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being comely; and he provided him with many things, whatever he asked of him, and he had freedom of speech with him, and he was master of all affairs and seized everything; for he was a patron and protector of the Greens. And during his reign Nicomedia, the metropolis of Bithynia, suffered from a divine wrath, its fifth calamity, late in the evening and was destroyed, collapsing into the earth and being swallowed by the sea. And he built many things there: the public works and the porticoes and the harbor and the theaters and the martyrium of Saint Anthimus and all of its churches. And during his reign the Isaurian brigands captured Seleucia in Syria in the month of Peritios, during the consulship of the same Theodosius and Romoridus; and they plundered and turned the country upside down, coming through the mountains; and taking everything, they returned to Isauria. And during his reign, Constantinople suffered first from a divine wrath from an earthquake on the 26th of the month of January during the night, from the so-called Troadensian Porticoes to the bronze Tetra 364 pylon. This emperor held a litany with the senate and the people and the clergy barefoot for many days. And at that time Blasses, king of the Persians, came to make war on the Romans; and when the emperor of the Romans learned of this, he made the patrician Procopius magister militum of the East and sent him with an expeditionary force to fight. And as he was about to join battle, the king of the Persians declared to him that, "If your whole expeditionary force has a man able to fight in single combat and defeat one Persian put forward by me, I will straightway make the peace pacts for 50 years and provide the customary gifts." And when these terms were agreed, the king of the Persians put forward from the regiment of the so-called Immortals a Persian named Ardazanes, and the Romans a certain Areobindus, a Goth, a count of the foederati. And the two went out on horseback and armed. And Areobindus also carried a lasso in the Gothic custom. And the Persian charged first with his spear; and Areobindus, turning aside to his right, lassoed him, and bringing him down from his horse, slaughtered him. And so the king of the Persians made a peace pact; and after the victory, the same Areobindus went up to Constantinople with the magister militum Procopius and, having been thanked by the emperor, was promoted to consul. The same emperor also created a province, having separated it from 365 Lycaonia, which he called Lycia, giving the right of metropolis and a governor to the so-called city of Myra in the same Lycia, where there is a mystery of God, a self-generating fire. Likewise the same emperor, also separating Syria Secunda from the first province, gave the right of metropolis and a governor to the city of Apamea, and having separated Cilicia Secunda from the first, he made it a province, giving the right of metropolis and a governor to the city of Anazarbus. And he also made another province, separating it from Bithynia, which he called Honoriada in the name of his uncle Honorius, giving the right of metropolis and a governor to Heraclea, a city of Pontus. And during his reign Nestorius was still flourishing; who afterwards became bishop of Constantinople; and when a disturbance arose while he was preaching, the same Theodosius was compelled to summon the synod of the 240 bishops in Ephesus against the same Nestorius and to depose him from the episcopate. And Cyril, the bishop of Alexandria the Great, presided over the synod. And at that time, while living in Rome, the lady Eudoxia, who had become a widow, the wife of the emperor Valentinian, and daughter of the emperor Theodosius and Eudocia, grieving against Maximus the tyrant who had murdered her husband and become emperor, urged Gizeric the Vandal, the king of Africa, to come against Maximus, emperor of Rome. who

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εὐπρεπῆ ὄντα· καὶ παρεῖχεν αὐτῷ πολλὰ ὅσα ἂν ᾐτήσατο αὐτόν, καὶ εἶχε παῤῥησίαν πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ κατῆρχε πάντων τῶν πραγμάτων καὶ ἥρπαζε πάντα· ἦν γὰρ πάτρων καὶ προστάτης τῶν Πρασίνων. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας Νικομήδεια, μητρόπολις τῆς Βιθυνίας, τὸ πέμπτον αὐτῆς πάθος ἑσπέρας βαθείας καὶ ἀπώλετο εἰς γῆν καὶ εἰς θάλασσαν καταποντισθεῖσα. καὶ πολλὰ ἔκτισεν ἐκεῖ καὶ τὰ δημόσια καὶ τοὺς ἐμβόλους καὶ τὸν λιμένα καὶ τὰ θεώρια καὶ τὸ μαρτύριον τοῦ ἁγίου Ἀνθίμου καὶ πάσας τὰς ἐκκλησίας αὐτῆς. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ παρέλαβον οἱ Ἴσαυροι λῃσταρχοῦντες Σελεύκειαν τῆς Συρίας μηνὶ περιτίῳ, ἐπὶ τῆς ὑπατείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ Θεοδοσίου καὶ Ῥομορίδου· καὶ ἐπραίδευσαν καὶ ἔστρεψαν τὴν χώραν ἐλθόντες διὰ τῶν ὀρέων· καὶ πάντα λαβόντες ὑπέστρεψαν εἰς τὴν Ἰσαυρίαν. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας πρώτοις Κωνσταντινούπολις ὑπὸ σεισμοῦ μηνὶ ἰανουαρίῳ κςʹ ἐν νυκτὶ ἀπὸ τῶν λεγομένων Τρῳαδησίων ἐμβόλων ἕως τοῦ χαλκοῦ τετρα 364 πύλου. ὅστις βασιλεὺς ἐλιτάνευσε μετὰ τῆς συγκλήτου καὶ τοῦ ὄχλου καὶ τοῦ κλήρου ἀνυπόδητος ἐπὶ ἡμέρας πολλάς. Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ ἦλθε πολεμῶν Ῥωμαίοις Βλάσσης, βασιλεὺς Περσῶν· καὶ γνοὺς ὁ βασιλεὺς Ῥωμαίων ἐποίησε στρατηλάτην ἀνατολῆς τὸν πατρίκιον Προκόπιον καὶ ἔπεμψεν αὐτὸν μετὰ ἐξπεδίτου πολεμῆσαι. μέλλοντος δὲ αὐτοῦ συμβάλλειν ἐδήλωσεν αὐτῷ ὁ βασιλεὺς Περσῶν ὅτι Εἰ ἔχει τὸ ἐξπέδιτόν σου ὅλον ἄνδρα δυνάμενον μονομαχῆσαι καὶ νικῆσαι ἕνα Πέρσην προβαλλόμενον παρ' ἐμοῦ, εὐθέως ποιῶ τὰ πάκτα τῆς εἰρήνης ἐπὶ ἔτη νʹ καὶ τὰ ἐξ ἔθους παρεχόμενα δῶρα. καὶ τούτων δοξάντων προεβάλετο ὁ βασιλεὺς Περσῶν ἐκ τοῦ τάγματος τῶν λεγομένων ἀθανάτων Πέρσην ὀνόματι Ἀρδαζάνην, οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι Ἀρεόβινδόν τινα Γότθον, κόμητα φοιδεράτων. καὶ ἐξῆλθον οἱ δύο ἔφιπποι καὶ ἔνοπλοι. ὁ δὲ Ἀρεόβινδος ἐβάσταζε καὶ σωκάρην κατὰ τὸ Γοτθικὸν ἔθος. πρῶτος δὲ ὁ Πέρσης ὥρμησε μετὰ τοῦ κοντοῦ· καὶ πλαγιάσας ὁ Ἀρεόβινδος ἐπὶ τὸ δεξιὸν αὑτοῦ μέρος ἐσόκκευσεν αὐτόν, καὶ κατενεγκὼν ἐκ τοῦ ἵππου ἔσφαξε. καὶ λοιπὸν ὁ βασιλεὺς Περσῶν ἐποίησε πάκτα εἰρήνης· καὶ ἀνελθὼν μετὰ τὴν νίκην ὁ αὐτὸς Ἀρεόβινδος ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει σὺν τῷ στρατηλάτῃ Προκοπίῳ καὶ εὐχαριστηθεὶς παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως προήχθη ὕπατος. Ὁ αὐτὸς δὲ βασιλεὺς ἐποίησεν ἐπαρχίαν, ἀπομερίσας ἀπὸ 365 τῆς Λυκαονίας, ἥντινα ἐκάλεσε Λυκίαν, δοὺς δίκαιον μητροπόλεως καὶ ἄρχοντα τῇ λεγομένῃ πόλει Μύρᾳ τῆς αὐτῆς Λυκίας, ἔνθα ἐστὶ θεοῦ μυστήριον πῦρ αὐτόματον. ὁμοίως δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς καὶ Συρίαν δευτέραν ἀπομερίσας ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ἐπαρχίας, δοὺς δίκαιον μητροπόλεως καὶ ἄρχοντα τῇ Ἀπαμείᾳ τῇ πόλει, καὶ Κιλικίαν δευτέραν ἀπομερίσας ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ἐποίησεν ἐπαρχίαν, δοὺς δίκαιον μητροπόλεως καὶ ἄρχοντα Ἀναζάρβῳ τῇ πόλει. ἐποίησε δὲ καὶ ἄλλην ἐπαρχίαν, ἀπομερίσας ἀπὸ τῆς Βιθυνίας, ἥντινα ἐκάλεσεν Ὁνωριάδα εἰς ὄνομα τοῦ αὑτοῦ θείου Ὁνωρίου, δοὺς δίκαιον μητροπόλεως καὶ ἄρχοντα Ἡρακλείᾳ, πόλει τῆς Πόντου. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ ἀκμὴν Νεστόριος ἤκμαζεν· ὅστις ἐπίσκοπος μετὰ ταῦτα ἐγένετο Κωνσταντινουπόλεως· καὶ ταραχῆς γενομένης ἐν τῷ ὁμιλεῖν αὐτόν, ἠναγκάσθη ὁ αὐτὸς Θεοδόσιος προσκαλέσασθαι τὴν σύνοδον τῶν σμʹ ἐπισκόπων ἐν Ἐφέσῳ κατὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Νεστορίου καὶ καθελεῖν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς. ἡγεῖτο δὲ τῆς συνόδου Κύριλλος ὁ ἐπίσκοπος Ἀλεξανδρείας τῆς μεγάλης. Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ καιρῷ ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ διάγουσα ἡ δέσποινα Εὐδοξία, γενομένη χήρα, γυνὴ Βαλεντινιανοῦ βασιλέως, θυγάτηρ δὲ Θεοδοσίου βασιλέως καὶ Εὐδοκίας, λυπουμένη κατὰ Μαξίμου τοῦ τυράννου τοῦ φονεύσαντος τὸν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς καὶ βασιλεύσαντος, προετρέψατο δὲ Ζινζίριχον τὸν Οὐάνδαλον, τὸν ῥῆγα τῆς Ἀφρικῆς, ἐλθεῖν κατὰ Μαξίμου, βασιλέως τῆς Ῥώμης. ὅστις