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we place." After saying these things he says to 350 Mauias: "Farewell;" and he went out from Damascus toward Melitene because the tyrant was in those parts, where Sergius was also to travel. And when he reached Arabissos, he met with the guard of the mountain passes. For he did not accompany the tyrant. And he orders this man to watch for Sergius on his return, so that he might bring him to him. And he himself went to Amnesia awaiting Sergius, and he reported what had been done to the emperor. But Sergius, having arranged matters as he saw fit with Mauias, took Fadalas, the general of the Arabs, with barbarian assistance to ally with Saborios. And as Sergius was going ahead of Fadalas and joyfully departing to Saborios, he fell into the ambushes of Andrew in the mountain passes. And having seized him, they bring him to Andrew as a prisoner. And Sergius, seeing Andrew, throws himself at his feet, begging him to spare him. But he said to him: "You are Sergius who boasts in your genitals in the presence of Mauias, and calls me a womanish man. Behold; from now on your genitals will not help you at all, but will also kill you." After saying these things, he ordered his genitals to be cut off, and he hanged him on a wooden post. And Constantine, hearing of the arrival of Fadalas to help Saborios, sends Nikephoros the patrician with a Roman force to oppose Saborios. And Saborios was in Adrianople, and when he learned that Nikephoros was coming against him, he trained himself for war. And it happened on one of the days that he was riding out of the city on horseback as was his custom. And when he came near the gate of the city, he struck the horse with the whip. And it, bolting and dashing his head against the gate, wretchedly departed from life; and so God granted the victory to the emperor. Fadalas therefore, coming to Hexapolis and learning everything, was at a loss, and sends to Mauias asking for help because the Romans had come to an agreement. 351 And Mauias sends to him his son Izid, having armed him with a multitude of barbarians. And both of them arrived at Chalcedon and took many captives, and they also took Amorion in Phrygia, leaving 5 thousand armed men to guard it, and they returned to Syria. And when winter came, the emperor sends the same Andrew the cubicularius, and there being much snow, he arrives at night; and by means of ladders they go up onto the wall and enter Amorion; and they kill all the Arabs, the 5 thousand, and not even one of them was left. And in the same winter a flood of waters occurred in Edessa, and many perished; and a sign also appeared in the sky. John, bishop of Constantinople, for 2 years. 160. 26. 27. 13. 1. In this year the emperor Constans was assassinated in Sicily at Syracuse in the bath named Daphne. And this was the cause. After the killing of Theodosius, his brother, he was hated by the Byzantines, and especially because he also dishonorably brought Martin, the most holy pope of Rome, to Constantinople and exiled him to the regions of Cherson, and he had the tongue of Maximus the most wise confessor cut out and his hand cut off and he condemned many of the orthodox to tortures and exiles and confiscations for not obeying his heresy, and he gave over the two Anastasii, disciples of the confessor and martyr Maximus, to exiles and tortures. For these reasons indeed he was vehemently hated by all. And becoming afraid he wanted to move the capital to Rome. Whence he also wished to take up the empress and his three sons, if not Andrew the cubicularius and Theodore of Koloneia had hindered his plan. And he spent 2 years in Sicily. And as he was entering the aforementioned bath, a certain Andrew, son of Troilus, entered with him, ministering to him. And when he began to be washed with soap, Andrew, taking the bucket, brings it down upon the head of the

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τιθέμεθα." ταῦτα εἰπὼν λέγει τῷ 350 Μαυΐᾳ· "σώζου·" καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ἀπὸ ∆αμασκοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν Μελιτηνὴν διὰ τὸ τὸν τύραννον εἶναι ἐν τοῖς μέρεσιν ἐκείνοις, ἐν οἷς καὶ Σέργιος εἶχε πορεύεσθαι. ὡς δὲ κατέλαβε τὴν Ἀραβισσόν, περιτυγχάνει τῷ κλεισουροφύλακι. οὐ γὰρ συναπῄει τῷ τυράννῳ. τούτῳ δὲ προστάττει παρατηρεῖν τὸν Σέργιον ἐπανερχόμενον, ἵνα αὐτὸν ἀγάγῃ πρὸς αὐτόν. αὐτὸς δὲ ἐπορεύθη εἰς Ἀμνησίαν τὸν Σέργιον ἐκδεχόμενος, τὰ δὲ πεπραγμένα τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐδήλωσεν. Σέργιος δὲ στοιχήσας μετὰ Μαυΐου τὰ δοκοῦντα παρέλαβε Φαδαλᾶν, στρατηγὸν Ἀράβων, μετὰ βοηθείας βαρβαρικῆς συμμαχεῖν τῷ Σαβωρίῳ. προπορευόμενος δὲ ὁ Σέργιος τῷ Φαδαλᾷ καὶ περιχαρῶς πρὸς Σαβώριον ἀπερχόμενος περιπίπτει ἐν ταῖς κλεισούραις τοῖς τοῦ Ἀνδρέου λόχοις. καὶ τοῦτον κρατήσαντες πρὸς Ἀνδρέαν φέρουσι δέσμιον. ὁ δὲ Σέργιος ἰδὼν τὸν Ἀνδρέαν ῥίπτει ἑαυτὸν εἰς τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ δεόμενος φείσασθαι αὐτοῦ. ὁ δὲ πρὸς αὐτόν· "σὺ εἶ Σέργιος ὁ ἐγκαυχώμενος ἐν τοῖς αἰδοίοις ἐπὶ Μαυΐου, κἀμὲ θηλυδρίαν ἀποκαλῶν. ἰδού· ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν τὰ αἰδοῖά σου οὐδέν σε ὠφελήσουσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ θανατώσουσιν." ταῦτα εἰπὼν ἐπιτρέπει ἐκτμηθῆναι αὐτοῦ τὰ αἰδοῖα, καὶ ἐκρέμασεν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ ξύλου. ὁ δὲ Κωνσταντῖνος ἀκούσας τὴν τοῦ Φαδαλᾶ ἄφιξιν εἰς τὴν Σαβωρίου βοήθειαν ἀποστέλλει Νικηφόρον τὸν πατρίκιον μετὰ Ῥωμαϊκῆς δυνάμεως ἀντιτάξασθαι τῷ Σαβωρίῳ. ἦν δὲ Σαβώριος εἰς Ἀδριανούπολιν, καὶ ὡς ἐπύθετο Νικηφόρον ἔρχεσθαι πρὸς αὐτόν, ἐγύμναζεν ἑαυτὸν πρὸς πόλεμον. συνέβη δὲ ἐν μιᾷ τῶν ἡμερῶν κατὰ τὸ εἰωθὸς τοῦτον τῆς πόλεως ἔφιππον ἐξελαύνειν. ὡς δὲ γέγονε πλησίον τῆς πύλης τῆς πόλεως, δίδωσι τῷ ἵππῳ τῇ μάστιγι. ὁ δὲ ἀφηνιάσας καὶ τούτου τὴν κεφαλὴν τῇ πύλῃ προσρήξας κακῶς τοῦ ζῇν ἀπήλλαξεν· καὶ οὕτως ὁ θεὸς τὴν νίκην ἐδωρήσατο τῷ βασιλεῖ. Φαδαλᾶς οὖν ἐλθὼν εἰς τὴν Ἑξάπολιν καὶ μαθὼν πάντα ἠπόρησεν, καὶ ἀποστέλλει πρὸς Μαυΐαν αἰτῶν βοήθειαν διὰ τὸ τοὺς Ῥωμαίους εἰς ὁμόνοιαν ἐλθεῖν. 351 πέμπει δὲ αὐτῷ Μαυΐας τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ Ἰζίδ, καθοπλίσας αὐτὸν πλήθει βαρβάρων. παρεγένοντο δὲ ἀμφότεροι εἰς Χαλκηδόνα καὶ ᾐχμαλώτευσαν πολλούς, παρέλαβον δὲ καὶ τὸ Ἀμώριον τῆς Φρυγίας εʹ χιλιάδας ἐνόπλων ἀνδρῶν ἀφέντες εἰς φυλακὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀνέκαμψαν εἰς Συρίαν. χειμῶνος δὲ γενομένου πέμπει ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸν αὐτὸν Ἀνδρέαν τὸν κουβικουλάριον, καὶ χιόνος πολλῆς οὔσης, ἐν νυκτὶ καταλαμβάνει· καὶ διὰ ξύλων ἀνέρχονται ἐπὶ τὸ τεῖχος καὶ εἰσέρχονται εἰς τὸ Ἀμώριον· καὶ πάντας κτείνουσι τοὺς Ἄραβας, τὰς εʹ χιλιάδας, καὶ οὐχ ὑπελείφθη ἐξ αὐτῶν οὐδὲ εἷς. ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ χειμῶνι πλημμύρα ὑδάτων γέγονεν εἰς Ἔδεσαν, καὶ πολλοὶ ἀπώλοντο· ἐφάνη δὲ καὶ σημεῖον ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ. Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπίσκοπος Ἰωάννης ἔτη ʹ. ρξʹ. κξʹ. κζʹ. ιγʹ. αʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἐδολοφονήθη ὁ βασιλεὺς Κώνστας ἐν Σικελίᾳ ἐν Συρακούσῃ ἐν τῷ βαλανείῳ, ᾧ ὄνομα ∆άφνη. ἦν δὲ ἡ αἰτία αὕτη. μετὰ τὴν ἀναίρεσιν Θεοδοσίου, τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ, ἐμισήθη ὑπὸ τῶν Βυζαντίων, καὶ μάλιστα ὅτι καὶ Μαρτῖνον, τὸν ἁγιώτατον πάπαν Ῥώμης, ἀτίμως ἤγαγεν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει καὶ ἐξώρισεν εἰς τὰ τῆς Χερσῶνος κλίματα, καὶ Μάξιμον τὸν σοφώτατον καὶ ὁμολογητὴν ἐγλωσσοτόμησεν καὶ ἐχειροκόπησε καὶ πολλοὺς τῶν ὀρθοδόξων αἰκίαις καὶ ἐξορίαις καὶ δημεύσεσι κατεδίκασε διὰ τὸ μὴ πείθεσθαι τῇ αἱρέσει αὐτοῦ, καὶ τοὺς δύο Ἀναστασίους μαθητὰς ὑπάρχοντας τοῦ ὁμολογητοῦ καὶ μάρτυρος Μαξίμου ἐξορίαις καὶ βασάνοις ἐπέδωκεν. διά τοι ταῦτα ἐμισήθη σφοδρῶς παρὰ πάντων. δειλιάσας δὲ ἠβουλήθη μετενέγκαι τὸ βασίλειον εἰς Ῥώμην. ὅθεν καὶ τὴν βασίλισσαν καὶ τοὺς τρεῖς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ ἐπᾶραι ἠθέλησεν, εἰ μὴ Ἀνδρέας ὁ κουβικουλάριος καὶ Θεόδωρος ὁ Κολωνείας τὴν τούτου βουλὴν διεκώλυσαν. ἐποίησε δὲ ἐν Σικελίᾳ ἔτη ʹ. εἰσελθόντι δὲ αὐτῷ ἐν τῷ εἰρημένῳ βαλανείῳ συνεισῆλθεν αὐτῷ τις Ἀνδρέας, υἱὸς Τρωΐλου, ὑπουργῶν αὐτῷ. ὡς δὲ ἤρξατο γαλλικῷ σμήχεσθαι, λαβὼν Ἀνδρέας τὸ κάδιον δίδωσι κατὰ κορυφῆς τοῦ