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to suffer in that place. And since Adam heard, "you are earth and to earth you shall return," for this reason again he was placed there, so that in the place where he received the curse, there also he might receive its release." And while the emperor Heraclius was in the east, a son, David, was born to him. On the same day Heraclius was also born to Constantine, the son of Heraclius, who was baptized by Sergius the patriarch. In the same year the Persians rose up against one another, and many were destroyed. Then the king of the Indians sends congratulations to the emperor, many pearls and precious stones. 1.751 And Muhammad had died before, who had appointed four amirs to fight the Christians from Arabia. And they came against Theodore the cubicularius, and joining battle, the three amirs and a great multitude of them were slain. And the one amir Chalebos also went out, whom they call the sword of God. And there were some of the nearby Arabs receiving pay from the emperor of the Romans to guard the entrances of the desert. And at that time, having come, they did not receive their pay, but were driven away. And being grieved they went away to their kinsmen, and guided them to the land of Gaza, being an entrance to the desert near Mount Sinai, exceedingly rich. Who also took Heran and all the land of Gaza. And Sergius, coming from Caesarea of Palestine with a few soldiers, is killed first with his army. And those who took much booty returned. In the 27th year John Katzeas, governor of Osroene, came to Iad at Chalcedon, and arranged to give him one hundred thousand nomismata so that he would not cross the Euphrates either in peace or in war. But Heraclius, learning that he had done this without his knowledge, exiled him and sent Ptolemy the general in his place. In the 28th year the Arabs took Antioch, and 1.752 Mavias was sent by Oumaros as general and amir of all the land under the Saracens from Egypt to the Euphrates. In the 29th year Iad takes Edessa by treaty, but Constantia by war, likewise also Daras, and he lost many in it. And thus Iad took all Mesopotamia.

In the 30th year the Saracens campaigned against Persia, and having conquered all the Persians they subjugated them. But Hormisdas, the king of the Persians, having resorted to flight, flees to the inner Persians. And the Saracens lead the daughters of Chosroes captive together with the royal baggage to Oumaros. And at the same time Oumaros makes a register of all the inhabited world under him, of both men and cattle and plants. In the 31st year the emperor Heraclius died of dropsy, on the 11th of the month of March, having reigned 30 years and 10 months. This man, having been deceived by Athanasius patriarch of the Jacobites and Sergius the Syrian of Constantinople, rolled down into the heresy of the Monothelites, and indeed after this falling into the disease of dropsy, from which he also died, he was terribly punished; for the affliction extended to such a degree that when he was about to urinate, a board was placed against his abdomen because his privy member turned and sent the urine up against his face. And this was a reproof of his own transgression on account of his most unlawful marriage to his own niece Martina. And his body was placed in a coffin, and it remained uncovered for 1.753 4 days. And a golden crown was buried with him, and thus it was covered. After him Constantine his son reigns for 4 months. And he was weak in body, being nursed, so to speak, every day. To this man some say that "the crown, in which you were crowned, was buried with your father." And he ordered Callinicus the cubicularius to bring it. Having gone, therefore, and opened it, he found the body dissolved as if water, but the crown stuck fast to the head. And he tore it off with the hair, mourning and lamenting, and brought this to Constantine. And he ordered this to be broken up

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ἐκείνῳ παθεῖν τῷ τόπῳ. καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἤκουσεν Ἀδάμ «γῆ εἶ καὶ εἰς γῆν ἀπελεύσῃ,» ταύτῃ πάλιν ἐκεῖ τέθειται, ἵνα ἐν ᾧ τόπῳ τὴν κατάραν ἔλαβεν, ἐκεῖ καὶ τὴν λύσιν ταύτης δέξηται." Ὄντι δὲ τῷ βασιλεῖ Ἡρακλείῳ ἐν τῇ ἀνατολῇ ἐγεννήθη αὐ τῷ υἱὸς ὁ ∆αβίδ. τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐτέχθη καὶ Κωνσταντίνῳ τῷ υἱῷ Ἡρακλείου Ἡράκλειος, ὃς ἐβαπτίσθη ὑπὸ Σεργίου τοῦ πατριάρχου. τῷ δ' αὐτῷ ἔτει ἐπανέστησαν οἱ Πέρσαι κατ' ἀλλή λων, καὶ πολλοὶ διεφθάρησαν. τότε ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰνδῶν πέμ πει συγχάρια τῷ βασιλεῖ, μαργαρίτας καὶ λίθους τιμίους πολλούς. 1.751 ἦν δὲ ὁ Μωάμεδ προτελευτήσας, ὃς ἔστησε τέσσαρας ἀμηράδας πολεμεῖν τοῖς ἐξ Ἀράβων γενομένοις Χριστιανοῖς. καὶ ἦλθον κατέναντι Θεοδώρου κουβικουλαρίου, καὶ συμβαλόντες πόλεμον ἀναιροῦνται οἱ τρεῖς ἀμηράδες καὶ πλῆθος πολὺ ἐξ αὐτῶν. ἐξ ῆλθε δὲ καὶ ὁ εἷς ἀμηρᾶς ὁ Χάλεβος, ὃν λέγουσιν μάχαιραν τοῦ θεοῦ. ἦσαν δέ τινες τῶν πλησίον Ἀράβων λαμβάνοντες παρὰ τῷ βασιλεῖ Ῥωμαίων ῥόγαν πρὸς τὸ φυλάττειν τὰ στόμια τῆς ἐρήμου. ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ καιρῷ ἐλθόντες οὐκ ἔλαβον τὴν ῥόγαν, ἀλλ' ἐδιώ χθησαν. λυπηθέντες δὲ ἀπῆλθον πρὸς τοὺς ὁμοφύλους, καὶ ὡδήγησαν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τὴν χώραν Γάζης, στόμιον οὖσαν τῆς ἐρή μου κατὰ τὸ Σίναιον ὄρος, πλουσίαν σφόδρα. οἳ καὶ παρέλαβον τὴν Ἤραν καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν χώραν Γάζης. ἐλθὼν δὲ Σέργιος ἀπὸ Καισαρείας τῆς Παλαιστίνης σὺν ὀλίγοις στρατιώταις κτείνεται πρῶτος σὺν τῷ στρατῷ. οἱ δὲ λαβόντες αἰχμαλωσίαν πολλὴν ὑπέστρεψαν. Τῷ κζʹ ἔτει ἦλθεν Ἰωάννης ὁ Κατζᾶς, ἐπίτροπος Ὀσροηνῆς, πρὸς Ἰὰδ εἰς Χαλκηδόνα, καὶ ἐστοίχησε διδόναι αὐτῷ δέκα μυριάδας νομισμάτων πρὸς τὸ μὴ περᾶσαι τὸν Εὐφράτην μήτε εἰρηνικῶς μήτε πολεμικῶς. Ἡράκλειος δὲ τοῦτο μαθὼν ὡς ἄνευ εἰδήσεως αὐτοῦ τοῦτο πεποίηκε, τοῦτον ἐξώρισε καὶ ἀντ' αὐτοῦ Πτολεμαῖον στρατηγὸν ἔπεμψε. Τῷ κηʹ ἔτει παρέλαβον οἱ Ἄραβες τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν, καὶ 1.752 ἐπέμφθη Μαβίας ὑπὸ Οὐμάρου στρατηγὸς καὶ ἀμηρᾶς πάσης τῆς ὑπὸ τοὺς Σαρακηνοὺς χώρας ἀπὸ Αἰγύπτου ἕως Εὐφράτου. Τῷ κθʹ ἔτει παραλαμβάνει Ἰὰδ τὴν Ἔδεσαν λόγοις, τὴν δὲ Κωνστάντειαν πολέμῳ, ὁμοίως καὶ τὸ ∆αράς, καὶ πολλοὺς ἐν ταύτῃ ἀπώλεσε. καὶ οὕτως παρέλαβεν Ἰὰδ πᾶσαν τὴν Μεσο ποταμίαν.

Τῷ δὲ λʹ ἔτει ἐπεστράτευσαν οἱ Σαρακηνοὶ κατὰ Περσίδος, καὶ νικήσαντες πάντας τοὺς Πέρσας ὑπέταξαν. Ὁρμίσδας δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Περσῶν φυγῇ χρησάμενος ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐνδοτέρω Πέρσας καταφεύγει. οἱ δὲ Σαρακηνοὶ αἰχμαλώτους τὰς τοῦ Χοσρόου θυγατέρας ἅμα τῇ βασιλικῇ ἀποσκευῇ ἄγουσι πρὸς Οὔμαρον. τῷ δ' αὐτῷ χρόνῳ ποιεῖ ἀναγραφὴν Οὔμαρος πάσης τῆς ὑπ' αὐτὸν οἰκουμένης, τῶν τε ἀνθρώπων καὶ κτηνῶν καὶ φυτῶν. Τῷ λαʹ ἔτει τελευτᾷ Ἡράκλειος βασιλεὺς ὑδεριάσας, μηνὶ Μαρτίῳ ιαʹ, βασιλεύσας ἔτη λʹ μῆνας ιʹ. οὗτος ὑπὸ Ἀθανασίου πατριάρχου τῶν Ἰακωβιτῶν καὶ Σεργίου τοῦ Σύρου Κωνσταντι νουπόλεως ἀπατηθεὶς εἰς τὴν αἵρεσιν τῶν μονοθελητῶν ἐξεκυλίσθη, καὶ δὴ μετὰ ταῦτα νόσῳ περιπεσὼν ὑδερικῇ, δι' ἧς καὶ τέθνηκε, δεινῶς ἐτιμωρεῖτο· ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον γὰρ τὸ πάθος ἐπεκτάθη, ὡς ἡνίκα ἀπουρεῖν ἔμελλε, σανίδα τίθεσθαι κατὰ τοῦ ἤτρου διὰ τὸ στρέφεσθαι τὸ αἰδοῖον αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ τοῦ προσώπου τὸ οὖρον ἀναπέμπειν. ἔλεγχος δὲ ἦν τοῦτο τῆς ἑαυτοῦ παρανομίας ἕνεκεν τοῦ εἰς τὴν ἰδίαν ἀνεψιὰν Μαρτῖναν παρανομωτάτου γάμου. ἐτέθη δὲ τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ἐν λάρνακι, καὶ ἔμεινεν ἀσκεπὲς ἡμέ 1.753 ρας δʹ. συνετάφη δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ στέμμα χρυσοῦν, καὶ οὕτως ἐσκε πάσθη. Μετὰ τοῦτον βασιλεύει Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ μῆνας δʹ. ἦν δὲ ἀσθενὴς τὸ σῶμα, καθ' ἑκάστην ὡς εἰπεῖν νοσηλευό μενος. τούτῳ τινὲς λέγουσιν ὅτι τὸ στέμμα, ἐν ᾧ ἐστέφθης, σὺν τῷ πατρί σου ἐτάφη. καὶ ἐκέλευσε Καλλινίκῳ κουβικουλα ρίῳ κομίσαι αὐτό. ἀπελθὼν οὖν καὶ ἀνοίξας εὗρε τὸ σῶμα δια λυθὲν ὡσεὶ ὕδωρ, τὸ δὲ στέμμα συμπαγὲν τῇ κεφαλῇ. καὶ ἀνέ σπασεν αὐτὸ σὺν τῇ κόμῃ, πενθῶν καὶ ὀδυρόμενος, καὶ ἀπήγαγε τοῦτο τῷ Κωνσταντίνῳ. ὁ δὲ ἐκέλευσε τοῦτο παραλυθῆναι