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to chant the established psalms in the churches of the Christians; for this Saint John was an excellent teacher both in life and in word, filled with all knowledge, both divine and human. But Leo cast Germanus from the throne as being under his authority, who, placing his omophorion on the holy table of the great church, renounced the priesthood and withdrew. The God-fighter in his place ordained Anastasius, the aforementioned syncellus, who agreed with his impious plan and heresy. The blessed Germanus, as he was departing, said among other didactic words, "If 1.800 I am Jonah, cast me into the sea; for without an ecumenical council, O emperor, I am unable to innovate in the faith." And having departed to his ancestral home of Platanion, he lived in quiet, having been archbishop for 14 years, 5 months, and 7 days. In the 14th year, Masalmas campaigned against Romania, and coming to Cappadocia, he took by treachery the fortress of Charsianon.

In the 10th year, the emperor Leo married the daughter of the Khagan, ruler of the Scythians, to his son Constantine, having made her a Christian and named her Irene; who, having learned the holy scriptures, excelled in piety, refuting the impiety of the atheists. But the emperor was enraged against the pope and the revolt of Rome and Italy, and having equipped a great fleet, he sent it against them. But the vain man was put to shame when the fleet was shipwrecked in the Adriatic sea. Therefore, being further enraged at this, the God-fighter imposed a poll tax on a third part of the people of Sicily and Calabria. And the so-called patrimonies of the churches of the holy and chief apostles in Rome, which had long been paid, three and a half talents, he ordered to be paid to the public treasury, and that the newborn infants be supervised and registered in order to demand the so-called head tax. In the 18th and 19th and 21st year, Suleiman the son of Isam, raiding Asia, took many captives. He also took captive a certain man from Pergamum, who said he was Tiberius, 1.801 son of Justinian. Isam held him with royal honor and troops, for the honor of his own child and to frighten the emperors; whom he sent to Jerusalem and all of Syria for all to see. In the 23rd year, Suleiman campaigned against the Romans, having 90,000 men. and having made much capture and taking of captives, and having sacked Siderokastron, he returned unharmed. In the 24th year, the markets were burned by the Hierakitai, and many of them were impaled. on the 20th of the month of October, of Saint Demetrius, on the 4th day at the 8th hour, a great and terrible earthquake occurred in Constantinople, and churches and monasteries and houses fell, and many people died. And the column of Arcadius in the Xerolophos fell, and many others, and the land walls of the city, and cities and villages in Thrace, both Nicaea and Nicomedia and Praenetus. And the sea also receded from its own boundaries in some places. And the earthquake prevailed for 11 months. And the emperor, seeing the walls of the city had fallen, proclaimed, saying that "You citizens are unable to build the walls, but we have ordered the governors of the themes to demand for the canon one miliarision per nomisma, and the imperial treasury receives it, and builds them." And from this the custom prevailed of providing the dikerata to the governors. And the 12 folles were named keratia, or noummoi from Numa, king 1.802 of Rome, who also first stamped the obols with his own image and called them noummoi after his own name. He also established an office, wherein one of his men holding it would receive from each of those receiving a salary from the palace 12 folles, that is, one keration. wherefore it was also called the keration. and this was as a type of token for those receiving a salary from the palace; for not yet at that time were there registers in Rome. and this Numa existed at the time of the first captivity of Israel,

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Τῷ ιʹ ἔτει Λέων ὁ βασιλεὺς τὴν θυγατέρα χαγάνου τοῦ τῶν Σκυθῶν δυνάστου τῷ υἱῷ Κωνσταντίνῳ ἐνυμφεύσατο, ποιήσας αὐτὴν Χριστιανὴν καὶ ὀνομάσας Εἰρήνην· ἥτις ἐκμαθοῦσα τὰ ἱερὰ γράμματα διέπρεψεν ἐν εὐσεβείᾳ, τὴν τῶν ἀθέων δυσσέβειαν ἐλέγχουσα. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς ἐμαίνετο κατὰ τοῦ πάπα καὶ τῆς ἀπο στάσεως Ῥώμης καὶ Ἰταλίας, καὶ ἐξοπλίσας στόλον μέγαν ἀπέστειλε κατ' αὐτῶν. ᾐσχύνθη δὲ ὁ μάταιος ναυαγήσαντος τοῦ στόλου εἰς τὸ Ἀδριατικὸν πέλαγος. ἐκμανεὶς οὖν ἐπὶ τούτῳ πλέον ὁ θεομάχος φόρους κεφαλικῶς τῷ τρίτῳ μέρει Σικελίας καὶ Καλαβρίας τοῦ λαοῦ ἐπέθηκε. τὰ δὲ λεγόμενα πατριμώνια τῶν ἐν Ῥώμῃ ναῶν τῶν ἁγίων καὶ κορυφαίων ἀποστόλων ἔκπαλαι τελούμενα, τάλαντα τρία ἥμισυ, τῷ δημοσίῳ λόγῳ τελεῖσθαι προσέταξεν, ἐποπτεύειν τε καὶ ἀναγράφεσθαι τὰ τικτόμενα βρέφη πρὸς τὸ ἀπαιτεῖσθαι τὸν λεγόμενον κεφαλητίωνα. Τῷ ιηʹ καὶ ιθʹ καὶ καʹ ἔτει Σουλεϊμὰν ὁ υἱὸς Ἰσὰμ τὴν Ἀσίαν καταδραμὼν πολλοὺς αἰχμαλώτους ἐποίησεν. ᾐχμαλώ τευσε δὲ καί τινα Περγαμηνόν, ὃς ἔλεγεν ἑαυτὸν Τιβέριον εἶναι 1.801 υἱὸν Ἰουστινιανοῦ. τοῦτον Ἰσὰμ εἰς τιμὴν τοῦ ἰδίου παιδὸς καὶ τῶν βασιλέων ἐκφόβησιν μετὰ τιμῆς βασιλικῆς καὶ στρατευμάτων εἶχεν· ὃν ἐκπέμπει εἰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ εἰς ὅλην τὴν Συρίαν πρὸς θέαν πάντων. Τῷ κγʹ ἔτει ἐπεστράτευσε Σουλεϊμὰν κατὰ Ῥωμαίων, ἔχων μυριάδας ʹ. καὶ πολλὴν ἅλωσιν καὶ αἰχμαλωσίαν ποιησάμενος, πορθήσας καὶ τὸ Σιδηρόκαστρον, ἀβλαβὴς ὑπέστρεψε. Τῷ κδʹ ἔτει ἐκαύθησαν αἱ ἀγοραὶ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἱερακιτῶν, καὶ πολλοὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐφουλκίσθησαν. τῇ κʹ τοῦ Ὀκτωβρίου μηνός, τοῦ ἁγίου ∆ημητρίου, ἡμέρᾳ δʹ ὥρᾳ ηʹ, σεισμὸς μέγας γέγονε καὶ φοβερὸς ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει, καὶ ἐπτώθησαν ἐκκλησίαι καὶ μοναστήρια καὶ οἶκοι, καὶ λαὸς πολὺς ἀπέθανεν. ἔπεσε δὲ καὶ ἡ στήλη Ἀρκαδίου ἐν τῷ Ξηρολόφῳ καὶ ἄλλαι πολλαί, καὶ τὰ χερσαῖα τῆς πόλεως τείχη, καὶ πόλεις καὶ χωρία ἐν τῇ Θρᾴκῃ, ἥ τε Νίκαια καὶ Νικομήδεια καὶ Πραίνετος. ἀπέφυγε δὲ καὶ ἡ θάλασσα τῶν ἰδίων ὅρων ἔν τισι τόποις. ἐκράτει δὲ καὶ ὁ σεισμὸς μῆνας ιαʹ. ἰδὼν δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς τὰ τείχη τῆς πόλεως πτωθέντα, διελάλησε λέγων ὅτι ὑμεῖς οἱ τῆς πόλεως ἀδυνατεῖτε τὰ τείχη κτίζειν, ἀλλὰ προσετάξαμεν τοῖς διοικηταῖς τῶν θεμάτων ἀπαι τεῖν εἰς τὸν κανόνα κατὰ νόμισμα μιλιαρίσιον ἕν, καὶ λαμβάνει αὐτὸ ἡ βασιλεία, καὶ κτίζει αὐτά. κἀντεῦθεν ἀπεκράτησεν ἡ συνήθεια παρέχειν τὰ δικέρατα τοῖς διοικηταῖς. κεράτια δὲ αἱ ιβʹ φόλλεις ὠνομάσθησαν, ἤτοι νοῦμμοι ἀπὸ Νουμᾶ βασιλέως 1.802 Ῥώμης, ὃς καὶ πρῶτος τοὺς ὀβολοὺς τῇ ἰδίᾳ εἰκόνι ἐχάραξε καὶ νούμμους αὐτοὺς κατὰ τὸ ἴδιον ὄνομα ἐκάλεσεν. οὗτος καὶ ὀφφί κιον ἐτύπωσεν, ὅπερ εἷς τῶν ἀνθρώπων αὐτοῦ ἔχων ἐλάμβανεν ἐξ ἑκάστου τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ παλατίου ῥογευομένων φόλλεις ιβʹ ἤτοι κε ράτιον ἕν. διὸ καὶ ἐλέγετο ὁ κεράτιον. τοῦτο δὲ ἦν ὡς ἐν τύπῳ ψήφου τῶν ῥογευομένων ἀπὸ τοῦ παλατίου· οὔπω γὰρ τότε ἀπο γραφαὶ κατὰ Ῥώμην ἦσαν. ἐν δὲ τῇ πρώτῃ αἰχμαλωσίᾳ τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ οὗτος ὁ Νουμᾶς ἐγένετο,