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to overcome the war by trickery. And at the same time the same emperor Justinian donated to the Antiochenes his own toga, which also had imperial stones; and it was displayed in the church called that of Cassianus. And during the consulship of Decius, Mundus, who was descended from the race of the Gepids, being the son of a king, came over to the Romans, after the death of his own father, having gone to Thraustila, his uncle, and he was living in Sirmium. And when the 451 king of Rome, Valameriacus, also called Theoderic, learned this, he sent and urged this Mundus; and being persuaded he went to him with his men and stayed with him, fighting on behalf of Valameriacus, also called Theoderic. But Mundus, departing from Rome, went up to the Danube river; and sending ambassadors to the emperor Justinian he asked to be under his rule. And he received him with his men, making him strategelates of the Illyrian nation, and dispatched him to his own command. And when he had occupied the land of Illyricum, the Huns attacked him with a great multitude of various barbarians; and going out he rushed against them, and destroyed them all; and he sent booty from them and one of their kings; and there was peace in Thrace, and from this, fear gripped the barbarian nations. And during the consulship of the same Decius, the same emperor, having issued an edict, sent it to Athens, ordering that no one should teach philosophy nor interpret the laws nor should gambling take place in any of the cities, since in Byzantium some of the gamblers were found and, having involved themselves in terrible blasphemies, had their hands cut off and were paraded on camels. 452 And at that time an annual income of four thousand nomismata was provided for the hospice of Antioch by the same pious emperor. And at that time was also found the precious relic of the holy martyr Marinus in Syria Prima, outside the city called Gindarus, as the periodeutes of the region had seen in a vision many times the place where the saint lay, having from his head throughout his whole body iron nails, having been stretched out on a plank he was nailed, and he was placed in a tomb carved for him from rock. And his relic was taken up, and was brought and deposited outside the city of the Antiochenes in the church of Saint Julian. And at that time the Roman ambassadors Hermogenes and Rufinus the strategelates were sent down to the Persian regions, during the consulship of Lampadius and Orestes. And when they reached Dara, which was renamed Anastasiopolis, they sent a message down to the king of the Persians, Koades; and the same king postponed receiving them. And while they were staying at Dara together with Belisarius the strategelates along with the other commanders and the military support, and as they were encamped outside Dara, awaiting the response of the king of the Persians, Miram, the first commander of the Persians, and the son of the king of the Persians, along with other Persian commanders were stationed at Nisibis, and learning that the Ro 453 mans were encamped outside Dara, the Persians attacked with seventy thousand men, having divided themselves into three commands. And when the Roman commanders learned this, they set out against the Persians and clashed; and when battle was joined, the Persian and Roman armies were mingled, and the Romans crushed the Persians completely, capturing also a Persian standard. But Miram, fleeing with a few men along with the king's son, escaped to Nisibis. And in that battle a Persian commander named Sagos was also slain, as Sunicas, the Roman dux and commander, had challenged him to single combat; and one could see a victory over Persian folly, with their dead strewn upon the ground. And when Koades, the king of the Persians, learned this, he permitted the patrician Rufinus to enter, together with the

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δόλῳ περιγίνεσθαι τοῦ πολέμου. Τῷ δὲ αὐτῷ χρόνῳ ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Ἰουστινιανὸς ἐδωρήσατο τοῖς Ἀντιοχεῦσι τὴν ἰδίαν τόγαν, ἔχουσαν καὶ λίθους βασιλικούς· καὶ ἡπλώθη ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ τῇ λεγομένῃ Κασσιανοῦ. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς ὑπατείας ∆εκίου προσεῤῥύη Ῥωμαίοις Μοῦνδος ὁ ἐκ γένους τῶν Γηπέδων καταγόμενος, υἱὸς ὢν ῥηγός, μετὰ τὴν τελευτὴν τοῦ ἰδίου αὐτοῦ πατρὸς πρὸς Θραυστίλαν, θεῖον αὐτοῖ, γεγονώς, καὶ διῆγεν ἐν τῷ Σιρμίῳ. καὶ γνοὺς τοῦτο ὁ 451 ῥὴξ Ῥώμης ὁ Οὐαλεμεριακὸς ὁ καὶ Θευδερίχος, πέμψας προετρέψατο τὸν αὐτὸν Μοῦνδον· καὶ πεισθεὶς ἀπῆλθε πρὸς αὐτὸν μετὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων αὐτοῦ καὶ διέτριψε πρὸς αὐτόν, ὑπερμαχῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ Οὐαλεμεριακοῦ τοῦ καὶ Θευδερίχου. ἀναχωρήσας δὲ Μοῦνδος ἀπὸ Ῥώμης ἀνῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὸν ∆ανούβιον ποταμόν· καὶ πέμψας πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα Ἰουστινιανὸν πρεσβευτὰς ᾔτησεν αὐτὸν ὑπὸ τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ γενέσθαι. καὶ ἐδέξατο αὐτὸν σὺν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις αὐτοῦ, ποιήσας αὐτὸν στρατηλάτην τοῦ Ἰλλυριῶν ἔθνους, καὶ ἀπέλυσεν αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ στρατηλασίᾳ. καὶ καταλαβόντος αὐτοῦ τὴν χώραν τοῦ Ἰλλυρικοῦ, ἐπέῤῥιψαν αὐτῷ Οὗννοι μετὰ πολλοῦ πλήθους διαφόρων βαρβάρων· καὶ ἐξελθὼν ὥρμησε κατ' αὐτῶν, καὶ πάντας κατανήλωσε· καὶ ἔπεμψε πραῖδαν ἐξ αὐτῶν καὶ ἕνα ῥῆγα αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐγένετο εἰρήνη ἐν τῇ Θρᾴκῃ, καὶ ἐκ τούτου φόβος κατεῖχε τὰ βάρβαρα ἔθνη. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς ὑπατείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ ∆εκίου ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς θεσπίσας πρόσταξιν ἔπεμψεν ἐν Ἀθήναις, κελεύσας μηδένα διδάσκειν φιλοσοφίαν μήτε νόμιμα ἐξηγεῖσθαι μήτε κόττον ἐν μιᾷ τῶν πόλεων γίνεσθαι, ἐπειδὴ ἐν Βυζαντίῳ εὑρεθέντες τινὲς τῶν κοττιστῶν καὶ βλασφημίαις δειναῖς ἑαυτοὺς περιβαλόντες χειροκοπηθέντες περιεβωμβήθησαν ἐν καμήλοις. 452 Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ παρεσχέθη ἐτησία πρόσοδος ἐν τῷ ξενῶνι Ἀντιοχείας νομισμάτων τετρακισχιλίων ὑπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ εὐσεβοῦς βασιλέως. Εὑρέθη δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ χρόνῳ καὶ τὸ τίμιον λείψανον τοῦ ἁγίου μάρτυρος Μαρίνου εἰς τὴν πρώτην Συρίαν ἔξω τῆς λεγομένης Γινδάρου πόλεως, τοῦ περιοδευτοῦ τῆς χώρας ἐν ὀπτασίᾳ πλειστάκις ἑωρακότος τὸν τόπον ἔνθα ἔκειτο ὁ ἅγιος, ἔχων ἀπὸ τῆς κεφαλῆς κατὰ παντὸς τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ ἥλους σιδηροῦς, εἰς σανίδα παραπλωθεὶς προσηλώθη, καὶ ἐτέθη εἰς πέτραν γλυφεῖσαν αὐτῷ τάφον. καὶ ἐπήρθη τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἠνέχθη καὶ κατετέθη ἔξω τῆς Ἀντιοχέων πόλεως ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ Ἰουλιανῷ. Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ κατεπέμφθησαν πρέσβεις Ῥωμαίων ἐν τοῖς Περσικοῖς μέρεσιν Ἑρμογένης καὶ Ῥουφῖνος ὁ στρατηλάτης, ἐπὶ τῆς ὑπατείας Λαμπαδίου καὶ Ὀρέστου. καὶ φθασάντων αὐτῶν τὸ ∆όρας τὸ μετακληθὲν Ἀναστασιούπολις, μήνυσιν κατέπεμψαν τῷ βασιλεῖ Περσῶν Κωάδῃ· καὶ ὑπερέθετο ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς τοῦ δέξασθαι αὐτούς. καὶ ἐν τῷ διάγειν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ ∆όρας ἅμα Βελισαρίῳ τῷ στρατηλάτῃ σὺν τοῖς ἄλλοις ἐξάρχοις καὶ τῇ στρατιωτικῇ βοηθείᾳ, καὶ ἀπληκευόντων αὐτῶν ἔξω τοῦ ∆όρας, τὴν ἀπόκρισιν τοῦ βασιλέως Περσῶν δεχόμενοι, ὁ Μηρὰμ ὁ πρῶτος ἔξαρχος Περσῶν καὶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ βασιλέως Περσῶν σὺν ἄλλοις ἐξάρχοις Περσῶν καθήμενοι εἰς τὸ Νίσιβι, καὶ γνόντες ὅτι ἔξω τοῦ ∆όρας ἀπληκεύουσιν οἱ Ῥω 453 μαῖοι, ἐπέῤῥιψαν Πέρσαι μετὰ ἑβδομήκοντα χιλιάδων, διελόντες αὑτοὺς εἰς τρεῖς ἀρχάς. Καὶ γνόντες οἱ ἔξαρχοι Ῥωμαίων, ὁρμήσαντες κατὰ Περσῶν συνέκρουσαν· καὶ συμβολῆς γενομένης ἐμίγησαν τὰ Περσῶν καὶ Ῥωμαίων στρατόπεδα, καὶ ἔκοψαν Ῥωμαῖοι Πέρσας κατὰ κράτος, λαβόντες καὶ σίγνον Περσικόν. ὁ δὲ Μηρὰμ μετὰ ὀλίγων φυγὼν σὺν τῷ υἱῷ τοῦ βασιλέως διεσώθη εἰς τὸ Νισίβιον. ἐν αὐτῇ δὲ τῇ συμβολῇ καὶ ἔξαρχος Περσῶν κατεσφάγη ὀνόματι Σάγος, Σουνίκα τοῦ δουκὸς καὶ ἐξάρχου Ῥωμαίων εἰς μονομαχίαν αὐτὸν προτρεψαμένου· καὶ ἦν ἰδεῖν νίκην Περσικῆς ἀπονοίας, εἰς ἔδαφος ἡπλωμένων νεκρῶν. Καὶ γνοὺς τοῦτο Κωάδης ὁ Περσῶν βασιλεὺς ἐπέτρεψεν εἰσελθεῖν τὸν πατρίκιον Ῥουφῖνον ἅμα τῷ