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Abimelech having subjected all. ʹ. ηʹ. εʹ. In this year Justinian out of folly broke the peace with Abimelech; for he was zealous to senselessly resettle the island of the Cypriots, and he did not accept the coinage sent from Abimelech, it being of a new type and never having occurred before. And a multitude of Cypriots, while crossing, was drowned, and they perished from sickness; and the rest turned back to Cyprus. And Abimelech, hearing these things, dissembling satanically, entreated that the peace not be broken, but that his own money be accepted, as the Arabs did not approve the Roman stamp on their own coins, with the weight of gold being rendered and with no loss occurring to the Romans from the Arabs striking new coins. But he, thinking the entreaty was due to fear, not understanding that what they were zealous for was to stop the incursion of the Mardaites, and thus to break the peace through a seemingly reasonable pretext; which also came to pass. And Abimelech sent to build the temple of Makka. And he wished to take up the columns of holy Gethsemane. And a certain Sergios, a most Christian man, the son of Mansour, general logothete and very intimate with the same Abimelech, and Patrikios, his rival among the leading Christians of Palestine, surnamed Klausys, beseeched him, asking that this not be done, but through their supplication to persuade Justinian to send others in their stead; which also happened. ζʹ. θʹ. ʹ. In this year Justinian selected from the 366 Slavs resettled by him and levied thirty thousand and, having armed them, he named them the 'chosen people', and their leader was Neboulos by name. And taking courage in them he wrote to the Arabs that he would not abide by the peace agreed to in writing. And taking the chosen people and all the cavalry themes, he marched to Sebastopolis by the sea. And the Arabs, dissembling and not choosing to break the peace, but being forced to do this by the emperor's fault and rashness, armed themselves and also came to Sebastopolis, protesting to the emperor that the things agreed between them with oaths not be broken; since God will be the avenger and judge of those at fault. But as the emperor would not even hear of such things, but rather was pressing on for battle, they, having broken the written treaty of peace and having hung it on a high pole to lead them instead of a banner, rushed against the Romans, with Mouamed as their general, and they joined battle. And at first the Arabs were defeated. But Mouamed, having suborned the general of the Slavs allied with the Romans, sends him a vessel full of coins, and having deceived him with many promises persuades him to defect to them with 20 thousand Slavs, and thus he brought about the flight of the Romans. Then Justinian killed the remainder of these, with their wives and children, at the place called Leucate, a precipitous and coastal place situated in the gulf of Nicomedia. ηʹ. ιʹ. ζʹ. In this year Sabbatios, the patrician of Armenia, learning of the defeat of the Romans, handed Armenia over to the Arabs, and inner Persia, called Khorasan, was also subjected to them, and there arises a reckless man named Sabinos, and he killed many of the Arabs and almost made the Khagan himself be completely drowned in a river. 367 From then on, being more emboldened, the Hagarenes ravaged Roman territory. Years of the World 180. Of the divine incarnation, years 680. Justinian, emperor of the Romans, years 10. 9. Abimelech, leader of the Arabs, years 22. 11. Kallinikos, bishop of Constantinople, years 12. 1. In this year an eclipse of the sun occurred in the month of Hyperberetaios on the 5th, on the 1st day, at the 3rd hour, so that some bright stars appeared. And Mouamed campaigned against Roman territory, having with him the refugee Slavs as they were experienced in Roman territory, and he took many captive. And there was also a destruction of pigs in Syria. And Justinian into

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Ἀβιμέλεχ ὑποτάξας πάντας. ʹ. ηʹ. εʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει τὴν πρὸς Ἀβιμέλεχ εἰρήνην Ἰουστινιανὸς ἐξἀνοίας ἔλυσεν· καὶ γὰρ τὴν Κυπρίων νῆσον ἀλόγως μετοικίσαι ἐσπούδασε καὶ τὸ σταλὲν χάραγμα παρὰ Ἀβιμέλεχ νεοφανὲς ὂν καὶ μηδέποτε γεγονὸς οὐ προσεδέξατο. πλῆθος δὲ Κυπρίων περώντων κατεποντίσθη, καὶ ἀπὸ ἀρρωστίας ὤλοντο· καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ ἐστράφησαν εἰς Κύπρον. καὶ ἀκούσας ταῦτα Ἀβιμέλεχ, ὑποκριθεὶς σατανικῶς παρεκάλει μὴ λυθῆναι τὴν εἰρήνην, ἀλλὰ δεχθῆναι τὴν αὐτοῦ μονήταν, ὡς τῶν Ἀράβων μὴ καταδεχομένων τὴν τῶν Ῥωμαίων χαραγὴν ἐν τοῖς ἰδίοις νομίσμασιν, τῆς ὁλκῆς τοῦ χρυσοῦ διδομένης καὶ μηδεμιᾶς ζημίας τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις γινομένης ἐκ τοῦ νέα χαράσσειν Ἄραβας. ὁ δὲ τὴν παράκλησιν εἰς φόβον νομίσας, οὐκ ἐννοήσας, ὅτι τὸ σπουδαζόμενον αὐτοῖς ἦν παῦσαι τὴν τῶν Μαρδαϊτῶν ἐπαγωγήν, καὶ οὕτω διὰ δοκουμένης εὐλόγου προφάσεως λῦσαι τὴν εἰρήνην· ὃ καὶ ἐγένετο. καὶ ἀπέστειλεν Ἀβιμέλεχ οἰκοδομῆσαι τὸν τοῦ Μάκκα ναόν. καὶ ἠθέλησεν ἐπᾶραι τοὺς κίονας τῆς ἁγίας Γεθσημανῆ. καὶ παρεκάλεσεν αὐτὸν Σέργιός τις ἀνὴρ χριστιανικώτατος, ὁ τοῦ Μανσοῦρ, γενικὸς λογοθέτης καὶ λίαν ᾠκειωμένος τῷ αὐτῷ Ἀβιμέλεχ, καὶ Πατρίκιος, ὁ τούτου ἐφάμιλλος τῶν κατὰ τὴν Παλαιστίνην Χριστιανῶν προύχων, ὁ ἐπίκλην Κλαυσῦς, αἰτούμενοι μὴ γενέσθαι τοῦτο, ἀλλὰ δι' ἱκεσίας αὐτῶν πεῖσαι Ἰουστινιανὸν ἀποστεῖλαι ἄλλους ἀντ' αὐτῶν· ὅπερ καὶ γέγονεν. ζʹ. θʹ. ʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Ἰουστινιανὸς ἐπελέξατο ἐκ τῶν μετοικισθέντων 366 ὑπ' αὐτοῦ Σκλάβων καὶ ἐστράτευσε χιλιάδας λʹ καὶ ὁπλίσας αὐτοὺς ἐπωνόμασεν αὐτοὺς λαὸν περιούσιον, ἄρχοντά τε αὐτῶν Νέβουλον τοὔνομα. θαρρήσας δὲ εἰς αὐτοὺς γεγράφηκε τοῖς Ἄραψι μὴ ἐμμένειν αὐτὸν τῇ ἐγγράφως συμφωνηθείσῃ εἰρήνῃ. καὶ παραλαβὼν τὸν περιούσιον λαὸν καὶ πάντα τὰ καβαλλαρικὰ θέματα ἐπορεύθη ἐν Σεβαστοπόλει τῇ παρὰ θάλασσαν. τῶν δὲ Ἀράβων ὑποκρινομένων καὶ μὴ αἱρουμένων λῦσαι τὴν εἰρήνην, ἀλλὰ τῇ βασιλικῇ αἰτίᾳ καὶ προπετείᾳ τοῦτο πρᾶξαι ἀναγκαζομένων, ὁπλισθέντες καὶ αὐτοὶ παρεγένοντο ἐν Σεβαστοπόλει, προμαρτυρούμενοι τῷ βασιλεῖ τὰ μεθ' ὅρκων ἀναμεταξὺ αὐτῶν συμφωνηθέντα μὴ διαστραφῆναι· ἐπεί τοί γε ἔκδικος καὶ κριτὴς ὁ θεὸς τῶν αἰτίων γενήσεται. τοῦ δὲ βασιλέως μηδὲ δι' ἀκοῆς τὰ τοιαῦτα ἀνασχομένου, ἀλλὰ πρὸς μάχην μᾶλλον κατεπείγοντος, τὸν τῆς εἰρήνης ἔγγραφον λόγον λύσαντες καὶ ἐπὶ ὑψηλῆς ἄστας ἀντὶ φλαμούλου προάγειν κρεμάσαντες κατὰ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ὥρμησαν, Μουάμεδ στρατηγὸν ἔχοντες, καὶ συνέβαλον πόλεμον. καὶ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἡττήθησαν Ἄραβες. ὑποβαλὼν δὲ Μουάμεδ τῷ συμμαχοῦντι Ῥωμαίοις στρατηγῷ τῶν Σκλάβων, πέμπει αὐτῷ κούκουρον γέμον νομισμάτων, καὶ πολλαῖς ὑποσχέσεσι τοῦτον ἀπατήσας πείθει προσφυγεῖν πρὸς αὐτοὺς μετὰ καὶ κʹ χιλιάδων Σκλάβων, καὶ οὕτω Ῥωμαίοις τὴν φυγὴν περιεποιήσατο. τότε Ἰουστινιανὸς ἀνεῖλε τὸ τούτων ἐγκατάλειμμα σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ τέκνοις παρὰ τῷ λεγομένῳ Λευκάτῃ, τόπῳ κρημνώδει καὶ παραθαλασσίῳ κατὰ τὸν Νικομηδειάσιον κόλπον κειμένῳ. ηʹ. ιʹ. ζʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Σαββάτιος, ὁ πατρίκιος Ἀρμενίας, μαθὼν τὴν τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἧτταν τὴν Ἀρμενίαν παρέδωκε τοῖς Ἄραψιν, καὶ ὑπετάγηαὐτοῖς καὶ ἡ ἔσω Περσίς, ἡ λεγομένη Χωρασάν, καὶ φύεται ἐκεῖσε παράβουλος ὀνόματι Σαβῖνος, καὶ πολλοὺς τῶν Ἀράβων ἀπέκτεινε καὶ αὐτὸν τὸν Χαγάνον παρ' ὀλίγον τελείως ποταμόπνικτον ἐποίει. 367 ἔκτοτε ἐπὶ πλεῖον θρασυνθέντες οἱ Ἀγαρηνοὶ τὴν Ῥωμανίαν ἐλυμήναντο. Κόσμου ἔτη ρπʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη χπʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Ἰουστινιανὸς ἔτη ιʹ. θʹ. Ἀράβων ἀρχηγὸς Ἀβιμέλεχ ἔτη κβʹ. ιαʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Καλλίνικος ἔτη ιβʹ. αʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἔκλειψις γέγονεν ἡλίου μηνὶ Ὑπερβερεταίῳ εʹ ἡμέρᾳ αʹ ὥρᾳ γʹ, ὥστε φανῆναί τινας λαμπροὺς ἀστέρας. καὶ ἐπεστράτευσε Μουάμεδ τὴν Ῥωμανίαν, ἔχων μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ τοὺς πρόσφυγας Σκλάβους ὡς ἐμπείρους τῆς Ῥωμανίας, καὶ πολλοὺς ᾐχμαλώτευσεν. ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ ἀναίρεσις τῶν χοίρων ἐν Συρίᾳ. Ἰουστινιανὸς δὲ εἰς