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In the same year Kosmas, the patriarch of Alexandria, became orthodox along with his city, from the heresy of the Monothelites, which had prevailed since Cyrus, the bishop of Alexandria in the time of Heraclius. And Gamer campaigned against Romanía with a multitude of Arabs, and having taken many captives he returned. And a sign appeared in the sky in the north in the month of June. And Walid ordered Peter, the most holy metropolitan of Damascus, to have his tongue cut out because he openly refuted the impiety of the Arabs and the Manichaeans, and he exiled him to Arabia Felix, where he also met his end, having martyred for Christ and having clearly recited the divine liturgy, as those who tell the story say that this was fully confirmed by their own ears. A zealot and namesake of this man, Peter of Maiuma, was revealed in the same times as a willing martyr for Christ. For being afflicted by an illness he summoned the leading men of the Arabs, as they were his associates since he was a chartoularios of the public taxes, and says to them: "May you receive a reward from God for my visit, even if you happen to be 417 unbelieving friends. But I wish you to be witnesses of my testament, it being as follows: everyone who does not believe in the Father and Son and Holy Spirit, the consubstantial and life-giving Trinity in unity, is crippled in soul and is worthy of eternal punishment. Such also is Muhammad, your false prophet, and a forerunner of the Antichrist. Therefore depart, if you obey me as I call heaven and earth to witness to you today, from his mythology (for I am well-disposed to you), so that you may not be punished with him." Having heard him theologize these and many other things, and being seized by astonishment and rage, they decided to be patient, thinking him to be delirious from the illness; but after he recovered from the illness he began to cry out more loudly: "Anathema to Muhammad and to his mythology and to all who believe in it." Then having undergone the punishment by the sword, he was revealed a martyr. This man has been honored with encomia of words by our holy father John, who was aptly surnamed Chrysorrhoas (Golden-stream) because of the Spirit's golden-gleaming grace that blossomed in him both in word and life, whom Constantine the impious emperor subjected to an annual anathema on account of the surpassing orthodoxy in him, and instead of his paternal name Mansour, which is interpreted as 'redeemed', with a Jewish mentality he renamed him Manzer, the new teacher of the church. And in the same year Walid resettled the Cypriots to Syria. And Artavasdos, having appointed Niketas, his son, as monostrategos, sent him out to the Armeniakon theme, likewise he also crowned Nikephoros, his son, through Anastasios the patriarch. And in the same year in the month of May, Artavasdos went out to the regions of the Opsikion, and having levied troops in Asia, he occupied it, plundering it. And Constantine, having learned this, moved against him. And having caught him in the region of Sardis coming up from the Kelbianon and having joined battle with him, he turns him and pursues him as far as Cyzicus. And he, having reached Cyzicus and having entered a dromon, is saved in the city. And in the month of August of the same 11th indiction, 418 Niketas the monostrategos, son of Artavasdos, having engaged Constantine in battle near Modrine, flees, having been routed, and they killed the patrician Teridates the Armenian, who was a brave soldier and a cousin of Artavasdos, along with other select commanders, and of both sides no small fall occurred, of the Armeniacs and Armenians having fought against the Anatolics and Thrakesians, the champions of Constantine. And the primevally evil devil stirred up such madness and mutual slaughter against the Christians in these times, so that children against parents and brothers against brothers were moved unsparingly to slaughter, and mercilessly set fire to each other's existing stations and houses. Ruler of the Arabs, Walid, year 1. 3.

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αὐτῷ ἔτει Κοσμᾶς ὁ πατριάρχης Ἀλεξανδρείας ὠρθοδόξησε σὺν τῇ πόλει αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῆς τῶν Μονοθελητῶν κακοδοξίας, κρατησάσης ἀπὸ Κύρου, τοῦ ἐπὶ Ἡρακλείου ἐπισκόπου Ἀλεξανδρείας. ἐπεστράτευσε δὲ Γάμερ τὴν Ῥωμανίαν μετὰ πλήθους Ἀράβων καὶ πολλοὺς αἰχμαλωτεύσας ὑπέστρεψεν. ἐφάνη δὲ σημεῖον ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ κατὰ βορρᾶν μηνὶ Ἰουνίῳ. Οὐαλὶδ δὲ Πέτρον, τὸν ἁγιώτατον μητροπολίτην ∆αμασκοῦ, γλωττοτομηθῆναι ἐκέλευσε ὡς ἀναφανδὸν ἐλέγχοντα τὴν τῶν Ἀράβων καὶ Μανιχαίων δυσσέβειαν ἐξώρισέ τε αὐτὸν κατὰ τὴν εὐδαίμονα Ἀραβίαν, ἔνθα καὶ τελειοῦται μαρτυρήσας ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ καὶ τρανῶς ἐκφωνήσας τὴν θείαν λειτουργίαν, ὡς οἱ διηγησάμενοί φασιν ἰδίαις ἀκοαῖς τοῦτο πεπληροφορῆσθαι. τούτου ζηλωτὴς καὶ ὁμώνυμος Πέτρος, ὁ κατὰ τὸν Μαϊουμᾶν, ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἀνεδείχθη χρόνοις μάρτυς ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ αὐτόμολος. νόσῳ γὰρ συσχεθεὶς προσεκαλέσατο τοὺς τῶν Ἀράβων προύχοντας, ἅτε συνήθεις αὐτῷ ὄντας χαρτουλαρίῳ τελοῦντι τῶν δημοσίων φόρων, καί φησι πρὸς αὐτούς· "τὸν μὲν ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐπισκέψεώς μου μισθὸν παρὰ θεοῦ λάβοιτε, κἂν ἄπιστοι τυγχάνητε 417 φίλοι. τῆς διαθήκης δέ μου μάρτυρας ὑμᾶς εἶναι βούλομαι τοιαύτης οὔσης· πᾶς ὁ μὴ πιστεύων εἰς πατέρα καὶ υἱὸν καὶ πνεῦμα ἅγιον, τὴν ὁμοούσιον καὶ ζωαρχικὴν ἐν μονάδι τριάδα, πεπήρωται τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ τῆς αἰωνίου κολάσεώς ἐστιν ἄξιος. τοιοῦτός ἐστι καὶ ὁ Μουάμεδ, ὁ ψευδοπροφήτης ὑμῶν, καὶ τοῦ Ἀντιχρίστου πρόδρομος· ἀπόστητε οὖν, εἰ ἐμοὶ πείθεσθε μαρτυρομένῳ ὑμῖν σήμερον τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν, τῆς ἐκείνου μυθολογίας (εὐνοῶ γὰρ ὑμῖν), ἵνα μὴ σὺν ἐκείνῳ κολασθῆτε." ταῦτα καὶ ἄλλα πλεῖστα θεολογοῦντος αὐτοῦ ἀκούσαντες, θάμβει τε καὶ μανίᾳ συσχεθέντες μακροθυμεῖν ἔδοξαν, ὡς ἐκ τῆς νόσου παραφρονοῦντα τοῦτον οἰόμενοι· μετὰ δὲ τὸ διαγενέσθαι αὐτὸν ἐκ τῆς νόσου ἤρξατο μεγαλοφωνότερον ἀνακράζειν· "ἀνάθεμα Μουάμεδ καὶ τῇ μυθογραφίᾳ αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς πιστεύουσιν αὐτῇ." τότε τὴν διὰ ξίφους τιμωρίαν ὑποστὰς μάρτυς ἀνεδείχθη. τοῦτον ἐγκωμίοις λόγων τετίμηκεν ὁ ὅσιος πατὴρ ἡμῶν Ἰωάννης, ὁ καλῶς ἐπικληθεὶς Χρυσορρόας διὰ τὴν ἐπανθοῦσαν αὐτῷ τοῦ πνεύματος ἔν τε λόγῳ καὶ βίῳ χρυσαυγῆ χάριν, ὃν Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ δυσσεβὴς βασιλεὺς ἐτησίῳ καθυπέβαλεν ἀναθέματι διὰ τὴν ὑπερβάλλουσαν ἐν αὐτῷ ὀρθοδοξίαν, καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ παππικοῦ αὐτοῦ ὀνόματος Μανσούρ, ὃ ἑρμηνεύεται λελυτρωμένος, Μάνζηρον Ἰουδαϊκῷ φρονήματι μετωνόμασε τὸν νέον τῆς ἐκκλησίας διδάσκαλον. τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει Οὐαλὶδ τοὺς Κυπρίους μετῴκισεν εἰς Συρίαν. Ὁ δὲ Ἀρτάυασδος Νικήταν, τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, μονοστράτηγον προβαλόμενος εἰς τὸ τῶν Ἀρμενιάκων θέμα ἐξέπεμψεν, ὁμοίως δὲ Νικηφόρον, τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, ἔστεψε διὰ Ἀναστασίου τοῦ πατριάρχου. τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει μηνὶ Μαΐῳ Ἀρτάυασδος ἐπὶ τὰ μέρη τοῦ Ὀψικίου ἐξελθών, τὴν Ἀσίαν στρατολογήσας κατέλαβεν, ἐκπορθῶν αὐτήν. Κωνσταντῖνος δὲ τοῦτο μαθὼν ἐκίνησε κατ' αὐτοῦ. καταλαβὼν δὲ αὐτὸν εἰς τὰ μέρη Σάρδεων ἀπὸ τοῦ Κελβιανοῦ ἀνερχόμενον καὶ συμβαλὼν μετ' αὐτοῦ πόλεμον τρέπει αὐτὸν καὶ καταδιώκει μέχρι Κυζίκου. ὁ δὲ τὴν Κύζικον καταλαβὼν καὶ εἰς δρόμωνα εἰσελθὼν διασώζεται ἐν τῇ πόλει. μηνὶ δὲ Αὐγούστῳ τῆς αὐτῆς ιαʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος 418 Νικήτας ὁ μονοστράτηγος, υἱὸς Ἀρταυάσδου, συμβαλὼν Κωνσταντίνῳ εἰς πόλεμον πρὸς τῇ Μοδρινῇ φεύγει τραπείς, καὶ τὸν μὲν πατρίκιον Τηριδάτην τὸν Ἀρμένιον, στρατιώτην γενναῖον ὑπάρχοντα καὶ ἐξάδελφον Ἀρταυάσδου, σὺν ἄλλοις ἐπιλέκτοις ἄρχουσιν ἀνεῖλον, ἑκατέρων δὲ τῶν μερῶν πτῶσις οὐ μικρὰ γέγονεν, Ἀρμενίων τε καὶ Ἀρμενιάκων μαχησαμένων πρὸς ἀνατολικοὺς καὶ Θρᾳκησίους, τοὺς ὑπερμάχους Κωνσταντίνου. ὁ δὲ ἀρχέκακος διάβολος τοιαύτην κατὰ τῶν Χριστιανῶν ἐν τοῖς χρόνοις τούτοις ἤγειρε μανίαν καὶ ἀλληλοσφαγίαν, ὥστε τέκνα κατὰ γονέων καὶ ἀδελφοὺς κατὰ ἀδελφῶν συγκινεῖσθαι ἀφειδῶς εἰς σφαγήν, καὶ ἀνηλεῶς ἐμπυρίζειν τὰς ἀλλήλοις ὑπαρχούσας στάσεις τε καὶ οἰκίας. Ἀράβων ἀρχηγὸς Οὐαλὶδ ἔτος αʹ. γʹ.