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21. And the danger from the Persians increased daily and again, so that the hopes of safety were shut off everywhere. For what of the difficulties was absent? And I omit things far away. But these things were at our door and in the suburbs of the queen of cities. And they were right there for one disembarking from a ship 411 after crossing the straits of the Bosphorus, so that having left the sea one encountered danger. For they ran freely everywhere on the other side, and pitched camp wherever they wished, and this not campaigning in squadrons but in disarray and in small groups, so that the land opposite Byzantium lay a Scythian wasteland, as it is called, with no one daring to appear, except when it happened that some acted more rashly and dared to sally forth, persuaded by some zeal or rather pressed by want, as time was spent and the provisions they had brought from home were consumed by them. But these things were rather into danger. whence

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βασιλεὺς ὑπενόει μελέτην καὶ ἀπιστίας ὠδῖνα ὑπώπτευε, καὶ μᾶλλον ὅτι τῆς ἀδελφῆς τε λευτησάσης τῇ τοῦ Τερτερῆ συνοικῶν, ἥτις καὶ ἀλλότριον εἶχε πρὸς τὸν κρατοῦντα τὸ γένος. διά τοι ταῦτα καὶ μηνὸς Ἑκα τομβαιῶνος μιᾷ προσκαλεῖ μὲν πατριάρχην προσκαλεῖται δ' ἀρ χιερεῖς καὶ κλῆρον, παρόντων καὶ τῶν τῆς συγκλήτου, συνελ θόντων τε καὶ μοναχῶν καὶ τῶν τῆς πολιτείας, καὶ εἰς κρίσιν βα σιλεὺς καθιστᾷ τὸν δεσπότην· πρὸς ὃν καὶ εἰς ἀπολογίαν κατα στὰς ἐκεῖνος, πολλὰ λέγων καὶ κατὰ τῆς κατηγορίας ἀποδιδρά σκειν πειρώμενος, τέλος καταδικασθεὶς τῷ μεγάλῳ παλατίῳ ἐγ κλείεται τρισκαιδεκάτῃ Κρονίου αὐτὸς καὶ γυνὴ καὶ τὰ τέκνα, ἃ δὴ ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ Τερτερῆ ἀπεγέννησεν. ἀγέλας δ' ἵππων καὶ πᾶ 409 σαν ὕπαρξιν τὴν ἐκείνου καὶ κτήματα τῷ υἱῷ καὶ βασιλεῖ δίδωσιν. οὐ μὴν δ' ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν ἐκείνου οἰκίαν τῷ δεσπότῃ Ἰωάννῃ προσνέμει. ὕστερον δ' ἐκεῖθεν ἀποδρᾶναι πειραθείς, γνωσθέν, ταῖς κατὰ τὰς Βλαχέρνας εἱρκταῖς ἐγκλείεται. 20. Κἀντεῦθεν μηνὸς τοῦ αὐτοῦ Κρονίου καὶ οἱ σχιζό μενοι τῶν ἀρχιερέων ἀπηυδηκότες οἷον καὶ πείσαντες ἑαυτούς, μόλις καταμαλακισθέντες τὰς γνώμας βασιλέως ὡς δυνατὸν κατε πείγοντος, ἐν τῇ τῶν βαΐων ἑορτῇ τῇ μετὰ τοῦ Ἀθανασίου εἰρήνῃ ἀφωσιώσαντο. ὁ δέ γ' Ἀλεξανδρείας Ἀθανάσιος πολλάκις καὶ αὐτὸς παρὰ βασιλέως παρακινούμενος ἀπρὶξ τῆς γνώμης εἴχετο καὶ οὐκ ἐνεδίδου ὅλως οὐδὲ κατένευε τὴν ὁμόνοιαν. παρ' ἣν αἰ τίαν, καὶ τοῦ δόξαι τοῦτον μηδὲ βασιλέως αὐτοῦ μνημονεύειν διὰ ταῦτα, ἤθελον μὲν καὶ αὐτοὶ τοῦ πατριάρχου Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐκκόπτειν τῶν διπτύχων μνημόσυνον, δεινὸν ἡγούμενοι ἢν ἐκεῖ νος μὲν οὐδ' ἴκταρ, τὸ τοῦ λόγου, σφᾶς γε προσδέχοιτο, ἐκεῖ νοι δὲ καὶ οὕτως ἀξιοῖεν ἐκεῖνον καὶ μνημονεύοιεν. τέως δὲ καὶ πόλλ' ἄττα κατ' ἐπήρειαν αἰτιώμενοι, καραδοκοῦντες καὶ οὕτως τὴν τῆς γνώμης μετάθεσιν, τὸ μὲν ἀποθαρρῆσαι αὐτίκα τὴν τοῦ ὀνόματος ἐκκοπὴν ὡς ἄλλως ἄτοπον ὄν, μὴ φανείσης ἀξιολόγου αἰτίας καὶ ἄντικρυς ἐπὶ δόγματι, πατριάρχου ἀποβάλλεσθαι ὄνο μα, μὴ καὶ μᾶλλον θήρα τις ἀνασοβηθείη καὶ ἀντιλαβὰς δοῖεν 410 τοῖς σχιζομένοις εἰς κατάγνωσιν· σοφώτερον δὲ ποιεῖν ἐδόκουν καὶ εἰσέτι διευθετεῖν, ὡς αὐτίκα ἐκκόψοντες, εἰ καὶ ἔτι ἀντέχοι καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ τῷ Ἀθανασίῳ μὴ δέχοιτο πρᾶξιν. ἡ δ' οἰκονομία οὕτω πως ἦν, πατριάρχην μὲν αὐτὸν μὴ λειτουργεῖν ὅλως, ὡς ἂν μὴ συλλειτουργούντων κατὰ τὸ εἰκὸς διακόνων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπὶ τῶν διπτύχων συμμνημονεύοιτο, ἱερεῖς δὲ μόνους ἄτερ δια κόνων ἱερουργεῖν. καὶ τοῦτο ἐπράττετο μὲν καὶ ἐν ἀνακτόρων, ἐπράττετο δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ μεγίστῳ ναῷ, καὶ ἄλλαις μὲν ἡμέραις, μάλιστα δὲ δημοτελέσι καὶ ἑορτασίμοις, ὡς κἀν τῇ τῆς ὀρθοδο ξίας κοινοπληθεῖ, ὅτε βασιλέως ἐνδημήσαντος καὶ πλήθους ἱκα νοῦ συναχθέντος ὁ μὲν πατριάρχης ἠπράκτει, ἱερεὺς δὲ μόνος ἀπερικτυπήτως πάντῃ καὶ ἀνηκούστως, μηδὲν ἐπαϊόντων διὰ τὸν θόρυβον, τὰ τῆς ἱερουργίας ἐξέπραττεν. ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ ἐν ταῖς πασχαλίοις ἐγένετο. ὕστερον δ' ἐσαῦθις κατὰ τὴν μνήμην τοῦ ἐν μάρτυσι περιφανοῦς Γεωργίου ἐκκόπτουσι καὶ μνημόσυνον, κατὰ τὸν ἐν τοῖς μαγγάνοις νεὼν λειτουργήσαντες, ὃς ἀνεῖται τῷ μάρ τυρι.

21. Ηὔξανε δ' ὁσημέραι καὶ αὖθις τὸ ἀπὸ τῶν Περσῶν δεινόν, ὥστ' ἀποκεκλεῖσθαι πανταχοῦ τὰς τῆς σωτηρίας ἐλπίδας. τί γὰρ τῶν δυσχερῶν ἀπῆν; καὶ ἐῶ τὰ μακράν. ἀλλὰ τὰ κατὰ θύραν ταῦτα καὶ τῆς βασιλίδος προαύλια. τὰ δ' ἦν εὐθὺς νηὸς 411 ἀποβαίνοντι τῷ τὰ στενὰ τοῦ Βοσπόρου περαιουμένῳ, ὥστ' ἀφε μένῳ θαλάσσης λαμβάνειν κίνδυνον. ἀνέδην γὰρ διέτρεχον παν ταχοῦ τῆς περαίας, καὶ κατεσκήνουν ὅπου ἦν βουλομένοις αὐ τοῖς, καὶ ταῦτ' οὐκ ἰλαδὸν στρατεύουσιν ἀλλ' ἀσυντάκτως καὶ κατ' ὀλίγους, ὥστε κεῖσθαι τὴν περαίαν τῆς Βυζαντίδος Σκυ θῶν, ὃ δὴ λέγεται, ἐρημίαν, μηδενὸς τολμῶντος φανῆναι, ὅτε συνέβαινε καὶ παραβολώτερόν τινες διαπράττεσθαι καὶ ἐκθέειν τολμῶντας, ζήλου τινὸς πείθοντος ἢ καὶ μᾶλλον ἐνδείας πιεζού σης, τριβομένου τοῦ χρόνου καὶ τῶν ἐφοδίων σφίσι καταναλω μένων, ἅπερ οἴκοθεν ἀπεφέροντο. τὰ δ' ἦσαν μᾶλλον εἰς κίν δυνον. ὅθεν