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Helladius from the city of Emeza to the Rousion quarter; and he also gave the so-called Margarites Katzamys from Cyzicus, bringing him to the Whites. And Longinus laid down his second consulship. 387 But the empress Ariadne, the wife of the same Zeno, having received letters secretly from her own mother, begged the emperor Zeno that the empress Verina be released from the fortress where she was imprisoned. And the emperor Zeno told her to ask the patrician Illus about her. And the empress Ariadne, having summoned Illus, asked him with tears for her mother Verina, that she might be released; and Illus was not persuaded, but said to her, 'Why do you seek her? So that she might make another emperor again against your husband?' And Ariadne said again to the emperor Zeno, 'Is it Illus in the palace, or I?' And the emperor said to her, 'If you can do anything, do it; I want you.' And so Ariadne plotted to kill Illus; and as the hippodrome games were being held, as he was going up through the pulpita to the Decimum, an instigated scholarius named Sporacius struck him on the head with a sword, wanting to cut him in two; and the spatharius of Illus was found nearby, and seeing the sword coming down, he received it with his right hand; and the tip of the sword, coming down upon his head, cut off the right ear of the same Illus; and the scholarius was slain on the spot. But Illus, being lifted by his men, was carried to his own house. And Zeno, upon hearing of it, swore that he was ignorant of the plot against Illus, but Illus was not persuaded, but went about holding his grief. 388 And having recovered somewhat, he went across, wanting to do something; and having fully recovered, he remained, having the scar of the wound. And going in to the emperor Zeno, he asked him to be sent to the east for a short time in order to change climates, he said, since he was weak from the wound. And the emperor Zeno, being persuaded, relieved him from the office of magister and made him strategos of the East, giving him all authority. And Illus himself asked him to take with him the patrician Leontius, son of Paulina, for the care of the Augusta, and that the empress Verina, the mother of the empress Ariadne, be given to him, so that he might bring her to Constantinople. The same Illus also asked the emperor to take other senators for his own retinue; and he granted it to him. And the patrician Illus went down, taking with him the patrician Leontius and the other senators; and he went down to Antioch the Great, and after a short time, having bestowed many gifts on them, he went out to Isauria; and bringing down the empress Verina from the fortress, he had her crown the patrician Leontius as emperor at the church of St. Peter outside the city of Tarsus in Cilicia, having persuaded him to be crowned, being a free man. And the same Verina made divine commands throughout the city and sacred letters to the rulers and to the soldiers so that they would receive 389 him and that no one oppose him, having written a sacred letter containing many evils about Zeno. And he reigned in Antioch for a few days. And the emperor Zeno, finding this out, sent much aid and the general John the Scythian. And Leontius and Illus and those with them heard of it and went up with Verina to the fortress of Papurius; and Verina died a natural death. But a certain Pamprepius, who was with them as a traitor, was slain above and his remains were thrown into the mountains. But Illus and Leontius were besieged and captured; and having been brought out before the ruler of Seleucia in Isauria, they were beheaded by verdict; and their heads were brought to Zeno in Constantinople on a pole

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Ἑλλάδιον τὸν ἀπὸ Ἐμέζτης τῆς πόλεως εἰς τὸ Ῥούσιον μέρος· ἔδωκε δὲ καὶ τὸν λεγόμενον Μαργαρίτην τὸν Κατζάμυν τὸν ἀπὸ Κυζίκου ἐνεγκὼν τοῖς Λευκοῖς. καὶ ἀπέθετο τὴν δευτέραν αὐτοῦ ὑπατείαν Λογγῖνος. 387 Ἡ δὲ βασίλισσα Ἀριάδνη ἡ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ζήνωνος γυνὴ δεξαμένη παρὰ τῆς ἰδίας αὐτῆς μητρὸς γράμματα λάθρᾳ καὶ παρεκάλεσε τὸν βασιλέα Ζήνωνα ἵνα ἀπολυθῇ ἀπὸ καστελλίου, ὅπου ἦν ἀποκεκλεισμένη ἡ δέσποινα Βηρῖνα. καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ ὁ βασιλεὺς Ζήνων ἵνα αἰτήσῃ τὸν πατρίκιον Ἰλλοῦν περὶ αὐτῆς. καὶ μεταστειλαμένη ἡ βασίλισσα Ἀριάδνη Ἰλλοῦν ᾔτησεν αὐτὸν μετὰ δακρύων διὰ τὴν αὑτῆς μητέρα Βηρῖναν ἵνα ἀπολυθῇ· καὶ οὐκ ἐπείσθη Ἰλλοῦς, ἀλλὰ λέγει αὐτῇ, Τί αὐτὴν ζητεῖς; ἵνα ποιήσῃ πάλιν ἄλλον βασιλέα κατὰ τοῦ σοῦ ἀνδρός; καὶ πάλιν εἶπεν ἡ Ἀριάδνη τῷ βασιλεῖ Ζήνωνι ὅτι Ἰλλοῦς ἐστιν εἰς τὸ παλάτιον ἢ ἐγώ; καὶ λέγει αὐτῇ ὁ βασιλεὺς ὅτι Εἴ τι δύνῃ, πρᾶξον· ἐγώ σε θέλω. καὶ λοιπὸν ἡ Ἀριάδνη κατεσκεύασε τοῦ φονεῦσαι τὸν Ἰλλοῦν· καὶ ἱππικοῦ ἀγομένου, ὡς ἀνέρχεται διὰ τῶν πουλπιτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ ∆έκιμον, ἔκρουσεν αὐτῷ ὁ προτραπεὶς σχολάριος σπαθίῳ κατὰ τῆς κεφαλῆς, ὀνόματι Σποράκιος, βουλόμενος εἰς δύο αὐτὸν κόψαι· καὶ εὑρέθη ὁ σπαθάριος τοῦ Ἰλλοῦ ἐγγύς, καὶ προσεσχηκὼς τὸ ξίφος κατερχόμενον τῇ δεξιᾷ αὐτοῦ χειρὶ ἐδέξατο· καὶ κατελθοῦσα ἡ ἀρχὴ τοῦ ξίφους εἰς τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ ἔκοψε τὸ ὠτίον τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἰλλοῦ τὸ δεξιόν· καὶ ἐσφάγη ὁ σχολάριος ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον. ὁ δὲ Ἰλλοῦς κουφισθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων αὐτοῦ ἀπηνέχθη εἰς τὸν ἴδιον αὐτοῦ οἶκον βασταζόμενος. ὁ δὲ Ζήνων ἀκούσας ἐπωμόσατο λέγων ἀγνοεῖν τὴν κατὰ Ἰλλοῦν κατασκευήν, καὶ οὐκ ἐπείσθη ὁ Ἰλλοῦς, ἀλλὰ ἔχων τὴν λύπην περιωδεύετο· 388 καὶ κάλλιον ἐσχηκὼς ἀπῆλθε πέραν, βουλόμενός τι πρᾶξαι· εἰς τέλειον δὲ ὑγιάνας ἔμεινεν ἔχων τῆς πληγῆς τὴν ὠτειλήν. καὶ εἰσελθὼν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα Ζήνωνα ᾔτησεν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀνατολὴν ἀπολυθῆναι πρὸς ὀλίγον χρόνον διὰ τὸ τοὺς ἀέρας, φησίν, ἀλλάξαι, ἐπειδὴ ἠσθένει ἀπὸ τῆς πληγῆς. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Ζήνων πεισθεὶς διεδέξατο αὐτὸν ἐκ τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ μαγίστρου καὶ ἐποίησεν αὐτὸν στρατηλάτην ἀνατολῆς, δοὺς αὐτῷ πᾶσαν ἐξουσίαν. καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ Ἰλλοῦς ᾔτησεν αὐτὸν λαβεῖν μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ πρὸς θεραπείαν τῆς Αὐγούστας τὸν πατρίκιον Λεόντιον τὸν Παυλίνης, εἰς τὸ δοῦναι αὐτῷ τὴν δέσποιναν Βηρῖναν τὴν μητέρα τῆς βασιλίσσης Ἀριάδνης, ἵνα ἀναγάγῃ αὐτὴν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει. ᾔτησε δὲ τὸν βασιλέα ὁ αὐτὸς Ἰλλοῦς λαβεῖν καὶ ἄλλους συγκλητικοὺς πρὸς ἰδίαν ὑπόληψιν· καὶ παρέσχεν αὐτῷ. καὶ κατῆλθεν ὁ πατρίκιος Ἰλλοῦς, λαβὼν μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ τὸν πατρίκιον Λεόντιον καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους συγκλητικούς· καὶ κατῆλθεν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ, ποιήσας ὀλίγον χρόνον, χαρισάμενος αὐτοῖς πολλὰ ἐξῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰσαυρίαν· καὶ καταγαγὼν τὴν δέσποιναν Βηρῖναν ἀπὸ τοῦ καστελλίου ἐποίησεν αὐτὴν στέψαι βασιλέα εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Πέτρον ἔξω τῆς πόλεως Ταρσοῦ τῆς Κιλικίας τὸν πατρίκιον Λεόντιον, πείσας αὐτὸν στεφθῆναι, ὄντα ἄνδρα ἐλεύθερον. καὶ ἐποίησεν ἡ αὐτὴ Βηρῖνα θείας κελεύσεις κατὰ πόλιν καὶ σάκρας πρὸς τοὺς ἄρχοντας καὶ πρὸς τοὺς στρατιώτας ὥστε δέξασθαι 389 αὐτὸν καὶ μὴ ἐναντιωθῆναί τινα, γράψασα δὲ σάκραν ἔχουσαν πολλὰ κακὰ περὶ Ζήνωνος. καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ ὀλίγας ἡμέρας. Καὶ γνοὺς Ζήνων ὁ βασιλεὺς ἔπεμψε βοήθειαν πολλὴν καὶ στρατηλάτην Ἰωάννην τὸν Σκύθην. καὶ ἀκούσας Λεόντιος καὶ Ἰλλοῦς καὶ οἱ μετ' αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνῆλθαν μετὰ Βηρίνης εἰς τὸ Παπῦριν καστέλλιον· καὶ Βηρῖνα μὲν ἰδίῳ θανάτῳ τελευτᾷ. Παμπρέπιος δέ τις ὡς προδότης μετ' αὐτῶν ὢν ἐσφάγη ἄνω καὶ ἐῤῥίφη τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ εἰς τὰ ὄρη. Ἰλλοῦς δὲ καὶ Λεόντιος φοσσευθέντες παρελήφθησαν· καὶ πρόοδον δεδωκότες παρὰ τῷ ἄρχοντι Σελευκείας τῆς Ἰσαυρίας ἀπὸ διαλαλιᾶς ἀπεκεφαλίσθησαν· καὶ αἱ κεφαλαὶ αὐτῶν εἰσηνέχθησαν Ζήνωνι ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει εἰς κοντὸν