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for the greater deception of the simpler ones. Using such methods and hypocrisies they practice every licentiousness and defilement of either human nature indifferently and fearlessly. And some of them say that they are at odds only with their own parents.

In the 10th year the emperor campaigned against the Sklaveni, and having taken many captive, he returned. This Constans, being unable to convert the holy Maximus to his own heterodoxy, cut off his tongue and his hand. And he exiled 1.762 the holy Martin, pope of Rome, because his Monothelite dogma was being refuted by them. In the 17th year, Muawiyah, the leader of the Arabs, after this sent an embassy concerning peace to Constans because of the rebellion that had occurred against him by the Arabs, and so that for such a peace the Arabs would pay the Romans a thousand nomismata and a horse and a slave each day. But he was not persuaded. In the 18th year, Constans the emperor killed Theodosius his own brother; for being scandalized by him, he first had him tonsured a deacon through Patriarch Paul, who also gave the emperor the immaculate mysteries in a holy chalice. Who after his death often appeared to him in his sleep, wearing the vestments of a deacon, and offering a cup of blood said, "Drink, O brother." Wherefore, the faint-hearted one, growing weary of seeing these things, considered going down to Sicily. Therefore, leaving in the city his wife and three sons, and boarding one of the dromons and departing, he turned and spat at the imperial city, and thus sailed away. But not even while he was staying in Sicily did the dream fly away from him. And having reached Syracuse, a city of Sicily, he stayed in it, wanting to move the empire to Rome because he was hated by the Byzantines as a Monothelite and heterodox. He sends 1.763 therefore to bring his wife and his sons; but the Byzantines did not release them. In the 20th year, Muawiyah sent his son Yazid with many barbarians against the Romans; and coming to Chalcedon they took many captives. They also took Amorion of Phrygia, and leaving five thousand armed men to guard it, they returned to Syria. But when winter came, the emperor sends the cubicularius Andreas. And since there was much snow, he arrives at night, and by means of ladders he goes up on the wall, and enters Amorion, and kills the five thousand Arabs so that not one of them was left. In the 27th year, the emperor Constans was assassinated in Syracuse of Sicily, in the bath which is called Daphne. For a certain Andreas went in with him, and as the emperor began to wash himself, he struck him with the bucket on the head and killed him. And his death was heard that same day in the city, a voice having been carried from the air. And the Syracusans proclaim Mizizius the Armenian emperor, having compelled him, as he was very comely and most handsome. And Constantine, having heard of the death of his father, with a very large fleet reaches Sicily, and slays Mizizius along with the murderer of his own father. And having settled the western parts, he comes to Constantinople, having also brought back the corpse of his own father. And this one he lays to rest in the church of the Holy Apostles with Constantine his father, 1.764 and he himself reigns over the Romans with Tiberius and Heraclius his own brothers. And he also cut off Justinian the patrician, the father of Saint Germanus the patriarch. And Germanus, being rather harsh, he castrated; and George held the patriarchal throne. Constantine, the son of Constans, surnamed Pogonatus, an orthodox man, reigned for 17 years. In his first year, Saracens campaigned in Africa, and took 80,000 captive. And those of the Anatolic theme came to Chrysopolis saying, "We believe in a trinity, let us crown the three." And Con- was disturbed

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πρὸς πλείονα ἐξαπάτησιν τῶν ἁπλουστέρων. ταῖς τοιαύταις μεθοδείαις καὶ ὑποκρίσεσι χρώμενοι πάσῃ ἀκολασίᾳ καὶ μιασμῷ ἑκατέρας ἀν θρώπων φύσεως ἀδιαφόρως καὶ ἀδεῶς χρῶνται. τινὲς δὲ ἐξ αὐ τῶν πρὸς τοὺς γονεῖς καὶ μόνον ἑαυτῶν διαφέρεσθαι λέγουσι.

Τῷ ιʹ ἔτει ἐπεστράτευσεν ὁ βασιλεὺς κατὰ Σκλαβίνων, καὶ πολλοὺς αἰχμαλωτίσας ὑπέστρεψεν. οὗτος ὁ Κώνστας μὴ δυνη θεὶς τὸν ἅγιον Μάξιμον εἰς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ κακοδοξίαν μετενεγ κεῖν, τήν τε γλῶσσαν καὶ τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἀπέκοψε. καὶ τὸν 1.762 ἅγιον Μαρτῖνον πάπαν Ῥώμης ἐξώρισε διὰ τὸ ἐλέγχεσθαι ὑπ' αὐ τῶν τὸ μονοθέλητον αὐτοῦ δόγμα. Τῷ ιζʹ ἔτει Μαβίας ὁ τῶν Ἀράβων ἀρχηγὸς μετὰ ταῦτα ἐπρέσβευε περὶ εἰρήνης πρὸς Κώνσταντα διὰ τὴν εἰς αὐτὸν γενο μένην ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀράβων ἀνταρσίαν, καὶ ἵνα τελῶσιν ὑπὲρ τῆς τοι αύτης εἰρήνης τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις οἱ Ἄραβες καθ' ἡμέραν νομίσματα χίλια καὶ ἵππον καὶ δοῦλον. ὁ δὲ οὐκ ἐπείσθη. Τῷ ιηʹ ἔτει ἀνεῖλε Κώνστας ὁ βασιλεὺς Θεοδόσιον τὸν ἴδιον ἀδελφόν· σκανδαλιζόμενος γὰρ εἰς αὐτὸν ἔκειρε πρότερον αὐτὸν διὰ Παύλου πατριάρχου διάκονον, ὃς καὶ μετέδωκε τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν ἀχράντων μυστηρίων ἐν ἁγίῳ ποτηρίῳ. ὃς μετὰ τὴν τελευ τὴν αὐτοῦ καθ' ὕπνους συχνῶς ἐφαίνετο αὐτῷ, διακόνου φορῶν στολήν, καὶ ἐπιδιδοὺς ποτήριον αἵματος ἔλεγε "πίε ὦ ἀδελφέ." ὅθεν ἐκκακήσας ὁ ἄθυμος ταῦτα ὁρᾶν ἐσκέψατο κατελθεῖν ἐν Σι κελίᾳ. καταλιπὼν οὖν ἐν τῇ πόλει τήν τε γυναῖκα καὶ τοὺς τρεῖς υἱούς, καὶ εἰσελθὼν εἰς ἕνα τῶν δρομώνων καὶ ἀναχωρῶν, στρα φεὶς ἐνέπτυσε τῇ βασιλευούσῃ πόλει, καὶ οὕτως ἀπέπλει. ἀλλ' οὐδὲ ἐν Σικελίᾳ διατρίβοντι ἀπέπτη ὁ ὄνειρος ἀπ' αὐτοῦ. κατα λαβὼν δὲ Συράκουσαν πόλιν τῆς Σικελίας διέτριβεν ἐν αὐτῇ, βου λόμενος ἐν Ῥώμῃ τὴν βασιλείαν μεταστῆσαι διὰ τὸ μισηθῆναι αὐτὸν ὑπὸ τῶν Βυζαντίων ὡς μονοθελήτην καὶ κακόδοξον. πέμπει 1.763 οὖν ἀγαγεῖν τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ· οἱ δὲ Βυζάντιοι οὐκ ἀπέλυσαν αὐτούς. Τῷ κʹ ἔτει ἀπέλυσε Μαβίας τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ Ἐζὴδ μετὰ βαρβάρων πολλῶν κατὰ Ῥωμαίων· καὶ ἐλθόντες εἰς Χαλκηδόνα ᾐχμαλώτευσαν πολλούς. παρέλαβον δὲ καὶ τὸ Ἀμώριον τῆς Φρυ γίας, καὶ ἀφέντες εἰς φυλακὴν αὐτοῦ χιλιάδας πέντε ἄνδρας ἐνό πλους ἀνέκαμψαν εἰς Συρίαν. χειμῶνος δὲ γενομένου πέμπει ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸν κουβικουλάριον Ἀνδρέαν. καὶ πολλῆς οὔσης χιόνος ἐν νυκτὶ καταλαμβάνει, καὶ διὰ ξύλων ἀνέρχεται ἐπὶ τὸ τεῖχος, καὶ εἰσέρχεται εἰς τὸ Ἀμώριον, καὶ κτείνει τὰς πέντε χιλιάδας τῶν Ἀράβων ὡς μὴ ὑπολειφθῆναι ἕνα ἐξ αὐτῶν. Τῷ κζʹ ἔτει ἐδολοφονήθη ὁ βασιλεὺς Κώνστας ἐν Συρα κούσῃ τῆς Σικελίας, ἐν τῷ βαλανείῳ ὃ λέγεται ∆άφνη. συνεισ ῆλθε γάρ τις αὐτῷ Ἀνδρέας, καὶ ὡς ἤρξατο σμήχεσθαι ὁ βασι λεύς, δέδωκεν αὐτὸν μετὰ τοῦ κάδδου κατὰ τῆς κορυφῆς καὶ ἀπέ κτεινε. τὸν δὲ θάνατον αὐτοῦ αὐθημερὸν ἤκουσαν ἐν τῇ πόλει, φωνῆς ἐκ τοῦ ἀέρος ἐνεχθείσης. καὶ προβάλλονται οἱ Συρακού σιοι Μιζίζιον Ἀρμένιον βασιλέα, βιασάμενοι αὐτόν, ὄντα λίαν εὐπρεπῆ καὶ ὡραιότατον. ἀκούσας δὲ Κωνσταντῖνος τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς ἀποβίωσιν μετὰ πλείστης ναυστολίας καταλαμβάνει τὴν Σικελίαν, καὶ Μιζίζιον ἀναιρεῖ σὺν τῷ φονεῖ τοῦ ἰδίου πατρός. καὶ καταστήσας τὰ ἑσπέρια ἐπὶ Κωνσταντινούπολιν ἔρχεται, ἀπο κομίσας καὶ τὸν νεκρὸν τοῦ ἰδίου πατρός. καὶ τοῦτον μὲν ἐν τῷ ναῷ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων μετὰ Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ 1.764 κατατίθησιν, αὐτὸς δὲ βασιλεύει Ῥωμαίων μετὰ Τιβερίου καὶ Ἡρακλείου τῶν ἰδίων ἀδελφῶν. ἀπέτεμε δὲ καὶ Ἰουστινιανὸν τὸν πατρίκιον, τὸν πατέρα τοῦ ἁγίου Γερμανοῦ τοῦ πατριάρχου. τὸν δὲ Γερμανὸν τραχύτερον ὄντα εὐνούχισε· τὸν δὲ τῆς πατριαρχείας θρόνον Γεώργιος εἶχε. Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ υἱὸς Κώνσταντος ὁ Πωγωνάτος, ὀρθόδο ξος, ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη ιζʹ. τούτου τῷ αʹ ἔτει ἐπεστράτευσαν Σα ρακηνοὶ τὴν Ἀφρικήν, καὶ ᾐχμαλώτευσαν χιλιάδας πʹ. οἱ δὲ τοῦ θέματος τῶν ἀνατολικῶν ἦλθον ἐν Χρυσοπόλει λέγοντες ὅτι εἰς τριάδα πιστεύομεν, τοὺς τρεῖς στέψωμεν. ἐταράχθη δὲ Κων