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having heard, was afraid, but being compelled, he began the war. When Germanus was wounded in the war, his shield-bearers saved him as far as Constantina, and the Romans were defeated; and on the eleventh day, Germanus also died. Phocas transferred the forces from Europe to Asia, having increased the tribute payments to the Khagan, thinking that the nation of the Avars was at peace. Dividing these, he sent some against the Persians, and others for the siege of Edessa against Narses, along with Leontius his eunuch and magnate. But Chosroes, having gathered his forces, comes against Daras. Narses, having departed from Edessa, fled to Hierapolis. But Chosroes with the Romans comes to Arxamous, and having formed a fortress with elephants, he began the war and won a great victory, taking many of the Romans prisoner, whom he also cut down. When these things were thus accomplished, Chosroes returned to his own land, leaving his forces to Zongoes. When Phocas learned this, he raged against Leontius and brings him dishonorably to Byzantium in iron handcuffs and appoints as general Domentziolus, his own nephew, whom he also made curopalates. 3. 17. 11. 5. 26. 5. In this year Chosroes sent Kardarigan and Rousmiazes, and they sacked many of the Roman polities. Domentziolus, having given his word to Narses and having persuaded him with many oaths that he would suffer no 293 injustice from Phocas, sent him away to Phocas; but Phocas, not keeping his word, burned him with fire. Therefore the Romans were in great sorrow, because Narses was a great terror to the Persians, so that the children of the Persians trembled upon hearing the name of Narses; but the Persians rejoiced with great joy. Thomas, bishop of Constantinople, 3 years. 4. 18. 1. 6. 27. 6. In this year a scholasticus, a eunuch, a distinguished man of the palace, at midnight took the empress Constantina with her three daughters and fled to the great church by the counsel of Germanus the patrician, who desired the empire. Therefore a great sedition arises in the city. And the Greens, having gathered at the cochlias, reviled Constantina; and Germanus sent a talent of gold to the demarch of the Greens, so that he would cooperate with them. But the leaders of the deme did not accept this. The tyrant sent to the church to drag out the women; but the patriarch Cyriacus resisted the tyrant, not allowing the women to be dragged tyrannically from the temple. But being assured by oaths from Phocas that he would not harm them, they are led out of the holy precinct and are enclosed in a monastery; and having tonsured Germanus, he enrolled him among the priests and kept him under guard in his own house. Then also Philippicus, choosing the tonsure, took up the dignity of the priesthood and stayed in Chrysopolis in the monastery which he had built. And in this year the Persians took Daras and all of Mesopotamia and Syria, taking many captives, of whom there is no number. When the patriarch Cyriacus died, Thomas was ordained in his place, being a deacon and sacellarius of the same church, on the 11th of the month of October. 294 Years of the world 6099. Years of the divine incarnation 599. Phocas, emperor of the Romans, 7 years. 5. Chosroes, king of the Persians, 39 years. 19. Thomas, bishop of Constantin., 3 years. 2. Isaac, bishop of Jerusalem, 8 years. 7. Theodore, bishop of Alexandria, 2 years. 1. Anastasius, bishop of Antioch, 9 years. 7. In this year Phocas the tyrant married his daughter Domentzia to Priscus the patrician and count of the excubitors, and when the wedding took place in the palace of Marina, he ordered a hippodrome race to be held. And the demarchs of the two factions in the tetrakyonia set up images of Priscus and Domentzia along with the imperial images. Seeing these, the emperor was enraged, and sending, he brought the demarchs Theophanes and Pamphilus, and setting them naked in the stama, he ordered them to be beheaded. And sending

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