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The great Symeon, that is, like the sun sent forth his rays everywhere, and it was possible to see Iberians and Armenians and Persians and Ishmaelites arriving daily and enjoying holy baptism. Therefore, the wondrous one sent forth such great grace to all the nations that they brought the idols of their ancestral gods before that holy pillar and smashed them, and were instructed in the pure and blameless faith of us Christians by the great Symeon, leading them into the citizenship of Christ through many miracles and very great wonders. Rightly, therefore, did the Lord say, "He who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do," who, being illuminated by the splendor of the 1.598 Holy Spirit and sending forth the rays of grace everywhere according to the great Basil. For he says, "Just as bright and transparent bodies, when a ray falls upon them, become themselves resplendent and glisten with another light, so also spirit-bearing souls, illuminated by the Spirit, both become spiritual themselves and send forth grace to others. From this comes foreknowledge of future events, understanding of mysteries, comprehension of hidden things, distribution of gifts, heavenly citizenship, the choir with angels, endless gladness, abiding in God, likeness to God, the highest of all desirable things, to become God by grace." After some time the holy Daniel in Anaplus, having seen the great Symeon and his heart being filled with divine zeal, came to Anaplus and he also mounted a pillar, becoming a worker of many and very great miracles, and he continued on the pillar until the fourth year of the emperor Leo the Great, and so he departed to the Lord full of good works. In the 20th year Valentinian came from Rome to Constantinople, and he married as his wife the daughter of the emperor Theodosius, Eudoxia, who was born to him from Eudocia, and he returned again to Rome.

Cyrus, the prefect of the city, a most wise and capable man, after demolishing the land wall of Constantinople and adding two other sections, built another wall 1.599 in sixty days; wherefore the people, being astonished at the speed and the beauty of the wall's construction, cried out while the emperor was seated in the Hippodrome, "Constantine built it, Cyrus renewed it." For this reason he was envied and slandered as a pagan sympathizer, and after his property was confiscated and he was tonsured, he was ordained bishop in Smyrna. While Procopius was general against the Persians, it was declared to him by the Persian that "we should provide single combatants, and whichever is defeated, let his side pay tribute for a period of fifty years." Therefore, the general Procopius provided Areobindus, the count of the foederati, who, holding a lasso, lassoed the Persian and, pulling him down from his horse, killed him. And there was a pact of peace between the Romans and the Persians. And Areobindus, entering the city and being greatly received by the emperor, was promoted to consul. In the 28th year there was a collapse in the theater of Alexandria, and 502 men died. After Maximianus died, the most holy Proclus was appointed bishop of Constantinople, who in the 30th year of the reign of Theodosius brought back the relic of Chrysostom, and placed it in the church of the Holy Apostles. In his time great earthquakes occurred in Constantinople for four months, so that the people in Byzantium, being afraid, stayed outside the city in the so-called campus. Therefore, while the aforementioned patriarch with the clergy and the people was persevering there in the litanies, 1.600 at about the third hour, suddenly, as all were watching, a young man was snatched up into the air and he heard a divine voice commanding him to announce to the bishop and the people to process in this way, and to say "Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us" and nothing

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μέγας δηλαδὴ Συμεών, ἡλίου δίκην πάντοθεν τὰς ἀκτῖνας ἐξέπεμψε, καὶ ἦν ἰδεῖν Ἴβηρας καὶ Ἀρμενίους καὶ Πέρσας καὶ Ἰσμαηλίτας ὁσημέραι ἀφικνουμένους καὶ τοῦ θείου βαπτίσματος ἀπολαύοντας. τοσαύτην οὖν τὴν χάριν ὁ θαυμάσιος εἰς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ἐξέπεμψεν ὥστε τὰ τῶν πατρῴων θεῶν εἴδωλα πρὸ τοῦ κίονος ἐκείνου τοῦ θείου ἄγοντας συντρίβειν, τὴν δὲ καθαρὰν καὶ ἀμώμητον ἡμῶν τῶν Χριστιανῶν πίστιν ὑπὸ τοῦ μεγάλου Συμεῶνος ἐκπαιδεύεσθαι, διὰ πολλῶν θαυμάτων καὶ με γίστων τεραστίων τούτους ἐνάγων εἰς τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ πολιτείαν. εἰκότως οὖν ἔλεγεν ὁ κύριος "ὁ πιστεύων εἰς ἐμὲ τὰ ἔργα ἃ ἐγὼ ποιῶ κἀκεῖνος ποιήσει, καὶ μείζονα τούτων ποιήσει," ὃς τῇ τοῦ 1.598 ἁγίου πνεύματος αἴγλῃ καταλαμπόμενος καὶ πανταχοῦ τὰς τῆς χάριτος ἀκτῖνας ἐκπέμπων κατὰ τὸν μέγαν Βασίλειον. φησὶ γάρ "ὥσπερ τὰ λαμπρὰ καὶ διαφανῆ τῶν σωμάτων ἀκτῖνος αὐτοῖς ἐμπεσούσης αὐτά τε γίνεται περιλαμπῆ καὶ ἑτέραν αὐγὴν ἀποστίλ βει, οὕτως αἱ πνευματοφόροι ψυχαὶ ἐλλαμφθεῖσαι παρὰ τοῦ πνεύματος αὐταί τε ἀποτελοῦνται πνευματικαὶ καὶ εἰς ἑτέρους τὴν χάριν ἐξαποστέλλουσιν. ἐντεῦθεν μελλόντων πρόγνωσις, μυστη ρίων σύνεσις, κεκρυμμένων κατάληψις, χαρισμάτων διανομή, τὸ οὐράνιον πολίτευμα, ἡ μετ' ἀγγέλων χορεία, ἡ ἀτελεύτητος εὐ φροσύνη, ἡ ἐν θεῷ διαμονή, ἡ πρὸς θεὸν ὁμοίωσις, τὸ ἀκρότα τον τῶν ὀρεκτῶν, θεὸν γενέσθαι κατὰ χάριν." Μετά τινα δὲ καιρὸν ὁ θεῖος ∆ανιὴλ ὁ ἐν τῷ Ἀνάπλῳ, θεασάμενος τὸν μέγαν Συμεώνην καὶ θείου ζήλου πλησθεὶς τὴν καρδίαν, ἐλθὼν ἐν τῷ Ἀνάπλῳ ἐπέβη καὶ αὐτὸς τῷ στύλῳ, πολ λῶν καὶ μεγίστων θαυμάτων αὐτουργὸς γενόμενος, διήρκεσε δὲ ἐν τῷ κίονι ἄχρι τοῦ τετάρτου ἔτους τοῦ βασιλέως Λέοντος τοῦ μεγάλου, καὶ οὕτως πρὸς κύριον ἐξεδήμησε πλήρης ἀγαθῶν ἔργων. Τῷ κʹ ἔτει παρεγένετο Οὐαλεντινιανὸς ἀπὸ Ῥώμης ἐν Κων σταντινουπόλει, καὶ ἔγημε γυναῖκα τὴν θυγατέρα Θεοδοσίου τοῦ βασιλέως Εὐδοξίαν, τὴν ἐξ Εὐδοκίας γεννηθεῖσαν αὐτῷ, καὶ πάλιν ἐπανῆλθεν ἐν Ῥώμῃ.

Κῦρος ἔπαρχος τῆς πόλεως, ἀνὴρ σοφώ τατος καὶ ἱκανός, καταλύσας τὸ χερσαῖον τεῖχος Κωνσταντινου πόλεως καὶ προσθεὶς ἄλλα διαστήματα δύο, οἰκοδομεῖ ἕτερον τεῖ 1.599 χος δι' ἡμερῶν ἑξήκοντα· ὅθεν καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐκπληττόμενος ἐπὶ τῷ τάχει καὶ τῷ κάλλει τῆς τοῦ τείχους κτίσεως ἀνεβόησε καθεζο μένου τοῦ βασιλέως ἐν τῷ ἱππικῷ "Κωνσταντῖνος ἔκτισε, Κῦρος ἀνενέωσε." διὰ τοῦτο φθονηθεὶς διαβάλλεται ὡς ἑλληνόφρων, καὶ δημευθεὶς καὶ ἀποκαρεὶς χειροτονεῖται ἐν Σμύρνῃ ἐπίσκοπος. Κατὰ Περσῶν στρατηγοῦντος Προκοπίου, δηλοῦται αὐτῷ παρὰ τοῦ Πέρσου ὅτι δώσωμεν μονομάχους, καὶ οἷος ἂν ἡττηθῇ, διδότω τὸ μέρος αὐτοῦ πάκτα ἐπὶ χρόνους πεντήκοντα. δίδωσιν οὖν ὁ στρατηγὸς Προκόπιος Ἀρεόβινδον κόμητα τῶν φοιδεράτων, ὃς σώκιστρον κατέχων τὸν Πέρσην ἐσώκισε καὶ κατενεγκὼν ἐκ τοῦ ἵππου ἀπέκτεινε. καὶ γέγονε πάκτα εἰρήνης μεταξὺ Ῥωμαίων καὶ Περσῶν. εἰσελθὼν δὲ Ἀρεόβινδος ἐν τῇ πόλει καὶ μεγάλα ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως ἀποδεχθεὶς προήχθη ὕπατος. Τῷ κηʹ ἔτει σύμπτωσις ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ Ἀλεξανδρείας, καὶ ἀπέθανον ἄνδρες φοβʹ. τελευτήσαντος Μαξιμιανοῦ Πρόκλος ὁ ἁγιώτατος ἐπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως προχειρίζεται, ὃς τὸ τοῦ Χρυσοστόμου λείψανον ἀνακομίζει τῷ λʹ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας Θεοδοσίου, καὶ εἰς τὸν τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων ἀποτίθησι ναόν. ἐπὶ τούτου σεισμοὶ μεγάλοι γεγόνασιν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει ἐν μησὶ τέσσαρσιν, ὥστε φοβηθέντας τοὺς ἐν Βυζαντίῳ ἔξω τῆς πό λεως ἐν τῷ λεγομένῳ κάμπῳ διατρίβειν. τοῦ γοῦν εἰρημένου πα τριάρχου μετὰ τοῦ κλήρου καὶ τοῦ λαοῦ ταῖς λιταῖς ἐκεῖσε προσ 1.600 καρτεροῦντος, περὶ ὥραν τρίτην, ἄφνω πάντων ὁρώντων ἡρπάγη νεανίας εἰς τὸν ἀέρα καὶ ἤκουσε θείας φωνῆς παρεγγυώσης αὐτῷ ἀναγγεῖλαι τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ καὶ τῷ λαῷ λιτανεύειν οὕτω, καὶ λέγειν "ἅγιος ὁ θεός, ἅγιος ἰσχυρός, ἅγιος ἀθάνατος, ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς" καὶ μηδὲν