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using it unsparingly, he was punished as an enemy of the emperor 443 and was called the unremembered. And monasteries, which were for the glory of God and refuges for those being saved, he established as common houses for the soldiers of like mind with him. Indeed, he gave the monastery of Dalmatus, which was the first among the coenobitic houses of Byzantium, to soldiers for a dwelling, and he razed to the foundations the so-called monastery of Callistratus, and the monastery of Dius, and that of Maximinus, and other sacred houses of monks and convents of virgins. Those from the notables in the army or in office who had undertaken to take up the monastic life, and especially those close to him and who had become initiates of his licentiousness and unspeakable acts, he put to death, suspecting the shame that would come to him from their confessions; for this very reason, having taken to himself Strategios, the brother of Podopagouros, who was handsome in appearance (for he was fond of associating with such people on account of his debaucheries), and perceiving that he was displeased with his lawless lust for men and was confessing these things to the blessed Stephen, the recluse of Saint Auxentius, and receiving remedies for salvation, having defamed this man as a conspirator against him, he killed him along with the recluse, as has been said before. And he caused goods to be cheap in the city at this time. For, having become a new Midas, he hoarded gold and stripped the farmers, and because of the demand for taxes the people were forced to sell the provisions of God cheaply. In the same year Niketas, the falsely-named patriarch, scraped off the icons in the patriarchate in the small secretum, which were of mosaic, and he took down those of the great secretum on the vault, which were of wood-painting, and he smeared the faces of the other icons; and he did likewise in the Abrahamiou monastery. 28. 14. 2. 3. In this year the thrice-married emperor crowned his wife Eudokia, his third, as augusta in the tribunal of the nineteen accubita on the 1st of the month of April, in the 7th indiction, on a Saturday, and his two sons by her, Christophoros and 444 Nikephoros, on the next day, which was the 2nd of the month of April, the Sunday of holy Easter, he promoted to caesars in the same tribunal, while the patriarch offered the prayer, and the emperor placed on them both the cloaks and the caesar's diadems; likewise also Niketas, their youngest brother, having made him nobilissimus, he placed upon him a golden cloak and the crown. And so the emperors processed, scattering a consular largesse of tremisses and semisses and new coins as far as the great church. 29. 15. 3. 4. In this year an exchange took place in Syria, man for man and woman for woman and child likewise for child; and Abdallah permitted their beards to be shaved and that they should have kamelaukia of one and a half cubits. And Abdallah besieged Kamachon with 80,000 men the whole summer and having accomplished nothing, returned in shame. On the 1st of the month of November of the 8th indiction, Irene, having come from Athens, entered the reigning city from Hiereia with very many dromons and chelandia adorned with silk cloths, and the leading men of the city with their wives met and escorted her. And on the 3rd of the same month of November, when the patriarch came to the palace, in the church of the Pharos, the betrothal of the emperor Leo to the same Irene took place; and on the 17th of the month of December, the empress Irene was crowned in the triclinium of the Augusteion, and having gone to the oratory of Saint Stephen in the Daphne, she received the marriage crowns with Leo the emperor, son of Constantine. Bishop of Rome, Adrian, for 27 years. 30. 10. 1. 5. In this year Banakas campaigned against Romania and took many captive; and the Romans entered the fourth Armenia and 445 plundered it. And Saleh dies, and was replaced

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χρώμενος ἀφειδῶς, ὡς ἐχθρὸς τοῦ βασιλέως ἐκολάζετο 443 καὶ ἀμνημόνευτος ὠνομάζετο. μοναστήρια δὲ τὰ εἰς δόξαν θεοῦ καὶ τῶν σωζομένων καταφύγια οἴκους κοινοὺς καθίστα τῶν ὁμοφρόνων αὐτῷ στρατιωτῶν. τὴν γοῦν ∆αλμάτου πρώτιστον οὖσαν ἐν τοῖς κοινοβίοις τοῦ Βυζαντίου στρατιώταις εἰς κατοικίαν δέδωκεν, τὰ Καλλιστράτου τε λεγόμενα καὶ τὴν ∆ίου μονὴν καὶ τὰ Μαξιμίνου ἄλλους τε μοναστῶν ἱεροὺς οἴκους καὶ παρθενῶνας ἐκ βάθρων κατέλυσεν. τοὺς δὲ μοναχικὸν βίον ἀναλαβέσθαι ἐπιτηδεύσαντας ἐκ τῶν ἐπισήμων ἐν στρατείᾳ ἢ ἐν τέλει, καὶ μάλιστα τοὺς ἐγγίζοντας αὐτῷ καὶ μύστας γεγονότας τῶν αὐτοῦ ἀσελγειῶν καὶ ἀρρητοποιϊῶν θανάτῳ καθυπέβαλεν ὑπονοούμενος τὴν ἐκ τῶν ἐξαγορεύσεων προσγινομένην αὐτῷ αἰσχύνην· διά τοι τοῦτο καὶ Στρατήγιον, τὸν τοῦ Ποδοπαγούρου ἀδελφόν, ἀστεῖον ὄντα τῷ εἴδει προσλαβόμενος, (ἐφίλει γὰρ προσοικειοῦσθαι τοῖς τοιούτοις διὰ τὰς ἀκολασίας αὐτοῦ) αἰσθόμενός τε αὐτὸν ἀηδῶς ἔχοντα πρὸς τὰς ἀθεμίτους ἀνδρομανίας αὐτοῦ καὶ τῷ μακαρίῳ Στεφάνῳ, τῷ ἐγκλείστῳ τοῦ ἁγίου Αὐξεντίου, ταύτας ἐξαγορεύοντα σωτηρίας τε φάρμακα λαμβάνοντα, ὡς ἐπίβουλον αὐτοῦ τοῦτον διαφημίσας σὺν τῷ ἐγκλείστῳ, ὡς προλέλεκται, ἀνεῖλεν. ἐποίησε δὲ εὐθηνῆσαι τὰ εἴδη ἐν τῇ πόλει τῷ χρόνῳ τούτῳ. νέος γὰρ Μίδας γενόμενος τὸν χρυσὸν ἀπεθησαύρισε καὶ τοὺς γεωργοὺς ἐγύμνωσεν, καὶ διὰ τὴν τῶν φόρων ἀπαίτησιν ἠναγκάζοντο οἱ ἄνθρωποι τὰς τοῦ θεοῦ χορηγίας εὐώνως πιπράσκειν. τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει Νικήτας, ὁ ψευδώνυμος πατριάρχης, τὰς ἐν τῷ πατριαρχείῳ εἰκόνας τοῦ μικροῦ σεκρέτου διὰ μουσείου οὔσας ἔξεσεν, καὶ τοῦ μεγάλου σεκρέτου τῆς τροπικῆς ἐξ ὑλογραφίας οὔσας κατήνεγκεν, καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν εἰκόνων τὰ πρόσωπα ἔχρισεν· καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἀβραμιαίῳ δὲ ὁμοίως πεποίηκεν. κηʹ. ιδʹ. βʹ. γʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἔστεψεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα Εὐδοκίαν ὁ τρίγαμος τρίτην οὖσαν αὐγούσταν ἐν τῷ τριβουναλίῳ τῶν ιθʹ ἀκουβίτων τῇ αʹ τοῦ Ἀπριλλίου μηνός, ἰνδικτιῶνος ζʹ, ἡμέρᾳ σαββάτῳ, καὶ τοὺς ἐξ αὐτῆς δύο υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ, Χριστοφόρον καὶ 444 Νικηφόρον, τῇ ἐπαύριον, ἥτις ἦν βʹ τοῦ Ἀπριλλίου μηνὸς ἡμέρα κυριακὴ τοῦ ἁγίου πάσχα, προεβάλετο καίσαρας ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ τριβουναλίῳ, τοῦ πατριάρχου ποιήσαντος τὴν εὐχήν, καὶ τοῦ βασιλέως ἐπιθέντος αὐτοῖς τάς τε χλαίνας καὶ τὰ καισαρίκια περικεφάλαια· ὡσαύτως καὶ Νικήταν, τὸν ἔσχατον ἀδελφὸν αὐτῶν, ποιήσας νοβελίσιμον ἐπέθηκεν αὐτῷ χλαῖναν χρυσῆν καὶ τὸν στέφανον. καὶ οὕτω προῆλθον ῥίπτοντες οἱ βασιλεῖς ὑπατείαν τριμίσια καὶ σημίσια καὶ νομίσματα καινούργια ἕως τῆς μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας. κθʹ. ιεʹ. γʹ. δʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἐγένετο καταλλαγὴ ἐν Συρίᾳ, ἄνθρωπον πρὸς ἄνθρωπον καὶ γυναῖκα πρὸς γυναῖκα καὶ παιδίον ὁμοίως πρὸς παιδίον· καὶ ἐπέτρεψεν ὁ Ἀβδελᾶς τοὺς πώγωνας αὐτῶν ξυρισθῆναι καὶ γενέσθαι καμηλαύκια πήχεος μιᾶς ἥμισυ. παρεκάθισε δὲ ὁ Ἀβδελᾶς τὸ Κάμαχον μετὰ πʹ χιλιάδων ὅλον τὸ θέρος καὶ μηδὲν ἀνύσας ὑπέστρεψε κατῃσχυμμένος. τῇ δὲ αʹ τοῦ Νοεμβρίου μηνὸς τῆς ηʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος εἰσῆλθεν Εἰρήνη ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν ἐλθοῦσα ἀπὸ τῆς Ἱερείας ἐν τῇ βασιλευούσῃ πόλει δρομώνων καὶ χελανδίων πλείστων ἐστολισμένων σηρικοῖς παλλίοις, καὶ τῶν τῆς πόλεως προυχόντων σὺν γυναιξὶ προσαπαντώντων καὶ προαγόντων αὐτῇ. καὶ τῇ γʹ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Νοεμβρίου μηνὸς τοῦ πατριάρχου ἐλθόντος ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦ Φάρου ἐγένετο τὰ πρὸς τὴν αὐτὴν Εἰρήνην τοῦ βασιλέως Λέοντος σπόνζα· καὶ τῇ ιζʹ τοῦ ∆εκεμβρίου μηνὸς ἐστέφθη ἐν τῷ τρικλίνῳ τοῦ Αὐγουστέως ἡ βασίλισσα Εἰρήνη, καὶ ἀπελθοῦσα ἐν τῷ εὐκτηρίῳ τοῦ ἁγίου Στεφάνου ἐν τῇ ∆άφνῃ ἔλαβε τὰ τοῦ γάμου στέφανα σὺν τῷ τοῦ Κωνσταντίνου υἱῷ Λέοντι τῷ βασιλεῖ. Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος Ἀδριανὸς ἔτη κζʹ. λʹ. ιʹ. αʹ. εʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἐπεστράτευσε Βανάκας τὴν Ῥωμανίαν καὶ πολλοὺς ᾐχμαλώτευσεν· καὶ Ῥωμαῖοι εἰσῆλθον εἰς τὴν τετάρτην Ἀρμενίαν καὶ 445 ἐσκύλευσαν αὐτήν. τελευτᾷ δὲ ὁ Σάλεχ, καὶ μετεποιήθη