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for a long time against each other, and Teletzes, having turned, fled. The battle lasted from the 5th hour until late, and great multitudes of Bulgars were destroyed, many were also captured, and others also deserted. The emperor, elated by such a victory, celebrated it in the city, entering in a chariot with his army, acclaimed by the demes and dragging the captured Bulgars in wooden yokes, whom he ordered to be beheaded by the citizens outside the Golden Gate. But the Bulgars rose up and killed Teletzes along with his commanders and appointed Sabinus, who was the son-in-law of Kormesios, their former lord. When Sabinus immediately sent to the emperor and sought to make peace, the Bulgars held a council and strongly opposed Sabinus, saying, "Through you Bulgaria is about to be enslaved to the Romans." An uprising having occurred, Sabinus fled to the fortress of Mesembria and deserted to the emperor. The Bulgars appointed another lord for themselves, named Paganos. 23. 9. 2. 10. In this year the men of the desert and of Basrathon rose up against Abdela, two brothers, whom he sent for and killed along with eighty thousand troops. In the same year, Turks came out of the Caspian gates and killed many in Armenia and took many captives and returned. A certain Cosmas, bishop of Epiphaneia near Apamea in Syria, surnamed Komanites, when the citizens of Epiphaneia made an accusation against the same Cosmas to Theodore, the patriarch of Antioch, concerning the diminution of sacred objects, and he was not able to substantiate these things, he apostatized from the orthodox faith and became of one mind with the heresy of Constantine against the holy icons.434 Whom by common consent Theodore, the patriarch of Antioch, and Theodore of Jerusalem, and Cosmas of Alexandria, with the bishops under them, on the day of holy Pentecost after the reading of the holy gospel, unanimously anathematized, each in his own city. In the same year, from the beginning of the month of October, there was a great and most bitter cold, not only in our land, but much more in the east and north and west, so that the northern coast of the Pontus for 100 miles the sea was turned to stone from the cold to a depth of 30 cubits, and from Zichia to the Danube and the river Kouphis, both the Danastris and Danapris and the Nekropyla and the rest of the coast as far as Mesembria and Medeia suffered the same things. And when snow fell on such ice, it increased by another 20 cubits, so that the sea was conformed to the dry land, and was walkable over the ice from Khazaria, Bulgaria and the other adjacent nations, by both wild and tame animals. But in the month of February of the same second indiction, when this ice, by God's command, was divided into very many and various mountain-like pieces, and was carried by the force of the winds towards Daphnousia and the Hieron, thus through the Strait they reached the city as far as the Propontis and the islands and Abydos, they filled the entire sea-coast, of which we also became eyewitnesses, having climbed upon one of them with some 30 companions and played on top of it. They also had wild and tame animals that had died. And anyone who wished walked unhindered on dry land from Sophianae to the city, and from Chrysopolis to St. Mamas and to Galata. One of them, striking against the stairway of the Acropolis, shattered it. Another enormous one, striking the wall, shook it greatly, so that even the houses within shared in the shaking. And breaking into three pieces435 it encircled the city from the Mangana to the Bosporus, the height of which surpassed the walls; and all the men, women, and children of the city continually persisted in the sight of these things and returned home with lamentations and tears, wondering what

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ἀλλήλους ἐπὶ πολύ, καὶ τραπεὶς Τελέτζης ἔφυγεν. ἐκράτησε δὲ ἡ μάχη ἀπὸ ὥρας εʹ ἕως ὀψέ, καὶ πολλὰ πλήθη Βουλγάρων ἀνηλώθησαν, πολλοὶ δὲ καὶ ἐχειρώθησαν, ἄλλοι δὲ καὶ προσερρύησαν. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς ἀρθεὶς τῇ τοιαύτῃ νίκῃ ἐθριάμβευσε ταύτην ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως, ἀρματωμένος σὺν τῷ στρατῷ εἰσελθών, εὐφημούμενος ὑπὸ τῶν δήμων καὶ ξυλοπανδούροις σύρων τοὺς χειρωθέντας Βουλγάρους, οὓς ἔξω τῆς Χρυσῆς πόρτης ἀποτμηθῆναι ἐκέλευσεν ὑπὸ τῶν πολιτῶν. τὸν δὲ Τελέτζην στασιάσαντες οἱ Βούλγαροι ἀπέκτειναν σὺν τοῖς ἄρχουσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔστησαν Σαβῖνον, γαμβρὸν ὄντα Κορμεσίου τοῦ πάλαι κυρίου αὐτῶν. τοῦ δὲ Σαβίνου εὐθέως ἀποστείλαντος πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα καὶ ζητοῦντος ποιῆσαι εἰρήνην, κομβέντον ποιήσαντες οἱ Βούλγαροι ἀντέστησαν στερρῶς τῷ Σαβίνῳ λέγοντες, ὅτι "διὰ σοῦ ἡ Βουλγαρία μέλλει δουλοῦσθαι τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις." στάσεως δὲ γενομένης, φεύγει Σαβῖνος ἐν τῷ κάστρῳ Μεσημβρίας καὶ προσερρύη τῷ βασιλεῖ. ἔστησαν δὲ οἱ Βούλγαροι ἕτερον κύριον ἑαυτῶν, ὀνόματι Παγάνον. κγʹ. θʹ. βʹ. ιʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἀντῆραν οἱ τῆς ἐρήμου καὶ τοῦ Βασραθὼν τῷ Ἀβδελᾷ, δύο ἀδελφοί, οὓς ἀποστείλας ἀνεῖλε σὺν χιλιάσιν πʹ στρατοῦ. τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει ἐξῆλθον Τοῦρκοι ἐκ τῶν Κασπίων πυλῶν καὶ ἀνεῖλον πολλοὺς εἰς Ἀρμενίαν καὶ ἔλαβον αἰχμαλωσίαν πολλὴν καὶ ὑπέστρεψαν. Κοσμᾶς δέ τις ἐπίσκοπος Ἐπιφανείας τῆς κατὰ Ἀπάμειαν τῆς Συρίας, Κομανίτης ἐπιλεγόμενος, τῶν πολιτῶν Ἐπιφανείας πρὸς Θεόδωρον, τὸν πατριάρχην Ἀντιοχείας, ἔγκλησιν ποιησαμένων κατὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Κοσμᾶ περὶ μειώσεως ἱερῶν, καὶ αὐτοῦ μὴ δυναμένου ταῦτα συστῆσαι, ἀπέστη τῆς ὀρθοδόξου πίστεως καὶ ὁμόφρων τῆς αἱρέσεως Κωνσταντίνῳ κατὰ τῶν ἁγίων εἰκόνων γέ434 γονεν. ὃν κοινῇ γνώμῃ Θεόδωρος, ὁ πατριάρχης Ἀντιοχείας, καὶ Θεόδωρος Ἱεροσολύμων, καὶ Κοσμᾶς Ἀλεξανδρείας σὺν τοῖς ὑπ'αὐτοὺς ἐπισκόποις τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς ἁγίας πεντηκοστῆς μετὰ τὴν ἀνάγνωσιν τοῦ ἁγίου εὐαγγελίου ὁμοφρόνως ἀνεθεμάτισαν ἕκαστος κατὰ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ πόλιν. Τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει ἀπὸ ἀρχῆς τοῦ Ὀκτωβρίου μηνὸς γέγονε κρύος μέγα καὶ πικρότατον, οὐ κατὰ τὴν ἡμετέραν γῆν μόνον, ἀλλὰ πολλῷ μᾶλλον κατὰ ἀνατολὴν καὶ ἄρκτον καὶ δύσιν, ὥστε τὴν ἀρκτῴαν τοῦ Πόντου παραλίαν ἐπὶ ρʹ μίλια τὸ πέλαγος ἀπολιθωθῆναι ἐκ τοῦ κρύους ἐπὶ λʹ πήχεις τὸ βάθος, καὶ ἀπὸ Ζιγχίας μέχρι τοῦ ∆ανουβίου καὶ τοῦ Κοῦφι ποταμοῦ τοῦ ∆άναστρί τε καὶ ∆άναπρι καὶ τῶν Νεκροπήλων καὶ τῆς λοιπῆς ἀκτῆς μέχρι Μεσημβρίας καὶ Μηδείας τὰ ὅμοια πεπονθότων. τοῦ δὲ τοιούτου πάγους ἐπιχιονηθέντος ηὐξήθη ἐπὶ ἄλλας κʹ πήχεις, ὥστε συμμορφωθῆναι τὴν θάλασσαν τῇ ξηρᾷ, καὶ πεζοβατεῖσθαι ὕπερθεν τοῦ κρύους ἀπό τε Χαζαρίας, Βουλγαρίας καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν παρακειμένων ἐθνῶν, ὑπό τε ἀνθρώπων ἀγρίων τε καὶ ἡμέρων ζώων. τῷ δὲ Φεβρουαρίῳ μηνὶ τῆς αὐτῆς δευτέρας ἰνδικτιῶνος τοῦ τοιούτου πάγους κατὰ θεοῦ κέλευσιν εἰς πλεῖστα καὶ διάφορα ὀροφανῆ τμήματα διαιρεθέντος, καὶ τῇ τῶν ἀνέμων βίᾳ ἐπὶ ∆αφνουσίαν καὶ τὸ Ἱερὸν κατενεχθέντων, οὕτω διὰ τοῦ Στενοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν ἔφθασαν μέχρι τῆς Προποντίδος καὶ τῶν νήσων καὶ Ἀβύδου πᾶσαν τὴν παραλίαν ἀκτὴν ἐπλήρωσαν, ὧν αὐτόπται καὶ ἡμεῖς γεγόναμεν ἐπιβάντες ἐπὶ ἑνὸς αὐτῶν σὺν καί τισιν ὁμήλιξι λʹ καὶ παίζοντες ἐπάνω αὐτοῦ. εἶχον δὲ καὶ ζῶα ἄγριά τε καὶ ἥμερα τεθνεῶτα. πᾶς δὲ ὁ βουλόμενος ἀπὸ Σοφιανῶν ἕως τῆς πόλεως, καὶ ἀπὸ Χρυσοπόλεως ἕως τοῦ ἁγίου Μάμαντος καὶ τῶν Γαλάτου ἀκωλύτως διὰ ξηρᾶς ἐβάδιζον. ἓν δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν προσραγὲν τῇ τῆς Ἀκροπόλεως σκάλᾳ συνέτριψεν αὐτήν. ἕτερον δὲ παμμέγεθες τῷ τείχει προσραγὲν τοῦτο μεγάλως ἐδόνησεν, ὡς καὶ τοὺς ἔνδοθεν οἴκους συμμετασχεῖν τοῦ σάλου. εἰς τρία δὲ 435 διαρραγὲν ἔζωσε τὴν πόλιν ἀπὸ τῶν Μαγγάνων ἕως τοῦ Βοοσφόρου, οὗ τινος τὸ ὕψος ὑπερεῖχε τὰ τείχη· πάντες δὲ οἱ τῆς πόλεως ἄνδρες τε καὶ γυναῖκες καὶ παῖδες ἀδιαλείπτως τῇ θέᾳ τούτων προσεκαρτέρουν καὶ μετὰ θρήνων καὶ δακρύων οἴκοι ἀνέκαμπτον, ἀποροῦντες τί