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Pouzanes shut himself in. Having overpowered them, the emperor blinded Artavasdos along with his two sons, and beheaded Baktangios in the Kynegion and hung his head in the Milion for three days. After 30 years the vengeful and merciless emperor ordered his wife to go to the monastery of Chora, for he had been buried there, and to dig up his bones and carry them in her own mantle and cast them into the so-called tombs of Pelagius with those who had died a violent death. O, the inhumanity! He also put to death many other leading men who had allied themselves with Artavasdos, and he blinded countless others, and cut off the hands and feet of others. He allowed the foreign commanders who had entered with him to enter the houses and plunder the property of the citizens, and he inflicted many other countless terrible things upon the city. And holding a hippodrome, he brought in Artavasdos with his sons and friends, bound, through the dihippion along with Anastasios, the falsely-named patriarch, who had been publicly blinded and was seated backwards on a donkey, whom 421 he brought into the hippodrome and paraded, but then, having intimidated and enslaved him as one of like mind, he seated him on the throne of the priesthood. And Sisinnios, the patrikios and strategos of the Thrakesians, who had assisted him greatly and fought alongside him, and who was his cousin, he blinded after 40 days by the just judgment of God. For he who helps the impious will fall into his hands, according to what is written.

Year of the world 6230. Year of the divine incarnation 730. Emperor of the Romans

Constantine, 35 years. 4th. Leader of the Arabs Marwan, 2 years. 1st. Bishop of Rome Zacharias, 21 years. 11th. Bishop of Constantinople Anastasios, 24 years. 15th. Bishop of Antioch Theophylaktos, 7 years. 1st. In this year a great comet appeared over Syria. And Thebit revolted against Marwan, and Dahak of the Arourites; whom Marwan, having overpowered, killed in the territory of Emesa with a multitude of 12,000 warriors. In the same year, at the request of the Christians of the East, he permitted Theophylaktos, a presbyter from Edessa, to be ordained patriarch of Antioch, Stephen having fallen asleep, and ordered him to be honored with catholic letters by the Arabs. For he was adorned with spiritual gifts, and especially with prudence. In Emesa he impaled 120 Chalbenoi, and Abas, who had shed much Christian blood and plundered many places and taken captives, he kills in prison. For an Ethiopian was sent to him by Marwan for this purpose, and filling a sack with quicklime he came to him, and placing this over his head and his nostrils, he suffocated him, devising a just punishment for the sorcerer. For by magic and invocations of demons he contrived many evils against the Christians. This man also shared in the blood of Walid. 422 5th. 2nd. 12th. 10th. 2nd. In this year Sulayman, having gathered his troops again, engages Marwan and is defeated, losing 7,000 of his people, and escapes as a fugitive to Palmyra, and from there to Persia. And the people of Emesa and Heliopolis and Damascus also revolted, having closed their cities to Marwan; who, having sent his son with a force against Dahak, himself came to Emesa, which he took in four months. But Dahak was coming from Persia with a very large force. And Marwan, engaging him near Mesopotamia after many of his own men had been killed, captures and kills him. In these circumstances Constantine took Germanikeia and Doulichia, having campaigned in Syria, finding it undefended because of the Arabs' fight with one another. And by treaty sending out the Arabs in them unarmed, he took in his mother's relatives and resettled them in Byzantium,

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Πουζάνης ἑαυτὸν ἐνέκλεισεν. οὓς χειρωσάμενος ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸν μὲν Ἀρτάυασδον σὺν τοῖς δυσὶν υἱοῖς ἐτύφλωσεν, τὸν δὲ Βακτάγγιον ἐν τῷ Κυνηγίῳ ἀπεκεφάλισε καὶ τὴν τούτου κεφαλὴν ἐν τῷ Μιλίῳ ἐκρέμασεν ἐπὶ ἡμέρας τρεῖς. μετὰ δὲ λʹ ἔτη ὁ μνησίκακος καὶ ἄσπλαγχνος βασιλεὺς προσέταξεν ἀπελθεῖν τὴν αὐτοῦ γυναῖκα ἐν τῇ μονῇ τῆς Χώρας, ἐκεῖσε γὰρ ἦν ταφείς, καὶ ἀνασκάψαι αὐτοῦ τὰ ὀστᾶ καὶ ἐν τῷ ἰδίῳ παλλίῳ βαστάσαι καὶ εἰς τὰ λεγόμενα Πελαγίου μνήματα μετὰ τῶν βιοθανάτων ῥίψαι. ὢ τῆς ἀπανθρωπίας. πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ ἄλλους συμμαχήσαντας Ἀρταυάσδῳ τῶν προυχόντων ἀνεῖλεν, ἀναριθμήτους δὲ ἐτύφλωσεν, καὶ ἄλλους ἐχειροκόπησε καὶ ἐποδοκόπησεν. ἐπέτρεψε δὲ τοῖς σὺν αὐτῷ εἰσελθοῦσιν ἐξωτικοῖς ἄρχουσιν εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τοὺς οἴκους καὶ διαρπάσαι τὰς οὐσίας τῶν πολιτῶν, πολλά τε καὶ ἄλλα ἀναρίθμητα δεινὰ ἐπεδείξατο τῇ πόλει. ἱππικὸν δὲ ποιήσας εἰσήγαγε τὸν Ἀρτάυασδον σὺν τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῖς φίλοις δεδεμένους διὰ τοῦ διϊππίου ἅμα Ἀναστασίῳ τῷ ψευδωνύμῳ πατριάρχῃ τυφθέντι δημοσίως καὶ ἐπὶ ὄνου ἐξανάστροφα καθημένῳ, ὃν 421 εἰς τὸ ἱππικὸν εἰσαγαγὼν ἐπόμπευσεν, πάλιν δὲ ὡς ὁμόφρονα αὐτοῦ ἐκφοβήσας καὶ δουλώσας ἐν τῷ θρόνῳ τῆς ἱερωσύνης ἐκάθισεν. Σισίννιον δέ, τὸν πατρίκιον καὶ στρατηγὸν τῶν Θρᾳκησίων, πολλὰ συνδραμόντα αὐτῷ καὶ συναγωνισάμενον, ἐξάδελφόν τε αὐτοῦ ὄντα μετὰ μʹ ἡμέρας ἐτύφλωσε τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ δικαίᾳ κρίσει. ὁ γὰρ βοηθῶν τῷ ἀσεβεῖ ἐμπεσεῖται εἰς τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον.

Κόσμου ἔτη σλʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη ψλʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς

Κωνσταντῖνος ἔτη λεʹ. δʹ. Ἀράβων ἀρχηγὸς Μαρουὰμ ἔτη ʹ. αʹ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Ζαχαρίας ἔτη καʹ. ιαʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Ἀναστάσιος ἔτη κδʹ. ιεʹ. Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος Θεοφύλακτος ἔτη ζʹ. αʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει κομήτης μέγας κατὰ τὴν Συρίαν ἐφάνη. καὶ ἐστασίασε Θεβὶτ κατὰ τοῦ Μαρουὰμ καὶ ∆αχὰκ ὁ τῶν Ἀρουριτῶν· οὓς χειρωσάμενος Μαρουὰμ ἀνεῖλεν ἐν τοῖς ὁρίοις Ἐμέσης μετὰ πλήθους πολεμιστῶν χιλιάδων ιβʹ. τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει παρακλήσει τῶν Χριστιανῶν τῆς ἑῴας συνεχώρησε χειροτονηθῆναι Θεοφύλακτον, πρεσβύτερον Ἐδεσηνόν, πατριάρχην Ἀντιοχείας, κοιμηθέντος Στεφάνου, καὶ τοῦτον γράμμασι καθολικοῖς τιμᾶσθαι προσέταξε παρὰ τῶν Ἀράβων. χαρίσμασι γὰρ πνευματικοῖς ἐκεκόσμητο, καὶ μάλιστα τῇ σωφροσύνῃ. ἐν Ἐμέσῃ δὲ ρκʹ Χαλβενοὺς ἐφούρκισεν, τὸν δὲ Ἄβας, τὸν πολλὰ τῶν Χριστιανῶν αἵματα ἐκχύσαντα καὶ πολλοὺς τόπους πορθήσαντα καὶ αἰχμαλωτίσαντα ἀναιρεῖ ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ. σταλέντος γὰρ πρὸς αὐτόν τινος Αἰθίοπος ὑπὸ Μαρουὰμ ἐπὶ τούτῳ, θύλακα πλήσας ἀσβέστου ζώσης εἰσῆλθε πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ τοῦτον τῇ κεφαλῇ καὶ ταῖς αὐτοῦ ῥισὶ περιθεὶς ἀπέπνιξεν αὐτόν, δικαίαν ἐφευρόμενος τῷ γόητι τιμωρίαν. μαγείαις γὰρ καὶ δαιμόνων ἐπικλήσεσι πολλὰ κατὰ Χριστιανῶν κακὰ ἐτεκτήνατο. οὗτος καὶ τῷ αἵματι Οὐαλὶδ ἐκοινώνησεν. 422 εʹ. βʹ. ιβʹ. ιʹ. βʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Σουλεϊμὰν ἐπισυνάξας τὰ στρατεύματα αὐτοῦ αὖθις τῷ Μαρουὰμ συμβάλλει καὶ ἡττᾶται ἀποβαλὼν τοῦ λαοῦ χιλιάδας ζʹ καὶ φυγὰς εἰς Παλμύραν διασώζεται, κἀκεῖθεν εἰς Περσίδα. ἐστασίασαν δὲ καὶ Ἐμεσηνοὶ καὶ Ἡλιουπολῖται καὶ ∆αμασκηνοὶ τὰς πόλεις τῷ Μαρουὰμ ἀποκλείσαντες· ὃς τὸν μὲν ἑαυτοῦ υἱὸν κατὰ τοῦ ∆αχὰκ ἀποστείλας μετὰ δυνάμεως αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τὴν Ἔμεσαν ἦλθεν, ἣν ἐν τέτρασι μησὶ παρέλαβεν. ὁ δὲ ∆αχὰκ ἀπὸ Περσίδος μετὰ πλείστης δυνάμεως ἤρχετο. ὁ δὲ Μαρουὰμ συμβαλὼν αὐτῷ κατὰ τὴν Μεσοποταμίαν μετὰ τὸ πολλοὺς ἀναιρεθῆναι τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ τοῦτον συλλαβὼν κτείνει. ἐν τούτοις Κωνσταντῖνος Γερμανίκειαν παρέλαβεν ἐπιστρατεύσας τὴν Συρίαν καὶ ∆ουλιχίαν ἄδειαν εὑρὼν διὰ τὴν τῶν Ἀράβων πρὸς ἀλλήλους μάχην. λόγῳ δὲ τοὺς ἐν αὐταῖς Ἄραβας ἐξαποστείλας ἀόπλους προσελάβετο καὶ τοὺς πρὸς μητρὸς συγγενεῖς καὶ ἐν Βυζαντίῳ μετῴκισεν,