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The one, containing his own perverted opinion, he had written with his own hands and kept in secret, but the other, having had it written by another's hand in accordance with the faith set forth in Nicaea, and giving this to the emperor, and swearing an oath that he truly believed just as he had written, he so captivated the emperor by his cunning that he ordered him to be received into communion at the church without delay by Alexander the archbishop. The archbishop, therefore, in agony 1.519 as was likely, and having beseeched God throughout the whole night, made him a matter of prayer. For on the next day, as the unholy man was proceeding to the church with pomp and exultation, when he was in the forum near the so-called Senate, his stomach having griped him, having withdrawn to the latrines there, he is dragged down by an angelic hand, both his belly and his bowels having burst along with his soul and been cast down into the latrines.

In the 28th year a great famine occurred in the East, but the emperor, by sending much grain, alleviated it. Antioch alone received 30,000 of grain per year. And when an earthquake occurred in Cyprus, the city Salamis collapsed and destroyed a considerable number of people. In the 29th year Dalmatius was proclaimed Caesar. But Calocaerus, having usurped power in Cyprus, is burned alive in Tarsus of Cilicia by Dalmatius. In the 33rd year of his reign, Constantine the Great dies. For having set out against the Persians from Nicomedia, he arrives at the Pythian natural hot springs. And having fallen ill, and from there having come through Helenopolis to the camp, a violent fever seized him and he died, in the ninth year after the foundation and dedication of Constantinople. And he was laid in a porphyry or Roman sarcophagus, he and his mother Helen, who had died twelve years before his own death, and his wife Fausta, daughter of Maximian Herculius, leaving in the empire three 1.520 sons, Constantius and Constantine and Constans, having appointed Constantius to have the parts of Thrace and the East, Constantine the western parts towards the Ocean, and Constans Crete, Africa, and Illyricum. And a report prevailed that Constantine the Great died from poison by the plot of his brothers, wherefore he himself had enjoined this on his son in his own hand, both to take vengeance and to be on his guard against the paternal uncles who had killed him; and that having received such a writing, Eusebius, the bishop of Nicomedia, gave it to Constantius, who had just arrived from the East, and from this he also became bishop of Constantinople. But as for their being killed, since indeed the summary execution of all of them clearly seemed irrational to him, he judged it necessary not to do this without reason. And Constantine the Great died, having reigned piously for 32 years and 10 months, having lived a total of 65 years. Constantius reigned for 24 years, Constans for 17 years. But Constantine died quickly in the following manner. He went to his brother Constantius to confer about certain matters with great force and power, which threw Constantius into alarm lest he might be coming against him plotting some revolution; and having chanced upon evil counsels and those urging him to war, he went out against him. And when war broke out, Constantine, having been found among the last of those fleeing, is killed, being the third brother, and Constantius becomes master of all the western parts. And he was ... 1.521 in the build of his body tall and somewhat blond, bright-eyed in appearance, changeable in his opinion, moderate in regard to sexual matters, consorting with friends, temperate in regard to food, well-disposed towards the requests and judgments of his subjects; he abstained completely from fruits. And in the public expenditures of the rulers he always maintained what was fitting. And he enrolled no one in the senate who did not have a share of education, so that they knew how to compose speeches and write in verse, being overcome by one disease alone: heresy. In the 2nd year of his reign, Dalmatius

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Τῷ κηʹ ἔτει λιμὸς μέγας ἐγένετο ἐν τῇ ἀνατολῇ, ὁ δὲ βασι λεὺς σῖτον πολὺν ἀποστείλας τοῦτον ἤμβλυνε. μόνη δὲ ἡ Ἀντιό χεια λʹ χιλιάδας σίτου κατ' ἔτος ἐλάμβανε. σεισμοῦ δὲ ἐν Κύ πρῳ γενομένου Σαλαμὶν ἡ πόλις κατέπεσε καὶ ἱκανὸν πλῆθος διέ φθειρε. Τῷ κθʹ ἔτει ∆αλμάτιος Καῖσαρ ἀνηγορεύθη. Καλόκαιρος δὲ ἐν Κύπρῳ τυραννήσας ἐν Ταρσῷ τῆς Κιλικίας ὑπὸ ∆αλματίου ζῶν κατακαίεται. Τῷ λγʹ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ὁ μέγας Κωνσταντῖνος τελευτᾷ. κινήσας γὰρ κατὰ Περσῶν ἀπὸ Νικομηδείας ἐν τοῖς Πυθίοις αὐ τομάτοις θερμοῖς παραγίνεται. καὶ κακωθείς, ἐκεῖθέν τε δι' Ἑλενουπόλεως ἐν τῷ χάρακι ἐλθών, πυρετοῦ λαβροῦ κατασχόντος αὐτὸν ἐτελεύτησεν, μετὰ θʹ ἔτος τοῦ οἰκισμοῦ καὶ ἐγκαινισμοῦ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. καὶ ἀπετέθη ἐν λάρνακι πορφυρᾷ ἤτοι Ῥωμαίῳ, αὐτός τε καὶ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ Ἑλένη πρὸ δώδεκα ἐτῶν τῆς αὐτοῦ τελευτῆς ἀποθανοῦσα καὶ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ Φαῦστα, θυ γάτηρ Μαξιμιανοῦ τοῦ Ἑρκουλίου, καταλείψας ἐν βασιλείᾳ τρεῖς 1.520 υἱούς, Κωνστάντιον καὶ Κωνσταντῖνον καὶ Κώνσταντα, διορισά μενος Κωνστάντιον μὲν ἔχειν τὰ Θρᾴκης καὶ ἑῴας μέρη, Κων σταντῖνον δὲ τὰ πρὸς Ὠκεανὸν ἑσπέρια, Κώνσταντα δὲ Κρήτην Ἀφρικὴν καὶ τὸ Ἰλλυρικόν. δόξα δὲ κατέσχε τελευτῆσαι μὲν τὸν μέγαν Κωνσταντῖνον φαρμάκῳ δηλητηρίῳ ἐπιβουλῇ τῶν ἀδελφῶν, διὸ καὶ αὐτὸν τοῦτο δι' αὐτογράφου ἐπισκῆψαι τῷ παιδί, ἐκδι κῆσαί τε καὶ φυλάξασθαι τοὺς ἀνελόντας αὐτὸν θείους· λαβόντα δὲ τὴν τοιαύτην γραφὴν Εὐσέβιον τὸν Νικομηδείας ἐπίσκοπον ἀπο δοῦναι Κωνσταντίῳ ἐκ τῆς ἑῴας ἄρτι παραγενομένῳ, ἔνθεν τε γενέσθαι αὐτὸν καὶ ἐπίσκοπον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. τὸ δὲ τού τους ἀναιρεθῆναι, ἐπεί τοι ἀλόγιστος σαφῶς ἡ ἀθρόα πάντων αὐτῶν ἀναίρεσις τούτῳ ἐδόκει, δέον ἔκρινε μὴ ἄνευ λόγου τοῦτο ποιῆσαι. ἐτελεύτησε δὲ ὁ μέγας Κωνσταντῖνος εὐσεβῶς βασιλεύ σας ἔτη λβʹ καὶ μῆνας ιʹ, ζήσας τὰ πάντα ἔτη ξεʹ. Κωνστάντιος ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη κδʹ, Κώνστας ἔτη ιζʹ. Κων σταντῖνος δὲ ταχὺ τετελεύτηκε τρόπῳ τοιῷδε. πρὸς τὸν ἀδελφὸν Κωνστάντιον κοινωσόμενος ᾔει περί τινων μετὰ πολλῆς ἰσχύος καὶ δυνάμεως, ὃ τὸν Κωνστάντιον εἰσῆγεν εἰς ἔκπληξιν μή τι νεωτε ρίσων ἀφικνῆται εἰς αὐτόν· καὶ πονηρῶν συμβουλῶν ἐπιτυχὼν καὶ πρὸς πόλεμον ἐρεθιζόντων αὐτὸν ἐξῆλθε κατ' αὐτοῦ. καὶ συρραγέντος πολέμου ἐν τοῖς ἐσχάτοις τῶν φευγόντων εὑρεθεὶς ὁ Κωνσταντῖνος ἀναιρεῖται, τρίτος ὢν ἀδελφός, καὶ γίνεται Κων στάντιος ἐγκρατὴς πάντων τῶν ἑσπερίων. ἦν δὲ ̣̣̣στα´̣τ̣̣̣ 1.521 τὴν τοῦ σώματος ἀναδρομὴν εὐμήκης καὶ ἐπίξανθος, χαροπὸς τὴν ὄψιν, εὐμετάβολος τὴν γνώμην, σώφρων τὰ πρὸς ἀφροδίσια, φίλοις συναναστρεφόμενος, ἐγκρατὴς τὰ πρὸς τροφήν, εὐμενὴς πρὸς τὰς αἰτήσεις καὶ κρίσεις τῶν ὑπηκόων· ὀπωρῶν καθάπαξ ἀφέστηκεν. ἐν δὲ ταῖς τῶν ἡγεμόνων φιλοτιμίαις τὸ πρέπον ἀεὶ διετήρει. οὐδένα δὲ μὴ παιδείας μετέχοντα τῇ γερουσίᾳ κατέ λεγεν, ὡς καὶ τὸ εἴρειν λόγον καὶ μέτροις γράφειν ἐπίστασθαι, ἑνὶ μόνῳ νοσήματι τῇ κακοδοξίᾳ ἡττώμενος. Τῷ βʹ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ ∆αλμάτιος