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Macedonius, when a man in a deadly feud drew a sword against him at the instigation of her enemies, was so far from bearing a grudge that he even ordered monthly rations to be given to him; for the man was meek. This he formerly also did in a case of sacrilege. When two certain bishops, an Orthodox and an Arian, were disputing about the faith, the Arian being a dialectician and the Orthodox pious and faithful, the Orthodox proposed that, setting aside arguments, they should enter a fire, and thus the more pious one would be revealed. When the Arian refused this, he himself entered, and standing in the midst of the fire he spoke to all, kept unharmed by God. In the 17th year, he fortified Daras, a large and strong place of Mesopotamia, situated between the borders of the Romans and the Persians. And he built a church and granaries and cisterns and porticoes and two public baths, naming it Anastasiopolis, and he gave it the rights of a city.

In the 20th year, Deuterius the bishop of the Arians, baptizing a certain man called Barbarus, dared to say, contrary to the Lord's tradition, "Barbarus is baptized in the name of the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit." And immediately the font dried up, and Barbarus, becoming fearful, fled and made the miracle known to all. In 1.631 these years the opposition of the heretics with Anastasius the emperor against Macedonius the orthodox bishop of Constantinople took place; by whom Macedonius is also exiled to Euchaita, and the sinner Timothy, called Litroboles and Kelon, is brought in. In the 22nd year, Anastasius the lawless emperor and Timothy the unholy bishop of Constantinople inflicted many evils upon those who were struggling for the wonderful Macedonius and the synod. And Anastasius, wishing to add to the Trisagion "who was crucified for us," persuaded by Severus the Acephalous, sent up the logothete and the prefect to the ambo to proclaim this. Wherefore a popular sedition arose, with them shouting for another emperor. And having set fire to many houses, and having insulted the emperor, they came to the monastery of Saint Philip, near the cistern of Saint Mocius, where a friend of the emperor was enclosed; and having killed him as one beloved by the emperor, they raised his head on a spear and cried out, "This is the friend of the enemy of the Holy Trinity." But also having slain an enclosed woman, in whom the emperor had great faith, they dragged them both and burned them in the monastery of Stoudios. At this the emperor, becoming afraid, ceased from the heresy for a short while. In the same year, when Alamundarus the phylarch of the Saracens was baptized by the Orthodox through the providence of God, the impious Severus sent two bishops to impart his own corruption 1.632 to the man. Whom he refuted wonderfully by the following device. For he said to them, "I have received letters today," he says, "that Michael the archangel has died." And when they said this was impossible, he said to them, "And how was a mere God crucified according to us and died, if Christ were not of two natures, if not even an angel dies?" And so with shame the bishops of Severus departed. And Cabades hamstrung some of the Christians in Persia, who afterwards walked. In the 23rd year, Vitalian, having taken all of Thrace and Scythia and Moesia, having with him a multitude of Huns and Bulgars, also took many cities and Cyril the general of Thrace, and came plundering as far as Byzantium.

But Anastasius, despairing, sends for peace, swearing with the senate that the exiles would be recalled and Macedonius and Flavian would receive back their own thrones, and a synod would be held in Heraclea, with the one from Rome also coming. And when all confirmed that these things would happen, Vitalian departed to his own lands

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Μακεδόνιος ἐν ἔχθρᾳ φονικῇ σπασάμενον κατ' αὐτοῦ μάχαιραν ἐξ ὑποβολῆς τῶν ἐχθραινόντων αὐτῆς, τοσοῦτον ἀπέσχε τοῦ μνησι κακῆσαι ὥστε καὶ μηνιαίας αὐτῷ ἀννώνας προσέταξε λαβεῖν· πρᾶος γὰρ ἦν ὁ ἀνήρ. τοῦτο δὲ πρῴην καὶ εἰς ἱεροσυλίαν ἔπραξε. δύο τινῶν ἀμφισβητούντων ἐπισκόπων περὶ πίστεως, ὀρθοδόξου καὶ Ἀρειανοῦ, καὶ τοῦ μὲν Ἀρειανοῦ διαλεκτικοῦ ὄντος τοῦ δὲ ὀρθοδόξου εὐσεβοῦς καὶ πιστοῦ, ὁ ὀρθόδοξος προύτεινεν ὥστε ἀφεμένους τῶν λόγων εἰς πῦρ εἰσελθεῖν, καὶ οὕτω δειχθῆναι τὸν εὐσεβέστερον. τοῦ δὲ Ἀρειανοῦ τοῦτο παραιτησαμένου αὐτὸς εἰσ ῆλθε, καὶ ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ πυρὸς ἱστάμενος διελέγετο πᾶσιν, ἀβλαβὴς ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ φυλαττόμενος. Τῷ ιζʹ ἔτει ἐτείχισε τὸ ∆αράς, χωρίον ὂν τῆς Μεσοποτα μίας μέγα καὶ ὀχυρόν, μέσον τῶν ὅρων κείμενον Ῥωμαίων τε καὶ Περσῶν. καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ ὡρεῖα καὶ κινστέρνας καὶ ἐμβόλους καὶ δύο δημόσια λοετρά, ὀνομάσας αὐτὴν Ἀναστασιού πολιν, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῇ δίκαια πόλεως.

Τῷ κʹ ἔτει ∆ευτέριος ὁ ἐπίσκοπος τῶν Ἀρειανῶν, βαπτίζων τινὰ Βάρβαρον λεγόμενον, παρὰ τὴν δεσποτικὴν παράδοσιν ἐτόλ μησεν εἰπεῖν "βαπτίζεται Βάρβαρος εἰς ὄνομα πατρός, δι' υἱοῦ, ἐν ἁγίῳ πνεύματι." καὶ εὐθὺς ἐξηράνθη ἡ κολυμβήθρα, ὁ δὲ Βάρβα ρος ἔμφοβος γενόμενος ἔφυγε καὶ πᾶσιν ἐγνώρισε τὸ θαῦμα. ἐν 1.631 τούτοις τοῖς ἔτεσιν ἡ τῶν αἱρετικῶν μετὰ Ἀναστασίου τοῦ βασιλέως κατὰ Μακεδονίου τοῦ ὀρθοδόξου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπισκόπου ἔνστασις γέγονεν· ὑφ' οὗ καὶ ἐξορίζεται Μακεδόνιος εἰς Εὐχάϊτα, καὶ εἰσάγεται ὁ ἀλιτήριος Τιμόθεος ὁ λεγόμενος Λιτροβόλης καὶ Κήλων. Τῷ κβʹ ἔτει Ἀναστάσιος ὁ παράνομος βασιλεὺς καὶ Τιμό θεος ὁ ἀνίερος ἐπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως πολλὰ κακὰ τοῖς ὑπὲρ τοῦ θαυμασίου Μακεδονίου καὶ τῆς συνόδου ἀγωνιζομένοις ἐνεδείξαντο. βουληθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ἀναστάσιος προσθεῖναι εἰς τὸ τρισά γιον τὸ ὁ σταυρωθεὶς δι' ἡμᾶς, πειθόμενος Σεβήρῳ τῷ ἀκεφάλῳ, τὸν λογοθέτην καὶ τὸν ἔπαρχον ἐν τῷ ἄμβωνι ἀνεβίβασε τοῦτο ἐκ φωνῆσαι. διὸ γέγονε δημοτικὴ στάσις ἄλλον βασιλέα ἐπιβοωμέ νων. ἐμπρήσαντές τε πολλοὺς οἴκους, καὶ τὸν βασιλέα ὑβρίσαν τες, ἦλθον εἰς τὴν μονὴν τοῦ ἁγίου Φιλίππου, πλησίον τῆς κιν στέρνης τοῦ ἁγίου Μωκίου, ἔνθα ἦν ἔγκλειστος φίλος τοῦ βασι λέως· καὶ τοῦτον φονεύσαντες ὡς ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως ἀγαπώμενον, τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ δόρατος ἀναρτήσαντες ἔκραζον "οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ φίλος τοῦ ἐχθροῦ τῆς ἁγίας τριάδος." ἀλλὰ καὶ γυναῖκα ἔγκλειστον, εἰς ἣν πολλὴν πίστιν εἶχεν ὁ βασιλεύς, ἀνελόντες ἔσυ ραν ἀμφοτέρους καὶ ἐν τῇ μονῇ τῶν Στουδίου ἔκαυσαν. ἐπὶ τού τοις ὁ βασιλεὺς φοβηθεὶς ἐπαύσατο πρὸς βραχὺ τῆς αἱρέσεως. τῷ αὐτῷ ἔτει Ἀλαμουνδάρου τοῦ φυλάρχου τῶν Σαρακηνῶν βαπτισθέντος θεοῦ προνοίᾳ παρὰ τῶν ὀρθοδόξων, Σεβῆρος ὁ δυσσεβὴς δύο ἐπισκόπους ἔπεμψε τῆς λώβης αὐτοῦ μεταδοῦναι 1.632 τῷ ἀνδρί. οὓς θαυμαστῶς ἤλεγξε δραματουργίᾳ τοιαύτῃ. ἔφη γὰρ πρὸς αὐτούς "γράμματα" φησίν "ἐδεξάμην σήμερον ὅτι Μιχαὴλ ὁ ἀρχάγγελος τέθνηκε." τῶν δὲ εἰπόντων ἀδύνατον εἶναι τοῦτο ἔφη πρὸς αὐτούς "καὶ πῶς θεὸς γυμνὸς ἐσταυρώθη καθ' ἡμᾶς καὶ ἀπέθανεν, εἰ μὴ δύο φύσεων ἦν Χριστός, εἴπερ μηδὲ ἄγγελος ἀποθνήσκει;" καὶ οὕτω μετ' αἰσχύνης ἀνεχώρησαν οἱ τοῦ Σεβήρου ἐπίσκοποι. Καβάδης δέ τινας τῶν ἐν Περσίδι Χρι στιανῶν ἠγκυλοκόπησεν, οἳ μετὰ ταῦτα περιεπάτησαν. Τῷ κγʹ ἔτει Βιταλιανὸς παραλαβὼν πᾶσαν τὴν Θρᾴκην καὶ Σκυθίαν καὶ Μυσίαν, ἔχων μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ πλῆθος Οὕννων καὶ Βουλγάρων, παρέλαβε καὶ πολλὰς πόλεις καὶ Κύριλλον τὸν στρα τηγὸν Θρᾴκης, καὶ ἦλθε πραιδεύων ἕως Βυζαντίου.

Ἀναστά σιος δὲ ἀπογνοὺς πέμπει πρὸς εἰρήνην, ὀμνύων σὺν τῇ συγκλήτῳ τοὺς ἐξορισθέντας ἀνακαλεῖσθαι καὶ Μακεδόνιον καὶ Φλαβιανὸν ἀπολαβεῖν τοὺς ἰδίους θρόνους, καὶ σύνοδον γενέσθαι ἐν Ἡρα κλείᾳ, ἐρχομένου καὶ τοῦ Ῥώμης. βεβαιωσάντων δὲ πάντων ταῦτα γενέσθαι, ὁ Βιταλιανὸς ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὰ ἴδια