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The Antiochenes call it the [Basilica] of Anatolius, because Anatolius the strator was in charge of the building, having received the money from the emperor, when he was made by him strator of the East; for this reason also when he completed that same work of the basilica, he inscribed in it with golden mosaic these words: The work of Theodosius the emperor; as is worthy. Above were two emperors, Theodosius and his kinsman Valentinian who reigned in Rome. This same Theodosius also gilded the two bronze doors of the Daphnitic gate in the likeness of the gate he gilded in Constantinople, which is called to this day the Golden Gate; and likewise also in Antioch the Great it is called to this day the Golden Gate, having been gilded by Nymphidianus the consular. At which time the death of Valentinian, emperor of Rome, was announced, he having been slain by Maximus the senator, who seized power and reigned in Rome. 361 And this same emperor Theodosius treated badly Antiochus the praepositus and patrician, who was powerful in the palace and controlled affairs. For he had also raised this same Theodosius in the lifetime of his father, as a cubicularius and administering the Roman state on behalf of his father Arcadius. And he remained after he came of age, as a patrician domineering over this same Theodosius. And becoming angry with him, he confiscated his property and, having tonsured him, made him a priest of the great church of Constantinople, issuing an edict that eunuch cubicularii should not enter the ranks of senators or patricians after the completion of their service, that is, those who had been praepositi of the palace. And this same Antiochus died, being a presbyter. And the same emperor appointed as praetorian prefect and prefect of the city the patrician Cyrus, the philosopher, a man most wise in all things. And he ruled holding the two offices for four years, riding in the chariot of the prefect of the city and taking care of the buildings and renewing all of Constantinople; for he was very meticulous. Concerning whom the Byzantines shouted these things in the hippodrome all day while Theodosius was watching. Constantine founded, Cyrus renewed; him to his place, Augustus. But Cyrus, astonished, uttered, “A fortune that laughs 362 too much does not please me.” And the emperor became angry, because they shouted about Cyrus and shouted his name with Constantine’s, as the one who renewed the city; and so a plot was contrived and this same Cyrus was accused as a Hellene, and his property was confiscated when he was removed from office. And taking refuge he also became a priest, and he was sent to Phrygia, having been made bishop in the so-called Cotyaeum. For these same citizens of Cotyaeum had murdered four bishops; and Cotyaeum is a city of the Phrygian province of Salutaris. And this same Cyrus arrived in the city of Cotyaeum as bishop before the holy Nativity. And when the clergy and citizens of the city realized that the emperor had sent him as a Hellene, so that he might die, on the holy Nativity they suddenly therefore shouted for him to preach in the church. And being compelled he went up to preach; and after giving the peace he preached thus. Brethren, let the birth of our god and savior Jesus Christ be honored in silence, because by hearing alone was the Word conceived in the holy virgin. To him be glory for ever and ever; amen. And having been acclaimed he came down, and he remained there until his death. And he appointed as prefect Antiochus Chuzon, the grandson of Antiochus Chuzon the Great, who had provided in Antioch the Great an addition of funds for the hippodrome and the Olympic games and the Maioumas. And after him 363 Rufinus, the kinsman of the same emperor, was appointed prefect; and he was killed for having plotted a tyranny. And the same emperor Theodosius loved with passion Chrysaphius the cubicularius, called Ztommas, as very

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Ἀντιοχεῖς καλοῦσι τὴν Ἀνατολίου, διότι Ἀνατόλιοςστρατηλάτης ἐπέστη τῷ κτίσματι, λαβὼν τὰ χρήματα ἀπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως, ὅτε ἐγένετο παρ' αὐτοῦ στρατηλάτης ἀνατολῆς· διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὅτε ἐπλήρωσε τὸ αὐτὸ ἔργον τῆς βασιλικῆς, ἐπέγραψεν ἐν αὐτῇ διὰ χρυσέου μουσαρίου ταῦτα· Ἔργον Θεοδοσίου βασιλέως· ὥσπερ ἄξιον. ἐπάνω δὲ ἦσαν βασιλεῖς δύο Θεοδόσιος καὶ ὁ συγγενὴς αὐτοῦ Βαλεντινιανὸς ὁ ἐν Ῥώμῃ βασιλεύων. ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Θεοδόσιος ἐχρύσωσε καὶ τῆς ∆αφνητικῆς πόρτας δύο θύρας τὰς χαλκᾶς καθ' ὁμοιότητα ἧς ἐχρύσωσε πόρτας ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει, ἥτις καλεῖται ἕως ἄρτι ἡ χρυσέα πόρτα· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ καλεῖται ἕως τῆς νῦν ἡ χρυσέα πόρτα, χρυσωθεῖσα διὰ Νυμφιδιανοῦ ὑπατικοῦ. ἐν ᾧ χρόνῳ ἀπηγγέλθη ὁ θάνατος Βαλεντινιανοῦ βασιλέως Ῥώμης, σφαγέντος ὑπὸ Μαξίμου συγκλητικοῦ καὶ κρατήσαντος καὶ βασιλεύσαντος ἐν Ῥώμῃ. 361 Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Θεοδόσιος βασιλεὺς ἐποίησε κακῶς Ἀντιόχῳ τῷ πραιποσίτῳ καὶ πατρικίῳ, δυναμένῳ ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ καὶ κρατήσαντι τῶν πραγμάτων. ἦν γὰρ καὶ ἀναθρεψάμενος τὸν αὐτὸν Θεοδόσιον ἐν τῇ ζωῇ τοῦ αὐτοῦ πατρός, ὡς κουβικουλάριος καὶ διοικῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ πατρὸς Ἀρκαδίου τὴν πολιτείαν Ῥωμαίων. καὶ ἔμεινε μετὰ τὸ πληρῶσαι αὐτόν, ὡς πατρίκιος καταυθεντῶν τοῦ αὐτοῦ Θεοδοσίου. καὶ ἀγανακτήσας κατ' αὐτοῦ ἐδήμευσεν αὐτὸν καὶ κουρεύσας ἐποίησε παπᾶν τῆς μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, ποιήσας διάταξιν μὴ εἰσέρχεσθαι εἰς ἀξίας συγκλητικῶν ἢ πατρικίων τοὺς εὐνούχους κουβικουλαρίους μετὰ τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς αὐτῶν στρατείας, τοῦτ' ἐστὶ τοὺς ἀπὸ πραιποσίτων παλατίου. καὶ ἐτελεύτα ὁ αὐτὸς Ἀντίοχος, ὢν πρεσβύτερος. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς προεβάλετο ἔπαρχον πραιτωρίων καὶ ἔπαρχον πόλεως τὸν πατρίκιον Κῦρον, τὸν φιλόσοφον, ἄνδρα σοφώτατον ἐν πᾶσι. καὶ ἦρξεν ἔχων τὰς δύο ἀρχὰς ἔτη τέσσαρα, προϊὼν εἰς τὴν καροῦχαν τοῦ ἐπάρχου τῆς πόλεως καὶ φροντίζων τῶν κτισμάτων καὶ ἀνανεώσας πᾶσαν Κωνσταντινούπολιν· ἦν γὰρ καθαριώτατος. περὶ οὗ ἔκραξαν οἱ Βυζάντιοι εἰς τὸ ἱππικὸν πᾶσαν τὴν ἡμέραν θεωροῦντος Θεοδοσίου ταῦτα. Κωνσταντῖνος ἔκτισε, Κῦρος ἀνενέωσεν· αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τόπον, Αὔγουστε. Κῦρος δὲ ἐκπλαγεὶς ἀπεφθέγξατο, Οὐκ ἀρέσκει μοι τύχη πολλὰ 362 γελῶσα. καὶ ἐχόλησεν ὁ βασιλεύς, ὅτι ἔκραξαν περὶ Κύρου καὶ μετὰ Κωνσταντίνου αὐτὸν ἔκραξαν, ὡς ἀνανεώσαντα τὴν πόλιν· καὶ κατεσκευάσθη λοιπὸν καὶ ἐπλάκη ὡς Ἕλλην ὁ αὐτὸς Κῦρος, καὶ ἐδημεύθη παυθεὶς τῆς ἀρχῆς. καὶ προσφυγὼν ἐγένετο καὶ αὐτὸς παπᾶς, καὶ ἐπέμφθη εἰς τὴν Φρυγίαν, ἐπίσκοπος γενάμενος εἰς τὸ λεγόμενον Κοτυάειον. ἦσαν γὰρ οἱ αὐτοὶ Κοτυαεῖς πολῖται φονεύσαντες ἐπισκόπους τέσσαρας· τὸ δὲ Κοτυάειον πόλις ἐστὶ τῆς Φρυγίας ἐπαρχίας Σαλουταρίας. καὶ κατέλαβε τὴν Κοτυαέων πόλιν ἐπίσκοπος ὢν ὁ αὐτὸς Κῦρος πρὸ τῶν ἁγίων γενεθλίων. γνόντες δὲ οἱ τῆς πόλεως κληρικοὶ καὶ πολῖται ὅτι ὡς Ἕλληνα ἔπεμψεν αὐτὸν ὁ βασιλεύς, ἵνα ἀποθάνῃ, ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις γενεθλίοις ἐξαίφνης οὖν ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἔκραξαν αὐτῷ προσομιλῆσαι. καὶ ἀναγκασθεὶς ἀνῆλθεν ὁμιλῆσαι· καὶ μετὰ τοῦ δοῦναι εἰρήνην προσωμίλησεν οὕτως. Ἀδελφοί, ἡ γέννησις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ σιωπῇ τιμάσθω, ὅτι ἀκοῇ μόνῃ συνελήφθη ἐν τῇ ἁγίᾳ παρθένῳ λόγῳ. αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας· ἀμήν. καὶ εὐφημηθεὶς κατῆλθε, καὶ ἔμεινεν ἐκεῖ ἕως θανάτου. καὶ προηγάγετο ἔπαρχον Ἀντίοχον τὸν Χούζωνα, τὸν ἔγγονον Ἀντιόχου τοῦ Χούζωνος τοῦ μεγάλου, ὃς παρέσχεν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ προσθήκην χρημάτων εἰς τὸ ἱππικὸν καὶ τὰ Ὀλύμπια καὶ τὸν Μαϊουμᾶν. καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν 363 προήχθη ἔπαρχος Ῥουφῖνος ὁ συγγενὴς τοῦ αὐτοῦ βασιλέως· καὶ ἐφονεύθη, ὡς μελετήσας τυραννίδα. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Θεοδόσιος ἐφίλει ἔρωτι Χρυσάφιον τὸν κουβικουλάριον, τὸν λεγόμενον Ζτομμᾶν, ὡς πάνυ