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the holy and ecumenical sixth council. And at the same time the foolish man was blinded. And while he was passing his time in great heedlessness in the palace, finding there masses of money and most splendid substances collected over many years by the previous emperors from confiscations and various pretexts, and especially by the aforementioned Justinian, he squandered these things carelessly and in vain and without effort. And while in his conversations he was considered learned and prudent, in his actions, passing his life indecently and incompetently, he was shown to be altogether worthless. He was also a heretic and an adulterer. And having driven Kyros the patriarch out of the church, he put forward John, his fellow initiate and co-heretic. 382 Years of the world 6204. Years of the divine incarnation 704. Philippikos emperor of the Romans for 2 years: year 1. Walid chief of the Arabs for 9 years: year 7. John bishop of Constantinople for 3 years: year 1. John bishop of Jerusalem for 30 years: year 7. In this year Philippikos, having expelled the Armenians from his own land, forced them to inhabit Melitene and the fourth Armenia. And Masalmas took Amaseia along with other small forts and many captives; and George, the bishop of Apameia, was resettled in Martyropolis. But Philippikos was not ashamed to be moved with fury against the holy and ecumenical sixth council, hastening to overturn the divine dogmas confirmed by it. And he found as like-minded persons John, whom he made bishop of Constantinople after deposing Kyros, its president, whom he also confined in the monastery of Chora; and Germanos, who after these things held the throne of Constantinople, being at that time bishop of Kyzikos, and Andrew, who was also bishop of Crete, and Nikolaos, who from among the kaukodiakonoi had become a sophist of the medical science and was then quaestor, and Elpidios, a deacon of the great church, and Antiochos the chartophylax and others of the same kind; who also anathematized in writing the holy sixth council. But when the Bulgars, through the Philea, secretly charged upon the Stenon and made a great slaughter and ran as far as the city, and found many people crossing, and lawful weddings and most lavish feasts with various silver and other baggage, and ran as far as the Golden Gate and took all of Thrace captive, they returned unharmed to their own lands with countless cattle. Likewise the Arabs also took Mistheia and other forts, making a capture of very many families and innumerable cattle. 383 2. 8. 2. 8. In this year Abbas marched against Roman territory and took Antioch of Pisidia with many captives, and returned. And there was a great earthquake throughout Syria on the 28th of the month Peritios. And when a two-year period of Philippikos's reign had passed in these things, and the birthday hippodrome was being celebrated, with the Greens winning, it seemed good to the emperor on the Saturday of Pentecost to enter on horseback with a reception and with instruments and to bathe in the public bath of Zeuxippos and to breakfast with citizens of ancient birth. And while he was taking his midday rest, suddenly through the Golden Gate entered Rouphos, the protostrator of the Opsikion, by the counsel of George, patrician and count of the Opsikion, surnamed Bouraphos, and of Theodore, patrician of Myakios, with the taxata which he had in Thrace of the same theme, and rushing into the palace he found Philippikos taking his midday rest, and seizing him he brought him up to the stable of the Greens and there blinded him, with no one having realized it. And on the next day, that is, on Pentecost, when the people had gathered in the great church, Artemios the protoasekretis was crowned, renamed Anastasios. And on the Saturday after Pentecost Theodore of Myakes was blinded, and on the second Saturday was blinded

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