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behind their camp, and a great cloud of dust arose from the wind and went over the barbarians. They, thinking that it was a great multitude, fled and came to the region of Saint Stratonicus at the Tenth [milestone]. But learning from their scouts that there was a strong guard on the walls of Constantinople, they came to the regions of Tzurulum and Arcadiopolis and 234 of Saint Alexander of Zoupara and they remained there encamped until holy Pascha. After the feast of Pascha, the emperor went out and all of the city with him to Selymbria in order to build the long wall, where the barbarians had entered. And the emperor remained there until the month of August; likewise the barbarians roamed outside the city until August. Then the emperor ordered that warships be prepared, so as to go to the Danube and meet the barbarians as they were crossing and fight them. The barbarians, knowing this, requested through an ambassador to be allowed to cross the Danube without danger. And he sent Justin, his nephew and curopalates, and he saw them safely across. Bishop of Antioch, Anastasius, 11 years. 33. 35. 4. 8. 15. 11. 1. In this year the emperor began to build the bridge over the Sangarius river. And having diverted the river into another bed, he built five formidable arches and made it passable, the bridge having previously been of wood. 34. 36. 5. 9. 16. 12. 2. In this year, on the 9th of the month of September, the 5th day, of the 9th indiction, it was rumored in Constantinople that the emperor had died; for he had come from Thrace and was seeing no one. And so the demes suddenly seized the bread from the bakeries and state bakeries, and by the third hour no bread was to be found in the whole city; and there was a great rain on the same day. And the workshops were closed, and it was rumored in the palace that no one from the senate saw the emperor because he had a headache. From this they believed that he had died. But at about the ninth hour the senate held a council, and they sent the prefect and had lights lit throughout the whole city, because the emperor was well. And in this way the city 235 was calmed from the disturbance. After the emperor recovered, Eugenius the former prefect slandered George, the curator of the [palace] of Marina, and Aetherius, the curator of the [palace] of Antiochus, as having wished to make Theodore, the son of Peter the magister, emperor, with whom Gerontius, the prefect of the city, also agreed. But when the case was investigated and not proven, there was indignation against Eugenius, and his house was confiscated. But he, having fled to the church, was saved. In the month of December a great fire occurred in the harbor of Julian, and many houses and churches were burned from the beginning of the harbor to the [house] of Probus. There was also a great plague in Cilicia and Anazarbus and in Antioch the great, and earthquakes. And the orthodox and the Severians fought against each other, and many murders occurred. And the emperor, sending Zemarchus, the comes of the East, stopped the disorderly, and exiled, confiscated the property of, and mutilated many. Year of the world 6054. Year of the divine incarnation 554. Emperor of the Romans Justinian, 38 years. 35. Emperor of the Persians Chosroes, 48 years. 37. Bishop of Rome John, 8 years. 1. Bishop of Const. Eutychius, 13 years. 10. Bishop of Jerusalem Peter, 20 years. 17. Bishop of Alexandria Apollinarius, 19 years. 13. Bishop of Antioch Anastasius, 11 years. 3. In this year, on the 12th of the month of October, the 4th day, of the 10th indiction, late in the evening, a great fire occurred in the area of Caesarius as far as the so-called Omphakera; and all the workshops and gatehouses were burned as far as the [Forum of the] Ox. In the month of November, when the hippodrome games were being held, before the emperor ascended, a popular disturbance occurred, and the Greens attacked the Blues; and when the emperor learned of it, he ascended to the kathisma, and seeing the fight, he ordered Marinus, the comes of the

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ὄπισθεν τοῦ ἐξερκέτου αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐγένετο ἐκ τοῦ ἀνέμου κονιορτὸς μέγας, καὶ ἐπῆγεν ἐπάνω τῶν βαρβάρων. οἱ δὲ νομίσαντες, ὅτι πλῆθος πολύ εἰσιν, ἔφυγον καὶ ἦλθον εἰς τὰ μέρη τοῦ ἁγίου Στρατονίκου εἰς τὸ ∆έκατον. μαθόντες δὲ ἐκ τῶν κατασκόπων, ὅτι παραφυλακὴ πολλή ἐστιν εἰς τὰ τείχη Κωνσταντι234 νουπόλεως, ἦλθον εἰς τὰ μέρη Τζουρουλοῦ καὶ Ἀρκαδιουπόλεως καὶ 234 τοῦ ἁγίου Ἀλεξάνδρου Ζουπαρῶν καὶ ἔμειναν ἐκεῖ παρακαθήμενοι ἕως τὸ ἅγιον πάσχα. μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἑορτὴν τοῦ πάσχα ἐξῆλθεν ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ πάντες τῆς πόλεως σὺν αὐτῷ ἐν Σηλυμβρίᾳ ἐπὶ τὸ κτίσαι τὸ τεῖχος τὸ μακρόν, ὅθεν οἱ βάρβαροι εἰσῆλθον. καὶ ἔμεινεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐκεῖ ἕως τοῦ Αὐγούστου μηνός· ὁμοίως καὶ οἱ βάρβαροι ἔξω τῆς πόλεως περιεπόλευον ἕως τοῦ Αὐγούστου. λοιπὸν ἐκέλευσεν ὁ βασιλεὺς γενέσθαι πλοῖα διάπρυμνα, ὥστε ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὸν ∆ανοῦβιν καὶ ἀπαντῆσαι τοῖς βαρβάροις περνοῦσι καὶ πολεμῆσαι αὐτούς. τοῦτο γνόντες οἱ βάρβαροι παρεκάλεσαν διὰ πρεσβευτοῦ ἀκινδύνως ἐᾶσαι αὐτοὺς περᾶσαι τὸν ∆ανοῦβιν. καὶ ἔπεμψεν Ἰουστῖνον, τὸν ἀνεψιὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ κουροπαλάτην, καὶ διέσωσεν αὐτούς. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Ἀναστάσιος ἔτη ιαʹ. λγʹ. λεʹ. δʹ. ηʹ. ιεʹ. ιαʹ. αʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἤρξατο κτίζειν ὁ βασιλεὺς τὴν γέφυραν τοῦ Σαγάρεως ποταμοῦ. καὶ ἀποστρέψας τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν ἐν ἄλλῃ κοίτῃ εἴλησε καμάρας φοβερὰς πέντε καὶ ἐποίησεν αὐτὸν διοδεύεσθαι, ξυλίνης πρότερον οὔσης τῆς γεφύρας. λδʹ. λϛʹ. εʹ. θʹ. ιϛʹ. ιβʹ. βʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει μηνὶ Σεπτεμβρίῳ θʹ, ἡμέρᾳ εʹ, ἰνδικτιῶνος θʹ, ἐφημίσθη ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει, ὅτι ἐτελεύτησεν ὁ βασιλεύς· ἦν γὰρ ἐλθὼν ἀπὸ τῆς Θρᾴκης καὶ οὐδένα ἐθεώρει. καὶ λοιπὸν οἱ δῆμοι ἥρπασαν τοὺς ἄρτους αἰφνίδιον ἐκ τῶν ἀρτοπωλίων καὶ μαγκιπίων, καὶ περὶ ὥραν τρίτην οὐχ εὑρίσκετο ἄρτος ἐν πάσῃ τῇ πόλει· καὶ βροχὴ μεγάλη τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ. ἐκλείσθησαν δὲ καὶ τὰ ἐργαστήρια, καὶ ἐθρυλήθη τὸ παλάτιον, ὅτι οὐδεὶς ἐκ τῆς συγκλήτου ἐθεώρει τὸν βασιλέα διὰ τὸ κεφαλαλγεῖσθαι αὐτόν. ἐκ τούτου ἐπίστευον, ὅτι ἀπέθανεν. περὶ ὥραν δὲ ἐννάτην συμβούλιον ἐποίησεν ἡ σύγκλητος, καὶ ἀπέστειλαν τὸν ἔπαρχον καὶ ἐποίησαν φῶτα ἅψαι εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν πόλιν, ὅτι ὑγίανεν ὁ βασιλεύς. καὶ τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ κατέστη 235 ἡ πόλις ἐκ τῆς ταραχῆς. μετὰ δὲ τὸ ὑγιᾶναι τὸν βασιλέα Εὐγένιος ὁ ἀπὸ ἐπάρχων διέβαλε Γεώργιον, τὸν κουράτορα τῶν Μαρίνης, καὶ Αἰθέριον, τὸν κουράτορα τῶν Ἀντιόχου, ὡς θελήσαντας ποιῆσαι βασιλέα Θεόδωρον, τὸν υἱὸν Πέτρου τοῦ μαγίστρου, οἷς συνεφώνησε καὶ Γερόντιος, ὁ ἔπαρχος τῆς πόλεως. ζητηθείσης δὲ τῆς ὑποθέσεως καὶ μὴ ἀποδειχθείσης, ἠγανακτήθη Εὐγένιος, καὶ ἐδημεύθη ὁ οἶκος αὐτοῦ. προσφυγὼν δὲ ἐκεῖνος τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἐσώθη. τῷ δὲ ∆εκεμβρίῳ μηνὶ γέγονεν ἐμπυρισμὸς μέγας ἐν τῷ λιμένι Ἰουλιανοῦ, καὶ πολλοὶ οἶκοι ἐκάησαν καὶ ἐκκλησίαι ἀπὸ ἀρχῆς τοῦ λιμένος ἕως τῶν Πρόβου. γέγονε δὲ καὶ θανατικὸν μέγα ἐν Κιλικίᾳ καὶ Ἀναζαρβῷ καὶ ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ, καὶ σεισμοί. καὶ συνέβαλον κατ' ἀλλήλων οἱ ὀρθόδοξοι καὶ οἱ Σευηριανοί, καὶ πολλοὶ φόνοι γεγόνασιν. καὶ ἀποστείλας ὁ βασιλεὺς Ζήμαρχον, τὸν κόμητα τῆς ἀνατολῆς, ἐκώλυσε τοὺς ἀτάκτους καὶ πολλοὺς ἐξώρισε καὶ ἐδήμευσε καὶ ἠκρωτηρίασεν. Κόσμου ἔτη ϛνδʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη φνδʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Ἰουστινιανὸς ἔτη ληʹ. λεʹ. Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Χοσρόης ἔτη μηʹ. λζʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Ἰωάννης ἔτη ηʹ. αʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Εὐτύχιος ἔτη ιγʹ. ιʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Πέτρος ἔτη κʹ. ιζʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Ἀπολινάριος ἔτη ιθʹ. ιγʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Ἀναστάσιος ἔτη ιαʹ. γʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει μηνὶ Ὀκτωβρίῳ ιβʹ, ἡμέρᾳ δʹ, ἰνδικτιῶνος ιʹ, ἑσπέρας βαθείας, γέγονεν ἐμπυρισμὸς μέγας ἐν τοῖς Καισαρίου ἕως τῆς λεγομένης Ὀμφακερᾶς· καὶ ἐκάησαν ὅλα τὰ ἐργαστήρια καὶ οἱ πυλεῶνες ἕως τοῦ Βοός. τῷ δὲ Νοεμβρίῳ μηνὶ ἱππικοῦ ἀγομένου, πρὸ τοῦ ἀνελθεῖν τὸν βασιλέα γέγονε δημοτικὴ ταραχή, καὶ ἐπῆλθον οἱ Πράσινοι τοῖς Βενέτοις· καὶ γνοὺς ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀνῆλθεν ἐν τῷ καθίσματι, καὶ θεασάμενος τὴν μάχην ἐκέλευσε Μαρίνῳ, τῷ κόμητι τῶν