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of the party remaining, and it was completely victorious. And after a short time, the customary so-called Olympic games were held in Daphne of Antioch according to custom; and as the crowd of Antiochians went up to Daphne, those who had rushed from the procession with the charioteer Calliopas went down to the synagogue of the Jews which was in the same Daphne and set it on fire, plundering everything that was in the synagogue and killing many, on the ninth of the month of July, in the 15th indiction; and setting up the precious cross there, they made it into a martyrium of Saint Leontius. When these things were made known to the same emperor Anastasius, he appointed Procopius the Antiochene, a former commerciarius, as comes of the east; who brought with him by imperial decree a praefectus vigilum named Menas, a Byzantine. And when a disturbance was made by those of the Green party, the same Menas wanted to arrest some of the rioters; and realizing this, they fled to Saint John outside the city. And learning of this, the praefectus vigilum at midday went with Gothic assistance to Saint John; and suddenly he entered the holy house, and found there under the holy altar table one of the rioters named Eleutherius; and stabbing him with a sword there, dragging his corpse from the sanc 397 tuary, he beheaded him, so that the holy altar was filled with blood. And taking the head, he entered the city of Antioch; and coming to the bridge of the Orontes river, he threw the head into the river. And he went to Procopius, the comes of the east, relating to him what had happened. And after midday, this became known to the Greens; and going out to Saint John, they found the body of Eleutherius. And taking his corpse onto a bier, they brought it into the city, carrying it. And they were met opposite the so-called basilica of Rufinus at the bath called Olbiae; and joining battle in the street of the marines with the assistance of both the praefectus vigilum and the demesmen of the Blue party, the deme of the Green party prevailed; and taking the basilica of Rufinus and the one called Zenodotus they set fire, and the entire Rufina was burned and the two tetrapyla on this side and that, and the praetorium of the comes of the east, and everything was brought down, destroyed by the fire. And the comes of the east fled to Alexandria Cambysi. And those of the Green party, seizing the praefectus vigilum Menas and tonsuring him, tore out his liver. And after dragging his corpse, they hung it on the standing bronze statue called Colonisius, in the middle of the antiphore; and remo 398 ving the corpse, dragging it outside the city of Antioch, they burned it with dry sticks. But the emperor Anastasius, being informed, appointed as comes of the east Irenaeus the Pentadiastes, an Antiochene; and he brought about vengeance and fear in the city. The same emperor abolished the tax of the so-called chrysargyron in its entirety forever by imperial decree, which is a great and formidable munificence, substituting for it an income for the sacred largesses from his own properties. The same emperor also built in Antioch the so-called Rufina and various other buildings throughout the cities of Romania. And during his reign Amida was taken, a very strong metropolis of Mesopotamia, and Theodosiopolis, captured in war by Koades, king of the Persians, when the king attacked with a large force. The same Persian king took as captives Constantine, a powerful Roman general, who was guarding the same Theodosiopolis, and many others; who also died in the Persian territories. And the same man campaigned against the Persians

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μέρους λιπόμενον, καὶ ἐνίκησε κατὰ κράτος. καὶ μετ' ὀλίγον καιρὸν ἐπετελέσθη ἐν τῇ ∆άφνῃ Ἀντιοχείας κατὰ τὸ ἔθος ἡ συνήθεια τῶν Ὀλυμπίων ἡ λεγομένη· καὶ τοῦ πλήθους τῶν Ἀντιοχέων ἀνελθόντος ἐν ∆άφνῃ, οἱ ἐκ τῆς εἰσελασίας ὁρμήσαντες μετὰ τοῦ ἡνιόχου Καλλιόπα κατελθόντες ἐν τῇ συναγωγῇ τῶν Ἰουδαίων τῇ οὔσῃ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ ∆άφνῃ ἐνέπρησαν αὐτήν, πραιδεύσαντες πάντα ὅσα ἦν ἐν τῇ συναγωγῇ καὶ ἐφόνευσαν πολλούς, μηνὶ ἰουλίῳ θʹ, ἰνδικτιῶνος ιεʹ· καὶ πήξαντες ἐκεῖ τὸν τίμιον σταυρὸν ἐποίησαν γενέσθαι μαρτύριον τοῦ ἁγίου Λεοντίου. τούτων δὲ γνωσθέντων τῷ αὐτῷ Ἀναστασίῳ βασιλεῖ, προηγάγετο κόμητα ἀνατολῆς τὸν ἀπὸ κομμερκιαρίων Προκόπιον τὸν Ἀντιοχέα· ὅστις κατήνεγκε μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ ἀπὸ θείου τύπου νυκτέπαρχον Μηνᾶν ὀνόματι, Βυζάντιον. καὶ ταραχῆς γενομένης παρὰ τῶν τοῦ Πρασίνου μέρους, ἐβουλήθη ὁ αὐτὸς Μηνᾶς κατασχεῖν τινας τῶν ἀτάκτων· καὶ γνόντες ἐκεῖνοι προσέφυγον εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ἰωάννην ἔξω τῆς πόλεως. καὶ γνοὺς τοῦτο ὁ νυκτέπαρχος ἐν τῷ μεσημβρίῳ ἀπῆλθε μετὰ Γοτθικῆς βοηθείας εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ἰωάννην· καὶ ἐξαίφνης εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸν ἅγιον οἶκον, καὶ εὗρεν ἐκεῖ ὑποκάτω τῆς ἁγίας τραπέζης τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου τινὰ τῶν ἀτάκτων ὀνόματι Ἐλευθέριον· καὶ κεντήσας αὐτὸν ξίφει ἐκεῖ, σύρας ἐκ τοῦ θυσιαστη 397 ρίου τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ, ἀπεκεφάλισεν· ὥστε τὸ ἅγιον θυσιαστήριον πληρωθῆναι αἵματος. καὶ λαβὼν τὴν κεφαλὴν εἰσήρχετο ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν Ἀντιόχειαν· καὶ ἐλθὼν ἕως τῆς γεφύρης τοῦ Ὀρόντου ποταμοῦ ἔῤῥιψε τὴν κεφαλὴν εἰς τὸν ποταμόν. καὶ εἰσῆλθεν ἔγγιστα Προκοπίου τοῦ κόμητος τῆς ἀνατολῆς, διηγούμενος αὐτῷ τὰ συμβάντα. καὶ μετὰ τὸ μεσημβρινὸν ἐγνώσθη τοῦτο τοῖς Πρασίνοις· καὶ ἐξελθόντες εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ἰωάννην εὗρον τὸν κορμὸν Ἐλευθερίου. καὶ λαβόντες εἰς κραβαταρέαν τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ, εἰσήγαγον εἰς τὴν πόλιν βαστάζοντες αὐτό. καὶ ὑπηντήθησαν κατέναντι τῆς λεγομένης Ῥουφίνου βασιλικῆς ἐπὶ τὸ λουτρὸν τὸ λεγόμενον τῶν Ὀλβίης· καὶ συμβαλόντες εἰς τὴν ῥύμην τῶν θαλασσίων μετὰ τῆς βοηθείας καὶ τοῦ νυκτεπάρχου καὶ τῶν τοῦ Βενέτου μέρους δημοτῶν μάχην, περιεγένετο ὁ δῆμος τοῦ Πρασίνου μέρους· καὶ παραλαβόντες τὴν Ῥουφίνου βασιλικὴν καὶ τὴν λεγομένην Ζηνοδότου ἔβαλον πῦρ, καὶ ἐκαύθη πᾶσα ἡ Ῥουφίνου καὶ τὰ δύο τετράπυλα τὰ ἐντεῦθεν κἀκεῖθεν καὶ τὸ πραιτώριον τοῦ κόμητος τῆς ἀνατολῆς, καὶ πάντα κατηνέχθη ὑπὸ τοῦ πυρὸς διαφθαρέντα. καὶ ἔφυγεν ὁ κόμης τῆς ἀνατολῆς εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν τὴν Καμβύσου. καὶ πιάσαντες οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ Πρασίνου μέρους τὸν νυκτέπαρχον Μηνᾶν καὶ ἀνακείραντες αὐτόν, ἐξέβαλον τὰ συκότια αὐτοῦ. καὶ μετὰ τὸ σῦραι τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ ἐκρέμασαν αὐτὸ ἐν τῷ ἑστῶτι χαλκῷ ἀνδριάντι τῷ λεγομένῳ Κολονισίῳ τὸ μέσον τοῦ ἀντιφόρου· καὶ μεταγα 398 γόντες τὸ λείψανον, σύραντες ἔξω τῆς πόλεως Ἀντιοχείας ἔκαυσαν φρυγάνοις. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Ἀναστάσιος διδαχθεὶς προεχειρίσατο κόμητα ἀνατολῆς Εἰρηναῖον τὸν Πενταδιαστήν, Ἀντιοχέα· καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐκδίκησιν καὶ φόβον ἐν τῇ πόλει. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς ἐκούφισε τὴν λειτουργίαν τοῦ λεγομένου χρυσαργύρου πᾶσαν διαιωνίζουσαν ἀπὸ θείου τύπου, ἥτις ἐστὶ μεγάλη καὶ φοβερὰ φιλοτιμία, ἀντεισάξας ταῖς θείαις λαργιτιῶσι πρόσοδον ἀντ' αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων αὐτοῦ. Ἔκτισε δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ καὶ τὴν λεγομένην Ῥουφίνου καὶ κατὰ πόλιν τῆς Ῥωμανίας διάφορα κτίσματα. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας παρελήφθη Ἄμιδα, μητρόπολις ὀχυρὰ πάνυ τῆς Μεσοποταμίας, καὶ Θεοδοσιούπολις, πολέμῳ ληφθεῖσα ὑπὸ Κωάδου, βασιλέως Περσῶν, ἐπελθόντος τοῦ βασιλέως μετὰ δυνάμεως πολλῆς. ἔλαβε δὲ παραλήπτους ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Περσῶν Κωνσταντῖνον, στρατηγὸν Ῥωμαίων δυνατόν, φυλάττοντα τὴν αὐτὴν Θεοδοσιούπολιν, καὶ ἄλλους δὲ πολλούς· οἵτινες καὶ ἐτελεύτησαν ἐν τοῖς Περσικοῖς μέρεσι. καὶ ἐπεστράτευσε κατὰ Περσῶν ὁ αὐτὸς