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a certain fearsome figure saying to him in a dream, "The rest of your conspirators, O emperor, you have been permitted to destroy, but do not harm Justin and Justinian in any way; for you will not be able, even if you wish." And when he said that they were subject to an imperial indictment for high treason, he said to him, "They are vessels capable of holding the counsel and providence of God, and each is destined to serve God in his own time." And so Anastasius dismissed for them both the charge of high treason. And it came to pass that all things happened just as the one who appeared had declared; for after the death of Anastasius they both reigned in their own times. In the 27th year Anastasius saw in a vision a fearsome man holding a codex, which he unrolled, and finding the name of the emperor himself, he said to him, "Behold, on account of your false belief I am eras 1.636 ing fourteen years," and he erased them. And having awakened, he summoned Amantius the praepositus, and told him the vision. And he said, "I too saw that while I was standing by your majesty a great pig came and, having seized my cloak, threw me to the ground and devoured me." And when the dream-interpreter Proclus arrived, they heard that they both would die not long after. And since it had been prophesied that he would give up his relentless soul by fire, he opened up the cistern in the palace called the Cold one with many spouts and placed buckets at each one, hastening to prove such a prophecy about him to be false. But the wretched man's efforts were in vain; for indeed, having been struck dead by a divine thunderbolt. And his body was placed in the church of the Holy Apostles, in an Acynthian sarcophagus, with Ariadne his wife who had died before him. This man is said to have also burned the books of the chrysargyron. Justin the Great, emperor of the Romans, 9 years. This man was pious, an old and very experienced man, who had started from the ranks of the soldiers and advanced as far as the senate, an Illyrian by race; but others say he was a Thracian. He was of medium stature, broad in the shoulders and chest, and grey-haired; and a redness bloomed on his face, which was stern and broad. This man was shown to be excellent in all things, a zealot for the orthodox faith and great 1.637 ly successful in wars. And having Lupicina as his wife, he crowned her Augusta, whom the people, once she was crowned, called Euphemia. To this Justin a certain Eulalius, who had become poor after being rich, when he was about to die, wrote Justin as his heir in his will, urging that the emperor should raise his three young daughters who were left behind and provide them with dowries, and pay all his debts to his creditors, and redeem the bonds; all of which Justin royally fulfilled, in this way amazing every person who heard of it. And Vitalian, who was mentioned before, became very close to the emperor, and being orthodox, he asked that Severus be deposed. Having learned this, that man fled with Julian of Halicarnassus; and having gone away to Egypt and stirred up the dispute concerning the corruptible and incorruptible, they disturbed that land, while Dioscorus was bishop of Alexandria. And when bishops came from Rome, through Hormisdas, bishop of Rome, at the behest of Vitalian, while John the Cappadocian, bishop of Constantinople, was still alive, he inscribed the holy fourth council in Chalcedon on the diptychs along with the other three councils. And with the impious Severus out of the way, Paul was ordained bishop of Antioch, the host of the hospice of Eubulus. And the emperor exiled Xenaias, also called Philoxenus, bishop of Hierapolis, who was a Manichaean in his thinking, and Peter of Apamea along with all who shared in their corruption, and he executed Amantius the praepositus 1.638 along with certain others who were plotting tyranny. And he also recalled all those who had been unjustly exiled by Anastasius.

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αὐτῷ τις κατ' ὄναρ φοβερὸς λέγων "τοὺς μὲν λοιποὺς τῶν σῶν ἐπιβούλων, ὦ βασιλεῦ, συνεχωρήθη σοι ἀφανίσαι, Ἰου στῖνον δὲ καὶ Ἰουστινιανὸν μηδαμῶς ἀδικήσῃς· οὐδὲ γὰρ θέλων δυνήσῃ." τοῦ δὲ φήσαντος ὅτι καθοσιώσει εἰσὶν ὑποβεβλημένοι βασιλικῇ, ἔφη πρὸς αὐτόν "σκεύη εἰσὶ χωρητικὰ τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ βουλῆς τε καὶ προνοίας, καὶ μέλλουσιν ὑπουργῆσαι τῷ θεῷ ἕκα στος ἐν τοῖς καιροῖς αὐτῶν." καὶ δὴ ἀφῆκεν αὐτοῖς ἀμφοτέροις Ἀναστάσιος τὸ τῆς καθοσιώσεως ἔγκλημα. συνέβη δὲ πάντα γενέσθαι καθὼς ὁ φανεὶς ἀπεφθέγξατο· μετὰ γὰρ τὴν τελευτὴν Ἀναστασίου καὶ ἀμφότεροι κατὰ καιροὺς αὐτῶν ἐβασίλευσαν. Τῷ κζʹ ἔτει Ἀναστάσιος εἶδεν ἐν ὁράματι ἄνδρα φοβερὸν βαστάζοντα κώδικα, ὃν ἀναπτύξας, καὶ εὑρὼν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως, εἶπεν αὐτῷ "ἰδοὺ διὰ τὴν κακοπιστίαν σου ἀπα 1.636 λείφω τεσσαρεσκαίδεκα ἔτη," καὶ ἀπήλειψεν αὐτά. διυπνισθεὶς δὲ προσεκαλέσατο Ἀμάντιον τὸν πραιπόσιτον, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ τὸ ὅραμα. ὁ δὲ εἶπεν ὅτι κἀγὼ ἐθεασάμην ὅτι παρισταμένου τῷ κράτει σου χοῖρος μέγας ἐλθὼν καὶ δραξάμενός μου τῆς χλαίνης κατέρραξέ με εἰς τὴν γῆν καὶ ἀνάλωσεν. ἐλθόντος δὲ τοῦ ὀνειρο κρίτου Πρόκλου, ἤκουσαν ὅτι καὶ ἀμφότεροι μετ' οὐ πολὺ τελει οῦσθε. ἐπεὶ δὲ κεχρημάτιστο διὰ πυρὸς αὐτὸν τὴν ἀμείλικτον αὐτοῦ ψυχὴν ἀπορρῆξαι, τὴν ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ κινστέρναν τὴν λεγομένην ψυχρὰν εἰς πολλὰ στόμια διανοίξας καὶ κάδδους ἐν ἑκάστῳ παραθεὶς ἔσπευδε τὴν τοιαύτην περὶ αὐτοῦ προφη τείαν ψευδῆ ἀποδεῖξαι. ἀλλ' ἐματαιώθη διὰ κενῆς ὁ δεί λαιος· καὶ γὰρ θείῳ σκηπτῷ κεραυνωθεὶς ἐμβρόντητος γέγονεν. ἐτέθη δὲ τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ ναῷ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων, ἐν λάρνακι Ἀκυντιανῇ, μετὰ Ἀριάδνης τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ προτελευτησάσης. οὗτος λέγεται καῦσαι καὶ τὰ βιβλία τοῦ χρυσαρ γύρου. Ἰουστῖνος ὁ μέγας βασιλεὺς Ῥωμαίων ἔτη θʹ. οὗτος ἦν εὐσεβὴς ἀνήρ, πρεσβύτης καὶ πολύπειρος, ἀπὸ στρατιωτῶν ἀρξά μενος καὶ ἕως τῆς συγκλήτου προκόψας, Ἰλλυριὸς τῷ γένει· οἱ δὲ Θρᾷκα τοῦτον λέγουσιν εἶναι. ἦν δὲ τῷ σώματι μεσῆλιξ, εὐρὺς τοὺς ὤμους καὶ τὰ στέρνα, πολιός· ἐπήνθει δὲ τῷ προσώπῳ αὐ τοῦ ἔρευθος βλοσυρῷ ὄντι καὶ πλατεῖ. οὗτος πᾶσιν ἄριστος ἐδεί χθη, ζηλωτὴς τῆς ὀρθοδόξου πίστεως καὶ ἐν τοῖς πολέμοις μεγά 1.637 λως εὐδοκιμῶν. σύμβιον δὲ ἔχων Λουππικίαν ἔστεψεν Αὐγοῦ σταν, ἣν οἱ δῆμοι ἐστεφανωμένην Εὐφημίαν ἐκάλεσαν. τούτῳ τῷ Ἰουστίνῳ Εὐλάλιός τις, ἀπὸ πλουσίων γενόμενος πένης, ἐν τῷ μέλλειν αὐτὸν ἀποβιῶναι ἔγραψεν ἐνδιαθήκως κληρονόμον Ἰουστῖνον, παρακελευσάμενος ὥστε τὰς τρεῖς αὐτοῦ θυγατέρας μικρὰς καταλειφθείσας ἀναθρέψαι καὶ ἐκπροικίσαι τὸν βασιλέα, καὶ πάντα αὐτοῦ τὰ χρέα ἀποδοῦναι τοῖς χρεωστουμένοις, καὶ τὰ γραμματεῖα ἀναρρύσασθαι· ἅπερ βασιλικῶς πάντα Ἰουστῖνος ἐπλήρωσε, καταπλήξας ἐν τούτῳ πάντα ἄνθρωπον τὸν ἀκούσαντα. Βιταλιανὸς δὲ ὁ προρρηθεὶς σφόδρα ᾠκειώθη τῷ βασιλεῖ, ὀρθό δοξος δὲ ὢν Σεβῆρον ᾐτήσατο καθαιρεθῆναι. ὅπερ μαθὼν ἐκεῖ νος φεύγει σὺν Ἰουλιανῷ τῷ Ἁλικαρνασοῦ· καὶ εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἀπελθόντες καὶ τὸν περὶ φθαρτοῦ καὶ ἀφθάρτου λόγον κινήσαντες ταύτην ἐτάραξαν, ∆ιοσκόρου ἐπισκοποῦντος Ἀλεξανδρείας. ἐπι σκόπων δὲ ἀπὸ Ῥώμης ἐλθόντων δι' Ὁρμίσδου ἐπισκόπου Ῥώμηςτῇ Βιταλιανοῦ σπουδῇ, ἔτι ζῶντος Ἰωάννου τοῦ Καππαδόκου ἐπισκόπου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, τὴν ἁγίαν ἐν Χαλκηδόνι τετάρ την σύνοδον πρὸς ταῖς ἄλλαις τρισὶ συνόδοις τοῖς διπτύχοις συνέ ταξε. Σεβήρου δὲ τοῦ δυσσεβοῦς ἐκποδὼν γεγονότος Παῦλος ἐχειροτονήθη ἐπίσκοπος Ἀντιοχείας, ὁ ξενοδόχος τῶν Εὐβούλου. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Ξεναΐαν τὸν καὶ Φιλόξενον, ἐπίσκοπον Ἱεραπόλεως, Μανιχαιόφρονα ὄντα, καὶ Πέτρον Ἀπαμείας ἐξώρισε σὺν πᾶσι τοῖς μετέχουσι τῆς λώβης αὐτῶν, Ἀμάντιον δὲ τὸν πραιπόσιτον 1.638 μετὰ καὶ ἄλλων τινῶν τυραννίδα μελετήσαντας ἀνεῖλεν. ἀνεκα λέσατο δὲ καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἀδίκως ὑπὸ Ἀναστασίου ἐξορισθέντας.