122

the same empress Verina appointed an emperor, crowning Basiliscus her own brother; and the same Basiliscus, the brother of Verina, the mother-in-law of Zeno, reigned for 2 years. And the same Verina when she made him emperor, also named him consul along with Armatus, who had been promoted by Basiliscus to general of the great praesental guard; and the two served as consuls. And the same Basiliscus, when he reigned, crowned his son emperor by the name of Marcus; and the two reigned. And during the reign of this Basiliscus and Marcus his son, a city of Syria Prima by the name of Gabala suffered from a natural disaster in the month of Gorpiaios at dawn; and the emperor Basiliscus granted to the same city 50 pounds of gold for rebuilding. And Zeno the emperor returned with a great multitude from Isauria to Constantinople, having sent to Antioch the 379 great Isaurian guards and the general Trokondes. Therefore, when Peter the patriarch heard this, he who had received the ordination to the episcopate from him, acted on behalf of the party of Basiliscus. But Basiliscus, learning of the return of the emperor Zeno, sent Armatus the magister militum praesentalis with all the military aid he had in Thrace and in Constantinople and in the palace, having made him swear by the holy baptism of a neophyte not to betray him. and Armatus, taking the multitude of the army, crossed over; and Zeno the emperor, learning this beforehand, sent to the same Armatus, promising him many things, and the office of general for his life, and to make his son Caesar. and the same Armatus, having been persuaded by emperor Zeno, betrayed him, being found on the side of emperor Zeno; and the same Armatus no longer went to meet the approaching Zeno, but it seemed good to proceed by another road of Isauria. And Zeno, setting out, passed by the so-called Gates and entered the palace with his own soldiers in the 14th indiction; and he was received by the armies and the senate. And he was confident in the Green faction, because he was loved by them; for the emperor Zeno himself also favored the Green faction. And when Basiliscus suddenly heard that the emperor Zeno had rushed to the palace and entered and that everyone had received him, 380 and the empress Verina, his mother-in-law, therefore Basiliscus, taking his wife and children, fled to the great church of Constantinople to the great baptistery, having been betrayed by Armatus, during the consulship of Theudericus. And the most divine emperor Zeno, providing the spectacle of the hippodrome, immediately came and watched; and he was received by the whole city. and after he was received, while he was watching, he sent to the great church and took from Basiliscus and his son and his wife the imperial insignia; and casting him and his wife and his children out, under the promise that they would neither be beheaded nor slaughtered, he sent him and his family to the fortress of Limnae in Cappadocia. and they were thrown into a tower of the fortress and the door was plastered up, and a great multitude of Isaurian soldiers guarded the tower and the fortress of Limnae, until, having been starved to death, the same Basiliscus and his wife and his children gave up their souls; and they were buried there in the same tower in Cappadocia. And Zeno reigned after his return for another 12 years, that is, in all he reigned for 15 years and two months; but some also assign the two years of Basiliscus to his reign. And the same emperor Zeno, upon his return, immediately deposed Peter the bishop and patriarch of Antioch the great, as a friend of Basiliscus, and exiled him to Euchaita in Pontus, and made Stephen bishop of Antioch in his place. 381 And on behalf of his return the same emperor Zeno gave gifts to all his subjects. And in his reign was slain the

122

προεχειρίσατο ἡ αὐτὴ δέσποινα Βηρῖνα βασιλέα, στέψασα Βασιλίσκον τὸν ἴδιον αὐτῆς ἀδελφόν· καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ αὐτὸς Βασιλίσκος ὁ ἀδελφὸς Βηρίνης τῆς πενθερᾶς Ζήνωνος ἔτη βʹ. ἡ δὲ αὐτὴ Βηρῖνα ὅτε αὐτὸν βασιλέα, ὠνόμασε καὶ ὕπατον μετὰ Ἀρμάτου προαχθέντος παρὰ Βασιλίσκου στρατηλάτου τοῦ μεγάλου πραισέντου· καὶ ὑπάτευσαν οἱ δύο. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Βασιλίσκος ἢ μόνον ἐβασίλευσεν, ἔστεψε τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ βασιλέα ὀνόματι Μάρκον· καὶ ἐβασίλευσαν οἱ δύο. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας Βασιλίσκου καὶ Μάρκου τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας πόλις τῆς πρώτης Συρίας ὀνόματι Γάβαλα μηνὶ γορπιαίῳ εἰς τὸ αὖγος· καὶ ἐχαρίσατο τῇ αὐτῇ πόλει ὁ βασιλεὺς Βασιλίσκος εἰς ἀνανέωσιν χρυσίου λίτρας νʹ. Καὶ ἐπανῆλθε Ζήνων ὁ βασιλεὺς μετὰ πλήθους πολλοῦ ἐκ τῆς Ἰσαυρίας ἐπὶ Κωνσταντινούπολιν, πέμψας εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν τὴν 379 μεγάλην παραφύλακας Ἰσαύρους καὶ στρατηλάτην Τροκόνδην. ἀκούσας οὖν Πέτρος ὁ πατριάρχης ὁ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ δεξάμενος τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς τὴν χειροτονίαν ὑπὲρ τοῦ μέρους Βασιλίσκου ἐποίει. ὁ δὲ Βασιλίσκος μαθὼν τὴν τοῦ βασιλέως Ζήνωνος ἐπάνοδον, ἔπεμψεν Ἀρμᾶτον τὸν στρατηλάτην τοῦ πραισέντου μετὰ πάσης ἧς εἶχε βοηθείας στρατοῦ ἐν Θρᾴκῃ καὶ ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει καὶ εἰς τὸ παλάτιον, ὁρκώσας αὐτὸν εἰς ἅγιον βάπτισμα νεοφωτίστου μὴ προδοῦναι. καὶ λαβὼν τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ στρατοῦ ὁ Ἀρμᾶτος ἐπέρασε· καὶ τοῦτο προμαθὼν Ζήνων ὁ βασιλεὺς ἔπεμψε πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν Ἀρμάτιον ἐπαγγειλάμενος αὐτῷ πολλὰ καὶ τὴν στρατηλασίαν τῆς αὐτοῦ ζωῆς καὶ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ποιεῖν Καίσαρα. καὶ προτραπεὶς ὁ αὐτὸς Ἀρμᾶτος ὑπὸ Ζήνωνος βασιλέως προέδωκεν, εὑρεθεὶς εἰς τὸ μέρος Ζήνωνος τοῦ βασιλέως· καὶ οὐκέτι ὑπήντησε Ζήνωνι ἐρχομένῳ ὁ αὐτὸς Ἀρμᾶτος, ἀλλὰ δι' ἄλλης ἔδοξεν ἐπιέναι ὁδοῦ τῆς Ἰσαυρίας. Ἐξορμήσας δὲ Ζήνων ἐπέρασεν ἀπὸ τῶν λεγομένων Πυλῶν καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸ παλάτιον μετὰ τῶν ἰδίων ὁπλιτῶν ἰνδικτιῶνι ιδʹ· καὶ ἐδέχθη ὑπὸ τῶν στρατευμάτων καὶ τῆς συγκλήτου. ἐθάῤῥει δὲ εἰς τὸ Πράσινον μέρος, ὅτι ἐφιλεῖτο παρ' αὐτῶν· ἔχαιρε γὰρ καὶ αὐτὸς Ζήνων ὁ βασιλεὺς εἰς τὸ Πράσινον μέρος. Ἀκούσας δὲ ἐξαίφνης Βασιλίσκος ὅτι Ζήνων ὁ βασιλεὺς εἰς τὸ παλάτιον ὥρμησε καὶ εἰσῆλθε καὶ ὅτι ἐδέξαντο αὐτὸν πάντες 380 καὶ Βηρῖνα ἡ δέσποινα, ἡ πενθερὰ αὐτοῦ, λαβὼν οὖν Βασιλίσκος τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ τέκνα ἔφυγεν εἰς τὴν μεγάλην ἐκκλησίαν Κωνσταντινουπόλεως εἰς τὸ μέγα φωτιστήριον, προδοθεὶς ὑπὸ Ἀρμάτου, ἐπὶ τῆς ὑπατείας Θευδερίχου. Ὁ δὲ θειότατος Ζήνων βασιλεὺς παρασχὼν τὸ βῆλον τοῦ ἱππικοῦ εὐθέως ἐλθὼν ἐθεώρησε· καὶ ἐδέχθη ἀπὸ πάσης τῆς πόλεως. καὶ μετὰ τὸ δεχθῆναι, ἐν ὅσῳ θεωρεῖ, ἔπεμψεν εἰς τὴν μεγάλην ἐκκλησίαν καὶ ἐπῆρε παρὰ Βασιλίσκου καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ τὸ σχῆμα τῆς βασιλείας· καὶ ἐκβαλὼν αὐτὸν καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ ὑπὸ λόγον ὅτι οὔτε ἀποκεφαλίζονται οὔτε σφαγιάζονται ἔπεμψεν αὐτὸν καὶ τοὺς αὐτοῦ εἰς Λίμνας κάστρον ἐν Καππαδοκίᾳ. καὶ ἐβλήθησαν εἰς ἕνα πύργον τοῦ κάστρου καὶ ἀνεχρίσθη ἡ θύρα καὶ ἐφύλαττον τὸν πύργον καὶ τὸ κάστρον Λίμνας πλῆθος στρατιωτῶν Ἰσαύρων πολύ, ἕως λιμοκτονηθεὶς, ὁ αὐτὸς Βασιλίσκος καὶ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ ἀπέδωκαν τὰς ψυχάς· καὶ ἐτάφησαν ἐκεῖ εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν πύργον ἐν Καππαδοκίᾳ. Καὶ ἐβασίλευσε Ζήνων μετὰ τὴν ἐπάνοδον αὐτοῦ ἄλλα ἔτη ιβʹ, τοῦτ' ἐστὶ τὰ πάντα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσε ιεʹ καὶ μῆνας δύο· τινὲς δὲ καὶ τὰ δύο ἔτη Βασιλίσκου εἰς τὴν αὐτοῦ τάσσουσι βασιλείαν. ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Ζήνων βασιλεὺς ἐπανελθὼν εὐθέως καθεῖλε Πέτρον τὸν ἐπίσκοπον καὶ πατριάρχην Ἀντιοχείας τῆς μεγάλης, ὡς φίλον Βασιλίσκου, καὶ ἐξώρισεν αὐτὸν εἰς Εὐχάϊτα εἰς τὴν Ποντικήν, καὶ ἐποίησεν ἀντ' αὐτοῦ Στέφανον ἐπίσκοπον Ἀντιοχείας. ἔδωκε 381 δὲ ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐπανόδου αὑτοῦ ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Ζήνων δωρεὰς πᾶσι τοῖς ὑποτελέσιν αὐτοῦ. ἐν δὲ τῇ αὐτοῦ βασιλείᾳ ἐσφάγη ὁ