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Augustas, having also provided the rights of a city. Likewise, he renamed the fort in Sousois Justinianopolis. 445 And at the same time, Alamoundaros the Saracen of the Persians, having come with Persian and Saracen aid, plundered Syria Prima as far as the borders of Antioch, burning also places in the same country. And when the exarchs of the Romans heard what had happened, they went out against them; and when the Saracens knew this, they took all the plunder and fled through the outer limit. And at the same time, the aqueduct of Alexandria the Great was also renewed by the emperor Justinian. And when the same emperor heard what had been done by the Saracens, having sent no small infantry assistance from the country of the Phrygians, those called the Lykokranitai, he went against the Saracen and Persian parts. And at the same time, Belisarius was appointed exarch of the Romans by the same emperor; for the patrician Hypatius, who was strategelates before him, had been succeeded, and Belisarius was entrusted with the field armies and the duces for the battle against the Persians. And at the same time, Hermogenes the former magister, the Scythian, a wise man, was sent to the Persian parts. And in the month of June of the seventh indiction, when a national disturbance occurred, for the Samaritans clashed with Christians and Jews, many places in Scythopolis were set on fire by the same Samaritans. And when the same emperor heard this, he was enraged against the governor Bassus; whom his successor beheaded in the same country. But the Samaritans, 446 knowing the indignation against them, revolted and crowned a brigand chief named Julian, a Samaritan, and burned properties and churches and murdered many Christians. And having entered Neapolis, he watched games in the hippodrome with a crowd of Samaritans; and a certain Nikeas, a Christian charioteer, won the first race. And there were other charioteers in the same Neapolis, Samaritans and Jews, whom the same charioteer Nikeas defeated. And having come before the tyrant, expecting to be honored, he asked him of what religion he was; and learning that he was a Christian, and taking the Christians' first victory immediately as a sign against himself, which also came to pass, he immediately sent and beheaded the charioteer in the hippodrome. He also treated the bishop of the same city badly. And when the governors of Palestine learned of this, the dux Theodore the snub-nosed immediately reported the audacious act of tyranny to the emperor Justinian; and the dux went against him with much assistance, taking with him also the phylarch of Palestine; and when the tyrant Julian the Samaritan learned this, he fled and went out from Neapolis. And the dux pursued him with his assistance, and they clashed in battle; and the dux cut down a multitude of the Samaritans, and captured the Samaritan Julian himself, as God 447 gave him up. And having beheaded him, he sent his head with the diadem to the emperor Justinian. And when what had happened became known to the same emperor, the tyranny of the Samaritans and of the wretched Julian, the report from the governors immediately arrived in Constantinople, and the tyrant's head. And twenty thousand of the Samaritans fell in the battle; and some fled to the mountain called Arparizin, and others into the Trachon to the so-called iron mountain. And the Saracen phylarch of the Romans also took from them booty of twenty thousand boys and girls; whom he took as captives and sold in the Persian and Indian parts. But the same emperor, knowing that the Samaritans had burned many properties of Palestine in the beginning when they revolted, was enraged against the dux of Palestine, because before

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Αὐγούστας, παρεσχηκὼς καὶ δίκαια πόλεως. ὁμοίως δὲ τὸ ἐν Σούσοις κάστρον μετωνόμασεν Ἰουστινιανούπολιν. 445 Τῷ δὲ αὐτῷ χρόνῳ Ἀλαμούνδαρος ὁ τῶν Περσῶν Σαρακηνὸς ἐλθὼν μετὰ Περσικῆς καὶ Σαρακηνικῆς βοηθείας ἐπραίδευσε τὴν πρώτην Συρίαν ἕως τῶν ὅρων Ἀντιοχείας, καύσας καὶ τόπους τῆς αὐτῆς χώρας. καὶ ἀκούσαντες τὰ γεγονότα οἱ ἔξαρχοι Ῥωμαίων ἐξῆλθον κατ' αὐτῶν· καὶ γνόντες οἱ Σαρακηνοί, λαβόντες πᾶσαν τὴν πραῖδαν διὰ τοῦ ἐξωτέρου λιμίτου ἔφυγον. Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ καιρῷ καὶ ὁ ἀγωγὸς Ἀλεξανδρείας τῆς μεγάλης ἀνενεώθη ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως Ἰουστινιανοῦ. Ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς τὰ γενόμενα ὑπὸ τῶν Σαρακηνῶν, πέμψας οὐκ ὀλίγην βοήθειαν πεζικὴν ἐκ τῆς Φρυγῶν χώρας, τοὺς λεγομένους Λυκοκρανίτας, ἀπῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὰ Σαρακηνικὰ καὶ τὰ Περσικὰ μέρη. ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ καιρῷ προεβλήθη ἔξαρχος Ῥωμαίων Βελισσάριος ὑπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ βασιλέως· ἦν γὰρ διαδεχθεὶς Ὑπάτιος ὁ πατρίκιος, ὁ πρὸ αὐτοῦ ὢν στρατηλάτης, καταπιστευθεὶς δὲ Βελισσάριος τὰ ἐξέρκετα καὶ τοὺς δοῦκας εἰς τὴν κατὰ Περσῶν μάχην. ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ ἐπέμφθη εἰς τὰ Περσικὰ Ἑρμογένης ὁ ἀπὸ μαγίστρων, ὁ Σκύθης, ἀνὴρ σοφός. τῷ δὲ ἰουνίῳ μηνὶ τῆς ἑβδόμης ἰνδικτιῶνος ταραχῆς γενομένης ἐθνικῆς, συμβαλόντων γὰρ τῶν Σαμαρειτῶν μεταξὺ χριστιανῶν καὶ Ἰουδαίων, πολλοὶ τόποι ἐνεπρήσθησαν ἐν Σκυθοπόλει ἐκ τῶν αὐτῶν Σαμαρειτῶν. καὶ τοῦτο ἀκούσας ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς ἠγανάκτησε κατὰ τοῦ ἄρχοντος Βάσσου· ὅντινα διαδεξάμενος ἀπεκεφάλισεν ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ χώρᾳ. οἱ δὲ Σαμαρεῖται 446 γνόντες τὴν καθ' ἑαυτῶν ἀγανάκτησιν, ἐτυράννησαν καὶ ἔστεψαν λῄσταρχον ὀνόματι Ἰουλιανόν, Σαμαρείτην, καὶ ἔκαυσαν κτήματα καὶ ἐκκλησίας καὶ ἐφόνευσαν πολλοὺς χριστιανούς. καὶ εἰσελθὼν ἐν Νεαπόλει ἐθεώρησεν ἱπποδρόμιον μετὰ πλήθους Σαμαρειτῶν· καὶ τὸ πρῶτον βάϊον ἐνίκησε Νικέας τις, ἡνίοχος χριστιανός. ἦσαν δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ Νεαπόλει ἡνίοχοι, Σαμαρεῖται καὶ Ἰουδαῖοι, οὕστινας ἐνίκησεν ὁ αὐτὸς Νικέας ἡνίοχος. καὶ ἐλθὼν πρὸς τὸν τύραννον, ὀφείλων τιμηθῆναι, ἐπηρώτησε δὲ αὐτὸν ποίας ὑπάρχει θρησκείας; καὶ μαθὼν ὅτι χριστιανός ἐστι, καὶ εἰς σύμβολον δεξάμενος τὴν τῶν χριστιανῶν εὐθέως πρώτην νίκην κατ' αὐτοῦ, ὅπερ καὶ γέγονεν, εὐθέως πέμψας ἀπεκεφάλισε τὸν ἡνίοχον ἐν τῷ ἱπποδρομίῳ. ἐχρήσατο κακῶς καὶ τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. τοῦτο δὲ γνόντες οἱ ἄρχοντες Παλαιστίνης καὶ ὁ δοὺξ Θεόδωρος ὁ σιμὸς τὸ τῆς τυραννίδος τόλμημα ἐμήνυσεν εὐθέως τῷ βασιλεῖ Ἰουστινιανῷ· καὶ ἀπελθὼν ὁ δοὺξ κατ' αὐτοῦ μετὰ πολλῆς βοηθείας, λαβὼν μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τὸν φύλαρχον Παλαιστίνης· καὶ γνοὺς τοῦτο ὁ τύραννος Ἰουλιανὸς ὁ Σαμαρείτης, φυγὼν ἐξῆλθεν ἀπὸ Νεαπόλεως. καὶ κατεδίωξεν αὐτὸν ὁ δοὺξ μετὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ βοηθείας, καὶ συνέκρουσαν πόλεμον· καὶ ἔκοψεν ὁ δοὺξ ἐκ τῶν Σαμαρειτῶν πλῆθος, καὶ παρέλαβεν αὐτὸν Σαμαρείτην Ἰουλιανόν, τοῦ θεοῦ πα 447 ραδόντος αὐτόν. καὶ ἀποκεφαλίσας αὐτὸν ἔπεμψε τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ μετὰ τοῦ διαδήματος τῷ βασιλεῖ Ἰουστινιανῷ. καὶ ὅτε ἐγνώσθη τῷ αὐτῷ βασιλεῖ τὰ γενόμενα, τὸ τῆς τυραννίδος τῶν Σαμαρειτῶν καὶ τοῦ δυστυχοῦς Ἰουλιανοῦ, ἡ παρὰ τῶν ἀρχόντων μήνυσις εὐθέως κατέλαβεν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει καὶ ἡ τοῦ τυράννου κεφαλή. ἔπεσον δὲ ἐκ τῶν Σαμαρειτῶν ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ χιλιάδες εἴκοσι· καὶ οἱ μὲν ἔφυγον εἰς τὸ ὄρος τὸ λεγόμενον Ἀρπαρίζιν, ἄλλοι δὲ εἰς τὸν Τραχῶνα εἰς τὸ λεγόμενον σιδηροῦν ὄρος. ἔλαβε δὲ καὶ ὁ φύλαρχος Σαρακηνὸς ὁ τῶν Ῥωμαίων πραῖδαν ἐξ αὐτῶν χιλιάδας εἴκοσι παίδων καὶ κορασίων· οὕστινας λαβὼν αἰχμαλώτους ἐπώλησεν ἐν τοῖς Περσικοῖς καὶ Ἰνδικοῖς μέρεσιν. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς γνοὺς ὅτι πολλὰ κτήματα τῆς Παλαιστίνης ἔκαυσαν οἱ Σαμαρεῖται τὴν ἀρχὴν ὅτε ἐτυράννησαν, ἠγανάκτησε κατὰ τοῦ δουκὸς Παλαιστίνης, διότι πρὸ τοῦ