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having erected in the middle a very large column, bearing a statue of the emperor Valentinian, his brother; and a marble statue in the Senate of the Concha and in the middle of the basilica in the Concha he dedicated another statue of precious stone, seated, to the same most divine emperor Valentinian. And he built the two sphendones of the Cynegium, having enclosed them and filled them with tiered seats, since it was formerly a place for single combat. And he built the public bath near the Hippodrome. And he built many other wonderful works in the same city. But the most divine emperor Valentinian executed many senators and provincial governors, as they were committing injustices and stealing and plundering. And the praepositus of his 340 palace, named Rhodanus, a most powerful and wealthy man who administered the palace, as he was the first arch-eunuch and was held in great honor, he burned alive with fagots in the sphendone of the Hippodrome, as the same emperor Valentinian was watching the hippic games. For his praepositus Rhodanus had seized the property from a certain widow named Beronice, having schemed against her, as he was in a position of power; and she approached the same emperor Valentinian. Or as soon as he became emperor, he appointed the patrician Salustius as their judge against him; who condemned the said praepositus Rhodanus. And when the emperor learned of the decision from the patrician Salustius, he ordered the said praepositus to restore to the widow what he had seized from her. And the said Rhodanus was not persuaded and did not restore it to her, but appealed against the patrician Salustius. And the emperor, being enraged, ordered the woman to approach him as he was watching the hippic games; and the woman approached him on the fifth day of the games in the morning. and as the said praepositus Rhodanus was standing very near him on his right, the emperor gave the order, and he was seized from his seat in front of the whole city, and was carried off to the sphendone of the Hippodrome and burned. And the same emperor Valentinian granted to that widow all the property of the said praepositus Rhodanus; and he was acclaimed by all the people and the senate as just and severe; and great fear fell upon evildoers and those who seize the property of others, and justice prevailed. 341 Likewise also, when he heard that the lady Mariana his wife 341 had bought a suburb that produced revenue and had given less than the suburb was worth and had been honored as Augusta, he sent and had the suburb re-evaluated, putting the evaluators under oath; and learning that it was worth a much higher price than the purchase price, he became enraged at the empress and exiled her from the city, giving the suburb back to the woman who sold it. The same emperor proclaimed his son Gratian emperor; and the same lady Mariana was recalled by her son Valerianus after he was made emperor in Rome by his father. And the most divine Valentinian, being struck by an illness after a time, died in the fort of Brigetio, being 55 years old. And after the reign of Valentinian the Great the Severe, the army, overriding the senate, made a man named Eugenius emperor; and he reigned for twenty-two days and was immediately slain. 342 And the most divine Valens, the brother of Valentinian the Severe, noble in wars, reigned, having been proclaimed by the senate of Constantinople, in the 326th year according to Antioch. For when his brother Valentinian died, Valens was not in Constantinople, but his brother had sent him in his lifetime to wage war in Sirmium against the Goths. Whom having conquered decisively he returned; and being crowned he reigned for 13 years. He was an Exakionite in dogma, a warrior, and magnanimous and a lover of building. Or as soon as

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μέσῳ στήσας μεγάλην πάνυ κίονα, ἔχουσαν στήλην Βαλεντινιανοῦ βασιλέως, ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ· καὶ στήλην δὲ μαρμαρίνην ἐν τῷ Σηνάτῳ τῆς Κόγχης καὶ ἐν τῷ μέσῳ τῆς ἐν τῇ Κόγχῃ βασιλικῆς ἄλλην στήλην διὰ τιμίου λίθου ἀνέθηκε καθεζομένην τῷ αὐτῷ θειοτάτῳ βασιλεῖ Βαλεντινιανῷ. ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ τὰς δύο σφενδόνας τοῦ Κυνηγίου, εἰλήσας αὐτὰς καὶ πληρώσας βάθρων, ἐπειδὴ πρῴην μονομαχεῖον ἦν. ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ τὸ δημόσιον λουτρὸν πλησίον τοῦ Ἱππικοῦ. ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ θαυμαστὰ ἔργα ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ πόλει. Ὁ δὲ θειότατος βασιλεὺς Βαλεντινιανὸς πολλοὺς συγκλητικοὺς καὶ ἄρχοντας ἐπαρχιῶν ἐφόνευσεν, ὡς ἀδικοῦντας καὶ κλέπτοντας καὶ ἁρπάζοντας. τὸν δὲ πραιπόσιτον τοῦ παλατίου αὐ 340 τοῦ ὀνόματι Ῥοδανόν, ἄνδρα δυνατώτατον καὶ εὔπορον καὶ διοικοῦντα τὸ παλάτιον, ὡς πρῶτον ὄντα ἀρχιευνοῦχον καὶ ἐν μεγάλῃ τιμῇ ὄντα, ζῶντα ἔκαυσεν εἰς τὴν σφενδόνην τοῦ Ἱππικοῦ φρυγάνοις, ὡς θεωρεῖ τὸ ἱππικὸν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Βαλεντινιανός. ὁ γὰρ πραιπόσιτος αὐτοῦ Ῥοδανὸς ἥρπασεν οὐσίαν ἀπό τινος χήρας γυναικὸς καλουμένης Βερονίκης, πλέξας αὐτῇ, ὡς ἐν δυνάμει ὤν· καὶ προσῆλθεν ἐκείνη τῷ αὐτῷ Βαλεντινιανῷ βασιλεῖ. ἢ μόνον δὲ ἐβασίλευσε, κατ' αὐτοῦ ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς δικαστὴν τὸν πατρίκιον Σαλούστιον· ὅστις κατέκρινε τὸν αὐτὸν πραιπόσιτον Ῥοδανόν. καὶ μαθὼν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς τὸν ὅρον παρὰ τοῦ πατρικίου Σαλουστίου, ἐκέλευσε τῷ αὐτῷ πραιποσίτῳ ἀναδοῦναι τῇ χήρᾳ ἅπερ ἥρπασε παρ' αὐτῆς. καὶ οὐκ ἐπείσθη ὁ αὐτὸς Ῥοδανὸς καὶ ἀνέδωκεν αὐτῇ, ἀλλ' ἐξεκαλέσατο τὸν πατρίκιον Σαλούστιον. καὶ ἀγανακτήσας ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς ἐκέλευσε τῇ αὐτῇ γυναικὶ προσελθεῖν αὐτῷ, ὡς θεωρεῖ τὸ ἱππικόν· καὶ προσῆλθεν αὐτῷ ἡ γυνὴ τῷ πέμπτῳ βαΐῳ πρωίας. καὶ ὡς ἵσταται ἔγγιστα αὐτοῦ εἰς τὰ δεξιὰ ὁ αὐτὸς Ῥοδανὸς πραιπόσιτος, ἐκέλευσεν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεύς, καὶ κατεσχέθη ἀπὸ τοῦ καθίσματος ἐπὶ πάσης τῆς πόλεως, καὶ ἀπηνέχθη εἰς τὴν σφενδόνην τοῦ Ἱππικοῦ καὶ ἐκαύθη. καὶ ἐχαρίσατο τῇ αὐτῇ χήρᾳ γυναικὶ ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Βαλεντινιανὸς πᾶσαν τὴν περιουσίαν τοῦ αὐτοῦ πραιποσίτου Ῥοδανοῦ· καὶ εὐφημίσθη ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου παντὸς καὶ τῆς συγκλήτου, ὡς δίκαιος καὶ ἀπότομος· καὶ ἐγένετο φόβος πολὺς εἰς τοὺς κακοπράγμονας καὶ εἰς τοὺς ἁρπάζοντας τὰ ἀλλότρια, καὶ ἡ δικαιοσύνη ἐκράτει. 341 Ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τὴν δέσποιναν Μαριανὴν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα 341 ἀγοράσασαν προάστειον ἔχον πρόσοδον καὶ δοῦσαν παρ' ὃ ἦν τὸ προάστειον ἄξιον καὶ τιμηθεῖσαν ὡς Αὔγουσταν, ἀκούσας ἔπεμψε καὶ διετιμήσατο τὸ αὐτὸ προάστειον, ὁρκώσας τοὺς διατιμησαμένους· καὶ μαθὼν ὅτι πλείονος τιμῆς πολὺ ἄξιόν ἐστι τῆς ἀγορασίας, ἠγανάκτησε κατὰ τῆς βασιλίσσης καὶ ἐξώρισεν αὐτὴν τῆς πόλεως, ἀναδοὺς τῇ πωλησάσῃ γυναικὶ τὸ προάστειον. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς ἀνηγόρευσε βασιλέα Γρατιανὸν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ· τὴν δὲ αὐτὴν δέσποιναν Μαριανὴν ἀνεκαλέσατο ὁ υἱὸς αὐτῆς Βαλεριανὸς μετὰ τὸ γενέσθαι αὐτὸν βασιλέα ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ παρὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ πατρός. Ὁ δὲ θειότατος Βαλεντινιανὸς νόσῳ βληθεὶς μετὰ χρόνον ἐτελεύτα ἐν καστελλίῳ Βιργιτινών, ὢν ἐνιαυτῶν νεʹ. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν Βαλεντινιανοῦ τοῦ μεγάλου τοῦ ἀποτόμου ἐποίησεν ὁ στρατὸς βασιλέα αὐθεντήσας τὴν σύγκλητον Εὐγένιον ὀνόματι· καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἡμέρας εἴκοσι δύο καὶ ἐσφάγη εὐθέως. 342 Καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ θειότατος Βάλης ὁ ἀδελφὸς Βαλεντινιανοῦ τοῦ ἀποτόμου, ὁ γενναῖος ἐν πολέμοις, ὑπὸ τῆς συγκλήτου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἀναγορευθείς, ἔτους τκςʹ κατὰ Ἀντιόχειαν. ὅτε γὰρ ἐτελεύτα Βαλεντινιανὸς ὁ αὐτοῦ ἀδελφός, οὐκ ἦν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει ὁ Βάλης, ἀλλ' ἦν πέμψας αὐτὸν ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ζωῇ αὐτοῦ πολεμῆσαι εἰς τὸ Σίρμιον πρὸς τοὺς Γότθους. οὕστινας νικήσας κατὰ κράτος ὑπέστρεψε· καὶ στεφθεὶς ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη ιγʹ. ἦν δὲ τῷ δόγματι Ἐξακιονίτης, πολεμιστής, καὶ μεγαλόψυχος καὶ φιλοκτίστης. Ἢ μόνον δὲ