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to Gundobad the son of his sister 375 and he brought him from the Gauls; for there he was a general. who came and killed the emperor Anthemius, as he was in the holy house of the apostle Peter; and immediately the same Gundobad departed for the Gauls. And Ricimer crowned Olybrius emperor with the consent of the senate of Rome; and the same Olybrius reigned over Rome for a few months; and falling ill he died. And Ricimer again made another emperor from the senate of the same Rome, Majorinus; and they killed him too, as one who was friendly with Gaiseric, king of the Africans. And in his place the same Ricimer again made another emperor in Rome from the senate, named Nepos; and Ricimer died. And the same emperor Leo took two sons-in-law for his daughters, for Leontia the elder, Marcian the patrician, who was the son of Anthemius, emperor of Rome, and for Ariadne, Zeno the Isaurian, son of Kodisseos; and he made both of them magistri militum praesentales and patricians. And the most noble Ariadne bore a firstborn son, whom she named Leo; for the most distinguished Leontia had only daughters. And the emperor Leo crowned in Constantinople Leo the younger his grandson, the son of Zeno, making him 376 emperor with him. And the same Caesar Leo the younger proceeded as consul in the month of January of the twelfth indiction of the year 522 according to Antioch. And in the following month of February, on the 3rd, the emperor Leo the great was struck by an illness of dysentery and died, being 73 years old. And after the reign of Leo the great, Leo the younger reigned for 1 year and twenty-three days; and he was a small child. and he was prompted by his own mother, the most illustrious Ariadne; and as Zeno the general, the patrician, his father, was venerating him as emperor, he placed a royal crown upon his head, on the ninth of the month Peritios of the twelfth indiction; and they reigned together. And the same emperor Zeno, son of Kodisseos, the Isaurian, reigned with his own son Leo for a short time. and the most divine Leo the younger proceeded as consul in the year 522 according to Antioch, of the twelfth indiction; and in the eleventh month of his consulship the most divine Leo the younger fell ill and died in the month of November of the 13th indiction, in the year being called 523 according to Antioch, being 7 years old, as Nestorianus the most wise chronicler wrote down to Leo the younger. BOOK 15. THE TIMES OF THE REIGN OF ZENO UNTIL THE REIGN OF ANASTASIUS. And after the reign of Leo the younger, the most divine Zeno reigned for 15 years. and in the eighth month of his reign he made Peter, the warden of the church of Saint Euphemia in Chalcedon, bishop and patriarch in Antioch the great; and he sent him to Antioch. and after two years and ten months of his reign, being in distress on account of a matter requested by his mother-in-law Verina and not granted to her by him, he was plotted against by the Augusta Verina, his mother-in-law. And fearing lest he be slaughtered by one of those of the palace, as his mother-in-law was living in the palace, having made a progress to Chalcedon he fled from there by post-horses and departed for Isauria as he was emperor. whom 378 the empress Ariadne, fleeing her own mother in secret, also overtook in Isauria; and she lived together with her own husband. And after the flight of the emperor Zeno and Ariadne, immediately

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πρὸς Γουνδαβάριον τὸν υἱὸν τῆς ἀδελφῆς 375 αὐτοῦ καὶ ἤνεγκεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῶν Γαλλιῶν· ἐκεῖ γὰρ ἦν στρατηλάτης. ὅστις ἐλθὼν ἐφόνευσε τὸν Ἀνθίμιον βασιλέα, ὡς ἐστὶν εἰς τὸν ἅγιον οἶκον τοῦ ἀποστόλου Πέτρου· καὶ εὐθέως ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὰς Γαλλίας ὁ αὐτὸς Γουνδαβάριος. καὶ ἔστεψεν ὁ Ῥεκίμερ βασιλέα Ὀλύβριον μετὰ γνώμης τῆς συγκλήτου Ῥώμης· καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ αὐτὸς Ὀλύβριος τῆς Ῥώμης μῆνας ὀλίγους· καὶ ἀῤῥωστήσας ἐτελεύτα. καὶ ἐποίησε πάλιν ἄλλον βασιλέα ὁ Ῥεκίμερ ἀπὸ τῆς συγκλήτου τῆς αὐτῆς Ῥώμης Μαιουρῖνον· καὶ ἐφόνευσαν καὶ αὐτόν, ὡς φιλήσαντα Ζινζήριχον, ῥῆγα τῶν Ἄφρων. καὶ ἐποίησεν ἀντ' αὐτοῦ πάλιν ἄλλον βασιλέα ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ ἀπὸ τῆς συγκλήτου ὀνόματι Νέπον ὁ αὐτὸς Ῥεκίμερ· καὶ τελευτᾷ ὁ Ῥεκίμερ. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Λέων βασιλεὺς ἔλαβε γαμβροὺς δύο ταῖς θυγατράσιν αὐτοῦ, Λεοντίᾳ τῇ μείζονι Μαρκιανὸν τὸν πατρίκιον, τὸν υἱὸν γενόμενον Ἀνθιμίου, βασιλέως Ῥώμης, καὶ Ἀριάδνῃ Ζήνωνατὸν Ἴσαυρον τὸν Κοδισσέον· καὶ ἐποίησεν ἀμφοτέρους στρατηλάτας πραισέντου καὶ πατρικίους. ἔτεκε δὲ ἡ περιφανεστάτη Ἀριάδνη πρωτότοκον ἄῤῥενα, ὃν ἐπεκάλεσε Λέοντα· ἡ γὰρ Λεοντία ἡ ἐμφανεστάτη θηλείας ἔσχε μόνον. Ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Λέων ἔστεψεν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει Λέοντα τὸν μικρὸν τὸν ἔγγονον αὐτοῦ, υἱὸν δὲ Ζήνωνος, ποιήσας αὐτὸν 376 βασιλέα ἅμα αὐτῷ. καὶ προῆλθεν ὕπατος ὁ αὐτὸς Καῖσαρ Λέων ὁ μικρὸς τῷ ἰανουαρίῳ μηνὶ τῆς δωδεκάτης ἐπινεμήσεως τοῦ φκβʹ ἔτους κατὰ Ἀντιόχειαν. τῷ δὲ μετ' αὐτὸν φεβρουαρίῳ μηνὶ γʹ νόσῳ βληθεὶς ὁ βασιλεὺς Λέων ὁ μέγας δυσεντερίας τελευτᾷ, ὢν ἐνιαυτῶν ογʹ. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν Λέοντος τοῦ μεγάλου ἐβασίλευσε Λέων ὁ μικρὸς ἔτος αʹ καὶ ἡμέρας εἰκοσιτρεῖς· ἦν δὲ παιδίον μικρόν. ὑπεβλήθη δὲ ὑπὸ τῆς ἰδίας αὐτοῦ μητρὸς τῆς ἐπιφανεστάτης Ἀριάδνης· καὶ ὡς προσκυνεῖ αὐτὸν ὡς βασιλέα Ζήνων ὁ στρατηλάτης, ὁ πατρίκιος, ὁ αὐτοῦ πατήρ, ἐπέθηκε στέφανον βασιλικὸν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ, τῇ ἐνάτῃ τοῦ περιτίου μηνὸς τῆς δωδεκάτης ἐπινεμήσεως· καὶ ἐβασίλευσαν ἅμα. Ἐβασίλευσε δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Ζήνων ὁ Κοδισσέος ὁ Ἴσαυρος μετὰ τοῦ ἰδίου αὐτοῦ υἱοῦ Λέοντος ὀλίγον χρόνον. καὶ προῆλθεν ὕπατος ὁ θειότατος Λέων ὁ μικρὸς ἔτους κατὰ Ἀντιόχειαν φκβʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος δωδεκάτης· καὶ τῷ ἑνδεκάτῳ μηνὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ ὑπατείας ἠῤῥώστησε καὶ τελευτᾷ ὁ θειότατος Λέων ὁ μικρὸς μηνὶ νοεμβρίῳ ἰνδικτιῶνος ιγʹ, ἔτους χρηματίζοντος κατὰ Ἀντιόχειαν φκγʹ, ὢν ἐνιαυτῶν ζʹ, καθὼς συνεγράψατο Νεστοριανὸς ὁ σοφώτατος χρονογράφος ἕως Λέοντος τοῦ μικροῦ. ΛΟΓΟΣ ΙΕʹ ΧΡΟΝΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΑΣ ΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ ΕΩΣ ΤΗΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΑΣ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΟΥ. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν Λέοντος τοῦ μικροῦ ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ θειότατος Ζήνων ἔτη ιεʹ. καὶ τῷ μηνὶ τῷ ὀγδόῳ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἐποίησεν ἐπίσκοπον πατριάρχην ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ Πέτρον, τὸν παραμονάριον τῆς ἁγίας Εὐφημίας τῆς ἐν Χαλκηδόνι· καὶ ἔπεμψεν αὐτὸν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ. μετὰ δὲ δύο ἔτη καὶ μῆνας δέκα τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ ἐν λύπῃ γενόμενος διὰ πρᾶγμα αἰτηθὲν παρὰ τῆς αὐτοῦ πενθερᾶς Βηρίνης καὶ μὴ παρασχεθὲν αὐτῇ παρ' αὐτοῦ, κατεσκευάσθη παρὰ τῆς δεσποίνης Βηρίνης τῆς αὐτοῦ πενθερᾶς. καὶ φοβηθεὶς μὴ σφαγῇ ὑπό τινος τῶν τοῦ παλατίου, ὡς συνοικούσης τῆς πενθερᾶς αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ, ποιήσας πρόκεσσον ἐν Χαλκηδόνι ἔφυγεν ἐκεῖθεν βερέδοις καὶ ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὴν Ἰσαυρίαν ὡς ἐστὶ βασιλεύς. ὅντινα κατέλαβε 378 φυγοῦσα τὴν ἰδίαν αὐτῆς μητέρα λάθρᾳ καὶ ἡ βασίλισσα Ἀριάδνη εἰς τὴν Ἰσαυρίαν· καὶ διῆγεν ἅμα τῷ ἰδίῳ αὐτῆς ἀνδρί. Καὶ μετὰ τὸ φυγεῖν Ζήνωνα τὸν βασιλέα καὶ Ἀριάδνην εὐθέως