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him in the so-called forum of Constantine; and having placed him on high upon the steps and having taken from the palace standards and a golden torque, they placed them upon his head. and taking him they led him away into the Hippodrome, wanting to lead him up to the imperial seat. For the crowd was hastening to bring out for him imperial robes from the palace; for Hypatius had learned that the emperor had withdrawn; and having seated himself in the seat, he was playing the tyrant with audacity. 476 But when Mundus and Constantiolus and Belisarius and other senators and armed assistance went up through the back of the imperial box, Narses the cubicularius and spatharius, having gone out secretly, won over some of those of the Blue faction by bribing them with money. and some from the crowd, starting a counter-riot, were shouting for Justinian as emperor for the city; and the crowd, being divided, rushed against each other. And when the generals entered with assistance into the hippodrome, from both entrances they began to cut down the crowds; and some were shooting arrows, while others were slaughtering. And Belisarius, having gone out secretly, seized Hypatius and Pompeius with his own hand, and brought them to the emperor Justinian. And they fell at the feet of the same emperor, making their defense and saying, Master, we have gone to great trouble to gather the enemies of your state in the Hippodrome. And the emperor, answering them, said, You have done well; but if they obeyed you as their leaders, why did you not do this before the whole city was burned? And the spatharii, being ordered by the emperor, took and locked up Hypatius and Pompeius. And those slaughtered in the hippodrome were thirty-five thousand, a little more or less. And on the next day Hypatius and Pompeius were slaughtered, and their remains were thrown into the sea. And the same emperor proclaimed his own victory in all the cities and the destruction 477 of the tyrants, undertaking to build the burnt places. And he built near the palace both a granary and water cisterns, so as to have them in reserve in times of crisis. And at that time Rufinus went out to the Persian regions with imperial instructions to make peace treaties with the Persians. And at that time also an ambassador of the Indians was sent down to Constantinople with gifts. And at that time John the Cappadocian became praetorian prefect. And at that time there was a great streaming of stars from evening until dawn, so that all were amazed and said, We have never known such a thing to have happened. And at that time Hermogenes and Rufinus returned from the Persian lands, bringing with them peace treaties of the two states, of both the Romans and the Persians of the two states, for the duration of both their lives, the region of Pharangium being given up to the Persians with all the captives, and to the Romans the forts that were taken by the Persians together with those who had been captured, with the two emperors agreeing and naming each other in the treaties to be brothers according to ancient custom, and that if either should have need of the other for money or men for an alliance, they would provide it without contention. And when these things were settled, both 478 expeditions departed, of both the Romans and the Persians, the war having lasted for thirty-one years from when Koades, king of the Persians, had come up against the Roman territories to make war, as was written before in the reign of Anastasius, and the capture of Amida, as was written before, and the restoration of the same city of Amida to the Romans and the partial wars of Saracen raids. And at that time there was an earthquake in Byzantium late in the evening, so that the whole city gathered in the so-called forum of Constantine, coming together in litanies and supplications and vigils. In

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αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ λεγομένῳ φόρῳ Κωνσταντίνου· καὶ στήσαντες αὐτὸν ἐν ὕψει εἰς τοὺς βαθμοὺς καὶ ἀφειλάμενοι ἐκ τοῦ παλατίου σίγνα καὶ μανιάκιον χρυσοῦν, περιέθηκαν αὐτῷ ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ. καὶ λαβόντες αὐτὸν ἀπήγαγον ἐν τῷ Ἱππικῷ, βουλόμενοι ἀναγάγαι αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ βασιλικῷ καθίσματι. ἔσπευδε γὰρ τὸ πλῆθος φορεσίαν βασιλικὴν ἐκβάλαι αὐτῷ ἐκ τοῦ παλατίου· ἦν γὰρ μαθὼν ὁ Ὑπάτιος ὅτι ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀνεχώρησε· καὶ καθεσθεὶς ἐν τῷ καθίσματι μετὰ θράσους ἐτυράννει. 476 Ἀνελθόντων δὲ διὰ τοῦ καθίσματος ὄπισθεν Μούνδου καὶ Κωνσταντιόλου καὶ Βελισαρίου καὶ ἄλλων συγκλητικῶν καὶ βοηθείας ἐνόπλου, λαθραίως ἐξελθὼν Ναρσὴς κουβικουλάριος καὶ σπαθάριος ὑπέκλεψέ τινας τοὺς τοῦ Βενέτου μέρους, ῥογεύσας αὐτοῖς χρήματα. καὶ στασιάσαντές τινες ἐκ τοῦ πλήθους ἔκραζον Ἰουστινιανὸν βασιλέα τῇ πόλει· διχονοῆσαν δὲ τὸ πλῆθος ὥρμησαν κατ' ἀλλήλων. τῶν δὲ στρατηλατῶν εἰσελθόντων μετὰ βοηθείας ἐν τῷ ἱπποδρομίῳ, ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν εἰσόδων ἤρξαντο κόπτειν τὰ πλήθη· καὶ ἄλλοι μὲν ἐτόξευον, ἕτεροι δὲ κατέσφαζον. κρυφῇ δὲ ἐξελθὼν Βελισάριος τὸν μὲν Ὑπάτιον καὶ Πομπήιον χειρὶ συνελάβετο, καὶ εἰσήγαγεν αὐτοὺς τῷ βασιλεῖ Ἰουστινιανῷ. καὶ προσέπεσαν ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας τοῦ αὐτοῦ βασιλέως ἀπολογούμενοι καὶ λέγοντες, ∆έσποτα, πολὺς ἡμῖν κόπος ἐγένετο ὥστε συναγάγαι τοὺς ἐχθροὺς τοῦ κράτους ὑμῶν ἐν τῷ Ἱπποδρομίῳ. καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὁ βασιλεὺς εἶπε, Καλῶς μὲν πεποιήκατε· εἰ δὲ ἐπείθοντο ὑμῖν προστατοῦσι, διὰ τί μὴ τοῦτο ἐποιήσατε πρὸ τοῦ καυθῆναι πᾶσαν τὴν πόλιν; καὶ ἐπιτραπέντες οἱ σπαθάριοι ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως παρέλαβον καὶ ἀπέκλεισαν Ὑπάτιον καὶ Πομπήιον. οἱ δὲ ἐν τῷ ἱπποδρομίῳ σφαγέντες ἦσαν χιλιάδες τριάκοντα πέντε μικρῷ πλέον ἢ ἔλασσον. καὶ τῇ ἐπαύριον ἐσφάγησαν Ὑπάτιος καὶ Πομπήιος, καὶ ἐῤῥίφησαν τὰ λείψανα αὐτῶν ἐν θαλάσσῃ. ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς ἐσήμανε τὴν ἑαυτοῦ νίκην ἐν πάσαις ταῖς πόλεσι καὶ τὴν ἀναίρεσιν 477 τῶν τυράννων, ἐπιβαλλόμενος κτίζειν τοὺς καυθέντας τόπους. ἔκτισε δὲ πλησίον τοῦ παλατίου καὶ ὡρεῖον καὶ κιστέρνας ὑδάτων διὰ τὸ ἐν περιστάσεσιν ἔχειν ἀπόθετα. Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ ἐξῆλθε Ῥουφῖνος ἐν τοῖς Περσικοῖς μέρεσι μετὰ θείων ὑπομνηστικῶν τοῦ ποιῆσαι μετὰ Περσῶν πάκτα εἰρήνης. Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ καὶ πρεσβευτὴς Ἰνδῶν μετὰ δώρων κατεπέμφθη ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει. καὶ αὐτῷ τῷ χρόνῳ Ἰωάννης ὁ Καππάδοξ ἐγένετο ἔπαρχος πραιτωρίων. Καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ χρόνῳ ἐγένετο δρόμος ἀστέρων πολὺς ἀπὸ ἑσπέρας ἕως αὔγους, ὥστε πάντας ἐκπλήττεσθαι καὶ λέγειν ὅτι Οὐδέποτε οἴδαμεν τοιοῦτόν τι γεγονός. Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ ὑπέστρεψαν ἐκ τῶν Περσικῶν Ἑρμογένης καὶ Ῥουφῖνος, ἐπιφερόμενοι μεθ' ἑαυτῶν καὶ πάκτα εἰρήνης τῶν δύο πολιτειῶν Ῥωμαίων τε καὶ Περσῶν τῶν δύο πολιτειῶν ἄχρι τῆς τῶν ἀμφοτέρων ζωῆς, ἀναδοθέντων μὲν Πέρσαις τὸ μέρος τῶν Φαραγγίων μετὰ πάντων τῶν αἰχμαλώτων, Ῥωμαίοις δὲ τὰ κάστρα τὰ περιληφθέντα ὑπὸ Περσῶν σὺν τοῖς παραληφθεῖσι, συνθεμένων τῶν δύο βασιλέων καὶ ὀνομασάντων ἐν τοῖς πάκτοις ἑαυτοὺς ἀδελφοὺς εἶναι κατὰ τὸ ἀρχαῖον ἔθος, καὶ ἵνα εἴ τις δεηθῇ ἑαυτῶν ἢ χρημάτων ἢ σωμάτων εἰς συμμαχίαν, ἀφιλονείκως παράσχωσι. καὶ τούτων προβάντων, ἀνε 478 χώρησαν τὰ ἀμφότερα ἐξπέδιτα, Ῥωμαίων τε καὶ Περσῶν, τοῦ πολέμου κατασχόντος λʹ καὶ ἕνα ἐνιαυτὸν ἀφ' οὗ ἦν ἀνελθὼν ἐν τοῖς Ῥωμαϊκοῖς Κωάδης ὁ Περσῶν βασιλεὺς πολεμῶν, ὡς προγέγραπται ἐπὶ τῆς βασιλείας Ἀναστασίου, καὶ τὴν παράληψιν Ἀμίδης, ὡς προγέγραπται, καὶ τὴν πρὸς Ῥωμαίους ἀποκατάστασιν τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως Ἀμίδης καὶ τοὺς μερικοὺς πολέμους τῶν Σαρακηνῶν ἐπιδρομῶν. Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ γέγονε σεισμὸς ἐν Βυζαντίῳ ἑσπέρας βαθείας, ὥστε πᾶσαν τὴν πόλιν συναχθῆναι ἐν τῷ λεγομένῳ φόρῳ Κωνσταντίνου, ἐν λιταῖς καὶ δεήσεσι καὶ ἀγρυπνίαις συναγόμενοι. Ἐν