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George Bouraphos, and they were exiled in Thessalonica. Years of the world, 200. Years of the divine incarnation, 700. Emperor of the Romans, Artemius, for 2 years. 1st year. Ruler of the Arabs, Walid, for 9 years. 9th year. Bishop of Constantinople, John, for 3 years. 3rd year. Bishop of Jerusalem, John, for 30 years. 9th year. In this year Masalmas raided Romania, and having plundered Galatia returned with many captives and spoils. But Artemius, having appointed very capable generals for the cavalry themes, and very learned men for civil affairs, was at ease. But when the Arabs were arming against Romania by both land 384 and sea, the emperor sent officials to Walid in Syria, ostensibly to discuss peace, namely Daniel of Sinope, patrician and prefect of the city, having instructed him to investigate with accuracy their movement and force against Romania. And when he had departed and returned, he reported to the emperor their great armament against the queen city by both land and sea ..... that each person should provide for his own expenses for a three-year period, and whoever could not afford this should leave the city. And he appointed supervisors and began to build dromons and fire-bearing dieres and very large triremes; and he restored the sea walls, and likewise the land walls, setting up catapults and stone-throwers in the towers and mangonels; and having fortified the city as much as he could, he stored up a great amount of grain in the imperial granaries and secured himself. Ruler of the Arabs, Suleiman, for 3 years. Bishop of Constantinople, Germanus, for 15 years. 2nd year. 1st year. 1st year. 10th year. In this year Walid died, and Suleiman succeeded to the rule. In the same second year of the reign of Artemius, also called Anastasius, in the 13th indiction, on the 11th of the month of August, Germanus was transferred from the metropolis of Cyzicus to Constantinople; on which occasion also the following decree of transfer was proclaimed: "By the vote and approval of the most devout presbyters and deacons, and of all the holy clergy, and of the sacred senate, and of the Christ-loving people of this God-guarded and queen city, the divine grace, which always heals the weak and fills up what is lacking, transfers Germanus, the most holy president of the 385 metropolis of the Cyzicenes, to be bishop of this God-guarded and queen city. And this present transfer took place in the presence of Michael, the most holy presbyter and apocrisiarius of the apostolic throne, and of other priests and bishops, under the emperor Artemius." But Artemius, having learned that a fleet of the Saracens had gone up from Alexandria to Phoenicia to cut cypress wood, selected the fast-sailing vessels from his own fleet, put on board marines from the Opsikion theme, and ordered them all to assemble at Rhodes, and he appointed as their general and head the deacon John of the great church, surnamed Papa Ioannakes, who was at that time general logothete. And when he arrived at Rhodes, and the fleet had been gathered, he conferred with the commanders about setting out and going to Phoenicia to burn the wood and the equipment of the Hagarenes that was to be found there. But while all readily obeyed, those of the Opsikion did not consent; and they revolted against the emperor, and killed the deacon John with their swords. Thenceforth the fleets, having been divided, sailed away to their own places, but the evil-doers set sail against the queen city. And when they came to Adramyttium, being without a leader, they found there a local man named Theodosius, who was a collector of the public taxes, an unassuming and private person, and they urged him to become emperor. But he took to flight and hid in the mountains. But finding him, they acclaimed him by force as emperor. But Artemius, having learned these things, placed his household troops over the city

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Γεώργιος ὁ Βούραφος, καὶ ἐξωρίσθησαν ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ. Κόσμου ἔτη σʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη ψʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Ἀρτέμιος ἔτη βʹ. αʹ. Ἀράβων ἀρχηγὸς Οὐαλὶδ ἔτη θʹ. θʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Ἰωάννης ἔτη γʹ. γʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ἰωάννης ἔτη λʹ. θʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἐκούρσευσε Μασαλμᾶς τὴν Ῥωμανίαν, καὶ σκυλεύσας τὴν Γαλατίαν ὑπέστρεψε μετ' αἰχμαλωσίας καὶ σκύλων πολλῶν. ὁ δὲ Ἀρτέμιος στρατηγοὺς ἱκανωτάτους προβαλλόμενος εἰς τὰ καβαλλαρικὰ θέματα, καὶ λογιωτάτους εἰς τὰ πολιτικά, ἐν ἀδείᾳ διετέλει. τῶν δὲ Ἀράβων ὁπλιζομένων κατὰ Ῥωμανίας διά τε γῆς 384 καὶ θαλάσσης, ἀπέστειλεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἄρχοντας ἐν Συρίᾳ πρὸς Οὐαλίδ, ὡς δῆθεν τὰ τῆς εἰρήνης προσλαλῆσαι, ∆ανιὴλ τὸν Σινωπίτην, πατρίκιον καὶ ἔπαρχον τῆς πόλεως, ἐντειλάμενος αὐτῷ ἐν ἀκριβείᾳ διερευνῆσαι περὶ τῆς κατὰ Ῥωμανίας κινήσεως καὶ δυνάμεως αὐτῶν. τοῦ δὲ ἀπελθόντος καὶ ὑποστρέψαντος, ἀπήγγειλε τῷ βασιλεῖ τὴν μεγάλην κατὰ τῆς βασιλίδος πόλεως διά τε γῆς καὶ θαλάσσης ἐξόπλισιν αὐτῶν ..... ὅτι ἕκαστος φροντιζέτω τὰς ἑαυτοῦ δαπάνας ἕως τοῦ τριετοῦς χρόνου, ὁ δὲ τοῦτο ἀπορῶν ἀποτρεχέτω τῆς πόλεως. ἔστησε δὲ ἐπείκτας καὶ ἤρξατο κτίζειν δρόμωνάς τε καὶ διήρεις πυρσοφόρους καὶ μεγίστας τριήρεις· καὶ τὰ παράλια δὲ ἀνεκαίνισε τείχη, ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ τὰ χερσαῖα, στήσας τοξοβολίστρας καὶ τετραρέας εἰς τοὺς πύργους καὶ μαγγανικά· καὶ κατὰ τὸ δυνατὸν αὐτῷ τὴν πόλιν ὀχυρώσας γεννήματά τε πλεῖστα εἰς τὰ βασιλικὰ ὄρια ἀπέθετο καὶ καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἠσφαλίσατο. Ἀράβων ἀρχηγὸς Σουλεϊμὰν ἔτη γʹ. Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπίσκοπος Γερμανὸς ἔτη ιεʹ. βʹ. αʹ. αʹ. ιʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἀπεβίω Οὐαλίδ, καὶ Σουλεϊμὰν διαδέχεται τὴν ἀρχήν. τῷ δ' αὐτῷ δευτέρῳ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας Ἀρτεμίου, τοῦ καὶ Ἀναστασίου, τῆς ιγʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος μηνὶ Αὐγούστῳ ιαʹ, μετετέθη Γερμανὸς ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως Κυζίκου εἰς Κωνσταντινούπολιν· ἐφ' ᾗ καὶ κιτατόριν μεταθεσίμου τὸ ὑποτεταγμένον ἐκπεφώνηται· ψήφῳ καὶ δοκιμασίᾳ τῶν θεοσεβεστάτων πρεσβυτέρων καὶ διακόνων, καὶ παντὸς τοῦ εὐαγοῦς κλήρου, καὶ τῆς ἱερᾶς συγκλήτου, καὶ τοῦ φιλοχρίστου λαοῦ τῆς θεοφυλάκτου ταύτης καὶ βασιλίδος πόλεως, ἡ θεία χάρις, ἡ πάντοτε τὰ ἀσθενῆ θεραπεύουσα καὶ τὰ λείποντα ἀναπληροῦσα, μετατίθησι Γερμανόν, τὸν ὁσιώτατον πρόεδρον τῆς Κυζικηνῶν 385 μητροπόλεως, εἰς ἐπίσκοπον ταύτης τῆς θεοφυλάκτου καὶ βασιλίδος πόλεως. ἐγένετο δὲ ἡ παροῦσα μετάθεσις κατὰ παρουσίαν Μιχαήλ, τοῦ ὁσιωτάτου πρεσβυτέρου καὶ ἀποκρισιαρίου τοῦ ἀποστολικοῦ θρόνου, καὶ λοιπῶν ἱερέων καὶ ἐπισκόπων, ἐπὶ Ἀρτεμίου βασιλέως. μαθὼν δὲ Ἀρτέμιος, ὅτι στόλος τῶν Σαρακηνῶν ἀπὸ Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπὶ τὸν Φοίνικα ἀνέδραμε πρὸς τὸ κόψαι ξυλὴν κυπαρισσίνην, ἐπιλεξάμενος ἐκ τοῦ οἰκείου στόλου τὰ εὔδρομα σκάφη ἔβαλε ταξάτους ἐκ τοῦ Ὀψικίου θέματος, καὶ εἰς τὴν Ῥόδον ἀθροισθῆναι ἐκέλευσε πάντας καὶ προεβάλετο στρατηγὸν καὶ κεφαλὴν αὐτῶν τὸν διάκονον Ἰωάννην τῆς μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας, τὸν ἐπιλεγόμενον παπᾶν Ἰωαννάκιν τὸ τηνικαῦτα λογοθέτην γενικὸν ὑπάρχοντα. αὐτοῦ δὲ ἐν τῇ Ῥόδῳ καταλαβόντος, καὶ τῶν πλωΐμων συναθροισθέντων, διελάλει τοῖς ἄρχουσι περὶ τοῦ ἀποκινῆσαι αὐτούς, καὶ ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὸν Φοίνικα, πρὸς τὸ καῦσαι τὴν ξυλὴν καὶ τὴν εὑρισκομένην ἐξάρτυσιν τῶν Ἀγαρηνῶν. πάντων δὲ προθύμως ὑπακουσάντων, οἱ τοῦ Ὀψικίου οὐ κατεδέξαντο· καὶ τὸν μὲν βασιλέα ἀνέσκαψαν, τὸν δὲ διάκονον Ἰωάννην ῥομφαίαις ἀνεῖλον. ἐντεῦθεν λοιπὸν οἱ στόλοι διαιρεθέντες εἰς τοὺς ἰδίους ἀπέπλευσαν τόπους, οἱ δὲ κακοῦργοι κατὰ τῆς βασιλίδος ἀνέβαλον πόλεως. ἐλθόντων δὲ αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ Ἀδραμυτίῳ, ἀκεφάλων ὄντων, εὗρον ἐκεῖ ἄνδρα ἐντόπιον Θεοδόσιον ὀνόματι, ἐκλήπτορα τῶν δημοσίων φόρων ὑπάρχοντα, ἀπράγμονά τε καὶ ἰδιώτην, καὶ προετρέψαντο αὐτὸν τοῦ βασιλεύειν. ὁ δὲ φυγῇ χρησάμενος εἰς τὸ ὄρος ἐκρύβη. εὑρόντες δὲ αὐτὸν εὐφήμησαν αὐτὸν βιασάμενοι ὡς βασιλέα. ὁ δὲ Ἀρτέμιος ταῦτα μαθὼν ἐπέστησε τῇ πόλει οἰκειακοὺς