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Years 9. 9. 2. 1. 11. 20. In this year the impious emperor Leo began to speak of the destruction of the holy and venerable icons. And learning of this, Gregory, the pope of Rome, withheld the taxes of Italy and Rome, having written a dogmatic letter to Leo, that it was not proper for an emperor to make pronouncements about the faith and to innovate upon the ancient dogmas of the church, which were decreed by the holy fathers. In the same year the winter torrent, flooding, entered the city of Edessa and destroyed many people. 10. 3. 2. 12. 21. In this year Masalmas campaigned against Caesarea in Cappadocia and took it. And a plague occurred in Syria. And the camels of the protosymboulos were burned at Saint Elias. And Muawiyah, the son of Hisham, campaigned against Roman territory and, after marching about, returned. In the same year, in the 9th indiction, in the summer season, a vapor as from a fiery furnace boiled up from the depths of the sea between the islands of Thera and Therasia for some days, and gradually thickening and petrifying by the heat of the fiery eruption, the entire smoke appeared fiery. And by the thickness of the earthy substance it sent up great pumice stones like certain hills over all of Asia Minor and Lesbos and Abydos and maritime Macedonia, so that the whole surface of this sea was full of floating pumice stones; and in the midst of so great a fire an island was formed from the earth and joined to the so-called Sacred Island, not having existed before, but just as the aforementioned islands, both Thera and Therasia, were once cast up, so also this one now in the times of the God-fighter 405 Leo. who, interpreting the divine wrath against him as being on his behalf, more shamelessly raised war against the holy and venerable icons, having as his ally Beser the apostate, a rival of equal irrationality. For both were full of want of education and of all ignorance, from which most evils come. And the crowds in the queenly city, being greatly distressed at the new teachings, plotted to attack him and killed some of the emperor's men who were taking down the icon of the Lord that was upon the great Chalke Gate, with the result that many of them were punished for their piety by mutilations, scourgings, exiles, and fines, especially those distinguished by noble birth and learning; so that the schools were also extinguished and the pious education that had prevailed from the time of Saint Constantine the Great until now, of which, along with many other good things, this Saracen-minded Leo became the destroyer. Therefore, moved by divine zeal in these matters, the men of Hellas and of the Cyclades islands revolted against him, having agreed on a great naval battle, with a certain Kosmas accompanying them to be crowned; Agallianos, the tourmarch of the Helladics, led the army, along with Stephen; and approaching the queenly city on the 18th of the month of April in the 10th indiction, they were defeated when they engaged the Byzantines, their ships having been set on fire by the prepared fire. And some were sunk near the Cistern, among whom Agallianos also drowned himself in full armor, while the survivors went over to the victor. And the heads of both Kosmas and Stephen were cut off, and the impious Leo and his like-minded followers increased in wickedness, intensifying the persecution against piety. And at the summer solstice of this 10th indiction, after the evil victory over his countrymen, a host of Saracens under two emirs was drawn up against Nicaea in Bithynia, Amer having advanced with 15,000 light-armed men and surrounded the unprepared city, and Muawiyah following with another 85,000, who after a long 406 siege and a partial destruction of the walls at the precinct of the honored holy fathers there, did not overcome it, on account of their well-received prayers to God, where also their venerable images were set up, honored until now by those of like mind.

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ἔτη θʹ. θʹ. βʹ. αʹ. ιαʹ. κʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἤρξατο ὁ δυσσεβὴς βασιλεὺς Λέων τῆς κατὰ τῶν ἁγίων καὶ σεπτῶν εἰκόνων καθαιρέσεως λόγον ποιεῖσθαι. καὶ μαθὼν τοῦτο Γρηγόριος, ὁ πάπας Ῥώμης, τοὺς φόρους τῆς Ἰταλίας καὶ Ῥώμης ἐκώλυσε γράψας πρὸς Λέοντα ἐπιστολὴν δογματικήν, μὴ δεῖν βασιλέα περὶ πίστεως λόγον ποιεῖσθαι καὶ καινοτομεῖν τὰ ἀρχαῖα δόγματα τῆς ἐκκλησίας, τὰ ὑπὸ τῶν ἁγίων πατέρων δογματισθέντα. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει καὶ ὁ χείμαρρος πλημμυρήσας εἰσῆλθεν εἰς Ἔδεσαν τὴν πόλιν καὶ πολλοὺς ἠφάνισεν. ιʹ. γʹ. βʹ. ιβʹ. καʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἐπεστράτευσε Μασαλμᾶς τὴν Καισάρειαν Καππαδοκίας καὶ παρέλαβεν αὐτήν. καὶ γέγονε θανατικὸν ἐν Συρίᾳ. καὶ αἱ κάμηλοι τοῦ πρωτοσυμβούλου ἐκάησαν εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ἡλίαν. Μαυΐας δέ, ὁ υἱὸς Ἰσάμ, ἐπεστράτευσε τὴν Ῥωμανίαν καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσας ὑπέστρεψεν. Ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ ἔτει, ἰνδικτιῶνος θʹ, ὥρᾳ θέρους, ἀτμὶς ὡς ἐκ καμίνου πυρὸς ἀνέβρασεν ἀναμέσον Θήρας καὶ Θηρασίας τῶν νήσων ἐκ τοῦ βυθοῦ τῆς θαλάσσης ἐπὶ ἡμέρας τινάς, καὶ κατὰ βραχὺ παχυνομένη καὶ ἀπολιθουμένη τῇ ἐξάψει τῆς πυρώδους ἐκκαύσεως, ὅλος ὁ καπνὸς πυροφανὴς ἐδείκνυτο. τῇ δὲ παχύτητι τῆς γεώδους οὐσίας πετροκισσήρους μεγάλους ὡς λόφους τινὰς ἀνέπεμψε καθ' ὅλης τῆς μικρᾶς Ἀσίας καὶ Λέσβου καὶ Ἀβύδου καὶ τῆς πρὸς θάλασσαν Μακεδονίας, ὡς ἅπαν τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς θαλάσσης ταύτης κισσήρων ἐπιπολαζόντων γέμειν· μέσον δὲ τοῦ τηλικούτου πυρὸς νῆσος ἀπογεωθεῖσα τῇ λεγομένῃ Ἱερᾷ νήσῳ συνήφθη, μήπω τὸ πρὶν οὖσα, ἀλλ' ὡς αἱ προρρηθεῖσαι νῆσοι, Θήρα τε καὶ Θηρασία ποτὲ ἐξεβράσθησαν, οὕτω καὶ αὕτη νῦν ἐπὶ τῶν χρόνων τοῦ θεομάχου 405 Λέοντος. ὃς τὴν κατ' αὐτοῦ θείαν ὀργὴν ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ λογισάμενος ἀναιδέστερον κατὰ τῶν ἁγίων καὶ σεπτῶν εἰκόνων ἤγειρε πόλεμον, σύμμαχον ἔχων Βησὴρ τὸν ἀρνησίθεον καὶ τῆς ἴσης ἀλογίας ἐφάμιλλον. ἄμφω γὰρ ἀπαιδευσίας ἦσαν ἔμπλεοι καὶ πάσης ἀμαθίας, ἐξ ἧς τὰ πολλὰ τῶν κακῶν ἔρχεται. οἱ δὲ κατὰ τὴν βασιλίδα πόλιν ὄχλοι σφόδρα λυπούμενοι ἐπὶ ταῖς καιναῖς διδασκαλίαις αὐτῷ τε ἐμελέτων ἐπελθεῖν καί τινας βασιλικοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἀνεῖλον καθελόντας τὴν τοῦ κυρίου εἰκόνα τὴν ἐπὶ τῆς μεγάλης Χαλκῆς πύλης, ὡς πολλοὺς αὐτῶν ὑπὲρ τῆς εὐσεβείας τιμωρηθῆναι μελῶν ἐκκοπαῖς καὶ μάστιξι καὶ ἐξορίαις καὶ ζημίαις, μάλιστα δὲ τοὺς εὐγενείᾳ καὶ λόγῳ διαφανεῖς· ὥστε καὶ τὰ παιδευτήρια σβεσθῆναι καὶ τὴν εὐσεβῆ παίδευσιν τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐν ἁγίοις Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ μεγάλου καὶ μέχρι νῦν κρατήσασαν, ἧς καὶ μετὰ ἄλλων πολλῶν καλῶν καθαιρέτης ὁ σαρακηνόφρων οὗτος Λέων γέγονεν. ἐν τούτοις οὖν θείῳ κινούμενοι ζήλῳ στασιάζουσι κατ' αὐτοῦ μεγάλῃ ναυμαχίᾳ συμφωνήσαντες Ἑλλαδικοί τε καὶ οἱ τῶν Κυκλάδων νήσων Κοσμᾶν τινα συνεπόμενον ἔχοντες εἰς τὸ στεφθῆναι, Ἀγαλλιανὸς δέ, τουρμάρχης τῶν Ἑλλαδικῶν, ἡγεῖτο τῆς στρατιᾶς, καὶ Στέφανος· οἳ καὶ προσπελάσαντες τῇ βασιλίδι πόλει ιηʹ τοῦ Ἀπριλλίου μηνὸς τῆς ιʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος ἡττῶνται συμβαλόντες τοῖς Βυζαντίοις, ἐμπρησθέντων αὐτῶν τῶν νηῶν τῷ σκευαστῷ πυρί. καὶ οἱ μὲν βυθίζονται περὶ τὸν λάκκον, ἐν οἷς καὶ Ἀγαλλιανὸς ἔνοπλον ἑαυτὸν ἐπόντωσεν, οἱ δὲ ζῶντες τῷ κρατοῦντι προσρύονται. καὶ ἀποτέμνονται τὰς κεφαλὰς Κοσμᾶς τε καὶ Στέφανος, αὔξει δὲ τῇ κακίᾳ Λέων ὁ δυσσεβὴς καὶ οἱ τούτου σύμφρονες τὸν κατὰ τῆς εὐσεβείας διωγμὸν ἐπιτείνοντες. κατὰ δὲ τὴν θερινὴν τροπὴν ταύτης τῆς ιʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος, μετὰ τὴν τῶν ὁμοφύλων κακὴν νίκην, κατὰ τῆς Βιθυνῶν Νικαίας παρατάττεται Σαρακηνῶν δύο ἀμηραίων στῖφος, Ἄμερ ἐν χιλιάσι ιεʹ μονοζώνων προδραμὼν καὶ ἀπαρασκεύαστον κυκλώσας τὴν πόλιν, καὶ Μαυΐας ἐπακολουθῶν ἐν ἄλλαις ὀκτὼ ἥμισυ μυριάσιν, οἳ μετὰ πολιορκίαν 406 πολλὴν καὶ καθαίρεσιν τῶν τειχῶν μερικὴν τῷ τῶν τιμωμένων ἁγίων πατέρων αὐτόθι τεμένει ταύτης μὲν οὐ περιγεγόνασι διὰ τῶν εὐπροσδέκτων εὐχῶν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, ἔνθα καὶ σεβάσμιοι αὐτῶν χαρακτῆρες ἀνεστήλωντο μέχρι νῦν ὑπὸ τῶν ὁμοφρόνων αὐτῶν τιμώμενοι.