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to Byzantium with his own assistance, and he did obeisance to the emperor Justinian and asked to become a Christian himself. And having been baptized at the holy Theophany, the same emperor Justinian became his sponsor of the immaculate baptism; and with him were also enlightened his 428 senators and his twelve relatives. And having bestowed many gifts upon him, he sent him away, and he journeyed to his own country with his own assistance, the emperor of the Romans having said to him that, "When I wish, I will let you know." And in his reign various heresies were prevented, and the churches were taken from them, apart from those of the so-called Exakionite Arians. So the entire time from the beginning of Augustus, also called Octavianus, Imperator, until the completion of the second consulate of the emperor Justinian, of the 7th indiction, is 559 years, so that the total years from Adam until the same indiction is 6497 years, as I found the number of the years in the compositions of Clement and Theophilus and Timothy, the chronographers, who were in agreement. But in the chronicles of Eusebius of Pamphilus I found the number of the years from Adam until the consulate of emperor Justinian of the seventh indiction to be 6432 years. But Theophilus and Timothy and their school, having calculated the times, set them forth more accurately. Therefore, the writings of all of them carry the sixth millennium of years as having been completed. And from the founding of Rome until the second consulate of the most divine Justinian, it is 1280 years, a little more or less, and from the founding of Constantinople until the aforementioned consulate of Justinian and the completion of the seventh 429 indiction, it is 199 years. But one must not calculate the times of the ancient emperors according to the aforementioned number of their reign, because two also reigned at the same time. Likewise, fathers also crowned their children from childhood, and they reigned with them. The chronographer, therefore, has the necessity to write the years that each emperor reigned. Therefore, those reading chronological writings must pay attention to the quantity of the years that have passed and only to the reign of all those previously mentioned. And in these times, as I said before, the most divine Justinian reigned, and of the Persians, the king was Koades son of Darasthenes, the son of Perozes, and in Rome, Alaric, descendant of Valameriacus, and of Africa, the king was Gilderich, the descendant of Ginzerich, and of the Auxumite Indians reigned Andas, who had become a Christian, and of the Iberians, Samanazos. And in the aforementioned year of the reign of Justinian, a *stratelates* of Armenia was sent down, by the name of Tzittas. For in previous times, the same Armenia did not have a *stratelates*, but *duces* and *archons* and *comites*. And the same emperor gave to the same *stratelates* numbers of soldiers from the two *praesentes* and of the east. And having enlisted local 430 *scriniarii*, he made for himself military *scriniarii* by a sacred decree, having asked the emperor to enlist natives, as knowing the parts of Armenia. And he granted him this and the rights of the Armenian *duces* and *comites* and their deputies, who were formerly *castrensian* soldiers; for the formerly existing offices had been abolished. And he also took from the *stratelates* of the east four *numeri*; and from then on there came to be a great defense for the Romans. And the man was also warlike; who also took to wife the sister of Theodora the Augusta, by name Comito, having been married in the Palace of Antiochus, near the Hippodrome of Constantinople. And at the same time the same emperor proclaimed a divine decree concerning bishops and directors of orphanages and stewards and keepers of hostels, except for whatever each of the

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Βυζαντίῳ μετὰ ἰδικῆς βοηθείας, καὶ προσεκύνησε τὸν βασιλέα Ἰουστινιανὸν καὶ ᾔτησεν ἑαυτὸν γενέσθαι χριστιανόν. καὶ βαπτισθεὶς ἐν ἁγίοις θεοφανίοις ἀνάδοχος αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο τοῦ ἀχράντου βαπτίσματος ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Ἰουστινιανός· ἐφωτίσθησαν δὲ σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ οἱ συγκλητικοὶ αὐ 428 τοῦ καὶ συγγενεῖς αὐτοῦ δώδεκα. καὶ πολλὰ χαρισάμενος αὐτῷ ἀπέλυσεν αὐτόν, καὶ ὥδευσεν ἐπὶ τὴν ἰδίαν χώραν μετὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ βοηθείας, εἰπόντος αὐτῷ τοῦ βασιλέως Ῥωμαίων ὅτι Ὅταν βουληθῶ, δηλῶ σοι. Ἐν δὲ τῇ αὐτοῦ βασιλείᾳ ἐκωλύθησαν αἱρέσεις διάφοροι, καὶ ἀπεσπάσθησαν αἱ ἐκκλησίαι παρ' αὐτῶν δίχα τῶν λεγομένων Ἐξακιονιτῶν Ἀρειανῶν. Γίνεται οὖν ὁ πᾶς χρόνος ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς Αὐγούστου τοῦ καὶ Ὀκταβιανοῦ Ἰμπεράτορος ἕως τῆς συμπληρώσεως τῆς δευτέρας ὑπατείας τοῦ βασιλέως Ἰουστινιανοῦ ἰνδικτιῶνος ζʹ ἔτη φνθʹ, ὡς εἶναι τὰ πάντα ἔτη ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ ἕως τῆς αὐτῆς ἰνδικτιῶνος ἔτη ςυςζʹ, καθὼς εὗρον τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἐνιαυτῶν ἐν τοῖς συντάγμασι Κλήμεντος καὶ Θεοφίλου καὶ Τιμοθέου τῶν χρονογράφων ὁμοφωνησάντων. ἐν δὲ τοῖς χρόνοις Εὐσεβίου τοῦ Παμφίλου εὗρον τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἐτῶν ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως τῆς ὑπατείας Ἰουστινιανοῦ βασιλέως τῆς ἑβδόμης ἰνδικτιῶνος ἔτη ςυλβʹ. ἀκριβέστερον δὲ μᾶλλον οἱ περὶ Θεόφιλον καὶ Τιμόθεον ψηφίσαντες τοὺς χρόνους ἐξέθεντο. πάντων οὖν τὰ συγγράμματα φέρει ἕκτην χιλιάδα ἐνιαυτῶν περαιωθεῖσαν. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ κτίσεως Ῥώμης ἕως τῆς δευτέρας ὑπατείας τοῦ θειοτάτου Ἰουστινιανοῦ ἔτη ασπʹ μικρῷ πλέον ἢ ἔλασσον, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς κτίσεως Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἕως τῆς προγεγραμμένης ὑπατείας Ἰουστινιανοῦ καὶ τῆς συμπληρώσεως τῆς ἑβδόμης ἰν 429 δικτιῶνος ἔτη ρςθʹ. τῶν ἀρχαίων δὲ βασιλέων τοὺς χρόνους οὐ δεῖ ψηφίζειν κατὰ τὸν προειρημένον ἀριθμὸν τῆς βασιλείας αὐτῶν διὰ τὸ καὶ δύο ἅμα βασιλεῦσαι. ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν ἐκ παιδόθεν ἔστεφον οἱ πατέρες καὶ μετ' αὐτῶν ἐβασίλευον. ὁ οὖν χρονογράφος ἀνάγκην ἔχει γράφειν τοὺς χρόνους ὅσους ἐβασίλευσεν ἕκαστος βασιλεύς. δεῖ οὖν τοὺς ἀναγινώσκοντας χρονικὰ συγγράμματα τῇ ποσότητι προσέχειν τῶν διαδραμόντων χρόνων καὶ μόνον ἐπὶ τῆς τῶν προγεγραμμένων πάντων βασιλείας. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς χρόνοις τούτοις, ὡς προεῖπον, ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ θειότατος Ἰουστινιανός, τῶν δὲ Περσῶν βασιλεὺς Κωάδης ὁ ∆αράσθενος, ὁ υἱὸς Περόζου, ἐν δὲ Ῥώμῃ Ἀλλάριχος, ἔκγονος τοῦ Οὐαλεμεριακοῦ, τῆς δὲ Ἀφρικῆς ῥὴξ Γιλδέριχ ὁ ἔκγονος Γινζιρίχου, τῶν δὲ Ἰνδῶν Αὐξουμιτῶν ἐβασίλευσεν Ἄνδας ὁ γεγονὼς χριστιανός, τῶν δὲ Ἰβήρων Σαμαναζός. Ἐν δὲ τῷ προγεγραμμένῳ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας Ἰουστινιανοῦ κατεπέμφθη στρατηλάτης Ἀρμενίας ὀνόματι Ζτίττας. ἐν γὰρ τοῖς προλαβοῦσι χρόνοις οὐκ εἶχεν ἡ αὐτὴ Ἀρμενία στρατηλάτην, ἀλλὰ δοῦκας καὶ ἄρχοντας καὶ κόμητας. δέδωκε δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς τῷ αὐτῷ στρατηλάτῃ ἀριθμοὺς στρατιωτῶν ἐκ τῶν δύο πραισέντων καὶ ἀνατολῆς. καὶ στρατεύσας ἐντοπίους σκρι 430 νιαρίους ἐποίησεν ἑαυτῷ σκρινιαρίους στρατηλατιανοὺς ἀπὸ θείας σάκρας, αἰτησάμενος τὸν βασιλέα αὐτόχθονας στρατεῦσαι, ὡς εἰδότας τὰ μέρη τῆς Ἀρμενίας. καὶ παρέσχεν αὐτῷ τοῦτο καὶ τὰ δίκαια τῶν Ἀρμενίων τῶν δουκῶν καὶ τῶν κομήτων καὶ τοὺς ὑπάτους αὐτῶν, πρῴην μὲν ὄντας καστρισιανοὺς στρατιώτας· ἦσαν γὰρ καταλυθεῖσαι αἱ πρῴην οὖσαι ἀρχαί. ἔλαβε δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ στρατηλάτου ἀνατολῆς ἀριθμοὺς τέσσαρας· καὶ γέγονεν ἔκτοτε μεγάλη παραφυλακὴ Ῥωμαίοις. ἦν δὲ καὶ ὁ ἀνὴρ πολεμικός· ὅστις καὶ τὴν ἀδελφὴν Θεοδώρας τῆς Αὐγούστας ἠγάγετο πρὸς γάμον, ὀνόματι Κομιτώ, νυμφευθεῖσαν ἐν τοῖς Ἀντιόχου, πλησίον τοῦ Ἱππικοῦ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. Ἐν δὲ τῷ αὐτῷ χρόνῳ ἐξεφώνησεν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς θεῖον τύπον περὶ ἐπισκόπων καὶ ὀρφανοτρόφων καὶ οἰκονόμων καὶ ξενοδόχων, εἰ μὴ ὅσα πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι ἕκαστος τῶν