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of the cities, and was forcing the Christians to become Magarians; and those who became Magarians he made tax-exempt, but those who did not accept he put to death, and made many martyrs, and he legislated that the testimony of a Christian against a Saracen not be accepted. He also composed a doctrinal letter to the emperor Leo, thinking to persuade him to become a Magarian. 3. 2. 5. 14. In this year was born to the impious emperor Leo his more impious son Constantine, the forerunner of the Antichrist. And on the 25th of the month of December, Maria, the wife of Leo, was crowned in the triclinium of the Augusteum, and she proceeded in state alone without her husband into the Great Church, and having prayed before the entrance of the sanctuary, she went to the great baptistery, her husband having entered before her with a few of his household attendants. There, as Germanus the hierarch was baptizing Constantine, the successor to their wickedness and their empire, a terrible and foul-smelling sign from his infancy was manifested, as he defecated in the holy font, as those say who were exact eyewitnesses, so that Germanus the most holy patriarch said prophetically, that "This sign is by nature of the greatest evil about to happen to Christians and to the Church through him." The leading men of the themes and of the senate received him after he was baptized. And after the divine liturgy the Augusta Maria returned in state with her baptized son, holding a consular procession from the church to the Chalke Gate of the palace. In the same year Niketas Xylinites writes to Artemios in Thessalonica, that he should go to Tervel, so that he might come against Leo with a Bulgarian alliance. And obeying, he went and he gives him an army and 50 centenaria of gold. And having received these things, he comes to Constantinople. But as the city did not receive him, the Bulgars handed him over to Leo and having been treated kindly by him, they returned. And the emperor put him to death along with Xylinites, confiscating also the property of Xylinites, who was his magistros and possessed much. Likewise also the patrician Sisinnios, surnamed Rendakis, the Bulgars beheaded as being with Artemios, and the archbishop of Thessalonica they betrayed to the emperor, and he was beheaded with Artemios. Likewise also Isoes the patrician and count of the Opsikion, and Theoktistos the protoasecretis, and Niketas Anthrax and archon of the wall, as his friends and supporters, he killed; and the rest he exiled after slitting their noses and confiscating their property.

Years of the world 6212. Years of the divine incarnation 712. Leo emperor of the Romans, 24 years. 4. Izid ruler of the Arabs, 4 years. 1. Germanos bishop of Constantinople, 15 years. ʹ. John bishop of Jerusalem, 30 years. 15. In this year, in the 3rd indiction, on the day of Pascha, Constantine was crowned by Leo, his father, in the tribunal of the nineteen accubita, with the blessed Germanus the patriarch saying the customary prayers. In the same year died Umar, who had been amir of the Arabs for 2 years and 4 months, and Izid becomes amir. Against him rises a tyrant in Persia, named also Izid Moualabi; and many from Persia joined him. But Izid, sending Masalmas, killed him and subjugated Persia. 5. 2. 7. 10. In this year a certain Syrian pseudo-Christ appeared and deceived the Jews, saying that he himself was the Christ, the son of God. ʹ. 3. 8. 17. In this year the emperor forced the Jews and the Montanists to be baptized. And the Jews, being baptized unwillingly, would wash off the baptism, and eating, they partook of the holy gift and stained the faith. But the Montanists

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τῶν πόλεων, καὶ μαγαρίζειν τοὺς Χριστιανοὺς ἠνάγκαζεν· καὶ τοὺς μὲν μαγαρίζοντας ἀτελεῖς ἐποίει, τοὺς δὲ μὴ καταδεχομένους ἀνῄρει, καὶ πολλοὺς μάρτυρας ἀπειργάσατο, καὶ μὴ παραδέχεσθαι μαρτυρίαν Χριστιανοῦ κατὰ Σαρακηνοῦ ἐθέσπισεν. ἐποίησε δὲ καὶ ἐπιστολὴν δογματικὴν πρὸς Λέοντα τὸν βασιλέα οἰόμενος πείσειν αὐτὸν τοῦ μαγαρίσαι. γʹ. βʹ. εʹ. ιδʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἐτέχθη τῷ δυσσεβεῖ βασιλεῖ Λέοντι ὁ δυσσεβέστερος αὐτοῦ υἱὸς Κωνσταντῖνος καὶ τοῦ Ἀντιχρίστου πρόδρομος. τῇ δὲ κεʹ τοῦ ∆εκεμβρίου μηνὸς Μαρία, ἡ γυνὴ Λέοντος, ἐστέφθη ἐν τῷ τρικλίνῳ τοῦ Αὐγουστέως, καὶ προῆλθεν ἔμπρακτος μόνη χωρὶς τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἐν τῇ μεγάλῃ ἐκκλησίᾳ, καὶ εὐξαμένη πρὸ τῆς εἰσόδου τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου μετῆλθεν εἰς τὸν μέγαν βαπτιστῆρα, προεισελθόντος τοῦ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς μετ' ὀλίγων οἰκειακῶν ἀνθρώπων αὐτοῦ. ἔνθα βαπτίσαντος Γερμανοῦ τοῦ ἀρχιερέως τὸν τῆς κακίας τε καὶ βασιλείας αὐτῶν διάδοχον Κωνσταντῖνον, δεινόν τι καὶ δυσῶδες ἐκ νηπιότητος αὐτοῦ προεσήμανται τεκμήριον, ἀφοδεύσαντος αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ἁγίᾳ κολυμβήθρᾳ, ὥς φασιν οἱ ἀκριβῶς αὐτόπται γεγονότες, ὥστε φάναι Γερμανὸν τὸν ἁγιώτατον πατριάρχην προφητικῶς, ὅτι "μεγίστου κακοῦ Χριστιανοῖς καὶ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ δι' αὐτοῦ μέλλοντος γίνεσθαι τὸ σημεῖον τοῦτο πέφυκεν." τοῦτον οἱ προύχοντες τῶν θεμάτων καὶ τῆς συγκλήτου βαπτισθέντα ἀνεδέξαντο. μετὰ δὲ τὴν θείαν λειτουργίαν ἔμπρακτος ἡ αὐγούστα Μαρία ἀνέκαμψε σὺν τῷ υἱῷ βεβαπτισμένῳ ὑπατείαν δοῦσα ἀπὸ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἕως τῆς Χαλκῆς πύλης τοῦ παλατίου. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει Νικήτας ὁ Ξυλινίτης γράφει πρὸς Ἀρτέμιον ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ, ὥστε ἀπελθεῖν αὐτὸν πρὸς Τέρβελιν, ὅπως μετὰ συμμαχίας Βουλγαρικῆς ἔλθῃ κατὰ Λέοντος. ὁ δὲ ὑπακούσας ἀπῆλθε καὶ δίδωσιν αὐτῷ στρατὸν καὶ νʹ κεντηνάρια χρυσοῦ. καὶ ταῦτα λαβὼν ἐπὶ Κωνσταντινούπολιν ἔρχεται. τῆς δὲ πόλεως τοῦτον μὴ δεξαμένης, οἱ Βούλγαροι τοῦτον τῷ Λέοντι παρέδωκαν καὶ φιλοφρονηθέντες ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ὑπέστρεψαν. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς τοῦτον σὺν τῷ Ξυλινίτῃ ἀνεῖλεν, δημεύσας καὶ τὴν τοῦ Ξυλινίτου οὐσίαν μαγίστρου αὐτοῦ ὑπάρχοντος καὶ πολλὴν κεκτημένου· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ Σισίννιον τὸν πατρίκιον, τὸ ἐπίκλην Ῥενδάκιν οἱ Βούλγαροι ἀπεκεφάλισαν ὡς συνόντα τῷ Ἀρτεμίῳ, καὶ τὸν ἀρχιεπίσκοπον Θεσσαλονίκης προέδωκαν τῷ βασιλεῖ, καὶ ἀπεκεφαλίσθη σὺν τῷ Ἀρτεμίῳ. ὁμοίως καὶ Ἰσόην τὸν πατρίκιον καὶ κόμητα τοῦ Ὀψικίου καὶ Θεόκτιστον πρωτο401 ασηκρήτην, καὶ Νικήταν τὸν Ἄνθρακα καὶ ἄρχοντα τοῦ τειχίου ὡς φίλους καὶ συνδρόμους αὐτοῦ, ἀπέκτεινεν· τοὺς δὲ λοιποὺς ῥινοτομήσας καὶ δημεύσας ἐξώρισεν.

Κόσμου ἔτη σιβʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη ψιβʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Λέων

ἔτη κδʹ. δʹ. Ἀράβων ἀρχηγὸς Ἰζὶδ ἔτη δʹ. αʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Γερμανὸς ἔτη ιεʹ. ʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ἰωάννης ἔτη λʹ. ιεʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἰνδικτιῶνος γʹ, τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ πάσχα, ἐστέφθη Κωνσταντῖνος ὑπὸ Λέοντος, τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, ἐν τῷ τριβουναλίῳ τῶν ιθʹ ἀκουβίτων, τοῦ μακαρίου Γερμανοῦ τοῦ πατριάρχου ποιήσαντος τὰς πρὸς συνήθειαν εὐχάς. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει ἀπεβίω Οὔμαρος, ὁ τῶν Ἀράβων ἀμηρεύσας ἔτη βʹ καὶ μῆνας δʹ, καὶ ἀμηρεύει Ἰζίδ. τούτῳ φύεται ἐν Περσίδι τύραννος ὀνόματι καὶ αὐτὸς Ἰζὶδ Μουαλαβί· καὶ συναπῆλθον αὐτῷ πολλοὶ τῆς Περσίδος· πέμψας δὲ Ἰζὶδ τὸν Μασαλμᾶν ἀνεῖλεν αὐτὸν καὶ τὴν Περσίδα ὑπέταξεν. εʹ. βʹ. ζʹ. ιʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἀνεφάνη τις Σύρος ψευδόχριστος καὶ ἐπλάνησε τοὺς Ἑβραίους λέγων ἑαυτὸν εἶναι τὸν Χριστόν, τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ. ʹ. γʹ. ηʹ. ιζʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἠνάγκασεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τοὺς Ἑβραίους καὶ τοὺς Μοντανοὺς βαπτίζεσθαι. οἱ δὲ Ἰουδαῖοι ἀπροαιρέτως βαπτιζόμενοι ἀπελούοντο τὸ βάπτισμα καὶ ἐσθίοντες μετελάμβανον τὴν ἁγίαν δωρεὰν καὶ ἔχραινον τὴν πίστιν. οἱ δὲ Μοντανοὶ