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γʹ. Bishop of Constantinople Theodore, γʹ years. γʹ. In this year Abimelech sent to Justinian to confirm the peace, and the peace was agreed as follows: that the emperor should remove the contingent of the Mardaites from Lebanon, and prevent their raids; and Abimelech should give to the Romans each day one thousand nomismata and a horse and a slave; and that they should have in common and equally the taxes of Cyprus and Armenia and Iberia. And the emperor sent Paul the magistrianus to Abimelech to secure the agreements, and a written guarantee was made with witnesses. And the magistrianus, having been honored, returned. And the emperor sent and received the Mardaites, ιβʹ thousand, having mutilated the Roman dominion. For all the border cities now inhabited by the Arabs, from Mopsuestia and as far as Fourth Armenia, were weak and uninhabited because of the assault of the Mardaites; when these were removed, Romania has suffered all manner of evils from the Arabs until now. In the same year Abimelech sent Ziad, the brother of Mauias, to Persia against Muchtar the liar and tyrant. And Ziad was killed by Muchtar. And Abimelech, having heard, came to Mesopotamia and was opposed by Said; whom he, upon his return, by persuasion convinced to open Damascus, which had been previously occupied by him, and after this he murdered him. But Justinian, being younger, about ιʹ years old, and managing his affairs ill-advisedly, sent Leontius the general against Armenia with a Roman force, and having killed the Saracens there, he subjected it to the Romans, likewise also Iberia and Albania, Bucania and Media, and having taxed the lands he sent a great deal of money to the emperor. But Abimelech, having learned these things, seized Cercusium and subjugated Theoupolis. 364 Bishop of Constantinople Paul, ζʹ years. βʹ. δʹ. αʹ. In this year there was a famine in Syria; and many entered Romania. And the emperor, having gone to Armenia, there received the Mardaites in Lebanon, having broken down a bronze wall. And he also broke the peace that had been established with the Bulgars, disturbing the arrangements that had been sworn by his own father, and he ordered the cavalry themes to cross into Thrace, wishing to take captive both the Bulgars and the Sclavinias. ρπʹ. χπʹ. γʹ. εʹ. βʹ. In this year Justinian campaigned against Sclavinia and Bulgaria. And he drove back the Bulgars who had met him for the present, but raiding as far as Thessalonica, he took great multitudes of the Slavs, some by war, others who had come over to him, and crossing through Abydus, he settled them in the regions of the Opsikion. But on his return, having been ambushed by the Bulgars in a narrow pass, with a slaughter of his own people and many casualties he was barely able to get through. In the same year Abdellas the son of Zouber sent Mousab his own brother against Mouktar; and joining battle with him, Mouktar was turned and fled to Syria; and having overtaken him, he killed him. And Abimelech campaigned against Mousar and having conquered, killed him and subjected all of Persia. Years of the world ρπαʹ. Years of the divine incarnation χπαʹ. Emperor of the Romans Justinian, ιʹ years. δʹ. Leader of the Arabs Abimelech, κβʹ years. ʹ. Bishop of Constantinople Paul, ζʹ years. γʹ. In this year Abimelech sent Chagan against Zoubeir to Makka, and Chagan killed him there; and when Chagan had subjected to Abimelech the country that opposed him, he burned the house of his idol along with the idol of their veneration; 365 for which reason he appointed Chagan general of Persia. And both Persia and Mesopotamia and great Arabia of Ethrib were subjected to Abimelech; and their civil wars ceased. εʹ. ζʹ. δʹ. In this year the rule of the Arabs had an end and a release from all war; and it was at peace

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