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of an ambassador to the emperor of the Romans, Justin. At which time Paul the patriarch of Antioch died, and 416 Euphrasius of Jerusalem was made in his place, who created a great persecution against those called orthodox, killing many. And in the same times the Blue faction was disorderly in all the cities, and they disturbed the cities with stonings and assaults and murders; for they also rose up against the rulers of each city, beginning from Byzantium. and these things were done until the promotion that occurred in Constantinople when Theodotus became urban prefect, formerly comes of the East; who was appointed in the first indiction, and suppressed the populace of the Byzantines, punishing many of the disorderly according to the command of the emperor Justin. among whom he arrested a certain Theodosius, surnamed Zticca, who was a man of great wealth, and an illustris in rank, and having executed this man on his own authority, he did not refer it to the emperor. And having incurred the anger of the emperor, he was removed from his office and stripped of his rank, ordered to go out to the East. and after he reached the East, he fled in fear in the third indiction, taking refuge in Jerusalem, and hid there; and in his place Theodorus, an ex-consul, surnamed Teganistes, was promoted to urban prefect. And in Antioch Ephraimius the Amidene was promoted; who fought against the populist Blues; and for the rest, the popular power of the Blue 417 faction ceased from making disturbances in the cities; and the theatrical shows were suspended, and the dancers from the East and all were exiled, except, however, for the great Alexandria in Egypt. The same emperor forbade the Olympic games from being celebrated in Antioch from the 14th indiction. And 77 Alytarchs served from Afranius until the five hundred and sixty-eighth, from when the Olympics were forbidden. At the same time, when Anatolius the Carian was comes of the East, it happened in Antioch that a great fire occurred by divine wrath; which fire foretold the coming indignation of God. For it burned from the martyrium of Saint Stephen to the praetorium of the magister militum. And after these things there were also many fires in various neighborhoods of the same city, and many houses were burned and many souls perished, and no one knew from where the fire was kindled. At the request of Ephraimius the patriarch of Antioch the same emperor generously gave for the burned areas two centenaria of gold. And in the same time it happened that the so-called Dyrrhachium, a city of the province of Epirus Nova, suffered from a divine disaster, from which the emperor Anastasius came; who also built many things there, 418 having provided them also with the hippodrome. But the emperor Justin provided many things for the renewal of the same city of the Dyrrhachenes, which was formerly called Epidamnus; and likewise he was also generous to the survivors. and in the same time Corinth of Greece also suffered; and the same emperor bestowed many things there too. and in the meantime Anazarbus, a city of Cilicia, suffered from a divine disaster, its fourth suffering; and the same emperor rebuilt it. and at the same time Edessa, a great city of the province of Osroene, was overwhelmed by a divine disaster of river waters, in the evening. As the same river, the one called Skirtos, was passing through the middle of the city, men and all perished along with their houses. And those who survived and lived in the same city said that at another time the same river had also flooded the same city, but it did not destroy it so. since we have learned that in other times the same pattern occurred, and after the wrath had ceased the buildings of splendor near the foundations of the same river

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πρεσβευτοῦ τῷ βασιλεῖ Ῥωμαίων Ἰουστίνῳ. Ἐν ᾧ χρόνῳ τελευτᾷ Παῦλος ὁ πατριάρχης Ἀντιοχείας, καὶ 416 ἐγένετο ἀντ' αὐτοῦ Εὐφράσιος ὁ Ἱεροσολυμίτης, ὅστις μέγαν ἐποίησε διωγμὸν κατὰ τῶν λεγομένων ὀρθοδόξων, πολλοὺς φονεύσας. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς αὐτοῖς χρόνοις τὸ Βένετον μέρος ἐν πάσαις ταῖς πόλεσιν ἠτάκτει, καὶ ἐτάρασσον τὰς πόλεις λιθασμοῖς καὶ καταβασίαις καὶ φόνοις· ἐπήρχοντο γὰρ καὶ τοῖς κατὰ πόλιν ἄρχουσιν, ἀρξάμενοι ἀπὸ τοῦ Βυζαντίου. ταῦτα δὲ ἐπράττοντο ἕως τῆς γενομένης προαγωγῆς τῆς ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει γενομένου Θεοδότου ὑπάρχου πόλεως, τοῦ ἀπὸ κομήτων τῆς ἀνατολῆς· ὅστις προεβλήθη ἐπὶ τῆς πρώτης ἰνδικτιῶνος, καὶ κατεδυνάστευσε τῆς δημοκρατίας τῶν Βυζαντίων, τιμωρησάμενος πολλοὺς τῶν ἀτάκτων κατὰ κέλευσιν τοῦ βασιλέως Ἰουστίνου. ἐν οἷς συνελάβετο Θεοδόσιόν τινα, τὸν ἐπίκλην Ζτικκάν, ὅστις ἐν πολλῇ εὐπορίᾳ ὑπῆρχε, καὶ τῇ ἀξίᾳ ὢν ἰλλούστριος, καὶ τοῦτον αὐθεντήσας ἀνεῖλε, μὴ ἀναγαγὼν τῷ βασιλεῖ. καὶ ἀγανακτηθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως ἐπαύθη τῆς ἀρχῆς καὶ ἀπεζώσθη τῆς ἀξίας, κελευσθεὶς ἐξελθεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀνατολήν. καὶ μετὰ τὸ καταλαβεῖν αὐτὸν τὴν ἀνατολὴν ἔφυγε φοβηθεὶς ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ ἰνδικτιῶνι, προσφυγὼν ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις, καὶ ἀπεκρύβη ἐκεῖ· καὶ ἀντ' αὐτοῦ προήχθη ἔπαρχος πόλεως Θεόδωρος ὁ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων, ὁ ἐπίκλην τηγανιστής. προήχθη δὲ ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ Ἐφραΐμιος ὁ Ἀμιδηνός· ὅστις ἠγωνίσατο κατὰ τῶν δημοκρατούντων Βενέτων· καὶ λοιπὸν ἡσύχασεν ἡ δημοκρατία τοῦ Βε 417 νέτου μέρους τοῦ ποιεῖν ταραχὰς ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι· καὶ ἐπήρθησαν τὰ θεώρια, καὶ οἱ ὀρχησταὶ ἐκ τῆς ἀνατολῆς καὶ πάντες ἐξωρίσθησαν, δίχα μέντοι τῆς μεγάλης Ἀλεξανδρείας τῆς πρὸς Αἴγυπτον. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς ἐκώλυσε τὸν ἀγῶνα τῶν Ὀλυμπίων πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἐπιτελεῖσθαι ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ ἀπὸ ἰνδικτιῶνος ιδʹ. ἀλυτάρχησαν δὲ ἀπὸ Ἀφρανίου ἕως ὀγδόου ἑξηκοστοῦ πεντακοσιοστοῦ, ἀφ' οὗ ἐκωλύθη τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ἀλύταρχοι οζʹ. Τῷ δὲ αὐτῷ χρόνῳ, Ἀνατολίου τοῦ Καρίνου ὄντος κόμητος ἀνατολῆς, συνέβη ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ ἐμπρησμὸν μέγαν γενέσθαι ὑπὸ θεϊκῆς ὀργῆς· ὅστις ἐμπρησμὸς προεμήνυσε τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ μέλλουσαν ἔσεσθαι ἀγανάκτησιν. ἐκαύθη γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ μαρτυρίου τοῦ ἁγίου Στεφάνου ἕως τοῦ πραιτωρίου τοῦ στρατηλάτου. ἐγένοντο δὲ καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ἐμπρησμοὶ πολλοὶ εἰς διαφόρους γειτονίας τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως, καὶ ἐκαύθησαν πολλοὶ οἶκοι καὶ ἀπώλοντο πολλαὶ ψυχαί, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐγίνωσκε πόθεν τὸ πῦρ ἀνήπτετο. κατὰ πρεσβείαν Ἐφραϊμίου τοῦ πατριάρχου Ἀντιοχείας ἐφιλοτιμήσατο ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς διὰ τοὺς καυθέντας τόπους χρυσοῦ κεντηνάρια δύο. Ἐν δὲ τῷ αὐτῷ χρόνῳ συνέβη παθεῖν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας τὸ λεγόμενον ∆οῤῥάχιον, πόλιν τῆς νέας Ἠπείρου ἐπαρχίας, ἐξ ἧς ὑπῆρχεν Ἀναστάσιος ὁ βασιλεύς· ὅστις καὶ πολλὰ ἔκτισεν ἐκεῖ, 418 παρεσχηκὼς αὐτοῖς καὶ τὸ ἱπποδρόμιον. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Ἰουστῖνος πολλὰ παρέσχεν εἰς ἀνανέωσιν τῇ αὐτῇ ∆οῤῥαχηνῶν πόλει, ἥτις πρῴην μὲν ἐλέγετο Ἐπίδαμνος· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τοῖς περιλειφθεῖσιν ἐφιλοτιμήσατο. ἐν δὲ τῷ αὐτῷ χρόνῳ καὶ ἡ Κόρινθος τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἔπαθε· καὶ πολλὰ κἀκεῖ ἐχαρίσατο ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεύς. ἐν δὲ τῷ μεταξὺ χρόνῳ ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας Ἀνάζαρβος, πόλις τῆς Κιλικίας τὸ τέταρτον αὐτῆς πάθος· ἀνήγειρε δὲ αὐτὴν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεύς. ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ κατεπόθη ὑπὸ θεομηνίας ὑδάτων ποταμιαίων Ἔδεσα, πόλις μεγάλη τῆς Ὀσδροηνῆς ἐπαρχίας, ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ, τοῦ αὐτοῦ ποταμοῦ κατὰ μέσον τῆς πόλεως παρερχομένου τοῦ λεγομένου Σκίρτου, αὔτανδροι σὺν τοῖς οἴκοις ἀπώλοντο. ἔλεγον δὲ οἱ περισωθέντες καὶ οἰκοῦντες τὴν αὐτὴν πόλιν ὅτι καὶ ἐν ἄλλῳ καιρῷ κατέκλυσε τὴν αὐτὴν πόλιν ὁ αὐτὸς ποταμός, ἀλλ' οὐχ οὕτως ἀπώλεσεν· ἐπεὶ μεμαθήκαμεν ὅτι καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις χρόνοις ἐγένετο τὸ αὐτὸ σχῆμα, μετὰ δὲ τὸ παυθῆναι τὴν ὀργὴν τὰ πλησίον τῶν θεμελίων τοῦ αὐτοῦ ποταμοῦ οἰκήματα φιλοκαλίας