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Of Marcian, having been crowned. But in the reign of Leo, Antioch the great suffered its fourth disaster from the wrath of God on the thirteenth of the month of September, at the dawn of a Sunday, in the year 506 according to the reckoning of the same Antioch, in the consulship of Patricius; and the same emperor granted many funds for buildings to the Antiochenes and to the city. And in his reign died the holy Symeon the Stylite, when Ardaburius the patrician, the son of Aspar, was then magister militum of the East. And when the Antiochenes cried out and asked for the body of the righteous man, the same Ardaburius sent a Gothic force and brought the relic of the holy Symeon to Antioch the great; and a great house was built for him as a martyrium, and he was placed in it in a coffin. And in his same reign of Leo, Isocasius the quaestor, the philosopher, was denounced as a Hellene; who was by descent from Aegae of Cilicia; and he was a landowner of Antioch the great. 370 who had held many offices with distinction; for he was exceedingly eloquent; and having been arrested by order of the emperor, while he was then residing in Constantinople, and stripped of his rank, he was sent from Constantinople to Chalcedon to the governor of Bithynia, Theophilus, who also took his depositions. But when Jacobus the comes and archiater, called Psychristus, interceded with the emperor; for the emperor loved the same Jacobus, as did the entire senate and the city, as an excellent physician and philosopher; for whom the senate also set up a statue in the Zeuxippus; which Jacobus persuaded the emperor, asking that the same Isocasius be examined in Constantinople by the senate and the praetorian prefect and not by a provincial governor, since he held the rank of quaestor. And having been persuaded, the emperor Leo ordered that the same Isocasius be brought from Chalcedon; and having been brought to the Zeuxippus, he was examined by the praetorian prefect Pusaeus; and the same Pusaeus spoke against this Isocasius as he entered before the tribunal, stripped and with his hands tied behind his back, 'Do you see yourself, Isocasius, in what a state you are?' Isocasius answered and said, 'I see and I am not surprised; for being a man, I have fallen into human misfortunes. But judge me with a pure justice, as you used to judge with me.' And having heard Isocasius, the people of the Byzantines who were 371 standing and watching, acclaimed the emperor Leo loudly; and seizing him, they led him away from the Zeuxippus to the great church. And giving his name, he was instructed and enlightened; and he was sent to his own country. And the same most divine emperor Leo ordered that Sundays be days of rest, issuing a divine law of his concerning this, that neither flute nor cithara nor any other musical instrument should play on Sunday, but that all should be idle; and every person complied. And in his reign, suspecting that Aspar the patrician, as the first of the senate, was plotting a tyranny, he murdered him in the palace, and Ardaburius and Patricius his sons in a council, they also being senators, having cut their bodies to pieces. And a disturbance arose in Constantinople; for they had a multitude of Goths and comites and other retainers and many men who waited upon them. Whence one of the Goths belonging to the same Aspar, Ostrys by name, a comes, entered the palace shooting arrows with other Goths; and when an engagement with the excubitors and Ostrys himself took place, many were cut down. And finding himself in the midst of it, he saw that he was defeated, and he fled, taking the concubine of Aspar, a beautiful Goth woman, who went out on horseback with him to 372 Thrace; and he ravaged the countryside. concerning whom the Byzantines cried out, 'A dead man has no friend, except only Ostrys.' And the same emperor Leo made a persecution of the Arians

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Μαρκιανοῦ στεφθείς. Ἐν δὲ τῇ βασιλείᾳ Λέοντος ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας Ἀντιόχεια ἡ μεγάλη τὸ τέταρτον αὐτῆς πάθος μηνὶ σεπτεμβρίῳ ιγʹ διαφαούσης κυριακῆς ἔτους κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν Ἀντιόχειαν χρηματίζοντος φςʹ, ἐπὶ τῆς ὑπατείας Πατρικίου· καὶ ἐχαρίσατο τοῖς Ἀντιοχεῦσι καὶ τῇ πόλει λόγον κτισμάτων ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς πολλά. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἐτελεύτα ὁ ἅγιος Συμεὼν ὁ στυλίτης, ὄντος τότε Ἀρδαβουρίου τοῦ πατρικίου, τοῦ υἱοῦ Ἄσπαρος, στρατηλάτου ἀνατολῆς. καὶ κραξάντων τῶν Ἀντιοχέων καὶ αἰτησάντων τὸ σῶμα τοῦ δικαίου, ἔπεμψεν ὁ αὐτὸς Ἀρδαβούριος Γοτθικὴν βοήθειαν καὶ ἤνεγκε τὸ λείψανον τοῦ ἁγίου Συμεῶνος ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ· καὶ ἐκτίσθη αὐτῷ μαρτύριον οἶκος μέγας καὶ ἐτέθη ἐν αὐτῷ εἰς σορόν. Ἐν δὲ τῇ αὐτοῦ βασιλείᾳ Λέοντος κατεῤῥήθη Ἰσοκάσιος ὁ κοιαιστώριος ὁ φιλόσοφος ὡς Ἕλλην· ὅστις κατήγετο ἐκ γένους Αἰγεώτης τῆς Κιλικίας· ἦν δὲ κτήτωρ Ἀντιοχείας τῆς μεγάλης. 370 ὅστις διήνυσεν ἀρχὰς πολλὰς μετὰ δόξης· ἦν γὰρ σφόδρα λογικός· καὶ συσχεθεὶς κατὰ κέλευσιν τοῦ βασιλέως, διάγων τότε ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει καὶ ἀποζωσθεὶς τῆς ἀξίας αὐτοῦ, παρεπέμφθη ἐν Χαλκηδόνι ἀπὸ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως τῷ ἄρχοντι Βιθυνίας Θεοφίλῳ, ὅστις καὶ τὰς φωνὰς αὐτοῦ ἔλαβεν. Ἰακώβου δὲ τοῦ κόμητος καὶ ἀρχιατροῦ τοῦ λεγομένου ψυχρίστου παρακαλέσαντος τὸν βασιλέα· ἐφίλει γὰρ ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸν αὐτὸν Ἰάκωβον καὶ πᾶσα δὲ ἡ σύγκλητος καὶ ἡ πόλις, ὡς ἄριστον ἰατρὸν καὶ φιλόσοφον· ᾧτινι καὶ ἡ σύγκλητος εἰκόνα συνεστήσατο ἐν τῷ Ζευξίππῳ· ὅστις Ἰάκωβος ἐδυσώπησε τὸν βασιλέα, αἰτῶν αὐτὸν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει ἐξετασθῆναι τὸν αὐτὸν Ἰσοκάσιον παρὰ τῆς συγκλήτου καὶ τοῦ ἐπάρχου τῶν πραιτωρίων καὶ μὴ παρὰ ἄρχοντι ἐπαρχίας, ἐπειδὴ κοιαίστωρος εἶχεν ἀξίας. καὶ πεισθεὶς ὁ βασιλεὺς Λέων ἐκέλευσεν ἐνεχθῆναι ἀπὸ Χαλκηδόνος τὸν αὐτὸν Ἰσοκάσιον· καὶ ἐνεχθεὶς εἰς τὸν Ζεύξιππον ἐξητάζετο παρὰ τοῦ ἐπάρχου τῶν πραιτωρίων Πουσαίου· καὶ ἐλάλησεν ὁ αὐτὸς Πουσαῖος κατὰ αὐτοῦ Ἰσοκασίου εἰσελθόντος πρὸ βήματος γυμνοῦ καὶ δεδεμένου ὀπισθάγκωνα, Ὁρᾷς σαυτόν, Ἰσοκάσιε, ἐν ποίῳ σχήματι καθέστηκας; ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ Ἰσοκάσιος εἶπεν, Ὁρῶ καὶ οὐ ξενίζομαι· ἄνθρωπος γὰρ ὢν ἀνθρωπίναις περιέπεσα συμφοραῖς. ἀλλὰ δίκῃ καθαρᾷ δίκασον ἐπ' ἐμοί, ὡς ἐδίκαζες σὺν ἐμοί. καὶ ἀκούσας τοῦ Ἰσοκασίου ὁ δῆμος τῶν Βυζαντίων ὁ 371 ἑστὼς καὶ θεωρῶν, εὐφήμησε τὸν βασιλέα Λέοντα πολλά· καὶ ἀποσπάσαντες αὐτὸν ἀπήγαγον ἀπὸ τοῦ Ζευξίππου εἰς τὴν μεγάλην ἐκκλησίαν. καὶ δοὺς τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ κατηχήθη καὶ ἐφωτίσθη· καὶ ἐπέμφθη εἰς τὴν χώραν αὐτοῦ. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς θειότατος Λέων βασιλεὺς τὰς κυριακὰς ἀπράκτους εἶναι ἐκέλευσεν, ἐκφωνήσας περὶ τούτου θεῖον αὐτοῦ νόμον ἵνα μήτε αὐλὸς ἢ κιθάρα ἢ ἄλλο τι μουσικὸν λέγειν ἐν κυριακῇ, ἀλλὰ πάντας ἀργεῖν· καὶ πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἠνέσχετο. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ὑπονοήσας τυραννίδα μελετᾶν Ἄσπαρα τὸν πατρίκιον, ὡς πρῶτον τῆς συγκλήτου, ἐφόνευσεν ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ καὶ Ἀρδαβούριον καὶ Πατρίκιον τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ ἐν κομβέντῳ, καὶ αὐτοὺς ὄντας συγκλητικούς, κατακόψας τὰ σώματα αὐτῶν. καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει ταραχή· εἶχον γὰρ πλῆθος Γότθων καὶ κόμητας καὶ ἄλλους παῖδας καὶ παραμένοντας αὐτοῖς ἀνθρώπους πολλούς. ὅθεν εἷς Γότθος τῶν διαφερόντων τῷ αὐτῷ Ἄσπαρι ὀνόματι Ὄστρυς, κόμης, εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸ παλάτιον τοξεύων μετὰ ἄλλων Γότθων· καὶ συμβολῆς γενομένης μετὰ τῶν ἐξκουβιτώρων καὶ αὐτοῦ Ὄστρυ πολλοὶ ἐκόπησαν. καὶ μεσασθεὶς εἶδεν ὅτι ἡττήθη, καὶ ἔφυγε λαβὼν τὴν παλλακίδα Ἄσπαρος, Γότθαν εὐπρεπῆ, ἥτις ἔφιππος ἐξῆλθεν ἅμα αὐτῷ ἐπὶ 372 τὴν Θρᾴκην· καὶ ἐπραίδευσε τὰ χωρία. περὶ οὗ ἔκραξαν οἱ Βυζάντιοι, Νεκροῦ φίλος οὐδεὶς εἰ μὴ μόνος Ὄστρυς. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Λέων διωγμὸν ἐποίησε τῶν Ἀρειανῶν