Breviarium historicum de rebus gestis post imperium mauricii

 Is proclaimed and is invested with the royal crown by the president and he appointed and sent crispus as general of the expeditionary forces in cappa

 The unholy ones, having lawlessly escorted the queen with him. and they were searching for the mistress of the servant-girl, so that they might inflic

 Could any state ever appear a match for these authorities? for it is not right, when it is possible to use prudence and good counsel to strengthen goo

 Their own wills and he was not content willingly. and some time went by, and the lord of the nation of the huns, together with the rulers and bodyguar

 And he defended himself to him saying, what has been said by you is well for what you owed as high priest 15 and friend, you have already paid but

 Plundering. and sarbarus, having received the letter, held to the siege. but the avars, since they broke the treaty (for heraclius, before marching a

 And you gathered. and so, having fallen upon him while he was starving, they killed him, and they proclaimed siroes, 20 his son, king of the persians

 All. when they were raised up there, the emperor immediately sent them to byzantium. which sergios, the hierarch of byzantium, received in a processio

 To him who was about to be baptized and be called a christian. for amr obeyed cyrus, as did his army for indeed they loved him greatly. and heraclius

 Mother and queen. from this time, then, he died, having lived sixty-six years, and having completed in the reign thirty years, four months, and six da

 From the saving baptism 30 to receive in his arms. and with pyrrhus, the hierarch of the city, being present, he touched the life-giving wood and swor

 Very many sea-battles took place each day, the war being joined from the springtime until the autumn season. and when winter came on, the fleet of the

 Seeing the multitude of ships and being struck by the sudden and unexpected event, they fled to their own strongholds, remaining there for four days

 Torturing by hand, carried out his audacity even against the mother of justinian, putting lashes upon her in the manner of schoolmasters on their pupi

 Having arrived was mutinied against by both the commanders and the military host, as in no way willing, being held by shame and fear, to appear before

 The brother of apsimar, who had become general of the eastern army, and his other commanders and adjutants, he hung on gibbets near the wall. and havi

 He appointed a certain patrikios stephanos, surnamed asmikton, as leader of such a fleet and sent him out, ordering him to destroy by the sword all th

 Three thousand, whom he received and crossed over with them, and he ordered them to establish themselves together with the so-called army of the opsik

 Passing the time. on the next day (it was the festival day of pentecost), the whole populace of the city gathered at the sacred precinct of the divine

 But having harmed him in no other way, he sent him into exile at thessalonica. since, therefore, frequent revolts of the emperors occurred and tyranny

 At the shores of the so-called satyrus. and the egyptians sailing in them, at night, embarking in the waiting cutters of the ships, came to byzantium

 Having completed the contest, he paraded the heads of those who had been beheaded, hung on a pole, through the hippodrome. but all the others, after t

 A statue of one who of old directed the sceptres of the romans, which is set up at the so-called xerolophos hill above the carved column, was thrown d

 He crosses the thracian regions and lays siege to the city wall and was preventing the importation of necessities and from this the city was in great

 They have dared against the church of christ. therefore, from hence, this city having become almost uninhabited already, he populates it, transferring

 He routed them and pursued with all his might and killed very many bulgarians. not long after, he campaigned against them by sea and by land. so those

 They kill in succession those who had lordship over them, and they establish as leader over themselves one named telessios, an arrogant man who also d

 The holy panels, on which the images of the saints had been engraved, they shattered by striking them. and indeed, the wretches inhumanly gouged out t

 He held a horse race, and he permitted some of these to be paraded in the middle of the theater, and each of them to lead a nun by the hand and with

 A disease of inhumanity was judged. in the seventh indiction, a son is born to constantine, whom he called anthimus. at the same time, nicetas the pre

and you gathered". And so, having fallen upon him while he was starving, they killed him, and they proclaimed Siroes, 20 his son, king of the Persians; who immediately sent an embassy to Heraclius and dispatched gifts, as he was about to make a truce with him. And he wrote to him that their states should be united to each other and that they should welcome peace from God, so that each might be at rest by itself. To whom Heraclius also wrote in reply, calling Siroes "son," and that it had never been his intention for a king to fall from his own glory; therefore not even Chosroes. "But even if he showed the greatest and worst evils to the Romans and Persians, I would have hastened," he said, "had he been saved, even if I had become most powerful, to restore him to his kingdom. But God, having known his intention, pursued him with a worthy punishment, so that there would not be a destruction of the many, providing the union to us now." And concerning the life-giving wood which Sarbarus had taken from Jerusalem, he insisted on seeking it earnestly; (and he promised to give it, if it should become manifest to him;) and concerning the ambassadors whom Saitos led away to Chosroes by deceit, how Leontius indeed died a common death, but Chosroes killed the others with wooden clubs, having perceived that Heraclius himself had invaded Persia. Therefore Siroes died immediately, and Kavoes, who died not long after, took control of the Persian kingdom. After whom Hormisdas reigned over the Persians, who also himself sent an embassy to Heraclius, and he sent his own son to him with money and most valuable gifts. And he signified the following through letters: "In the manner you say your God was given into the arms of a certain old man, Simeon, so also I give my son, your servant, into your hands. 21 And may the God whom you worship know what you will do for him." And having received him, he honored him greatly, and then when Hormisdas died, he honored him as king of the Persians. But Sarbarus, having heard that Chosroes and Siroes, Kavoes and Hormisdas had died, returned from the land of the Romans and wrote an apology to Heraclius, that not willingly but by the will of the one who sent him did he do what he had done to the Romans, and he asked to come to him and present himself as a servant. And having been assured by words of faith from the emperor, he promised to come to him and to give money from Persia, by which all that he himself had destroyed in the land of the Romans might be restored again. Amid these things, the son of Hormisdas was plotted against and killed, and Sarbarus asked for the rule of the Persians from the emperor. And he gave it, and they agreed with each other that all the Roman territories that had come under the Persians should be restored to the Romans. And peace having been brokered, Sarbarus immediately returned Egypt and all the eastern land to the Romans, having driven out the Persians there, and he sent the life-giving wood to the emperor. And Heraclius honored Niketas, the son of Sarbarus, with the rank of patrician, and he made his daughter Nike the wife of his son Theodosius by Martina. And having brought Gregoria, the daughter of Niketas, from Pentapolis, he joined her in marriage to Constantine, the emperor of the Romans; whom indeed he had betrothed while her father was still alive. And around the same time, from the place called Aithribos (this is a region of Arabia Felix), Saracens appeared and began to plunder the neighboring places there. And Heraclius permitted his daughter Eudocia to leave Byzantium, as he had betrothed her to the Turk; and 22 when it was known that the Turk had been killed by slaughter, he ordered her to return. And while Heraclius was in Persia, two sons and two daughters of his died. And he himself, having taken the life-giving wood, which remained sealed just as it had been taken, arrived at Jerusalem, and showed it to Modestus the archbishop and to his clergy. And they recognized the seal was intact; and as they had been preserved untouched and unseen by the profane and blood-stained hands of the barbarians, they offered a hymn of thanksgiving to God. And the hierarch brought the key for them which had remained with him, and having been opened, they venerate them

καὶ συνήγαγες". καὶ οὕτω λιμώττοντα ἐπελθόντες ἀνεῖλον, Σειρόην δὲ τὸν 20 τούτου υἱὸν βασιλέα Περσῶν ἀνηγόρευσαν· ὃς εὐθὺς πρὸς Ἡράκλειον διαπρεσβεύεται δῶρά τε ἐξέπεμψεν ὡς σπείσεσθαι αὐτῷ. γράφει δὲ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἑνοῦσθαί τε ἀλλήλαις τὰς ὑπ' αὐτοὺς πολιτείας καὶ εἰρήνην παρὰ θεοῦ ἀσπάζεσθαι, ὡς ἑκάστην καθ' ἑαυτὴν ἡσυχάζειν. ᾧ ἀντέγραφε καὶ Ἡράκλειος, τέκνον τὸν Σειρόην καλῶν, καὶ ὡς οὐκ ἦν αὐτῷ ποτε κατὰ γνώμην βασιλέα τῆς ἑαυτοῦ δόξης ἐκπεπτωκέναι· διὸ οὐδὲ Χοσρόην. "ἀλλ' εἰ καὶ πλεῖστα καὶ κάκιστα Ῥωμαίοις καὶ Πέρσαις ἐπέδειξεν, ἔσπευσα ἄν", ἔφασκε, "περισωθέντα, εἰ καὶ τὰ μάλιστα ἐπικρατέστερος ἐγενόμην, εἰς τὴν αὐτοῦ ἀποκαθιστᾶν βασιλείαν. θεὸς δὲ τὴν ἐκείνου πρόθεσιν ἐγνωκὼς μετῆλθεν αὐτῷ ἀξίαν τὴν δίκην, ὡς μὴ τῶν πολλῶν γενέσθαι κατάλυσιν, ἡμῖν νῦν τὴν ἕνωσιν παρασχόμενος". περί τε τῶν ζῳοποιῶν ξύλων ὧν εἷλε Σάρβαρος ἐξ Ἱεροσολύμων λιπαρῶς ἐπέκειτο ἐπιζητῶν· (ὁ δὲ ὑπέσχετο δώσειν, εἴπερ αὐτῷ κατάφωρα γένοιτο·) περί τε τῶν πρεσβευτῶν οὓς Σάϊτος πρὸς Χοσρόην ἀπήγαγε δόλῳ, ὡς Λεόντιος μὲν κοινῷ θανάτῳ ἐτελεύτα, τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους Χοσρόης ξύλοις ἔκτεινεν, αἰσθόμενος αὐτὸν Ἡράκλειον εἰς τὴν Περσικὴν εἰσβαλόντα. Εὐθὺς οὖν Σειρόης ἐτελεύτα, κρατεῖ δὲ τῆς βασιλείας Περσῶν Καβόης, ὅστις μετ' οὐ πολὺ τέθνηκε. μεθ' ὃν βασιλεύει Περσῶν Ὁρμίσδας, ὃς καὶ αὐτὸς διαπρεσβεύεται πρὸς Ἡράκλειον, τόν τε ἴδιον υἱὸν σὺν χρήμασι καὶ δώροις πολυτιμήτοις πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀπέστειλεν. ἐσήμαινε δὲ διὰ γραμμάτων τάδε "ὃν τρόπον λέγετε τὸν θεὸν ὑμῶν δοθῆναι γηραιῷ τινι ἀνθρώπῳ Συμεὼν εἰς τὰς ἀγκάλας, οὕτως καὶ τὸν δοῦλόν σου τὸν υἱόν μου δίδωμι εἰς τὰς χεῖράς σου. 21 γνοίη δὲ θεὸς ὃν σέβῃ, ὡς ποιήσεις αὐτῷ". ὁ δὲ δεξάμενος μεγάλως ἐτίμησε, καὶ εἶτα τελευτήσαντος Ὁρμίσδου βασιλέα Περσῶν ἐτίμησε. Σάρβαρος δὲ ἀκούσας ὅτι Χοσρόης καὶ Σειρόης, Καβόης καὶ Ὁρμίσδας ἐτελεύτησαν, ἐκ τῆς Ῥωμαίων ὑπενόστει χώρας γράφει τε ἀπολογίαν πρὸς Ἡράκλειον, ὡς οὐχ ἑκὼν ἀλλὰ γνώμῃ τοῦ ἀποστείλαντος ἔπραττεν ἅπερ εἰς Ῥωμαίους πεποίηκε, παραγενέσθαι δὲ αὐτὸν ἐξῄτησε καὶ ὡς δοῦλον παρίστασθαι. λόγοις τε πίστεως παρὰ βασιλέως βεβαιωθεὶς ἥκειν πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ χρήματα ἐκ Περσίδος διδόναι ὑπισχνεῖτο, δι' ὧν πάλιν καινίζοιντο ὅσα ἂν αὐτὸς ἐν χώρᾳ τῇ Ῥωμαίων κατεστρέψατο. ἐν τούτοις ἐπιβουλεύεται καὶ ἀναιρεῖται ὁ υἱὸς Ὁρμίσδου, καὶ Σάρβαρος παρὰ βασιλεῖ τὴν Περσῶν ἀρχὴν ἐξαιτεῖ. ὁ δὲ ἐδίδου, καὶ ἀλλήλοις συνετίθεντο πάντα τὰ ἐκ Ῥωμαίων ὑπὸ Πέρσαις γενόμενα Ῥωμαίοις ἀνασώζεσθαι. εἰρήνης τε βραβευθείσης εὐθὺς τήν τε Αἴγυπτον καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν ἀνατολικὴν γῆν Ῥωμαίοις ἀποδίδωσι Σάρβαρος, τοὺς ἐκεῖσε Πέρσας ἐξελών, τά τε ζῳοποιὰ ξύλα πρὸς βασιλέα στέλλει. Ἡράκλειος δὲ Νικήταν υἱὸν Σαρβάρου πατρικίου ἀξίᾳ ἐτίμησε Νίκην τε τὴν θυγατέρα αὐτοῦ Θεοδοσίῳ τῷ ἐκ Μαρτίνης υἱῷ αὐτοῦ γαμετὴν πεποίηκε. Γρηγορίαν τε τὴν θυγατέρα Νικήτα ἐκ Πενταπόλεως ἐνέγκας Κωνσταντίνῳ τῷ βασιλεῖ Ῥωμαίων ζεύγνυσιν· ἣν δὴ καὶ προμνηστευσάμενος ἦν περιόντος ἔτι τοῦ αὐτῆς πατρός. Ὑπὸ δὲ τὸν αὐτὸν καιρὸν ἐκ τοῦ Αἰθρίβου λεγομένου Σαρακηνοὶ διεφαίνοντο (χώρα δὲ τοῦτο τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας) καὶ τὰ ἐκεῖσε χωρία προσπελάζοντα ληΐζεσθαι ἐπεχείρουν. Ἡράκλειος δὲ τὴν θυγατέρα Εὐδοκίαν τοῦ Βυζαντίου ἐξιέναι ἐπέτρεψεν ὡς τῷ Τούρκῳ ταύτην κατεγγυήσας· καὶ 22 ἐπειδὴ ἔγνωστο ὅτι σφαγῇ ὁ Τοῦρκος ἀνῄρητο, ταύτην ὑποστρέφειν ἐκέλευεν. ὑπάρχοντι δὲ Ἡρακλείῳ ἐν τῇ Περσικῇ ἐτελεύτησαν αὐτῷ δύο υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες δύο. αὐτὸς δὲ λαβὼν τὰ ζῳοποιὰ ξύλα ἐσφραγισμένα, καθάπερ ἐλήφθησαν, διαμείναντα πρὸς τὰ Ἱεροσόλυμα ἀφίκετο, καὶ Μωδέστῳ τῷ ἀρχιερεῖ καὶ τῷ αὐτοῦ κλήρῳ ταῦτα ὑπέδειξεν. οἱ δὲ τὴν σφραγῖδα σώαν ἐπεγίνωσκον· καὶ ὡς ἀνέπαφα καὶ ἀθέατα βεβήλοις καὶ μιαιφόνοις χερσὶ τῶν βαρβάρων διετηρήθησαν, εὐχαριστήριον ᾠδὴν τῷ θεῷ ἀνέθεσαν. τήν τε κλεῖδα τὴν ἐπ' αὐτοῖς ὁ ἱεράρχης μείνασαν παρ' αὐτῷ ἤγαγε, καὶ ἀνοιγέντα προσκυνοῦσιν