα, ἃ μηδ' εἶναι δίκαιον παρορᾶ σθαι διὰ τὴν κατὰ τὸ δίκαιον δυσωπίαν, ἄλλα δέ γε τὰ κατὰ χά ριν προτεινόμενα εἴς γε λύσιν, ἐφ' οἷς καὶ ὑπακούοντος μὲν χάριν εἶναί οἱ, μὴ κατανεύοντος δὲ μὴ δοκεῖν δικαίως λυπεῖν τὸν ἀπο τυγχάνοντα. συνάπτειν δὲ ταῦτα πατριάρχην, καὶ ἓν ἡγεῖσθαι τὰ τρόπον ὁρισμάτων Μυσῶν καὶ Λυδῶν διιστάμενα, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο λυπεῖσθαι εἰ ἔν τισιν ἀσυγκάταινος εἴη ὁ βασιλεύς, οὐκ ἔχειν τὸ εὔλογον ἰσχυρίζετο. τέως δὲ καὶ καθυπόσχεσιν ἐπενέγ κας ὡς εὐμενῶς ἐντεῦθεν καὶ ἀκούοιτο καὶ συμπράξειε, διαλύειν τε 298 τὴν λύπην ἠξίου καὶ μικροψυχίας πάσης ἀπαλλαγέντα τῆς τι μῆς ἔχεσθαι. ταῦτ' οὖν ἐκεῖνος λιπαρῶς ἠξίου, καὶ τοὺς ἄλ λους εἶχε ξυναξιοῦντάς τε καὶ συμπείθοντας. κἀντεῦθεν ὁ γη ραιὸς ἐκεῖνος μαλακισθεὶς (ἦν γὰρ ταῖς ἀληθείαις καὶ τὴν γνώμην εὐένδοτος), παροτρυνθεὶς εἰς τοῦτο καὶ παρὰ τῶν ἰδίων κατα νεύει, καὶ βασιλεῖ ἀξιοῦντι πείθεται, καὶ καθυπισχνεῖται αὐτίκα ἐκεῖ μόνον μείναντα ὑπ' αὐγὰς τὰς πρώτας τὸ πατριαρχεῖον κα ταλαβεῖν. γέγονε τοῦτο, καὶ ἡ τῆς ὑπαπαντῆς ἑορτὴ τὸν πα τριάρχην ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ὁρᾷ. Ἀλλ' οὐκ ἦν καὶ ἐσαῦθις τὸν τοῦ Τελχῖνος ἠρεμεῖν φθόνον,

(10) ἀλλ' ἔαρος ἐνστάντος ἐντεῦθεν καὶ τῶν πασχαλίων διελ θουσῶν ὁ περὶ τοῦ Ἐφέσου Ἰωάννου λόγος κινεῖται. καὶ βασιλεὺς μὲν αὐτὸς ὁμολογῶν εἰς αὐτὸν ἁμαρτεῖν, μηδὲ γὰρ εἶναι ἄλλον τὸν καθαιρήσοντα, ἀλλὰ μόνον τὸ σφέτερον θέλημα διὰ τὸ ἐπὶ τοῦ Γρηγορίου σκάνδαλον, μὴ τοῖς ἄλλοις κἀκείνου συμ βαίνοντος ἐφ' ᾧπερ ὁμολογεῖν εἶναι ἐκεῖνον παῤῥησίᾳ μηδὲν σφα λέντα ἐπὶ τοῖς δόγμασιν, ἔπειτα δὲ τὴν ἐκείνου παραίτησιν δέ χεσθαι. καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ὑψίθρονον ὄντα βασιλεὺς ἐπίτηδες ὑπε χάλα καὶ τῇ κέλλῃ παρέβυεν. αὐτὸς γοῦν ἀναλαμβάνων τὴν τι 299 μὴν ἐκείνῳ ἤθελεν ἀνορθοῦν, ἐκεῖνο διδοὺς ὃ καὶ ὠργισμένος προσαφῃρεῖτο, τὴν εὐμένειαν. ἀρχιερεῖς δέ, πλὴν τοῦ Φιλα δελφείας καὶ τοῦ Σμύρνης, οὐκ οἶδα εἰ καὶ τρίτου ἑτέρου, βα σιλέως λύοντος τὴν ὀργὴν ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκείας ἔκρινον ἔχειν ἐκεῖνον τι μῆς, τό τε δίκαιον δυσωπούμενοι, καὶ ἀνδρὸς ὄντος ἐκείνου τὴν ἀρετὴν καὶ τὸν λόγον οὐχ ἥκιστα ἱκανοῦ καὶ χρειώδους ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας τὰ μέγιστα· μηδὲ γὰρ ὅλως ἰσχῦσαι τὰ κατ' ἐκείνου ἐπ' Ἀθανασίου πατριαρχοῦντος κεκινημένα, ἀλλ' ἡμιτέλεστον μεῖναι τὴν κρίσιν διὰ τὴν τῶν ἀρχιερέων ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀνισχύρως κι νουμένοις ἀμφιγνωμόνησιν. καὶ οἱ μὲν οὕτως ἐδικαίουν τὸν ἄνδρα, πατριάρχης δὲ καὶ ὁ Φιλαδελφείας (ὁ γὰρ τρίτος ὁ Σμύρ νης ἐγκλήματι καθοσιώσεως ὑπαχθεὶς ὡς εὐλογήσας τὸν Μαλά κηνΜαλάκης δ' ἦν ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ Φιλανθρωπηνοῦ τὴν Σμύρνην