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many earthquakes for a period of a year and six months. And a collapse of Seleucia and Daphne occurred for about twenty miles; and the same emperor provided much money to the afflicted cities. For having heard of the visitation from God that had occurred, overcome with no small grief, while no public games were being held in Byzantium, and with holy Pentecost having arrived, he entered the church without a diadem, with a purple mantle, weeping, and with him also all the senators were also wearing purple. 422 And at that time the same emperor sent Carinus the comes with five centenaria; and he also sent with him Phocas the patrician and Asterius, wise men, having given them also much money for the restoration of the city and of the aqueducts and of the bridges of the river, as one who knew that city; for he had lived in it for some time, when he came down with the magistri militum in the Persian war. and he frequently wrote to the same patricians that the city should be cared for. And after the eighth year and ninth month of the reign of this Justin, the most divine Justinian co-reigned with him with the Augusta Theodora, having been crowned by his most divine uncle in the consulship of Mavortius. which emperor Justinian bestowed many things upon the same city of the Antiochians; and making a great settlement for every city of the Roman state; and to each city he sent down sacred edicts, so that those committing disorders or murders should be punished, of whatever faction they might be, so that no one in the future should dare to commit any disorder whatsoever, inspiring fear in all the provinces. And in Antioch the great, for a short time the demes were in friendship. 423 And he built in the same Antioch a house of prayer of the holy Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary, opposite the so-called basilica of Rufinus, having built nearby also another house of the saints Cosmas and Damian. And likewise he built also a hospice and baths and cisterns. And similarly also the most pious Theodora, she herself also provided many things to the city; and she also built a very magnificent house of the archangel Michael; and she also built the so-called basilica of Anatolius, sending the columns from Constantinople. And the same Augusta Theodora, having made a very precious cross with pearls, sent it to Jerusalem. And the same Justinian sent down gifts to all the subjects of the Roman state. And the same emperors appointed the patrician Hypatius as magister militum of the East to guard against the raids of the Saracens throughout the eastern parts. And at the same time in the city many Manichaeans were punished, among whom was also punished the wife of Erythrius the senator and others along with her. And when the divine wrath occurred, Ephraimius was comes of the East; who after a short time, having been compelled, was appointed patriarch of Antioch; for Euphrasius, who was before him, was burned to death in the divine wrath. And when the pious em 424 perors learned that the comes of the East Ephraimius had been canonically ordained patriarch by the clergy, they promoted in his place Zacharias as comes of the East, who was a Tyrian. And this Zacharias, seeing the destruction that had befallen the city, asked the same pious emperors through his report to go up to Byzantium and to act as an envoy on behalf of the city of the Antiochians. and he took with him the bishop of Amida, a pious man, and other clerics; and they went up to Constantinople, and having accomplished many things they returned to Antioch the great with imperial gifts, having received 30 centenaria of gold and rescripts concerning various matters for the ancestral customs to be observed in the same city. and the same emperors after a short time gave as a gift to the same city also another ten centenaria. And in the meantime it happened

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σεισμοὶ πολλοὶ ὡς ἐπὶ χρόνον ἐνιαυτοῦ καὶ μηνῶν ἕξ. Σελευκείας δὲ καὶ ∆άφνης ὡς ἐπὶ μίλια εἴκοσι πτῶσις ἐγένετο· πολλὰ δὲ χρήματα παρέσχε ταῖς παθούσαις πόλεσιν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεύς. ἀκούσας γὰρ τὴν γενομένην ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ φιλανθρωπίαν, λύπῃ συσχεθεὶς οὐ μικρᾷ, θεωριῶν μὴ ἀγομένων ἐν Βυζαντίῳ, καὶ ἁγίας πεντηκοστῆς καταλαβούσης, δίχα διαδήματος εἰσῆλθεν ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ μετὰ πορφυροῦ μαντίου κλαίων, σὺν αὐτῷ δὲ καὶ πάντες οἱ συγκλητικοὶ καὶ πορφυρᾶ ἐφόρουν. 422 Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ ἀπέστειλεν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Καρῖνον κόμητα μετὰ κεντηναρίων πέντε· συναπέστειλε δὲ καὶ Φωκᾶν τὸν πατρίκιον καὶ Ἀστέριον, ἄνδρας σοφούς, δοὺς καὶ αὐτοῖς χρήματα πολλὰ εἰς ἐπανόρθωσιν τῆς πόλεως καὶ τῶν ἀγωγῶν καὶ τῶν γεφυρῶν τοῦ ποταμοῦ, ὡς ἐπιστάμενος τὴν αὐτὴν πόλιν· ἦν γὰρ οἰκήσας ἐν αὐτῇ χρόνον τινά, ὅτε κατῆλθε μετὰ τῶν στρατηλατῶν ἐν τῷ Περσικῷ πολέμῳ. καὶ πυκνῶς ἔγραφε τοῖς αὐτοῖς πατρικίοις τοῦ φροντισθῆναι τὴν πόλιν. Μετὰ δὲ τὸ ὄγδοον ἔτος τῆς αὐτοῦ Ἰουστίνου βασιλείας καὶ μηνῶν θʹ συνεβασίλευσεν αὐτῷ ὁ θειότατος Ἰουστινιανὸς μετὰ τῆς Αὐγούστας Θεοδώρας, στεφθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ θειοτάτου αὐτοῦ θείου ἐπὶ τῆς ὑπατείας Μαβορτίου. ὅστις βασιλεὺς Ἰουστινιανὸς πολλὰ ἐχαρίσατο τῇ αὐτῇ τῶν Ἀντιοχέων πόλει· καὶ εἰς πᾶσαν πόλιν τῆς Ῥωμαϊκῆς πολιτείας ποιήσας μεγάλην κατάστασιν· καὶ ἐν ἑκάστῃ δὲ πόλει κατέπεμψε θείας σάκρας, ὥστε τιμωρηθῆναι τοὺς ἀταξίας ἢ φόνους ποιοῦντας, ὁποίου δ' ἂν ὑπάρχωσι μέρους, ὥστε μὴ τολμᾶν τινα τοῦ λοιποῦ τὴν οἱανδήποτε ἀταξίαν ποιῆσαι, φόβον ἐνδειξάμενος εἰς πάσας τὰς ἐπαρχίας. Ἐν δὲ Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ πρὸς ὀλίγον καιρὸν ἐγένοντο ἐν φιλίᾳ οἱ δῆμοι. 423 Ἔκτισε δὲ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ Ἀντιοχείᾳ εὐκτήριον οἶκον τῆς ἁγίας θεοτόκου καὶ ἀειπαρθένου Μαρίας, ἄντικρυς τῆς λεγομένης Ῥουφίνου βασιλικῆς, κτίσας πλησίον καὶ ἕτερον οἶκον τῶν ἁγίων Κοσμᾶ καὶ ∆αμιανοῦ. ὡσαύτως δὲ ἔκτισε καὶ ξενῶνα καὶ λουτρὰ καὶ κινστέρνας. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ἡ εὐσεβεστάτη Θεοδώρα καὶ αὐτὴ πολλὰ τῇ πόλει παρέσχεν· ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ οἶκον τοῦ ἀρχαγγέλου Μιχαὴλ εὐπρεπέστατον πάνυ· ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ τὴν λεγομένην Ἀνατολίου βασιλικήν, πέμψας τοὺς κίονας ἀπὸ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. ἡ δὲ αὐτὴ Αὔγουστα Θεοδώρα, ποιήσασα σταυρὸν πολύτιμον διὰ μαργαριτῶν ἔπεμψεν ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις. ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Ἰουστινιανὸς δωρεὰς κατέπεμψε πᾶσι τοῖς ὑποτελέσι τῆς Ῥωμαϊκῆς πολιτείας. Οἱ δὲ αὐτοὶ βασιλεῖς προεχειρίσαντο τὸν πατρίκιον Ὑπάτιον στρατηλάτην ἀνατολῆς εἰς τὸ φυλάξαι τὰς ἐπιδρομὰς τῶν Σαρακηνῶν διὰ τὰ ἀνατολικὰ μέρη. Ἐν δὲ τῷ αὐτῷ καιρῷ κατὰ πόλιν πολλοὶ ἐτιμωρήθησαν Μανιχαῖοι, ἐν οἷς ἐτιμωρήθη καὶ ἡ γυνὴ Ἐρυθρίου τοῦ συγκλητικοῦ καὶ ἄλλαι ἅμα αὐτῇ. Τῆς δὲ θεομηνίας συμβάσης κόμης ἀνατολῆς ὑπῆρχεν Ἐφραΐμιος· ὅστις μετ' ὀλίγον χρόνον ἀναγκασθεὶς προεχειρίσθη πατριάρχης Ἀντιοχείας· ὁ γὰρ πρὸ αὐτοῦ γεγονὼς Εὐφράσιος ἐν τῇ θεομηνίᾳ πυρίκαυστος ἐγένετο. γνόντες δὲ οἱ εὐσεβεῖς βα 424 σιλεῖς ὅτι ὁ κόμης τῆς ἀνατολῆς Ἐφραΐμιος ὑπὸ τοῦ κλήρου κανονικῶς ἐχειροτονήθη πατριάρχης, προηγάγοντο ἀντ' αὐτοῦ κόμητα ἀνατολῆς Ζαχαρίαν, ὅστις ὑπῆρχε Τύριος. ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Ζαχαρίας, ἰδὼν τὴν γενομένην ἅλωσιν τῆς πόλεως, ᾐτήσατο τοὺς αὐτοὺς εὐσεβεῖς βασιλεῖς διὰ μηνύσεως αὐτοῦ ἀνελθεῖν ἐν Βυζαντίῳ καὶ πρεσβεῦσαι ὑπὲρ τῆς Ἀντιοχέων πόλεως. καὶ ἔλαβε μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ τὸν ἐπίσκοπον Ἀμηδείας, ἄνδρα εὐλαβῆ, καὶ ἄλλους κληρικούς· καὶ ἀνῆλθον ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει, καὶ πολλὰ κατορθώσαντες ὑπέστρεψαν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ μετὰ δωρεῶν βασιλικῶν, λαβόντες χρυσοῦ κεντηνάρια λʹ καὶ τύπους περὶ διαφόρων κεφαλαίων τοῦ ἄγεσθαι ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ πόλει τὰ πάτρια. οἱ δὲ αὐτοὶ βασιλεῖς μετ' ὀλίγον καιρὸν ἐδωρήσαντο τῇ αὐτῇ πόλει καὶ ἄλλα κεντηνάρια δέκα. Ἐν δὲ τῷ μεταξὺ συνέβη