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Sophia, the most pious Augusta, ordered the silversmiths and money-lenders to bring the bonds of the debtors and the pledges; and having met with them, she took the pledges, giving them to the debtors, and returned them to their own masters; and she was greatly praised for this by the whole city. But Eustochios, having gone to Jerusalem out of hatred towards Apolinarius and Agathon and Macarius, the monks of the new laura, expelled them as Origenists; and for this reason he was expelled; and again Macarius was restored to his own throne. 243 Macarius, bishop of Jerusalem, again for 4 years. John, bishop of Alexandria, for 11 years. 4. 44. 8. 4. 1. 1. 10. In this year, when a hippodrome race was held, and the factions were contending with one another, the emperor sent messages to both factions, saying to the Blues, "The emperor Justinian has died among you," and to the Greens, "The emperor Justinian lives among you;" and when the factions heard this, they fell silent and contended no more. In the same year, he began to build the palace of the Sophianae in the name of his wife Sophia, on the pretext that Justus his son was buried there before he became emperor, while he was still curopalates, in the house of the archangel there, having adorned it with various precious marbles. Benedict, bishop of Rome, for [5] years. 5. 45. [1.] 5. 2. 2. 11. In this year, the emperor Justin began to build the second palace in his suburb, which he had before he became emperor. likewise also on the island of Prinkipo, which was also his suburb, in the harbor, and the church of the Holy Unmercenaries in the quarter of Dareios. He also restored the public bath of Taurus and named it Sophianae in the name of his wife Sophia. In the same year Anastasius, the great bishop of Antioch, having attacked in his copies of the synodical letters of John of Constantinople, who had ordained John of Alexandria, and this man having been ordained, was expelled from his own see by the indignation of Justin, and Gregory was ordained, a monk and apocrisiarius of the monastery of the Byzantines. Gregory, bishop of Antioch, for 24 years. 6. 46. [2.] 6. 3. 3. 1. In this year Narses, the cubicularius and protospatharius, 244 the beloved of the emperor Justin, against whom he was also reviled, built the house of Narses and the monastery of the Cathari. But the emperor Justin, having heard concerning his nephew, whom he had in Alexandria as augustalis, that he was plotting a conspiracy against the emperor, sent and beheaded him. 7. 47. [3.] 7. 4. 4. 2. In this year Justin began to build the church of the holy apostles Peter and Paul in the orphanage, and of the holy apostles in the Trikonchos, which had been burned in the time of the emperor Zeno. He also added to the church of the holy Theotokos of Blachernae the two apses, of the north and south, in the great nave and made the church in the shape of a cross. In the same year the Romans and the Persians broke the peace, and the Persian war was renewed again because the Homerite Indians sent an embassy to the Romans, and because the emperor sent Julian the magisterianus with sacred letters to Arethas, the king of the Ethiopians, by way of the river Nile from Alexandria and the Indian sea; and he was received by king Arethas with great joy as one who desired the friendship of the emperor of the Romans. And the same Julian reported upon his return that, when he received him, king Arethas was naked, and around his waist he had a loincloth of gold-embroidered linen; and around his stomach he wore straps of precious pearls, and on his arms five armlets each, and golden bracelets on his hands; and on his head a gold-embroidered linen turban was bound, having from both its bands four rows, and a torque

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Σοφίᾳ, ἡ εὐσεβεστάτη αὐγούστα, τούς τε ἀργυροπράτας καὶ σημαδαρίους ἐκέλευσεν ἐνεχθῆναι τὰς ὁμολογίας τῶν χρεωστούτων καὶ τὰ σημάδια· καὶ ἐντυχοῦσα αὐτοῖς ἔλαβε τὰ σημάδια παρασχομένη αὐτὰ τοῖς χρεωστοῦσι καὶ ἀπέδωκεν αὐτὰ τοῖς ἰδίοις δεσπόταις· καὶ μεγάλως εὐφημίσθη ἐπὶ τούτῳ ὑπὸ πάσης τῆς πόλεως. Εὐστόχιος δὲ ἀπελθὼν εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα μίσει τῷ πρὸς Ἀπολινάριον καὶ Ἀγάθωνα καὶ Μακάριον τοὺς τῆς νέας λαύρας μοναχοὺς ἐξέβαλεν ὡς Ὠριγενιστάς· καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐξεβλήθη· καὶ πάλιν ἀπεκατέστη Μακάριος εἰς τὸν ἴδιον θρόνον. 243 Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Μακάριος πάλιν ἔτη δʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Ἰωάννης ἔτη ιαʹ. δʹ. μδʹ. ηʹ. δʹ. αʹ. αʹ. ιʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἱπποδρομίας ἐπιτελεσθείσης, καὶ φιλονεικούτων τῶν μερῶν πρὸς ἀλλήλους, ἔπεμψε μανδάτα εἰς ἑκάτερα τὰ μέρη ὁ βασιλεὺς λέγων εἰς μὲν τοὺς Βενέτους, ὅτι "Ἰουστινιανὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς παρ' ὑμῖν ἐτελεύτησεν," εἰς δὲ τοὺς Πρασίνους, ὅτι "Ἰουστινιανὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς παρ' ὑμῖν ζῇ·" καὶ ἀκούσαντα τὰ μέρη ἐσίγησαν καὶ οὐκέτι ἐφιλονείκησαν. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει ἤρξατο κτίζειν τὸ παλάτιον τῶν Σοφιανῶν ἐπ' ὀνόματι τῆς αὐτοῦ γυναικὸς Σοφίας, προφάσει τοῦ ἐκεῖσε ταφῆναι Ἰοῦστον τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ πρὸ τοῦ βασιλεῦσαι αὐτόν, ἔτι κουροπαλάτου ὄντος αὐτοῦ, ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ ἀρχαγγέλου τῶν ἐκεῖσε, κοσμήσας αὐτὸ ὑπὸ διαφόρων πολυτίμων μαρμάρων. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Βενέδικτος ἔτη [εʹ]. εʹ. μεʹ. [αʹ.] εʹ. βʹ. βʹ. ιαʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Ἰουστῖνος ὁ βασιλεὺς ἤρξατο κτίζειν τὸ παλάτιον τὸ δεύτερον ἐν τῷ προαστείῳ αὐτοῦ, ὃ εἶχε πρὸ τοῦ βασιλεῦσαι αὐτόν. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ἐν τῇ νήσῳ τῆς Πριγκίπου καὶ αὐτῷ ὄντι προαστείῳ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ λιμένι, καὶ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τῶν ἁγίων Ἀναργύρων ἐν τοῖς ∆αρείου. ἀπεκατέστησε δὲ καὶ τὸ λουτρὸν τοῦ Ταύρου τὸ δημόσιον καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν αὐτὸ Σοφιανὰς ἐπ' ὀνόματι τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ Σοφίας. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει Ἀναστάσιος, ὁ ἐπίσκοπος Ἀντιοχείας ὁ μέγας,καθαψάμενος ἐν τοῖς ἀντιγράφοις τῶν συνοδικῶν Ἰωάννου τοῦ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, τοῦ χειροτονήσαντος Ἰωάννην τὸν Ἀλεξανδρείας, καὶ τούτου χειροτονηθέντος ἐξεβλήθη τῆς ἰδίας ἐπισκοπῆς κατὰ ἀγανάκτησιν Ἰουστίνου, καὶ ἐχειροτονήθη Γρηγόριος, μοναχὸς καὶ ἀποκρισιάριος τῆς μονῆς τῶν Βυζαντίων. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Γρηγόριος ἔτη κδʹ. ϛʹ. μϛʹ. [βʹ.] ϛʹ. γʹ. γʹ. αʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Ναρσῆς, ὁ κουβικουλάριος καὶ πρωτοσπαθάριος, 244 ὁ ἀγαπητὸς τοῦ βασιλέως Ἰουστίνου, εἰς ὃν καὶ ἐλοιδορεῖτο, ἔκτισε τὴν οἰκίαν Ναρσοῦ καὶ τὴν μονὴν τῶν Καθαρῶν. ἀκούσας δὲ Ἰουστῖνος ὁ βασιλεὺς περὶ τοῦ ἀνεψιοῦ αὐτοῦ, ὃν εἶχεν ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ αὐγουστάλιον, ὅτι συσκευὴν μελετᾷ κατὰ τοῦ βασιλέως, πέμψας ἀπεκεφάλισεν αὐτόν. ζʹ. μζʹ. [γʹ.] ζʹ. δʹ. δʹ. βʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἤρξατο κτίζειν Ἰουστῖνος τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων Πέτρου καὶ Παύλου ἐν τῷ ὀρφανοτροφείῳ, καὶ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων ἐν τῷ Τρικόγχῳ, τὴν καεῖσαν ἐπὶ Ζήνωνος τοῦ βασιλέως. προσέθηκε δὲ καὶ εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τῆς ἁγίας θεοτόκου τῶν Βλαχερνῶν τὰς δύο ἀψῖδας, τῆς τε ἄρκτου καὶ μεσημβρίας, ἐν τῷ μεγάλῳ ναῷ καὶ ἐποίησε τὴν ἐκκλησίαν κατὰ σταυρίου. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει Ῥωμαῖοί τε καὶ Πέρσαι τὴν εἰρήνην διέφθειραν, καὶ πάλιν ὁ Περσικὸς ἀνεκαινίσθη πόλεμος διὰ τὸ πρεσβεῦσαι τοὺς Ὁμηρίτας Ἰνδοὺς πρὸς Ῥωμαίους, καὶ ἀποστεῖλαι τὸν βασιλέαἸουλιανὸν τὸν μαγιστριανὸν μετὰ σάκρας πρὸς Ἀρέθαν, τὸν βασιλέα τῶν Αἰθιόπων, διὰ τοῦ Νείλου ποταμοῦ ἀπὸ Ἀλεξανδρείας καὶ τῆς Ἰνδικῆς θαλάσσης· καὶ ἀπεδέχθη παρὰ τῷ βασιλεῖ Ἀρέθᾳ μετὰ χαρᾶς πολλῆς ὡς ἐφιεμένῳ τὴν φιλίαν τοῦ βασιλέως Ῥωμαίων. ἐξηγεῖτο δὲ ἐπανελθὼν ὁ αὐτὸς Ἰουλιανός, ὅτι, ὅτε ἐδέξατο αὐτόν, γυμνὸς ἦν ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἀρέθας, καὶ κατὰ τοῦ ζώσματος αὐτοῦ εἶχεν εἰς τὰς ψύας αὐτοῦ λινόχρυσα ἱμάτια· κατὰ δὲ τῆς γαστρὸς ἐφόρει σχιστὰ διὰ μαργαριτῶν τιμίων, καὶ ἐν τοῖς βραχίοσιν ἀνὰ πέντε κλαβίων, καὶ χρυσᾶ ψέλια εἰς τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ· ἐν δὲ τῇ κεφαλῇ αὐτοῦ λινόχρυσον φακιόλιν ἐσφενδονισμένον, ἔχον ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν δεσμῶν σειρὰς τέσσαρας, καὶ μανιάκην