Australian Association for Byzantine Studies

Byzantina Australiensia 4

THE CHRONICLE OF

ion"

*ALALAO
A Translation
by
Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys and Roger Scott
with
Brian Croke, Jenny Ferber, Simon Franklin, Alan James,
Douglas Kelly, Ann Moffatt, Ann Nixon

Melbourne 1986

 1986 Australian Association for Byzantine Studies

Department of Modem Greek
University of Sydney NSW 2006

National Library of Australia card number and

ISBN 09593636 2 2
ISSN 0725 3079

Melbourne 1986
Cover design by Stephen Cole of the Graphic Design Unit, Australian National
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Printed by Central Printing, Australian National University, Canberra

Published with the assistance of the University of Melbourne

Published and distributed by the Australian Association for
Byzantine Studies

Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Author and genre
About this translation
i)
General comments
How to use this volume
ii)
Texts used
iii)

The Chronicle of John Malalas

1

Preface

Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book

Book 6
Book 7
Book 8
Book 9
Book 10
Book 11
Book 12
Book 13
Book 14

Book 15

Book 16
Book 17
Book 18

The Time of Adam

2
11

The Time of Abraham's Knowledge of God

The Time of the Empire in the Land of the Argives
The Time of the Trojans
The Time of the Empire of the Assyrians and of Askanios,
son of Aineias
Concerning the Building of Rome
The Time of the Macedonians
The Time of the Consuls of Rome
The Time of the Reign of Augustus
The Time of the Emperor Trajan and the Third Calamity
at Antioch
The Time of the Emperor Commodus and the Staging of
the Olympics
The Time of the Emperor Constantine
The Reign of Theodosius the Younger to the Reign of
Leo the Younger
The Time of the Reign of Zeno to the Time of the Reign of
Anastasios
The Time of the Emperor Anastasios
The Time of the Emperor Justin
The Time of the Emperor Justinian

Maps

28
33

45
80
91

102
113
121

143
151

172
191

209
220
230
245
309

Antioch
Constantinople
Provinces of the Eastern Empire
313

Indices

Glossary of technical terms

Index of names

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A project of this sort incurs a great many debts which it is a pleasurable duty to recognize.
First we must acknowledge with gratitude a series of grants in 1982-5 from the Australian
Research Grants Scheme which has enabled us to employ research assistance and especially to
meet as a group twice a year for concentrated discussions.
Next our warmest thanks must go to the University of Melbourne: to its Committee on
Research and Graduate Studies for a substantial publication grant; to the Faculty of Arts for a
grant which enabled Simon Franklin to visit Australia in 1984 to work
us on the
Slavonic material, and for grants towards the cost of word-processing; and to the Department of
Classical Studies for patient and copious support for word-processing and photocopying.
We must also thank the Classics Department of the Australian National University and the
Departments of Greek and of Modern Greek of the University of Sydney for assistance,
especially with photocopying.
Many people have come to our aid with advice, photocopies of inaccessible material and
opportunities for discussion. We would like to thank especially Evangelos Chrysos, Edwin
Judge, John Martindale, V. Pribylovskij, Stephen Reinert, Lennart Ryddn, Witold Witaboski
and seminar audiences in Dumbarton Oaks and the Universities of London, Melbourne, Sydney
and Uppsala. Brian Parker allowed himself to be mercilessly exploited for translation from
Syriac, for which we are very grateful.
Our research assistants, Ann Nixon (who subsequently joined the translation and
commentary team) and Suzanne MacAllister, laid the ground-work for the indices.
The translation and its subtext have been persistently and cheerfully word-processed in the
University of Melbourne by Sue Montague and Trish Dutton while our especial thanks go to
Helen Glynatsis. Ailsa Mackenzie has also provided much advice.
We thank the Princeton University Press for permission to reproduce, with minor
alterations, the plan of Antioch from G. Downey, A History of Antioch in Syria, 1961. We
would like to thank Kathie Smith for preparing the final versions of the maps.
Finally all of us in the group recognize that collectively we owe more than we can say to
our long-suffering spouses and families, who have found themselves living with John Malalas
for longer than they expected.

PREFACE
The chronicle of John Malalas is the earliest extant example of a Byzantine world chronicle.
Written at a linguistic level that approaches the vernacular, it gives an insight into an average
Byzantine's view of the past. Not only is this work fascinating in itself, but it strongly
influenced later writers in the genre, which flourished in the Greek-speaking world until the
sixteenth century; it also deeply affected the Syriac and especially the Slavonic
historiographical traditions. However, until now, no translation of the whole text has been
made into a modem European language, and only a few excerpts have been made available (eg
the portions of Book 18 translated by Veh, 1970). Furthermore, there is no satisfactory text.
Until I. Thurn's new edition (announced in the series Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae)
becomes available, one must still have recourse to that of L. Dindorf, published in the Bonn
Corpus in 1831.
In 1980 Roger Scott in Melbourne and a group of Byzantinists and classicists in Sydney
discovered that they had each, working independently, produced versions of Book 18 of Malalas:
Roger Scott some years previously for teaching purposes, the others as the programme of a
reading group. It was decided to pool resources and to tackle the whole chronicle. Books were
assigned to individuals, who produced first drafts which were then discussed line by line in a
series of meetings. Since the chronicle has a highly repetitious style, a list of the more
common phrases was drawn up and versions agreed upon, which were then imposed as far as
possible over the whole chronicle to ensure a consistency of approach matching that of
Malalas. The revised version was circulated for further comment.
It quickly became apparent that simply translating Dindorf's often unsatisfactory edition of
the unique Oxford manuscript (itself long recognised to be, in places, an abbreviation) raised
more problems than it solved. A decision was taken to face the issue of the lost original and
present in a'subtext' such evidence as could be found for the original version. The material for
the subtext was collected and drafted by Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys. Simon Franklin
worked on the Slavonic texts and presented their evidence in usable form; Brian Parker was
cajoled into reading the sections of Pseudo-Dionysios of Tell Mahre not translated by Chabot
while Witold Witaboski provided further advice. None of these can be held responsible for any
distortions the editors may have perpetrated in using their work.
We have not attempted to present the material in the subtext in Greek, or in whatever
language it now happens to be preserved, partly because this would be encroaching on Thurn's
territory, partly because of the considerable number of these languages (Slavonic, Syriac,
Ethiopic, Latin), and partly because we would like this material to be accessible to
undergraduate students of late antiquity as well as to specialists. As so many languages are
involved and especially since Malalas' Greek is difficult to recover as a result of abbreviation
and linguistic 'correction', there seems positive merit in publishing a kind of edition in
translation in some neutral modern language. This will provide a more readable guide to the
available evidence on what Malalas wrote than any conceivable edition in the original.
The Introduction to this volume is brief. Most space is given to explaining the principles
on which the subtext has been compiled and discussing the texts which are used in it. Further
discussion of these issues and on the nature of the chronicle will be provided, and our
conclusions on the identity of Malalas and his position in Byzantine society will be explained
and defended, in a forthcoming volume, Studies in John Malalas (Byzantina Australiensia 6).
Other material which has been collected in the course of preparing this translation will be
presented later in the form of a commentary.

Preface

more apparent in these future

The roles played by members of the group will also become
our historians are Brian Croke
process,
translation
has
joined
in
the
everyone
volumes. While
in the Introduction), Jenny Ferber, Douglas
(who has written the section on author and genre
has kept a classicist's rigorous eye on the
James
Scott.
Alan
and
Roger
Kelly, Ann Nixon
function for the middle books and Roger
a
similar
early material, Douglas Kelly has performed
secondary literature; Ann Moffatt has
has
scoured
the
Jeffreys
later;
Michael
Scott for the
read
the translation in an effort to eliminate
monuments
and
checked on the references to artistic
multifarious revisions into a
undue 'translationese'; Elizabeth Jeffreys has co-ordinated the
Scott
and Elizabeth Jeffreys, who
by
Roger
held
together
coherent whole. The project has been
Jeffreys, must take the
Michael
have also undertaken the editing and production and who, with
final
version.
for
our
team's
responsibility but not the credit
an unjustly neglected
We hope that this volume will not only introduce to a wider audience
further
work
on the chronicle
to
act
as
a
stimulus
history
but
also
figure in Byzantine cultural
tradition of the ancient and medieval world.

Elizabeth Jeffreys
Michael Jeffreys
Roger Scott

ABBREVIATIONS
The following is not an attempt at a complete bibliography of material on Malalas, but simply
lists the texts and secondary literature referred to in the introduction and in the subtext to the
translation.

Parisinus Graecus 1336, If 143-161:''EKXo'y

TG:V

XpovLKU;v;

Cramer, 1839, 231-42.

Abr(amovich)
D.I. Abramovich, Otryvok khroniki Ioanna Malaly v Zlatostruye XIIv,
Sbornik statey v chest' akademika A.I. Sobolevskogo, Leningrad, 1928, 1924.
'Acts
See New Testament.
AJA
American Journal of Archaeology.
Allen, 1981
P. Allen, Evagrius Scholasticus, the Church Historian, Louvain.
Amelotti and
M. Amelotti and L.M. Zingale, edd., Scritti teologici ed ecclesiastici di
Zingale,1977
Giustiniano, Milan.
Anon Mal
Malalas, Chronographia, Book 1; L. Dindorf, ed., Bonn, 1831.
Arkh
Arkhjivskiy khronograf (the 'Archive' Compendium), cited from Ist (see
below).
MSS: Arkh = TSGADA, sobr GAMID 279/658.
Vil (see below).
B
Parisinus Graecus 1630, ff 234-9: Johannes Antiochenus; MUller, FHG IV,
540-9.
Oxford, Baroccianus 182.
Ba
Baldwin, 1981 B. Baldwin, The date of a circus dialogue, REB 39, 301-6.
Beck, 1959
H.-G. Beck, Kirche and theologische Literatur im byzantinischen Reich,
Munich.
Bentley
R. Bentley, Epistula ad J. Millium, in Malalas, Chronographia; L. Dindorf,
ed., Bonn, 1831, 679-755.
Besevliev, 1980 V. Besevliev, Die Nachrichten des Malalas fiber die Bulgaren bei
Theophanes, Byzantina 10, 339-46.
Bikerman, 1951 E. Bikerman, Les Maccabdes de Malalas, Byzantion 21, 63-83.
BMGS
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.
Bo
Malalas, Chronographia; L. Dindorf, ed., Bonn, 1831.
Bourier, 1900 H. Bourier, Ober die Quellen der ersten vierzehn Biicher ties Johannes
Malalas, I-II, Programm des kg!. hum. Gymnasium St Stephan,
Augsburg, 1899/1900.
Brock, 1984
S. Brock, Some Syriac excerpts from Greek collections of pagan
prophecies, Vigiliae Christianae 38, 77-90.
Brooks, 1892
E.W. Brooks, The date of the historian John Malala, EHR 7, 291-301.
Bury, 1897
J.B. Bury, The text of the codex Baroccianus, BZ 6, 219-30.
Bury, 1897a,
-----, The Nika Riot, JHS 17, 92-119.
Bury, 1923
-----, History of the Later Roman Empire from the death of Theodosius 1 to
the death of Justinian (395-565), vol. 2, London.
Byzantinische Zeitschrift.
BZ
Parisinus Graecus 854, If 71-99: 'EKNoy" iaTOpLu:v; Cramer, 1839,
C
166-230.
Cameron, 1973 Alan Cameron, Porphyrius the Charioteer, Oxford.

Xll

Abbreviations

Cameron, 1976 -----, Circus Factions: Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium, Oxford.
Cameron, 1976a -----, Theodorus TpLQEnapxos, GRBS 17, 269-86.
Cameron, 1978 -----, Cyril of Scythopolis, V. Sabae 53; a note on KaTd in late Greek,
Glotta 56, 87-94.
Cameron, 1982 -----, The empress and the poet: paganism and politics at the court of
Theodosius II, Yale Classsical Studies 27, 217-89.
Cantarella, 1970. R. Cantarella, Giovanni Malalas, Themis e le origini della tragedia, Acme
23/24, 61-66.
Cantarella,
-----, Parva quaedam, Athena 83/4, 525-31.
1972/3
Charles, 1916
See IN.
Chernysheva,
M. I. Chemysheva, 0 sootnoshenii slavyanskogo perevoda'Khroniki Ioanna
Malaly' i yeye grecheskogo teksta (na materiale portretnoyleksiki), Trudy
1983
Otdela Drevnerusskoy Literatury 37, 222-8.
Malalas, Chronographia; E. Chilmead, ed., Oxford, 1691.
Chil
Chrysos, 1966 E. Chrysos, Eine Konjektur zu Johannes Malalas, JOBG 15, 147-52.
Conybeare, 1902 F.C. Conybeare, The Relation of the Paschal Chronicle to Malalas, BZ 11,
395-405.
Costanza, 1959 S. Costanza, Sull'utilizzazione di alcune citazione teologiche nella
cronografia di Giovanni Malala e in due testi agiografici, BZ 52, 247-52.
CP
Chronicon Paschale; L. Dindorf, ed., Bonn, 1832.
CP
Classical Philology.
Cramer, 1839
J.A. Cramer, ed., Anecdota Graeca e codd, manuscriptisBibliothecae Regiae
Parisiensis, vol. 2, Oxford, reprinted Hildesheim, 1967.
Croke, 1981 B. Croke, Two early Byzantine earthquakes and their liturgical
commemoration, Byzantion 51, 122-47.
-----, Basiliscus the boy-emperor, GRBS 24, 81-91.
Croke, 1983
Croke, 1983a -----, The origins of the Christian world chronicle, in History and
Historians in Late Antiquity; B. Croke and A.M. Emmett, edd., Sydney,
116-131.
Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium.
CSCO
Cyril
Cyril of Alexandria, Contra Julianum I, PG 76, cols 552-6,
Da
Dares, De excidio Troiae historia; F. Meister, ed., Leipzig, 1873.
Dagron, 1974
G. Dagron, Naissance dune capitale: Constantinople et ses institutions de
330 d 451, Paris.
Daniel
See Septuagint.
de Boor
See Th.
See GM
de Boor, 1904
De insid
Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Excerpta de insidiis , in Excerpta historica; C.
de Boor, ed., Berlin, 1905, 151-176.
De virt
Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Excerpta de virtutibus et vitiis, in Excerpta
historica; T.Buttner-Wobst and A.G. Roos, edd., Berlin, 1906-10, 157-63.
Dihle, 1976
A. Dihle, Textkritische Bemerkungen zu friihbyzantinischen Autoren, BZ
69, 1-8.
Dilleman, 1961 L. Dilleman, Ammien Marcellin et les pays de l'Euphrate et du Tigre, Syria
38, 87458,
Dind
L. Dindorf, ed., Malalas, Chronographia, Bonn, 1831.
Downey, 1937 G. Downey, Q. Marcius Rex at Antioch, CP 32, 144-51.
Downey, 1937a -----, Malalas on the history of Antioch under Severus and Caracalla, TAPA
68, 141-56.

Abbreviations

xiu

Downey, 1937b -----, The architectural significance of the use of the words stoa and basilike
in classical literature, AJA 41, 194-211.
Downey, 1938 -----, Seleucid Chronology in Malalas, AJA 42, 102-20.
Downey, 1961 -----, A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest,
Princeton.
Dubarle, 1959 A.M. Dubarle, La mention de Judith dans la litt6rature ancienne, juive et
chrdtienne, Revue biblique 66, 514-49.
Dulii re, 1961
W.L. DuliBre, Les Cherubins du troisi6me Temple A Antioche, Zeitschrift
fur Religions- and Geistesgeschichte 13, 201-19.
Duli$re, 1970 -----, Protection permanente contre des animaux nuisibles assure par
Apollonius de Tyane dans Byzance et Antioche. Evolution de son mythe,
BZ 63, 247-77.
Eccl Hist
Parisinus Graecus 1555A, ff 7r-23r' 'EKNoyrj arro TrjS

iaTOptias; Cramer, 1839, 87-114.

ptS
'ETCC LpE6as
BUt;aVTLV0.:V
ETTOUSCI:V,
EL
Letopisets ellinskiy i rimskiy ('Hellenic and Roman Chronicler'), cited from
Ist (see below) and Mify (see below); paragraph references according to
Tvorogrov, 1975, 274-304.
MSS: see Tvorogov, 1975, 111-9.
EHR
English Historical Review.
Ensslin, 1949
W. Ensslin, Zu den Kriegen des Sassaniden Schapur I, Sitzungsberichte des
bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil-hist. Klasse, 1947
(published 1949), W. 5.
Erbse, 1941
H. Erbse, Fragmente griechischer Theosophien, Hamburg.
Eur
Euripides, Iph(igenia) Taur(ica), Herakl(eidae), And(romache), Bac(chae); G.
Murray, ed., Oxford, 1902-9.
Eusebios
R. Helm, Die Chronik des Hieronymus, Berlin, 1956.
Ev
Evagrius, Ecclesiastical History ; J. Bidez and L. Parmentier, edd., London,
1898; reprinted Amsterdam, 1964.
Festugi8re, 1978 A.J. Festugi6re, Notabilia dans Malalas I, RPh 52, 221-41.
Festugi6re, 1979 -----, Notabilia dans Malalas II, RPh 53, 227-37.
Festugi6re IV
-----, Corpus Hermeticum, vol. 4, Paris, 1954.
FHG
C. Miiller, ed., Fragmenta historicorum graecorum, 4 vols., Paris, 1848-51.
FGrHist
F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, Leiden, 1923-.
Forster, 1897 R. Forster, Antiochia am Orontes, Jahrbuch des k. deutschen
Archl ologischen Instituts 12, 103-49.
Francke, 1820 J.V. Francke, Examen criticum D. Iunci Juvenalis Vitae, Leipzig.
Franklin, 1987 An obscure sentence in the Slavonic translation of the Chronicle of John
Malalas, Byzantinoslavica.
Freund, 1882
A. Freund, Beitrdge zur antiochenischen and zur konstantinopolitanischen
Stadtschronik, Jena.
Ftirst, 1902
J. Fiirst, Untersuchungen zur Ephemeris des Diktys von Kreta, Philologus
16, 374-440.
Gelzer, 1885a H. Gelzer, Sextus Julius Africanus and die byzantinische Chronographie,
EKKX'nCUQaTLKrS

EEBS

Gelzer, 1885
Genesis
Gleye, 1893
Gleye, 1894

'ETuET1J

vol.1, Leipzig.
-----, Sextus Julius Africanus and die byzantinischen Chronographie, vol. 2,
Leipzig (both vols reprinted in one, New York, 1967).
See Septuagint.
C.E. Gleye, review of Patzig, 1891/2, in BZ 2, 148-6 1.
-----, review of Sestakov, 1890, in BZ 3, 625-30.

xiv

Abbreviations

-----, BeitrBge zur Johannesfrage, BZ 5, 422-64.

-----, review of Ist, Book 1, in BZ 8, 499-508.
----, Uber monophysitische Spuren in Malalaswerke, BZ 8, 312-27.
George Monachos, Chronicon; C. de Boor, ed., Leipzig, 1904; 2nd ed., P.
GM
Wirth, Stuttgart, 1978.
Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies.
GRBS
L.M. Whitby, The Great Chronographer and Theophanes, BMGS 8,1982/3,
Or Chron
1-20.
Gregory, 1975 T.E. Gregory, The remarkable Christmas homily of Kyros Panopolites,
GRBS 16, 317-24.
N.E. Griffin, Dares and Dictys: an introduction to the study of the medieval
Griffin, 1907
versions of the story of Troy, Baltimore.
Guilland, 1969 R. Guilland, Etudes de topographic de Constantinople byzantine, vol. 1,
Berlin.
Guilland, 1969a -----, Etudes de topographic de Constantinople byzantine, vol. 2, Berlin.
Hansen, 1971
G.C. Hansen, Theodoros Anagnostes: Kirchengeschichte, Berlin.
Haury, 1900
J. Haury, Johannes Malalas identisch mit dem Patriarchen Johannes
Scholastikos? BZ 9, 337-56.
Hdt
Herodotus, Historiae; C. Hude, ed., Oxford, 1908.
Hes
'HauxLou EK TU:V Ei.S T0V XptaT0U yE vvrcrty; H. Hody, ed.,
Prolegomena, in Bo, iii-liii
E. Honigmann,Le Synekdemos d'i-WroklEs et l'opuscle geographique de
Honigmann,
Georges deChypre, Brussels.
1939
Hunger, 1978
H. Hunger, Die hochsprachliche profane litcratur der Byzantiner, vol. 1,
Munich.
Hunger, 1979
-----, Die hochsprachliche profane literatur der Byzantiner, vol. 2, Munich.
Hyp
'Hypatian Chronicle', Polnoye sobraniye russkikh lekopisey, 11.2, St
Petersburg, 1908.
Iliad
Homer, Iliad; D.B. Munro and T.W. Allen, edd., Oxford, 1920.
Isaac Porphyrogenitus, ilcpt I,StoTi1TOS Kat XapaKTjpav T(V
IF,
Ev Tpoiq 'EXXTI u:v TE
Kai. Tpu: (cv, inPolemonis declamationes;
H. Hinck, ed., Leipzig, 1873, 57-88.
Isaiah
See Septuagint.
Ist
V. Istrin, Khronika Joanna Malaly v slavyanskom perevode:
Book 1: Zapiski Imp. Akademii Nauk , ser. 8, vol. 1, no. 3, St Petersburg,
1897, 1-23.
Book 2: Letopis' istoriko-filologisheskogo obshchestva pri Imp.
Novorossiyskom universitete, 10. vizantiyisko-slavyanskiy otdel 7, Odessa,
1902, 437-86 (subsidiary pagination 1-22 for text).
Book 3: Sbornik otdeleniya russkogo yazyka i slovesnosti Imp. AkNauk
SbORYaS) 91.2, 1914, 49-51.
Book 4: Letopis' istoriko-filologisheskogo obshchestva pri Imp.
Novorossiyskom universitete, 13, viz: slav. 8, 1905, 342-67 (text 1-15).
Book 5: ibid, 16, viz.-slav. 9, 1910, 1-51
Books 6-7: SbORYaS 89.3, St Petersburg, 1911, 4-50.
Books 8-9: SbORYaS 89.7, 1912,1-39.
Book 10: Letopis' ist. fil., obshch.pri Imp. Novorossiyskom universitete
17, 1912, 3-44.
Books 11-14: SbORYaS 90,2, 1913, 1-31.
Books 15-18: SbORYaS 91.2, 1914, 1-47.
Gleye, 1896
Gleye, 1899
Gleye,1899a

Abbreviations

xv

JN

Johannes Antiochenus, Fragments; in FHG IV, 540-622.

John of Damascus, De Imaginibus oratio III, PG 94, cols 1369-73.
John of Ephesos, Commentarii de beatis orientalibus et historiae
ecclesiasticae fragmenta; W.J. van Douwen and J.P.N. Land, trans.,
Amsterdam, 1889, 224-43.
E.M. Jeffreys, The Judgement of Paris in later Byzantine literature,
Byzantion 48, 112-31.
-----, The attitudes of Byzantine chroniclers towards ancient history,
Byzantion 49, 199-238.
Journal ofHelllenie Studies.
John Moschos, Pratum Spirituale, PG 87, cols 2888-9.
The Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu; R.H. Charles, trans., Oxford,

JOB

Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Byzantinistik, formerly Jahrbuch der

JA
JD
JE

Jeffreys, 1978

Jeffreys, 1979
JHS

JM

1916.

Kawar, 1960
Ke
Kern, Orph Fr
Kings
KPW
Krumbacher,

Osterreichischen Byzantinischen Gesellschaft.

SeeJOB.
A.H.M. Jones, The constitutional position of Odoacer and Theoderic, JRS
52, 126-30.
-----, The Later Roman Empire, 284-602, 3 vols, Oxford.
-----, The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces, 2nd ed., Oxford.
Josephos, Ant: Jewish Antiquities; BJ: Jewish War; S.A. Naber, ed., 6
vols., Leipzig, 1888-96.
The Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite; W. Wright, trans., Cambridge, 1882.
Journal of Roman Studies.
Codex Iustinianus; P. Kroger, ed., Corpus luris Civilis, vol. 2, Berlin,
1929, reprinted 1954.
Novellae; R. Scholl and W. Kroll, edd., in Corpus Iuris Civilis, vol. 3,
Berlin, 1928, reprinted 1954.
I. Kawar, Byzantium and Kinda, BZ 53, 1960, 57-73.
Georgios Kedrenos, Evvoi4its taTOptu:v; I. Bekker, ed., Bonn, 1838.
0. Kern, Orphicorum Fragmenta, Berlin, 1922.
See Septuagint.
Der Kleine Pauly: Lexikon der Antike, 5 vols, Munich, 1979.
K. Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur, Munich.

1897
KVI

Khronograf po velikomu izlozheniyu ('A Chronicle taken from the Great

JOBG

Jones, 1962
Jones, 1964
Jones, 1971
Josephos
Jo Styl

JRS
Justinian,

Justinian, Nov

Narrative'), cited from Pol.Pal. (see below).

Lampe
G.W.H. Lampe, A Patristic Greek Lexicon, Oxford, 1961.
Lemerle, 1971 P. Lemerle, Le premier humanisme byzantin, Paris (English trans.,
Canberra, 1986).
LG
Parisinus Graecus 854, ff 328-422: Leo Grammaticus; Cramer, 1839, 243379 (reprinted Bonn, 1842).
J.H.W.G. Liebeschutz, Antioch: city and imperial administration in the later
Liebeschutz,
1972
Roman Empire, Oxford.
LSJ
H.G. Liddell, R. Scott and H.S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed.,
Oxford, 1940.
Lucan
Lucan, Belli civilis libri decem; A.E. Housman, ed., Oxford, 1926.
Luke

See New Testament.

LM

Laterculus Malalianus; T. Mommsen, ed., MGH, Auctores Antiquissimi

13, Chronica Minora 3, Berlin, 1898, reprinted 1961, 424-37.
P. Maas, Metrische Akklamationen der Byzantiner, BZ 21, 28-51.

Maas, 1912

Abbreviations

xvi
Maass, 1902
Man

Mango, 1966
Mango, 1980
Marcellinus

Maricq, 1950

Mark

Markopoulos,

E. Maass, Die Tagesgotter in Rom and den Provinzen, Berlin.

Constantine Manasses, EvvoijrLS taTOpLKI; I. Bekker, ed., Bonn,
1837.
C. Mango, Isaurian builders, Polychronion: Festschrift F. Dblger, P.
Wirth, ed., Heidelberg, 358-65.
-----, Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome, London.
Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon; T. Mommsen, ed., MGH, Auctores
Antiquissimi 11, Chronica minora 2, Berlin, 1894, reprinted 1961, 59-108.
A. Maricq, Factions du cirque et partis populaires, AcadImie royale de
Belgique, Bulletin de la classe des lettres et des sciences morales et
politiques 26, 396-421.
See New Testament.
A.Ph. Markopoulos,'H xpovoypa$Ca Tov WEVSo-EUEU:V KaL

TmyEs Tns, Ioannina, 1978.

See New Testament.
Meinhart, 1966 M. Meinhart, Die Datierung der SC Tertullianum mit einem Beitrag zur

1978
Matthew

oL

Gaiusforschung, Zeitschrift des Savigny-Stifiung far Rechtsgeschichte 83,

100-41.

Mendelssohn,
1887
Meshchersky

Meyer, 1897
MGH
Mify

MK
Momigliano,

L. Mendelssohn, ed., Zosimi

Historia Nova, Leipzig.

Dva neizdannykh otryvka drevneslavyanskogo perevoda'Khroniki' Ioanna

Malaly, VV 11, 1956, 279-84.
P. Meyer, Zur Chronologie der praefecti Aegypti in zweiten Jahrhundert,
Hermes 32, 210-34.
Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
O.V Tvorogov, Antichnyye mify v drevnerusskoy literature XI-XVI vv,
Trudy otdela drevnerusskoy literatury 33, 1979, 1-31.

Moses Khorenats'i, History of the Armenians; R.W. Thomson, trans.,

Cambridge, Mass., 1978.
A. Momigliano, Malalas, in OCD, 641.

1970

Mommsen,
1872

T. Mommsen, Bruchstticke des Johannes von Antiochia and des Johannes

Malalas, Hermes 6, 323-83.

Mommsen, 1897 -----, Lateinische MalalasauszUge, BZ 4, 487-8.
Moravcsik, 1958 0. Moravcsik, Byzantinoturcica, vol. 1, 2nd ed., Berlin.
Mosshammer,
A.A. Mosshammer, The Chronicle of Euseblus and the Greek Chronographic
1979
Tradition, Lewisburg and London.
MS
Michael the Syrian, La chronique de Michelle Syrien ; J.B. Chabot, ed. and
trans., 3 vols. Paris, 1899-1904.
MUller, 1839
K.O. Miiller, Antiquitates Antiochenae, Oottingen.
Nau, 1897
F. Nau, Analyse de la seconde partie in&dite de 1'Histoire Eccldsiastique de
Jean d'Asie, Revue de l'Orient Chrdtien 2,455-93,
Neumann, 1880 K.J. Neumann, Der Umfang der Chronik des Malalas in der Oxforder
Handschrift, Hermes 15, 356-60.
New Testament E. Nestle and K. Aland, edd., Novum Testamentum Graece, Stuttgart, 1979.
NikKal
Nikephoros Kallistos, 'EKKXTiaLaaTLKTI LQTOpCa; PG 145, col 558ff.
Noack, 1891/3 F. Noack, Der griechische Dictys, Philologus, Suppl. 6,403-500.
OCD
Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1970.
Olmstead, 1942 A.T. Olmstead, The Chicago Theological Seminary Newsletter 31.4.

Abbreviations
P

xvn

Paris, Supplementum Graecum 682, ff 9-14; V. Istrin, ed. (as for Ist, Book
1).

Paschoud, 1979 F. Paschoud, ed. and trans., Zosime, Histoire Nouvelle, vol. 2, Paris.
Patzig, 1890/1 E. Patzig, Unerkannt and unbekannt gebliebene Malalas-Fragments
Jahresbericht der Thomasschule far den Schuljahr von Ostern 1890 bis
Ostern 1891, Leipzig, 1891.
Patzig, 1891/2 -----, Johannes Antiochenus and Johannes Malalas, Jahresbericht der
Thomasschule fiir den Schuljahr von Ostern 1891 bis Ostern 1892 , Leipzig,
1892.
-----, Dictys Cretensis, BZ 1, 131-52.
-----, Die Hypothesis in Dindorfs Ausgabe der OdyseeScholien, BZ 2, 41340.
Patzig, 1896
-----, Ober einige Quellen des Zonaras, BZ 5, 24-53.
Patzig, 1898
-----, Der angebliche Monophysitismus des Malalas, BZ 7, 111-28.
Patzig, 1901
-----, Malalas and Tzetzes, BZ 10, 385-93.
Patzig, 1911
-----, review of Schissel von Fl, 1908, in BZ 20, 228-39.
PG
Patrologia Graeca
PL
Patrologia Latina
PLRE I
A.H.M. Jones, J.R. Martindale and J. Morris, The Prosopography of the
Later Roman Empire, vol. 1: AD 260-395, Cambridge, 1971.
PLRE II
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. 2: AD
395-527, Cambridge, 1980.
PLRE III
The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. 3: AD 527-640
(forthcoming).
PO
Patrologia Orientalis.
Pol.Pal.
Polnaya kronograficheskaya Paleya (for paragraph references for the section
based on KVI, see Tvorogov, 1975, 239-60), cited from MS GPB
(Leningrad) sobr. Pogodinskoye 1435, if 375-6, 410-llv.
Praechter, 1896 K. Praechter, Die romische Kaisergeschichte his auf Diokletian in cod. Par.
1712 and cod. Vatic. 163, BZ 5, 484-537.
Praechter, 1897 -----, Quellenkritische Studien zu Kedrenos (cod. Par. Gr. 1712),
Sitzungsberichte der bayer. Akad. d. Wiss., Philos.-philol.-hist. Classe, Bd
2, Hft. 1, 1-107.
Preger
T. Preger, ed., Scriptores Originum Constantinopolitanarum , Leipzig, 19017, reprinted New York, 1975.
Prokopios, SH J, Haury, ed., Procopii Caesarensis opera omnia, vol. 3.1: Anecdota,
Leipzig, 1906.
PsD
J.B. Chabot, ed. and trans., Chronicon anonymum Pseudo-Dionysianum
vulgo dictum, CSCO, Scriptores Syri, ser. 3, vols. 1-2, Louvain, 1927,
1933, 1949.
PsS
Pseudo-Symeon, Chronicle, in Parisinus Graecus 1712, ff 18v-272r.
RE
Paulys Realencyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, new rev.
ed., Stuttgart, 1893-.
REB
Revue des Etudes Byzantines.
Reinert, 1981
S. Reinert, Greek Myth in Johannes Malalas' Account of Ancient History
before the Trojan War, Ph.D thesis, University of California, Los Angeles.
Reinert, 1985 The Image of Dionysus in Malalas' Chronicle, in Byzantine Studies in
Honor of Milton V. Anastos, S. Vryonis, Jr., ed., Malibu, 1-41.
Richard, 1955
M. Richard, Les chapitres a Epiphane sur les her6sies de George Hi6romoine
(VIIe si8cle), EEBS 25, 331-62.
Rochow, 1983
I. Rochow, Malalas bei Theophanes, Klio 65, 459-74.

Patzig, 1892
Patzig, 1893

XVlll

Abbreviations

RPh
Revue de Philologie.
Rubin, 1960
B. Rubin, Das Zeitalter Justinians, vol. 1, Berlin.
Sallust, Cal.
Sallust, Catilinae Coniuraliones; A. Kurfess, ed., Leipzig, 1957.
Schissel von Fl, 0. Schissel von Fleschenberg, Dares-Studien, Halle.
1908

P. Schreiner, ed., Die byzantinischen Kleinchroniken, vol. 1, Vienna,

1975.
Scott, 1981
R.D. Scott, Malalas and Justinian's Codification, in Byzantine Papers,
E.M. and M.J. Jeffreys and A. Moffatt, edd., Canberra, 12-31.
Scott, 1985
------, Malalas, The Secret History and Justinian's Propaganda, Dumbarton
Oaks Papers 39, 99-109.
Sept
Dictys Cretensis, Ephemeris; W. Eisenhut, 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1973.
Septuagint
A. Rahlfs, ed., Septuaginta, Stuttgart, 1935.
estakov, 1895 S. Sestakov, Pribavlenie k stat'e '0 znachenii slavyanskogo perevoda
Malaly', VV 2, 372-7.
Shustorovich,
E.M. Shustorovich, Khronika loanna Malaly i antichaya traditsiya v
1970
drevnerusskoy literature, Trudy otdela drevnerusskoy literatury 23, 68-70.
Sk
Theodoros Skoutariotes, EvvoysLS XpoVLKrj; C. Sathas, ed.,
ME6aL0_VLKi'
BLpXLoeTIK11, vol. 7, Paris, 1894, 1-556.
Soc,HE
Socrates, Historia Ecclesiastica; PG 67, 28-342.
Soph
Sofiyskiy kronograf (the 'Sofia Compendium'), cited, with paragraph
references, from O.V. Tvorogov, Materialy k istorii russkikh khronografov.
2. Sofiyiskiy khronograf s 'Khronikoy Ioanna Malaly', Trudy otdela
drevnerusskoy literatury 37, 1983, 188-221 (= MS GPB sobr. sofiyskiye
1454, also partially published in Ist, passim).
Sophocles
E.A. Sophocles, Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods,
Cambridge, Mass., 1914.
Sotiriadis, 1888 G. Sotiriadis, Zur Kritik des Johannes von Antiochia, Jahrbacher far
classische Philologie, Suppl.16, 1-125.
Spinka/Downey, M. Spinka and G. Downey, trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas, Books 81940
18, Chicago.
Stein, 1949
E. Stein, Histoire du Bas-Empire, vol. 2, Paris.
Su
Suidae Lexicon; A. Adler, ed., 4 vols., Leipzig, 1928-38.
Synk
Synkellos, Ecloga Chronographica; A.A. Mossharnmer, cd., Leipzig,
1984.
TAPA
Transactions of the American Philological Association.
TF
Tusculan Fragments (MS Crypt. Za XXXIV, ff 62-9); A. Mai, ed.,
Specilegium Romanum, vol. 2, Rome, 1839, Appendix, 6-28, and PG 85,
1807-24.
TGF
A. Nauck, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, Leipzig, 1889.
Th
Theophanes, Chronographia; C. de Boor, ed., 2 vols., Leipzig, 1883,
reprinted Hildesheim, 1980.
Th d
Parisinus Graecus 1710; C. de Boor, ed., Theophanes, Chronographia,
vol.2, Leipzig, 1883, 370-1.
Thomson, 1978 See MK.
Tikh
Tikhonravovskiy khronograf, cited from Ist, Books 15-18, 49-52.
TrGF
R. Kannicht and B. Snell, edd., Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, vol. 2,
GOttingen, 1971.
Tvorogov, 1975 O.V. Tvorogov, Drevnerusskiye khronografy, Leningrad.
Tvorogov, 1983 See Soph.
Schreiner I

Abbreviations

xix

Tzetzes, Antehomerica; I. Bekker, ed., Berlin, 1816.

Tzetzes, Exegesis in Iliadem; G. Hermann, ed,, Draconis Stratonicensis
Liber de Metris Poeticis, Leipzig, 1812.
Tz H
Tzetzes, Homerica; I. Bekker, ed., 1816.
Tz Hist
Tzetzes, Historiae; P.A.M. Leone, ed., Naples, 1968.
Tz I
Tzetzes, Allegoriae Iliadis; J.F. Boissonade, ed., Paris, 1851,
reprinted Hildesheim, 1967.
Tz Ph
Tzetzes, Posthomerica; I. Bekker, ed., Berlin, 1816.
Tz Schol Lyk
Tzetzes, Scholia in Lykophronis Alexandram; E. Scheer, ed., Lycophronis
Alexandra, vol. 2, Berlin, 1881, reprinted 1958.
Urbina, 1965
I.Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Rome.
V
Vatopedi 290, f 148 (= continuation of P).
Varzos, 1984
K. Barzos, 'H yeveahoyCa Ttly Kovnvu:v, 2 vols., Ttiessaloniki.
Vasiliev, 1950 A.A. Vasiliev, Justin the First. An Introduction to the epoch of Justinian
the Great, Cambridge, Mass.
Vasiliev, 1958 -----, A History of the Byzantine Empire, vol. 1, Madison.
Vat Or
Vaticanus Graecus 163, if 1-61r (see Moravcsik, 1958, 516-8).
Veh, 1970
O. Veh, Prokop, Perserkriege, Munich.
Vil
Vilenskiy khronograf (version of Arkh, see above).
MS: BAN Litovskoy SSR 109, cited from Ist.
von S
A. Schenk von Stauffenberg, Die Romische Kaisergeschichte bei Malalas,
Stuttgart, 1931.
VV
Vizantiyskiy Vremennik.
Weber, 1927
W. Weber, S tudien zur Chronik des Malalas, Festgabe fur A. Deissmann,
TUbingen, 20-66.
Weierholt, 1965 K. Weierholt, Zur Uberlieferung der Malalas Chronik, Stavanger.
Weisman, 1975 W. Weisman, Gelasinos von Heliopolis, ein Schauspieler-Martyrer,
Analecta Bollandiana 93, 39-66.
Wendel, 1949
C. Wendel, Iohannes Tzetzes, RE2 VII.1, cols 1959-211.
Whitby, 1982/3 See Or Chron.
Winkler, 1965 S. Winkler, Die Samariter in den Jahren 529-30, Klio 43/5, 435-57.
Wolf, 1916
K. Wolf, lohannes Malalas, RE IX,2, cols 1795-9.
Wright, 1882
See Jo Styl.
Zon
Zonaras, Chronikon; L, Dindorf, ed., Leipzig, 1868-75.
Tz Ah
Tz Ex

Previous Editions
E. Chilmead,
Chronographia, Oxford, 1691, reprinted Venice, 1733.
L. Dindorf,
Chronographia, Bonn, 1831, reprinted PG 97, cols 9-790.
A. Schenk von Stauffenberg, Die Romische Kaisergeschichte bei Malalas; Griechischer
Texte der Bilcher IX-XII and Untersuchungen, Stuttgart, 1931.

Previous Translations
Latin:
English:
German:

E. Chilmead, 1691 (reprinted Venice, 1733; Bonn, 1831 and PG 97).

M. Spinka and G. Downey, The Chronicle of John Malalas, Books 8-18,
Chicago, 1940 (the Slavonic text only).
O. Veh, Prokop, Perserkriege, Munich, 1970 (portions of Book 18 ).

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Abbrevi

special abbreviations
app

in the subtext
circa
century
correction, corrected by
consul

C.

Cent.
Corr
Cos

d.
fl.

died

Cr.

M*

rnod.
MUM

Mag.off

rris, mss
PPO

"Sc

PUC
QSP
s.v.

flourished
fragment
the original form of Malalas' chronicle (see p. xxvii)
modem
inagister utriusque militiae (commander of both infantry and cavalry)
magister ofciorum (see glossary)
manuscript(s)
praefectus praetorio (praetorian prefect; see glossary)
praepositus sacri cubiculi (see glossary)
praefectus urbis Constantinopoleos (city prefect)
quaestor sacri palatii (see glossary)
sub voce (see under)

AUTHOR AND GENRE

The aim and scope of the chronicle
The chronicle of John Malalas treated the period from Adam to at least AD 565 in eighteen
books, the longest of which is Book 18 covering the reign of Justinian. I Although composed
in two separate versions decades apart, it is probably a unified work by a single author. As
indicated in the preface to the chronicle (see p. 1 below), Malalas' purpose in writing his work
is twofold: 1) to set out the course of sacred history as interpreted by the Christian chronicle
tradition (covered by Books 1-9); and 2) to provide a summary account of events under the
Roman emperors up to and including his own lifetime (covered by Books 10-181. Throughout
the chronicle he follows his purpose consistently, using in Books 1-8 the chronology of
Hebrew history as a framework into which he integrates the history of the Persians, Greeks,
Romans and other nations. From Augustus (Book 9) onwards he structures the chronicle
around the reigns of individual Roman emperors, devoting a single book to each of the
emperors from Zeno (Book 15) to Justinian (Book 18), a period for which he tells us that he is
using oral sources.

Genre
In setting out to write a 'chronography', which was probably the original title of the work,
Malalas was following a pattern of history-writing that was well established by the mid-sixth
century. The first full-scale Christian chronicle was written by Eusebios of Caesarea in the late
third century (Croke, 1983a). Although Eusebios' chronicle proved to be immensely popular
and influential, its elaborate tabular format, setting out contemporaneous kingdoms in parallel
columns linked to years from Abraham, was modified and adopted by subsequent chroniclers in
both the Greek East and the Latin West (Mosshammer, 1979). Moreover, the chronicle
emerged as a significant and usual form of history-writing in the early Byzantine world because
chronological issues such as the dates of Creation and of the Incarnation and the duration of the
world became increasingly important and disputed (Gelzer,1885 and 1885a).
By their very structure chronicles lent themselves easily to interpolation and expansion
through the addition of supplementary material, and to simplification by combining several
related entries across a number of years. It is reasonable to assume that in terms of structure
and narrative format Malalas was merely following his now lost chronographical predecessors,
such as Panodoros and Annianos. This form of chronicle probably does not represent a new
direction in Byzantine history-writing, though the chronicle was itself very influential in
shaping the Byzantine chronographical tradition (Jeffreys, 1979; Mango, 1980, 189-200).

Author
Everything that is known about the author has to be gleaned from the chronicle itself, except
that later writers refer to him as 'John the Rhetor' (John of Ephesos, Evagrios), 'John Malalas'
or 'Malelas' (Constantine Porphyrogenitus, John Tzetzes) and 'John of Antioch' (John of
Damascus, and again Tzetzes). As a 'rhetor' or 'scholastikos' (which is the meaning of the
Syriac word 'malal' from which the name Malalas is derived) Malalas possessed the education

1 For an introduction to the problems surrounding the chronicle, together with the relevant
scholarly literature, see Krumbacher, 1897, 325-34; Wolf, 1916, 1795-9; Moravcsik, 1958,
329-34 and Hunger, 1978, 319-26.

Introduction
designed to equip one for the mainstream of government service, and so he was fairly well
educated by contemporary standards. The implications of this elementary fact have not usually
been appreciated. Although applauded as a valuable and frequently unique reservoir of
information, the chronicler has been dismissed as entirely naive, ignorant and incompetent .2
Such judgements fail to understand the extent to which Malalas was conditioned by
contemporary knowledge and interpretation of both the past and the world around him (Reinert,
1985). His distorted knowledge of Roman republican history, for example, is essentially the
same as that of his contemporary John the Lydian. So also many of Malalas' seemingly novel
interpretations of classical mythology and culture appear to have been widely shared in his day.
He was not so much the inventor as a reflector of the newly emerging Byzantine view of the
past.
Malalas was probably born around 490, since he dates his access to oral sources of
information from the time of the emperor Zeno (see Malalas' preface, p. 1 below), and was
evidently educated in Antioch. Often the home of emperors in previous generations, Antioch
was now the headquarters of the comes Orientis , the magister militum per Orientem and the
proconsul of Syria I. It was the axis through which information flowed between
Constantinople and the East, and it was the base for all military campaigns against the
Persians. It was a cosmopolitan Greek capital where the native Syrian language and culture
mingled easily with Greek and Latin, the languages of the Roman government which formed
such a central part of the city's life and society (Downey, 1969; Liebeschutz, 1972). The city
of Antioch looms large in the chronicle, together with the region under the jurisdiction of the
comes Orientis. Indeed it is quite likely, in view of the knowledge and attitudes that he shows,
that Malalas came to be employed in the middle to upper echelons of the imperial bureaucracy
at Antioch, probably in the office of the comes Orientis. It may even be presumed that he was
himself involved in many of the transactions described in the chronicle in the 520s and early
530s.
At some point Malalas moved from Antioch to Constantinople, perhaps after the virtual
abolition of the office of the comes Orientis in 535 (Justinian, Nov 8.5) or perhaps in the
wake of the Persian sack of Antioch in 540. At Constantinople he probably continued his
bureaucratic career until his death, probably some time in the 570s. The chronicle shows that
he was a loyal supporter of Justinian and was of orthodox doctrinal views, despite paying little
attention to recent and contemporary theological struggles. Partly for this reason, however, he
cannot be identified with John Scholastikos, the patriarch of Constantinople, as was argued
initially by Haury, 1900.

2 Some characteristic assessments: 'John Malalas was undoubtedly the world's worst
chronicler...but [the historian] must use him for Malalas has preserved a great amount of the
most important data...' Olmstead, 1942, 22; 'Confused in content, mixing fables and facts,
important events and minor incidents, it is clearly intended not for educated readers but for the
masses' Vasiliev, 1958, 183; '...John Malalas whose narrative, though childish, has at least the

merit of being a contemporary record' Jones, 1964, 267; 'Uncritical, confused, and often
childish, Malalas preserves many otherwise unknown facts and is, of course, of special
importance for his own time. His popular language, his interest in local traditions and his
desire to appeal to the semi-educated Christian are in themselves extremely significant'
Momigliano, 1970, 641.

Introduction

XXIiI

Editions and date of composition

It is apparent that the chronicle was composed and circulated in two stages or editions. The
original edition which Evagrios used in Antioch in the 590s most likely reached the end of
Book 17 (AD 527) and was put together at Antioch in the early 530s. This edition was
primarily concerned with Antioch and may have been designed to appeal to the large audience of
like-minded officials in that city.
The updated version or edition (apparently not available to Evagrios in Antioch) extended
the chronicle to cover the reign of Justinian, although there is no absolute certainty about
where it ended and whether or not the latter part was the work of Malalas himself. (These
issues will be discussed in full in the Studies volume.) The early years of Justinian's reign (to
532) continue the tone and perspective of the first seventeen books and can definitely be
ascribed to Malalas. From that point on there is a notable shift in emphasis and perspective
from Antioch to Constantinople. Almost all the events recorded from 532 (Book 18, para 77)
onwards occurred in Constantinople, where Malalas now lived, and many were probably derived
from the so-called 'City Chronicle' of Constantinople. Despite the difference in the material
before and after 532, including a change to consistently brief entries, the stylistic unity between
the sections implies the same author in both parts.
It is not so clear where the chronicle ended, although the most likely point is the end of
Justinian's reign in 565, which would mean that Malalas was writing for his
Constantinopolitan audience not long after that date and probably died soon afterwards. It
could, however, be argued (see below, Book 18, para 152) that the chronicle continued
(presumably in a nineteenth book) to the ninth year of the reign of Justin II (AD 574) and was
therefore written in the mid to late 570s; but this seems less likely than a terminus at 565.

Sources
As indicated in its preface the chronicle may be divided, in terms of sources of information,
into two parts. For the period before the emperor Zeno Malalas had to rely on written records
and therefore cites, largely at second hand, numerous Greek and Latin authors, including some
that are otherwise unknown. For the period from Zeno onwards (that is, for his own lifetime),
he claims reliance on oral sources of information. The preface makes specific mention of
Julius Africanus, Eusebios and others, and their use in the chronicle is well signposted. These
were among his major sources, along with the chroniclers Domninos and Nestorianos and the
'City Chronicles' of Antioch and Constantinople. Sources are rarely cited in Books 15-18,
covering material derived from oral sources and dealing with events likely to have been within
the author's personal experience. Still it is possible to identify the origin of certain portions of
this material; for example, Marinos the Syrian is likely to have been the source for the
rebellion of Vitalian (Bo 402.3-406.8), Julian for the embassy to the Axoumite court (Bo
456.24-459.3) and Hermogenes for the first Persian war of Justinian (Bo 445-477). In addition
Malalas clearly made use of documentary sources such as imperial laws, decrees and letters
(Scott, 1981 and 1985). Again, the evidence for this and a detailed discussion will be presented
in the Studies volume.

ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION

i)

General comments

Malalas' chronicle is written at a level of Greek that is close to the vernacular (this will be
discussed by Alan James in the forthcoming volume Studies in John Malalas). His syntax
prefers paratactic to subordinating constructions; his use of pronouns is casual, often leading to
confusion over the identity of the person referred to. In other words, he does not use the
carefully wrought classicising Greek of writers like Prokopios or Agathias, but rather the
matter-of-fact tone of an administrator not concerned to avoid frequent use of technical terms or
bureaucratic clichds. We have tried to represent this in our translation with a plain but, we
hope, readable level of English.
Nevertheless there are places in the chronicle where a different language register may be
discerned, still remaining from Malalas' source despite the reworking that he gave the text as a
whole. There is, for example, an official tone to Veronica's petition to Herod in Book 10, to
the account of the Axoum embassy and the exchange of letters with the Persian king in Book
18; the description of the earthquake at Antioch in Book 17 attempts some rhetorical structures
not noticeable elsewhere, and there is a close paraphrase of Isaiah at the end of Book 5. We
have attempted to reflect these by an appropriate level of English, especially in Book 5, where
the translation now has a distinct tinge of seventeenth-century English, on the grounds that the
Septuagint and the King James' version of the Bible hold a similar position in the histories of
their respective languages. Ann Moffatt, however, felt that this was an unnecessary
complication, that the connotations of the two styles are not identical, and would have preferred
a more neutral tone.
Technical terms for civil and military offices have been represented by their Latin
equivalents (which are explained in the Glossary). This was done for the sake of consistency.
Malalas, writing at a time of transition from Latin administrative terminology to Greek, uses
the Latin forms slightly more frequently than the Greek. But few modern readers would be
able to appreciate the equivalence of the two sets of terms if we were to follow his example and
try to reflect the mixture as in the original.
Other recurrent phrases also we have attempted to translate throughout the chronicle in
similar terms, to indicate the repetitious nature of Malalas' style and his restricted vocabulary.
This is especially true of the two- and three-line portraits of Greek and Trojan heroes and of
emperors which are a feature of the work, but also of the sequences of actions expected of an
emperor (eg on reacting to an earthquake or on initiating a building programme). These
phrases have been translated by standard clichds from the first book to the last, since this
reflects Malalas' own usage and appears to be part of his unified (often anachronistic) view of
the past. There will be a full discussion of this in the Studies volume. Thus Agamemnon
summons a conventus and Agenor fights on the limes. The most striking feature of this
practise comes in Malalas' use of paQtxeus throughout the text to refer to a head of state.
Since the majority of the group would agree that Malalas found it almost impossible to
conceive of a state existing without a paataeus and since, for Malalas, the function of a
paQtaevs appears to be the same during the Trojan War as in the sixth century AD, we have
translated this word throughout as 'emperor'. Alan James, however, feels that this has not
been a satisfactory solution and would have preferred a distinction made between 'Icing' in the
earlier books and'emperor' later. When 'king' does occur in the translation it represents prj.

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Other features of Malalas' style are the incessant use of o auTds ('this' or'the same'), and
LStos
6
('the same'). We have usually ignored these in our translation, since to include them
produced almost unreadable English, and English of the wrong sort (more like a London
Cockney story-teller than the bureaucratic legalese that was the probable cause). We have,
however, translated the other frequent and nearly as disconcerting phrases, o XeydEvos,
'known as', and ovdaTL, 'called', both often used in places where the information must have
been thoroughly familiar to Malalas and to a large proportion of those for whom he was
writing.
Other points to notice are that "EXXrly has been translated throughout as 'Hellene',
though in the later books it must clearly mean 'pagan'; it seemed, however, preferable to mark
the unity of vocabulary in Malalas' mental world; a list of cases where 'Hellpne' probably
means 'pagan' is given in the Glossary. Similar problems have arisen in other cases where
Malalas uses a word in both a general and a restricted meaning. The verb ayavaKTa is
frequently used as a technical term of official imperial displeasure, but also means 'I grow
angry'. Equally, ee(cp& has become the word used to express imperial presidency over the
hippodrome games, without losing its basic meaning 'I watch'. In these cases too we have
usually preferred the general translation to the technical, leaving the latter to be implied by the
context. It seems preferable to leave the reader with a sense of Malalas' restricted means of
expression rather than making on each occasion a choice which must often be questionable.
Material in brackets in the translation in the form 'Kadmiades (daughters of Kadmos)'
indicates that this is an explanation we have added to help the reader; in the form 'image (icon)',
the italicized word is a transliteration from the Greek, usually to make sense of an
untranslatable pun.
Proper names have provided their usual headache and produced the usual arbitrary
compromises. Commonly known names (classical: Achilles; historical: Justinian; biblical:
Nebuchadnezzar) are given in their accepted English forms. Less well-known names (though
less well-known to whom?) have been transliterated in a Greek form if from a Greek root
(Bakchylides) and in a Latin form if from a Latin root (Secundinus). Barbarian names have
been given in the forms in which they appear in most modem handbooks (Grod). The form
preserved in Ba, if it is different, has been noted in the subtext ('Sapor', written as
'Sabbourarsakios'). Consular names, where we may usually be sure of the original at which
Malalas and his textual tradition are aiming, but which are frequently distorted, have been
corrected in the translation and the manuscript form has been noted in the subtext. Our purpose
in cases such as this is to make the text useful to our non-expert readers. However, some cases
have left us in despair; eg the Roman provinces for which Malalas has provided an eponymous
Greek founder: Kilix is now credited with the establishment of Cilicia.
Malalas from time to time indicates the date for an event by whatever system may be
available to him: the consuls for the year, the indiction number, the eras of Antioch or
Alexandria. Since such systems are not readily equated with our dating by the Christian era, we
have provided for the convenience of readers the equivalent date anno domini in the margin.
We stress that these AD dates are merely the equivalent of Malalas' forms, and are not to be
taken as support for Malalas' dating of any particular event. We have also provided, in the
subtext, the AD dating equivalents for those witnesses which use an annalistic system. This
information is included for the same reasons as the other dates, and with the same proviso that
it does not imply support for the annalists' dates.

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Haw to use this volume

who wish avoid
Many the
readers of this book will have no need to examine the convoluted textual tradition of
Malalas' chronicle. Most pages of this translation are in two layers. The upper is a translation
of the manuscript, Baroccianus Graecus 182 (Ba), the only text of the chronicle to cover the
whole period from the Creation down to near the end of the reign of Justinian, and the
manuscript which is almost the sole basis for the standard edition by Dindorf in the Bonn
Corpus. The lower layer is a collection of the evidence available from other sources for what
Malalas wrote. This guidance will suffice for many of the readers at whom this volume has
been aimed. There is little need for them to read the paragraphs which follow.
2 Textual problems faced by the translators
The textual reconstruction of John Malalas' chronicle is an extremely complicated task, and has
so far defeated all attempts at a critical Greek edition. Ba gives the only text complete enough
to provide a clear idea of the scope of the whole work. But this manuscript has substantial
lacunas, and frequently towards the end degenerates into a summary. Apart from Ba, the
evidence consists of later Byzantine fragments and collections of excerpts, and an extensive
network of influences in subsequent texts in Greek, Slavonic, Syriac, Ethiopic and Latin. This
other evidence demonstrably preserves at many points more accurate reflections of the wording
of the original chronicle than Ba, which is a late and rather unreliable witness, owing its preeminent position only to its comprehensiveness. This complicated situation has imposed on
us an unusual format, which readers who wish to use this material critically should examine
carefully to avoid misunderstanding.
3 Does it provide a translation of the Bonn Corpus edition?
Yes, though strictly speaking it is a translation of Ba, the manuscript on which that edition
was based. (Readers of the Bonn edition will find that it has been corrected and supplemented
in places; see 4 and 5 below). This is the upper of the two sections into which most pages are

For

to

complexity

divided, referred to here as the translation, while the lower is called the subtext. We have
divided the translation into numbered paragraphs (our own divisions, not found in the edition),
for convenience of presentation in this volume: we do not anticipate that these divisions will
necessarily have any wider use. The bold numbers in brackets in the body of the text, (128),
(129) etc, are references to the beginnings of the pages in Dindorfsedition, or to the editions of
the other texts occasionally used to supplement it.
4 Correcting the faults of Dindorrs text

Where misreadings would have an effect on the translation they have been corrected. They may
be picked out in the subtext by cases where Bo (= Bonn edition) appears after the colon; in
most cases there also follows the reference 'Bury, 1897', to Bury's long list of the edition's
misreadings.

Eg:

not right (277.1): 'right' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 227.

incorporated in the translation a number of scholarly corrections (some marked in
apparatus, some from other sources), and added some of our own. These are all
in the subtext by the abbreviation 'coff':
Apellaios (275.5; con Chil): 'Aprilleos' Ba.
refers to a correction made by Malalas' first editor, Chilmead.
have avoided placing in the translation any corrections which might reverse deliberate
eg the conscious abbreviations found towards the end of Ba. Corrections have only

We have
Dindorf's
marked
This
We
changes,

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been incorporated where we detect an involuntary error, and the resultant text is in some way
inadequate.
5 The missing pages and lacunas of the Baroccianus
There are five areas where at least a folio of text has been lost through physical damage to Ba
or one of its predecessors. Four of these, namely the beginning, the end, part of the catalogue
of Greek heroes in Book 5 and a lacuna near the end of Book 18, are identifiable as lacunas
because Ba breaks off in mid-sentence. There is also a substantial gap in the sequence of
imperial reigns covered by Book 12, not now marked by textual raggedness in Ba; however, it
seems likely to have resulted from physical damage at some point in the tradition between
Malalas and Ba. In all cases but the last mentioned there survives another text which seems to
preserve an approximation to what has been lost, or two other texts which can be used in
sequence to fill the lacuna. We have incorporated these texts into the translatiod, indicating in
the first item of the testimonia of the subtext the fact that we are not using Ba but another
text for the translation (see 8 below). The ending and the lacuna just before the end are
completed with passages from Theophanes, a writer who regularly reorganises and often
corrects the passages which he takes from Malalas: for this reason we have put these parts of
the translation into italics. In the last case in the list above, in Book 12, there is no surviving
connected narrative to fill the lacuna. As a result, the attempts at reconstruction are confined to

the subtext.

6 The subtext compared with the critical apparatus of a conventional edition

There are obvious general similarities in layout: a lemma (a word or phrase taken from the
translation in the upper layer to serve as a reference for the textual discussion), followed by a
colon, then by a word or phrase which has not been included in the translation. But there are
two crucial differences:
(a) The words or phrases following the colon, while they are rejected from the
translation of Ba (or whatever other text is being translated at the time), are not being branded
as false intrusions into the textual tradition, as would be the case in a conventional edition.
Unless there is some indication to the contrary (see 12 below), these words are being proposed
as more accurate reflections (than the lemma provided) of the original form of Malalas'
chronicle. This original Malalas, which must be referred to frequently in this introduction, will
be represented here (though not in the subtext) by the symbol M*.
(b) No attempt is made to quote all the divergent passages in the wide range of texts
to which reference is made in the subtext. The great majority of passages cited come under the
definition given in (a) above, where it is possible to suggest a more authentic reading of M*.
Passages quoted for other reasons are marked as such.
7 The purposes of the subtext
(a) To give a reference to the text used for the translation in the upper section in each
paragraph, and a list of testimonia (references to the subsequent texts, if any, which have used
this paragraph of Malalas). In a few cases it is possible to add at the end of the list a reference
to sources used by Malalas which still survive independently of the chronicle.
(b) To indicate the dates (expressed in anno domini form) under which the relevant
material has been included by witnesses using an annalistic framework (Chronicon Paschale,

Theophanes, Pseudo-Dionysios of Tell-Mahre).

(c) To note all cases where corrections have been made, whether of misreadings in Bo
or in the edition of another text used at that point, or of brief lacunas or corruptions in the texts
(see 3 above).
(d) To translate passages from later texts which seem to us to reflect M* more
accurately than Ba, or whatever other text is in use at the time (see 5 above).

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(e) To translate other material which, though less likely to derive from M*, should
(we think) be included here for other reasons.
(f) To give references to textual discussions in the secondary literature.
8 How are the lists of testimonia given?

Each numbered paragraph in the translation has a corresponding numbered entry in the subtext.
The first item in that entry (in bold) is a reference to the text which has been translated, with
page and line number. There follows a list of other testimonia. indicated by symbols, which
may be looked up in the list of abbreviations, pp xi-xix, and also in the discussion on the
texts used, pp xxxi-xli, where the editions we have employed are also listed. Here is a sample
entry:

Bo 171.1-13; CP 204.4-14, Ke 257.19-21, GM 21.8-14, Su 111 29.1-2, IV 7.2,

Slav: Ist 18.1-12, Soph 68, KVI (Pol Pal) 119.
The text translated in this paragraph is Dindorfs Bonn edition, p.171. References then follow
to the use of the same material in the Chronicon Paschale, the chronicles of Kedrenos and
George Monachos, two entries in the Souda lexicon and the Ethiopic text of John of Nikiu.
References are by page and line, except for the volume numbers in the case of the Souda, and
John of Nikiu, where references are made by means of chapter and paragraph number of Charles'
translation. References to the Slavonic texts (which nearly all certainly derive from a single act
of translation) are listed together at the end, preceded by the word'Slav'. In the few cases where
Malalas' source survives independently of his text, the reference is placed at the end of the list
of testimonia and preceded by the word 'See!.
1

9 How complete is

the list of testimonia ?

No attempt is made at completeness for its own sake. A major criterion for inclusion is the
usefulness of a particular witness for the reconstruction of M*. Thus Kedrenos, who is often
useful in this way, is regularly listed in the testimonia, while Zonaras, Manasses and Glykas,
for example, who are rarely important for this purpose, are largely ignored. When the symbol
'cf ' appears in these lists, the texts which follow it reflect the relevant paragraph of the
translation only in a limited way - for example, they may be abbreviated or substantially
rewritten. Even so, such passages may be useful supporting evidence for the form of M*; they
may, for example, confirm the form of a name, or the omission of an adverb from Ba.
10 The source of the lemma

The lemma is taken from the translation, and apart from exceptional circumstances the
translation is of the text, to which reference is made in the first item of the testimonia.
Reference is often made then in the lemmata to other texts which share the reading of the
lemma:

Sostris (27.15) JA, PsS, GM: cf'Sesostris' Slav, CP, Ke.

In this case it must be assumed that the text which is being translated, Ba, shares the reading of
the witness or witnesses listed before the colon, even though the symbol Ba is not used.
When a correction or addition is made to the text, the source of this is given with the
lemmata and the rejected reading is given after the colon.
11 Conventions governing the words following the lemma
After the lemma, and references and comments associated with it, there is a colon, as in a
conventional critical apparatus. But (as stated in 6(a) above) words and phrases following the
colon are not rejected as mistakes: they are proposed as part of the reconstruction of M*, unless
there is a statement to the contrary. Two basic patterns are used:
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Here beautiful' on page 28 of Bo is reflected by'very beautiful' both in the Slavonic text and in
the Chronicon Paschale, and so we assume that a superlative stood at this point in M*. There
is no need to introduce the superlative into the translation, for Ba makes adequate sense here
without it. However, it is included in the subtext, as a proposal about M*. The proposed
reading follows immediately after the colon, and the symbols for the texts from which it is
drawn come at the end. This pattern indicates that the lemma should be replaced by the other
reading to give the proposed text of M*.
(b) beauty (46.16): Slav, De virt add'and stature.
This means that on page 46 of Bo the Slavonic text and the Constantinian excerpts De
virtutibus have the added words 'and stature', following the point where 'beauty' stands in the
translation. Again, Ba makes adequate sense, and so the addition is confined to the subtext.
The reference symbols follow immediately after the colon, the verb 'add(s)' is inserted and the
proposed reading comes at the end. When a second or subsequent addition is needed, the verb
'continue(s)' is used in place of 'add(s)'.
12 Words following the colon which are not proposed as part of M*
(a) Corrections and misreadings (see 4 above) where Bo or Ba is found after the colon.
The marker 'corn' is also found before the colon in such cases.
(b) Cases where the words of another text are of intrinsic interest to readers of Malalas,
or where our decision to exclude them from M* was a difficult one, or where others have
suggested that the passage reflects M*, and we feel that we should record their judgement while
expressing disagreement with it. In these cases the reason for our interest and/or the degree of
our scepticism has often been made explicit in an attached note. At the least, the sign 'cf' has
been placed before the word(s) in question, to show that the item has been included for purposes
other than the reconstruction of M*. Sometimes, for the same reason, 'cf ' is used before the
third alternative reading at a disputed point, after the lemma and the preferred suggestion.
13 When two or more symbols are used to show that the lemma or other part of the subtext
derives from two or more texts, can verbal identity between those texts be assumed?
No. In some cases, where texts in different languages are involved, verbal identity is hard to
define. But even when all texts concerned are in Greek, some elasticity has been allowed,
especially over inessential variations of wording in passages which are otherwise identical over
several lines. The translation has been made either from the text being translated at that point
(in the case of the lemma) or from the first text to which reference has been made.
Where variation is wider, though the texts concerned still give combined support to a
proposal being made, two other tactics have been employed:
(a) a system of brackets to indicate points of disagreement and show the readings of

individual witnesses;
(b) qualifications of the support given by one or more witnesses, by the sign 'cf'.
In general, we would discourage readers from making any deductions from the subtext
about the precise readings of any witnesses, apart from those directly translated in the subtext.
14 The order in which texts are cited in the subtext
The first text cited in the testimonia and other lists of witnesses is that which has been
translated (see 13 above). The rest are then cited in rough order of age and/or usefulness (two
criteria which agree in general but often disagree in particular). At the end are those texts
whose value must be qualified by 'cf ', apart from the Slavonic texts in the testimonia lists,
which are given together at the end. However, these principles have been followed in an
impressionistic way, with no attempt at scholarly rigour.

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15 Citations of secondary literature

We must stress that these are references to textual comments only, not to discussions of the
content of the passage, unless that influences a textual point. Some references are to brief
items in a list, but are included to show the scholarly context of the textual decisions we have
made. Others refer to substantial analyses of the relevant textual issues. The passages referred
to usually support the line we have taken, unless disagreement is indicated.
16 How secure are the proposals made in the subtext about the original Malalas?

An answer to this question is complicated by the difficulty of defining 'the original text of
Malalas', M*. While the possibilities of multiple authorship or multiple editions remain
open, the question has no straightforward answer. It is in any case likely that the M* being
reconstructed at different points of the text represents different stages in the textual history of
the chronicle.
Our methods have been empirical. It is fortunate that there are several very early
witnesses, eg the Tusculan fragments, Evagrios, John of Ephesos and the Chronicon Paschale
which were all written within about a century of the chronicle's latest events. Against this
sound comparative material we may check the practice of later texts, eg the Slavonic translation
and the fragment to which we give the symbol A are good witnesses. But there is no doubt
that some of our proposals for M* do not go back to sixth-century wording. Some, for
example, are merely Theophanes' summaries of M*, material which is abbreviated even more
in Ba.
Elsewhere we may have gone back too far, beyond Malalas' text to his sources. In Book
5, for example, we may be going back past Malalas to Diktys, and there may be other similar
cases in the detailed narrative of the last three books where we may be reconstructing, say,
items in a city chronicle which have been abstracted separately by another source as well as by
Malalas.
Archaeological reconstruction of earlier textual layers is made easier by the tendency of the
Greek chronicle tradition towards the abbreviation of items from one text to another. The
purpose is to leave space for material from other sources, especially the writer's own
contemporary material. At points where our decisions may be governed by good early
witnesses, it seems that in most cases where a fuller version of an event is preserved in another
text, a shorter narrative in Ba is to be explained as Ba's abbreviation of M*, which must be
reflected, at least to some extent, by the other, fuller version. We have therefore tried to
employ the same principles at points where no early witness survives. Our task is made easier
because we are working in translation, and so there is no reason for us to agonise over small
Greek linguistic points, or the change of narrative colouration visible, for example, in Syriac
witnesses. We have probably included more proposals for M* than could be accommodated in
a critical Greek edition.
In selecting material for unqualified support in the subtext, we have had in mind a
probability of 50%. Where we think it more probable than not that given words are derived
from M* (or that they are on the direct line of textual descent from Malalas to Ba) we have
included them without comment in the subtext. Where this derivation has less than 50%
probablility, we have omitted the passage, or have included it with an expression of doubt, or

'cf', if it seemed of interest.

17 Special principles concerned with the 'portraits'

In a long passage in Book 5 and scattered through the later books, at the beginnings of imperial
reigns, Malalas gives a large number of descriptions of the main characters of his work. These
take the form of lists of attributes, physical and moral, and like all lists they are particularly
unstable in the textual tradition. There is much scope here for omission and contamination
from portrait to portrait. The formal characteristics of the lists were extensively studied at the

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beginning of this century by Furst, 1902, Schissel von Fl, 1908, and Patzig, 1911. As a
result of the principles enunciated in these studies, we have made for these passages unusually
positive proposals on material derived from M*, even when it survives in late and obviously
problematical sources, like the Homerica of Tzetzes (which are in hexameter verse).

iii) List of texts used

What is presented in this volume, in the translation and subtext, is an attempt to express in
English the significant evidence for the fuller, original Malalas. Since it is not a critical
edition (that is being prepared by I. Thurn), we are not producing a stemma codicum of the
surviving witnesses, nor have we used all the available surviving manuscript fragments (listed,
for example, in Moravcsik, 1958) but only those that seemed to us to have material with
relevant variants that could be usefully expressed in English. We have, of course, had to
develop a practical hypothesis of how the texts that preserve portions of Malalas relate to each
other and of the weight that can be attributed to each. The list that follows attempts to explain
our views by giving a brief comment on each text. Our purpose here is explanation, not
exhaustive discussion or justification, and so we give references to handbooks rather than
provide a detailed bibliographical survey. There will be a fuller discussion of the transmission
of the chronicle in the Studies volume.
References in the subtext to the texts listed here (and to the texts not discussed but given
in the list of abbreviations) are, unless otherwise stated, by page and line of the edition to
which reference is made.

Parisinus Graecus 1336, ff 143-151: 'EKXoyil TG:v xpovticwv; Cramer, 1839,

231-42.
This anonymous chronicle of world history of unknown date is preserved in an eleventh century
ms, the first 142 folios of which contain a variety of theological and chronological material.
The chronicle itself, written in a clear, neat hand, starts on f 143r with a heading which states
that the chronicle runs from Adam to Michael (Michael I Rangabe, 811-813) and that the
contents are taken from John (Malalas), George Synkellos and Theophanes. (For a description
of the ms, see Weierholt, 1965, 18-20.) The ms breaks off, with a torn sheet, at f 160v in the
reign of Trajan. The material from Malalas forms the opening section from f 143r to f 156v
(third line), and as far as 152v (fourth line) has been published by Cramer. The unpublished
portions are scrappy summaries of the last part of Book 4 and of Books 6 and 7. A is a useful
text for the limited areas it covers.

Anon Mal

Malalas, Chronographia, Book 1; L. Dindorf, ed., Berlin, 1831.

Ba lacks the first Book and the opening words of Book 2. E. Chilmead, in preparing the editio
princeps (ultimately published by H. Hody in 1691) filled this gap with material from another
ms held by the Bodleian, Baroccianus Or. 194; this is in fact a version of the chronicle of
George Monachos (see GM below and de Boor, 1904, lix), which at its beginning follows
Malalas closely. This material was reprinted by Dindorf in Bo. Though cited once in the
subtext, it has not been translated in the present volume since it is now recognized that P and
V preserve the authentic form of Book 1.

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Parisinus Graecus 1630, if 236-9; Muller, FHG IV, 540-9.
A parchment ms of the fourteenth century which includes in its collection of historical,
medical, theological and astronomical texts, a block of Greek mythological material, written in
a dense and much abbreviated hand. For a description, see Weierholt, 1965, 21-2. The heading,
which attributes the work to a John of Antioch, reflects closely the opening words of Malalas,
Book 1 and the passages that follow are clearly drawn from Malalas' chronicle. Nevertheless
the material must be attributed to John of Antioch (see JA and Hunger, 1978, 326-8) It has
been published partially by Cramer (Cramer, 1839, 379-81) and completely by Muller (FHG
IV, 540-9). B, which after its early folios has recast its source, is useful only on occasion for
confirmation of wording.

Ba

Oxford, Baroccianus Graecus 182.

This ms is the sole comprehensive witness to Malalas' chronicle. It consists of 322 folios
written throughout in the same neat hand (apart from a few lines on f 206r), probably of the
eleventh century. For a detailed palaeographical description, see Weierholt, 1965, 12-18. It
shows few signs of iotacism though many names have been distorted in the transmission
process. A later hand has made alterations to some of the linguistic forms (eg changing
nu diLv to rraXd-rLov, e'fxav to etxov). Folios are missing at the beginning, the
end and at two points within the ms (cf the comments on pp. xxvi-xxvii above). Neumann has
calculated that nine folios (one complete gathering and the first sheet of the second gathering)
are missing at the beginning, one folio at 49v/50r (in Book 5: Bo 103.10-11), two folios at
318v/319r (in Book 18: Bo 490.12) and two folios at the end, after 322r (Neumann, 1880, 358;
the folio numbers given here differ from Neumann's since we are using the ms's later
numbering). Neumann calculated that the ms originally contained 336 folios in 42 gatherings.
There is one other major lacuna (at Bo 295.15-16) which is due to a fault in the ms tradition
and not to physical damage to Ba. (There is now also a portion missing on f 206; see Bury,
1897, 221.) As well as these lacunas, the ms is plainly abbreviating Malalas' text, especially
towards the end.

BO

Malalas, Chronographia; L. Dindorf, ed., Bonn, 1831.

Dindorfs edition of Bo (reprinted in PG 87 virtually unchanged) is based closely on Chilmead's
edition of 1691 without further inspection of Ba. It is the basis for this translation. The
edition is inaccurate in many places, as noted by Bury in 1897; the methods we have used to
correct and supplement Bo have been discussed on pp. xxvi-xxvii above.

Parisinus Graecus 854, If 71-99; 'EKXoy i,QTOpLU:v; Cramer, 1839, 166-230.

This is an anonymous chronicle contained in a large compendium of historical texts (over 420
folios), copied in the late thirteenth century. Compiled in 886 and originally extending as far
as the reign of Anastasios, it survives now only to Ozias of Israel (Hunger, 1978, 332-3;
Gelzer, 1885a, 298-315). Drawing for its earlier section on Eusebios' chronicle (which does not
survive in Greek), C has used Malalas extensively for material on the Trojan War, where it is a
valuable witness in the debate over how much of Diktys' narrative was ever included in Malalas
(see Sept below). C also uses Malalas on Romulus' introduction of circus factions to Rome.

CP

Chronicon Paschale; L. Dindorf, ed., Bonn, 1832.

The Chronicon Paschale is a world chronicle that runs from Adam to the reign of Herakleios
(originally ending in 629). The prime purpose of the unknown author (possibly a cleric

associated with the patriarch Sergius, 610-638) was to provide an accurate basis for the rules for

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calculating the date of Easter (and hence the name, the Easter Chronicle). The basic
chronological framework (of Olympiads, consular years, regnal years and indictions) is filled
out with narrative passages from a variety of sources (Hunger, 1978, 328-9), prominent
among which is Malalas, which is used for Greek mythological material and Byzantine history
(up to 532). CP takes passages over from Malalas almost verbatim, with scarcely any
rewriting, and is thus an accurate witness for the text of the full Malalas, more accurate than
Ba. Occasionally, however, details (especially dates according to the Roman system) are
interpolated from other sources into passages derived from Malalas.

Cyril

Cyril of Alexandria, Contra Julianum I, PG 76, 552-6.

Cyril, patriarch of Alexandria (412-444), a prolific polemicist against paganism and an
opponent of Nestorios and his doctrines, also wrote a refutation of the (now loss) work of the
emperor Julian the Apostate against Christianity. Two brief passages of this are of interest for
the reconstruction of the text of Malalas (in Book 2, para 5 and Book 7, para 15), though the
material, on pagan foreshadowings of the Trinity, has had a complex textual transmission in
which Cyril's version is but one stage (see Erbse, 1941, passim and Brock, 1984).

Da

Dares, De excidio Troiae Historia; F. Meister, ed., Leipzig, 1873.

Dares of Phrygia is the name attached to what purports to be an eyewitness account of the
Trojan War, written from a Trojan viewpoint. The original was almost certainly in Greek but
the work survives now only in a Latin translation of the fifth or sixth century AD (Schissel
von Fl, 1908, passim). It is an important witness for the reconstruction of the portraits of
Greek and Trojan heroes (in Book 5, paras 13-40) which are partially missing in Ba and wholly
missing in Sept (see below), but which seem nevertheless to have been part of the Greek
alternative and non-Homeric version of the Trojan War (Patzig, 1911; Jeffreys, 1979).

De insid, De virt

Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Excerpta Ilistorica: De insidiis, C. de

Boor, ed., Berlin, 1905, 151-76; De virtutibus, T. BUttner-Wobst and A.G. Roos, edd.,
Berlin, 1906-10, 157-63.
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (905-959) was the instigator of a series of encyclopaedic
compilations on a variety of topics: agriculture, court ceremonial, diplomacy etc (Hunger,
1978, 360-2, 366; Lemerle, 1971 [and 1986]). Of the surviving collections of excerpts from
historians made under his direction, the excerpts, De insidiis (on plots) and De virtutibus (on
virtues), contain substantial passages from Malalas, covering the whole text from Book 1 to
beyond the present end of Ba. Though there is an occasional tidying up of pronouns and a few
excerpts are brief summaries of major episodes like the Nika riot, in general there is little sign
of rewriting. In the later books especially, where Ba preserves an abbreviated text, these
excerpts are invaluable evidence for the state of the original.

Eccl Hist
EKK,\,OcrLacTLKTS

Parisinus Graecus 1555A, ff 7r-13r:

taTopCas; Cramer, 1839, 87-114.

'

EirtXoy?

676

Tits

This 'Selection from the Ecclesiastical History', published by Cramer from one ms in Paris,
falls into two sections. The first and major section (as far as Eccl Hist 111.31) is an
abbreviated apograph of another ms of the now largely lost Ecclesiastical History of Theodore
Anagnostes (6th century). Theodore Anagnostes was used as a source by Th. The second and
shorter section (Eccl Hist 111.32-114.31), a disconcertingly mixed set of chronicle notices
(Hansen, 1971, xxv), is in many passages clearly connected with Malalas and also reflected in
Th. Its status is puzzling and may simply reflect a common source underlying the last part of

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Malalas, Book 18 and Th, a problem which will be discussed in the Studies volume. We have
not distinguished between the two sections of Eccl Hist in the subtext.

EV Evagrius, Ecclesiastical History;

J. Bidez and L. Parmentier, edd., London, 1898,

reprinted Amsterdam, 1964.
Evagrios Scholastikos, or advocate, born in Epiphaneia in Syria between 532 and 537, spent
most of his career as a successful legal official in Antioch. His Ecclesiastical History, which
makes careful use of documentary sources, covers events from 428 to 594. He drew on Malalas
for secular events between 502 (when his previous source Eustathios of Epiphaneia ended) to
526 (Allen, 1981, 7). His History shows that he had access to a fuller text of Malalas than
that of Ba, one supported at a number of points by the Slavonic translation (see Simon
Franklin in the Studies volume). However, his copy of Malalas ended, according to his
comment at Ev IV 5, 156.7-9, in 526, though Patzig (Patzig, 1890/1, 20) argues that Ev's
Malalas must have extended to 527 (the end of Book 17 and the death of Justin) and probably to
528 (ending at the chronological excursus of Bo 428.8-429.9). References in the subtext are
given to the book and chapter of the History, together with page and line reference to the
edition of Bidez and Parmentier.

GM

George Monachos, Chronicon; C. de Boor, ed., Leipzig, 1904 (2nd ed., P. Wirth,
Stuttgart, 1978).
The world chronicle of George the monk, which runs from Adam to 842 (though originally
intended to reach 867), was widely read, to judge from the number of surviving mss. Written
from the religious standpoint of an anti-iconoclast who rejected Byzantium's heritage from the
classical past, it gives a selective and compressed account of mythological and secular history
while paying greater attention to biblical and ecclesiastical history (Moravcsik, 1958, 277-80;
Hunger, 1978, 347-50). He has used Malalas quite extensively, but frequently abbreviates and
paraphrases his borrowings. The situation is further muddied by his use of Th, for whom
Malalas is also a source. The result is that GM is rarely of decisive value in attempts to
reconstruct the original Malalas. (One ms was used by Chilmead, the first editor of Malalas, to
provide the missing first pages of Ba; see Anon Mal above).

Gr Chron

L.M. Whitby, The Great Chronographer and Theophanes, BMGS 8, 1982/3,

1-20.

The Great Chronographer is a shadowy source of which only 15 short fragments survive,
inscribed in blank areas of the ms of CP; it would appear to have been composed between 751
and 812/15 (Whitby, 1982/3, 8-9). It is very likely that one of its sources was a
Constantinopolitan chronicle also used by Malalas in Book 18 (Freund, 1882, 36 ff). The
value of its evidence for reconstructing the original Malalas is not satisfactorily evaluated and
will be discussed further in the Studies volume.

Hes

'HO'UXLOU EK TceV ELS 771V XpLQTOU 'yE vv laty; H, Hody, ed., in the
Prolegomena to Bo, lii-liii,
Hesychius Illustris, born in the reign of Anastasios (491-518), wrote two histories, of which
one is partially extant, and a book of biographies of famous literary figures which survives in
entries in Su. There is also ascribed to him a fragmentary piece on the dating of Christ's birth
(Krumbacher, 1897, 325) which is connected with a difficult passage in Malalas, Book 10.

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IP

Isaac Porphyrogenitus, fcpt LSLOTIITOS KaL

TU:V
Ev TpoCq
Tpu`av, in Polemonis declamationes, H. Hinck, ed., Leipzig, 1873,
57-88.
'On the personality and appearance of the Greeks and Trojans at Troy' is the second of two
pamphlets written by Isaac Porphyrogenitus on'What Homer omitted'. The author is probably
to be identified with Isaac (1093-c1151), third son of the emperor Alexios I (1057-1118); he
founded the Kosmosotira monastery, sponsored illuminated mss and is securely identified as the
author of other short works (Hunger, 1979, 58; Varzos, 1984, 353). The pamphlet is based
very closely on the portrait lists included in Malalas' account of the Trojan War (itself drawing
on Dares and Diktys), and is invaluable in reconstructing the lacuna in Ba in Book 5.
'EXXt vwv TE KaL

JA

Johannes Antiochenus, Fragments, in Muller, FHG IV 540-62.

Author of a world chronicle from Adam to 610 (the accession of Herakleios), nothing is known
of Johannes Antiochenus (John of Antioch) except that, as his name indicates, he came from
Antioch. His work survives only in fragments, partly in the Constantinian excerpts, partly in
separate mss. Wide in scope, he covered biblical and oriental material as well as Roman
history. For Greek mythological material (surviving in B, see above) he drew on Malalas
(Hunger, 1978, 326-8). However, since he was working at a different language level, many of
his borrowings from Malalas are recast and are not often of decisive value in reconstructing
Malalas' words. Because of the similarity of name and subject-matter JA and Malalas were
frequently confused in the ms tradition.

JD

John of Damascus, De Imaginibus Orationes III (I1p6s TOUS 6LafdXX0vTas

Tas ayCas ELKdvaS), PG 94, 1369-73.
John of Damascus (c650-c750), in his defence of the use of icons, cited Malalas' account in
Book 10 of the statue of Christ erected by the woman healed of an issue of blood. Because of
recasting to suit the context, the quotation is of limited use as evidence for Malalas' wording.

JE John of Ephesos, Commentarii de beads orientallbus et historiae ecclesiasticaefragmenta;

W.J. van Douwen and J.P.N. Land, trans., Amsterdam, 1889, 224-43.
John of Ephesos (516-c580) wrote, in Syriac, an ecclesiastical history from Julius Caesar
onwards, in three parts, of which only the third (dealing discursively with the reigns of Justin II
and Tiberius, 565-82) survives complete. The second part, covering the reign of Justinian,
survives independently in a fragmentary state (cited in the subtext as JE, from the Latin
translation of van Douwen and Land) and also embedded, with other authors (like Joshua the
Stylite) in the chronicle known as that of Dionysios of Tell Mahre (cited in the subtext as
PsD, though most of the passages referred to are probably derived from JE; see PsD below).
JE constructed his history from earlier writers including Eusebios, Theodoret and Malalas. The
material identifiably from Malalas in the independently surviving fragments is often 'written
up' with biblical quotations and emotional phraseology, which makes it difficult to accept the
more sober additional information it contains as reflecting the original Malalas. The material
in PsD is, of course, one stage further still from Malalas' own wording. Nevertheless JE does
preserve in several passages a fuller and probably more authentic version of Malalas' account.
The ms of Malalas used by JE would appear to have extended to the death of Justinian (565)
(Nau, 1897, 493).

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Introduction

JM

John Moschos, Pratum Spiriluale; PG 87, 2888-9.

John Moschos (died 619, probably), a monk who spent his life moving around religious
centres in Egypt, Syria and Palestine, wrote the Pratum Spiriluale, a collection of monks' lives
and edifying tales (Beck, 1959, 412). One tale concerns the emperor Anastasios and sheds light
on a curious adjective in Malalas, Book 16.

JN

The Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu; R.H. Charles, trans., Oxford, 1916.
John, bishop of Nikiu (in Lower Egypt), wrote at the end of the seventh century a world
chronicle from Adam to his own day. He treats oriental and Greek mythological history
somewhat sketchily but gives later material at some length. One of his main sources was
Malalas. However, his value for defining the wording of Malalas is limited since he
abbreviates his sources and also inserts other material, eg, biblical quotations; finally, the
chronicle as it now exists is at several removes from the form in which it was written.
Originally in Greek with some passages possibly in Coptic, it was translated at some stage
into Arabic and then in 1602 into Ethiopic, the only version in which it now survives
(Krumbacher, 1897, 403-4; Charles, 1916, v). Though frequently of interest in confirming
other witnesses, John of Nikiu is rarely of independent value as a witness to Malalas' text. The
subtext has been constructed using Charles' English translation, to whose chapters and
paragraph numbers reference is made.

JO Styl

The Chronicle of Joshua the Stylize; W. Wright, trans., Cambridge, 1882.

Joshua the Stylite, a monk of the monastery of Zuknin, wrote in the reign of Anastasios (491518), at the request of Sergius, abbot of a community near Edessa, a chronicle in Syriac
heavily laced with Greek loan words. It survives embedded in the chronicle attributed to
Dionysios of Tell Mahre (see under PsD below). The last date mentioned is November 506
(Wright, 1882, ix). Joshua the Stylite's chronicle cannot be used to establish the wording of
Malalas but, given the similar phraseology in a number of episodes (eg the Illus conspiracy), a
common source must underly the two accounts. The relationship between Malalas and Joshua
the Stylite still needs to be elucidated.

Ke Georgios Kedrenos, DvvoiyLs taTOptas; I. Bekker, ed., Bonn, 1828.

Georgios Kedrenos, probably a monk, wrote in the early twelfth century a world chronicle from
Adam to 1057. It is a compilation based on a variety of sources of which those relevant to the
period covered by Malalas are PsS and Th (Praecht.er,1897; Hunger, 1978,393-4). For Greek
mythological history, which is treated selectively with greater emphasis laid on biblical
history, Ke is transcribing the as yet unpublished chronicle of PsS; in the subtext references are
given to PsS as well as to Kedrenos. Ke presents much material which is ultimately derived
from Malalas, but most has been paraphrased and rewritten, often by intermediaries.
Occasionally, however, especially in the Trojan War narrative, Ke presents important
independent evidence for Malalas' wording.

LG

Leo Grammaticus, Parisinus Graecus 854, ff 328 ff; Cramer, 1839, 243-379, reprinted
Bonn, 1842.
Leo Grammaticus is the name ascribed in some mss to a redaction (compiled in 1013) of the
chronicle of Symeon the Magister and Logothete, which in turn is a re-working of the so-called
'Epitome' based in its early sections on the shadowy work of Patrikios Trajanos (ending in 713)
(Moravcsik, 1958, 515-8; Hunger, 1978, 354-7). The inter-relationships of the various
versions of the 'Epitome' have so far defied lucid explanation. The passages connected with

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Malalas have little independent value as evidence for the text, but are cited for interest's sake
(from Cramer's edition and also from the unchanged reprint in the Bonn edition).

LM

Laterculus Malalianus; T. Mommsen, ed., MGH, Auctores Antiquissimi 13, Chronica

Minors 3, Berlin, 1898, 424-37.
The Laterculus Malalianus is a short document, surviving in an eighth-century uncial ms, that
discusses the millennial implications of the date of Christ's birth. Written originally in Latin
(to judge from its Vergilian echoes), it relies either on Malalas' Greek text or on an accurate
Latin summary of it. Both the opening pages, which draw on Malalas Book 10, and the
subsequent list of imperial reigns reflect the Greek chronicle closely. Arguing that Christ
appeared in the sixth millennium and that the world is now in the seventh, the author appears
to be taking a position against Bede's dating of Christ's birth to the year of the world 3952. A
date of c740 AD for the composition of the piece was suggested by Mommsen.
LM is significant for the text of Malalas in the chronological discussion in Book 10, the
lacuna in Book 12 (where it preserves the sequence of emperors), and for the ending, where it
hints that its source may have extended beyond the death of Justinian. However, the status of
LM as a witness and the weight to be given to its evidence has yet to be satisfactorily resolved,
and will be discussed further in the Studies volume.

MK Moses Khorenats'i, History of the Armenians; R.W. Thomson, trans., Cambridge

Mass, 1978.
Moses Khorenats'i, ostensibly writing in the fifth century but more probably in the late ninth,
produced a history of the Armenian people, setting them in the context of world and biblical
history. His work was based on a variety of sources (the Bible, Greek classical literature,
Greek ecclesiastical historians etc) all of which were available in Armenian translations.
Though no Armenian version of Malalas is known, there are a number of parallels between it
(and the Chronicon Paschale) and Moses' history (Thomson, 1978, 22-3). The similarities,
however, are very vague and are of little value in reconstructing the text of Malalas.
MS

Michael the Syrian, La Chronique de Michel le Syrien; J.B. Chabot, ed. and trans., 3
vols, Paris, 1899-1904.
Patriarch of Antioch from 1166 to 1199 and author of a world chronicle from the creation to
his own day, Michael the Syrian drew on a wide range of sources in both Greek and Syriac. Of
these perhaps the most relevant for Malalas is the chronicle attributed to PsD, in which are
embedded portions of the Ecclesiastical History of JE, who made use of Malalas. Though not
often of independent value for establishing the contents, let alone the wording of the original
Malalas, MS sometimes provides useful confirmatory evidence. We have used Chabot's French
translation, cited by book and chapter.

Paris, Supplementum Graecum 682, ff 9-14; V. Istrin, ed., Zapiski Imp, Akademii Nauk,
ser. 8, vol. 1, no.3, St. Petersburg, 1897, 1-29.
P and V (see below) are portions, now separated, of one tenth-century ms containing a
collection of ecclesiastical and chronological texts. The order of the folios has been disturbed
and should run: P ff 15-22, V If 140-7, ff 1-139, P ff 2-14, V ff 148-159; gatherings are lost at
the beginning and after f 139v. On P If 9r-14v followed by V f 148r-v is found Book 1 of
Malalas, and the opening sections of Book 2 (Richard, 1955, 333-5). We have collated P
directly and V from photographs. (In this connection, E.M. Jeffreys would like to express her

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great appreciation to M. Ch. Astruc for help and advice on several occasions.) P and V provide
the text that is translated for Book 1 and until Ba begins at Bo 23.1.
Chronicon anonymum Pseudo-Dionysianum vulgo dictum; J.B. Chabot, ed. and trans.,
CSCO, Scriptores Syri, ser. 3,vols 1-2, Louvain, 1927, 1933, 1949.
Written in Syriac and ascribed, wrongly, to Dionysios of Tell Mahre (patriarch of Antioch,
818-45), this chronicle covers world history to 775 AD (Urbina, 1965, 211-2). Its sources are
Eusebios and other Greek writers, as well as JE (writing in Syriac) who had drawn extensively
on Matalas and whose Ecclesiastical History, Book 2 survives only as part of this chronicle.
PsD's work thus provides evidence at two removes, and filtered through a second language, for
Malalas' original text; it can, however, provide useful confirmatory evidence for the shape of
that text. We have used Chabot's Latin translation, where available. We have also consulted,
too little and too late, Brian Parker, of the University of Sydney, and Witold Witaboski, of
Uppsala University, for translations of the remainder. To both of these, but especially to Brian
Parker, we are extremely grateful for their patient assistance. We must, however, stress that
any shortcomings in the treatment of the Syriac evidence are due not to them but to the editors'
belated appreciation of the relevance of this material.

PSD

PSS

Pseudo-Symeon, Chronicle; in Parisinus Graecus 1712, If 18v-272r.

This is an as yet unpublished chronicle, formerly ascribed to Symeon the Magister and
Logothete (see under LG), which covers world history to 963 AD. For the period from the
creation to Julius Caesar the sources seem to be JA, Synkellos, a version of the Epitome (see
under LG), biblical material, and also Malalas. Much of this, though slightly rearranged and
with some omissions, is taken over by Ke (see above); thus references to PsS in the subtext
tend to appear beside those to Ke. From Julius Caesar to Diocletian PsS's main source is the
'Epitome' and from Diocletian onwards it is Th (Praechter, 1896; Markopoulos, 1978).
During these periods PsS has little independent value as a witness to the text of the original
Malalas and has not been cited in the subtext after Book 10. References are to the folios of the
ms.

Sept

Dictys Cretensis, Ephemeris; W. Eisenhut, 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1973.

L. Septimius is the name of the purported author of the Latin version (fourth century AD) of
what claims to be Diktys of Crete's eyewitness account of the Trojan War; it is what is printed
as the Ephemeris of Dictys Cretensis in the edition cited above. A Greek version of this
material, though in a rearranged order and ascribed to the otherwise unknown Sisyphos of Kos
as well as to Diktys, exists in Book 5 of Malalas. Additional passages from the same source
appear in other witnesses (eg C, Ke and Su). Diktys' novel is probably to be dated to the first
century AD. It has been a matter of controversy how much of Diktys' narrative Malalas knew,
whether he drew on it directly and whether it continued to circulate later independently (Patzig,
1892, Griffin, 1907). Sept lacks, eg, the portraits of the Greek and Trojan heroes almost
certainly present in the original and is clearly at two removes at least from the Greek of
Malalas. It is of limited value in establishing Malalas' wording though it can be useful in, eg,
sorting out minor lacunas.

Slav
A detailed discussion of the Slavonic translation will appear in the Studies volume. The
following note (supplied by Simon Franklin) is designed to indicate the texts used and to
explain the selection and translation of the Slavonic variants in the subtext. Since the

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Slavonic texts are cited togther in the subtext they are treated together here: references are given
in full to each separate text in the list of abbreviations.
The fullest extant version of Malalas, apart from that of Ba, is that which survives in the
medieval Slavonic translation, the best and fullest text of which is that published by Istrin (for
the complex publication details, see the list of abbreviations). Istrin's edition is based on both
mss of Arkh for Books 1-2, 4-10, and on EL (in a small sample of mss), for Books 13-18.
Istrin also uses EL for variants in the earlier books, Soph for Books 11-12 and sporadically
elsewhere, and Tikh (especially for Book 3). Wherever possible, readings from Arkh and EL
are given here with reference to Istrin's edition, and the particular source of the reading (ie
whether Arkh or EL) is not specified. Full account is taken of Istrin's apparatus, and of the
variant readings found in the studies which accompany several of the volumes of his text.
Small fragments of Malalas, in Arkh but overlooked by Istrin, are published in
Meshchersky.
'
Parts of EL's version of Books 1, 2 and and 4 appear in Mify, including passages not
published by Istrin.
Soph contains abbreviated and paraphrased material from all 18 Books of Malalas. Despite
the abbreviated form, it does include some passages and details not in Arkh or EL. The full
text recently published by Tvorogov, 1983, is preferable to the sporadic extracts in Istrin.
KVI provides a text of parts of Books 7 and 9, and is unpublished. KVI is a hypothetical
compilation, dating from at least the late eleventh century in Russia, and partly preserved in
several later compendia of historiographical works. Here the variants are taken from a ms of
Pol Pal, and checked against the version of KVI in the 'Trinity' compendium (GPB NSRK, If
287-8, 291-2).
Readings from the Slavonic version are taken only from texts which reflect the Slavonic
translation of Malalas' chronicle itself. No reference is made to fragments of Malalas which
enter the Slavonic through being parts of other translated works of Byzantine literature, such as
the translation of the chronicle of George Monachos, or the selections from the Souda lexicon
cited by Maximos the Greek (Maksim Grek). One exception to this rule has been made, in the
case of Abramovich. Abramovich prints extracts from (but unfortunately does not publish in
full) a section of Book 10 which was translated independently of the 'full' chronicle and which
survives in a twelfth-century ms of a florilegium. This is the oldest Slavonic ms containing
fragments of Malalas. The 'full' translation dates from the tenth or eleventh century, but no
ms survives from before the fourteenth century.
Slavonic variants in the subtext are mostly based on Istrin. However, the subtext does not
provide a full or accurate guide to Istrin's text, neither to the Slavonic nor to its relations to the
Greek.
The subtext takes into account more sources than were used for Istrin's edition.
The sole purpose of the subtext is to provide material which may reflect a Greek text of
Malalas. The purely Slavonic tradition, however curious or important, is ignored. Thus if any
Slavonic text agrees with the Greek of Ba, all Slavonic variants at that point are ignored. For
example, where Ba differs from Istrin but is supported by Soph or Tikh, nothing appears in the
subtext. In order to check the justification for such omissions it is necessary to check the texts
indicated in the testimonia.
The English in the subtext does not necessarily represent an accurate translation of the
Slavonic. This is again because the subtext is concerned not with Slavonic but with Greek.
Thus no variant is given:
i) where the Slavonic clearly follows the Greek of Ba but produces a slightly different
meaning, and
ii) where the Slavonic translator (or editor) deliberately alters the Greek. For example,
in Books 15-18 'Fu atot is frequently rendered 'Greeks' in the Slavonic version, in line with
the common practice of Slavonic translators and scribes. The subtext does not record such

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changes, nor does it record the occasions on which Greek indirect speech is turned into Slavonic
direct speech.
Where the Slavonic contains additional material not in Ba, an attempt has been made to
translate in accordance with the conventions of the present English version. This may require a
distortion of the literal meaning of the Slavonic, since the conventions relate not to the
Slavonic but to the Greek from which it is assumed to derive. For example, Malalas' frequent
formulaic epithet for a writer is ao$6s, rendered throughout the present translation as
'learned'. In this position ao$ds becomes, in Slavonic, mudru. Where the formulaic epithet
is absent in Ba but present in the Slavonic, mudru is rendered as 'learned', despite the more
natural 'wise'. For the same reason, if a Slavonic addition or variant is similar to a cited
variant from another Greek text, the English in the subtext aims to convey not the specific
nuances of the Slavonic but its affinity with the Greek.

Sk

Theodoros Skoutariotes, Xvvo*LS XpoVLKtj; C. Sathas, ed., MEaaLa:VLKn'

vol 7, Paris, 1894, 1-556.
Theodoros Skoutariotes, a member of the court of Theodore II Laskaris (1254-8) and supporter
of Michael VIII Palaiologos' (1259-82) policy of Church union, became eventually bishop of
Kyzikos. He was the author of a chronicle from Adam to 1261 (and the recapture of
Constantinople), for the earlier part of which he drew intermittently on Malalas (Moravcsik,
1958, 526-9; Hunger, 1978, 477-8). His work, though rarely of independent value, is useful
for confirming details, eg, of reign lengths, especially in the lacuna in Book 12.
BLpXLOeYjKrl,

SU Suidae Lexicon; A. Adler, ed., 4 vols, Leipzig, 1928-38.

The'Souda', an encyclopaedia compiled towards the end of the tenth century and based largely
on previous dictionaries, contains, in addition to brief lexical items, fuller entries on people and
places, etc. Malalas is amongst Su's sources for these larger entries but, like the other
historical texts used in Su, has been consulted not directly but through the Constantinian
excerpts (see De insid above) (Hunger, 1978, 40-2). The usefulness of this witness is limited
by the scrappy nature of some of the material preserved.

TF

Tusculan Fragments (Cryptoferratensis Za xxxiv, ff 62r-69v); A. Mai, ed.,

Specilegium Romanum, vol.2, Rome, 1829, Appendix, 6-28.
Palimpsest sheets from a ms of the sixth or seventh centuries (and so very close to the date of
the chronicle's composition) and very difficult to read (because of Cardinal Mai's experimental
use of walnut juice to bring up the lettering), the Tusculan fragments are among the most
valuable witnesses to the text of the original Malalas (Patzig, 1890/1; Moravcsik, 1958, 330).
In addition to their own intrinsic value, they confirm enough of the additions found in Th's
borrowings from Malalas to establish his credibility as a witness.

Th Theophanes, Chronographia; C. de Boor, ed., Leipzig, 1888,

Theophanes the Confessor (c760-818) in 810-14, at the request of his friend George Synkellos
(and probably from material collected by him), composed a chronicle covering the years 284813 (Hunger, 1978, 334-9). One of the sources he used extensively, though selectively, for
the fourth to the sixth centuries was Malalas. Th has, however, frequently rewritten his
borrowings (often to eliminate Malalas' linguistic awkwardnesses), rearranged their order and
combined some entries. Thus, although not far removed from Malalas' original wording, he
cannot be trusted to give a precise record of it, even if the general shape of an entry can be
accepted. Th has also used and combined other sources. Th provides continuous narrative,

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likely to be derived from Malalas, to fill the lacuna in Book 18, at paras 130-132 (though the
linguistic variations which he makes elsewhere are sufficiently marked to make us indicate the
change in text with italics); however, at the end of Book 18 Th's entries, perhaps because they
may draw on a Constantinopolitan chronicle also used by Malalas, give no clear evidence
(linguistic or otherwise) for deciding whether or not Malalas' chronicle continued beyond 565.

Tz Ah, H, Ph

Tzetzes, Antehomerica, Homerica, Posthomerica; I. Bekker, ed., Berlin,

1816.

Tz Ex

Tzetzes, Exegesis in Iliadem; L. Bachmann, ed., Scholia in Homeri Iliadem,

Leipzig, 1835
TZ Hist Tzetzes, Historiae; P.A.M. Leone, ed., Naples, 1968.
TZ Tzetzes, Allegoriae in Iliadem; J. Boissonade, ed., Paris, 1851.

Tz Schol Lyk

Tzetzes, Scholia in Lycophronis Alexandram; E. Scheer, ed.,

Lycophronis Alexandra, vol 2, Berlin, 1881.
John Tzetzes, cl110-80, was a cantankerous polymath who made his living from his writings
(for several patrons at the Comnenian court) and by teaching (Wendel, 1949). He seems to
have had access to a full text of the chronicle, to which he refers explicitly on several occasions
as well as quoting items which can only have come from Malalas (Patzig, 1901, 391).
Tzetzes' evidence is particularly important for the lacunose portrait list in Book 5, items from
which reappear in several of his works (listed above) based on the Homeric poems. Tzetzes,
however, must always be treated with caution since he rewrites (several of the works referred to
are in verse), adds details from elsewhere and allows his personal feelings to cloud his
judgement (eg the portrait of Palamedes is unrecognisable because of Tzetzes' personal
identification with that hero).

Vatopedi 290, f 148.

See under P.

Vat Gr 163 Vaticanus Graecus 163, ff 1-61r.

A ms of the'Epitome' (see under LG), which has some interesting readings that are relevant to
Malalas, though its precise relationship to the chronicle needs further clarification (Moravcsik,
1958, 516; Praechter, 1896)

A
report. of John, descended from the time of Constantine the Great.,
beginning from the time of the creation of the world.

I
thought.
it.
right,
after abbreviating some material from the
Hebrew books written by Moses ... in the narratives of the chroniclers
Africanus,
Eusebios Parnphilou, Pausanias, Didyrnos, Theophilos, Clement.,
Diodoros,
Domninos, Eustathios and many other industrious chroniclers

poets and learned historians,

and

possible

and

to relate as truthfully as

in the time of the

which came
my
hearing,
I
mean indeed from Adam to the reign of Zeno and those who
ruled afterwards.
My successors must. complete the story relying on
their own ability. Thus the majority of writers on world history have
given an account. like the following.

emperors,

a summary account of events that took place

up

till

the events of

P 5.1-23; B 2.1; Slav:

Ist.

my

own

life-time

to

5.

report (5.1): 'account of world history' Slav.

John (5.1): perhaps 'John Malalas' Slav (see below).
descended from the time of Constantine the Great (5.1-2): 'originally
from the city of Ant.ioch the Great. in (Lesser) Syria' Slav (one should
Malalas,
for 'Malyya',
probably
conjecture 'Malaly',
genitive of
'Lesser'), cf B; see Bikermann, 1951, 70-1 and note 4.
Hebrew books written by Moses (5.5-6; corr): 'Hebrew books...by Moses' P

cf

'tales told

by

the chronicler Moses'

Slav (but. gives no help with

the subsequent lacuna, simply listing the chroniclers after Moses).

Didymos (5.8; corr Sestakov) Slav: 'Sisinios' P; see Sest.akov, 1895, 374
Eustathios (5.10; corr Sestakov) Slav:
'Kaath' P; see Sestakov, 1895
374.

poets

and learned historians and to relate (5.11-12; corr): 'poets and

learned' P, cf 'historians and poets and to relate' Slav.
from Adam to the reign of Zeno (5.17-18): 'from the reign of Zeno' Slav,

The Time of Adam

BOOK 1

1.
Adam, the first man, was made, or created by God from earth. He
was six feet tall,
including his head; that. is, his height. was 96
foot.
was 16
fingers' widths; his hand span was 14 fingers' widths; his
fingers' widths.
He lived 930 years. (6) His wife was Eve, and she bore
sons, Cain,
Abel and Seth, and two daughters, Azoura and Asouarn.
At.
God's command Adam gave names to all four-footed beasts, winged
.An
creatures, amphibians,
creeping things, fish, and to his offspring.
angel of the Lord told them Adam's own name and that of his wife.
His
son Seth had wisdom from God and at. God's command gave names to all the
stars and the five planets, so that they could be recognized by men.
He
called the first. planet Kronos, the second Hera, the third Ares, the
fourth Aphrodite and the fifth Hermes. He also wrote down the seven
vowels corresponding to the five stars and the two great. lights.
He was
the first to invent Hebrew script and to write with it.
God himself

named

the two great

ight.s - the sun to rule the day, and the moon to

rule the night.

The most learned Fortunus, the Roman chronicler, wrote
this in the account. he delivered in Constantinople.
Seth lived
912
years and took as his wife Asouam, one of his own sisters. He became the
father of children and many generations of men and women descended from
them.
Cain also took his own sister, Azoura, as his wife.

2.

(7) In the

middle

of

their

time

Enoch

the just., the son of

Jareth, was taken away and did not die.

He was taken away after 1287
years. Enoch was the seventh from Adam, according to the interpretation
Aquila the Jew gave of the Hebrew scriptures written by Moses.
For the

priests

of the Jews interpreted Moses' Hebrew accounts as

follows, "The

P 5.24-6.37; A 231.20-232.20, B 2.2, GM 6.2-10, 10.5-12, PsS 21v, Ke

16.5---6 , LG 247.1.2-1.5 (9.15-18), Sk 4.25-.5.3, JN 2.1-3; Slav: Ist. 5-6, EL
1.

frag.2.
The time of Adam (5.24): cf 'Concerning Adam and those who came after
him.
The Hellenic chronographer, or annalist,
starts his account
of the genesis of the world thus' Slav; see Tvorogov, 1975, 274.
96 fingers' widths (5,30) P, B, Slav: wrongly printed by Istrin.
14 fingers' widths (5,31):
A, B, Slav
add 'his forearm was 24 fingers'
widths'.
Asouam (6.4) A, B, GM, PsS, Ke, Sk, cf P 6.34: 'Souanni' P ('Sousanni'
Istrin);
A and
GM add here different passages about Cain and Abel.
Hera (6.17):
'Zeus' A, B, GM, JN, Slav; see Reinert, 1981, 66, note 12.
2. P 7.1.--23; A 232.20-28, B 2.6-8, PsS 22r-v, Ke 18.18-20, 20.12-14,

Sk

5.12-13; Slav: Ist. 7, Mify 23, Soph 2.

(7.4; r_.f the system of CP; see Gelzer,

1287

according to.. em follows

Gleve.

1899.

504.

(7.5-8):

perhaps

1.885, 142): of

'1200'

A.

an interpolation in P; see

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sons of cod saw the daughters of men, that they were fair, and took them
wives of all which they chose and came in unto them, as Moses says, and
they bare sons to them.
There were giants in the earth in those days,
the men which were of old, the men of renown" (6-an. 6.2,4).
From Adam until the angels, the sons of Seth, desired women, or
rather the daughters of men, of the tribe of Cain, there were 2122
years.
3.
In that time God sent. a ball of fire from the heavens against.
the giants in the Celtic land and burnt it and them.
The ball plunged
into the river Jordan and was extinguished. They tell stories of this
fire and say that Phthaethon, the son of the sun, fell from his chariot
to earth,
a
tale which Ovid has written poetically.
But. Plutarch of
Chaironeia speaks of this more truthfully when he says that the ball of
fire fell on the Celtic land. Although the remaining giarit.s saw so many
of their number struck by lightning,(8) they
remained stubborn. God
said to them in anger, "My spirit. will not. abide in these men, for they
are flesh" (['Pn. 6.3),
as is recorded in Moses' writings. The most
learned Pindar, who was a Hellenic poet. after the time of Moses,
described these giants poetically as men born from earth, with serpents'
feet., who made certain daring attacks against. the highest. divine powers.
He called
them serpent-footed and said that. they were destroyed by the
gods through various punishments. The most learned Timotheos interpreted
this poetic story as follows, saying that the reason why the poet called
these men serpent-footed was because their minds were brutalized and
they considered human values of no account, but had feet which moved
towards the evil and unjust. things of the earth.
For this reason the
divine-the usual motion both of the sun and of the moon, ordered that
some should be destroyed by a thunderbolt., others should have their
bodies turned to stone,. others were to be shot with the swiftest of
deadly arrows,
others were to be torn apart by wounds as from a spear,
and the remainder were to be drowned in the ocean depths.
Thus the
giants, or serpent-footed creatures, perished miserably and ended their
lives.
Servius said that. they lived in a low-lying plain and had
fought a war with people of the mountain tops, and crawling on their
bellies they were slaughtered by the mountain dwellers.

the angels...tribe of Cain

daughters of men' A.

(7.20-22):

cf

'the

sons of God desired the

2122 (7.23;corr) A, B, Slav: cf '2000' P; see Reinert., 1981, 65, note 7.

3.
P 7.24-8.40; A 232.29-233.3, B 2.9-13, PsS 22v, Ke 19.4-12, JN
2.3; Slav: Ist 7-8, Mify 23, Soph 4.
They (7,30) B: 'The Hellenes' A, Slav.
Phthaethon, the son of the sun (7.31;corr Ist.rin, 24) A, B: 'the son' P.
Ovid (7.32;corr) B, cf Slav: 'Oundios' P; but see Gleye, 1.893, 160-1.
Pindar (8.6):
'Peisander'
B, Slav;
see Gleye, 1899, 505 and RE 19.1,
145-6, Peisander 12.
...the usual motion both (8.24):
'the motion of the stars and' Slav.
Since there is a half-line gap in P before 'usual' (vouLxrc ), Gleye,
1899, 505
credibly proposes 'astronomical' (aotpovotn, c
); we mark a
lacuna in the belief that at least one other word has dropped out here.
Servius (8.35;
corr Ist.rin) PsS:
'Serivios' P, 'the learned Servius'
Slav.

and crawling

on

their

bellies

(8.39):

'and

that.

they attacked the

1300K 1
4

a man named Noah who was beloved of God. Noah

became the father of three sons, Shem, Ham and
he
when
was 500 years old
Lord
as
Noah to make an ark and he made
commanded
God
Japheth.
the age of 600 and the Lord commanded him
reached
Noah
instructed him.
him. And Noah took everything
(9) There was

4,

it

the

into
the ark with
to take everything into
and all the four-footed beasts,
family
his
-all
him
the ark with
female, as

winged creatures and amphibians, male and

creeping things,
And there was a flood upon the earth for 40
the Lord commanded him.
of

40

and

nights and

all flesh that

days

life died, as is

had the breath

scriptures.
recorded in the Hebrew
to
Noah's flood there were 2552 years.
Thus altogether from Adam
Noah
came
out of the ark, and his wife and
life
In the 601st year of his
and his sons' wives and every soul from his
sons
and
his
his daughters
beasts and winged creatures and
family and all the four-footed
and they all
that.
were in the ark,
amphibians and creeping things
After
the flood had ceased and the
kind.
to
their
increased according
of

waters had abated, the ark was found

to have settled

on

the mountains

Its
province of Pisidia, whose metropolis is Apameia.
Ararat
has
as
Pergamos
the
Pamphylian
present
day,
to
the
timbers are there
have
Josephos and Eusebios Pamphilou and other chroniclers
written.
in the

stated that the mountains (10) of Ararat are near Armenia, between the
Parthians, the Armenians and the Adiabenoi, and the ark settled there.

children and there was a multitude of men

The family of Noah produced
known how to
and women. The Tower of Babel was built by the men who had

construct the ark and had

water.

Thus from

years.
5.

Noah,

first

invented boats and set them to float, on

the flood to the building of the Tower there were 370

of that
time after the flood Shem, the son of
middle
the father of Arphaxad Cainan, who after the flood wrote

In the

became

about astronomy when he discovered, engraved on a stone

slab, the names

which :Seth,
the son of Adam, and his children had given the stars, as
in
the second book of his
the most learned Josephos has written
ArchaeaJogy He says that. Seth's descendants were god-fearing men
and, having
foreknowledge of the destruction, or change, that was then
to affect mankind, made two tablets, the one of stone and the other of
clay.
On these they inscribed everything that Seth, their grandfather,
considering that, if the earthly
had stated concerning the heavens,
and
world of men were to be changed through water,
stone
inscription would remain;
if through fire, the clay tablet would remain
and its inscription become known to those who were saved from the

the

its

tablet

on their hands (PsS, Ke acid 'and feet.') and crawling

their bellies like serpents' Slav, PsS, Ke.

mountain dwellers
on
4.

P 9.1-10.11; A

233.4-15,

De

virt

22v, cf Ke 20.18-19, Sk 5.20-22, JN 3; Slav:

1 93-5.

(157.1-7), B 2.14-15, cf PsS

Soph 6. See Josephos, Ant.,

Apameia (9.35;corr) B: 'Apamasia' P.

5.
P 10.12-11.4;
A
233.16-29,
GM 10.12-24,
PsS
B 2.16,
16.11-16, JN 4,1-2;
Slav:
Ist 10-11, Soph 6,7.
See Josephos,

21v,
Ant..,

Ke
T

70-1.

if

through

B,

GM,

fire, the clay tablet

cf PsS,

Ke,

Slav:

om

P.

would remain (10.34; corn

Ist.rin 25)

A,

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disaster and survived.

The stone tablet remained on Mount. Siris after

the flood and lies there to the present, as Josephos has stated. (11)
the generation of Arphaxad was 135 years.
Thus from Adam to the completion of

2922

years.

the

Tower of Babel

So

there were

6.
Then the tribes of the sons of Noah, I mean of Shem, Ham and
Japheth, the three brothers, were divided. The tribe of Shem took as the
length of its territory the land from Persia and Bact.ria as far as India
that is,
and, as for the breadth,
as far as Rhinokourouroi,
from the
East.
as far as the region of the South, including Syria and Media and
the river called the Euphrates. The tribe of Ham, Noah's second son,
took for its territory the land from Rhinokourouroi in,Egypt in a
southward direction as far as the region of the West, and all Libya and
the river Nile known as gold-flowing and Africa and as far as Mauritania
and the Pillars of Herakles and the great Adriatic Sea.
The tribe of
Japheth, Noah's third son, took the territory from Media to the North as
far as the British Isles, including all the area of the Pontic Sea as
far as the region of the West, and the rivers Danube and Tanais and the
area by the Caucasus mountains and the Abasgoi, all those nations,
.beginning from the river Tigris which divides Media and Babylonia and up
to the Pontic Sea, the area near Rhodes, Cyprus and Attalesis.
The three tribes were divided throughout the earth in 72 nations, as
Eusebios Pamphilou, the most. learned chronicler, has stated,
7.
During that. time a (12) learned Indian astronomer appeared,
of the
named Gandoubarios,
family of Arphaxad.
He was the first to
write about astronomy for the Indians.
There was another man of the
tribe of Shem,
named Cush,
an Ethiopian,
who became the father of
Nimrod,
th^ giant,
who built Babylon.
The Persians say that he was

Arphaxad was (11.1-2) : 'Arphaxad lasted until

Tower, and Arphaxad lived' A, perhaps correctly.
135

(11.4):

cf

the building of the

'125' A.

P 11.4-38;

A 233.30-32,
B 2.17, Synk 46.23-47.11,
54.13-55.20, LG
250.20-28 (14.18-15.4), PsS 23v, 25v, Ke 23.19--24.9, 25.21; Slav: Soph 7.
as for the breadth (11.9): cf Synk, PsS and Ke who add 'from India',
Rhinokourouroi (11.10): cf Synk, PsS and Ke who add in Egypt'.
the river called (11.13): cf 'the river defining his boundaries' Synk,
PsS, Ke.
the great Adriatic Sea (11.22) B: a strange phrase, perhaps a corruption
Ham's
somehow of
'Gadeira'
used elsewhere in a similar way of
inheritance; see, eg, CP 49.7, 52.10, 52.18 and Synk 52.10, 53.2.
the Pontic Sea (11.26): cf Slav which adds 'and the Great Sea'.
Tanais (11.28; corr Gleye) B: 'Alas' P; see Gleye, 1899, 506.
5 LaX(X
cf
which
(11.32; corr reading b LaXwp (Zovtoc
6.

for

divides

Synk, PsS, Ke: 'they were divided' P.

Attalesis

(11.35):

B leaves

blank

others'

(T Lvac

after

&,aS

its first letter; Gleye,

f or Tnv 7ATi6.knaLV ) .
This whole sentence is unsatisfactory as Greek.
7.
P 11.39-12.13; A 233.32-234.7, CP 64.10-18, GM 11.1-15, B 4.1, PsS
25v, 26v, Ke 27.3-6, 8--10, 28.8-10, JN 5.1-4; Slav: 1st 11-12, Soph 8.
Gandoubarios (12.2; corr Istrin, 26) A, Slav: cf 'Andoubarios' CP, PsS,
Ke, 'Gardoubarios' P.
Babylon (12.6; corr) A, CM, PsS, Ke, Slav: 'Babylonia' P, B, CP.
1899, 507 suggests 'some

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He was
deified and became the star in the heaven which they call Orion.
with
wild
everyone
and
he
provided
the first to practise hunting,
animals to eat and was a leader amongst the Persians.
8.
From this tribe of Shem, Noah's first son, which held Syria,
Persia and the remaining areas of the East., there was born and appeared
a man who was of the race of giants, named Kronos, given that. name by
He was a strong man who was the
Damnos his father after the planet.
ruling,
that is, the governing and controlling of
first to practise
other men. He was the first to reign over the Assyrians, which he did
for many years, and he subjugated the entire land of Persia, beginning
from Assyria.
He was feared by all as a savage and warlike man who
destroyed everyone.
This man had a wife Semiramis, also known as Rhea
She was of the
by the Assyrians because she was proud and boastful.
called
Zeus by his
who
was
same tribe.
Kronos had a son, named Picus,
parents, also after the planet. Kronos had another son, named Ninos, and
Picus Zeus took as his wife his own sister,
a daughter (13) named Hera.
named Hera; some people called her "wifely retribution" because she was
good, just and universally benevolent.
Picus had a son by her whom he
called Belos, because the child was very sharp.
9.
Kronos, the grandfather, left his son Picus in Assyria and his
taking a large force, a
wife Rhea Semiramis with his son Picus Zeus;
host of valiant men,
he went off to the West which was without an
emperor and not subject to any governor. He disappeared from Assyria
and took possession of the western regions. He remained in control,
reigning over all the West for many years. He had there a wife named
Philyra, by whom he had a son named Aphros to whom he gave the land near
he
Libya. Aphros controlled the district there and reigned over it.;
married Astynome from the
island of Lakeria and became the father of a
daughter whom he called Aphrodite, likewise after the planet, the
heavenly Aphrodite. She became a philosopher and married Adonis the
Athenian, himself a philosopher, the son of Kinyros by his own daughter.

26 reading xats6%c sv for xaT SELtFv

A, CP, Ke, Slav, cf. GM, P 12.22: 'pursue' P.
8.
P 12.13-13.8; A 234.7-23, CP 64.19-65.19, GM 11.16-12.8,
Anon Mal
17.14-18.6, B 4.1-4, LG 250.29-251.1 (15.5-10), PsS 26r-27v, Ke 28.10-18,
JN 6.1-3; Slav: Ist 12-13, Mify 23, Soph 8, 9.
Damns (12.19) CP, cf Slav: cf. 'Domnos' A, 'Ouranos' Anon Mal; see
Reinert, 1981, 82, 160, note 19.
Rhea (12.31;
'Arhea'
Istrin) A, B, GM, CP, PsS, Ke: 'Area'
Slav, and

practise (12.10-11;corr Istrin,

elsewhere.
She was of the same tribe (12.33-34) B: 'She was of the tribe of Shem,
son of Noah' A, CP, cf Slav.
called her "wifely retribution" (13.4) B, CP: cf 'called her his lawful
wife'
Slav.
It
is hard to see how the phrase in the text could have
been intended as a compliment; did Malalas read it. as something like
'balanced justice'? See Reinert, 1981, 90.
good, just and universally benevolent (13.5-6) cf B: 'good and desired
all justice' CP.
9.
P 13.8-14.13; A 234.23-35, CP 65.19-66.15, PsS 27r, Ke 28.20-22,
LG 251.1-3
29.9-12,
(15.10-13), JN 6.4-5; Slav: Ist 13-14, Mify 23-4,
Soph 9, 10.
by his own daughter... which they call mysteries (13.31-14.7): attested

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Kinyros,
having performed this act which went against nature, secretly
exposed the child in the mountains,
where he was reared by those known
as the mountain nymphs.
He became extraordinarily
handsome and
Aphrodite fell in love with him. Ares became angry (14) and struck him
for he was a rival for Aphrodite's affections.
They say that. Aphrodite
went down with Adonis to Hades not to die but to resurrect him because
she loved him very much.
There are various stories about. him which they
call mysteries.
They are said to have practised philosophy together
until death. Kronos had by Philyra another son known as Cheiron, also a
philosopher.
10.
After Picus Zeus had reigned over Assyria for four years,
he too left his mother and Hera,
his sister and his wife, and, making
his son Belos emperor of Assyria, went. off to the West. to his father
Kronos.
Belos reigned over the Assyrians for eight years and he died,
whereupon the Persians deified him.
When Kronos saw his son Picus
Zeus had come to him in the West, he yielded to him rule over the West.
For Kronos was weak and had become feeble; Picus Zeus reigned over the
West, that is, Italy, for another 62 years.
After Belos, Ninos, Kronos'
other son, ruled Assyria. He had taken his mother- Semiramis as his wife;
from him the Persians derive the custom of marrying their mothers and
sisters, because Picus too (15) took his own sister Hera to wife; as
the most learned Homer states it, "He addressed Hera, his sister and
wife" ( Iliad 16, 431-2, 18.356).
Kronos died.
11.
After Ninos had become master of Assyria, he built. Nineveh,

the city of the Assyrians,

and

was

the first. to rule in it., having

Semiramis Rhea, his wife and mother, with him. From his family was born
Zoroaster, the famous Persian astronomer, who when on the point. of death
prayed that he should be consumed by fire from heaven. He said to the

nowhere else and perhaps an interpolation; see Gleye, 1899, 507-8 and
Reinert, 1981, 107-8 and notes 107-8 on pp 170-1.
loved him (14.5; corr, reading Tovto ): 'it' (TOOTOV) P.
They are said to have practised philosophy together (14.8-9): cf
'They
continued practising philosophy together chastely' CP,
perhaps the
original Malalas which set off the interpolation.
10. P 14.13-15.5;
PsS 26r,
27v,
Ke
A 234.35-235.15, CP 66.15-67.9,
29.12-19, B 4.5-6, LG 251.8-10(15.13-18), JN 7.1-4; Slav:Ist 14, Mify 24,
Soph 11.
1981, 158,
four (14.15):
'30'
A,
B, CP, PsS, Ke, Slav; see Reinert.,
note 5.
eight (14.22): 'two' A, CP, Ke, Slav.
Picas Zeus had come (14.24-25; corr, reading IltjKOV Toy ALa EAOovTa for
IIrrKov Toy 6LEA.6oVTa
) CP, Slav: 'had crossed' P.
had become feeble (14.28): Slav adds 'Others, however, claim that. Picus
captured his father and cut out his kidneys and cast them into the sea,
and plunged his father into the depths and confiscated his kingdom',
though probably not. original Malalas; see Shustorovich, 1970, 105-110.
Hera to wife (15.2): Slav alone adds 'and because Ninos took his mother
Semiramis',
indispensibie according to Gleye, 1899, 508 but rejected by
note 8, probably correctly.
Reinert's
Reinert,
1981,
158,
(NB:
statement, fhld., about a lacuna in P is incorrect.)
It. P 15.6-25;
A 235. 15-23, CP 67.9-22, PsS 27r, Ke 29.19-30.5,
cf B
4.6; Slav: 1st. 15, Soph 12.

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Persians,
"If the fire burns me up, take some of my charred bones and
preserve them;
empire will not depart from your land as long as you
preserve my bones".
Then he prayed to Orion and was consumed by fire
from heaven.
The Persians did as he told them and they have preserved
his incinerated remains until now.
12.
After Ninos a man named Tharras reigned over the Assyrians.
His father Zames,
the brother of Rhea, renamed him Ares after the
planet.
He became a savage fighting man, who campaigned against the
northern regions. He attacked a certain Kaukasos, who was also a strong
man of the race of the giants and very warlike;
he was descended from
the tribe of Japheth, son of Noah. Tharras fought Kaukasos, defeated him
and took possession of his land.
He came to Thrace where he died
(16)
and is buried.
It was
to Ares that the Assyrians erected the first
statue and they worshipped him as a god; to this day they call him the
god
Belos in Persian, which means when translated "Ares, the warrior
god".
The prophetic words of Daniel and the three young men refer to
him,
saying that they were forced to worship him. After the death of
Ares,
Lames reigned
and after Lames the Assyrians were ruled by
Sardanapalos the Great, whom Perseus, the son of Danae, slew and took
the empire from the Assyrians.
When he had become their ruler, he named
them Persians after himself, as Membronios of Babylon has written for
the Persians.
13.
Ninos' brother,
Picus Zeus,
continued to reign over Italy.
At that time there
was no city or administration in the West but all
that land was simply inhabited by the members of the tribe of Japheth,
son of Noah, who had
migrated there.
Picus Zeus lived 130 years,
controlling the West and reigning over it.
He had many sons and
daughters by beautiful women, for he used to beguile them.
For he had
mystic knowledge and used to put on displays and astonish the women, who
regarded him as a qod and were seduced by him since he showed them
displays by mechanical means. Picus Zeus had a son named Faunus, whom he
also called Hermes after the planet.
(17) When on the point of death

12. P 15.26-16.19;
A 235.24-236.3,
CP 68.1-19, LG 251.10-12 (15.21-3),
PsS 26r,
27v,
Ke 30.5-19, B 6.1--2,
Su II 722.9-14;
Slav: Ist 15-16,
Soph 13.
Tharras (15.26) A: 'Thouras' B, CP, Ke, Su, Slav.
fought Kaukasos, defeated him (15.36-37: 'fought Kaukasos,
killed him'
A, CP, Su, cf PsS, Ke.
Belos (16.5): 'Baal' A, B, CP, LG, PsS, Ke, Su, Slav.
the warrior god (16.6): 'the god of wars' B, CP, PsS, Ke, cf A, Su.
saying that they were forced to worship him (16.9):
perhaps an
interpolation of P (see Gleye, 1899, 509); cf Dani,J 3.1-23, discussed
by Reinert, 1981, 93.
the son of Danae (16.14;corr) A, B, CP, PsS, Ke: 'Danas' P.
as Membronios of Babylon has written for the Persians (16.18-19) Slav:
cf
'as Semeronios
the Babylonian Persian has written' CP, perhaps
correctly; see Gelzer, 1885a, 77.
13. P
16.20-17.14;
A
236.9-20, CP 68.20-69.7, 80.1-10,
LG 251.8-10
(15.18-20), PsS 26v, Ke 30.20-31,17, B 6.4, Su IV 124.13-17;
Slav: Ist
16-17, Mify 24, Soph 14.
130 (16.27): '120' A, B, CP, Slav.

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Zeus ordered his body to be laid to rest in burial on the island

His children built a shrine in his honour and laid him in a
Crete.
tomb on the island of Crete. This tomb, which was in Crete, survives
till the present with an inscription, "Here lies Picus Zeus, whom they
also call Dia".
Diodoros,
the most learned chronicler, has written
about this and in the narrative of his treatise on gods, said that Zeus,
the son of Kronos, lies in Crete.
14.
After the death of Picus Zeus, his son Faunus Hermes reigned
over Italy for 35 years.
He was a crafty man, willing to learn, who was
the first to discover gold-mining in the West and smelting. He learnt
that his brothers by the women seduced by his father Picus Zeus were
jealous of him and wanted to kill him. There were many of them, perhaps
about 70, for Zeus produced children from liaisons with many women. One
son was known as Menados.
Zeus had intercourse with the Theban Alkmene,
the wife of Amphitryon, and had another son by her, named Herakles son
of Alkmene, and also known as Triesperos.
He was the first to practise
philosophy in the regions of Hesperia, that is, in the West.
Members of
his family deified him after his death and called a star in the heavens
after (18) him, the star known as Herakles' Tunic.
They picture him
as wearing a lion-skin, carrying a club and holding three apples - about
which they recount a myth, saying that he stole the three apples when he
slew the dragon with his club;
that is, he conquered the seductive
thoughts of evil desire with the club of philosophy, girt with a valiant
mind as if with a lion-skin, and in this way he made off with the three
apples,
that is, the three virtues of freedom from anger, freedom from
avarice and freedom from sensuality.
For with the club of the steadfast
soul and the lion-skin of resolute and chaste thought, he was victorious
in the earthly struggle with base desire, and practised philosophy until
his death, as the most learned Herodotos has written, who related that
there were seven other Herakles. What has been said allegorically about
Herakles has been stated by Theophilos, the most learned chronicler.
When Hermes became aware of his brothers' plot against him, he
withdrew, pocketing an excessive amount of gold and went off to Egypt,
to the tribe of Ham, son of Noah. They received him with honour and he
stayed there, treating everyone with arrogance and wearing a golden
robe. He practised philosophy amongst the Egyptians, pronouncing oracles
for them.
He was by nature very rational and they revered him, calling
Hermes a god since he told the (19) future, supplied them with the
answer from god about the future and provided them with money; so they
Picus
of

to be laid to rest in burial

(17.3;corr) CP: cf P which omits 'to be

laid to rest' and A, B, Su, Slav which omit 'in burial'; 'to be laid to
rest in death' PsS, Ke.
14. P 17.15-19.5; A 236.21-33, CP 80.13-81.10, LG 251.13-16(15.23-16.3),
PsS 27r-v, Ke 29.6-9, 32.9-15, 33.1-34.3, Su II 580.21-28, II 584.6-15,
IV 707.1-8,
B 6.5-6; Slav: Ist 17-19, Mify 24, 25, Soph 15, 16.
willing to learn (17.19): 'of great learning' A, B, CP, PsS, Ke.
One son was known as Menados (17.29):
'Zeus had Faunus Hermes by his
first wife Maia, whom he had seduced in Italy' Slav, cf 'He was the son
of Maia (Maid(&oc ), the
wife whom Zeus had in
Ke, cf PsS.
Triesperos (17.33) B, PsS, Ke: 'Trisperos' wrongly read in P by Istrin.
Herodotos (18.19) B, Ke:
'Diodoros'
Slav; see Reinert, 1981, 167,
note 77.

first

Italy'

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called him "giver of riches", considering him the golden god.

15.
So when Hermes came to Egypt, Mestrem of the family of Ham then
reigned over the Egyptians.
On his death, the Egyptians made Hermes
emperor and he reigned over the Egyptians for 39 years arrogantly.
After him Hephaistos reigned over the Egyptians for 1680 days, that
is, for four years and 38 days.
For the Egyptians then did not know how
to measure years,
but they called the cycle of the day "years". They
called Hephaistos a god,
for he was also a fighting man with mystic
knowledge.
He fell with his horse when he had gone into battle and was
left with a limp from his wound.
Hephaistos issued a law that Egyptian women were to be monogamous
and to live chastely, while those who were caught in adultery were to be
punished.
The Egyptians were grateful to him, since this was the first
law on chastity which they received.
Hephaistos through a mystic prayer received tongs from the air for
the manufacture of
implements from iron. Thus he became dominant in
wars.
They deified him, since he had legislated for chastity and he had
procured food for men by the manufacture of implements and in war had
given them power and safety; for before his day men had fought with
clubs and stones.

considering (19.5): P ends at this point and v (originally part of the

same ms but now divided;
see Richard, 1955, 333-4) continues without a
break;
V (which
is unpublished) is used as the base text. for the
translation until Ba begins at Bo 23.1.
15. V f148r;
A 236.34-237.9, CP 81.10-82.12, B 6.7,
PsS 27v,
Ke
35.12-22, Su II 161.6,
II 598.19-28;
Slav: Ist 19, Mify 25, Soph. 17,
Hyp 278.
four years and 38 days: 'four and a half years and 38 days' Slav, cf

PsS, Ke.

1.
(23) After the death of Hephaist.os, his son Helios reigned over
the Egyptians for 4477 days, that is, for 12 years and 97 days;
for
neither the Egyptians in those times nor any other people knew how to
calculate the number.
Some calculated the cycles of the moon as years,
others calculated the cycles of the days as years;
for counting by the
twelve months (24) was devised after this from the time when it was
customary for men to be tax-payers to emperors.
2.
Helios, the son of Hephaistos,
was very generous.
He was
informed by someone that. an Egyptian woman, one of those who enjoyed
wealth and rank amongst them, had fallen in love with someone and was
committing adultery with him. When Helios heard this, he wanted to
catch her, because of his father Hephaistos' law, so that it should not
be broken.
He took soldiers from his army, having discovered that her
adultery took place at night. He burst in on her when her husband was
not
there and found her sleeping with another man,
her lover.
Immediately he took her away and paraded her throughout the land of
Chastity became widespread in the land of
Egypt after torturing her.
Egypt.
He put that adulterer to death, and was thanked.
The poet Homer
tells this story poetically; Helios, he says, condemned Aphrodite for
having intercourse at night with Ares. He used the name Aphrodite for
the desire for fornication condemned by the emperor Helios.
The truth,
as it has been written above, was written by the
most learned
chronicler Palaiphat.os.
3.
After the death of the emperor Helios, son of Hephaistos, Sosis

Bo 23.1-24.2; CP 82.12-18, A 237.10, JA 6.8, cf 5, Su II 563.17-21,

PsS 27r, Ke 36.1, JN 12.1; Slav: Ist 1.1-7, Soph 18, Hyp 279.
Hephaistos (23.1): Ba begins at this point, after 'Hephaist.'.
4477 days (23.2; corr Chil) CP, JA,
Su:
'4407 days'
Ba (,bud' wrongly
forbuoV; see Chit 502), '7477 days' Slav.
12 years and 97 days (23.2) JA: cf
'12 years, 3 months and 4 days'
CP,
Su, '12 and a half years' Slav.
the number (23.3; corr) CP: 'a number' Ba, 'a year' JA (corrupt. passage;
see Chil 502, who proposes 'any other number' on the basis of CP, ms P).
it was customary (24.1; corr Dind) CP: 'it was named' Ba.
Bo 24.2-18; CP 82.18-83.15, JA 6.8, Su II 563.21-27; Slav: Ist
2.
1.7-19, Soph 18, Hyp 279.
Helios (24.2): 'Emperor Helios' CP, Slav.
very generous (24.3): 'a powerful philosopher' CP, perhaps correctly,
'a powerful man' Slav.
heard this (24.6; corr Dind) CP: Ba adds 'from him'.
3.
Bo 24.19-25.17; CP 83.16-84.14,
A
237.10-23, JA 6.9,
Su
II
722.26-723.6,
PsS 27r,
Ke 36.3-10; Slav:
Ist 2.1-1, Soph 19.
See
Jacoby, FGrHist III, No. 609, pp.82-3; Erbse, 1941, 207 (No.16).
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over the Egyptians;

after his reign, Osiris reigned; after
Osiris, Horus;
and after Horis, Thoulis, who captured (25) all the land
While he was returning, he came
as far as the Ocean with a large force,
When he had sacrificed
arrogantly to the oracle in the land of Africa.
he made his petition, saying,
"Tell me, lord of fire, you who do not
lie,
blessed one,
you who bend your et.herial course - who before my
reign was able to subjugate everything, and who will do so after me?"
reigned

This response was given to him, "First God, thereafter the Word and the
Spirit with them.
All things were created together and proceed
Go with swift. feet,
towards the One whose power
is everlasting.
mortal,
life".
He left the oracle
and finish your ignominious
immediately and was murdered in Africa by his own soldiers who had
plotted against him.
The history of these ancient and historic empires of the Egyptians
was written by Manetho.
In his writings it is recorded that different
names are given to the five planets:
the planet known as Kronos was
called the Shining One,
the planet Zeus the Torch, Ares the Fiery,
Aphrodite the Fairest and Hermes the Brilliant.. The most. learned Sot.at.es
interpreted these names later.
4.
Then in the period after this Sostris was the first of the
tribe of Ham to reign over the Egyptians.
He took up arms and made war
on the Assyrians.
He subjugated them and the Chaldaeans and the
Persians as far as Babylon.
Likewise he subjugated Asia, all of Europe,
Scythia and Moesia.
(26) While he was returning to Egypt from the land
of Scythia,
he chose 15,000 young fighting men.
He made them migrate
and commanded them to live in Persia, giving them there whatever land
they chose.
These Scythians have remained in Persia from that time to
the present day; they were called by the Persians Parthians which in the
Persian language means
Scythians. They preserve the dress, language,
and laws of the Scythians to the present day; they are also very fierce
in battle, as the most learned Herodotos has written.
5.
In the time
of the reign of the Sostris mentioned above,
lived the Egyptian Hermes Trismegistos, a man of tremendous wisdom.
He
declared that the name of the ineffable creator comprised three very
great essences, but he said that they were one divinity.
And so he was
called Hermes Trismegistos
(that is,
Hermes Three-greatest.) by the
Egyptians.
For he is recorded in various of his writings to Asklepios
.

you who bend (25.4) Erbse

cf 'you who, shining, bend' Slav.
All things were created together (25.7) JA, Su: 'All these things were
created together and are one' A, cf CP (probably the original order; see
:

Erbse,

1941,

111-3, 207).

was murdered (25.10; corr Dind) CP, PsS, Ke: Ba adds `immediately'.
4.
Bo 25.18-26.9; CP 84.15-85.7, A 237.26-34, JA 6.10, cf 5, Su IV
409.13,
59.6, PsS 27v,
Ke 36.10-15, GM 15.12-16; Slav: Ist. 2.17-3.9,
Soph 20.
Sostris (25.19) Slav, A, JA, PsS, Su IV 409.13,
GM: cf 'Sesostris' CP,
Su IV 59.6, Ke.
5.
Bo 26.10-27.14; CP 85.8-86.13, A 238.1-20, JA 6.10-12, Su II
413.32-414.10,
PsS 27r-28r, Ke 36.15-37.10, GM 15.18-19, JN 15.1-2;
Slav:
3.10-4.10, Soph 21. See Cyril, Centre .Till ,Wniun I (PG 76,

Ist

552); Erbse, 1941, 104-11, 202-3.

creator (26.13): CP, PsS, Ke add 'God'.
556,

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as saying the following about the nature of God,

"Had there not been
some foresight of the Lord of all to disclose this word to me, such
passion to enquire into this subject would not have seized you.
For it
is not possible that. such mysteries should be provided for the
There is only one
uninitiated - but. listen with your intellect.
intelligent light that existed before intelligent light and there
existed always
Intellect,
light of the intellect. (27) There was
nothing else other than its unity; it exists forever in itself;
it
embraces all things forever with its intellect, light and spirit.
Outside this there is no god, no angel, no demon, nor any other being.
For it is the Lord and God of all, and all things exist through it
and in it.
For its Word went forth and was completely perfect and
fertile, and capable of creation.
It descended on fertile nature, on
Having spoken thus, he
fertile water and made the water fruitful".
prayed, saying,
swear by you, Heaven, the wise accomplishment of
"I
almighty God;
may you be propitious.
I swear by you,
voice of the
Father, the first which he uttered when he established the whole world
with his counsel; voice of the Father the first which he uttered, his
only-begotten
Word".
These things are recorded in the material
collected
by the most holy Cyril in his work Acra nst. the emperor
.ill
an, where he says that, even though Hermes Trismegistos was ignorant
of what was to come, he confessed the consubstantiality of the Trinity.
6.
The emperor Sostris reached Egypt after his victory and
died.
After him Pharaoh, also called Naracho, reigned over the land
of the Egyptians,
and successors from his family reigned over the
Egyptians.
7.
(28)
In the time
of Picus
Zeus mentioned above there
appeared in the regions of the West in the land of the Argives a man of
the tribe of Japheth, named Inachos. He was the first to reign in that
land and he built a city there which he named Iopolis, after the moon,
which he worshipped.
For the Argives to the present say in their

for the uninitiated (26.18; corr Dind) CP, Cyril: "the uninitiated' Ba.
is (26.19): 'was' Slav, CP, A, Su, Cyril, Erbse 202.
existed (26.20) Slav, CP, A, JA, Su: cf 'exists' Cyril, Erbse 202.
than (27.1; corr Dind) Slav, CP, JA, Cyril: om Ba, Su, A.
it is (27.4; corr) Cyril, Su, Erbse: om Ba, CP, Ke.
Lord (27.4): Slav, CP, A, Su, Ke add `and Father', cf PsS which adds
'Saviour', 'Creator and Father' JA 6.11, 'Lord and Father and God and
Source and Life and Power and Light and Intellect and Spirit' Erbse
202.

voice of the Father (27.10) Slav, CP (Cyril's gloss on the three

preceeding lines of verse; see Erbse 108): other witnesses make changes
to cover this awkwardness and to make 'may you be propitious' refer
to God or his Word.
6.
Bo 27.15-18; CP 86.14-17, JA 6.13, GM 15.21-16.1,
PsS 28r, Ke
37.10-15; Slav: Ist 4.11-13, Soph 21.
Sostris (27.15) JA, PsS, GM: cf 'Sesostris' Slav, CP, Ke.
Naracho (27.17) Slav, PsS, GM: 'Nachor' CP, 'Narecho' Ke,
'Karacho'
JA, 'Maracho' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 222.
7.
Bo 28.1-30.3; CP 74.6-76.10, JA 6.14, GM 16.1-6, PsS 28r,
37.16-38.9, JN 22.1-4,
cf
A 238.21-23,
Su II 646.23-30; Slav:

4.14-6.10, Soph 22.

Ke
Ist

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He also built in the

mysteries that To is the secret name of the moon.
on which he
city a temple to the moon, dedicating to it a bronze statue.,
Melia,
wife
named
took
a
Inachos
inscribed,
"Io, blessed Lightbearer".
daughter whom he named
by whom he had three children, Kasos, Below and a
To after the moon, for the girl was extremely beautiful.
hearing that
Then Picus Zeus, emperor of the regions of the West,
daughter of
virgin daughter, sent for To,
Inachos had a beautiful
and had
made
her
pregnant.
seduced
her,
He
Inachos, and carried her off.
But Io was upset by what had
a daughter by her whom he called Libye.
from him
happened to her and, not wishing to live with Picus, escaped
ashamed
to
was
Since
she
and everyone else and abandoned her daughter.

appear

before her father Inachos, she fled and sailed to Egypt..

She

time later To
entered the land of Egypt and lived there. But when some
in Egypt, she
learnt that. Hermes, the son of Picus Zeus, was reigning
There
in
Syria.
Silpios
to
(29)
Mount
fled from there in fear of him
which he
some years later Seleukos Nikator the Macedonian built. a city,
To went off to Syria and died
called Antioch the Great, after his son.
Others have stated
as the most learned Theophilos has written.
there,
that lo died in Egypt.
them
Inachos, her father, sent her brothers and relations, and with
Triptolemos and some Argives, in search of Io; they searched everywhere
To had
but did not find her. When the Argives from Iopolis learnt that.
time,
died in the land of Syria, they went there and stayed for a short
Io be
of
"May the soul
knocking on each house there and saying,
saw a
dream
and
they
to
them
in
a
A response was revealed
saved".
Io".
heifer,
which addressed them in a human voice, saying, "Here am I,
When they awoke they continued to wonder at the meaning of the dream.
Then, reasoning that Io was buried on that mountain, they built a shrine
to her there on Mount Silpios and lived there, building a city for
Its inhabitants have been called
themselves, which they called lopolis.
From that time when the
Ionitai by the Syrians to the present day.
Argives came in search of To to the present the Syrians of Ant.ioch have
performed this memorial rite, knocking at the houses of the Hellenes at
The reason why the Argives remained there in Syria
this time each year.
was that they had been given instructions by the emperor Inachos, Io's
"Unless (30) you bring my
father, as they left the land of the Argives,
So the Ionitai
daughter, Io, do not return to the land of the Argives".
built a temple there to Kronos on Mount Silpios.
8.
Libye, the daughter of To and Picus Zeus, married a man named
Poseidon;
from them were born three children, Agenor, Belos and
Agenor and Belos too came to Syria, in search of To, to see
Enyalios.

if

she was

still alive,

and

to

look for her brothers to see

if they were

But they found no one and they

there, for they were their relatives.
Belos went, to Egypt where he married Sida and had two sons,
returned.
Agenor went to Phoenice and married Tyro. He built
Egyptos and Danaos.
which he named Tyre, after his wife. So he reigned there and
a city,
had sons by Tyro - Kadmos, Phoinix, Syros and Kilix - and a daughter

beautiful (28.13): 'very beautiful' Slav, CP.

and saying (29.11) CP: om Ba; see Bury, 1897, 222.
8.
Bo 30.4-31.22; CP 76.11-78.12, A 238.24-33, JA 6.15, GM 16.6-17.4,
PsS 28r-v, Ke 38.10-39.12, JN 23.1-8, 24.1-3; Slav: Ist 6.11-7,21, Soph

23, Mify 25.

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whom he named Europe. Agenor reigned over these regions for 63 years.
Poets have stated that. Europe was the daughter of Phoinix, the son of
the emperor Agenor, but they do not agree with the chroniclers.
Tauros, the emperor of Crete, attacked the city of Tyre;
he fought
in a sea-battle and captured the city of Tyre in the evening.
He
plundered the city and captured many prisoners there, amongst. whom was
Europe, the daughter of the emperor Agenor.
Agenor and his sons were
fighting on the Liie.-s.
Realizing this,
(31)
Tauros,
the emperor
of Crete, unexpectedly attacked the country by sea.
The people of
Tyre have performed a memorial rite for that. evening to the present. day,
calling it, "Accursed Evening". Tauros took Europe to his own land and
made her his wife since she was a virgin and beautiful. He called those
regions "European" after her. He had a son by Europe, called Minos, as
the most. learned Euripides has written poetically. He says,
"Zeus,
transformed into a bull (Tauros), carried off Europe".
The emperor Tauros built on the island of Crete a great. city which he
named Gortyn, after his mother, who was of the family of Picus Zeus.
But he named the tyche of the city Kallinike, after the maiden he had
sacrificed.
The emperor Agenor came back to Tyre from the war and
learnt about Tauros' unexpected attack and rape.
He immediately sent
Kadmos with a large sum of money and an army in search of Europe. When
on the point of death the emperor Agenor ordained that all the land
which he had subjugated should be divided up between his three sons.
Phoinix took Tyre and its neighbourhood, calling the land subject. to him
Phoenicia;
likewise Syros named the land allotted to him Syria, after
himself; equally Kilix named the region allotted to him Cilicia, after
himself.
9.
(32)
In the time of the reign of Phoinix there
lived the
philosopher Herakles, known as the Tyrian, who discovered the murex.
While he was wandering along the seashore by the city of Tyre, he saw a
shepherd's dog eating what is known as a murex, which is a small kind of
sea snail. He saw the shepherd, who thought. that, the dog was bleeding,
snatch up a tuft of wool from his flock, wipe off what was dribbling
from the dog's mouth, and so stain the wool. But Herakles,
noticing
that this was not blood but a dye of unusual quality, was amazed.
Knowing that. the dye remaining on the wool came from the murex, he took
the wool from the shepherd and brought it as a great gift to Phoinix,
the emperor of Tyre.
Phoinix too was astonished by the sight. of the wonderful colour of
the dye and amazed at its discovery. He commanded that wool be dyed
with the colour from the murex and that it. be made into an imperial robe
for himself. So Phoinix was the first to wear a robe of purple. Everyone
marvelled at his imperial clothing, saying that it was a wonderful
sight.
The
emperor Phoinix ordered that from that time forth no one

Realizing

(30.23; corr Chil)

Slav,

CP:

om

Ba

(but

cf

Fest.ugiere,

1979, 227).

poetically (31.7): cf 'in his poetry' Slav, 'the poet' CP.

9.
Bo 32.1-33.10; CP 78.13-79.22, A 239.13-24, JA 6.16, GM 17.5-23,
Su II 584.18-20, PsS 28r,
Ke 39.12-14, 34.4-16, JN 20.1-3; Slav: Ist
8.1-9.4, Soph 24.

there lived (32.1; corr Chil) Slav, CP, GM: om Ba.

mouth (32.7; corr Chil) CP, A, Ke
'drink' Ba.
:

DUUA 4

derived from
from his empire should dare to wear such glorious attire,
reigned over
and
those
who
except
himself
and
from
the
sea,
the land
by the army
might
be
recognised
Phoenice after him, so that the emperor
For
attire.
and all the people because of his amazing and unusual
colours,
of
different
how
to
dye
cloaks
previously (33) men did not know
into cloaks
but they made sheep's fleeces - whatever they were like were those of
colours
cloaks
whose
emperors
wore
and wore them.
Even
not
the wool from which they happened to be made, and emperors were
Thereafter when the
readily recognised by their subject people.
or rulers and toparchs, heard of this, they
emperors in each area,
which
devised for themselves robes, or else golden brooches and mantles,
they wore
and
certain
plants;
red
with
dye
from
they dyed purple or
learned
these so they could be recognised by their people, as the most
Palaiphatos has written.
Phoenice
10.
Many years later the Romans subjugated the land of
been
and they wore the true imperial costume which had originally
a
language
the
Roman
they
called
in
discovered from the murex and which
day.
"toga";
and this is what the Roman consuls wear to the present
received
Numa Pompilius; who reigned over Rome after Romus and Remus,
were
ambassadors from the land of the people known as Pelasgians. They
wearing cloaks with
red stripes, as do men from the land of the
to
Isaurians.
Numa was delighted with the costume and became the first
imperial ones of purple
arrange that cloaks should be worn in Rome:
with gold stripes, and others for his senators and men of civil and
military rank with purple stripes, which were a symbol of imperial
apparel and showed their rank in the Roman state and their loyalty to
it.
Numa ordered that no one (34) be allowed to come before him in the
palace without a costume including this cloak. The palace guards did
not allow anyone to enter the palace unless he wore a cloak with the
symbol
of the imperial dress, as the most learned
distinctive
Tranquillus, the historian of the Romans, has written.
wrote on
11.
Syros,
the son of Agenor, who became a learned man,
arithmetical philosophy in the Phoenician script. He also suggested
that the first principles are incorporeal and that bodies and souls
migrate into other kinds of animals. Syros was the first to state these
doctrines, as the most learned Clement has written.
a god-fearing
12.
In that time lived Phalek, the son of Heber,
and learned man, who lived for 339 years and about whom the prophet
Moses wrote.
Thus from Adam to Phalek there were 3000 years, according to the
prophecy.
13.
Picus Zeus, mentioned above, in earlier times had, as well

CP 217.16-218.9, Su IV 809.15-18,
Bo 33.10-34.5;
Ke 34.16-35.6;
Slav: Ist 9.4-18, Soph 24.
Pompilius (33.14; corr Dind) Slav, CP: 'Pompeianus' Ba.
cloaks (33.16; corn Dind) Slav, CP, GM: 'a cloak' Ba.
Tranquillus (34.4): 'Suetonius Tranquillus' Slav, CP.
11. Bo 34.6-10; JA 6.17, Ke 35.7-11; Slav: Ist 9.19-22, Soph 25.
also (34.8): om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 222.
Clement (34.10) Ke: written as 'Klemios' Ba, Slav.
12. Bo 34.11-14; JA 6.18; Slav: Ist 9.23-25, Soph 25.
CP 69.7-70.4, JA 6.18, Su III 346.16, PsS 28r,
13. Bo 34.15-35.12;
10.

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17

as Hermes and Herakles, another son Perseus by a beautiful woman named

Danae, who was the daughter of Akrisios who was originally from the land
of the Argives.
The most learned Euripides recounted a myth about her,
in the plot of his play, that Danae was put into a chest and thrown into
the sea, after she was ravished by Zeus who had been transformed
into
gold.
The most learned Bouttios, the historical
chronicler,
stated
that, (35) when Danae was in her chamber situated by the sea, Picus Zeus
persuaded her with a large sum of gold and was able t.o win her over; he
carried
her off as she was very beautiful and seduced her.
He had by
her the son named Perseus, mentioned above. People write that. Perseus
had wings, because from childhood he was very quick.
Thus his father
Picus Zeus taught. him to carry out and complete the sorcery of the
loathsome
sAyphos,
teaching him all its mystic and impious deceptions.
Zeus said to Perseus, "You will conquer all your enemies with this,
and those who hate you and every opponent;
all those who look at that
face will be blinded and motionless,
as if dead and slaughtered by
you".
14.
So Perseus was persuaded by his father Picus Zeus.
Later,
after the death of his father Picus and when he had become full-grown,
he coveted the Assyrians' empire.
He was jealous of the children of
Ninos,
his uncle,
his father's brother.
So, having consulted the
oracle,
he went off to the land of Libya.
Along the road a country
He stopped and
girl,
a virgin, with wild hair and eyes met Perseus.
saying,
"What
is your name?"
She answered freely,
questioned her,
"Medusa".
Perseus grasped her by her hair and cut off her head with the
sickle-shaped sword which he was carrying. Perseus took her head and
immediately performed mysteries over it, as he had been instructed by
his father Picus, in the deception of loathsome sorcery. (36) He
carried the head to help him against all his opponents and enemies, to
subjugate and destroy them.
He called the head "Gorgon" (quick),
because of the swift way it helped and because of its effectiveness
against enemies.
15.
Crossing over from there he came to the land of Ethiopia,
over which Kepheus reigned.
Finding there a temple of Poseidon, he
entered and saw a girl,
a virgin known as Andromeda, living in the
temple; she had been dedicated in accordance with a vow of her father
Kepheus. Perseus dragged her away from the temple, ravished her because
of her beauty and made her his wife.
16.
Perseus sailed away and left that land.
Travelling towards
the country of the Assyrians, he came to the land of Lykaonia. When the
people there heard this, they immediately opposed him and fought. against

Ke 39.15-40.1; Slav: Ist 10.1-16, Soph 26, Mify 24.

into the sea (34.20; corr Dind) Slav, CP: om Ba.
Bouttios (34.22) Slav: cf 'Brouttios' CP.
enemies (35.9; corr Chil) CP: `wars' Ba.
that face (35.10-11): 'the face of the Gorgon' CP, Slav.
14. Bo
35.12-36.4; CP 70.4-21,
JA 6.18,
Su III 346.17-22, PsS 28r,
Ke 40.2-11, JN 21.1-4; Slav: Ist 10.16-11.5, Soph 26, Mify 24.
Picus (35.14, 24) Slav: cf `Picus Zeus' CP.
Su III 346.23-24, PsS 28v,
15. Bo 36.4-10;
CP 70.21-71.5,
JA 6.18,
Ke 40.11-14; Slav: let 11.6-10, Soph 26.
16. Bo 36.10-14;
CP 71.5-9,
JA 6.18,
GM 14.12-13, Su III 346.25, PsS

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to

the
conquered
the help of the Gorgon's head,
Perseus, with
Lykaonians.
and
17.
Finding a village known as Amandra, he made it. a city,
of the
the
image
carrying
up
a
statue
of
himself,
outside the gates set
Persis
Gorgon.
He made a sacrifice and named the tyche of the city
He named the
after himself.
This statue stands there till the present.
him.

city Iconium because he had taken there the

image (icon) of

his

first

He also subjugated the rest of the country

victory with the Gorgon.
meeting no resistance.
18.
As Perseus came to isauria and Cilicia and met resistance
"When you dismount from your
from the enemy, he was given this oracle,

horse and place the sole of your foot (&arsns) on (37) the ground, may

known
you gain victory". So, getting down from his horse in the village
a
Winning
foot
there.
as Andrasos,
Perseus placed the sole of his
and
victory by means of the Gorgon, he made the village into a city
He sacrificed an
called it Tarsos,
from the oracle about his foot.
innocent girl named Parthenope to purify the city.
by
19.
After he had made his thanksgiving, he set out from there
slew
them
and
He defeated
way of Mount Argaios against the Assyrians.
He
Sardanapolos,
their emperor, who was descended from his own family.
called
53
years.
He
over
them
for
subjugated the Assyrians and reigned
them Persians after himself, depriving the Assyrians of both their
empire and their name.
He planted trees and called them perseai': he
planted persea.i not. only there but also in the Egyptian'lands in memory
of himself.
He taught the Persians too the rite of the loathsome and
unholy .kyphos of Medusa, and because of this teaching he called their
land the land of the Medes.
20.
After Perseus had reigned over the Persian land for many
years,
he
learned that Ionitai from Argos were living in the land of
Syria.
So he went to Mount Silpios in Syria to see them, as they were
his relatives. They welcomed him with all honour and made obeisance to
him.
When these Iopolitai from Argos realized that. Perseus too was
descended from the Argive race, (38) they were delighted and praised
him.
But.
a storm
came up and the river known as the Drakon but. now
called the Orontes, which flows beside the city of the Ionitai, was in
full flood.
Perseus asked the Ionitai to pray. While they were praying

28r,

Ke 40.14-16, JN 21.4-5;

Slav:

Ist 11.10-13, Soph 26.

Gorgon's head (36.13; corn Chil) Slav, CP: 'the girl Gorgon' Ba.
17. Bo 36.14-21; CP 71.9-16, JA 6.18, Su III 346.25-27, GM 14.13-15,

28r, Ke 40.16-18, JN 21,6; Slav: Ist 11.13-18, Soph 26.

taken (36.20) Slav, CP: 'placed' (reading Mou%sv for 6,a0Ev ) was
probably the original wording.
18. Bo 36.21-37.6; CP 71.16-72.2, JA 6.18, Su III 346.27-31, GM
14.15-18, PsS 28r, Ke 40.18-21, JN 21.7-8; Slav: Ist 11.18-21.1, Soph
PsS

26.

19. Bo 37.6-16; CP 72.2-11, JA 6.18, Su III 346.31-34,GM 14.19-15.1, P55

Ke 40.21-41.5, JN 21.9-12; Slav: Ist 12.1--9, Soph 26.
28v-29r,
his own family (37.9; corr Chil) CP: 'their family' Ba.
Medes (37.15): Slav adds `This is recorded by the most learned
chronicler Ant.hios'.
20. Bo
37.17-38.16; CP 72.11-73.12, JA 6.18, Su III 346.35-347.1, GM

15.1-7, PsS 29r,

Ke

41.5--17, JN 21.13--18; Slav:

Ist 12.10-27.

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and performing the mysteries, a ball of thunder fire fell from heaven,
and made the storm stop and checked the waters of the river.
Amazed
by this event,
Perseus immediately lit a fire from that fire and he
kept it with him under protection. He took the fire into his own empire
in the Persian regions.
Perseus taught the people to revere that fire
which, he told them, he had seen fall from heaven.
The Persians till
the present revere this fire as divine. Perseus built, a temple for the
Ionit.ai which he called the Temple of Eternal Fire.
Likewise he built a
temple of Fire in Persia and appointed holy men to serve there, whom he
called .waagol. Pausanias, the most. learned chronicler, has written this.
21.
After a time the emperor Kepheus, the father of Andromeda,
attacked him from Ethiopia and made war on him. Because of his old age
Kepheus was unable to see.
When Perseus heard that Kepheus was making
war on him, he was extremely angry. He marched out. against him (39)
holding the Gorgon's head and showed it to him,
Since Kepheus could not
see, he charged at. him on horseback.
Then Perseus, unaware that. Kepheus
could not see, thought that the Gorgon's head which he was holding had
lost its powers.
So he turned the head towards himself and looked at.
it.,
He was blinded, stood motionless as if dead, and was killed.
Then
the son of Perseus and Andromeda reigned over the Persians,
appointed
by his grandfather, Kepheus, the emperor of Ethiopia.
Kepheus gave the
order and 'the loathsome head of the Gorgon was burned; and he departed
to his own land. The descendants of Perseus remained there after that,
reigning over the land of Babylonia.
22.
In earlier times mentioned above Kadmos,
the son of Agenor,
reached the land of Boiotia from Phoenice. His father had sent. him to
look for and rescue Europe, his sister.
When Kadmos learned that she
was reigning over Crete, he set out. for Boiot.ia. While he was in
Boiot.ia,
he taught the people the Phoenician script, of which they were
ignorant..
So they honoured him and made him emperor of Boiot.ia, for he
was handsome in appearance. He reigned over the Boiotians for 62 years.
He married a woman from that. land named Harmonia.
By her he had six
Agave, Semele, Eurynome, Kleantho, and Eurydike. When
daughters,
Ino,
these girls grew up, they were called the (40) Kadmiades (the daughters
of Kadmos).
Kadmos built. a great city in Boiot.ia, which he called
Kadmeia after himself, and reigned there.
23.
He recalled from exile Teiresias, a Boiotian philosopher,
a
hunter,
a man well-endowed with wealth, rank and wisdom.
It was he who

stop (38.5; corn Chil) Slav, CP, cf Ke: `burn up' Ba.
took the fire (38.8-9):Slav adds 'with him when he went',cf CP, PsS, Ke.
revere (38.11; corr Chil) Slav, CP:
'hold amongst yourselves'
Ba,
'revere' Ba second hand; see Bury, 1897, 222.
21. Bo 38.17-39.11;
CP 73.13-74.5, JA 6.19-20,
Su III 347.2-5,
29r, Ke 41.17-42.3; Slav: Ist 13.1-12, Soph 27, Mify 24-5.
cf JA,
Slav which
the son (39.6):
CP,
Su, PsS, Ke add 'Meros',

PsS

add
`Merros'.
22. Bo 39.12-40.3; PsS 29r-v, Ke 42.4-12, cf LG 259.3 (28.9);
Slav: Ist
13.13-22, Soph 28.
23. Bo 40.3-41.3;
A 239.1-12,
PsS 29v,
Ke 42.12-22,
82.7-18, cf LG
259.3-6 (28.10-12); Slav: Ist 14.1-17.
See Kannicht and Snell, TrGF II,
170-1
(Adespota 618), and especially Erbse, 1941, 140-3, 208, who edits
w Malalas' lost source.
,

of their own
brought to the Hellenes the belief that all things move
conspired
The
priests
accord and that the world is without design.
charged
Apollo
Daphnaios
the
temple
of
him,
and
he
was
exiled
to
against
how a
enquiring
with
too
zealously
with having an effeminate mind and
of blood is
woman conceives after intercourse with a man, how the nature
how a child is
divided into bones, flesh, veins, nerves and blood, and
these
given life and is born. The most learned Kephalion has written
poetically
and
said
wrote
a
play
The
most
learned
Sophokles
things.
Teiresias, he
that Teiresias saw Pallas bathing and became a woman.
able to do
said,
sought to know the wisdom of the creator and was not
is true,
the
following
his
writings
that
Hence Sophokles stated in
so.
of
"There is one God who created heaven and the broad earth, the swell
But we mortals,
the gleaming blue sea, and the force of the winds.
for
being greatly deceived in our hearts, have established as solaces
or
our sufferings
images of the gods made out. of stone (41) and wood
and
empty
Performing
sacrifices
in gold
or ivory.
figures worked
Sophokles seems to have
festivals to them,
we think we are pious".

believed in one ruling principle.

24.
Kadmos gave his daughter Agave in marriage to a senator
named E,chion, who had by her a son named Pentheus, an intelligent man
both in practical wisdom and everything else. A man named Polymedon
fell in love with Semele, Kadmos' other daughter, who was exceedingly
beautiful.
Polymedon was the son of the senator Ait.herion, who was
descended from the family of Picus Zeus. Polymedon won over and seduced
Semele,
and had a son by her. While Semele was carrying the child in
her womb, a storm occurred with mighty flashes of lightning and thunder.
The
girl
Semele was terrified and immediately gave birth to a
Kadmos
seven-month baby, but she could not endure the pains and died.
Because the
sent the baby to the land of Nysia where he was reared.
child was delivered prematurely, he received a portion of life in
addition to the time of his birth, and for this reason, it was written
that Zeus sheltered the child in his own bosom for the rest of the time
he should have been in his mother's womb, as the most. learned
The child's grandfather, Kadmos, called him
Palaiphatos has written.
Nysios,
but.
other people, because he worked miracles with his prayer
to the sun, changed his name to Dionysos, since his father's family was
from Zeus,
They deified (42) Dionysos for discovering food for men
He discoursed about the vine and agriculture.
through the vine.
Dionysos also learned some mystical practices and became expert. in the
mysteries and worked some miraculous displays. He went off to the
Persians and the Indians and into many lands; he took a large army with
him and showed some miraculous displays as he fought.

that the following is true, "There is one God (40.16-17): 'There is in

truth one, one God' Ke, of A, TrGF, Erbse.
the swell of the gleaming blue sea (40.18): 'the gleaming blue swell
of the sea' A, Ke, TrGF, Erbse.
we mortals, being greatly deceived (40.18):
'many of us mortals being
Ke,
TrGF,
cf
'we mortals being deceived in many
deceived'
Slav, A,
matters'

Erbse.
Bo 41.4-42.7; PsS 29v, Ke 42.22-43.16; Slav: Ist 14,18-15.12.
Nysios (41.19): Slav adds 'others called him Ludios'.
24.

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Kadmos grew old and yielded the administration of the empire

the Boiotians to the son of Echion, his grandson Pentheus. Pentheus
was approved by the senators and the whole people. Then Kadmos took
Teiresias and lived in the countryside of Boiotia, most of the time on
Mount Kithairon.
When Dionysos heard that his grandfather had grown
old,
he came to the city of Kadmeia with a distinguished force of armed
men,
in order to reign there.
Pentheus saw that he was working
miraculous displays and had troops, and that he was summoning all his
kin and teaching the mysteries of the sun's Bacchic rites to his female
relatives whom they called Bacchanals.
Equally Dionysos was also
teaching the citizens secret ritual prayers to the sun, so as to
persuade the Boiotians that he was able to claim (43) the kingdom, since
he was equipped with weapons and an army, whom, they say, he called
Leapers
as they were quick and leaped about. They were from
the land of the Bessoi and had been instructed in mystic wisdom.
26.
Learning all this,
Pentheus was jealous of Dionysos, since
he heard that he too desired to reign over the Boiotians.
They became
enemies and fought a battle in the city. Pentheus defeated Dionysos and
captured him, then had him tied up and imprisoned, awaiting the arrival
of Kadmos,
their grandfather. But Agave, Dionysos' aunt and Pentheus'
mother,
persuaded her son and made him release Dionysos.
When he was
set free, he plotted how to kill Pentheus.
When he had prepared his
forces,
he summoned Agave and asked her to reconcile him with Pentheus
and to go with him to Kadmos. With many entreaties she persuaded her
son Pentheus to be reconciled with Dionysos and to go to Kadmos because
he was displeased with them both. Agave arranged to go with them to
persuade her father.
But Dionysos was angry with Pentheus, as he had
been tied up and slandered by him; for Pentheus told everyone that
Dionysos had been born out of wedlock. For this reason Euripides, who
years later discovered an account to this effect, wrote a play called
The
in which he gave these words to Pentheus,
"Semele, (44)
brought to childbirth by union with a mortal, attributed the sin of the
birth to Zeus".
27.
After they were reconciled, Dionysos ordered his army to
take up position along the road in a narrow place and to seize Pentheus.
When they were preparing to set. out, Dionysos went to him with a few
men.
Then Pentheus, not suspecting the plot, also took only a few men
with him; Agave was with them too. During their journey Dionysos' army
fell upon Pentheus and seized him.
Immediately Dionysos ordered that he
should be beheaded, and his head given to his mother because she
insulted
Dionysos. Then Dionysos returned to Kadmeia to reign there.
This is why they say that Agave beheaded her own son, because she
persuaded
Pentheus to be reconciled with Dionysos and was the cause of
her own son's death.
25.

of

25. Bo 42.7-43.3; PsS 29v, Ke 43.16-18; Slav: Ist 15.12-24.

to his female relatives (42.16; corr: reading ouWEvLSa(;for oUYVeVLxaS),
cf 'to the women' Slav: 'family' ('family Bacchic rites') Ba.
26. Bo 43.3-44.1;
PsS 29v, Ke 43.18-21;
Slav: Ist 15.25-16.9. See Eur

Bac.

28-29.

of the birth (44.1; corr Chil, reading XtXouc

,&9c29: 'he says' Ba.
27. Bo 44.2-14;

JA

7;

cf

Tz

.Hi-qt

for

VI 575-6; Slav:

XeYEL

cf Eur

Ist 16.9-18.

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not
The senators and citizens of the city of Kadmeia did
that
he
said
They
accept Dionysos as administrator of their empire.
if he became emperor, he
killed his own cousin without being emperor;
man, pleaded
would destroy Boiotia. They summoned Lykourgos, a learned
with him and told him what had happened. Lykourgos took up arms against
Boiotia.
Dionysos,
and expelled him from the city of Kadmeia and from
him,
When Dionysos realized that Lykourgos had taken up arms against
Dionysos' body
(45)
he fled from him and went to Delphi where he died.
temple,
was laid there in a tomb and he hung up his weapons there in the
the
as the most
learned Deinarchos has written about him. Equally
in
his
account
thing;
has
written
the
same
most learned Philochoros
Delphi,
about Dionysos he said that his burial-place could be seen at
next to the golden Apollo.
His tomb is identified with a certain base
on which is written, "Here in death lies Dionysos, the son of Semele".
his
Likewise the most learned Kephalion has stated these matters in
28.

writings.

emperor of Boiotia, Nykteus

After the death of Kadmos,
named
Antiope, who was a priestess
began to reign. He had a daughter,
to the
of the
temple of Helios. She had been instructed in the prayer
and so
Sun (Hellos), or the mysteries of the Bacchic rites of Dionysos;
Her father Nykteus had a brother named
she was called a Bacchanal.
Lykos,
emperor of Argos.
The emperor Lykos had a senator named
Theoboos,
who was the son of a certain Bronton, Dirke's cousin, and
descended from the family of Picus Zeus. Theoboos the senator came from
Argos to sleep the night in the temple of Helios in fulfilment of a vow
and saw the priestess Antiope, who was very beautiful and of good
height; he
(46)
was overcome with desire for her. He remained in the
temple, using the vow of prayer as a pretext as he was related to her;
Then, in fear of
he seduced and ravished her,
and made her pregnant.
29.

Nykteus, emperor of Boiotia, he departed to his own country.

30.
When the emperor Nykteus, Antiope's father, learned that. she
He
had been seduced, he took her from the temple and questioned her.
learned from her that the seducer, Theoboos, was one of his brother
Lykos'
senators,
and came from his wife's family.
Not realizing that
she was pregnant,
Nykteus, Antiope's father, sent her off to his
brother,
Lykos, emperor of Argos, so that he might himself inquire into
the fact of Antiope's seduction. If it was true that her seducer was
from Argos, Lykos should both take vengeance on Antiope, since she was
a defiled priestess, and also punish the offender who had dared to

PsS 29v, Ke 43.22-23; Slav: Ist 16.18-17.7.

44.14-45.10;
See
FHG IV 391 (Deinarchos), I 387 (Philochoros, fr.22), III 628
(Kephalion, fr.5).
When Dionysos...against him (44.21; corr Chi 1): 'because Lykourgos had
taken up arms against him. When Dionysos realised this' Ba.
Deinarchos (45.3; corr Bentley) Slav: `Demarchos' Ba.
base on which is written (45.8; corr Chil): 'pit on which he wrote' Ba.
29. Bo 45.11-46.4; De virt 2 (157.8-16), JA 8.1, PsS 29v, Ke 43.23-44.2,
28. Bo
W ller,

cf Tz, Hist. 1319-332; Slav: Ist 17,8-19,

Soph 29.

written as `Theobos' Slav, `Theoboios' JA, Ps5, Ke,

(45.17):
'Theobris' De virt, 'Theoboon' Tz.
De virt 2 (157.17-22), Su I 238.25;
30. Bo
46.4-18;
Slav: Ist
17.19-18.3, Soph 29.

Theoboos

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23

commit. such an act on a priestly person.

But when the emperor Lykos had
Antiope brought. in for questioning, he saw her beauty and, realizing
that she was pregnant, took pity on her.
He said that she must wait

until she gave birth, and then she would be punished for defiling her
priestly office.
31.
The emperor
Lykos' wife was Dirke.
He handed Antiope over
to her and said that she was to keep her by her until she gave birth.
The emperor Lykos was Antiope's uncle. Ant.iope gave birth to twins,
whom she called Amphion and Zethos. (47) At the emperor Lykos' command
the babies,
when they were born, were exposed in the village known as
Derasthea,
near Mount Kithairon.
Out of pity for these babies Ordion,
a farmer who was childless,
took the children from those who were
exposing them.
He was aware that they were the children of the
priestess Ant.iope;
for he knew her and that she was a priestess.
And
so he brought. them up.
32.
Some time later war began in the land of the Argives, so the
emperor Lykos went. out. to battle.
He spent a long time fighting.
Dirke, the emperor Lykos''wife, reasoned that. Lykos had not yet punished
Antiope after the birth of her children but had left her alone because
he desired her-and was having intercourse with her secretly, as she was
very beautiful.
So she took Antiope
and went off, as if into the
country,
with a few soldiers to Mount Kit.hairon, to the village where
Antiope's sons had been brought up.
Dirke did not know this. She

brought. a wild bull out. from that. place, fastened a torch to

its

horns

and gave orders that Antiope was to be tied up, the rope wound round the
bull's neck, and Ant.iope was to be dragged along by the bull like this
and killed.
33.
Everyone from the estate learned about Antiope's imminent
death and heard her shrieks, and they came out from the village known as
Derasthea.
There was a great crowd of peasants there. Also amongst
them were
(48)
Antiope's two sons with the farmer Ordion who had
brought. them up.
They begged Dirke not to kill her by such a terrible
death.
But Dirke replied that Antiope was a priestess of Helios who had
been seduced and through her fornication had given birth to twin boys,
and she should be punished.
When Antiope's sons, Zethos and Amphion,

heard from

their foster-father,

Ordion, that.

it

was

their

mother Antiope

who was about. to be punished, they assembled all the peasants of the
district, marched out. with them and killed the soldiers.
Seizing Dirke,
they tore off the imperial finery which she was wearing, and set Antiope

beauty (46.16) : Slav,

31. Bo

virt

De
De virt

add `and

stature'.

PsS 29v, Ke 44.2-5; Slav:

1st 18.3-10.
Derasthea (47.2; corr): 'Deras Theas' De virt.,`Deresthea' Slav,'Pasthea'
Ba, but cf Bo 47.20.
32. Bo 47.6-18;
De virt 2 (157.29-158.5),
Su I 238.25-34, PsS 29v-30r,
Ke 44.6-11; Slav: 1st 18.10-19, Soph 29.
a torch (47.15): 't.orches' Slav, De virt, cf Su.
33. Bo 47.18-48.18;
De virt 2 (158.5-12),
PsS 30r,
Ke 44.11-15; Slav:
Ist 18.19-19.11, Soph 29.
46.18--47.6;

(157.22-29),

crowd of peasants (47.21; corr, reading v TtX1 8E 1. 1TO

for kV
7
AO . ; : 'a large number of peasants in the crowd' Ba.
Antiope's two sons (48.1): Slav adds `Zethos and Antion' tie Amphion).

great

7I UjjOEL

0O

she commanded her

When Antiope was freed from her bonds,

free.
They took her and tied her
children, Amphion and Zethos, to kill Dirke.
along by the bull. But
dragged
and
so
she
perished,
to the. wild bull,
spring, stopped to
the bull was thirsty from the running and, finding a
So the
drink.
The rope snapped and left Dirke's body near the spring.
to the
that
time
from
called
Dirke
spring in that district has been
present day.
and fled
34.
Then Zethos and Amphion took their mother Antiope

Boiotians when
to their own country Boiotia and were recognised by the
of the land
the
emperor
Nykteus,
there.
Their
grandfather
they appeared
Later,
died.
by
disease,
of Boiotia,
had now grown old and, stricken
(49) asked
after the death of the emperor Nykteus, all the Boiotians
since they belonged to the
Amphion and Zethos to reign over them,
and
So they were proclaimed emperors
imperial
family of Nykteus.
Boiotia.
of
over
the
land
the
musicians,
reigned
Amphion and Zethos,
immediately built a very large
35.
Amphion, the lyre player,
known as
city which had twelve gates and was formerly the village
father,
at
their
city
Thebes
after
Enchilia. The brothers called this
years
their mother Antiope's command. They reigned over Thebes for many
The emperor Lykos,
and then, the region round it was also called Thebes.
Kephalion has
Dirke's husband and their uncle, died in the war.
a
written these facts truthfully but the most learned Euripides wrote
seduced
a
satyr
form
of
play poetically,
saying that Zeus in the
Antiope, and that from this were born Zethos and Amphion, the musicians.
He meant that their father Theoboos was descended from Picus Zeus by the
process of metempsychosis, when he stated that Zeus seduced Antiope
after being transformed into a satyr, which in the Boiotian language
means into another more lowly body.
36.
After the reign of Amphion and Zethos, their descendants
reigned over Thebes until the reign of Oidipous, son of Laios and
Iokaste.
Laios, emperor (50)
of Thebes, had a son called Iokkas, whose name
was changed to the Oidipous mentioned above.
Laios was told by an
oracle that his son would have intercourse with his mother, Iokaste, and
ordered soldiers from his bodyguard to take Oidipous into the forest.
His feet were to be put into a piece of wood with holes cut in it, and
nails were to be driven into the wood. From this is derived the
punishment known to the present day among soldiers as the Cusrx-.
Acting on their instructions, the soldiers left Oidipous in the forest
to be the prey of wild beasts.
He
A peasant named Meliboios came into the forest to cut wood.
So
found Oidipous dragging himself along the ground with swollen feet.

PsS 30r,
34. Bo 48.18-49.4; De virt 2 (158.12-14),
Ke 44.15-16; Slav:
rst 18.11-17, Soph 29.
JA 8.1,
Su 1 238.34,,PsS 30r, Ke 44.16-45.1; Slav: 1st
35. Bo 49.4-17;

See Mtfller, FHG III 630 (Kephalion, fr.6).

Enchilia (49.6):cf 'Enthaleia' JA, 'Enelechelia' Slav, 'Encheleia' Dind.
Kephalion (49.11): The most learned Kephalion' Slav.
cf
Cameron, 1973, 68): cf 'after being
in the form of a satyr (49.13;
transformed into a satyr' Slav, PsS, Ke.
JA 8.2, Su IV 616.2-8, PsS 30r, Ke 45.1-9, JN 25;
36. Bo 49.18-50.14;
Slav: Ist 20.3-15, Soph 29.

19.18-20.2, Soph 29.

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25

picked up and, with the axe which he was carrying,

broke the plank
in which Oidipous' feet. were trapped.
He took him and reared him and
called him Oidipous (Swollen-Foot) because of his swollen feet.
When he
was fully grown Oidipous became a valiant man.
37.
There appeared in that land a widow, named Sphinx, who was
hideous, with large breasts, a country-woman. After her husband's death
she collected a band of peasant robbers of similar disposition to
herself
in her village known as Moabe, which lies between two mountains
with only one narrow path between them.
Taking her robber band with
her,
Sphinx settled on one of the mountain peaks; she murdered all the
travellers and traders who passed by and stole all their possessions,
She became famous in Thebes.
Many generals (51) marched out, and with
them a large army sent by the emperor Laios, but. not one was able to
overcome her because of her strong position in the mountains and the
crowd of peasant robbers who shared with her the possessions of the
passing foreigners and citizens.
38.
When Oidipous was full-grown he learned that. he was originally
from the city of Thebes.
He also heard that a woman, named Sphinx, a
he

brigand, malt.reat.ed all those

who were going to Thebes and that. the city

was in trouble. So, having thought up a clever plan to destroy Sphinx,
he collected valiant. peasants from the estate where he was brought up,
because,
he said, he intended to become a robber with Sphinx.
He went
t.o her and asked if he might. become a brigand with her.
She saw what.
the young man and his companions looked like and accepted him and his
band; so Oidipous too attacked those passing by.
Finding a moment. when
Sphinx did not have a crowd of robbers with her, he seized a spear and
killed her.
He carried off all her spoils,
at. the same
time killing
many of her men.
Oidipous took Sphinx's corpse to the city of Thebes
since he and his men were expecting to receive money from the emperor
Laios.
All the citizens of Thebes were astonished and praised Oidipous,
and clamoured for him to be emperor of Thebes,
39.
(52) The emperor was angry with the inhabitants of the city and
sent. the army against. them.
When a civil war had broken out., Laios came
to make his defence before them but he was shot by an arrow and killed.

Then

Iokast.e, not. wishing to be driven out. from the empire,

immediately

summoned Oidipous and made him emperor, having discovered that he did
not have a wife; she married Oidipous for the good of the city and the
senate. So Oidipous reigned over Thebes for 19 years,
without. Iokaste
or Oidipous knowing that she was his mother.
Oidipous had two sons by
her, Et.eokles and Polyneikes, and two daughters, Ismene and Antigone.
40.
But after some time Iokaste asked Oidipous where he had

37. Bo 50.14-51.4;
JA 8.2, Su IV 616.8-11,
PsS 30r, Ke 45.10-16; Slav:
Ist 20.15-21.1, Soph 30.
38. Bo 51.4-19;
JA
8.2-3,
Su IV 616.11-14,
PsS 30r,
Ke 45.16-46.1;

Slav:

Ist 21.1-13, Soph 30.

and his band (51.12): cf 'she told him a riddle which he solved, and
stayed with her' Ba, in the margin.
39. Bo 51.19-52.11;
JA
8.4,
Su IV 616.14-19, PsS 30r,
Ke 46.1-7;
Slav: Ist 21.13-21, Soph 30.
19 years (52.8) PsS, Ke: cf '12 years' Slav.
40. Bo 52.11-20;
JA 8.4-5,
Su IV 616.19-22,
Slav: Ist 21.21-22.1, Soph 30.

PsS 30r-v,

Ke 46.7-.15;

Oidipous replied that it was

come from,
and who his father was.
Iokaste
sent for Meliboios who had
had
brought
him
up.
Meliboios who
son
brought him up and learnt from him that Oidipous was not Meliboios'
but that he had found him in the forest. On asking the year, lokaste
When Oidipous heard
realized that Oidipous was her son and told him.
died.
this,
he picked up some nails and thrust them into his eyes and
and
year
to
reign
year
them
He left the empire to his two sons, ordering
about.
the empire and fought.
But they became enemies because of
41.
was
each other, and each killed the other in single combat. Polyneikes
driven out from the empire and (53) expelled from Thebes by Eteokles,
his brother.
He went to Argos where he married the daughter of
Adrastos, the emperor of Argos. Having won over the emperor Adrastos
and other emperors, Polyneikes marched against his brother and Thebes
with a great army.
Those whom he had won over and who campaigned with
Amphiaraos,
Adrastos,
Kapaneus,
him
were
the
following:
Parthenopeus and Hippomedon.
But when the two brothers had died, as has
been described, the emperors retreated with their troops to their own
countries.
which had lasted
42.
So the empire of Thebes, or the Boiotians,
for 369 years,
came to an end.
All that has been mentioned above the
The most. learned
most learned Palaiphatos has written truthfully.
Euripides wrote a play poetically about Oidipous, lokaste and Sphinx.
The chronicler Africanus has also written about the empire of Thebes.
of the
43.
In the earlier period mentioned above Seruch was born,
tribe of Japheth.
He was the first to bring in the Hellenic beliefs
about idolatry,
as Eusebios Pamphilou has written. Because those who
brave
had of old (54) been fighting men, leaders, or had done something
or virtuous in life were worth remembering and especially those who had
worked mysteries by some power, they honoured them with monumental
statues as being their forefathers; all worshipped them as benefactors,
like a god; and they made sacrifices to honour them because discovering
a benefit... coming either through skill,
or through construction or
through wisdom or through some other virtue of whatever kind.
These
they deified, as the most learned Rheginos has written the names of the
men who were deified.
44.
But later generations, who were not aware of their ancestors'

41. Bo

52.20-53.9; Su IV 616.22-26, PsS 30v, Ke 46.15-17; Slav: Ist

22.1-9, Soph 30.
Kapaneus (53.6; corn Chil) Slav: 'kai ppaneus' Ba; Slav adds 'Toudeos'
(ie Tydeus),
Amphiaraos (53.6; corr Dind):
'Amphiaros'
Ba, 'Amphiraos' Slav.
their own countries (53.9): cf 'The mother Iokaste...destroyed herself
...children' Ba, in the margin.
42. Bo 53.9-14;
PsS 30v, Ke 46.17-18; Slav: Ist 22.9-13, Soph 30.
the chronicler (53.14): 'the learned chronicler' Slav.
43. Bo 53.15-54.8; CP 87.6-14, JA II 1 (FHG IV 545), Su IV 343.23-27, GM
57.17-20, Ke 81.14-21, JN 26; Slav: Soph 31, Tikh.
period (53.15; corr Chil) Ke: om Ba.
the men (54.8): om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 222.
44. Bo 54.8-55.6; A 239.25-6, Su IV 343.27-29,
1 10.17, GM 57.20-58.2,
Ke 81.21-82.6; Slav: Tikh. See Diodorus Siculus 1 2.1-2, 6.1.

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27

attitude - that. they

honoured these men as forefathers and devisers

good only as a memorial - revered them and sacrificed to them as if
they were heavenly gods and not. mortal men who were born and suffered
like themselves.
The most learned Diodoros comments on this in his
writings,
saying that the gods were men whom other men addressed as
gods, thinking them immortal because of their good deeds;
in some cases
even rulers of territories were named in this way. Men did this because
they were full of ignorance.
This was the method of deification: (55)
when men died,
their names were placed in their priestly books,
and at the proper time people celebrated their festival and sacrificed
at.
the tombs
in which they lay, saying that their souls were in the
Islands of the-Blessed, and they are no longer being judged or burnt by
fire.
They continued to do this until the time of Tharras, the
father of Abraham.
45.
Tharras was a sculptor and modeller, who made gods from
stone and wood and sold them. He introduced the error of statues and
idolatry to men through representations of their ancestors, especially
of
those who discovered writing and the arts.
The Egyptians,
Babylonians and Phrygians and those from Hellas joined with them
eagerly,
for they belonged to this cult.
They too were makers of
images and initiators into the mysteries and wonder-workers.
It was
through them especially that this cult was introduced to the Hellenes,
by a man named Hellen, himself a son of Picus Zeus, who performed mystic
practices. He was one of the inhabitants of Hellas and was of the tribe
of Japhet.h,
the third son of Noah. The Ionians, descended from Io,
became the leaders in these matters, for they had been taught by the
giant.
Ioaneus,
who with others built the Tower of Babel.
Their
(56)
languages were divided, and so men were called "articulate", because
their speech had been articulated into many tongues and languages.
Plutarch of Chaironeia was reproaching these people when he stated that
certain men introduced the error concerning images in his Ancient.
Philosophy, praised by Hellenes and barbarians.
He himself,
he
said,
preferred to deify the heavenly lights, introducing the sun and
the moon, as in the theology of the Egyptians, and thought that they
administer the whole world, nurturing and developing all things with the
threefold
movement
of
the
five planets and of the remaining
disposition
of the
stars,
in accordance with creation
and air.
Porphyrios praised Plutarch of Chaironeia in his own philosophical
chronicle.
of

when (55..2; corr Chil): 'because' Ba.

priestly books (55.1; corr Dind) Su, Ke: 'priestly palaces' Ba.
to do this (55.5; corr Dind) Ke, cf JA, Su: om Ba.
45. Bo 55.6-56.11;

CP 87.14-88.14,
A 239.27-240.11,
Su IV 343.29-37,
CM 92.11-12, 93.1-3, 54.15-17, Ke 82.19-83.4; Slav: Tikh.
Phrygians and those from Hellas (55.11-12;corr) A, Slav: 'Phrygians from
Hellas' Ba.
in his Ancient Philosophy, praised (56.4; corr) A: Anc..ient. Philosophy'
Ba.

threefold (56.9; corr Chil) Ke, cf

A:

'third'

Ba.

BOOK 3

The Time of Abraham's

Knowledge ofGod

realized
When Abraham acquired a knowledge of God, he
(57)
of men who had died
made
were
father
Tharras
the
statues
which
his
that
they had
and that they should not be honoured as gods in heaven since
So he denounced his father, Tharras, saying,
become earth and dust.
is no God other
"Why do you lead men astray for profit? Surely there
So he
than the one in the heavens who created all this visible world?"
father and
left
his
Then
Abraham
and
broke
them.
took all the statues
has
went to Mesopotamia, as Eusebios Pamphilou, the learned chronicler,
1.

stated.

god-fearing
2.
In the time of Abraham, there lived Melchisedek, a
son of
he was descended from the family of Sidos,
man and a Gentile;
took
Egyptians
from
whom
the
the
land
of
Libya,
Egyptos,
emperor of
(58) Sidos left Egypt and invaded the land of the people
their name.
He
known as the Canaanites, that is, the land now known as Palestine.
Sidon
he
called
a
city
which
subjugated it and lived there, and built
Melchi,
after himself; it is now within the territory of Phoenice. Now
and on
of
Sidos,
from
the
family
the father of Sedek,
was descended
becoming priest and emperor, he received the new name Melchisedek as
He
So he was priest and emperor of the Canaanites.
mentioned above.
built on the mountain known as Sion a city which he called Salem, which
means the city of peace. Melchisedek reigned in that city for 113 years
and he died,
a just and celibate man, as Josephos has stated in his
John and Cyril, the most holy bishops, have mentioned the
Archaeology.
same facts.
3.
Thus from the flood to Abraham there were 893 years and from
the building of the Tower of Babel, 523 years.
Thereafter knowledge of God was received by Abraham and by Isaac,
his grandson, and by their seed and from them
his son, and Jacob,
sprang the Hebrews who from the time of Abraham received the mark of
their race through circumcision.
Thus from Adam to Abraham there were 3745 years.
4.
Abraham was 100 years old when he became the father of Isaac,
The Jews took
who became the father of Jacob, known as Israel.
(59)

A 240.12-19, cf Su 1 10.19-22, GM 93.16-20,

A 240.20-32,
Su III 358.20-24,
357.20-23,
GM
57.10-58.13;
JN 27.1-10, cf LG 257.15-16 (25.17-19), JA 11.1, PsS 30v,
101.15-102.6,
Ke 49.18-19; Slav: Ist xv-xviii, 49.19-50.7 (Tikh).
3.
Bo 58.14-19; A 240.20, 32-241.3; Slav: 1st xv-xviii, 50.7-11 (Tikh).
knowledge of God (58.15; corn) A: om Ba.
'3423 years' A,
3745 years (58.19; corr Chil): '3445 years' Slav,
'200745 years' Ba.
4.
Bo 58.20-59.4; A 241.4-5.

1.
2.

Bo
Bo

57.1-9;

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29

their name from Judah,

the fourth son of Jacob, who had twelve sons.
The tribe of Judah controlled the Jews and administered them, and this
is how they acquired their name.
5.
In that time there
appeared from the tribe of Japheth a man
named Hesiod.
He invented the Hellenic alphabet and, when he had
organized it, he was the first to explain it to the Hellenes.
6.
In the time of Abraham, Endelechos, of the tribe of Shem, son
of Noah,
reigned over the Assyrians.
He was the first to reign over
them after the extinction of Perseus' family. Empire returned once more
to the Assyrians.
The first emperor from the tribe of Ham,
son of Noah, Pharaoh
also known as Naracho reigned over the Egyptians. The most learned
Manetho has written about the ancient empires of the Egyptians that
preceded him, as mentioned above, while Theophilos, the most learned
chronicler, has written about the later empires of the Egyptians, I mean
from Naracho onwards.
In the
time of Abraham, Naracho from the tribe of Shem reigned
over the Assyrians. Petephres, the emperor Pharaoh's chief cook, bought
Joseph, son of Jacob, from the Saracens. Joseph's brothers had sold him
to the Saracens, since they were jealous of him because he was beloved
of their father.
Joseph was handsome to look at.
Joseph
(60)
interpreted for the emperor .Pharaoh the dream which he had about the
famine which was to last in Egypt and every land for seven years.
The emperor was amazed at Joseph's
understanding and set him
free.
He granted him high rank and the daughter of the chief priest of
Helioupolis in Egypt to be his wife. Pharaoh also commanded Joseph to
administer all Egypt for seven years and to have the authority to act as
he wished.
Joseph built store-houses and set corn aside in them for
seven years, and he himself regulated everywhere the buying and selling
of goods, acting as he wished.
When famine spread throughout the whole
world,
his brothers came to Egypt from the land of Canaan, to buy corn.
Joseph recognized them and ordered them to be arrested. He assured them
that he was their brother, and he compelled them to go away and bring
back to him his younger brother Benjamin and his father Jacob and all
his family. His brothers went away and brought to him their father and
their brother Benjamin and all their family, a group of 75 men and
women.
Joseph kept them there and they lived in Egypt for many years.
There descended from these Hebrews a huge number of people, who lived in
Egypt until the time of Moses, who was commanded by God to bring (61)
the people of the Hebrews out from the land of Egypt - as all these
facts have been recorded accurately in the Hebrew scriptures.
7.
In the time of the emperors mentioned above, there appeared in
the land of Caria a philosopher of the race of giants, from the tribe of

Bo 59.5-7; A 241.6-8, JA 11.4, JN 28.1-2, cf GM 40.15-16; Slav: Ist

xv-xviii, 50.12-13 (Tikh).
6.
Bo 59.8-61.2; Slav: Ist xv-xviii, 50.13-22 (Tikh), Soph 35.
of the tribe of Shem reigned over the Assyrians (59.18-19) Slav: 'of the
tribe of Ham ruled over the Egyptians' Chil, probably correctly.
7.
Bo 61.3-14; A 241.9-15, JA 11.4, Ke 126.12-21, JN 28.3-6; Slav: Ist
xv-xviii, 50.23-29 (Tikh), Soph 35.
5.

Endymion. He said mystic prayers to the moon aim asked

learn the divine name from her in a dream. While he was
praying he went to sleep and heard the divine name it) is dr Faam , but never
woke up.
His relics exist to the present day in ('aariaa like
vibrant
corpse and each year they open up his tomb there and pv his relics, a
vibrant corpse as they say. The most learned Au l eaas ha n wr i t; t en about
this, which is the origin, it. is said, of the story men write about, the

Japheth,

if

named

could

he

+-a

falling in love with Endymion.

8.
Thus from Abraham to the exodus of the scn s (if Israel .from
Egypt with Moses there were five generations, 443 years. From the flood
to the birth of Moses there were 1484 years. From Adam to the birth of
Moses there were 4036 years. Moses lived for 120 years. After Moses,
Joshua, the son of Nun, and Phinees administered Israel. Thus from Adam
to the death of Moses and Aaron there were 4156 years.
9.
In the time of Joshua, the son of Nun, a man of the
of
moon

trig

Japheth,
reigned

(62)

over

named Ogyges,
an original
inhabitant of the country,
the land of Attica for 32 years.
In his reign a great

flood occurred and Ogyges and

all the

living in that land of Attica,

soul

land remained barren

and uninhabited

the writings of Africanus.

10.
Moses

In the
from

Egypt

days
was

land were destroyed, as was every

but only there.

for

270

years,

From that time the

as

is related

in

in which the exodus of the sons of Israel with

about to happen, a man named Aides, an original

inhabitant of the place, reigned over the land of the Molossaa.arns.

He

married a woman known as Melindia and had a beautiful

daughter by her,
whom he called Persephone.
In their own language, the Molossians called
beautiful women "girls" (A-oro-i.). Peirithous, one of
emperor Aides'
senators and a wealthy young man, seemed to
be in love with Persephone.
With the girl's consent, he planned
to carry her off at night.
When her
father,
the emperor Aides, discovered this, he was
angry and planned to
retaliate against Peirithous in
a surreptitious way, so that he could
pretend ignorance to everyone. Aides
had an enormous fierce sheep dog,
which he called Trikerberos, because
it had the head and bodily size of
three dogs. He shut the dog outside
where the girl lived.
The girl was
unaware of this after her
mother's death. When Peirithous appeared
at
night and came to carry her
off, the dog attacked and killed him.
On
hearing the uproar Persephone
(63) came out,
and the dog killed her
too.
And so, they say, the story
is told about Persephone. that. Pluto
carried her off.
This is what the most learned
Palaiphatos has written.
11.
In the time
of Moses, Erechtheus
reigned
over the Assyrians
while Petissonios, the Pharaoh
who was mocked,

the

reigned

over

the

Bo 61.15-21; cf JA 11.5;
Slav:
Ist xv-xviii,
51.1-3
Soph 35,
(Tikh),
9.
Bo 61.22-62.6; JA 13.1, PsS
38r, Ke 143.10--14, JN 29.1-2;
Slav: Ist
xv-xviii, 51.3-5 (Tikh).
Ogyges (62.1; corr Dind) JA: 'Gygoges'
Ba, 'Gyges' Ke, 'Goigyges' Slav.
270 years (62.5): '206 years'
JA,
JN, cf '260 years'
Slav,
Ke,
'200 years'
8.

10. Bo 62.7-63.3;

JA 13.2, PsS 38r, Ke

143.15-144.4,
Slav: Ist xv-xviii, 51.6-13
Su III 157.4-12;
(Tikh).
11. Bo 63.4-64.11; Ke 83.5-20,
cf JN 30.1;
Slav: Ist xv-xviii,
(Tikh), 48.1-3 (EL), Soph 35.
51.14-16

Petissonios had powerful 1&7gol in his court, Jannes and

Egyptians.
During his reign the race of Jews in Egypt. had increased from
Jambres.
the family of Jacob who came to Egypt to join his son Joseph, until the
time of their leader Moses and his brother Aaron.
Moses married an
the daughter of Iothor, who was chief priest of the
Egyptian woman,
Hellenes and a man honoured by the emperor Pharaoh and the Egyptians.
Moses himself had been educated in all the wisdom of Egypt.
The Egyptians began to be afraid of the Jews, who had become
They made a report to Pharaoh about them, and the emperor
numerous.
Pharaoh ordered the Jews to undertake work for the Egyptians and lay
Any Egyptian who wanted to build a house or
bricks under compulsion.
wall a field would force the Jews to do the work and make bricks, and so
the Jews were lamenting at their toil. Moses and his brother Aaron
all
became aware of the lamentations of the sons of Israel and they prayed
to God.
The Lord God ordered Moses to approach Pharaoh, emperor of
Egypt,
and say to him, "Release the people of Israel (64), so that they
Moses took his brother Aaron and approached
may worship him".
Petissonios Pharaoh, emperor of Egypt; for Moses had freedom of access,
because of his father-in-law lothor, who was priest of the Hellenes, and
because he was leader of the Jews. Moses reported to Pharaoh God's
who made the heaven,
the earth, the sea and all that is
command, "God,
commands
you to release his people to worship him". When
in them,
Pharaoh heard this,
he said to Moses, "If you are speaking the truth,
that your God has ordered you to say these things to me, see, there are
Egyptians with me who work miracles.
If you overcome them by praying to
your God, I will grant you what. you say he has ordered".
12.
Pharaoh stood Jannes and Jambres and Moses and Aaron opposite
each other, and sat down, as did his nobles. Then Jannes and Jambres,
using their wizardry,
turned their rod into a snake which attacked
Moses.
Moses prayed and he too hurled to the ground the rod which
he held.
His rod also turned into an extremely large snake which
swallowed up the snake which Jannes and Jambres had made. So Moses won,
court were amazed.
Likewise Jannes and
and the king and his whole
Jambres made a river of the clearest. water become blood in the presence
of the king and his whole court.
Then Moses prayed and the streams of
They
the river became pure water again,
as they had been before.
performed other contests against each other, and Moses defeated them.
(65)
So he said to Pharaoh, "Behold, you have seen the power of the God
of Israel.
Release us so that we may worship him".
Although Pharaoh made an agreement with Moses, he continued to
delay.
So Moses prayed to God to send plaques on Pharaoh and the
Egyptians,
so that their emperor might be forced to release the people
of
Israel.
The God of Israel sent down a sevenfold wrath and so the
emperor begged Moses and said to him, "Pray to your God for this land to
be freed from these great woes. As the Lord your God lives, I will not
prevent you from taking your people of Israel so that you may worship
him".
This is recorded in the Hebrew scriptures. When Moses heard the
emperor's words, he went to pray to the God of Israel and said to the
Jews, "The emperor has released you all to depart and worship God".

Bo 64.11-65.13; Ke 83.20-84.21; Slav: Ist xv-xviii, 51.16-17 (Tikh),

Soph 35.
sevenfold wrath (65.6): cf 'tenfold wrath' Ke.
12.

went away to the

The emperor Pharaoh Petissonios immediately
a sacrifice he questioned
famous oracle in Memphis. After he had made
is it. that is first among
to
me,
who
the Pythia, saying, "Explain this
was given to him, "There
you, and great God of Israel?" This response
everlasting and
a
celestial,
heaven
will have descended from great
trembles everything
imperishable
fire that surpasses flame, at which
demons
deep
Hell-dwelling
even
the
sea,
and
the sky, the earth and the
a father
fatherless,
(66)
shudder in fear.
This is God, self-fathering,
the angels.
We belong to a small part of
son of himself thrice-blessed,
Now you have learnt this, go in silence".
from the oracle, he
14.
When the emperor Pharaoh heard these words
be engraved on a
the
prophecy
to
him
by
ordered that the words given
a
stone tablet up
day
on
stone tablet. They are engraved to the present
When the
flows.
river
Nile
where
the
of
Memphis
from
in the temple
people
the
set
he
immediately
emperor Pharaoh returned from the oracle,
Jewish people
of Israel
free, including Moses and Aaron. So the whole
of silver
They took ornaments and a huge quantity
departed from Egypt.
they
After
men.
as though it were a loan from the Egyptian women and
he learned that
when
repented
emperor
of
Egypt,
had gone Pharaoh, the
He pursued them
they had, borrowed ornaments, silver and money and fled.
up with them by
and
caught
his
armed
forces
his
chariots
and
all
with
Pharaoh and his
emperor
the
the sea. The Israelites turned and, seeing
they cried out
army coming up behind them and the sea in front of them,
13.

to God with a mighty shout.

of the sea
Moses,
who was leading the people, struck the waters
at
Dry land appeared and they crossed. Moses remained
with his rod.
dry
land
the
he
struck
and,
turning
back,
the rear behind all his people
Pharaoh
once again with his rod, and it became a surging sea. (67)
Petissonios,
the emperor of Egypt, and his chariots and all his forces
with
were overwhelmed by the sea. The ocean waves covered him and those
and
him.
So the Lord saved the people of the Jews together with Moses
They
land.
as
if
on
dry
they
walked
through
the
sea's
waves
Aaron as
fled from Egypt with 630,000 people, as Moses himself has written in his
most learned chronicle.

A 241.16-26,
PsS 34r, Ke 84.22,
73.21-74.8,
13. Bo
65.13-66.2;
JN 30.2-3; Slav: Ist xv-xviii, 51.18-25 (Tikh), 48.3-11 (EL). See Erbse,
to
207
(fr.14) (reconstructing (a, Malalas' lost source,
1941,
114,
which has been added extra material, especially at 169, line 17).
This response.. .-There (65.17; corr Chil) cf PsS, Ke: 'The response...
"He' Ba, c A, Erbse.
will have descended (65.17) A: 'has descended' PsS, Ke, Erbse.
Slav:
14. Bo 66.3-67.7; PsS 34r, Ke 74.8-10, 84.23-85.8, JN 30.4, 8-10;
1st xv-xviii, 51.26-29 (Tikh), 48.11-16 (EL), Soph 35.
630,000 (67.6): cf '600,900' Slav.

BOOK 4

The Time of the Empire in the

Land of the Argives

1.
(68)
After Inachos, Phoroneus and many others reigned over
the Argives until the reign of Lynkeus who married Hypermnestra, one of
the daughters of Danaos.
Lynkeus made war upon the emperor Danaos,
killed him and took his empire and his daughter, as the most learned
Archilochos has written. After the reign of Lynkeus, Triopas reigned in
the land of the Argives for five years.
In the fifth year of his
reign, the empire of the Argives was destroyed and the Sikyonians took
possession of it.
The empire, or toparchy, of the Argives lasted for
549 years,
as the most learned Diodoros has written. Aigialeus was the
first to reign over the Sikyonians, who are now known as the Helladikoi.
He reigned for 52 years, (69) and then there were 26 other emperors
until Zeuxippos, who reigned over them for 32 years.
Then their
priests administered the land, and their empire lasted for 985 years, as
the most learned Africanus has written.
2.
The West.,
is the area around Italy,
that.
was at that time
without an emperor, and was administered by the sons of Picus Zeus and
by their descendants.
3.
At this time Moses and Aaron died in the desert,
and Joshua,
the son of Nun, administered Israel, as mentioned above. Joshua made
war on and seized Jericho and the city of Jerusalem, mentioned
previously, which Joshua, son of Nun, renamed Jeboun. Joshua seized the
land and settled in a city known as Shechem, changing its name to
Neapolis.
After the death of Joshua, son of Nun, who at God's command
made the people of the Jews cross the river Jordan and enter the land of
Palestine and destroy the walls of Jericho with a mystic trumpet - after
him, Phinees led Israel.
After Phinees, Israel was administered by 13
judges, elected from the people.
4.
In their time there lived amongst the Hellenes Prometheus,
Epimetheus,
Atlas and all-seeing Argos, whom men called Hundred-eyes
because he was perspicacious and (70) quick. There was also Deukalion,
the son of Hellen, the son of Picus.
Argos invented the arts in the

Bo 68.1-69.4; C 227.8, JA 13.3, LG 257.32 (26.12), PsS 38r,

Ke 143.3-9, 144.5-7; Slav: Ist 1.1-13, Soph 37.
five years (68.7): Slav, PsS, Ke add 'only'.
Diodoros (68.10): cf 'Heliodoros' Slav.
32 years (69.2): '31 years' Slav, PsS, Ke.
Bo'69.5-7; PsS 38r, Ke 144.9-10; Slav: Ist 1.14-15, Soph 38.
2.
3.
Bo 69.7-18; JN 32.1-2, cf LG 258.3-10 (26.17-27.2); Slav:
Ist.
1.15-2.9, Soph 38.
4.
Bo 69.19-70.10; JA 13.4, Su IV 214.2-8, LG 258.15-17 (27.7-9), PsS
38r-v, Ke 144.10-22, JN 33, 34.1,3; Slav: Ist 2.10-19, Soph 40.
the arts (70.2) Slav:
'carpentry'
Chil, perhaps correctly; cf 'all
manner of handicrafts' JN 33.
1.

auur

"t

men say that he

Atlas interpreted astronomy;
regions of the West.
heavens in his
of
the
holds
knowledge
because
he
supports the sky,
Men say that
writing.
heart.
Prometheus invented the science of
he made
Prometheus created mankind, in that, when they were ignorant.,
in
events
of
knowing
philosophy,
and
them capable of learning through
events
advance.
Epimetheus invented music. Deukalion wrote about the
has
of
the partial
flood, as the most learned Eusebios Pamphilou
written.

son of
the judges of the Jews had died, Barach, the
who
Deborah,
named
a
prophetess
There was
Abinoem,
led the people.
told the Jews all that was to happen.
At that time there was also a seer amongst the Hellenes, Sybil.
and
6.
At that time Pharaoh Naracho reigned over the Egyptians
Kekrops,
who was originally from Egypt, reigned over the Athenians.
He was the
He was very large and so men called him Double-natured.
the
first emperor of the Athenians after the flood in Attica, for after
as
Kekrops
(71)
As
soon
flood in Attica empire came to the Athenians.
that
began to reign over the Athenians, he ordered a law to be issued
to marry
were
virgins,
to
his
empire,
while
the women who were subject
one man.. In his law he called them nymphs because virgin girls are like
springs when they give birth and produce a stream of milk from obscure
sources.
Before Kekrops'
reign, all the women of Attica, both the
Athenians and those from the surrounding countryside, had intercourse
as
like wild animals, sleeping with each man who pleased them, so long
the woman was willing.
Women who were abducted were considered no one's
wives but went with everyone, giving themselves up to fornication. They
remained in a man's house, supported by him, for as many days as he
wished to keep them.
If the man wished, he let them go again to any men
who wanted them.
This custom was excluded from Attica, so that women
were not compelled to be with a man who was chosen for them. Thus no
one knew who was his son or daughter, and the mother gave the child
she bore, whether male or female, to whichever man she wished of those
who had had intercourse with her, and they accepted the child joyfully.
Kekrops, who was originally from Egypt, promulgated this law, saying
that the land of Attica was being destroyed because of this practice.
Then all women learnt chastity, and the unmarried virgins attached
themselves to men, while a woman who had fornicated married one man whom
she chose.
The Athenians admired the emperor's law, and so some have
stated that the reason why the Athenians called him Double-natured was
that he ennobled children through their knowing their own parents.
Kekrops reigned over (72) the Athenians for 50 years, and after him
Kranaos reigned for nine years.
5.

After

Bo 70.11-14; Su IV 214.9; Slav: Ist 2.19-23.

Abinoem (70.12;corr Chil): written as 'Aminoem' Ba, Slav.
seer (70.14; corn Chil) Slav: 'martyr' Ba.
Bo 70.15-72.5;
JA 13.5-6, Su IV 214.9-21, LG 258.31-2 (28.3-4),
6.
8-17, JN 35.1-8;
PsS 37v,
38r,
Ke 144.22-145.3,
Slav: Ist 2.23-4.3,
Hyp 278-9.
from Egypt (70.17) Slav: Su, cf JA, adds 'and being not unaware of the
legislation of Hephaistos who had reigned there'.
who was his son or daughter (71.14): Slav adds 'but the mother would
say, "It is this man's son or daughter", however she pleased', cf Su.
5.

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35

At that time Sappho was recognised as the first lyric poetess.

After Kranaos, Phoroneus and others reigned, up to Kodron who
reigned for 21 years.
So their empire lasted for 492 years.
7.
In the time
of the archons a man named Drakon was the
first to make laws for the Athenians.
After him came Solon, who
repealed Drakon's laws.
Thales the Milesian once more made laws.
Aischylos was the first to reign over them again; he reigned for 21
years,
and after Aischylos, Alkmaion reigned over them for two years.
The most learned Euripides wrote a play about Alkmaion.
After Alkmaion,
18
others reigned over them up to Eryxias, who reigned for 12 years.
Then the empire of the Athenians, which had lasted for 907 years, was
destroyed, as Africanus the most learned chronicler has stated.
8.
After Barach Gideon became the leader of Israel.
At that time
lived Orpheus of Thrace, the Odryssian lyre-player, a very learned and
famous poet. He wrote about the genealogy of the gods, the creation of
the world and the making of mankind. He said in the beginning of his
composition that he did not write anything about God or the creation of
the world from his own inspiration, but he said that (73) by asking
through prayer he learnt from Phoibos Titan, the Sun,
about the
genealogy of the gods,
the creation of the world and who made it.
For
this is recorded in lines of verse in his account as follows:
0 Lord, son of Leto, far-shooter, mighty Phoibos,
All-seeing, sovereign over mortals and immortals,
Sun borne aloft on golden wings,
Twelve times now I have hearkened to this divine utterance from
you
When your speech is done,
may I make you, o far-shooter, my
witness;
J

that is,
0 master,
son of day, you who shoot everything from afar with
your rays, pure and powerful;
you who oversee everything,
ruler of mortals and immortals;
Sun raised into the air with
honoured wings.
Twelve times I have heard this god-like voice
from you;
as you have spoken to me I make you my witness, you
who shine from afar.
Orpheus recited many other verses on this subject, and he spoke just

first lyric poetess (72.2) Slav: cf 'first of the Muses' PsS, Ke.
their empire (72.4): 'the Athenian empire' Slav, cf PsS, Ke.
7.
Bo 72.6-15; JA 13.6, Su III 476.21-2, PsS 38v, Ke 145.17-146.1;
Slav: Ist 4.3-11.
In the time (72.6): before this Slav,
Ke add 'Then the twelve
archons
ruled', cf PsS.
Alkmaion (72.10,11): written as 'Akmaion' Ba; see Gelzer, 1885a, 155.
Eryxias (72.12): written as 'Arexion' Ba; see Gelzer, 1885a, 155.
12 years (72.13): '10 years' Slav, Eusebios (92.19).
Bo 72.16-74.1;
PsS 38v, Ke 101.11-102.8, cf
8.
A 241.27-242.2,
Su III 565.26-7,
147.18-21,
JN 36.1-2, cf JA 13.7, LG 259.21 (29.6);
Slav: Ist 4.12-5.2, cf Soph 42. See Kern, Orpti Fr 62 (pp. 145-6).
cf Bo 70.12) Slav:
After Barach (72.16; corr, reading BapaX for Rpaxx
'After a short while' Ba.
my witness (73.16; corn Dind): om Ba.
,

not
as he recorded in the lines of verse mentioned above, though it is
work.
in
this
possible to record his large number of verses (74)
9.
This is what Orpheus stated. He said that at the beginning
was
Hither was revealed to Time, having been created by God, and there
while dark Night held
Chaos on this side of Hither and on that,
everything and covered what was under Hither, signifying that Night came
who
first.
Orpheus said in his account that there was a certain Being
of
was incomprehensible, supreme over all, before all, and the creator
creation
whole
Night
and
the
all things, including the Hither itself and
that was concealed and was beneath the Hither. He said that the Earth
He
declared that Light broke
was invisible beneath the darkness.
through the Hither and illuminated the Earth and all creation, saying
that the Light which broke through the Hither was that Being mentioned
from
above, that was supreme over all things, whose name Orpheus heard
Erikepaios". This in the
the oracle and declared:
"Metis, Phanes,
common language means "Counsel, Light and Life-giver".
Orpheus also said in his account that the three divine powers with
these names were one power and might of the one God, whom no one can
From this power
see; the form and nature of this power no one can know.
all things came into being, the incorporeal first principles, the sun
and the moon, the authorities and all the stars, the earth and the sea,
all things visible in them and invisible.
10.
He said that the race of men (75) was moulded out of earth
by God and took a rational soul from Him, as the all-wise Moses has
stated.
Orpheus wrote in his book that all things came into being
through these three names of the one divinity, and that God himself is
all things.
Orpheus also wrote many lines of poetry about the wretched race of

men, some of which

are as follows:

Beasts and fowl and fruitless tribes of mortals,

Burdens of earth, created images, knowing nothing at all,
Understanding neither how to perceive approaching evil,
Nor how to turn aside from evil afar off,
Nor how to attend to and grasp the present good (76)
But vainly unwitting and improvident.

lines of verse mentioned above (73.17): Slav adds 'He wrote down the
divinations which he had heard concerning the relationships of the gods
and the creation of the world', cf Ke.
9.
Bo
74.1-74.20;
A
242.2-19,
cf
PsS 38v,
Ke 102.8-103.2,
147.21-148.3,
Su III 565.27-566.6, cf JA 13.7; Slav: Ist 5.2-16. See

Kern, druh Fr 65 (pp,146-7)

Time (74.2) Slav: cf 'the world'

A,

Ke, om Su.

Hetis, Phanes, Erikepaios (74.13; corr Bentley) :

EPLKET[E(i)
Ba, 'Metis' Ke.

Un ti LVa

(pava L

is

the one God (74.16): 'the heavenly God' A, 'God the creator of all' Ke.
Bo 74.20-76.9; A 242.19-25, PsS 38v, Ke 103.2-20, cf 148.3-11, Su
10.
III 566.6-11, 3N 36.2; Slav: Ist 5.16-6.1, Soph 42. See Kern, ttr b Fr'
(pp.246-7).
the race (74.20) A, Ke, Su, Slav: om Ba; see Bury, 1897,222.
Beasts... improvident (75.8-76.3): we print poem and version separately,
not in interlinear form as in the Greek, adopting Kern's text; see also
Costanza, 1959.
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37

that is,
Wild animals and birds, the races of man that perish, a weight
on the earth, a constructed form, knowing neither why they were
born nor why they die;
men neither perceiving evil coming
against
them nor able to defend themselves, or to turn away
from evil at a distance, nor capable when good is approaching
of turning back
from evil, and holding onto good; but they
are carried along in utter ignorance, according to chance, with
no forethought.
The very learned Orpheus also wrote many other lines.
The most
learned
chronicler
Timotheos has stated all this, saying that Orpheus
had said so many years ago that. a consubst.antial Trinity had created all
things.
11.
After Gideon,
Tholas led Israel.
During the time of Tholas,
Marsyas, the philosopher,
lived in the land of Phrygia.
He invented
reed flutes for music and then he went out of his mind, proclaiming
himself divine and saying, "I have found nourishment for men through the
melody of musical reeds".
Marsyas lived on his own estates for the
whole of his life.
He incurred divine anger and went out of his mind
and while he was distraught., hurled himself into a river and perished.
Men of that country call this river Marsyas to the present day. The
poets say of him that he had a quarrel with Apollo. They mean,
according to the story, that he blasphemed and went out of his mind and
was killed,
as the most learned Ninos has written.
The most. learned
(77) Lucian, who said that Marsyas came from Kalchis,
has also recorded
this story.
12.
During the time of Tholas there lived the hero Herakles
and the Argonauts, Jason of Thessaly, Kastor and Polydeukes, Hylas and
Telamon and the rest.
While they were passing through the Hellespont,
they were suddenly attacked by Kyzikos, emperor of Hellespont.
They
clashed with him in a sea battle and killed him.
Then,
gaining entry
by night,
they captured Kyzikos,
the metropolis of the province of
Hellespont..
When they learnt from the citizens and senators that, it was
Kyzikos who had been slain by them, they mourned for him because he
was a relative of theirs and traced his family from their own country.
So they asked forgiveness for the ignorance of both sides, and after
justifying themselves before them they built a temple in the city of
Kyzikos after the victory.

11. Bo 76.10-77.2;
PsS 38v, Ke 148.12-17,
Su 111 331.5-9, JN 39.1-3,
c JA 15.1; Slav: Ist 6.2-12, Soph 44.
Israel (76.10): 'the Jewish people' Slav, cf Ke.
Kalchi.s
(77.2; see Bury, 1897, 222):
'Chalkydone' Slav, 'Kolchis' Bo,
PsS, Ke.
12. Bo 77.3-78.6;
C 194.28-195.3,
JA 15.1,
PsS 38v-39r, Ke 104.4-13,
209.10-210.7, JN 40.1-9; Slav: Ist 6.13--7.8, Soph 45. See Erbse, 1941,
180 (paras 53-4),
205 (II, 9), 211 (10), where the second of the three
stages
in
the transmission
of the oracle is a reconstruction of w
Malalas' indirect source.
through the Hellespont (77.6):
'along the route to the Pontic Sea' C,
Ke, cf Slav.
emperor of Hellespont (77.7) C: 'emperor of the province of Hellespont'
,

Slav.

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called Pythia
Then the Argonauts went to the oracle at the place
saying,
put
questions,
they
Therma and,
after making a sacrifice,
Whose shrine will this
"Prophesy to us, prophet, Titan, Phoibos Apollo.
the
And this response was given them by
be,
or what will it be?"
a
only
I
proclaim
Pythia,
"Do all that leads to virtue and honour.
in
triune, high-ruling
God, whose imperishable Word will be conceived
midst of
an innocent girl. He, like a fiery arrow coursing through the
to his
the whole world, will (78) make it captive and bring it as a gift
The
heroes
Mary".
will
be
father.
This will be her house and her name
on marble, and
inscribed the oracle in bronze letters on stone, that is,
of Rhea,
placed it over the door of the temple, calling it the House
mother of the gods. Many years later this house was made into a church
of the Holy Mary, Mother of God, by the emperor Zeno.
to the
13.
The Argonauts set out from the Hellespont and sailed
Princes'
Islands.
From there they followed the route to Chalkedon,
were
wishing to pass through the strait. to the Pontic Sea. They
attacked next by Amykos and, afraid of his forces, fled into a wooded
They saw in a vision an
bay which was densely
forested and wild.

man

a tremendous
apparition coming towards them as though from heaven,
to
with wings on his shoulders,
like those of an eagle, who foretold
and
attacked
them victory over Amykos.
So they were encouraged
Amykos.
When they had conquered and killed him, in thanksgiving they
They
built a temple in the Place where they had seen the apparition.
set up there an image of the apparition which they had seen and called
the place, or temple, Sosthenion, since they had fled there and been
saved. The place has kept this name to the present day,
the emperor
(79)
After he had begun to reign in Byzantion,
Constantine the Great examined this temple, when he went to close it.
He had become a Christian and,
looking carefully at the monumental
statue which was standing there, he said that it represented an angel in
the clothing of a monk of the Christian faith. Astounded by the site
and the building, he offered prayers to find out what apparition the
angel's image represented, and slept in the place. When he heard the
name of the apparition in a dream, he immediately woke up and adorned
the place, making a prayer towards the East. He renamed the chapel, or
the place, after the holy Archangel Michael.
After their victory over Amykos, the Argonauts left that area and
sailed to the Pontic Sea in search of the Golden Fleece.
They seized it
from the land of Kolchis, and also took Medeia, the daughter of Aetes,
emperor of Scythia.
After this comes the story about Jason and Glauke,
the daughter of Kreon, king of Thessaly. Because of some accident
Glauke was burnt to death, together with her father, at. her wedding.
There are other parts of the story, which the most learned Apollonios
the historian has written.

proclaim only a triune (77.20; corr Erbse) Slav: 'I bid you fear'
Ke, Bo.
C 195.3-20,
13. Bo 78.7-79.17;
PsS 39r, Ke 210.7-211.2, JA 15.2,
JN
41.1-13; Slav: Ist 7.8-8.6, Soph 46,
and killed (78.16) Slav: om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 222.
Sosthenion (78.19; corr)C, Ke: 'Sosthenes' Ba, PsS, Slav.
the daughter (79.14; corr Chil) Slav: 'and the daughter' Ba.
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14.
After Tholas, Eglom, the Zaboulonit.e, led Israel.
At that
time another seer, the Erythraian Sibyl, lived amongst the
Hellenes.
15.
At that time Tros, the father of Ilios and Ganymece, reigned
over Phrygia. He built two cities, one called Troy, after himself, and
the other called Ilion (80), after Ilios his elder son.
When he had
completed the walls of the cities, he summoned all the toparchs, or
rulers, of the land of Europe, except for Tantalos,
emperor of the land
of the Mykenaians.
Tantalos was displeased at this and felt great
enmity towards him. Before beginning to build the cities, Tros had
vowed to send gifts and make sacrifices in the temple of Zeus in the
land of Europe.
So when he had finished the walls, two years later he
sent his younger son, known as Ganymede, whom he loved because he was
handsome and younger, to take the gifts to the temple of Zeus and to
perform the sacrifice he had vowed. He gave him 50 men.
Ganymede
crossed the sea and went. to the temple of Zeus.
When Tantalos learnt of this, he thought that Ganymede had come to
spy out. the land of Europe;
so he sent. many armed men, who captured
Ganymede and the men with him before they could reach the temple.
Ganymede became sick with cowardly fear.
Tantalos questioned him,
saying,
"How have you dared to come as a spy in foreign kingdoms?"
Ganymede replied,
"My companions and I have come to make sacrifice to
Zeus".
When Tantalos learnt this, he ordered Ganymede to stay with
him and rest because of his sickness. But after three days' illness
Ganymede died.
Tantalos commanded that the gifts and sacrifice which
Ganyede had brought. were to be handed over to the temple of Zeus, and
Ganymede's (81) body was, as an honour, to be buried inside the temple
of Zeus.
The men who had been sent with him made a tomb for him and put
him in it, with the inscription, "Tros, emperor of Asia, has dedicated
to Zeus, together with the sacrifice, his son Ganymede who lies here".
Tantalos did this to appease Ganymede's father, for it was not a custom
amongst the Hellenes to bury the remains of a mortal man inside a sacred
temple, so that its holiness should not be polluted.
The most learned
Didymos,
the historian and chronicler, has written about this.
Some
people say that Ganymede was seized by an eagle, because death came to
him very suddenly.
16.
After Tros, Ilios reigned over the Phrygians. At that time
there occurred the famous victory in the contest between Pelops the
Lydian and Oinomaos, the Pisaian. This victory was celebrated during
the festival of the Sun.
The historian Charax has written about it.
17.
After this time the judge and leader of Israel was Sampson, a
valiant man with mystic knowledge and a worker of miracles, as is

14. Bo 79.18-20; Su II 632.1; Slav: Ist 8.7-9.

15. Bo 79.20-81.10;
PsS 39r,
Ke 211.2-18,
Su II 632.2-15;

Slav: Ist
8.9-9.11, Soph 48.
younger son (80.8;corr Chil) Su, Slav: 'younger brother' Ba.
Zeus (80.19): 'European Zeus' PsS, Ke, Su, Slav.
16. Bo 81.11-14; Slav: Ist 9.11-14, Soph 48.
The historian Charax...it (81.14):
'The most learned Philochoros has
recorded all this and Charax also' Slav.
17. Bo 81.15-83.6;
PsS 39r, Ke 211.19-212.15, JN 43.1-3;
Slav:
Ist
9.15-10.21, Soph 50.

recorded in the Hebrew scriptures.

two
At that time Lapathos reigned over the land of Egypt.. He had
sons,
Achaos and Lakon. When on the point of death, he ordered his
After his father's
sons to divide the territory of his empire into two.
his
death Achaos divided (82) the whole land into two, and he gave

brother Lakon half of the land from their fat-her' s empire.

Lakon called the land over which he reigned Lakonia after himself.
reigned for 33 years and built a city, named Githillia, by the sea.
After him many others reigned over the Lakonians, up to the reign of
Thestios,
king of the Lakonians. He built a city called Thestia, after
Thestios had three daughters,
himself, by the river known as Eurotas.
When they
all
exceptionally beautiful - Leda, Klytia and Melanippe.
were fully grown they were called the Lakonides (daughters of Lakon).
who
Her father Thestios gave Leda in marriage to a man named Tyndareos,
after the death of Thestios reigned over the country of the Lakonians.
Tyndareos had a daughter by Leda named Klytaimnestra, who, some time
later when she had grown up, married Agamemnon, the emperor of the land
He

of the Mykenaians.

Leda however committed adultery, being seduced by a young senator

named Kyknos, son of Ederion, emperor of Achaia, descended from Picus
Leda
Zeus.
Tyndareos,
Leda's husband, was unaware of the adultery.
committed adultery while taking the air on her country estate beside the
river Eurotas.
Becoming pregnant by the adulterer Kyknos, son of the
emperor Ederion, she gave birth to triplets, Kastor, (83) Polydeukes and
Helen.
Helen's beauty was tremendous.
Later Tyndareos gave her in
marriage to Menelaos, the emperor of the Argives and foster-brother of
Agamemnon, as the most learned Palaiphatos has written, for he says that
the poets tell a foolish story when they say poetically that Zeus became
a swan and dishonoured Leda.
18.
During the time of Sampson, Dardanos,
ruled
son of Ilios,
the land of the Phrygians.
At that time a man named Abas reigned over the Hellenes, that is,
Hellas, for 23 years.
After him Proitos reigned for 17 years. His wife
was Stheneboia, also known as Anteia, who fell in love with Bellerophon.
She sent messengers to him, but he was not persuaded. He said, "Before
Proitos became emperor he found me a waif and brought me up, and granted
me the honour of eating with him, as his own son.
Should I then do such
a thing against him?
It is not the custom amongst the Hellenes!"
When
Stheneboia heard this, she reasoned that Bellerophon, who had a son's
right of access to Proitos, might tell him that she had sent messengers
to him saying that she loved him. So she said secretly to her husband,
"Bellerophon loves me and is making approaches to me, and I am afraid

Egypt (81.18) cf 'Aigistheus' JN, 'Aigyst.hos' Slav: 'Europe' PsS, Ke.

Achaos (81.19, 21): 'Achaios' PsS, Ke, Slav, JN.
'Achaios called the portion of the
Lakon called...himself (82.3-4):
kingdom that was under his rule Achaia, after himself, and similarly
Lakon...himself' Slav, cf JN.
Githillia (82.5): written as 'Gathynia' Ke, 'Gethynia' PsS, 'Gothia'
Slav.
18. Bo

83.7-84.17;

cf

De virt

(158.15-159.8),

PsS

39v-40r,

JA 21, Su IV 371.10-16; Slav: Ist 10.22-11.20,

amongst the Hellenes (83.16): De virt, Slav add 'to do this'.

16-213.10,

Ke

212.

Soph 51.

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give me poison, and that. I might. die preserving my

since I love my husband". Proitos replied to her,
(84)
"It.
is the law amongst the Hellenes not to harm anyone who eats
with you. But I shall send him to your father Iobates, with whom he has
never eaten, and I shall write telling him to kill Bellerophon, since he
has plotted against my empire and yourself". Proitos did this and gave
the
letter
to Bellerophon, sealing it with the imperial
seal.
Bellerophon took the letter, not suspecting the plot against him and
went.
off to the emperor Iobates, whom he found eating his morning meal.
When Iobates learnt that he had come, he summoned Bellerophon and,
he
chastity
that.

might
for

thinking he

you,

was

loved by Proit.os, his son-in-law, ordered him to eat.

with him like a son.

When Iobates received the letter and read what was written to him,
he realised that he had shared a meal with Bellerophon, and he said to
himself,
"This man is accused too much;
for if he were guilty of evil,
justice would not have allowed him to eat with me, because it is the
custom amongst. the Hellenes not to harm anyone who has eaten with you".
He wrote this to his son-in-law, together with the rest, as recorded by
Euripides, the tragic poet, in the play he composed.
19.
After the reign of Proitos, Akrisios the Second reigned for 31
years.
Then,
after his victory over Oinomaos, Pelops reigned for 32
years.
He built a
The Helladikoi were called Peloponnesians after him.
city which he called Peloponnesos.
(85) From then on the empire of
Hellas was called Peloponnesian.
20.
At that time there lived Demokritos who taught philosophical
subjects.
He stated in his philosophical writing that any man who
wished to become a philosopher should practise temperance, shun all
evil,
and think and act correctly in all matters; when he had become a
philosopher in this respect, he would learn the name written with nine
letters and would see the son of God, the Word that is without suffering
but would appear in the future as a sufferer.
This is contained in the
writings of the most learned chronicler Theophilos.
At.
that time Hippokrates practised philosophy; he wrote on medical
philosophy.
21.
After the reign of Pelops, Atreus reigned for 20 years; after
him,
Thyestes reigned for 16 years; after him, Agamemnon for 18 years;
after him, Aigist.hos reigned for 7 years. The empire of the Hellenes,
or Peloponnesians, lasted for 164 years.
In
earlier times, as mentioned above, Minos, the son of Europe, was
the first to reign over Crete. He controlled the sea after fighting
against the Athenians, and issued laws.
The most learned Plato, they
say, mentioned him in his treatise on laws.
At that time lived Daidalos and Ikaros, (86) who became notorious
because of Pasiphae, the wife of the emperor Minos, and because of
Tauros, her secretary. Pasiphae committed adultery with Tauros and gave
birth to a son called Minotaur; Daidalos and Ikaros had been go-betweens

written to him (84.11): 'written by Proitos' De virt, Slav.

19. Bo 84.18-85.2;
PsS 40r, Ke 213.10-13, GM 18.3-5, JN 44.1-3, cf JA
21; Slav: Ist. 11.21-25, Soph 51.
20. Bo 85.3-12; PsS 40r, Ke 213.14-214.2; Slav: Ist 11.25-12.3, Soph 51.
21. Bo
85.13-86.11; De virt 4 (159.9-13), PsS 40r, Ke 214.7-15; Slav:
Ist 12.3-19, Soph 51, (Mify 28).

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up in her
The emperor Minos shut Pasiphae
her committing adultery.
then he left
food,
her
with
and
provided
chamber with two slave girls
Pasiphae was grieved since she had
her there and never saw her again.
Daidalos
lost her imperial rank and, stricken by an illness, she died.
was
drowned
prison,
from
Ikaros, while escaping
and Ikaros were killed.
wrote
as he sailed away, but Daidalos was murdered. The poet Euripides
in

a play about Pasiphae.

22.
At that time

lived Herakles, the wonder-worker with mystic

where
knowledge who performed labours. He went off to the land of Libya
and
performed
knowledge
he
fought with Antaion, who also had mystic
terrestrial deeds.
Herakles was defeated and killed him, but after his
into a
victory Herakles was stricken by an illness and hurled himself
fire and died. The most learned Didymos has written about Herakles.
After Dardanos, Laomedon his son then reigned over Ilion.
After Sampson, Eli the priest led Israel.
Minos,
23.
In earlier times Androgeos, the son of Pasiphae and
on
when
and,
himself
died
emperor of Crete, died.
(87)
Equally Minos
the point of death, he ordered that Minotaur should reign over Crete.
So after Minos'
death Minotaur, the son of Pasiphae and Tauros her
an
secretary,
reigned over Crete. The senators of Crete considered it
and
insult to be ruled by Minotaur, since he was born out of wedlock,
they plotted against him.
They invited Theseus, the son of Aigeus,
emperor of Thessaly, as he was a valiant man, to fight against Minotaur.
They agreed to hand Minotaur and the whole country over to him and also
to give him as his wife Minotaur's sister, Ariadne, the daughter of
Pasiphae and the emperor Minos. For the children of Pasiphae and Minos
were Androgeos and Ariadne.
So Theseus went immediately to Crete to attack Minotaur, while all
the senators and the army abandoned Minotaur and decided to flee to the
city of Gortyn. Minotaur learnt of the treachery and he too fled to the
district of Labyrinth where he climbed a mountain and hid himself in a
cave.
But in his pursuit of Minotaur, Theseus learnt from someone where
he was hidden. He dragged him out and immediately slew him.
Then Theseus entered the city of Gortyn, where he celebrated a
triumph for his victory over Minotaur. He was acclaimed by the senators
and by the whole country. He asked them if he might go to Aigeus, his
father,
to celebrate his victory with him too. But before he could
reach his father by sea, a sailor had left and brought a message telling
the emperor (88) Aigeus, Theseus' father, that Minotaur had escaped from
the city.
Aigeus assumed that the Cretans had laid a trap for
Theseus, for the saying about them is "Cretans are always liars",
so he
hurled himself into the sea and perished.
When Theseus returned he found his father dead. He was persuaded by
his senate to spurn the empire of Crete and Ariadne, since his father
had reigned over Thessaly.
He married Ilia, also known as Phaidra,
while Ariadne entered the temple of Zeus and remained a holy virgin
until she died there.

22. Bo

86.12-19;

PsS 40r,

(Mify 28).

Ke 214.16-20;

Slav:

Ist 12.20-26,

Soph 52,

23. Bo 86.20-88.10; De virt 4 (159.13-28), PsS 40r-v,

Ke 214.21-215.15,
Slav:
12.26-13.24 (Mify 28-9).
Su I
trap (88.2; corr Chil) Slav: 'another' Ba, De virt, 'a trick' PsS, Ke.

1157.12-25;

Ist

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24.
At that time there were false rumours in Thessaly about.
Phaidra's passion for Hippolytos, her stepson and Theseus' son by a
concubine.
The most learned Euripides later wrote a play poetically
about Phaidra.
The affair involving Phaidra took place 52 years after
the death of Pasiphae, as the most learned chronicler Domninos has
noted.
In appearance Phaidra was well grown, with a good figure and
a
long face;
she was chaste.
Hippolytos in appearance was well grown,
strong,
with dark skin, short hair, a slightly upturned nose, and a
broad face;
he had large teeth and a thin beard; he was a hunter,
chaste and peaceable. When the emperor Theseus heard the rumours in the
city about his wife, Ilia Phaidra, he was displeased with her.
Though
he was also angry (89) with his son Hippolytos, he did not reveal this
to them.
He took a white bull and gave it as a sacrifice to Poseidon,
cursing his son Hippolytos and asking that he meet a cruel death.
It happened that three months later Hippolytos went out hunting on
horseback to pursue a wild boar. His horse stumbled and he was thrown
off and fell to the ground; but since he was holding the horse's reins
in his left hand and the thong had become twisted around his hand, he
was dragged along by the horse. He suffered an injury to the head and
was carried by his slaves to the palace in the city.
On the sixth day
Hippolytos died from his head injury. He was 22 years old.
The emperor Theseus mourned for him and spoke out to Phaidra of his
displeasure,
reproaching her and telling her what was rumoured in the
town and countryside about Hippolytos and herself.
When Phaidra heard
this, she swore to Theseus that she did not know of any such thing, but
that she belonged to him, and the people in the city had suspected her
and spread this slander without cause. Theseus did not believe her and
felt shamed before his senate,
so he banished her from his sight,
ordering her never to appear before him again. He was distressed by the
death of his son, for he loved him. Phaidra, who was very chaste, was
distraught because of the false accusation made by those in the town and
the country, and she was ashamed of her rejection by her husband, so she
committed suicide, dying at the age of 39, (90) as the most learned
Kephalion has written.
He said that the story of the chaste Phaidra's
desire for Hippolytos was a false invention of those who wrote poetic
stories about her.

24. Bo 88.11-90.3;
De virt 4 (159.29-160.9), PsS 40v, Ke 215.15-23;
Slav: Ist 13.25-14.27.
See Mueller, FHG III 630 (Kephalion, fr. 7).
52 years (88.14): cf '42 years' Slav.
with a good figure (88.17): Slav adds 'with fairish hair and a good

nose'.

upturned nose (88.19): Slav adds 'a short neck'.

broad face (88.19): Slav adds 'he was stout'.
an injury (89.8): 'a great injury' Slav.
slaves (89.9): Slav adds 'who were with him'.
she did not know of any such thing, but that she belonged to him
(89.14-15): 'she was guilty of no such thing, but that she disliked him'
De virt.

D J J1L

for
that time Eurystheus reigned over the Lakedaimoniansother
there were 8
him
after
first
emperor;
years as their
42
Alkamenes reigned for
emperors, who reigned for 246 years altogether,
325 years in all,
The empire of the Lakedaimonians lasted for
37 years.
as the most learned Africanus has written.
to reign over the Jews
After Eli, the prophet of the Jews, the first
who reigned for 20
of
Benjamin,
Kish,
of
the
tribe
was Saul, the son of
Aletes reigned
years in the city of Gabaon. After the Lakedaimonians,
other emperors reigned
and
11
for
35
years,
Corinthians
then over the
The empire
Afterwards Automenes ruled for one year.
for 277 years.
of the Corinthians lasted for 313 years.
first contest. of the
In the time of Saul, the Pisaians devised the
festival of
the
universal
at that time
Olympic festival, celebrating
this.
chronicled
Africanus
most
learned
Olympian Zeus.
The
At God's
At that time Samuel the prophet became priest of the Jews.
Jewish people.
command he appointed David, the son of Jesse, king of the
25.

At

PsS 40v, Ke 215.23-216.8, cf LG 260.9 (30.8); Slav: Ist.

15.1-3, Soph 54, 56.
Eurystheus (90.5; corn Chil, see Gelzer, 1885a, 143) Ke: 'Erystheus' Ba,
Slav.
Ba,
'Alkmainos'
Alkamenes (90.6; corr Chil, see Geizer, 1885a, 144):
'Alkmaionos' Slav.
Automenes (90.13; corr Chit, see Geizer, 1885a, 147): 'Automedon' Slav,
om Ba.
25. Bo 90.4-20;

The Time of the Trojans

1.
(91)
In the time of David,
Priam,
son of Laomedon,
reigned
over Ilion, or the land of the Phrygians.
In his reign Ilion and
Dardanon and Troy and the whole land of Phrygia were laid waste then by
the Achaians, amongst whom are recorded Agamemnon, Menelaos and the
rest
together with Neoptolemos Pyrrhos, all of whom joined the
expedition against Ilion because of the abduction of Helen by Paris
Alexander;
for he had fallen in love with her. Helen was well grown,
with a good figure and good breasts; she was white as snow, with good
eyebrows,
a good nose,
good features, curly fairish hair, and large
eyes;
she was charming, with a lovely voice, and was a tremendous sight
among women.
She was 26 years old.
The evils which led to the
destruction
of Troy and the entire land of Phrygia and its empire are
known to have started for the following reason.
2.
(92)
When Hekabe gave birth to Paris,
Priam, the child's
father,
went.
to Phoibos'
oracle and asked about. the son who had been
born to him.
"A son Paris, unlucky
This response was given to him,
Paris,
has been born to you; when he reaches his 30th year he will
destroy the empire of the Phrygians". On hearing this Priam immediately
renamed him Alexander and sent. him to an estate named Amandra, to be
nursed by a farmer until he had passed the 30 years referred to by the
oracle.
So Priam,
the child's father, left. Alexander Paris on the
estate, where he built a large wall, and he called it a city, Parion.
Paris remained there to be brought up, and lived and studied there. He
became eloquent and well-educated and wrote an encomium on Aphrodite,
saying that. there was no goddess greater than she, not even Hera or
Athene.
so he said in his
For he said that Aphrodite was Desire;
account. that
everything comes into being through Desire. Because of
this,
they tell a story that Paris judged between Pallas, Hera and
Aphrodite and gave the apple, that is, the victory, to Aphrodite, saying
that Desire, that is, Aphrodite, brings everything into being children,
wisdom, temperance, the arts (93) and everything else both in

Bo 91.1-13; C 197.8-14, PsS 40v, 41r, Ke 216.10-13, 217.20-21, Tz I

369-75; Slav: Ist 1.1-11, Soph 58.
Troy (91.3): of Slav which adds 'famed in song'.
Henelao,s (91.5): C, Slav add 'and Achilles'; see Noack, 1891/3, 408.
white as snow (91.9): Slav adds 'young in body'.
large eyes (91.10): 'large, moist eyes' Slav.
2.
Bo
92.1-93.3;
C 197.14-198.2,
JA
23,
24.1,
PsS 40v-41r, Ke
216.14-217.4, Su IV 57.2-9, Tz I 233-46; Slav: Ist 1.12-2.16.
1.

Phoibos (92.2): 'Apollo' C, Slav.

Amandra (92.7) of 'Mandra' Slav,

' Mandro ' Ke.

Pallas (92.17): cf 'Athena' Slav.

PsS:

of

'Amandros'

C, Su,

Tz I,

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rational

better

and
than

and
nothing exists which is greater
irrational beings;
as The
Paris also wrote a hymn to Aphrodite, known

it.

2LrdJe.

the
After he had passed his 32nd year, Priam considered that
Paris' 30
about
he
had
been
given,
the
oracle
that
period referred to by
with all
so he sent word and brought Alexander Paris
years, was over,
accompanied by his
Priam,
for
he
loved
him.
from
the
estate,
honour
came out to
senators and all Paris' brothers and everyone from the city,
the month
So Paris entered Troy in his 33rd year, in
meet him.
appearance,
noble
in
he
was
so
Priam
saw
that
Xanthikos-April. When
and go to
in strength and in conversation, he ordered him to take gifts
my old
sacrifice in Hellas to Apollo Daphnaios, saying, "He has pitied
oracle
of
the
period
behold,
the
my misfortunes; for
age
and removed
take to
The emperor Priam prepared a letter for Paris to
has passed".
would
all the emperors, or toparchs, of the land of Europe, so that they
of
receive his son, Paris Alexander, when he came to perform a vow
also to the
gifts
Paris
off,
sending
to
Apollo.
5o
he
sent
sacrifice
after his
emperors through him. He left on 18th Daisios-June, 57 days
by
arrival
in Troy.
He set sail with many imperial gifts, accompanied
3.

100 Phrygian youths.

in
He arrived at the city (94) in Hellas known as Sparta,
Menelaos
or
toparch.
son
of
Pleisthenes,
was
emperor,
which Menelaos,
had been brought up in the palace of Atreus, emperor of the Argives,
two
together with Atreus' son Agamemnon. Hence they were called the
sail
immediately
was
ready
to
Atreidai
Menelaos
(the sons of Atreus).
to Crete with his relatives, since he had to sacrifice to Zeus and
of
Europe in Gortyn, a city in Crete, when Paris came to him in the city
Sparta. For it was Menelaos' custom to hold festivals and sacrifices at
that time every year in memory of Europe, since he was of her family.
When he received Alexander Paris and the letter from Priam, emperor of
Phrygia and Asia, and the imperial gifts given by him, he embraced
he
Alexander Paris and welcomed him kindly, as if he were his own son;
set aside for him living quarters in his own palace, most. honourably,
together with provisions and hospitality of every kind for him and his
He told him to remain in the city for as many clays as he.
attendants.
wished,
asking him to stay there to recover from the weariness of the
voyage and then to go to fulfil his vow of sacrifice in the temple of
Apollo.
As soon as Menelaos had seen to his accommodation with every
attention, he sailed for Crete, leaving Paris in his own palace.
5.
While Menelaos was staying in Crete and sacrificing to Zeus
Asterios and Europe in the city of Gortyn, it happened that (95) Helen
came down into her palace garden to take a walk with Aithra, Menelaos'
Paris
relative through Pelops, and Klymene, of the family of Europe.
4.

3.

Bo

93.3--23;

C 198.3-17,

JA 23, PsS 41r,

Ist 2.16-3.10.
April (93.11): 'April 22nd' Slav, Tz

Ke 217.5-9,

Tz

334-43;

Slav:

4. Bo 93.23--94.21; C 198.17-31,
353-59; Slav: Ist 3.10-4.3.

I.

JA

23,

PsS

41r,

Ke

217.9-16,

Tz I

'Ast.erios Zeus' C, PsS, Ke, Slav; see Noack, 1891/3, 408.

C 198.32-199.13, JA 23, PsS 41r--v,
Ke 217.16-19,
21-218.7, Tz 1367-8, 379--85; Slav: Ist 4.3-24. See Sept I 3.
Klymene (95.3,7,11,21; corr Dind) JA, Slav (cf Iliad 3.144; Gleye,

Zeus (94.6):

5.

Bo

94.22-96.4;

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looked out into the garden and noticed Helen's beauty and youth,
Falling in love with her, he seduced her with the aid of Ait.hra,
Menelaos' relative through Pelops,
and Klymene from the family of
Europe. He took her and fled in the ships he had with him from Troy,
with 300 Ji trai of money and much precious jewellery and silver,

together with Ait.hra,

of the

family of Pelops, and Klymene, of the

family of Europe, and five handmaidens,

Helen's cubicularii.
He
crossed over to Sidon and from there to Proteus, emperor of Egypt,
without going to the temple of Apollo or making a sacrifice in Hellas.
When the soldiers who were guarding Menelaos' palace learnt. of Helen's
flight, they were terrified and immediately sent off three soldiers from

the city of Sparta in Hellas to

Gort.yn,

the city in Crete, to inform

emperor Menelaos that Helen had been stolen by Paris, and that as well
as Helen, he had taken Aithra, his relative, and Klymene. Menelaos
remained in a state of stupefaction when he heard this; he was
particularly displeased because of Ait.hra, since (96) he had supposed
her to be extremely chaste. He immediately set sail and returned to

Hellas to the city of Spart.a, sending everywhere in search of Helen

and Paris and those with her. They did not find them.
6.
Some time later, Paris returned from Egypt. with Helen and the
money and all her wealth.
When Priam and Hekabe saw Helen with Paris
and marvelled that she possessed such beauty, they enquired from her who
she was and from whom she was descended. Helen said, "I am a kinswoman
of Alexander Paris,
and am more related to Priam and Hekabe than to
Pleisthenes' son, Menelaos".
For she said she was descended from Danaos
and Agenor, the Sidonians, and from the family of Priam, and so she came
from Priam's family.
For Atlas and Elektra were the children of
Plesione, the daughter of Danaos. Elektra was the mother of the emperor
Dardanos, from whom came Tros and the emperors of Ilion;
... through
Phoinix, the son of Agenor,
whose descendant was the emperor Dymas,
Hekabe's father; and Leda had said she was of the family of Dymas.
After saying this to Priam and Hekabe, Helen begged them and bound them
by an oath not to betray her. She said that she had taken nothing that
belonged to Menelaos but (97) had only her own possessions. Then Hekabe
embraced her and kissed her and preferred her to all others.
7.
When Agamemnon and Menelaos learnt that Helen had arrived in

1896,

453):

'Klytaimnestra'

Ba.

He took her (95.8): C adds 'by night'; see Noack, 1891/3, 408.
Klymene (95.21; corn Dind): 'Klytaimnestra's' Ba.
everywhere (96.2): Slav adds 'across the whole sea'.
6.
Bo 96.5-97.2; C 199.13-29, JA 23, PsS 41v, He 218.7-18; Slav:

Ist.

5.1-14. See Sept I 8-10.

from the family of Pri vn...Priam's family (96.12-13) Slav, cf 'for
Danaos and Agenor were the ancestors of herself and Priam's family'
Sept: cf 'as was Priam' C.
...through Phoinix (96.16) cf C: 'She found a relationship on her
mother's side with Hekabe. For Phoinix was the son of Agenor' Sept. We
postulate a lacuna in Ba, containing the sense preserved in Sept.
Dymas (96.17) Sept, PsS, He: written as 'Dynas' Ba; see Gleye, 1896,454.
Leda (96.18): C, He, Slav add 'my mot-her'.
7.
Bo 97.3-98.2; C 199.30-200.4, JA 23, PsS 41v, He 218.18-22; Slav:
Ist 5.15-6.8. See Sept 1 13-14.

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be handed
with Paris, they sent ambassadors asking for her to
Agamemnon, the
her
husband
pressed
For
her
sister
Klytaimnestra
back.
She wrote a
emperor of Argos, about the return of Helen, her sister.
it. to Menelaos.
letter to her, which was meant to persuade her, and gave
Helen his
Menelaos came to Priam, before the outbreak of war, seeking

Troy

wife, but the sons of Priam could not. be persuaded to hand her back.

so the Atreidai, the emperors, prepared an expedition against

They entreated Peleus and
summoning the leaders, or t.oparchs.
to send
his wife Thetis and her father Cheiron, the philosopher emperor,
of
Cheiron.
grandson
Peleus
and
them Achilles, son of Thetis and
with the
Cheiron sent for Achilles and brought him, for he was staying
on his
of
Deidameia,
and
father
his
father-in-law
emperor Lykomedes,
island.
Achilles left with the Atreidai, bringing his own army of 3000
with
of the men known then
as Myrmidons but known now as Bulgars,
by
been
begged
They
had
Patroklos, the stratopedarch, and Nestor.
(98) Achilles went to
Cheiron, Peleus and Thetis to accompany Achilles.
Ilion as sole leader of his army of Argives and Myrmidons.
the emperors, had summoned, or entreated the
8.
The Atreidai,
rest of the emperors,
or toparchs, and leaders from each country of
Europe, each with his own army and ships. They all sailed off and
seer
gathered in the
land known as Aulis. A storm blew up, and the
as a
daughter
to
give
his
own
Kalchas declared that Agamemnon had
Odysseus went off to
sacrifice to Artemis, the goddess of that country.
Argos and by a trick, using a letter apparently from Agamemnon, brought
his daughter Iphigeneia back, When Agamemnon saw her coming, he wept
bitterly, but fearing the army and the toparchs he handed her over to be
a sacrifice to Artemis.
While she was going to the temple of Artemis to
be sacrificed, a deer crossed the road in front of them, in the midst of
the emperors, the army, the priest and the maiden Iphigeneia. On seeing
the deer, the priest and seer said, "Seize the deer and take it for
sacrifice to Artemis instead of the maiden".
So the deer was caught and
slaughtered
for
Artemis.
He restored
lphigeneia to her father
Agamemnon,
and Agamemnon left her there as a priestess in the temple of
Then Agamemnon was proclaimed emperor over all by the whole
Artemis.
expeditionary force and, setting off from there, they came to Troy.
9.
(99) When the Hellenes came to Troy, the Trojans resisted
them and did not permit them to land. Many were slain from both sides,
amongst whom was Protesilaos, a leader of the Danaoi, but the Danaoi did
And

Ilion,

they sent (97.4): 'they often sent' C, Slav.

Ilion (97.12): cf 'the city of Ilion' Slav (and frequently elsewhere).
Bulgars (97.21): Slav adds 'and Huns'.
sole leader (98.1): Given the reference to Patroklos and Nestor we
cannot. solve this contradiction.
8.
Bo 98.2-23; C 200.6-24, 201.17, PsS 41v, Ke 218.22-219.8, 21-220.3;
Slav: ist. 6.8-7.4. See Sept I 19-22.
A storm blew up (98.7): C, Slav add 'at sea'; Ke's additional material
(219.9--20)
is probably not. from Malalas but Malalas' source Dikt.ys; see

Noack, 1891/3, 421-5.

On seeing the deer, the priest and seer said (98.17): 'on seeing it., the
priest and seer' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 223.
9. Bo 99.1-100.1; C 201.17-202.15, PsS 41v-42r, Ke 220.22-221.13-,

Slav: Ist 7.5-22. See Sept II 13.

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not give ground until they had the upper hand. They landed on the
Trojan sea-coast and moored their ships with ropes.
As evening fell
the Trojans returned to the city and secured the gates.
In the middle
of the night a man named Kyknos, a member of Priam's family who lived
nearby, heard that the Hellenes had arrived at Troy;
he came out from
the city of Nea Andros with a large military force and attacked them.
A battle took place in the night; Kyknos was killed by Achilles, and
those with him fell before dawn.
Then the Danaoi decided to capture the cities near Ilion and Troy
since they supported Priam. They made a pact, that they should bring
everything that they had captured before the emperors, the leaders and
the army. They put Achilles and Aias Telamonios and Diomedes in charge
of this. Diomedes set off immediately and captured Nea Andros, the city
of the leader Kyknos, and plundered its territory.
He also captured
his two sons, Kobes and Kokarkos, and his daughter, named Glauke, who
was eleven years old and beautiful, and all his possessions with the
booty from his (100) territory; and he brought them before the whole
army.
10.
Achilles left. immediately with the Argives and the Myrmidons,
that
is,
with his own army, and attacked the city of Lesbos and its
territory, which was ruled by Phorbas, a relative of Priam's who was
deeply hostile to the Hellenes. Capturing the district and the city,
Achilles killed Phorbas and seized all his empire's possessions, and
carried off his daughter Diomeda. The girl was fair-skinned, roundfaced,
grey-eyed, well-grown, with fairish hair and a slightly upturned
nose; she was 22 years old and a virgin. He came back, bringing all the

plunder from Lesbos to the

army of

the Hellenes.

Then,
setting off again, he reached the Black Sea and ravaged the
land in his search for plunder. He captured the city of Lyrnesos, where
he killed the emperor Eetion, who held it, and took prisoner his wife
Astynome,
the daughter of Chryses,
priest of Apollo;
she was also
called Chryseis. He captured, as well, the treasure belonging to Eetion
and the surrounding districts and took it to the ships. Astynome
Chryseis was short, slender,
fair-skinned,
with fair hair, a good

with ropes (99.6): C adds 'there' and continues 'The Danaoi decided
first to fight against the cities near Ilion and Troy, since they were
in
alliance with Priam. And so Aias Telamonios and Achilles were given
orders by the emperors and when they had sacked many cities in Phrygia
they brought a very great quantity of loot before the army. After many
fierce battles had taken place between Greeks and barbarians, the city
of Ilion was sacked, as is related in Diktys' first book' (see Patzig,
1892,

133).

Nea Andros (99.10,

20;

see Bury, 1897,

223)

Slav:

'Neandros'

PsS, Ke,

Sept.

the leader Kyknos (99.20) Slav: C, Ke add 'mentioned above'.

Kobes (99.21): 'Kobis' Ke, Sept; see Noack, 1891/3, 408.

Bo 100.1-21;
7.22-8.9. See Sept
10.

C
II

202.16-29,

PsS

42r,

Ke

221.13-21;

Slav:

Ist.

16.

Phorbas (100.6): c Slav which adds 'in judgement'.

fair-skinned (100.8): Slav adds 'plump' and omits 'with an upturned
nose'.

with fair hair (100.18): Slav adds 'with good eyes' and omits 'slender'.

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He also killed the array

she was 19 years old.
nose and small breasts:
who had joined
known
as
Cilicians
soldiers
which Eetion had summoned,
him in his alliance with the Trojans.
Brises, a
11.
Setting off from there, he attacked the sons of
plundered
the
He
as
Legopolis.
cousin of Priam's,
in the city known
he killed many
entire district and stayed (101) to besiege the city;
Brises,
men,
captured the city and took prisoner the daughter of
Menetes,
Hippodameia,
who was also called Briseis and was the wife of
He slew her brothers, Andros and Thyas. Menetes,
emperor of Legopolis.
off to
Hippodameia Briseis'
husband, was not in Legopolis but had gone
The
summon a force for the Phrygian alliance from Lykia and Lykaonia.
Lykaonians
and
force
of
Lykians
emperor Menetes arrived with the
the city and his wife,
immediately after the capture of his land,
did
not
yield, but despite his
Achilles.
He
Hippodameia Briseis, by
weariness from the journey he immediately attacked with the men
struck
accompanying him and Fought bitterly with Achilles, until he was
one
of the
was
with
Achilles,
with a spear by a certain Eurytion who,
All those with Menetes
exarchs of the army which belonged to him.
perished.
Hippodameia Briseis was tall, fair-skinned, with beautiful breasts,
painted
a good figure, eyebrows that met, a good nose, large eyes with
eyelids, and curly hair which was combed back; she was fond of laughing,
and she was 21 years old. When Achilles saw her he desired her; and,
falling in love with her, he took and concealed her in his own pavilion,
not bringing her before the whole Hellenic army, although he brought
the money, Astynome Chryseis and everything else before the leaders, the
army (102) and the emperors. When everyone realized that Achilles had
concealed Brises' daughter, the wife of Menetes - and the jewels which
because he had
she wore - they were displeased and furious with him,
Everyone reproached
broken his oath through the love he had for her.
forbad
him because he had concealed her. They summoned a convenfus and
Achilles to attack and capture cities and plunder land, and they
appointed others in his place - Teukros, the brother of Aias Telamonios,
and Idomeneus. These captured Cyprus, Isauria and Lykia, and plundered
and destroyed them.
12.
Aias Telamonios set out and besieged the Thracians of the

a good nose (100.1$): Slav adds 'with good posture'.

11.
Bo 100.21-102.11: C 202.29-203.24, PsS 42r-v, Ke 221.21-222.7;
Slav: Ist 8.10-9.10. See Sept II 17, 19.
Hippodameia (101.2): 'named Hippodameia' C.
Menetes (101.3, 5, 8, 16 et-c): 'Mynetes' C, Slav (once 'Mykenos').
tall (101.17): 'beautiful' C.
a good nose (101.17): C adds 'with beautiful cheeks'.
eyelids (101.18): Slav adds 'with a ruddy complexion and fair hair'.
which was combed back (101.19): cf 'with a mark on her nose' Slav.
laughing (101.19): Slav adds 'cheerful'.
Lykia (102.10): 'Cilicia' C, Slav.
destroyed them (102.11): PsS, Ke add details probably drawn from Diktys
and not. Malalas; see Noack, 1891/3, 446.
Bo 102.11-103.10; C 203.24-204.12, PsS 42v, Ke 222.13-223.4; Slav:
12.
1st 9.10-10.4. See Sept. II 18, 20.

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Chersonese and their emperor Polymestor. Polymest.or, in fear of Aias'

might.,
gave him much gold and enough corn to supply the Achaian army
for a year. He handed over, too, Priam's youngest. son, named Polydoros,
who had been entrusted to him by his father Priam, together with a large
sum of money. For Priam loved Polydoros, since he was his youngest.
child,
and handsome; so he left him for safe-keeping
in another
country, so that., as he was still a child, he should not be upset by the
sound of war.
Polymestor made a written agreement with Aias not to

Aias set out from that.

assist. Priam.

district

and (103)

attacked the

emperor
he had

Teuthras, fought with him and killed him with his sword.
When
sacked his city and seized all his possessions, he took his
daughter.
Tekmessa, his wealth and everything else by night to the
Hellenes.
In stature Tekmessa had a good figure; she was dark-skinned,
with good eyes, a delicate nose, black hair, and delicate features;
she was a virgin and was 17 years old. The Danaoi stood Polydoros,
Priam's son,
in
front of the city wall to indicate to Priam that he
should exchange Helen for Polydoros, his son, and make peace, "Since we
will kill him". The sons of Priam refused to send Helen back;
then
the Danaoi, enraged, immediately seized Polydoros in front. of the city
walls and slew him, while the Trojans watched from above.
13.
The leading men among the Greeks who campaigned against. the
city of Ilion had the following appearances:
Agamemnon was large, fair-skinned, with a good nose, a bushy beard,
black hair and large eyes; he was well-educated, magnanimous and noble.
14.
Menelaos was short.,
with a good chest, powerful, with ruddy
skin, a good nose, good features, a bushy beard, fairish hair and
wine-coloured eyes; he was a bold fighting man.
15.
Achilles had a good chest,
fair skin, a large massive body,
curly hair, a thin beard, fair, thick hair, with a long nose, and

might (102.13; corr Chil)

money

(102.17):

C:

'pull'

c C which adds,

was bringing fresh supplies to

Ba.
meaninglessly,

Cilicia'.

'while he (Polydoros)

handsome (102.19): 'very handsome' C, Slav.

delicate features (103.6): Slav adds 'impulsive'.
"Since we will kill him" (103.10):
'If he did not want this,
kill him' C.

The sons of Priam...above (103.10)

refused'

C,

Slav,

cf PsS,

Ke,

he

JN:

would

'They

Ba.

13-21. Slav: Ist 10.5-27

(the base text. for the translation since Ba
is in lacuna; Slav gives each portrait a number, ignored here since
there is no support. in any of the Greek texts); IP 80.21-83.5, Tz I
662-709, Tz Ph passim, Tz Ah ,t
Da 12-13. See Introduction.
13. Slav, IP, Tz I, Tz Ph 653-5, c:f Da.
See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 73-4; Patzig, 1911, 235; Chernysheva, 1983,

ssim;

222-228.
14.

Slav,

IP,

Tz

I,

Tz Ph 656-7, cf Da.

wine-coloured eyes: cf 'full eyes' Slav here and regularly elsewhere.

See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 80-1; Pat.zig, 1911, 235-6.
15.
Slav, IP, Tz I, Tz Ph 469-74, cf Da.
curly hair: IP, Tz I, Tz Ph, cf Da, add 'long legs'.
thick hair: IP, Da, cf Tz I, Tz Ph, add 'a good face'.
long nose: IP, cf Tz_I, Tz Ph, adds 'swift of foot and'.

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well-built
wine-coloured eyes; he was quick, skilled in jumping,
fighting
and magnanimous; he was pleasure-loving, charming and a fierce
man.

16.

Patroklos

was

stout, powerful, of

medium

height, with a good

he
face,
good eyes, fairish hair, fair to ruddy skin and a good beard;
was noble and a strong fighting man.
very
strong,
was
large,
well-built,
17.
Aias
Telamonios
with large eyes, curly hair, a good beard, dark skin, a
magnanimous,
good nose, good eyebrows and black pupils; he was forthright and a
very powerful fighting man.
18.
Odysseus
was of medium height with fair skin, straight,
fair
greying hair, a good beard, grey eyes, a long nose, a calm face,
hair and a large belly; he was wise and an eloquent talker.
powerful, with a good
19.
Diomedes was four-square in stature,
nose,
a
fair
beard, wine-coloured
face,
fair hair, a slightly upturned
eyes and a short neck; he was chaste and a proud fighting man.
20.
large in stature, with large eyes, a large nose, a
Nest-or was
long face,
thick hair, a thick beard and a rather ruddy complexion and
fair hair; he was wise and a good counsellor.
21.
Protesilaos was fair-skinned and of good appearance, with
fairish hair and the
good eyes, and handsome;
he had straight,
beginnings of a beard; he was tall and well-knit and a daring fighting
man.
22.
Palamedes was fair-skinned, tall, thin, with a long face,
-

wine-coloured eyes; he was quick: cf 'wine-coloured; he had quick eyes'

IP, 'with quick eyes' Tz I, Tz Ph.
skilled in jumping IP: cf 'given to leaping and darting' Slav. IP, Tz
I, Tz Ph add 'with a beautiful voice'.
See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 71-2; Pat.zig, 1911, 236.
Slav, IP, Tz I, Tz Ph 475-6, cf Da.
See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 68-71; Patzig, 1911, 236.
17.
Slav, Tz I, Tz Ph 492--5, cf Da.
magnanimous Slav, an unlikely attribute in this position.
forthright: cf Da.
Tz I and Tz Ph, without indication of position in this list., add 'with a
fierce look'.
See IP 84.23-85.4 for the omission of this portrait in
IA's exemplar, and Patzig, 1911, 234.
18.
Slav, IP, Tz I, Tz Ph 672-3, cf Da.
16.

a calm face: cf Da,

See

Patzig, 1911, 237; this

list

of

attributes,

taken from Slav, has unusually little correlation with IP and Tz, which
also disagree among themselves.
19.

Slav,

fair hair:

IP, Tz

I,

Tz Ph 668-9, cf Da.

IP and Tz Ph add, perhaps at this point, 'elegant'.

See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 51 and Patzig, 1911, 237-8.
20.

Slav,

IF,

Tz

I,

Tz Ph 658-9, c Da.

white hair Tz I, Tz Ph, cf IP: cf 'thick hair' Slav.

See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 64 and Patzig, 1911, 238.
21. Slav, IP, Tz I, Ta Ah 223-5, cf Da.
well-knit and a daring fighting man IP: cf 'well-knit and daring' Tz I,
Tz Ah, a difficult compound followed by 'a fighting man' Slav.
See Patzig, 1911, 238-9.
22-40. Bo 103.11-107.3; IP 83.6-87.18, Tz 1710-739, 788-807, Tz Ah

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straight. hair, small, wine-coloured eyes, and a loud voice or a bragging

tone; he was wise, well--educated, magnanimous and full of good counsel.

It

first

was he who
devised the game of tavla from the movement. of the
seven planets that bring men joys and griefs by the hazard of fate; he
made the to vla board the terrestrial world, the twelve lasoi the number
of signs of the zodiac, the dice box and the seven dice in it the seven
stars, and the tower the height. of heaven, from which good and evil are
distributed to all.
23. Meriones was short., broad,
fair-skinned,
with a good beard,
large eyes with black pupils,
curly hair,
a broad face with a crooked
nose; he was very quick, magnanimous and a fighting man.
24.
Idomeneus was of medium height, dark-skinned, with good eyes,
well-knit,
(104) powerful,
with a good nose, a bushy beard, a good
head and curly hair; he was a reckless fighting man.
25.
Philokt.etes was of good height, well-knit, dark-skinned, with
eyebrows that met, valiant, with good eyes, a good nose, with black
thick hair; he was wise, an accurate archer, and magnanimous.
26.
Lokrian Aias was tall,
strong,
with honey-coloured skin, a
squint.,
a good nose, curly black hair, a bushy beard, a long face;
he
was a bold fighting man, magnanimous and a womaniser.
27.
Pyrrhos Neoptolemos was well-grown, with a good chest, slender,
fair-skinned,
with a good nose,
red curly hair and large greyish eyes,
fair eyebrows, the beginnings of a fair beard, a round face; he was
impulsive,
bold,
quick--moving,
and a fierce fighting man. He was
Achilles' son by Deidameia, Lykomedes' daughter; after the death of his
father he had been sent by Thetis and Peleus, his grandfather, at the

Achaians' request., to avenge his fat.her's death, since Achilles had been
killed

by

trick.

Tz Ph
22. Bo

He took up arms and set out against Ilion with 22

Da

12-13; Slav: Ist. 10.27-13.8.

IP,
Tz
I
(useless because of the author's
self-identification with the hero),
Tz Ah 398-9, cf Da; see also Ke
220.8, Su IV 494.10-14, JA 24.2.
and a loud voice or a bragging tone IP, cf Slav, which is difficult to
interpret (Ba still in lacuna).
See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 44-50; Pat.zig, 1911, 239.
23. Bo 103.17-19; Slav, IP, Tz I, Tz Ph 662-3, cf Da.
curly hair (103.18): 'curly, thick hair' Slav, IP.
he was very quick, magnanimous and a fighting man (103.19):
'he
was a
very quick ('strange' IP, correct. from Ba) fighting man and magnanimous'

103.11--16;

Slav,

IP.

See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 67-9.

24. Bo 103.20-104.2; Slav, IP, Tz I, Tz Ph 660-1, cf Da.
bushy beard (104.1): Slav adds 'well-spoken'.
curly hair (104.1): 'curly, short hair' Slav, Tz I, Tz Ph.
See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 50-4.
25. Bo 104.3-5; Slav, IP, Tz I, Tz Ph 580-2, cf Da.
See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 50-4.
26. Bo 104.6--8; Slav, IP, Tz I, Tz Ph 664-5, cf Da.
See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 81.
27. Bo 104.9--105.3; Slav, IP, Tz Ph 527-30, cf Da.
See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 46, 81.

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1650 in number, supplied by

ships and his own% army of Myrmidons,
in
Peleus.
Setting sail, he reached Troy and found Hippodameia Briseis

his father Achilles'

encampment, guarding

all Achilles' possessions.

He

to
greeted her and treated her (105) with great respect and asked her
tent.. But. Briseis was
guard his possessions too in his
stricken by an illness a short time later, and died.
fair-skinned, with thick, completely grey
28.
Kalchas was short,
hair, both head and beard;
he was a seer and an excellent soothsayer.
29.
The leading men of Troy were the following:
ruddy
In
stature Priam was of good height, large, handsome, with a
grey
good
eyes,
eyebrows
that
met.,
skin,
greyish eyes, a long nose,

father's

hair; he was sedate,

of great.
tall,
extremely sturdy,
30.
Hekt.or was dark-skinned,
strength,
with a good nose, curly hair, a good beard, a squint, and a
stutter; he was noble, a tremendous fighting man and deep-voiced.
31.
Deiphobos was of medium height, with a good chest, good eyes,
a slightly upturned nose, dark skin, a broad face, valiant, with a good
beard.
with
powerful,
32.
Helenos was tall,
well-knit, fair-skinned,
fair hair, wine-coloured eyes, a long nose, the beginnings of a beard
and a slightly hunched back; he was a wise fighting man.
33.
Troilos was large, with a good nose, straight hair, honeycoloured skin, good eyes, black hair, a bushy beard; he was a powerful
fighting man and fleet of foot,
34.
Paris Alexander was well-grown, strong, fair-skinned, with a
good nose, good eyes with black pupils, dark hair, the beginnings of a
he
beard,
(106)
a long face,
beetling eye-brows and a large mouth;
was charming, eloquent, athletic, an accurate archer, timorous, and

28.

Bo

105.4--5; Slav, IP, Tz 1,

fair-skinned (105.4) : IP,

Tz Ph 666--7.
Tz 1, Tz Ph add

'thin'.

both head and beard (105.4): cf 'including his beard' Ba and variants
in other witnesses which do not. seem to have understood this phrase,
which later became a cliche in emperor descriptions; see 256.4 and 7

other examples.

Bo 105.7-9; Slav, IP, Tz Ph 363-5, of Da.

grey hair (105.8): 'thick, grey hair' IP, Tz Ph; cf Slav which adds
29.

'thick-bearded'.
See Schi.ssel. von Fl, 1908, 80-1.
30. Bo 105.10-12; Slav, IP, Tz I, Tz H 267-9, cf Da.
curl.y hair (105.11):'short, dark, curly hair' Tz I, of Slav,
See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 65-6.
31. Bo 105.13-14; Slav, IP, Tz Ph 376-7, c Da.
See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 26.

32. Bo 105.15-17; Slav, IP, Tz Ph 373-5, of Da.

long nose (105.16): Slav and IP add 'delicate features'.
33. Bo 105.18-19; Slav, IP, Tz Ph 382---3, of Da.
large (105.18): Slav, IP, Tz Ph add 'handsome'.
See Patzig, 1904, 178-9; Schissel von Fl, 1908, 63--5.

IP,

Tz H.

34. Bo 105.20-106.2; Slav, IP (Tz I, Tz Ah 125-7 irrelevant.), of Da.

dark hair. (105.21): 'dark, curly hair' Slav, IP.
beetling eyebrows (106.1): Slav adds

See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 77-8.

'a loud

voice'.

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pleasure-loving.
35.
Aineias was short., fat., with a good chest, powerful, with a
ruddy complexion, a broad face, a good nose, fair skin, receding hair, a

good beard and grey eyes; he was discreet., wise and pious.

36.
with fair skin, fair hair, small
Antenor was tall, slender,
eyes and a hooked nose; he was crafty, timorous, cautious, an eloquent
historian.
she was
honey--coloured
skin and good eyes;
37.
Hekabe had
well-grown, with a good nose; she was beautiful, generous, well--spoken
and peaceable.
A. Andromache was of medium height., slender, with a good figure,
a good nose, good breasts, good eyes, good eyebrows, curly fairish hair
combed back, a long face, a good neck; she had dimples in her cheeks and

was charming and quick.

with a
fair-skinned,
39.
was
short.,
round-faced,
Kassandra
masculine build, a good nose, good eyes with black pupils, curly fairish
she was peaceable, noble,
hair, a good neck, heavy breasts, small feet.;
priestly, an accurate seer who foretold everything, ascetic, a virgin.
very fair-skinned,
with large
40.
Polyxene was tall, refined,
good cheeks, a small
eyes,
black hair combed back,
a good nose,

upturned nose,
very

beautiful.

red lips,
(107)

small

feet.;

she'

was

virgin, charming,

She was 18 years old when she was slain, as the

35. Bo 106.3-5; Slav, IP, Tz

grey eyes (106.5): cf Bo,

Tz Ph 378-9, cf Pa.

I,

which

introduces

another

hero--portrait,

Glaukos; see Fijrst., 1902, 428-9.

cf 'powerful' Ba (for the second time).

discreet (106.5) Slav, IP:
See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 78-9.
36. Bo 106.6-7; Slav, IP, Tz Ph 380--1, cf Da.
slender (106.6.): Slav, IP acid 'powerful'.
small eyes (106.6): 'small, grey eyes' Slav, IP, Tz Ph.
hooked nose (106.7): Slav (cf IP) acids 'with delicate features'.
eloquent' Bo, IP (see
an eloquent historian (106.7): cf 'very learned,

Bury,

1897, 223; Pat.zig, 1904,

180).

See Schisse]. von Fl, 1908, 60.-.1; Pat.zig, 1911, 234.

37. Bo 106.8-9; Slav, IP, Tz Ph 366-7, cf Pa.
Bo 106.10-13; Slav, IP, Tz Ph 368.9, cf Da.
See Schissel von Fl, 1908, 78-9.
39. Bo 106.14-18; Slav, IP, Tz Ph 370-2, cf Da.
fair-skinned (106.14): 'very fair-skinned' Slav, IP, cf Tz Ph.
foretold everything (106.17): Slav adds 'pious'.
virgin (106.18): 'pure virgin' Slav, IF.
66--7,
who suggests credibly that 'with
See Schissel von Fl, 1908,
38.

flashing eyes' ought to

be

included somewhere on

the list.

on

the

evidence of Tz Ph and Da.

40. Bo 106.19-107.3; Slav, IF, Tz Ph 505-7, cf Pa.

combed back (106.20) :

'curly

and

luxuriant' Slav, cf IP.

good nose (106.20): Slav, IP add 'delicate features'.

a small upturned nose, red lips (106.20): 'small, red lips' Slav,

Slav adds 'elegant'.

IP;

charming (106.21): Slav adds 'a young girl with a young body'.
who suggests that the list should
1908,
74-7,
See Schissel von Fl,
include 'with good eyes' IF, Tz Ph, Da and 'with a long neck' Tz Ph, Da.

been
Diktys of Crete says, who recorded truthfully what has
Hellenes
to
the
later
that
happened
mentioned above and everything else
who attacked Ilion.
Danaoi, who
41.
Diktys accompanied Idomeneus, the leader of the
to be
Diktys
happened
For
had joined the war with the other Achaians.
and
accurately
of
the
war
the
course
scribe
and
observed
Idomeneus'
He
the
Hellenes.
time
with
wrote it down,
being present then at that
Agamemnon and
described those who had been summoned by the emperors
and those who had taken up arms and joined the expedition
Menelaos,
son of
against Ilion,
each with his own army and ships. Agamemnon,
100
with
the
rest
off
before
the
Mykenaians,
set
Atreus,
emperor of
and
and
Leist.os
Menelaos
then
and 30 more to supply the camp;
ships,
from
Arkesilaos and Prothoenor and Klonios with 50 ships; Elephenor
of
Menelaos, son of Pleist.henes, the emperor
Euboia with 60 ships;
Diomedes from Argos with 80 ships; Askalaphos
Sparta, with 60 ships;
40 ships;
and Ialmenos with 30
ships; Schedios and Epistrophos with
Aias Telamonios from
Meges from Doliche in Hellas with 40 ships;
ships;
Salamis with 40 ships;
Nestor with 90 ships; Thoas with 40
40
with
and
Magnetor
Agenor and Teuthides with 60 ships; Prothoos
3 ships;
ships; Nereus from Mykenai with
ships; .Eumenos with 11
Leonteus and Polypetes
(108)
Chalias from Trikka with 40 ships;
Menest.heus
with 40 ships; Amphigeneias from Ilion with 43 ships;
with 80
Crete
Meriones
from
with
50
ships;
Idomeneus
and
from Athens
with
Tlepolemos
ships:
Odysseus from Kephalonian Ithake with 12 ships;
9
ships;
Lokrian Aias with 9 ships; Achilles from Argos in Hellas,
with
accompanied by Pat.roklos, with 50 ships; Protesilaos and Podarkes
40 ships;
Palamedes with 12 ships; Philoktetes from Methone with
and
7
ships;
Nereus from Peraiboi with 22 ships; Sort.hes, Philippos

most. learned

PsS 42v, Ke 223.4-6; Slav: Ist

107.3-108.10;
C 200.24-201,16,
13.8-28. See Sept I 17, Da 14.
those who had taken up arms (107.9-10): 'the generals and those who
had taken up arms' Slav,
735 and Ilield
'Penelaos'
C;
see Bentley,
Menelaos (107.13) Slav:
2.494-5.
Meges (107.18) see Iliad 2.627: cf 'Metes' C, 'Mentes' Slav.
'12
ships.
(107.19)
C adds
Aias Telamonios from Salamis with
Triptolemos from Lichon (read 'Tlepolemos from Lindos', cf Ba at. 108.4)
with 9 ships. Antimachos and Thalpis and Dares with'; see Patziq, 1892,
41. Bo

145.

Teuthides (107.21): cf 'Teutades' C, 'T<e>udes' Slav.

Magnetor (107.21; Bury, 1897, 223) C: 'Magnitor' Bo.

(107,22): 'Eumelos' Slav: see Bentley, 736 and 11.7',,02.714:

adds 'from Libya', cf Slav at 108.5 on 'Tlepolemos'.

Einnenos

Chal.ias (108.1):

'Kalchas'

C, Slav.

from Trikka with (108.1): C, Slav add '30 ships,

Asterion with'; see Pat.zig, 1892, 146.
Ilion (108.2): 'Ilion and Dories' Slav, cf 'Andorides'

736 and

Iliad 2.594.

Eurypolos from
C;

see Bentley,

Tlepolemos with 9 ships (108.5): C omits at this point (see under

'Aias Telamonios' above); Slav adds 'from Libya with 70 ships'.
Methone (108.8; corr) C: 'Mothone' Ba, cf 'Mathone' Slav.
with 7 shipss.....Peraiboi with (108.8; Bury, 1897 223): om Bo; see

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Antiphos with 78 ships.

42.

Following

The Hellenes'

ships totalled 1250.

their instructions they sailed first. to the land

of Aulis, and from there they attacked the land of the Phrygians.
They
plundered their empire, as has been mentioned above, and captured the
emperor Priam.
They killed him and the empress Hekabe, and took their
children captive. When they had looted the entire empire, they returned
to their own countries.
So the empire of Ephesos, which included all Asia, and of Phrygian
Troy lasted for 819 years in all.
43.
So,
after the capture of Troy, all the Achaians divided the
plunder and the money, since they wished to set. off for their own
homelands.
When they had made their ships ready,
some sailed away,
but a
number remained, since a quarrel had broken out between Aias
Telamonios,
Odysseus and Diomedes.
For (109) Aias Telamonios asked to
take the image, that is, the Palladion, the small wooden statue of
Pallas which, they say, had been enchanted to bring victory and kept
the city in which it was preserved safe from capture.
A certain Asios,
a philosopher and wonder-worker, gave this Palladion to the emperor Tros
when he was about. to build the city. In gratitude and in his memory the

emperor Tros gave the name Asia to

all the

land subject. to him, which

previously

was known as Epitropos. Odysseus and Diomedes stole this

image on the advice of Antenor, exarch of the Trojans. His wife, named
Theano,
was a priestess of Pallas, in whose temple this image was

stored.

Odysseus and Diomedes entered Troy by night, and slept. in the

temple of Pallas when the Festival of Offerings was being held by the
Phrygians and the He.llenes. The Danaoi did this, since the following
oracle
had been given to them, "You cannot capture Troy unless you
remove the Palladion". Aias Telamonios wanted to take it. to his own
country,
saying,
"This is owed to me, for I have laboured on behalf of

A cha i ans .
It.
enough for me to mention that. Hekt or begged mercy
of me
in my duel with him; and again, I made an attack on the gate of
Ilion,
pursuing the Trojans on my own and saving the ships belonging to
all you Hellenes and, although I struck many Trojan heroes, I myself was

the

not.

is

wounded.

This too, (110)

glory,

that I brought
Apollo Thymbrios".

Pat.zig,

think,

is

sufficient.

title to

Achilles' body to the tents from the temple of

1892, 146.

78 ships (108.9): '20 ships' C, Slav.

42. Bo 108.10-17; C 204.12-17, ,7N 47; Slav: Ist. 13.28-14.4, Soph 58.
819 years (108.17) Slav: cf '40 years' C, followed by a list of
Trojan kings which is probably an insertion; see Patzig, 1892, 134.
43. Bo 108.18-110.2; C 204.25-205.16, 207:30--208.2, JA 24.7, PsS 44v,
Ke 229.5-19, Su IV 4.17-32; Slav: Ist. 14.115.18.
Pallas (109.2) C: of 'Athene' Slav.
Epitropos (109.7):
'Epiropont.os'
C,
Slav, of 'Epirus' Su, 'Epirropos'
PsS, Ke.

the Phrygians and the Hellenes (109.13): C acids 'were not. fighting but.
were stealing the image', cf Slav; see Noack, 1891/3, 412.
Aias Telamonios (109.16): C adds 'Then'.
and although... not wounded (109.21-22): of 'and I saved many leaders of
the Hellenes from death' Slav.

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this to my
Odysseus opposed him, saying, "I am going to take
I
have.
At
For you have not. laboured more for the Hellenes t.han
I set off for Ilion
by
Paris,
abduction
of
Helen
the start,
after the
Likewise I summoned the
with Palamedes and the emperor Menelaos.
Equally
I brought about the
all
quarters.
and
heroes
from
emperors
Trojans and
a
clash
between
as you know, when
death of Paris.
For,
chief men of
Hellenes had taken place and many had fallen and while the
firm and
the leaders of the Hellenes, were standing
Troy and you,
the war, I
pressing hard against each other in order to decide
duel with the
encouraged the hero Philokt.et.es to challenge Paris to a
of
the emperors
in
the
midst
bow;
and immediately Philoktet.es came out.
him, he t.oo
and challenged Paris to a duel in archery. When Paris heard
also.
Deiphobos
bow,
and
his
brother
rushed out in front of him with his
44.

city.

for them the distance .between where they had

lots,
it fell to Paris to shoot. first. Paris
to stand. When they cast
shot, but missed. I shouted encouragement to Philoktet.es; he shot. in
I

came up and measured out.

turn and wounded Paris' left hand. He promptly let. off a second arrow
and pierced his right. eye. (111) As Paris yelled and turned in flight.,
Philoktetes loosed another arrow and transfixed his feet at the ankles.
on entering the
Paris fell;
everyone fled, snatching up Paris' body.
city,
he summoned the three sons he had by Helen - Bounimos, Koryt.haios
After he had seen these young children, he lay without
and Idaios.
When his former wife,
breathing and gave up his spirit about midnight.
Oinoe,
saw him, she committed suicide with a noose. Helen was taken to
wife by Deiphobos, Pr.iam's other son, who was mutilated by the emperor
as you all know.
I also counselled that. Polyxene should go
Menelaos,
So Odysseus cried
to Achilles' tomb to be slain by the hero Pyrrhos".
out.
and said, "What do I deserve, when I procured Paris' destruction to
avenge Menelaos and Achilles and all the Hellenes?"
Odysseus spoke
45.
Agamemnon and many of the army acclaimed him.
again,
"I shall not pass over in silence the rest of the hazards, which
I endured with Oiomedes when we wished to make off with the sacred
image - how we spent time in Ilion with the barbarians and came out to
the camp at. night and reported to you emperors everything that. had
happened to them, recounting what I tell you now. For while the Trojans

were

performing

sacrifice

(112)

at.

the time of the Offerings, the

sign happened to take place in the city at the altar of

They were starting the fire on the altar for the sacrifice,
would not catch light. While fire was applied repeatedly but
would not.
everything or, the altar
to the ground. When ot.her,
signs occurred, the Trojans understood and said that this was not a

following
Apollo.
but,
they

light,

fell

C 205.16-206.14, PsS 44r-v,

110.3-111.14;
Ist 15.18-16.4.
without breat.hinq (111.6): 'without speaking' C, Ke.
counselled that Polyxene should go (111.10):
'gave
44. Bo

Ke

228.16-229.4:

Slav:

Polyxene' C, Slav.

45. Bo 111.15-113.14;

206.15-207.24,

Slav: Ist. 16.5-17.12. See Sept V 7--8.

when (111.17; corr Dind) C, Slav: 'that.'

PsS 44v-45r,

advice
Ke

and

took

229.20-231.6:

Pea.

They were starting the fire on the altar (112.2):'they were setting fire
to the logs (cf 'they' Ba) which were on the altar' C, Slav, of PsS, Ke.
understood (112.6): 'saw' C, Slav.

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good omen for them. The Trojan exarchs and Priam and the army compelled
Antenor to come to you emperors and by means of his embassy to. persuade
you,
the Danaoi,
to accept a ransom and abandon the war.
All this we
ascertained and, when we came out., we reported it. to you. Antenor
arrived on his embassy and made this speech, on behalf of Priam and the
others,
'You who are emperors of the Hellenes, do the deeds of friends
rather than of enemies. We have suffered all that those who have sinned
deserved to suffer.
Ilion has paid the perialt.y for the wrongs which
Alexander.
Paris did to Menelaos
the tombs of those who have perished
in the battles bear witness to this.
We who survive offer you a ransom
on behalf of our gods, our homeland, our children. But since you are
Hellenes,
save those who were once haughty but. are now suppliants, by
deciding a sum of money'.
You all listened to Antenor and sent me and,
--

with me,
(113)

talents

Dioredes to Priam to decide the amount of money.

Priam

in

We

went

to

Troy, and after many discussions we decided that 2,000

of gold and, with it., an equal sum of silver should be given to

We returned to you with news of what had been agreed and we
brought the sum that. had been determined. I made you all swear oaths
with sacrifices not to sail from Ilion before we had made the wooden
horse with
planks and decorated it, with every adornment.; we
were to pretend to sail straight for Tenedos, after burning our camp,
while the barbarians, thinking we had departed, remained off their
guard,
feasting; and so, returning by night from Tenedos and entering,
you.

its fitted

we were to put. the city to the torch, kill Priarn and return Helen to the
kingdom of Pleisthenes.
When my counsel prevailed, the gods granted you
victory over the barbarians. So you, emperors and heroes, be the judges
of my labours".

46.
Agamemnon and Diomedes and their army supported Odysseus,
while Neopt.olemos Pyrrhos and his army favoured Aias Telamonios, since
he was of his family. Many other points were discussed between them
until evening, and eventually it was decided that Diomedes should take
the Palladion in custody until the next day dawned, and should guard
it;
meanwhile each of them was to rest, so that on the next day a
decree should be made over which of them should be given t:he Palladion.
.Aias,
(114) who was raging against Odysseus, Agamemnon and Diomedes,
withdrew to his own pavilion.
During the night Aias was stabbed to
death and his corpse was found in the morning. His army and that of

Pyrrhos rioted against. Odysseus, wishing to

kill

him.

You all listened to Antenor (112.21; 'you' corr Chil:

'we'
Ba): 'You
were all persuaded by Antenor's words' C, Slav, cf PsS, No,
2,000 talents (113.2; corr Dind) C, Slav, PsS, Ke: '2 talents' Ba.
while the barbarians (113.8): 'so that the barbarians' C, Ke, Slav.
from Tenedos (113.9): C adds
'we were to fall on them'.
PsS, Ke here
have other material, once again probably from D.ikt.ys; see Noack, 1891/3,
427-8.

46. Bo 113.15-114.5; C 207.25-30,

4.33-5.2; Slav: Ist. 17.13-22.

208.3-7, PsS 45r,

No

232.3-11,

Su IV

the Palladion (113.20): 'the image, the Palladion' C, c: 'the image'

Slav, and elsewhere.
was raging against (114.1; corr) C: 'had become an opponent. of' Ba.
that of Pyrrhos (1.14.4): 'Pyrrhos' C, Slav.

Du

?J'.

.,l

Odysseus took his ships and fled, making for the Pontic.
After staying in that. region for a while he returned from
to his own
there wishing to make the voyage to the city of Ithake,
known as
country, with his ships and his army. As he put, into a country
He fought and
Maronis,
he met with opposition from its inhabitants.
that he
defeated them, gaining possession of much money. So, supposing
would completely defeat the inhabitants of whatever country he put
into,
and carry off the wealth of each country he encountered, he made
when
war on the inhabitants of the land known as that of the Lotophagoi
nearly
him
and
land
defeated
reached
But
the
men
of
that.
he
there.
47.

Sea.

destroyed all his men,

voyage
48.
So he fled from there and after a very long and stormy
This
Sicily.
now
known,
as
reached the island known as Sikila, but
island was very large,
and was divided among three large, strong
I mean Kyklops, Antiphantes
brothers who shared the same opinions;
emperor of that. island.
and Polyphemos,
the sons born to Sikanos,
These three brothers were harsh men who never received strangers but
Odysseus put. in with his ships and his army
instead killed them.
(115)
to the part which belonged to Antiphantes and joined battle with him and
They killed quite a few from
his army who were known as Laist.rygones.
Odysseus' army.
He took his ships and sailed in flight from there to another part of
the island,
which belonged to Kvklops, where there are the mountains
called Kykiopaian,
On learning this, Kyklops attacked him with his
forces.
He was large in body and hideous. Falling upon Odysseus
unexpectedly as he was putting into the land which belonged to him,
Kyklops cut down many of his men.
He captured Odysseus and some of his
Then Kyklops took one of the men captured with him, named
army.
Mikkalion,
a valiant man who had excelled at Troy and was a leader in
Odysseus'
army.
Seizing him by the hair of his head, he disembowelled
him with the sword he was carrying, in the sight of Odysseus and all his
companions, because he had fought. against him. He shut. the rest. up,
intending to kill them all one by one. Odysseus fell at his feet, and
persuaded him with huge bribes and gifts to free him and his remaining
men.
After Kyklops was with difficulty persuaded by the gift of money,

he

promised he would free Odysseus at. nightfall.

that

night

to

the treasure he

However, he

intended

go out and kill Odysseus and his men, and carry off all

had on board, and

his ships.

(116) So towards evening

47. Bo 114.5-16; C 208.6-15; Slav: Ist 17.22-18.2.

Pontic Sea (114.6): C adds 'by night'.
for a while (114.7; corr): 'for a considerable time' C, Slav.
make the voyage (114.7; corn) C: om Ba.
Maronis (114.10): 'Maroneias' C, Slav.
completely (114,12; corr Dind): Ba inserts an unneccessary 'that'.
48. Bo 114.16-116.6;
C 208.15-209.12,
cf
PsS 45r-v, Ke
232.17-21;
Slav:
18.2--19.3. See Sept VI S.
Antiphantes (114.21) C: 'Antiphates' Slav, cf C at. Bo 115.2.

Ist

emperor of thrit island (114.22):

first

named

Sikania'

'after

whom

the present. Sicily was

C.
He shut the rest up (115.17): C adds 'in prison'.
kill them (115.17): 'cut them down' C, of Slav.
gifts (115.19): 'Trojan gifts' C, cf Slav.

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he freed him and his men.

As soon as Odysseus was set free, he
immediately sailed away from Kyklops' land since he feared the man's
savagery.
When Kykiops attacked that night and did not find the ships,
in his fury he ordered boulders to be hurled into the sea, in case
Odysseus had moored within his territory.
49.
As it was the dead of night and darkness covered the land and
sea,
they put into other parts of the island which belonged to
Polyphemos,
brother of Kykiops and Antiphantes - for they were
unfamiliar with the area.
As soon as Polyphemos learnt that men had
sailed in by night and put. into land belonging to him, he collected his
forces and set off against Odysseus, to join battle with him. They
fought all night, and many of Odysseus' men fell. At daybreak Odysseus
offered gifts to Polyphemos too and fell at his feet, saying that he had
come from the Trojan regions and had been forced off his path after
suffering much through storms; he listed the different disasters that
had befallen him at sea. Polyphemos was sympathetic and pitied him;
he welcomed him and his men until conditions were favourable for
sailing.
Polyphemos' daughter, named Elpe, was amorously inclined
towards a handsome man in Odysseus' company, named Leion. When a
favourable wind blew, they abducted her and left the island of
Sicily.
(117)
The most learned Sisyphos of Kos has stated this.
The learned Euripides wrote a play about Kyklops, saying that he
had three eyes; he was referring to the three brothers who were
well-disposed to each other and kept an eye on each other's territory in
the island,
fighting as allies and avenging each other.
He also said
that Odysseus was able to flee when he made Kyklops drunk with wine,
because he had made Kykiops drunk with a lot of money and gifts so that
he would not devour his companions; and that Odysseus took a fire-brand
and blinded his one eye, because he abducted Elpe, his brother
Polyphemos'
only daughter,
a virgin,
who was burning with the flame
of erotic ardour, that
is,
he burnt Polyphemos,
one of Kykiops'
eyes,
by carrying off his daughter. The most learned Pheidalios of
Corinth wrote this interpretation, saying that the learned Euripides
transformed everything poetically, not being in agreement with the most

in case (116.5): 'suspecting that' C, cf Slav.

49. Bo 116.6-117.16; C 209.12-210.14; Slav: Ist 19.3-20.5.
Trojan regions (116.15): 'Trojan troubles' C, Slav.
was sympathetic and pitied him (116.18): 'sympathised with his excessive
sufferings' C, Slav.
Leion (116.22): 'Laion' C, Slav.
abducted her (116.23): C adds 'without Odysseus' knowledge'; see Noack,
1891/3,
412.,
who tentatively proposes 'without Polyphemos' knowledge'.
island of Sicily (116.23): C adds 'Polyphemos sent many of his servants
after them who, when they overtook them, were violently put to death';
see Noack, 1891/3, 412.
wrote a play (117.2): 'wrote a story poetically' Slav, C.
his companions (117.8) Slav: cf 'the things he had with him' C; Slav
adds 'that is, not to slaughter them', cf C.
Elpe (117.10): cf 'Elpon' C.
Pheidalios (117.14) Slav, cf C: written as 'Pheidias' Ba.
learned (117.14): 'most learned' C, Slav.

learned Homer in his account of Odysseus' wanderings.

and was
50.
Odysseus came from Sicily to the Aiolian Islands
on to
carried
then
welcomed by Aiolos, emperor of the islands. He was
emperor of the
Kirke and her sister Kalypso, daughters of Atlas,
islands
islands.
Atlas when on the point of death divided the two
between his daughters, who became empresses of the two islands. Kirke
her
was the priestess of Helios; in infancy she had been handed over by

fat-her to

be brought.

up

in the temple on the island known as Aiaia.

a magician with mystic

(118) When she had grown up she became
Her sister Kalypso, who was jealous
knowledge;
she was very beautiful.
father
of her,
hated her very much and said, "Why does she deny her
of
afraid
was
Kirke
Atlas and say she is the daughter of Titan Helios?"
since
her,
in case
she might grow angry and attack and ill-treat her,
Kirke
Kalypso had a large number of valiant men on her island. So, as
from
could not summon anyone to aid and protect her, she prepared a drug
that.,
certain plants.
When she received passing strangers, it is said
drank
by a dose of the potion, she administered to the strangers who
of their
it a powerful drug causing lasting subjection and forgetfulness
own lands. She made them have intercourse with her; they all desired
own
her excessively and remained on the island, oblivious of their
country.
She collected many men in this way.
she
When Kirke learnt that Odysseus' ships had reached her island,
ordered her servants to receive Odysseus and his army with honour, for
she wanted to keep him and those with him as warriors in alliance with
her.
As soon as Odysseus put into her island, he saw many men there
from different countries. Recognizing some from the Achaian army when
they approached him, he questioned them, saying, "What is your reason
for living on this island?" They said to him, "We are from (119) the
Achaian army and we were driven to this island by the force of the ocean
waves.
We drank a magic potion offered us by queen Kirke, and fell
terribly in love with her, and now this is our home", and they said
other things as well. On hearing this, Odysseus collected all his men
and told them not to partake of any of the things offered them by Kirke,
either food or drink, because they had some kind of enchantment., but.
they were to eat the provisions presented to him by the emperor Aiolos
and the food and drink that they had stored in the ships previously.
So
when Kirke offered Odysseus and his soldiers and sailors food and drink
to sustain them,
they took nothing at all from her.
On discovering
this,
Kirke supposed that Odysseus had certain mystic powers and had
foreknowledge of her plans; she sent for him to meet her in the temple.
He met her, accompanied by his armed band and his Achaian recklessness,
bringing her gifts from Troy. When she saw him and his companions,
she asked him to remain on the island until the winter season had

50. Bo 117.17-121.2;
Ist 20.6-22.10.

210.15-212.21,

He was then carried... Atlas when

PsS

(117.18;

Ke

45v,

corr)

1891/3, 412-3; Griffin, 1907, 48-9.

magician (118.1): 'seer' C.
she administered (118.10; corr) C: om Ba.
they all desired (118.18; corr) C, Slav: om Ba.
in alliance with her (118.18): 'to aid her island'
she (119.17): 'Kirke' C, Slav.

C,

232.21-23; Slav:

Slav:

om

Noack,

Slav,

cf C.

Ba;

see

DOUJ%

U0

passed, and swore in the temple that she would do nothing to harm him or
any of those with him.
Odysseus was persuaded and spent a short time
with her, living with her in marriage at her wish. The most learned
Sisyphos of Kos and Diktys of Crete have written about Kirke.
The most
learned Homer (120) related poetically that through a
magic potion she transformed the men who had been ensnared by her,
making some into the shape of lions, giving others dogs' heads, making
others into pigs and others into bears with pigs' heads. The learned
Pheidalios
of
Corinth,
mentioned above, wrote out this poetic
composition and interpreted it as follows: he said that to turn men
into animal forms in no way corresponded with Kirke's desire for a large
army,
but the poet was referring to the habits of men in love, and
Kirke made them grind their teeth and rage and go mad with desire, like
beasts,
on her orders.
For it is a natural habit of men in love to
cling to the woman whom they love and die on her behalf.
This is the
way of men in love: they become like wild beasts in their desire and
are incapable of rational thought; their appearance is changed and they
come to resemble beasts in body, appearance and manners; they attack
their rivals, for it is natural for rivals to regard one another as wild
beasts do, and to fight with one another to the death.
Men react
differently to the forms taken by this kind of desire. Some are like
dogs in their approach to sex and have intercourse frequently; others
are like lions ... pursue only their impulse and desire exclusively
...others are like bears (121) and copulate in a foul way.
Pheidalios
gave the clearer and more truthful interpretation in his account.
51.
On departing from Kirke's island,
Odysseus, driven by contrary
winds,
went on to the next island, where Kalypso, Kirke's sister,
received him. She honoured him with many attentions and lived with
him in marriage.
From there he continued on to where there was a
great lake, known as Nekyopompos, close to the sea.
Its inhabitants
were seers, who told him all that had happened to him and what would
happen.
When he left there a great storm took place and he was cast
up from the sea on to the rocks known as the Serenidai, which produce

living with her in marriage (119.21): C adds 'She discovered that she
had conceived a male child, for there was nothing she could not find out
by her drugs, and told him. Odysseus gave her a spear with a tip made
from a sting-ray's barb, as an acknowledgement of his acceptance and
guarantee of the paternity of the child she was bearing. Many years
later Odysseus in his old age was wounded by this son and spear in
Ithake,

and died',

cf PsS,

Ke;

see Noack, 1891/3, 413-4; Griffin, 1907,

50.

for a large army (120.7; corr) C: 'a large army' Ba (reading 1to/\uo (aq
C for rtoAuo)(X Lav
Ba).
men in.love (120.8; corr Chil) C, Slav: 'men raised up' Ba.
desire exclusively... (120.20): In this lacuna one would expect to
find a reference to pigs (cf Bo 120.3).
45v,
51. Bo 121.3-122.2; C 212.22-213.12 and 213.13-216.5, PsS
Ke
233.1-10 and 233.10-22, Su IV 792.6-11, Tz ffistI 343-8, Tz Schol Lyk
653; Slav:

Ist 22.11-23.2.

See Sept VI 15.

great storm (121.10): C adds 'and contrary winds'.

Serenidai (121.11): 'Sirens' C, Ke, Slav.

irvvn

.-'

a distinctive sound from the crashing waves.

When he escaped from
these,
he
came to the place known as Charybdis, which is a wild and
precipitous region. There he lost all his remaining ships and his army,
while he himself was left floating alone in the sea, on a plank from his
ship,
expecting a violent death. But some Phoenician sailors, who were
They
sailing by,
saw him swimming in the water and took pity on him.
rescued him and took him to the island of Crete, to Idomeneus, exarch of
the Greeks.
When Idomeneus saw Odysseus naked and in need, he felt
sympathy for him and gave him very many gifts, as he had been a
fellow-general;
he also provided two ships and some men to protect him
and (122) he sent him away to Ithake. The learned Diktys has written

distinctive (121.13): 'sweet' C, Slav.

from the crashing waves (121.12): C adds 'The younger Plutarch writes
that the Siren women were prostitutes who lived on what are known as the
Rocky Islands and lured passing strangers with seductive pleasures and
music from songs and lyres, and led them astray'; see Noack, 1891/3, 414
and note 18; Patzig, 1901, 388.
When he.escaped ... Charybdis, which is (121.13): 'He crossed from there
to the place called Charybdis and reached' C.
as he had been a fellow-general (121.22; corr) C, Slav:
with an army
and a general' Ba; see Noack, 1891/3, 414.
he also provided... away to Ithake (122.2): C, cf Ps5, Ke,
adds the
following narrative,
'Odysseus went on from Crete and reached Alkinoos
in Phaiakia, where he was granted a brilliant reception. Odysseus'
people thought he was dead because he had been so long away from home.
So he sent spies to Ithake, who discovered Penelope's suitors, thirty of
them, on Odysseus' estates.
When people from the city talked to the
spies and enquired about Odysseus, they said that he had died long ago.
When the suitors heard this, they were freed from fear and continued
feasting.
But Penelope did not believe the news. The messengers made
their way back to Phaiakia and reported the whole situation involving
the suitors. On hearing this, Odysseus sailed for Ithake with Alkinoos.
When the people of Ithake saw the ships and enquired who they were and
where they had come from, Telemachos was told, "We have come to console
you for Odysseus' death". Telemachos was Odysseus' son, and he wanted
to find out the true reason for the ships' arrival. He approached one
of the men with Odysseus and learnt from him in secret that this man was
his father. While the suitors were feasting in the house, Odysseus and
his men came armed, and fell on them unexpectedly. Since they were
overcome by drunkenness, they were all killed. An
uproar broke out in
the
city and a herald went round announcing Odysseus' arrival.
Telemachos married Alkinoos' daughter, named Nausikaa.
After this the
families and friends of the suitors heard what had happened
and were
full of anger.
They began a campaign against Odysseus
and Telemachos in
Odysseus, Telemachos and their men
Ithake.
took up arms and
them
outside the city. A fierce battle took place in which those whometfought.
on behalf of the suitors fell, Telemachos distinguishing
himself in
battle.
went
Time
by and Odysseus had a dream foretelling
his death.
When
he woke up he summoned all the experts in explaining dreams
to interpret.
them;
amongst them were Kleitophon from Ithake
and Polyphemos from
Argos.
He told them the dream and said, "I thought that
a beautiful,

about these things, having heard them from Odysseus.

amazing god-like creature was lying beside me on the same couch.

It
could not keep the shape of a full-grown man. I looked at it with
pleasure but was puzzled by it. The bed from which it was bred was not
clear to me, either by my intimacy or knowledge. When I saw it, I
wished to embrace it in my arms. But it, (protesting) in a human voice,
said that there was a legal bond of kinship between the two of us and
that it was fated that I should perish at its hand. While I was
perturbed over this, suddenly a barb from the sea appeared without my
noticing,
under his command, and came at me. I became helpless with
great astonishment, and after a while I died.
This is what I saw.
Make
your interpretation without fear, for I know that the dream is
ill-omened".
The interpreters considered the story in seclusion, and pronounced
that Telemachos should be got out of the way. When Odysseus withdrew,
they said that Odysseus would die from a blow from his own son. He
immediately rushed after Telemachos, wishing to kill him. But when he
saw his son in tears and begging for pity, he returned to his paternal
senses and decided to spare his son, but ordered him to be kept under
guard.
Then he removed him to the most distant village of Kephallenia,
saving him from the expectation of death. A few days later Odysseus
dreamed the same dream again but, aware of the interpretation, lived
thereafter in better spirits. But he had another son, named Telegonos,
of whose existence he was unaware and whom he had by Kirke. She,
realizing that her son had in perfection all his father's attributes,
when he reached maturity gave him the gift she had received from
Odysseus - the spear tipped with a sting-ray's barb - to be a symbol and
token of his assured paternity.
Telegonos took the spear and came to Ithake by night, looking for
his father.
He learnt that he was in the country and went there and
used force on the guards to let him see his father. They did not know
who he was and resisted him the more. When Telegonos called on the gods
as* witnesses that Odysseus was his father and he was being prevented
from seeing him, they resisted even more, supposing that it was
Telemachos who had come at night to kill his father; for no one knew
that Odysseus had another son.
A disturbance broke out and they
informed Odysseus,
"Telemachos, wearing strange clothing, has come by
night and used force on us". When Odysseus learned of this, boiling
with rage, he came out with his spear and immediately threw it at him.
He missed him but transfixed a nearby apple tree. Telegonos, not
knowing that it was his father who had hurled, the spear, also threw his
spear and, enjoying a good fortune which was desperately unfortunate,
wounded Odysseus in the side. Odysseus, realizing Telegonos' courage,
learned from him that he was his son by Kirke. When Telegonos showed
him the sting-ray barb he had given to Kirke, he believed that he was
Telegonos'
father and flung himself on the ground uttering wild
lamentations.
Odysseus was angry with the interpreters of dreams when
he learned that Telemachos was not involved. They asked where Telegonos
came from and who his parents were, because he had killed such a man
whom nobody in Ilion had wounded and who had achieved many wonderful
feats during his life. Odysseus was conveyed half-dead to Ithake and

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likewise set off from Troy

Diomedes, taking the Palladion,
for his own country.
he desired,
Agamemnon crossed the Rhodian sea with Kassandra, whom
wishing to reach the city of the Mykenaians.
so cremated Aias
Then Pyrrhos saw that they had all sailed away, and
him with great
and
buried
ashes
in
an
urn
Telamonios. He put his
father, in
honour near the tomb of Achilles, Aias' cousin and Pyrrhos'
known
as
Sigris.
the place
soon after,
53.
Teukros,
the brother of Aias Telamonios, arrived
He found
coming from Salamis, a city in Cyprus, to help his brother.
honour
of
the
hearing
happened.
On
Pyrrhos and learnt from him what had
"You
paid to Aias'
corpse,
he praised and commended Pyrrhos, saying,
who
Achilles
son
of
that
for
you
are
the
have done nothing surprising,
away
carried
are
not
had a god-like mind. For the remains of good men
Teukros
by time and virtue shines forth even in death". Pyrrhos invited
asked
Pyrrhos
(123)
to share in food and drink with him. At the banquet
Teukros, since he was of the same family, to tell him from the beginning
everything that had happened to his father, saying that he was ignorant
Teukros began to speak as follows.
of the precise details.
over
54., "The whole of time will not wipe out Achilles' victory
Penthesileia
meet
the
empress
Hektor.
He learnt that Hektor wished to
in
by night; so he secretly prepared his army, and set himself and them
with
together
him,
crossing
the
river
he
killed
ambush. As Hektor was
he
all those who followed him, leaving only one alive. This man's hands
So
cut off,
and then sent him to Priam to announce Hektor's death.
brought
had
happened,
while none of the Hellenes knew what
Achilles,
Your father tied it
Hektor's corpse before dawn into the battleground.
52.

departed this life after a while. He left his rule to Telemachos and
Ptoliporthos, his grandson. Telemachos divided the empire. He himself
controlled all
Ithake and gave the more distant regions to Telegonos.
He installed Ptoliporthos as ruler of the lands in between. He wanted
to kill the interpreters of dreams, but. when Telegonos dissuaded him
They went there
from this judgement he ordered them to live in Sparta,
and recounted the whole narrative to Diktys. This is the end of the
Odysseus story'; see Patzig, 1892, 147-9; Noack, 1891/3, 414-7.
I
C 216.6-15,
Su
52. Bo 122.3-11;
PsS 45v,
Ke 233.23-234.1,
467.35-468.2; Slav: Ist 23.2-8.
Diomedes...country (122.3-4) Slav: 'Diomedes took the Palladion and
returned home. But the Argives opposed him and especially his wife, who
planned to fight against him since she had committed adultery.
He fled
to the land of Calabria, where he built a city on the sea-shore, which
they called Argyrippe and which is now known as Beneventum' C; PsS, Ke,
Su have a similar story but probably drawn from Diktys through Johannes
Antiochenus; see Patzig, 1892, 138-9 and 1893, 423; Noack, 1891/3, 492.
put (122.9) C, Slav: 'took' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 223.
C 216.16-25;
53. Bo 122.12-123.3;
Slav:
Ist 23,9-19.
See Eur Herr9J1

539-40, Arx/ 774-6.

not carried (122.19; corr Dial)

'carried'

C, Slav, cf Eur Am1774:

C 216.25-217.23, PsS 42v, Ke 223.20-224.19;
54. Bo 123.4-124.22;
Ist 23.19-24.24. See Sept III 15-17, 20-23.
he killed (123.8): 'Achilles suddenly leaped up and killed' C.

Ba.
Slav:

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the chariot and, with Automedon driving the horses with him, did not
cease from lashing Hektor's body. When Priam heard of Hektor's fate, he
wailed, and all the Trojans with him.
Such a cry went up from the
Trojan people that even the birds of the sky were alarmed. The
Hellenes likewise cried out, but in joy. The gates of I1ion were shut.
Your father celebrated a festival of games for the emperors and the
whole army, bestowing many prizes.
"on the following day, Priam appeared before the Hellenes, wearing
mourning garments and bringing with him his daughter Polyxene, a virgin,
and Andromache, Hektor's wife, and Astyanax and Laodamas, Hektor's young
sons.
(124) He also brought with him many ornaments, and gold and
silver and robes.
Silence fell upon the leaders of the Hellenes as
Priam drew near. All were amazed at his boldness and went to meet him,
wishing to learn the reason for his arrival. When he saw them, Priam
flung himself to the ground, putting dust on his head and begging them
to become co-suppliants to Achilles for Hektor's body. Nestor and
Idomeneus pitied him and agreed to become co-suppliants with him to
Achilles for Hektor's body.
They made entreaties to your father on
Priam's behalf.
He ordered him to enter his tent,
Priam entered and
fell
prostrate at his feet as a suppliant; Andromache and her children
did likewise, while Polyxene embraced your father's feet on behalf of
her brother Hektor, promising to be his slave and remain with him, if he
would hand over the corpse. The emperors, who pitied his old age, made
pleas on Priam's behalf.
Your father Achilles said to them, 'Priam
should have controlled his children from the beginning and not joined in
their misdeeds. But love of other men's money took hold of him. For he
did not desire Helen as his wife, but he had a passion for the wealth of
Atreus and Pelops.
Pay the penalty then for your shameful acts.
Let
the Hellenes and barbarians learn moderation from what has happened to
you'.
55.
"They persuaded him to accept a ransom and (125) hand over
the
corpse. Remembering the joyous side of life, he changed his mood
and raised up Priam and Polyxene and Andromache and told Priam to wash
himself and partake of bread and wine with him, for otherwise he would
not hand the corpse over to him. Priam, torn between fear and hope for
the future, humbly approached Achilles your father, supported by
Polyxene, and shared in food and drink. After much had been said,
they stood up.
The ransom was laid out on the ground. When Achilles
saw the size of the gifts, he accepted the gold and silver and part of
the clothing;
the rest he bestowed upon Polyxene, and handed over the
corpse.
Priam begged Achilles to let him leave Polyxene with him, but
he told him to take her back to Ilion, putting off matters concerning
her to another occasion.
to

of the sky (123.17): 'of the air' C, Slav.

your father's feet (124.14): C adds 'and, pouring forth tears, she
begged'.
55. Bo 124.23-125.17;
PsS 42v-43r,
C 217.23-218.6,
Ke 224.19-225.4;
Slav: Ist 24.24-25.11. See Sept III 24-27.
changed his mood and (125.1) C, cf Slav: om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 223.
for the future (125.5): C, Slav add 'washed himself and'.
and shared (125.7): 'and both shared' C.

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body, and returned with

"Priam mounted his chariot, taking Hektor's
Hektor's body, they
had
cremated
When
they
his companions to the city.
for him bitterly.
mourning
buried him outside the wall of Ilion,
from the Chersonese
arrived
Penthesileia
the
meantime
56.
"In
valiant men. On
bringing a large force of Amazons and
opposite,
to return. But
learning that Hektor had been killed, she made haste
by giving her a
her
to
remain,
he
persuaded
when Paris learnt of this,
army
and after a few
So Penthesileia rested with her
large sum of gold.
onto the plain.
forces
with
her
herself
and
marched
days (126) armed
held the right
the
archers
Her army was divided into two sections;
than the
wing,
the hoplite foot. soldiers, who were more numerous
in the
standard
with
the
was
cavalry,
were in the centre. Penthesileia
in
stood
and
up
middle of the cavalry. Then the Danaoi drew themselves
the
against
Odysseus
and
Teukros,
Meriones
opposition; Menelaos, myself
against
archers;
Diomedes, Agamemnon, Tlepolemos, Ialmenos, Askalaphos
Idomeneus,
the hoplites;
your father Achilles, the two Aiases,
against the
Philoktetes and the remaining leaders with their armies
I was praised for
I, Teukros, killed a whole multitude so that
cavalry.
into
being the bravest; the two Aiases destroyed the hoplites, charging
a
kept
them,
was
with
Your father Achilles, who
the midst of them.
she was fighting
seeking to kill her;
close watch on Penthesileia,
spear and
fiercely.
Coming near her horse, he struck her with his
alive, he
knocked her from the horse. Then as she lay, fallen but still
that she
saw
her
army
When
the
rest
of
dragged her away by the hair.
the
gates
had
shut.
had fallen, they turned in flight. Since the Trojans
by
them
and
killed
the
survivors
we
Hellenes
pursued
(127)
to fugitives,
the
captured,
once
the wall,
excepting only the Amazon women whom,
was still
entire army distributed amongst themselves. As Penthesileia
into
alive
thrown
that
she
should
be
breathing, we reached a decision
us
the river or handed over for the dogs to devour. Achilles requested
to bury her once she had died, but the army on hearing this clamoured
that she should be thrown into the river. Diomedes immediately took her
by the feet and hurled her into the river Skamandros. She died
immediately.
57.
"A
few days later there arrived a man named Tithon, who had
he brought Indian cavalry and infantry, and
been summoned by Priam;
very
with them some
war-like Phoenicians and their emperor Polydamas.
large contingent that neither Ilion nor the entire
It was such a
battleground could hold them. Many Indians and their emperors came in a
All the emperors and the entire army were administered and
commanded by the powerful Memnon, emperor of the Indians. Memnon also
had much treasure with him in his ships. After they had refreshed
themselves, they marched out onto the battleground, wielding strange
swords and slings and square shields. The allies of Ilion and Priam's
sons joined them, while Memnon came out onto the plain riding in a
We Hellenes armed ourselves and advanced with great
chariot.
misgivings, for both we, (128) the leaders, and our army were astonished
fleet.

C 218.7-219.4,
56. Bo 125.18-127.8;
25.12--26.8. See Sept III 15, IV 2-3.

to bury (127.5) :

57. Bo 127.9-130.5;

PsS

43r,

Ke 225.4-19;

Slav:

Ist

adds 'by the wall', cf Slav,

C 219.5-220.9,
IV 4.

1st. 26.9-28.8. See Sept.

PsS

43v,

Ke 225.19-227.10;

Slav:

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at what we saw. The Trojans, together with Memnon and the rest of the
force,
attacked us with a battle cry. We stood our ground before their
onslaught and many were wounded. But when huge numbers of our men had
fallen,
we, the leaders of the Hellenes, withdrew since we could not
withstand the might of their army. The barbarians could have burnt our
ships, had not night fallen. Night. came on and the Hellenes assembled
with their armies;
we gathered up the bodies and burnt them. That
night we discussed which of the emperors could oppose and attack Memnon
while the others were occupied with fighting the main force. Lots were
cast among all our leaders and by some chance the lot fell on Aias
Telamonios, my brother.
"Before sunrise we Hellenes all armed ourselves and came out; the
Trojans did likewise, as did Memnon, emperor of the Indians, and all
their forces.
When the battle had begun and many men had fallen, my
brother Aias ordered the emperors of the Hellenes to hold off the rest
of the Indians and the Trojans. Then he attacked Memnon, emperor of the
Indians,
while the hero Achilles, your father, supported Aias from the
rear,
keeping himself concealed. Memnon noticed Aias attacking him,
(129)
immediately dismounted from his chariot and came near him. They
tested each other with their spears. Aias was the first to move aside
his opponent's shield, turning it with his spear as he attacked
violently.
Those who were near Memnon rushed at Aias when he had Memnon
at a disadvantage; your father Achilles saw- this and, thrusting his
spear at Memnon's neck where the tendon was exposed, killed him
unexpectedly.
As he fell, a sudden cry arose and the barbarians fled.
We Hellenes saw this and were filled with courage, and we slew all the
Ethiopians.
Polydamas attacked Aias Telamonios but Aias rushed at him
and,
striking him in the groin with his spear, killed him. After his
death and that of many others, the Ethiopians fled and were killed,
trampled to death by the cavalry.
The battlefield was filled with
corpses.
As evening drew near, the Trojans asked for a truce, to see
to the dead. We Hellenes agreed, and both sides lit pyres and cremated
the dead.
The Trojans shut the gates and continued mourning for their
leaders and for Memnon.
"After a few days had passed, your father Achilles together with
us,
the Achaians, challenged the Trojans.
The brothers, Paris and
Deiphobos, came out., leading the barbarians. Together with them and the
army were Lykaon and Troilos, also sons of Priam. Once more Achilles,
your father, attacked, together with all of us Hellenes, and pursued the
barbarians.
(130)
In
their flight many fell into the river Skamandros
and perished, though some were taken alive. Achilles slew Priam's sons,
Troilos and Lykaon, while we Achaians slew the rest. There was great
grief in Ilion for Troilos, since he was still young, and was valiant
and handsome.
58.
"After a few days the festival of the Offerings was held, and

when he had Memnon at a disadvantage (129.5): 'while Memnon and the

Indians near him were concentrating on Aias' C, cf Slav, PsS, Ke.
Aias rushed at him (129.10): Slav adds 'bearing a shield'.
As evening drew near (129.14): cf 'The next morning' Slav.
also sons of Priam (129.23): C adds 'thinking to fall on them unawares'.
58. Bo 130.6-132.4; C 220.10-221.14, PsS 44r, Ke 227.10-228.16; Slav:
Ist 28.9-29,18. See Sept IV 11-12.

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there was a truce in the war while the sacrifices were made. Both
Danaoi and Trojans made sacrifices to Apollo Thymbrios in the grove
which was a short. distance from the city.
When Polyxene came out. with
Hekabe to the temple, Achilles saw her and admired her.
Priam, noticing
Achilles, sent a man named Idaios to him while he was walking alone in
the grove of Apollo,
On hearing the
with a proposal about Polyxene.
message about her, Achilles was enflamed with passion.
We Hellenes,
seeing Idaios talking privately with Achilles, were thrown into great
confusion, thinking that. your father Achilles was betraying us.
So we
sent a message to him through my brother Aias, Diomedes and Odysseus, to
tell him not. to trust himself to the barbarians on his own.
They went
and waited for him outside the grove, so that they could give him the
message.
Your father Achilles made an agreement with Idaios to take
Polyxene in marriage.
After a while Paris (131) and his brother
Deiphobos met with Achilles secretly, encouraging him over his marriage
with Polyxene.
Achilles received them on his own unsuspectingly, with

no

thought.

of harm since he was in Apollo's grove.

Paris stood

by

the

as though confirming with an oath what had been agreed between

himself and Achilles.
While Deiphobos embraced Achilles, Paris came up
by his, side and, as Deiphobos kissed him, he plunged the sword he was
carrying into him.
Deiphobos held Achilles while Paris gave him a
second blow;
then he collapsed and fell. Paris and Deiphobos left.
unsuspected by another way out of the grove.
When they were a little
way off, they began to run swiftly, and reached the city.
Odysseus
noticed them and said to Aias and Diomedes, 'Those men have been up to
no good;
we must go to Achilles'.
On entering the grove, they saw your
father Achilles lying on the ground by the altar, covered with blood but.
still breathing.
So my brother Aias said to him, 'Did there really
exist a man who could kill you, who are the strongest of all? Your
rashness has destroyed you'. Achilles said, 'Paris and Deiphobos have
done me to death by trickery using Polyxene'.
Then he expired.
When he
had died, my brother Aias lifted his body onto his shoulders and they
carried him to the tents. When the Trojans saw us, they came out. (132)
to seize the body and maltreat it.
We Hellenes, seeing what had
happened, were in total despair;
we cremated Achilles' body and,
putting his ashes in an urn, buried them in silence".
59.
Pyrrhos heard this and groaned bitterly.
Teukros noticed
this and commended him,
saying, "Who can list your virtues?
On your
father's side you are of the blood of Peleus, emperor of the city of
Phthia and the land of Thessaly; on your mother's side you are of the
blood of Lykomedes, emperor of the Skyrioi. You have destroyed all
altar,

Achilles (130.11): C, Slav add 'in the grove',

was enflamed with passion (130.14): C adds 'was excited and aflame with
passion', cf 'went for her sake' Slav.
as though (131.5): 'as' C, Ke.
Achilles said (131.20): 'He replied with difficulty in a weak voice' C,
cf. Ke.
in silence (132.4):
C
adds 'in a place known as Sigris';
see Griffin,
1907, 79, note 1.
59. Bo
132.5-133.2; C 221.15-24; Slav:
Ist 29.18-30.6.
See Sept
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Ilion and Troy to avenge your father". Standing up, Teukros embraced
Pyrrhos and asked him if he might take with him the sons of Aias, his
brother,
that is, Aiantides, his child by Glauke, Aias' first wife, and
Eurysakes, his child by Tekmessa, and Tekmessa herself.
Pyrrhos granted
them to him. Teukros took them and immediately set sail for Salamis.
Pyrrhos likewise set sail with his own fleet. The entire Achaian
army and the heroes returned to their own lands. Sisyphos of Kos, who
was present. at. the war with Teukros, has written about this. The poet
Homer found his book and wrote the I11dd, while Vergil wrote the rest of
the story. These events are also recorded in the writings of Diktys;
(133) this work was found many years after the time of Homer and
Vergil in a box during the reign of the emperor Claudius Nero.
60.
Klytaimnestra,
Agamemnon's wife,
who had previously heard
that her husband was in love with Kassandra, finding an opportunity,
committed adultery with Aigisthos, the senator, son of Thyestes.
On
learning of Agamemnon's impending arrival in Mykenai, she plotted with
Aigisthos how he might kill Agamemnon on his return by a trick. When
Agamemnon reached the city of the Mykenaians and was welcomed by the
city and the senate and Aigisthos, he entered his palace and was
murdered. His wife immediately made Aigisthos emperor and married him
legally.
She had a daughter by him, whom she called Erigone and who
after the death of her father and mother hanged herself out of fear of
Orestes.
The senate, the city and the army hated Aigisthos.
Orestes,
Agamemnon's son, heard of his father's arrival in the city of the
Mykenaians and returned from Schoineus, to whom Agamemnon, on the point
of departing to the war, had entrusted him to be brought up and educated
by him.
His sister took him aside and told him secretly that
Aigisthos planned to destroy him. In the meantime, while Orestes was
planning what he ought to do, (134) Strophios arrived in Mykenai. He
belonged to Agamemnon's family and had with him his son Pylades, who had
been brought up with Orestes and was a fellow-student. When Strophios
learnt what had happened to Agamemnon, he planned with Orestes to make
war on Aigisthos. He took Orestes and went to the oracle of Apollo to

the sons of Aias (132.11-12): 'both the

sons of Ales' Slav.

their own lands (132.19): C adds 'leaving Agenor to rule Phrygia'.

the writings of Diktys (132.22): 'the Rhapsodiai of Diktys' C, cf Slav.
after the time of Homer and Vergil (133.1): 'after the death of
Homer' C.
in a box during the reign of the emperor Claudius Nero (133.2):
'in
tin box during the reigns of Claudius and Nero, the Roman emperors'

cf Sept..

a
C,

60. Bo 133.3-134.9; De insid 1 (151.1-21),

C 222.16-223.2;
Slav:
Ist
30.7-31.1. See Sept VI 2-3.
His wife (133.12): De insid, Slav add 'Klytaimnestra'.
E rigone (133.14) De insid, Slav: 'Enigone' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 223.
His sister (133.21): cf Slav which adds 'Lekt.ora' (= 'Elektra').
in Mykenai (134.1): C, Slav add 'from Crete'.
Pylades who ... fellow-student (134.2) De insid, Slav, cf C: 'Pylades, the
fellow-student' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 223-4.
he planned with Orestes (134.3) De insid: 'he advised Orestes' Bo, cf C;
see Bury, 1897, 224.

/G

He received a response, that Orestes should

about Orestes.
Then Orestes asked to know whether he
mother
and
Aigisthos.
his
would
would survive after he had killed them, and was told that he
possess his ancestral lands and all the Peloponnese.
begged Strophios to return to his native land,
61.
Orestes
Strophios agreed and did so. Then Orestes
leaving him his son, Pylades.
the
city
of the Mykenaians, obeying the oracle.
and Pylades came to
persuade
Orestes secretly visited Elektra, his sister, and begged her to
Elektra did persuade her
his mother, Klytaimnestra, to receive him.
mother and she received Orestes. Then Klytaimnestra, as she had been
Aigisthos,
asked, pleaded with Aigisthos. When he had been received by
blood,
his
father's
fury,
wishing
to
avenge
Orestes was patient in his
he
saying to everyone, "The empire is mine". Finding his opportunity,
Then he
step-father.
Aigisthos,
his
his
mother
and
the
emperor
murdered
(135)
went from fury to madness when he was beside himself with rage;
sometimes he was rational and lived at ease, at other times he raved.
order to oblige the citizens and senators, since they loved Orestes
In
and wanted him to reign over them, the priests purified and cleansed
Orestes and freed him from the guilty madness for this murder of his
They took Orestes to the temple of Athene in which the
mother.
Areopagos sat, and there Menestheus presided over the trial between
Orestes and Oiax, speaking for Tyndareos, father of Klytaimnestra.
his
Menestheus pronounced his judgement that Orestes had justly avenged
so
women
in
mind,
with
other
father's murder;
he said this especially
that no other woman should commit such a dreadful deed. Diktys has
find
kill

out

written about this in his sixth book.

62.
After the judgement the priests took Orestes from the trial
before the Areopagos and brought him to Delphi, to stay in the temple of
Apollo so that he could rid himself of his madness and begin to reign.
Orestes entered the temple in his right mind, together with Pylades, and
making a sacrifice, he asked the Pythia for release from his disease of
insanity.
A response was given him in verse by the Pythia, which runs
as follows in the common language, (136) "Orestes, in no other way may
you be free from the madness of your troublesome disease except by
crossing the waves of the Pontic Sea and reaching the land of Scythia
and the country of Aulis. You will be a captive in the temple of
Artemis but will be saved from the altar. Fleeing from there, from the
land of barbarians,
and travelling further, you will come to the land

De insid 1 (151.22-152.10), C 223.2-12, cf JA 25;

61. Bo 134.10-135.12;
Slav: Ist 31.1-19. See Sept VI 3-4.
Menestheus presided (135.7) Slav, of Sept: om Ba, De insid; it is
possible that the slightly awkward tov uaLveaOat 'guilty madness', at
Bo 135.5 represents Tou McvEa0 (wc,mitted at this point and misplaced
(suggested by A.W. James).
Tyndareos (135.8): 'the emperor Tyndareus' De insid, Slav.
62. Bo 135.13-136.18;
De insid 1 (152.11-31), C 223.13-224.2, PsS 46r,
cf JA 25;
Ke 234.20-235.12,
Slav: Ist 31.20-32.12.
See Eur Iph TaLlr
69-73, 103-5.
Aulis (136.3; corr Dind) De insid, PsS, Ke, C, Slav: 'Lysais' Ba.
from the land-further (136.4; corr Dind) PsS, Ke, of Ba, De insid: cf
'fleeing thence from the East, crossing the land of the barbarians' C,
Slav.

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of Syria which shakes and you will find opposite the valley and mountain
of
Silpios a mountain with the name Melantios, where there is a great
temple of Hestia.
There put aside your raving madness.
Go quickly".

She spoke what was to be.

Orestes received this oracle and noted it down. He immediately
set sail with Pylades and came to the land of Aulis in Scythia. After
they had disembarked from the ship, Orestes noticed a temple, situated
about two miles from the sea, with human bones scattered about. Orestes
said to Pylades, "Do you think that this is the goddess's shrine where
we have landed with the ships? I see the bones of dead strangers".
Pylades looked, and said to Orestes, "Let us flee,
we are to be
saved".
Orestes said,
"We shall not flee; we are not accustomed to
running away, nor shall we invalidate the oracle".
63.
Herdsmen saw them and ran to (137) Iphigeneia, saying to her,
"Daughter of Agamemnon and Klytaimnestra, two young men have come past
the Dark Rock". She said to them, "What sort of men are they? From
what land? What are the strangers' names?" For Iphigeneia used to ask
all
those who were captured and brought to sacrifice what country they
came from;
and then she slew them.
She wanted to learn about her
father Agamemnon and his family, and about what had happened in the war
against. the Phrygians.
The herdsmen said to her, "One of them said to
the other,
'Pylades';
we do not know the name of his companion for he
did not mention it". She said to them, "What does a herdsman have to
do with the sea?" They replied, "We came to wash our cattle in the salt
water".
She sent Scythians and captured them. They were brought as
prisoners to be sacrificed, as the most learned Euripides has written
poetically in a play, of which this is a small part.
64.
When they were tied up, she ordered one to be kept aside and
the other to be brought for sacrifice. The Scythians put. Orestes on one
side and brought Pylades to the altar of Artemis for sacrifice.
Iphigeneia asked him from what country he was. He replied, "I, unhappy
that I am, come from the land of Hellas and the city of Mykenai". On
hearing the country and the city, where her father had reigned, she
wept.
Thinking that they had been instructed by the herdsmen, she said
to him, (138) "If you are from Mykenai, you know who is emperor there".
He replied,
"It was once Agamemnon". She asked him another question,
"If you were correct about Agamemnon, who is his wife and which are the
children he had by her?" He replied, "By Klytaimnestra he had Orestes
and Elektra and Iphigeneia, who - they say - was offered as a sacrifice

if

Go quickly". She spoke what was to be (136.7-8): 'Go quickly.

I
have
spoken what is to be"' C, PsS, Ke.
this oracle (136.18): 'the god's oracle' De insid, C, Slav.
63. Bo 136.19-137.13; De insid 1 (152.32-153.9),
C 224.2-15,
PsS 46r,
Ke 235.12-16; Slav: Ist 32.13-24. See Eur I,oh 7 ur 238-55.
past the Dark Rock (137.2) De insid, C (an inadequate phrase resulting

from a misunderstanding of Eur I,nh Tour 241; see Bentley, 710) : of 'over
the sea' Slav.
does a herdsman (137.10):
254.
64. Bo 137.14-139.4;

46r-v,

Ke

De insid

235.16-236.20;

771, 774, 790-1.

'do herdsmen'
1

Slav:

De insid, C, Slav, Eur _[Pb Tqur

(153.9-154.4),

Ist 32.24-34.2.

224.15-225.13,

PsS

Eur Iph Faur- 495, 510,

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Artemis, but the goddess saved her and it is not known where she is.
On hearing
Chrysothemis and Laodike
also had other daughters,
She
this, Iphigeneia ordered that he should be released from his bonds.
the
goddess
grants
saying,
"See,
wrote on a dipt.ych and gave it to him,
you life through me. Swear by her that you will give this diptych to
He swore to her, "I will put
Orestes and bring me a letter from him".
this into his hands and'bring him to you". Taking the diptych, he went
out in front of the temple where Orest.es was being held under guard, and
asked the Scythians if he could speak with him. He presented him with
The Scyt.hians stood there
the diptych,
saying, "Come to your sister".
astonished at what was happening. They brought him, with Pylades, to
Iphigeneia.
Pylades said to her, "Look, this is Orestes", but she did
recognize
him.
Thinking it was not he, she said, "My brother has a
not
Looking at. his
birth-mark on his shoulder, the mark of Pelops' family".
right shoulder-blade, (139) she saw that he had Pelops' sign. She flung
her arms around Orestes and ordered his ships, and the sailors on board,
to be brought to land. So they beached the ships and remained for the
winter.
65.
At the beginning of summer, Orestes secretly took Iphigeneia
and the solid gold statue of Artemis and, with Pylades, fled in the
ships which they had. They crossed over tp the land of the Adiabenoi.
From there they travelled to the East, to the Saracen I.ime._s, and reached
Trikomia in the land of Palestine.
Noticing Iphigeneia's priestly
They
robes, the inhabitants of Trikomia received her with honour.
The
stayed there,
for Orestes was overcome there with his madness.
Trikomitans built a great temple to Artemis and begged Iphigeneia to
sacrifice a virgin girl to Artemis and give the girl's name to the
village.
They brought the girl, named Nyssa, before her and they made a
sacrifice to Artemis. They made a bronze statue of the girl slaughtered
by her, a
tyche.
Iphigeneia called the city that had formerly been a
village the city of Nyssa, after the slaughtered girl, and she also made
an altar for her, on which was inscribed the following,
"Goddess Poa
Nyssa, accept those who flee from Scythia". The inscription remains
until now.
Once Orestes had recovered his right. mind, Iphigeneia saw in
(140)
a dream a deer which said to her, "Flee from this land". getting out in

to
He

the morning with Orestes

and Pylades, she

fled to the coast. of Palestine

sailing from there, they came to Syria in accordance with the

and,
oracle.
66.
The emperor of Scythia, named Thoas, heard that Iphigeneia
had taken the solid gold statue of Artemis and had fled.
He sent many
Scythians to pursue her, telling them, "You are not to return to Scyt.hia
unless you bring me the solid gold statue of Artemis with you". They
pursued the fugitives and looked for them everywhere and reached the

and Laodike (138.7) De insid, C,

(cf, eg,
IX 145, 287).
remained (139.4): De insid, C add
65. Bo 139.5-140.5;
De insid 1

Iliad

236.20-237.9; Slav:

PsS, Ke:

'Laodike and Iphianassa'

'there'.
(154.5-17),

C 225,14-33,

Slav

PsS 46v, Ke

Ist 34.3-20.

Poa (139.21) : Dind credibly suggests nftvLa, Ttbtva

66. Bo 140.6-18;
De insid
Slav: Ist 34.20-29.

'lady'.

(154.18-21), C 225.33-226.10, Ke 237.17-21;

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land
They

of
Palestine and the city of Nyssa, previously known as Trikomia.
learnt that. Iphigeneia and Orestes had gone to the coast and had
immediately sailed away.
Then, since they were pleased with the
location both of the city of Nyssa and of the temple of Artemis and they
were afraid of their emperor, they stayed and made their homes there,
renaming the city Scythopolis after themselves.
67.
Orestes reached Syria with his companions and, on disembarking
from the boat, asked where was Mount. Melantios and the temple of Hestia.
When he had found the temple, he entered it.
(141) He made a sacrifice
and spent the night there in sleep.
Then he was freed from his most
grievous sickness and left the temple. He went down into the waters of
the two rivers known as Melantia by the Syrians, since they flow down
from Mount Melantios, and bathed himself.
Then Orestes crossed the river Typhon, now known as Orontes, and
came to Mount Silpios to pay respects to the Ionitai. When the Argive
Ionitai
who inhabit Syria heard that Orestes had been freed from his
sickness,
they went out to him, since he was originally from their
homeland and was of imperial blood. They met him and recognized those
who were with him from the temple of Hestia and asked them, "Who is
this?"
They replied, "This is Orestes and we are bringing him to you".
The Ionitai immediately embraced him and said, "Orestes, where did you
lay aside your madness?"
Orestes,
still afraid
of the disease's
strength, did not turn round and show them the temple or the mountain
where he was released from the disease, but he raised his right hand
above his head and pointed to the mountain and the temple with his
finger,
saying to them, "It was on that mountain, in the temple of the
goddess Hestia, that I laid aside my grievous madness". Immediately the
Ionitai made a bronze statue of Orestes in the posture in which he had
pointed out the mountain to them.
It stands on a column, to the
memory and glory of the region and of the temple of Hest.ia, and this
bronze statue stands to the present day. By this the Ionitai showed to
those who came after where (142) Orestes put aside his raging madness,
and they changed the name of Mount Melantios to Amanos.
Orestes paid his respects to the Ionitai and went down to the coast
at what was formerly known as Palaiopolis, but is now known as
Seleukeia.
He found ships there and sailed away with Iphigeneia and
Pylades to Hellas.
There he gave his sister Elektra in marriage to
Pylades, and held the land of the Mykenaians until his death.
When the Syrians noticed the posture of the statue of Orestes and
learnt the explanation from the Ionitai, they were furious and called
him the runaway.
The reason was that, in spite of the great benefit
that. had befallen him in their country and the great threat that. he had
escaped,
he had not turned to look and praise and thank the divinities;
nor had he shown the Ionitai the temple of Hestia but had run away from
reason and, instead of giving thanks, he had turned away and had merely
pointed out with his finger the temple and the mountain where he was

67. Bo 140.19-142.20; De insid 1 (154.22-155.16), C 226.11-31, PsS 46v,

Ke 237.9-17; Slav: Ist 35.1-36.11.
most grievous sickness (141.2): De insid, Slav add 'and leaving his
madness there'.
on a column, to the memory (141.23): 'on a large stone column to the
eternal memory' De insid, Slav, cf C.

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which
freed from his pitiless madness and saved. This statue of Orestes,
the
Runaway"
by
"The
is
called
is a little way outside the city,
The learned Domninos has written about
Antiochenes till the present.
this.
68.
In the
period after the capture of Troy a man named Themis
to
win the admiration of the Hellenes, for he invented
was the first
After this, (143) Minos
tragic songs and was the first to write plays.
and,
after Minos, Auleas wrote tragic choruses for plays. Then, in the
the
time after this, Euripides found and took from them many plots for
plays he wrote.
69.
Then David, the son of Jesse, reigned over Israel for 40
years and two months. He reconstructed the city formerly known as Salem
and later as Jeboun, renaming it Jerusalem.
Thus from Adam to David there were 47 years.
After David, Solomon, son of David, reigned for 40 years. He built
the temple in Jerusalem, placing the bronze Cherubim and Seraphim in it.
He was the first to begin building temples for the Jews, for they had
had none previously. He also built a city on the 11mes which he called
Palmyra ("Past Fate"),
because in the past the village had been fatal
for Goliath whom his father had slain there.
Thus from Adam to Solomon there were 47 years.
After the reign of Solomon, there reigned others, amongst whom was
Ahab,
emperor of the Jews. During his reign lived the prophet Elijah
the Tishbite, who was taken up into heaven.
at this time
Other emperors reigned until the time of Hezekiah;
there flourished the learned Homer, the poet, who wrote about the war
between Trojans and Danaoi.
(144)
Thus from Adam to Hezekiah, emperor of the Jews, there were
5266 years.
A prophet of the Jews, Isaiah, lived then in the time of
Hezekiah.
70.
It came about
in the 14th year of the reign of Hezekiah,
emperor of the Jews, that Sennacherib, emperor of the Assyrians, came up
against the strong cities of Judaea and captured them. The emperor of
the Assyrians sent Rabshakeh from Lachish against the emperor Hezekiah
at Jerusalem with a large force. He halted by the aqueduct of the upper
cistern in the Street of the Fuller's Field.
Eliakim, the steward, the
son of Hilkiah, and Somnas, the scribe, and Joah, the recorder, the son
of
Asaph, came to him. Rabshakeh said to them, "Say to Hezekiah:
Thus
says the emperor of the Assyrians.
In whom have you placed your
trust?
Surely the battle does not take place in councils and words

68. Bo 142.21-143.3; C 226.32-227.5,

'Scholiastes vetus in Aeschylum'
(see Bentley, 713); Slav: Ist 36.11-16, Soph 58.
cf
'Theomis'
C, Scholiast, Slav, 'Thespis' Bentley,
Themis (142.22):
714;
on the names in the first two sentences of this para., see
Cantarella, 1970/1, and 1972/3.
invented (142.22): 'was the first to invent' C, Scholiast.
plays he wrote (143.2): Slav adds 'as the most learned Theophilos has
written', cf C which omits 'most learned'.
c C 229.11-12;
69. Bo 143.4-144.3; JN 48,
Slav:
Ist 36.16-17,
Soph
58,

Tikh (Ist xv-xviii, 52.1-9).

70. Bo 144.4-146.4; cf
18.13-36.

CP

215.10-12. See I.saiah 36.1-21, Jr'.ings IV (=

II)

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from men's lips? Now in whom have you placed your trust? In that staff
of
broken reed - in Egypt? It will pierce the hand of anyone who leans
on it.
Such is Pharaoh, emperor of Egypt, and all who put their trust
in
him.
But if you say, 'We have put our trust in the Lord our God',
now join yourselves with my lord, the emperor of the Assyrians. He will
give you 2000 horses if you can give him riders for them. How will you
be able to look even one toparch in the face? Those who put their trust
in Egypt for horse and rider are slaves. And now is it. without your
lord
(145) that we have come up into this land to attack it?" Eliakim,
the son of Hilkiah, and Somnas, the scribe, and Joah said to him, "Speak
to
your servants in Syrian, and for what purpose do you speak for the
ears of the men on the wall?" And Rabshakeh said to them, "Surely my
lord did not send me to your lord or to you to speak these words; did he
not send me to the men sitting on the wall so that they should not eat
dung and drink urine together with you?" Rabshakeh stood and shouted in
a
loud voice in the language of the Jews and said, "Hear the words of
the great emperor of the Assyrians. Thus says the emperor: Do not let
Hezekiah deceive you by saying that God will save you, and that this
city will not be delivered into my hand. He is not able to save you.
And do not let Hezekiah say to you that God will save you, and the city
will not be delivered into the hands of the emperor of the Assyrians.
Pay no heed to Hezekiah. Thus says the emperor of the Assyrians: Take
counsel that you may be blessed; come over to me and each of you eat of
his vine and his figs and drink water from your cistern until I come to
take you to a land like your land, a land of corn and wine and bread
and vines. Let not then Hezekiah deceive you saying, 'God will deliver
you'.
Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from
the hand of the emperor of the Assyrians? Where is the god of Aitham
and Arpad? (146) Where is the god of Seppharothim? Could Samaria be
delivered from my hand? Which of the gods of all the nations delivered
his land from my hand, that he says, 'The Lord God of Israel will
deliver you from my hand?"'
71.
They were silent and no one replied to him because the
emperor had commanded that no one should reply to him. Eliachim, the
steward,
the son of Hilkiah, and Somnas, the scribe, and Joah, the
recorder, the son of Asaph, went in to Hezekiah with their garments torn
and reported Rabshakeh's words to him. It. came about when the emperor
Hezekiah heard this, he tore his robes and dressed himself in sack-cloth
and went up into the temple of the Lord. He sent Eliakim, the steward,

in whom...trust (144.14) cf I%7Jah; om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 224.

they should not eat (145.8) : 'they should eat' Isaiah, cf Kings.
Now

deceive you...into my hand (145.11): Ba is inadequately reported in the

apparatus of Bo; see Bury, 1897, 224. Cf 'deceive you with words, he is
not able to save you. And let not Hezekiah say to you that God will
save you' Isaiah, and Dind in Bo.

I come

to take

you' Ba.

Aitham. (145.21)

' Aimat.h'

Seppharothim

(146.1):

'Eppharonaim'

.9h.

71.

146.5-147.17; cf
IV (= II) 18.37-19.13.
Bo

isalah, Kings; 'I wish to take

you (145.17; corr Chit)

h'ings,

cf ' Aimar'

'Seppharouaim'
CP

Bo

147.17, 'Emath'

Xings, cf 'Seppharim'

215.16-216.1.

See

iah.

Bo 147.17,

Isai..h 36.22-37.13, hangs

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and Somnas, the scribe, and the elders of the priests, dressed in
sack-cloth,
to Isaiah,
the prophet, the son of Amos, and said to him,
of bonds and
Today is a day of affliction,
"Thus says Hezekiah:
woman
who
gives birth
travail
has
come
to
the
reproach and rage because
and she has no strength to bring forth. Let the Lord your God heed the
words of Rabshakeh which the emperor of the Assyrians sent to revile the
Living God, to revile Him with words which the Lord your God has heard;
pray to the Lord your God concerning those that are left". The servants
of the emperor came to Isaiah and Isaiah said to them, "Speak to your
master in this way:
(147) Thus says the Lord, Do not be afraid because
of
the words you have heard, with which the ambassadors of the emperor
Behold, I will put a spirit in him
of
the Assyrians have reviled me.
and he will hear a report and return to his own land, and the sword
shall fall on his land". Rabshakeh returned and found the emperor of
The emperor of the
the Assyrians besieging the emperor Lomnas.
Assyrians heard that Thara, emperor of the Ethiopians, had set out to
lay siege to him.
On hearing this, he sent Rabshakeh with a large force
to meet him.
He himself remained and sent messengers to Hezekiah,
Let not your God in
saying,
"Say this to Hezekiah, emperor of Judaea:
whom you have put your trust deceive you when he says, Jerusalem will
not be given into the hands of the emperor of the Assyrians. Have you
not heard what the emperors of the Assyrians have done over all the
earth,
and the gods of the nations have not. delivered them? Did not
my fathers destroy Gozan and Haran and Rapheis, which were in the land
of
Thaiman?
Where are the emperors of Aimar and Arpad and of the city
of Seppharim?"
72.
Hezekiah took the document from the messengers and he read it.
before the Lord, and Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying, "0 God of
Israel,
who sits above the Cherubim, since you alone, God, are ruler of
the inhabited world, you who made (148) the heaven and the earth, give
heed, o Lord, look down, o Lord, and see the words which Sennacherib has
sent reviling the Living God. For it is true that the emperors of the
Assyrians have laid waste all the inhabited world and its countries and
have cast their idols into the fire, for they were not gods but the
works of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.
Now,
o Lord our God, save us from their hand, so that every empire on

and said (146.14) Bo in app.: 'they said' Bo in text, Isalah,

bonds (146.15, bs(jVov ) : 'distress', dvecbWWLov Isaiah.
and a sword shall fall on his land (147.4, &,XaLpa ) : 'he shall
by the sword (paxalpq
)' I lah.
the emperor Lomnas (147.6; 'emperor' om
K ngs, Chronicles I I 21.10: cf 'Lobnas'

Dind,

fall

unnecessarily) cf 'Lomna'

1s,71,9h.
Thara (147.7) : 'Tharka' I .iah, cf 'Tharaka' is-hi 'Tharthas' CP.
over all the earth (147.14) : Isaiah, CP add 'that they destroyed
c Kings,
Thaiman (147.16) : cf ' Theemat.h' Isalah,

it',

'Aimath'
(147.17):
,Vings,
Bo (corn Dind),
cf 'Emath' Isalah,
'Aitham' Bo 145.21.
Seppharim (147.17):
'Seppharouain'
Ar'ings,
cf 'Seppharothim' Bo 146.1
' Eppharouaim' Isa1aah.
72. Bo 147.18-149.5; cf CP 216.1-10. See I..a1aah 37.14-21, 33-38, hangs

Aimar

IV

(=II) 19.14-20,

32-37.

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the earth may know that you alone are God".

Isaiah,
son of Amos, was sent to Hezekiah and said to him, "Thus
says the Lord God of Israel:
I have heard the prayer you have made to
me concerning Sennacherib, emperor of the Assyrians. Thus says the Lord
about the emperor of the Assyrians: He shall not enter into this city,
nor shall he cast a weapon at it, nor shall he set up a shield against
it,
nor shall he surround it with a fence, but by the way that he came
by the same shall he return, says the Lord.
I will defend this city to
save it for my own sake and the sake of David, my servant".
And the angel of the Lord went out by night and slew 185,000 in the
camp of the Assyrians. When they rose up in the morning they found all
these bodies dead.
The emperor of the Assyrians turned away and
departed and dwelt in Nineveh.
And while he was worshipping his
ancestral god Sarach in his house, Adramelech and (149) Sarsar, his
sons,
struck him with swords;
they themselves escaped in safety to
Armenia.
Nachordan, his other son, reigned over the Assyrians.
After the reign of Hezekiah, Manasses reigned over the Jews for 55
years.
73.
Thus from Adam to Manasses there were in all 5321 years.
During those years the Rhodians, because they had never been
subjected to anyone by war but were autonomous and had control of the
sea, as an act of thanksgiving set up on their island a very large
bronze statue of Helios which they called the Kolossos, since it was a
tremendous sight. From then on they called themselves Kolossians.
After Manasses, Eliakim and Ioakim, his brothers, reigned over
Judaea for 44 years.
Thus from Adam there were in all 5365 years.

he was worshipping his ancestral God Sarach in

his house (148,22; corr

'Nasarach' Isaiah, 'Arsach' CP) Isaiah, CP: 'he was worshipping in
the house of Sarach his ancestral gods' Ba, cf 'he was worshipping in
the house of Neserach his god' kings.
Chil;

Sarsar (148.1) : 'Sarasar'

I.%.9iah, CP.
Bo 149.6-14.
After iianasses...his brothers (149.12-13): Dind suggests
textual changes to correct this wild inaccuracy.

73.

lacuna and

BOOK 6

The Time ofthe Empire of the

Assyrians and of Askanios,
son of Aineias

1.
(150)
During the reign of the emperor Joakim, Nebuchadnezzar,
emperor of the Assyrians, took up arms and attacked the Jews. He
captured Jerusalem and all the land of Judaea, as the prophets had
He led Joakim, emperor of the Jews, away captive
foretold to Israel.
and all the imperial vessels, and took everyone prisoner. Neither
Jerusalem,
the city of Judaea, nor Samaria continued to reign over the
Jews.
Then the empire of the Jews was surrendered into the hands of the
In the fifth year of the reign of
Assyrians, and they ruled over them.
Nebuchadnezzar all the captive Jews arrived in Babylon, as Eusebios
Pamphilou has chronicled.
2.
'(151) At that time the Lydians seized by force the empires,
that is, toparchies, from other neighbouring nations. First Ardeus
reigned over the Lydians for 36 years. He subjugated the neighbouring
races and empires, and lived arrogantly.
3.
After the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, emperor of the Assyrians,
Belshazzar, his son, began to reign. He used to be served from the
priestly vessels of the Jews, and used to mix wine in them for his
concubines and all those who dined with him, making a mock of the
vessels.
While he was reclining in his folly and dining, he saw
suddenly on the opposite wall of the. palace the finger of a man's hand,
writing "Mane, Thekel, Phares". When it had written this, the finger
disappeared.
Belshazzar read the writing and summoned all the
sorcerers,
goi, astrologers and interpreters of dreams of his land and
asked them,
"What
is this vision of the
finger?
What is the
interpetation of what it wrote?" No one was able to interpret for him.
When he heard that his father had held in great honour Daniel, one of
the Hebrew captives, who interpreted his dreams for him, he sent for
Daniel and said to him, "Since the grace of God is with you, interpret
for me what I have seen with my eyes, and explain to me the vision of
the letters". Daniel listened and (152) saw the vision of the letters.
He said to him, "Be patient with me, emperor, and do not be enraged and
I
will interpret the meaning of the writing for you".
Belshazzar swore
to do him no harm because of his interpretation. Daniel said to him,
"The God of heaven and earth is angry with you and has brought your
reign to an end". When he heard this, Belshazzar let him go, to see if
he spoke the truth. A few days later Dareios the Mede, who was 60 years
old, rebelled;
he attacked and killed him and captured his kingdom.
4.
After the reign of Dareios, other emperors reigned over the

Bo
Bo
3. Bo
what I
4.
Bo
1.
2.

150.1-12.
151.1-5.

151.6-152.8; Slav: Ist 4.1-5.4.

See

1knie15.

have seen (151.22): 'the wonder that I have seen' Slav.

152.9-153.3; Slav: Ist 5.4-16, Soph 60.

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Assyrians down to Astyages.

began a campaign against

force.

Then Ast.yages reigned over the Persians and

the Lydians and attacked them with a large

In that year the sun went into eclipse for many hours of the day,
an event which Thales the philosopher had predicted.
At that. time Peisistratos was a popular leader who was at war...
..the Lydians were not defeated in the war, but Astyages departed
of his own accord.
When the Pisaians heard this, they celebrated a
second festival, the Pythian games, giving thanks to Helios and
committing themselves to the Lydians and to the might of his power.

Then,

in

the

period

after

this, the Pisaians instituted a (153)

third festival, the Isthmian games in honour of Pluto. The Pisaians

also instituted a fourth festival and celebrated the Nemean games in
honour of Dionysos.
5.
After the reign of Ardeus, eight other emperors reigned over
the Lydians until Kroisos the Proud. Kroisos reigned for 15 years.
Thus the empire of the Lydians lasted in all for 232 years.
6.

In

the time of his reign Kroisos subjugated all the provinces,

or empires, both those nearby and those at a distance, taking tribute

from those who submitted but their persons and their empires from those
who resisted.
He was greatly feared, since he was fortunate and
victorious;
and so he became conceited.
At that time Solon practised philosophy.
7.
After the reign of Astyages, emperor of the Persians, Kyros
the Persian became emperor. He fell in love with Bardane, the wife of
his predecessor Dareios, and married her. In the 14th year of Kyros'
reign Kroisos, emperor of the Lydians, was informed by his senators of
the previous warlike incursion into Lydia made by Astyages, emperor of
the Persians, and was angry. He sent a message to Kyros, the emperor of
the Persians, that he should yield to him his empire and withdraw, or he
could expect a warlike incursion from his own most fortunate Majesty.
When Kyros, emperor of the Persians, received (154) the ambassadors who
had been sent and read what. Kroisos had written,
he said to the
ambassadors,
"How has Kroisos, whom so much land separates from me and
my empires, been injured by me? Or why, after the passing of so many
years, does he avenge injury done to his land?" In his distress Kyros
wished to flee to the land of India.
When his wife saw him in
Thales the philosopher (152.13): cf 'the learned Thales' Slav.
at war.,. (152.15): for the lacuna, see Dind.
5.
Bo 153.4-7; Ke 239.12-15, GM 20.19-20; Slav: Ist 5.16-19, Soph 60.
eight other emperors (153.4) Ke, Slav: 'eight emperors' Bo (not in
Bury).
Kroisos the Proud
(153.5):
Ke adds 'and Kyros,
emperor of the
Assyrians'; cf Slav which adds
'the great, golden emperor', cf 'Kroisos
the golden' at 153.6 and elsewhere.
6.
Bo 153.8-13; JN 51.2-3, cf Ke 239.15-16, GM 18.12-13, Sk 15.10-11;
Slav: Ist 5.20-24.
7.
Bo 153.14-154.18; Ke 239.17-240.6, GM 18.13-19.8,
Su III 196.30-197.6, JN 51.1, 4-7, Slav: Ist 5.25-6.23,

D inieJ 4, Hdt I 47 .

India (154.5): Ke adds 'fearing the good fortune

'fearing the fortunate empire of Kroisos' Slav.

of

Sk

15.15-25,
See

Soph 61.

Kroisos',

cf

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She said to
she enquired and learnt from him of the problem.
the time of Dareios, my first husband, there was a Hebrew, a
prophet, endowed with wisdom from God, whose name was Daniel, one of the
sons of Israel in captivity, whom the emperor Dareios held in great
He did nothing in war without him.
He consulted him whenever
honour.
he began a war, and so defeated his opponents. After Dareios' death
Daniel,
now rich and old, withdrew into private life in the region of
Marabitis".
When Kyros heard this, he sent. his nobles to him, to escort.
him with honour.
The ambassadors who had been sent from Kroisos to
Kyros returned to the land of the Lydians, bearing the reply given to
them by Kyros for their emperor.
8.
Kroisos,
emperor of the Lydians, chose certain faithful men
from his followers. He gave them some gifts that were modest and others
that were imperial.
He sent them to the oracle at Delphi, saying,
"Change your garments and wear Egyptian clothing.
When you come to the
oracle,
(155) give the modest gifts to the priest, saying to him, 'We
are Egyptians and we have come to consult the Pythia, but because of the
long journey we have forgotten what. it was we came to ask or request.
If she tells
But make prayers and ask the goddess why we have come'.
you why. you have come, present. the imperial gifts too and tell the
priest to find out .if I shall conquer Kyros, the emperor of the
Persians".
They took the gifts and went to the temple at Delphi where
they presented the modest gifts, saying that they were Egyptians and "We
have forgotten why we have come". The priest was astounded when he
He
heard this, but he accepted the modest gifts and went in and prayed.
received this reply from the Pythia, "I know the number of the grains
of sand and the measurements of the sea;
I can hear one who does not
speak and I can understand one who is dumb. But the emperor Kroisos and
his Lydians seek to mock me". The priest came out and said to them,
"You are not Egyptians but Lydians, and you have not forgotten but. you
said this to mock our divine power". He gave them the oracle, writing
it on diptychs so that Kroisos should know of the miracle. The
messengers were astounded and gave the priest the other imperial gifts,
telling him, "The emperor Kroisos has sent us since he is making war on
Kyros, the emperor of the Persians. Find out whether he will defeat
The priest went, in again and prayed and received this response,
him".
"When Kroisos crosses the river Halys he will destroy (156) a great
empire".
He wrote this oracle too on diptychs and gave it to them to
take to the emperor Kroisos, and sent them away.
9.
The prophet Daniel came into the presence of Kyros, emperor
of
the Persians, who said to him, "Tell me if I shall conquer Kroisos,
emperor of the Lydians".
Daniel hesitated to speak and the emperor,
becoming angry with him, threw him into a den of lions.
When Kyros

despair,
him,

"In

despair (154.6): 'such despair' Ke, cf Slav.

8.
Bo 154.19-156.3; Ke 240.6-241.7, GM 19.11-18, Su III 197.12-18, cf
Sk 15.25-27, Slav: Ist 6.23-7.22.

why we have come" (155.9)

:
'what. we were to ask ; but ask the Pythia why
have come' Slav.
to mock (155.13) : Slav adds 'and to test'.
9. Bo 156.4-157.7; Ke 241.8-242.7, GM 19.18-20.6, JN 51.7-12, cf Sk
15.27-16.7, MK 1I.13; Slav: Ist. 8.1-21, Soph 62. See Iru1ah 45.1-4,13.

we

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learnt

that.
he had not been harmed by the beasts, he took him out. and
fell
down before him, saying, "I have wronged you, but pray to your god
and tell me if I can withstand that. grasping and arrogant. Kroisos, since
he has subjugated the whole earth and yet is not satisfied".
Daniel
prayed and said to him, "You will conquer Kroisos and take him prisoner.
For the God who made all visible things has said concerning you
through the prophet. Isaiah,
'Thus says the Lord
God to Kyros, my
anointed, whose right hand I have held so that peoples may submit before
him:
I shall break the might of emperors,
I shall open gates before him
and
cities will not be closed.
I shall
go before him and make level
mountains,
and I shall break down gates of bronze and will shatter iron
bolts.
I shall give you dark treasures, I shall reveal to you treasures
hidden and unseen, so that you may know that. I am the Lord God.
I raise
him up with justice, all his paths are straight.
(157) He will build my
city and he will return my captive people, not for a ransom and not for
gifts',
said the Lord God of Sabaoth".

fell

this,

When the emperor Kyros heard

he
at. Daniel's feet. saying,
the Lord your God lives, I will release Israel from my land so that
they may worship their god in Jerusalem".
He took up arms and began war
against Kroisos.
10.
When the emperor Kroisos heard the oracle's response, he
set out against Kyros with a great force. He crossed the Halys, a river
in
Cappadocia, and clashed with Kyros during a great. st.orrn.
He was
defeated and wished to flee, both himself and his army, but since the
river was in flood because of the storm, he was unable to flee or to get
across.
He was taken prisoner, and his army of 400,000 men was
destroyed.
The survivors
of these Kyros took prisoner, together with
Kroisos,
whom he set on high bound to a wooden tripod, and paraded him
in triumph before his army.
He took him and led him off to Persia.
These things are recounted by the most learned Thallos and Kastor and
"As

Polybios in their works,

and

after

them by Herodotos,

the historian.

The learned Theophilos has also chronicled these matters.

11.
his

As

empire

soon
(158)

as Kyros,
he

the emperor of the Persians, returned to

immediately set all the sons of Israel free from

captivity, to return to Jerusalem with

Zoro.babel.

But. two and a

half

tribes, men, women and children, 50,000 in number, remained in Persian

territory of their own choice, in fear of the neighbouring peoples. The
other nine and a half returned, as the chronicler Timotheos has

God who made. . .has said (156.14; corr Chit)

made . . . " 'Ba ; s ee Bury, 1897 , 224 .
10. Bo 157.8-21; Ke 242.7-16, GM 20.6-17,

Ke,

'God said,

"I

Slav:

Soph 62.
the emperor Kroisos (157.8):

JN

51.13-15, cf

Sk

16.7-12;

Ist 8.21-9.7,

'Kroisos, emperor of Lydia' Slav.

He was taken prisoner and his army of 400,000 men was destroyed (157.13)
Ke, GM, JN, Slav: 'he was taken prisoner, he and his army of 40,000 rnen'
Bo,
but the second
'he'
is not
in Ba
(Bury, 1897, 224) and 'was
destroyed' has been added by a second hand in the margin of Ba.
Thallos (157.18; corr Bentley): 'Thales' Ba, cf 'Thalas' Slav.
11. Bo 157.22-158.6;
Ke 242.16-23, GM 20.18-19, Su III 197.18-19,
JN
51.16, cf Sk 16.12-16; Slav: Ist 9.7-15, Soph 62.
But two and a half tribes... nine and a half returned (158.2-4): 'But.
not all the Jews wanted to leave with Zorobabel - only two and a half

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Kyros set them free at the request of Daniel.

of the Lydians, the
the destruction of the empire
After
12.
When
Samians had control over the sea and reigned over those regions.
the Persians, heard this, he
Kyros,
the
emperor
of
later
years
some
them. He attacked and fought them in a sea
began a campaign against
battle but was defeated and fled. Returning to his own country he was
The most learned Pythagoras the Saurian has written about. the
murdered.
It. was he who said that. Kyros died
war between Kyros and the Samians.
All this has been chronicled by the learned Africanus.
in the war.
his son Dareios, also known as
13.
After the reign of Kyros,
Kambyses, and many others reigned over the Assyrians.
the son of Kyros,
During the time of the reign of Dareios,
He said that the
Anaximander practised philosophy among the Hellenes.
of the whole universe, and that the sun was no
earth was the centre
smaller than the earth, and that air was the beginning of all things;
He
from it all things came into being and into it all things dissolved.
declared that man's soul and all spirits were made of air, introducing
(159) He also wrote about equinoxes and
false and erroneous reasoning.
Pythagoras the Samian, mentioned above, wrote on arithmetic.
solstices.
first.
causes and
He conjectured that there were some incorporeal
to the Hellenes.
The learned Timotheos has
this belief
introduced
recorded this in his writings.
son of Kyros, the Ethiopians, who
14.
In the
reign of Dareios,
When the Jews who
had a grudge against him, started a war against him.
lived
in the land of the Medes - and there were many of them - realized
Dareios, the son of Kyros,
they departed and captured Jerusalem.
this,
written.

heard

this

and

sent his general,

named

Holofernes, against. them to

He besieged Jerusalem and then a fearful

Jerusalem with a great force.
Judith was a Hebrew woman who plotted against the
event took place.
Persian exarch
Holofernes, pretending, it is said, that she wished to
betray the Jewish people.
She came to Holofernes in secret. and when he
saw her beauty, he was consumed with desire for her.
She said to him,
one here near me, for my sake, because they will
"Do not. allow any
attack me,
wishing to seduce me". He was persuaded and spent the time

tribes left, about. 50,000 people (Slav adds 'men, women and children').
Nine and a half tribes
remained in Persian territory of their own
choice, fearing the nations around the land and Judaea (cf 'Lydia' Slav)
Ke,
9.10-14 combined with Soph, both slightly defective but
Slav (Ist
giving this sense rather than that of Ba); see Dubarle, 1959, 543,
note 2.
12. Bo 158.7-15; Ke 242.24-243.6; Slav: Ist. 9.15-22.
of the Persians (158.9): Slav adds 'having defeated Kroisos'.
learned (158.14): 'most
learned' Slav (but. the superlative and positive
seem used at random and this distinction will not. be noted again).
13. Bo 158.16-159.5;
Ke 243.7-12, 273.22-274.5, cf GM 20.21-22;
Slav:
Ist 9.23-10.7, Soph 63.
many others (158.17): 'the others' Ke, Slav.
air was the beginning (158.21): 'aither was the beginning' Ke.
14. Bo 159.6-160.9;
Ke 243.12-244.11,
GM 276.3-4; Slav: Ist 10.7-11.3,
Soph 63.
against them (159.11): 'against. the Jews' Ke, Slav.
near me (159.18): 'near you' Ke, Slav.

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alone
while

with her.
She bided her time with him for three days, then,
she was in bed with him at night, she got up and cut. off his
head.
At midnight she left and entered Jerusalem through the postern
gate,
carrying his head, and (160) gave orders for it to be hung up,
for Holofernes had set up his pavilion near the wall for her sake. So
the Jews took the head from her and before dawn set it. on a spear above
the wall, displaying it to his army. At daybreak the Persians saw
Holofernes' head impaled on the spear and, suspecting that this had been
done by some spirit, they fled. The war came to an end and the Jews
were victorious over the Persians.
This is recorded in the Hebrew
scriptures.
The learned Eirenaios has written about this.
15.
After the reign of Dareios, Artaxerxes reigned over the
Assyrians.
Nehemiah the priest, of the seed of David, who had right of
access to Artaxerxes, made him an urgent request, for Artaxerxes loved
Nehemiah and had put him in charge of the eunuchs. Nehemiah received a
large sum of money and persuaded Art.axerxes that he should be set free
to go and rebuild Jerusalem, which had been destroyed. This was the
first capture of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple.
When Nehemiah
had been set free, he went to Jerusalem and rebuilt it and the city
wall;
he made its streets broad and constructed a better city, for it
had been desolate for 70 years.
This was the second reconstruction of
the Temple. The Temple was completed in 40 years. Artaxerxes, at the
request of some members of his senate, set free the remaining Jews.
Whoever wished then to return to Jerusalem, returned (161) with Esdra
the prophet and leader. Artaxerxes also gave the sacred vessels and the
priestly books that could be found. Esdra had a record written from his
own memory of the books that had not been found.
16.
At that time emperors reigned over the land of Macedonia.
First Kranaos reigned for 28 years. Then another 23 emperors reigned

until Philip.

The
philosophers and poets Sophokies, Herakleit.os,
Euripides,
Herodotos, Sokrates and the great Pythagoras were then teachers of

Hellenic learning.

Herakles had been born at the time mentioned above at Latos in the
Thebaid. He was of the family of Herakles, the son of Alkmene and Picus
Zeus.
He was brought up in the land of Spain and, when he proved a
brave man, went then from Spain to Italy to escape from the emperor

alone with her (159.20): Slav adds 'and everyone kept away'.
while she was in bed with him (159.21): 'while he was in bed' Ke, Slav;
see Dubarle, 1959, 544.
postern gate (159.22): Re, Slav add 'by which she used to come to him'.
15. Bo 160.10-161.4; Ke 244.12-245.2; Slav: 1st 11.3-18.
over the Assyrians (160.10): Slav adds 'for 20 years'.
Nehemiah the priest (160.11): 'Nehemiah the Jew' Ke, Slav.
Artaxerxes (160.12,21): 'the emperor Artaxerxes' Slav.
and persuaded (160.14; corr Dind) Ke: 'and made' Ba.
16. Bo 161.5-20; Ke 245.3-15; Slav: Ist. 11.19-12.4, Soph 65.
Kranaos (161.6): probably 'Karanos' Chil.
23

emperors reigned until Philip (161.6-7): '26 emperors until

Philip,

the father of Alexander' Ke.

Herakleitos (161.8; corn Dind): Re, Slav: 'Herakleides' Ba.
Pythagoras (161.9): perhaps 'Protagoras', see Bourier, 1900, 13-14.

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He married Auge, daughter of the

He reigned for 38 years.
Eurystheus.
emperor Aleos.
He reigned by right of descent from Picus Zeus, and so
the Italians and the emperors, or kings, who were descended from him and
reigned in the furthest regions of the West, set up gold and porphyry
statues in his honour.
These statues stand till the present.
17.
(162) Thus from Adam to this time there were 5,362 years.
After Artaxerxes,
many others reigned over the Assyrians until
Dareios the Younger.
18.
Herakles' son by Auge, reigned over Italy. After
Telephos,
Latinus
him his son,
whom he called Latinus, reigned likewise.
reigned in that country for 18 years and named the people known as
Skitinoi, Latins after himself.
19.
Then
Aineias the Phrygian, the son of Anchises, in his flight
from the sack of Ilion, that is, the Trojan War, came to Libya to Dido
the Phoenician, known also as Elissa. After staying there for a while,
he abandoned her without warning and fled since he was afraid of Iarbas,
emperor of Africa, as Vergil, the learned Roman poet, has written. But
the most learned Roman Servius has stated in his writings that it was
many years after the death of Aineias ... Dido came from a small city
known as Chartima, in Phoenice Maritima on the border between Tyre and
Sidon.
Dido was very rich; she had a husband, named Sychaios, who was
also very rich.
Dido's brother, named Pygmalion, killed Sychaios while
he was out hunting,
(163) for he was jealous of his great wealth and
authority throughout that land.
The two of them were on horseback,
hunting wild boar and carrying spears. Pygmalion came up from behind
and struck Sychaios, who was a valiant man, in the back with his spear,
and killed him.
Pygmalion took his body and threw it. over a cliff; he
then returned, and told Sychaios' household and his wife that he had
fallen
over a cliff whilst hunting a wild boar.
Pygmalion intended to
kill his sister also and take all the money. But Dido's husband
Sychaios appeared to her in a dream and said, "Flee, in case Pygmalion
Then Dido chose
kills you", and he showed her where his wound was.
her moment and slipped away from her brother Pygmalion and, taking all

V.

Bo 162.1-3; Slav: Ist 12.4-6, Soph 65.

5362 years (162.1):
'5307 years' Slav;
see
Gelzer, 1885a, 135,
who
despairs over this date.
many others (162.2): 'others' Slav.
18. Bo 162.4-8;
Ke
245.15-18, Su III 237.7-9, cf GM 41.5-7; Slav: Ist
12.8-12, Soph 65.
Latinus (162.7): Slav adds 'the son of Telephos'.
Skitinoi (162.7):
'Skitiaioi' Slav,
cf 'Ktitaioi' Ke, Bo (corr Dind),
'Kitiaioi' GM, 'Kitioi' Su.
19. Bo 162.9-163.18; Ke 245.19-246.16, JN 55.1-4; Slav: Ist. 12.13-13.16,
Soph 66.
death of Aineias...Dido (162.15-16):
'death of Aineias t.hat. Dido, also
known as Elissa,
came to Libya; she never saw Aineias at all. Dido'
Slav.
"Flee, in case Pygmalion kills you" (163.11):
'Your brother has killed
me' Ke,

Slav.

where his wound was (163.12):

too'.

Ke,

Slav add 'Flee, in case he kills you

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her money and putting it on board some ships, she sailed in flight
away from Phoenice with her attendants, and came to Libya, a country in
Africa.
There she built a very great city which she called Carthage.
She reigned there and there she died, having lived chastely.
20.
Aineias received an oracle and sailed away from Libya, with
the intention of reaching Italy. But. an opposing wind blew and he was
cast up with his ships near Sicily in Calabria at a city known as
Argyrippe, which had been founded by Diomedes, the son of Tydeus.
Diomedes was Aitolian by race (164), since he traced his descent from
Oineus, emperor of Aitolia. Oineus married a woman named Eriboia, and
by her had Tydeus.
Eriboia died and he took another wife, named
Althaia,
by whom he had Meleager and a daughter named Deianeira.
A
young man, named Acheloos, son of Poseidonios, one of Tydeus' senators
was betrothed to Deianeira.
But before the marriage he seduced
Deianeira in secret and then said to her father Oineus, "I will only
take your daughter if you hand over to me the administration of your
empire".
Oineus did not consent, and so Acheloos, together with his
father, took up arms against. Oineus and fought with him.
Oineus was
compelled to summon a valiant general from the land of Phthia, Herakles,
known as Polyphemos, making an agreement to give him his daughter
Deianeira.
Herakles came with his well-equipped army and joined battle
with Poseidonios and his son Acheloos.
In the conflict Polyphemos
killed Poseidonios, Acheloos' father, with his sword. This is why the
poets say that. Herakles broke off the horn of Acheloos, that. is, his
father's power,
When Acheloos saw that his father had fallen, he fled
on horseback;
and this is why he is called a Hippokent.auros.
While
Polyphemos Herakles was pursuing him, Acheloos turned (165) and shot him
through the breast.
Immediately Herakles shot Acheloos in return as he
crossed
the river named Phorbas. On being hit Acheloos was swept from
his horse into the river's current and perished, and from that time
until now the river has been called Acheloos by the inhabitants of
Aitolia,
as the learned Kephalion has stated.
Polyphemos Herakles died
a few days later from the wound in his breast.
21.
Meleager,
the son of Oineus and brother of Tydeus
and
Deianeira, performed a great deed in the land of Kalydonia when he
killed a tremendous boar. At.alante, the daughter of Schoineus, was with
him and her arrow struck the boar first,
for the beast had been
ravaging that. whole country. After the beast had been killed Meleager
bestowed its skin upon Atalante, for he had been seized with desire for
her.
On his return to his father Oineus, Meleager was asked by him for

money (163.14):
Slav
adds
and
silver and metalwork
and all
her valuables'.
Carthage (163.17): Slav adds which is Neapolis in the African language',

cf Ke, JN.

20. Bo 163.19-165.7;
Ke 246.17-247.17; Slav: Ist 13.16-14.8,
Soph 66.
See Mtlller FHG III 631 (K ephalio n, f r. 8)
A young man (164.5): 'When she was still a virgin, a young man' Slav.
then said to her father Oineus (164.8):
'then said
to the emperor
Oineus' Ke, Slav.
21. Bo 165.8-166.5; Ke 247.18-248.9; Slav: Ist. 14.9-15.9.
her arrow struck the boar first (165.11) Ke: cf 'she struck the wondrous
boar with a club' Slav.
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the spoils from the beast. When Oineus learnt that he had bestowed the
skin upon Atalante, he was furious with his son. Oineus had an olive
shoot which had been kept by Althaia, his wife and Meleager's mother;
for when she was pregnant she had felt. a craving to eat the olive shoot
and had done so.
Having swallowed the olive leaves, she immediately
gave birth, bearing them at the same time as Meleager.
An oracle on the
subject was given to his father, Oineus, that Meleager should live only
as long as (166) the leaves that had been born with him were preserved.
In his
anger against his son, Oineus threw these leaves on the fire.
They were burnt and Meleager died straightaway, as the learned Euripides
has stated in his play about Meleager.
22.
After the reign of Oineus, his other son, Tydeus, the father
of Diomedes, reigned over Aitolia.
After the death of his father
Tydeus,
Diomedes reigned over the land of the Argives, having married a
woman from Argos named Aigialeia. Out of arrogance he subjugated his
own country of Aitolia by defeating
people. He put. an end to
sovereignty and made it subject to the empire of the Argives, that is,
subject to his own rule.
He set off immediately with the Achaians for
the Trojan War.
When after the victory at Troy he returned to his own
empire, he was not received by the city or his senate, but they resisted
him with armed force,
Diomedes learnt that his wife Aigialeia was
plotting his death,
for she had committed adultery with one of his
senators,
who also opposed Diomedes fiercely. He likewise heard that
she had committed adultery with Oiax, son of Nauplios.
These men
opposed Diomedes with great strength because of their desire for
Aigialeia, as the learned Didymos has stated.
So, when Diomedes
realized that the leaders and the entire land of the Argives were
opposed to him,
(167) and since he was not even able to return to
Aitolia, his birthplace, as he had put an end to its sovereignty, he
abandoned his empire and left., sailing to the land of Calabria. There
he built a city on the coast which he named Argyrippe, as has been
mentioned above, which has now changed its name to Beneventum. He
received Aineias,
who had been cast ashore, and entertained him in the
city, treating him with great honour and hospitality.
Aineias spent the

its

its

winter with him.

23.
Aineias said to Diomedes, "I know that. you have carried off
the sacred Palladion which used to be kept in Troy, so that it could be
inscribed,
'The
Palladion has been given to Aineias'."
Diomedes said
to him,
"From the time when Odysseus and I took it away, troubles did

22. Bo 166.6-167.8; Ke 248.10-249.2, 234.12-16,

Su I 467.35-468.2; Slav:
Ist 15.9-16.3, Soph 67.
reigned over Aitolia (166.6-7): 'reigned over the land of Aitolia'
Ke, Slav.
one of his senators (166.18): 'Kometes, one of her senators' Ke, Slav.
Nauplios (166.20): Slav adds 'his senator'.
Aitolia, his birthplace (167.2) Ke, Slav: 'Aitolia, his empire' Bo; see
Bury, 1897, 224.
the land of Calabria (167.4) Ke: 'the land of the Calabrians' Bo; see
Bury, 1897, 224.
23. Bo 167.9-22; PsS 46v,
Ke 237.22-238.9;
Slav: Ist 16.3-12, Soph 67.
so that it could be inscribed... Aineias" (167.10-11): probably corrupt,
perhaps masking a lacuna; cf Slav, which replaces the whole of the first

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not leave me or my army. And so I was compelled to consult the Pythia

about
it, and the response was that I should return it to the Trojans".
Aineias said,
"Give it to me".
Immediately Diomedes performed a
sacrifice and handed the Palladion over to Aineias. Aineias took it
and,
when summer came, he set out for Italy, to Latinus. He joined
Latinus,
together with the force of armed Phrygian troops which he had
with him and they made war on the Rustuli. During this war Latinus, the
son of Telephos, was slain and the Rustuli had the upper hand.
24.
(168) Aineias went on to Evander and his son Pallas, both
most warlike men.
They lived in Italy, residing in a village known as
Valentia and governing one province. Pallas built in this village a
very large house,
like no other in the region, which was called the
Pallantion;
from that time on imperial residences were known as
"palaces"
after Pallas. Aineias asked them if he might
have a force of soldiers from them. Pallas and his father Evander gave
him 400 valiant fighting men. Then Aineias went on further to other
toparchs and received a large military force, since the whole country
was hostile to the Rustuli and Turnus, their emperor.
Aineias joined
battle with them, and the Rustuli were defeated in the battle by Aineias
after Turnus was slain.
Following the victory, Aineias took over the
empire and Albania, Latinus' daughter. Aineias built a great city there
which he named Albania and deposited the Palladion,
which he had
received from Diomedes, in the city of Albania. Aineias reigned for 19
years after Latinus.
25.
After Aineias, Askanios Julius, Aineias' son by Kreousa of
Troy,
his first wife, reigned there for 25 years. He built the city
of
Lavinia (169) and established his empire among the Lavinesii,
transferring the Palladion from the city of Albania to the city of
Lavinia that he had built..
26.
At that time Eliakim, the son of Joshua, was high priest in
Jerusalem, after the return from Babylon of the two and a half tribes
who came back to Jerusalem.
27.
At that time lived Hippasios, the Pythagorean philosopher; he
was the first to construct the heavenly sphere with the twelve signs of
the zodiac, and he died at sea in a shipwreck.
There also lived then

sentence ("I know...Aineias") with 'That image which you took in Troy:
do you have it?'
24. Bo 168.1-20; PsS 46v-47r, Ke 238.9-13,
238.23-239.3, GM 21.3-6, JN
53.1-3, cf Sk 19.19-27; Slav: Ist 16.12-26, Soph 67.

Pa11as (168.2,4) PsS: 'Palas' Ke, GM, Sk, Slav.

Pallantion (168.6; corr, cf 171.7): see Bury, 1897,
220 for the
fluctuation in Ba between - Lv and - Lov .
rpallantion) (168.6): 'Palation' PsS, Ke, GM, cf Slav.
Albania (168.16, 17, 19): cf 'Lavinia' Slav.
25. Bo 168.21-169.3;
PsS 47r, Ke 238.14-18, JN 52, 54, cfSk 19.28-31;
Slav:

Ist 16.27-17.3.

Julius (168.21) PsS, Slav: cf 'Iulus' Ke.

25 years (168.23; the number '2' is in an erasure; Bury 1897, 224):
years' Ke, Slav.

Lavinia (169.1, 3; corr Dind) PsS, Ke, Slav:

26. Bo 169.4-6; Slav: Ist 17.3-4, Soph 67.
27. Bo 169.7-17; Slav: Ist 17.4-12, Soph 67.

'Albania' Ba.

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Isokrates, Perikles and Thoukydides, who wrote about. the war between the
Peloponnesians and the Athenians. At the time of Thoukydides but after
the philosophers mentioned above,
lived Pheidias the sculptor, and
Some
Stesichoros and Bakchylides who were poets and invented dancing.
time later those mentioned above were educators of the Hellenes. After
this appeared Demosthenes, and Aristophanes the comic poet.
28,
After the reign of Dareios the Younger, Artaxerxes, known as
Mnemon, reigned over the Persians for 39 years.
29.
Albas,
the son of Askanios, reigned over the Albanoi for 36
years and built the city of Silva;
from then on the emperors were
called Silvii. (170) The emperor Albas transferred the Palladion to
the city of Silva.
Then the descendants of Aineias, known as the
Aineiades, reigned for 331 years.

28. Bo 169.18-19; Slav: Ist 12.6-7, Soph 67.

29. Bo 169.20-170.3; PsS 47r, Ke 238.19-23; Slav: Ist 17.12--17, Soph 67.
36 years (169.20-21): of '35 years' Ke, '39 years' Slav.
Silva (169.21, 170.1) Ke, cf Slav: cf 'Silpis' Ba (169.21), 'Silvis'
PsS, Ba (170.1); note that at 171.11 Ba, CP, Su, Slav all have a form
suggesting a nominative 'Silva'.
Silva (170.1): Slav adds 'which he had built himself'.

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Concerning the Building of Rome

1.
(171)
Then Romus, the builder of Rome, and his brother Remus
began to reign;
and so they changed their name to Romans.
They
discovered the arms of Herakles, the descendant of Picus Zeus, and
placed them in the shrine of Picus Zeus in the Forum Boarium in the city
they had built. called Rome, which had formerly been known as the village
of
The
Valentia.
They have shut the arms up there to the present.
brothers
restored the building known as the Pallantion, Pallas'
imperial residence,
and they built. a great temple to Zeus which they
called the Capitol in the Roman language, that. is, the head of the city.
They brought the wooden image of the Palladion from the city of Silva
and placed it in Rome.
In the course of their reign the brothers became
hostile to one another and Remus was slain by Romus, and Romus reigned
alone.
2.
(172) From
the time when he killed his brother, the whole
city of Rome suffered earthquakes and civil wars broke out during his
reign. Romus went. to the oracle and asked,
"Why is this happening now
that I am reigning alone?" The response was given to him by the Pythia,
"Unless your brother sits with you on the imperial throne, your city of
Rome will not stand, and neither the people nor the war will be at
rest".
Having made from his brother's picture a likeness of his face,
that is,
his features, a gold bust, he placed the statue on the throne
where he used to sit.. He continued thus for the remainder- of his reign,
with the solid gold likeness of his brother Remus seated beside him,

The

earthquakes in the city ceased and the rioting

among

the people died

down.
Whenever he issued an order as a decree, he would speak as if it
came from himself and his brother, saying,
"We have ordered, and we
have decreed".
The emperors' custom of saying, "We have ordered and we
have decreed", has continued from that. time till the present.. From then
on he sent out. to the cities subject to the Romans solid gold busts of

Bo

PsS 70r, Ke 257.19-21, CM 21.8-14, Su III

Ist 18.1-12, Soph 68, KVI (Pol.Pal.) 119
('in the
'Then two brothers reigned
western regions' KVI) Romus and Remus. Romus, the elder brother of
Remus,
built a city and called it Rome, and so they became known as
Romans' Slav.
Pallantion (171.7) CP, Su, cf JN:
'Palation'
(ie 'palace') GM, PsS,
1.

171.1-13;

CP 204.4-14,

29.1--2 IV 7.2, JN 56.1-4; Slav:

Then Romus ... Romans (171.1-2):

Ke, of Slav.
2.
Bo 172.1-19; CP 204.14-205.11, PsS 70r, Ke 258.1-11, CM 22.8-22,
JN 56.5-9; Slav: Ist 18.12-19.12, Soph 68, KVI 8, 120.
suffered earthquakes (172.1): CP and Slav add 'and the people rioted',
cf PsS, Ke, GM.
his reign (172.2): 'his sole reign' CP, Slav.

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himself and his brother, to be placed near the magistrates.

3.
After the emperor Romus had completed the walls and adorned
the city,
he built a temple to Ares.
In that month he held a great
festival of sacrifice to Ares, calling that month, which had formerly
been known as Primus, March (I8rt_ios), which means (173) "of Ares". All
the Romans celebrate this festival annually to the present. day,
calling the day of the festival "On the Field of Mars "

Hartiusi.

started work again immediately and built the hippodrome

wishing to divert the mass of the people of Rome because they
were rioting and attacking him because of his brother. He was the first
to hold chariot-races in the land of Rome at a festival of the Sun, it
is said, and in honour of the four elements subordinate to it, that is,
earth, sea, fire and air; for he reasoned that the Persian emperors had
good fortune in their wars because they honoured these four elements.
Oinomaos,
emperor of the Pisaian land, held a contest in the European
regions on 25th Dystros-March in honour of the Titan Sun, since he was
raised,
it
is said,
above the contest ofearth and sea, that is, of
Demet.er and Poseidon, the elements that. are subordinate to the Sun.
A
lot used to be cast between the emperor Oinomaos and the opponent,
whatever country he came from, who arrived to compete with him.
When
the lot summoned Oinomaos to compete on behalf of Poseidon, he wore a
blue costume,
that is, the colour of water, and his opponent wore the
green costume, that is, the colour of the earth.
If, however, the lot
fell to Oinomaos to wear the costume of Demeter, he wore the green
costume (174) and his opponent wore the costume of Poseidon, that is,
the blue, the colour of water. The loser was put to death. A huge
crowd from every district and city used to come and watch the annual
imperial
contest.
Those citizens who lived in the coastal cities, the
islands and the coastal villages, and the sailors, used to pray that
the contestant wearing the blue costume, that. is, the costume of
Poseidon,
should win, taking it as an omen that, if the contestant
4.

in

He

Rome,

competing

on

behalf of Poseidon should be defeated, then there would be

gold bust... magistrates (172.18-19):

'busts
to
be put near the
maqistrates, and similarly he ordered the minting of gold coins with his
own
likeness on one side and his brother's likeness on the other' Slav.
3.
Bo 172.20-173.3; CP 205.11-17, PsS 70r, Ke 257.22-24, GM 21.15-19,
JN 56.20-23, cf Sk 22.1-12; Slav: Ist 19.13-18, KVI 120.
of sacrifice (172.22): 'sacrificing' CP, cf 'and sacrifice' Slav.
annually (173.1) Ba, CP, GM, Slav: 'customarily' Bo.
Mars (173.:1) Mhpti cg (perhaps reflecting a Latin genitive?) Ba
hand, CP, GM: 'March' Ba second hand.
4.
Bo 173.3-175.15; CP 205.18-208.10, C 193.9-18, 191.32-192.14, PsS
70r,
Ke 258.11-19, GM 21.20-22.4, JA 29, 31, cf Sk 22.13-28; Slav: Ist
19.18-21.16, KVI 120, 122.
the hippodrome (173.4): 'a circus which he called the hippodrome' CP,
cf PsS Ke, Slav.

first

they honoured these four elements (173.11): CP adds 'The four elements
were not honoured in Rome, not even in one festival', cf Slav.
the elements (173,15): cf 'and the elements' CP.
and the coastal villages, and the sailors (174.5):
the coastal villages' CP, cf Slav.

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shortage of all
kinds of fish, shipwrecks at sea and troubles from
strong winds.
Citizens from the interior and local peasants and all
those working in farming used to pray that the contestant. wearing the
green costume would win, taking it as an omen that, if the contestant
competing on behalf of Demeter, that is, on behalf of the earth, should
be defeated, there would be a shortage of corn, a lack of wine, oil and
other crops. Oinomaos overcame many opponents for many years, for he
had Apsyrtos to teach him the art of chariot--racing; but Oinomaos was
defeated by Pelops the Lydian and was put to deat.h.
This chariot-race
was first devised by a man named Enyalios, son of Poseidon.
Poseidon
had married Libye,
daughter of Io and Picus Zeus; he held the
southern region and called the country in which he reigned Libya, after
his wife.
Enyalios invented the horse-race with two-horse chariots,
(175) as the learned Kallimachos has written in his Aitesi.i.
Then,
after him, Erichthonios held the same contest with four-horse
chariots, for which he became famous, as is described in Charax's
histories.
Charax also wrote the following, that the structure of the
hippodrome was modelled on the regulation of the world, that. is, of the
heaven, the earth and the sea.
He related the twelve doors to the
twelve houses of the zodiacal cycle, which regulates the land, the sea
and the fleeting course of man's life. The race-track represents
the whole earth; the spina is the sea surrounded by the land; the curve
by the starting gates is the East; the curve by the turning point. is the
West; the seven lanes represent the course and astronomical motion of
a

the seven stars of the

Great. Bear.

The emperor Romus was the first to devise the contest in

Rome, likewise in honour of the Sun and the four elements subject to it..
He celebrated
it
in the
region of the West, that is, Italy, with
four-horse
chariots corresponding to the earth, sea, fire and air.
Romus gave names to these four elements: that of the Green faction to
the earth, because of its greenness; the Blue faction to the sea, that
is,
water,
because of its blueness;
the Red faction to fire, (176)
because of its redness;
the White faction to air, because of its
whiteness.
That is how the four factions were devised in Rome.
He gave this name to the Green faction because its Greek name
5.

for many years (174.15) CP:'and for many years' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 224.
to teach him (174.16): 'to teach him cruelly' CP, Slav.
Poseidon had married ...held (174.19-20; cf 30.5):
'Enyalios had
married... held' CP, C, Bo (not in Bury, 1897).
A.itesia (175.2) CP: 'Aitia' Chit, probably correctly.
Erichthonios held (175.3): 'Erichthonios held the race and others held
it in different places. Oinomaos was the first to hold' CP, Slav, cf C.
Charax's (175.5): 'the most learned Charax's' CP, cf Slav.
modelled (175.6): 'devised' CP, cf 'arranged' C.
the sea (175.7): cf Slav which adds 'and air'.
He related (175.8): 'they related' CP, C, cf 'they relate' Slav.
lanes (175.13; corr Chil): 'swords' Ba, CP, C.
astronomical motion (175.14): cf 'starry motion' CP,
'astronomical
position' C.
5.
Bo 175.16-177.3; CP 208.11-209.16,
C 192.19-193.2,
PsS 70r, Ke
258.19-259.3, JA 31; Slav: Ist 21.17-22.14, KVI 121, 123.
names (175.21): 'the following names' CP, Ke.

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(pra slnon>

is

the

Latin

word for enduring, for to endure in Latin is

prar'senteuein, and the green earth endures for ever with

its

woods; he

because there is a
gave this name to the Blue faction
as Venet.ia, whose
a
region
known
great province subject to Rome,
the
metropolis is Aquileia, which is the source of sea-blue, that. is,
Venetian dye for clothes.
He attached the White faction, that is,
that is, earth, because, he said, air rains
air, to the Green faction,
He attached and
and
belongs with it.
on and serves the earth,

joined the

Red

faction, that is, fire, to the Blue faction,

that

water, because water quenches fire, which is subject to it..

Then the
inhabitants of Rome were divided into the factions and no
longer agreed among themselves, because thereafter they desired their
a
own side's victory and supported their own faction, as if it. were
religion.
There was a great division in Rome, and the factions were
very hostile towards each other in Rome from the time when Romus devised
the spectacle of chariot-racing for them, When Rornus saw members of any
of the factions supporting the populace or senators who were disaffected
and opposed him because of the death of his brother, or for any other
reason whatsoever,
(177) he would decide to support. the other faction,
and so .he secured their favour and their opposition to the aim of his
From that time the emperors of Rome after him followed the
enemies.
same principle.
In the reign of Romus his army became large by the recruitment
6.
of
foreigners,
and there was a great number of wild men in Rome
The army of
but.
there were not. enough women for the number of men.
young men desired the pleasures of life and they began to set upon the
is,

women

in the market.--place; rioting and civil war broke out..

Romus was

despair, not knowing what to do, for none of the women could bear to
He
live with the soldiers, since they were wild and barbarian.
promulgated a law that the soldiers were to take in marriage virgins
(daughters of Brut.us). No one however chose to
whom he called Brutides
give his daughter to them, saying that they had no hope of survival from
day to day because of the wars, but the fathers all married their
daughters to men from the city. In despair Romus went to the oracle.
An oracle was given to him that he should hold chariot.-races to be
so that the army might find themselves wives.
watched by women,
Gathering the body of the army in the palace, Rornus held chariot.-races,
As an unusual
ordering that only women should watch the racing.
spectacle was going to be put. on, crowds of women came to the city (178)
of Rome from all the surrounding countryside and the distant towns and
villages. Women, both married and young virgins, filled the hippodrome.
The daughters of the people known as Sabines, beautiful women, came too,
from a
near Rome. Romus gave secret orders
no married
woman who was a Roman citizen was to watch and he also forbad his army
to dare touch a married woman: they were to seize virgins and women
in

district

that

He gave this name to the Green faction ...endure

faction 'Praisenton',

(176.2-5):

the Green

is

enduring; to endure'

CP,

which

'He

called

a Latin word meaning

cf C.

thereafter they (176.15): 'they each' CP.

desired (176.14; corn Dind) CP: 'saw' Ba.
6. Bo 177.4--178.16; CP 209.16--211.7, JN 56.11-16;

Slav:

Ist 22.14-23.10.

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husbands only. Romus then entered the hippodrome and began to

While the races were being held, the army was turned loose
watch.
from the palace; they rushed into the hippodrome where they seized from
the benches the virgin women and the women without. husbands and found
This Romus caused to happen once only, as the
wives for themselves.
without

learned Vergil has stated.

most
given

the

same

written that. the

7.

by

They

Lykaina,

account,

first

relate

and

Livy

chariot--race
that

Pliny the

likewise.

Rornus

Roman historian has also

Other historians have

held for them was with mules.

the brothers, Romus and Remus, were suckled

since the emperor Amulius, their grandfather, ordered them

Their
to be abandoned in the forest as they were born out of wedlock.
who was a priestess of Ares, had been seduced, and
mother Ilia,
committed adultery with a soldier, and so they say in the form of a myth

that. Ares had made her pregnant.. (179) She gave birth to twins and that.
A country-woman
was why their grandfather cast them out in the forest.
She took pity on them, for they
found them while she was grazing sheep.
were beautiful children, and picked them up and nursed them with her own

milk. In that country to this day they call the country-women who graze
sheep, 1y* inaa.z' (she.-wolves), because they spend their whole life among

wolves.
Because of this Rornus devised what. is known as the Brumalia,
declaring,
it
is said, that. the emperor of the time must entertain his
entire senate and officials and all who serve in the palace, since they
are persons of consequence, during the winter when there is a respite
from fighting.
He began by inviting and entertaining first. those whose
he
right to the last letter;
names began with alpha, and so on,

ordered his senate to entertain in the

the whole army, and those they wanted.

same way. They too entertained

The Aindncira--players from each

military unit went. in the evening to the houses of those who had invited
them to dine the next. clay and played, so that the unit should know
This
that they would be entertained by that. person the following day.
custom of the Brumalia has persisted in the Roman state to the present.
day.

Romus

did this as he wished to blot out. his shame, because the

without husbands only. Romus (178.8; corr Dind): 'without. husbands.

Only Romus' Ba.
While the races were being held (178.8-9) CP: cf 'When all were
assembled' Slav.
virgin women (178.10): 'virgin maidens' CP.
Vergil (178.13): CP and Slav add 'the poet'.
Pliny (178.13) Slav: cf 'Apollonios' CP.
Livy (1.78.14): cf 'Silvi.us' OP.
CM 22.23-221.19, PsS 69r, 7017.
Bo 178.17-180.13;
CP 211.12-213.4,
23.10--24.13,
Ke 257.4.-10, 259.3--4, Su I 497.12--24, JN 56.18; Slav:
Soph 69, KVI 7.
'must.
hold an annual feast in
emperor of the time (179.9):
Slav adds
his name and'.
the last letter (179.13): 'omega' CP, CM, Su, JN.
They entertained-they wanted (179.15): 'they entertained of the whole
mob those whom each one wanted' CP.
who had invited them (179.17):
'who
were inviting those whom they

Ist

wanted' CP.

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who were hostile to him and hated and reviled him, used to say
that they ought. not be ruled by one who had been degraded, since the two
full
brothers had been fed by strangers (180) until they had become
they
had
been
brought.
they
meant.
by
this
that
grown and began to reign;
the farmer, and his wife Lykaina, eating the food of
up by Faustus,
For it. was a disgrace among the
strangers, as has been mentioned above,
Romans and all ancient peoples for anyone ever to be fed by strangers.
This is why at. the banquets known as phili/aa (friendly gatherings) each
participant brings his own food and drink with him to the banquet and
in their eating they preserve to
everything is then served in common;
the present clay the ancient custom of not being called "Eaters of other
Romans,

men's food".

Romus

devised this custom with the intention of mitigating

his own shame, naming the meal Brumalium in the Roman language, as the
most learned Licinius, the Roman chronicler, has related.
8.
After the brothers Romus and Remis there reigned six other
in Rome
down to Tarquinius Superbus, the unjust.. He was the
emperors
seventh emperor of Rome after the building of the city. The empire was
taken away from him.
During the time of his reign lived the Cumaian Sybil, a seer.
9.
Tarquinius had a son named Arruns, who was the cause of his
expulsion from the empire, for Tarquinius' son Arruns had forced himself
on Lucretia, who was of a senatorial family, and raped her; she, being
chaste,
killed herself, A great civil war (181) broke out in Rome and
lasted for years, and many people were killed,
The learned Servius, the
Roman writer, has written of this.
When
Tarquinius was expelled from the empire in the following way.
war had been started against Rome by the tribe known as the Ardeni, the
emperor Tarquinius took a force and went to make war on the land of the
His enemies, the senators Brut.us, who was Lucret.ia's uncle,
Ardeni.
and Collatinus, her husband, found an opportunity to plot against him.
They were joined by the remaining senators and all the citizens, in an
attempt to expel him from the empire. They persuaded the troops known
as the Celeriani, who guarded the palace and the city of Rome and were
very fierce in battle, to join them in not receiving the emperor
Tarquinius in future when he returned to Rome. When Tarquinius learnt.
what had been contrived against him by the senate, the army and the
people, he too sent and corrupted Brutus' son, who was a friend and
young contemporary of his son Arruns. The young man was persuaded to
agree that, when Tarquinius attacked Rome, he would betray the city and
kill his father Brutus. Vindicius, Brutus' slave, who attended his son,
.

learnt

of

this

Faustus (180.2):

and

reported secretly to his master Brut.us about the

'Faustulus' CP, Slav.

Brumalit.n (180.12): 'Brumalia ('Brumal.ium'

by

others'

CP,

Slav,

GM,

Su.

GM,

Su),

that is, to be fed

Bo 180.14--19; Slav: Ist 24.13-18, Soph 70, KVI 124.

Bo 180.20-183.11; Slav: Ist 24.18-26.12.
Lucretia's uncle (181.7); Slav adds 'who had killed herself'.
Collatinus (181.7, 182.9) Slav: 'Collant.inus' Ba.
he too (181.16; see Bury, 1897, 224): 'he' Bo.
reported secretly (181.21; see Bury, 1897, 224):
'sent
message' Bo.
8.
9.

secret.

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plot that was going to be carried out. against him by his son.
As soon
as Brutus heard this, (182) he arrested his son and, examining him in
front of everyone in the forum at Rome, compelled him to reveal what he
and Tarquinius had planned. He confessed to his father that he had made
a treacherous agreement with Tarquinius; Brutus immediately put his son
to death. Then the entire Roman senate gathered and deposed Tarquinius
from the throne, putting his dethronement in writing. Then first of all
they designated by a vote two consuls to administer the Roman state.
They chose Brutus the Great and Collatinus, Lucretia's husband, who were
appointed as leaders after special scrutiny.
They decided too that from
henceforth there should be no emperor in Rome and wrote to the army
which was with Tarquinius, telling them to desert. him, which they did
immediately.
As soon as Brut-us was appointed consul, he immediately brought his
slave Vindicius before the senate and people to express his thanks, for
he had kept faith with his master. Be celebrated a solemn festival in
honour of Justice and, seated on the high tribunal, he raised Vindicius
to a high position in front of him. He stretched out. his right hand and
struck
him three times on the cheek with the palm of his hand and cried
out,
"You have shaken off your fate as a slave, Vindicius, and you have
cast off its yoke: put on now the breast-plate of Roman freedom for the
rest of your life". He took a golden ring from his own hand and put it
on Vindicius'
right hand, giving him the rank of comes and a share of
his own (183) wealt.h.
He called this day the Festival of Consilia,
which means the Day of Giving. He ordered those who were appointed by
him as consular governors of the provinces to celebrate on that day each
year a sacred vigil and festival of Justice in memory of the victory
over Tarquinius and of Vindicius' well-deserved freedom,
so as to
encourage other servants everywhere to be well-disposed towards their
masters and be worthy of similar freedom and honour. Provincial
governors of consular rank to the present day celebrate these Consilia
with due solemnity.
The learned Livy and many others have written about.
this.
10.
Many years later the Gauls rebelled and started a war against.
the Romans.
When the Roman senate learnt of this, it appointed a
powerful general,
named Manlius Capitolinus, against. t.hern.
He took up
arms,
collected a very war-like army and set out. for Gaul. He joined

battle

and

completely defeated them.

On

his return he celebrated his

victory with a triumph in Rome, and he entered the city and behaved
arrogantly towards the senate, the army and the people.
Because of
this the senate and everybody else were displeased. He also provoked
the envy of an enemy in the senate, a powerful man, named Februarius,
who was of Gallic descent, and a plot was made against him.
(184) When
Manlius Capitolinus entered a conventus and the body of the senators was
seated, the senator Februarius stood up and said to Manlius, "Why do you

by his son (181.23): Slav adds 'and by the whole city'.

with his master (182.16): Slav adds 'more than his (Brutus') son'.
Consilia (183.1, 8): 'Consualia' Dind, cf 'Consulia' Slav.
10. Bo 183.12-184.15;
GM 23.25-24.3, PsS 71r,
Ke 263.6-14;
Slav: 1st
26.13-27.5.
for Gaul (183.16; Bury, 1897, 225): 'against. the Gauls' Bo.
He also provoked (183.20: Bury, 1897, 225): 'He provoked' Bo.

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give yourself such airs now that the Roman army has defeated the Gauls,
as if you had overcome them in single combat.? The tvche of the Romans
always defeats her enemies. It has not escaped our attention that this
has led you to such arrogance that you wish to usurp power over the
When the senate, the army and the
Romans.
This you shall not do".
The people,
people heard this,
they attacked Manlius Capit.olinus.
rising up at the instigation of the senate, cried out. that Manlius
Capitolinus should be expelled from the city of Rome. So, in fear of
the army and the people, he went off to his own estates, near the

known as Apulia, and there lived quietly. After he had fled,

the Roman people attacked his house and pillaged all his belongings.
11.
The Gauls
had appointed a powerful warrior, named Brennus, to
be their king, and they immediately began a campaign against Rome when
they heard that Manlius had been expelled from the city. King Brennus
set out and made a sudden attack on Rome, and captured it during a
stormy night, on 15t.h Sextilis, having first. sent men secretly to
the gate-keepers and open the (ate to him. With the gate-keepers dead,
there was panic in the city. The senators realized that the city had
been captured and they all fled and some of the leading men of the city
went onto (185) the Capitol with their wives and children, to the temple
of Zeus, taking their possessions with them.
When king Brennus took the
city of Rome, he slaughtered many of the citizens and some of the
soldiers, and also took prisoners. He continued to besiege the Capitol
The senators
since the senators,
and their possessions, were on it.
found an opportunity and wrote to Manlius Capitolinus, begging him to
cities and
collect. up the troops
stationed in the various Roman
When
territories, so that he could come to avenge Rome and help them.
Manlius Capitolinus received the letter from the senate and learnt that
Rome had been captured and the Capitol was under siege by Brennus, king
of the Gauls, he was shocked. He immediately collected up a body of
soldiers from all areas and set off. He came upon king Brennus suddenly
and unexpectedly in Rome. Leading his army through the streets of the
city by night.,
he surrounded king Brennus and all his men, since they
were strangers to the city, and killed them. Having got. the better of
them, he captured king Brennus and immediately beheaded him and stuck
he
his head on a pole. Then, cutting down his soldiers and his aoj'te
freed all the Romans whom Brennus had taken prisoner and took back all
the goods that had been plundered by the Gauls. The Roman senate left.
the Capitol after Manlius Capitolinus' victory, then immediately voted,
together with the army and the surviving people, that he should
administer Roman affairs on his own.
12.
(186)
When Manlius Capitolinus recovered control of Rome, he
immediately showed his displeasure at the city's capture, and the shame
of the Roman defeat,
He cut short the days in the month known as
Sextilis, on the grounds that it was of ill-omen to the city of Rome,
and he removed its name so that it. should no longer be called Sextilis.

district.

kill

Apulia (184.13): cf 'Etolia' Slav.

11. Bo 184.16-185.24;
GM 24.4-9,
PsS 71r-v,
Ke 263.14-22;
27.6-28.3.
15th (184.20): cf '20th' GM.
12. Bo 186.1-187.13; GM 24.10-20, PsS 71v, Ke 263.22-264.7;
28.4-30.

Slav:

Ist

Slav:

Ist.

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99

arrested

his

enemy,

senator named Februarius who had plotted

He
confiscated all
Februarius' possessions and immediately, in his sight,
distributed them to the army which had come with him to avenge the city
of Rome.
Manlius proclaimed to the senate and the army, "This man, as
you know,
is a Gaul by descent., and he plotted against me to avenge
them.
He also leads a dissolute life, for he is a homosexual and should
the

against. him and had caused him to be expelled from the city of Rome.

not live in
stripped

Rome, but. he ought.

from

him

while

he

to be thrown
is

alive,

out. in
and

sacrifice to the gods of the underworld".

disgrace and his

name

he should be given as a

The

senate and the

army

agreed with this.

Immediately he took his rank away from him and
stripped him naked, wrapped him in a straw sack and tied a strong rope
round him.
He transferred the senator's name by written decree to the
month Sextilis,
thus naming the month February after him, since this
ill-omened and dishonoured month was worthy of the name.
He ordered the

vernac.uir;

to chant,

that. is,

the attendants, to beat. him with cudgels (187) and

is,

Peritios".

'h:3'1;
which in Greek
"Go out,
So
the senator was expelled from the city of Rome and died, a sacrifice to
the gods of the underworld. Manlius instructed the priests to make a
sacrifice in the month of February, giving instructions that. the costume
of
straw sacking and the rest should be used annually in every Roman
city and that. the month of February-Peritios should be beaten outside
the city and driven away. This was to signify the victory over Brennus
and the Gauls and the punishment. of Manlius' enemy, and this takes place
up to the present day in every Roman city.
I found this account
in the
city of Thessalonike, and when I had read it. I found the title of the
book was the Account of Brunichius, the Roman chronicler.
13.
After the consuls had administered the state for many years,
Octavian Augustus
was the first. to reign again as emperor.
He found
fault.
with Manlius Capit.olinus, who had made the ill-omened month of
February a middle month. Augustus immediately made a change, by sacred
command,
and placed the name of the month of February after all the
other months, and in its place gave his own name, Augustus, to the month

that. was

sixth after

Fripruus

(the f inst.) , and he named the month before

August after his uncle, Julius Caesar.

14.
(188)
After Tarquinius had been expelled
from the empire,
the two consuls mentioned above -- Brutus the Great and Collatinus,
Lucret.ia's
the city.
Many other consuls
husband - administered
followed, for 464 years, until Julius Caesar.
15.
In the time after Joakim, mentioned above, there lived Jaddus
who was high priest of the Jews, and Plato,
the philosopher and

to avenge the city of Rome (186.10-11): Slav adds 'and the senators'.
cudgels (186.24):
Ba qualifies this word with the adjective (3cO(.Go11voc
which we do not. understand.
Eri Fehrzcurie (187.1; corr): 'Exithi, Februari' Ba.
13. Bo 187.14-22.

14. Bo 188.1-4; Slav: Ist. 29.1-4, Soph 71, KVI 124.

Collatinus (188.3; corr Chil): 'Callatinus' Ba.
the city (188.2): Slav adds 'of Rome'.
15. Bo 188.5-16;
Slav: Ist 29.4-13,
Soph 71.
Cf Cyril of
.Tulfanun (PG 76, col 553 b).
highpriest (188.6; see Bury, 1897, 225): 'priest' Bo.

fonts

Alexandria,

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educator of the Hellenes.

Plato, while writing to Timaios concerning
said that the divine exists under three names, but. is one power and
He said that the first. cause is the Good, which has
divinity.
compassion on all things;
the second cause is Mind, which created all
things;
and the third cause is the life-giving Soul, which animated all
Cyril, the
things.
He agreed that. the three powers form one divinity.
most holy bishop of Alexandria, set this out in his writings against the
emperor Julian the Apostate, saying that. the Holy Trinity in its divine
unity had been foretold by all men even though they were ignorant of the
god,

future.
16.
In
the time of Plato there also lived other philosophers and
educators of the Hellenes - Xenophon, Aischines and Aristotle. They
introduced to mankind the error of the transmigration of souls: they
claimed that the soul of Kalliste, daughter of Lykaon, (189) migrated to
that. of
a bear;
that of Hippomene, daughter of Megareus, to a lion;

Io,

daughter of Inachos,

Schoineus,
swallow,,

to

heifer; that of Atalant.e, daughter of

to a peacock; that of Philomela, daughter of Pandion, to a

that of
that of Prokne, her sister, to a nightingale;

daughter of Tant.alos, to a stone.

These writers and those
who came. after them recounted other such myths.
17.
After the Artaxerxes, emperor of the Persians, mentioned
above,
had died, his son Ochos reigned.
He made war on the Egyptians
and captured the entire land of Egypt, and destroyed it.
Nektanabo was
then reigning over the Egyptians; he had used divination with a dish and
learnt that. Ochos, emperor of the Persians, was destined to capture
Egypt.
So he shaved the hair from his head and changed his imperial
garments, and fled by way of Pelousion and lived out his life in Pella,
Niobe,

a city in Macedonia.
At that time occurred the notorious events concerning Olyrnpias and
Nektanebo, that she was seduced by him by some trick and conceived
Alexander, who, they say, was conceived by Zeus Ammon.
Thus the first empire (190) of the Egyptians and Thebans lasted for
1493 years. The learned chronicler Eirenaios has related this.
18.
At that time the high priest of the Jews was Judas. The
Hebrew office of high priest. lasted for 1202 years.
At
that time the entire island of Rhodes was shaken at night by the
wrath of God, an earthquake, in the month of October. The statue of the
Kolossos fell and lay on the ground.
The high priests of the Jews, together with the whole people, then
paid tribute to the Assyrians.
Then the Assyrians and Ochos, their

Plato (188.7): 'the very learned Plato' Slav.

first (188.9; corn Dind) Slav: om Ba.
16. Bo 188.17-489.7; Slav: Ist 29.13-22, Soph 71.
Niobe (189.5; corr Dind): 'Iobe' Ba, Slav.
Tantalos (189.6; corr Dind): 'Talantos' Ba.
17. Bo
189.8--190.2; CP 319.11-18, CM 24.21-25.8, PsS 71v, Ke 264.10-16;
Ist 29.23-30.8, Soph 72.
(189.9, 12 and 190.9,
191.1; corr Chil)
Slav,
cf
Ba, GM.
18. Bo 190.3-11;
PsS 71v,
Ke 264.19-20,
JN 58.1;
Slav:
Soph 72.
Judas (190.3) JN, cf Slav: 'Jaddus' Bo (corr Chil).

Slav:

Ochos

CP:
Ist.

'Choos'

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emperor,
became conceited;
they usurped power over the whole earth and
the empire was given into the hands of the Assyrians, the Persians, the
Medes and the Parth ns.
19.
Philip rein ned over Macedonia for 20 years. When he had
conquered and subjug ted Thessaly, he built a city in Macedonia which he
called Thessalonike, it having previously been known as the town of
Thermai.
Dionysios states that it was called Thessalonike later after
an empress in Philip's family. The empire, or toparchy, of Macedonia
lasted for 602 years, until the reign of Philip, as the most learned
Eusebios Pamphilou has chronicled.
After Philip, Alexander, (191) the son of Philip, ruled Macedonia.
After Ochos, Dareios the Mede, the son of Assalam, reigned over
the Babylonians and had power over all men. During his reign, the
Romans became dominant and expanded the boundaries of their territory;
since they appointed powerful consuls, they kept seizing more lands.

Bo 190.12-191.5;
GM 25.10-16, PsS 71v, Ke 264.21, Su
JN 58.1-2; Slav: Ist 30.14-24, Soph 72.
Assalam (191.2): cf 'Arsames' GM.
19.

11

708.27-8,

BOOK 8

The Time of the Macedonians

(192)
In the fourth year of the reign of Dareios the Mede, son
Assalam,
God raised up Alexander, toparch or emperor of Macedonia,
the son of Philip, against the Assyrians, Persians, Parthians and Medes.
Alexander built Alexandria the Great, which was previously known as the
town of Rakoustis, and named it. Alexandria after himself, sacrificing a
virgin girl whom he called Macedonia.
He built a temple to Ser-apis
Helios and a public bath, which is called The Horse, and other- temples.
The emperor Alexander,
having won the support of united and valiant
1.

of

generals in his anger at. the Assyrians' folly,

was

the first. to engage

Dareios, emperor of the Persians, in battle.

Arriving at Byzoupolis in Europe, he built. a place there which he
(193)
called the Strategion,
for it was there that he practised his
generalship with his army and his allies.
He crossed over from there
with his army to a trading-station, in Bithynia known as Diskoi.
Wishing
to win over his army, he issued them there with a great deal of gold and
he changed the name of this trading-station to Chrysopolis, which it is
called to the present. day.

Be

set

out.

from

there

and

arrived at Troy.

After offering a

sacrifice at Achilles' tomb, since he was descended from his family (for
Olympias,
Alexander of Macedon's mother, was descended from Molossos,
the son of Pyrrhos and Andromache), he prayed for his spirit to fight on
his side in the war. Alexander immediately set out from there like a
leopard and captured all lands with his generals.
He defeated Dareios,
emperor of the Persians, the son of Assalam, and captured him, all his
empire, all the land of the Assyrians, Medes, Parthians, Babylonians and
Persians and all the empires on earth, as the most learned Bot.t.ios has
written.
Alexander freed the cities and territories and all the land of
the Romans,
Hellenes and Egyptians from subjection and slavery to
Assyrians, Persians, Parthians and Medes; he restored to the Romans all
that. they had lost.
2.
Thus from Adam to Alexander of Macedon's (194) victory there
were 5557 years. Addous was then high priest of the Jews.
3.
The Persian region and its empires were overthrown at that
time;
the Macedonians and Alexander,
together with his allies,
established
dominion over the land of the Chaldaeans, Medes,
Persians
and Parthians.
After defeating and killing Dareios, t1ey succeeded to
1.
Bo 192.1-193.22; GM 25.16-18, 20-26,4, 33.7-9, PsS 72r, Ke 271.1-2,
JN 59.1-2; Slav: Soph 73.
2.
Bo 193.23-194.2.

victory (194.1) : Chi l

of Alexander's birth.

547 shows that.

Bo 194.3-195.11;
103.3-7, JN 59.3-8.

JA 41,

3.

the number

GM 33.10-26,

must.

PsS 72r,

refer to the year

Ke

267.1-6,

Su

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Alexander made laws for their territory and reigned over

empires.
The Persians erected a bronze equestrian statue of him in Babylon
which stands to the present day.
Alexander captured Roxane, the
daughter of Dareios, emperor of the Persians; she was a virgin, and he
married her.
Alexander also captured all the regions of India and their
empires,
taking prisoner Poros, emperor of the Indians;
he also
captured all the other empires of barbarian peoples, except. the empire
of the widow Kandake, who reigned over the Indians ofthe interior.
She
caught Alexander in the following way. Alexander was in the habit of
going in soldier's clothes with ambassadors whom he sent. to opposing
emperors,
to see what the emperor in question was like.
The empress
his

them.

Kandake

learnt. of

this

and made a thorough

investigation to discover

what he looked
like and what identifying marks he had.
She was told
that he was short, (195) with large prominent. teeth and one grey eye and
one black.
She took private note of this. When he came to her with the
ambassadors he sent., she recognized him by the identifying marks. She
arrested him and said, "Emperor Alexander, you have captured the whole
world but one woman has captured you". Alexander said to her, "Because
of
the excellence and the quickness of your mind, I shall preserve from
harm you, your land and your sons, and I shall take you to wife".
On
hearing this, Kandake surrendered herself.
Alexander took her with him

immediately and went. to Ethiopia and other countries.

When Alexander was on the point of death, he ordained that all
champions and allies with him should reign over the territory where
he had
left them and should control. the lands there. Alexander lived
for 36 years and,
having subjugated the world, reigned for 17 years.
The war lasted 9 years and he subjugated 22 barbarian nations and 13
Hellenic tribes, and he and those with him built. many cities.
Thus from Adam to the death of Alexander there were 5593 years, as
Theophilos the chronicler has written.
5.
After the death of Alexander of Macedon, the lands which
Alexander had subjugated with his allies were divided into four
toparchies or empires. (196) Alexander's Macedonian comrades reigned
Macedonia and
over these in the following way, just. as he had ordained.
all Europe were to be controlled and ruled by his elder brother Philip.
Philip
reigned
and
after Philip, Kassandros reigned and after
Kassandros,
Kassandros' sons reigned and after them, Demetrios reigned;
after Demetrios,
Pyrrhos of Epirus reigned and after Pyrrhos of
Epirus,
Meleagros reigned and six other emperors reigned until the
reign of Perseus of Epirus. Their empire lasted for 157 years after the
death of Alexander.
6.
Alexander ordained that. all Egypt and Libya
should
be
controlled and ruled by Ptolemy, the son of Lagos, the astronomer.
He
reigned over the Egyptians for 42 years in the time of the Macedonians'
dominion.
The second emperor was his son Ptolemy.
4.

the

Bo 195.12-20; JN 59.9.
Bo 195.21-196.11; JN 59.10; Slav: Ist. 2.1-2.
Kassandros' sons (196.6; corr Chil): 'Alexander's sons' Ba.
6.
Bo 196.12-16; Ke 284.14, JN 59.10; Slav: Ist 2.2-5, Soph 76.
42 years
(196.15):
Gelzer,
1885a, 273 proposes
'40
years'
dittography with 'second'.
4.

5.

by

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the son of Lagos, the Jewish

7.
During the reign of Ptolemy,
scriptures were translated into Greek by the 72 teachers in 72 days (for
since Ptolemy wanted to read the
in Hebrew),
they had been written
meaning of the Jewish scriptures in the Greek language.
8.
After his reign Ptolemy III Philadelphos reigned for 37 years
and
and after him, Ptolemy IV (197) Euergetes reigned for 25 years;
after him, Ptolemy V Philopator reigned for 17 years and after him,
and after him, Ptolemy VII Philometor
Ptolemy VI Epiphanes reigned;
Another five emperor Ptolemies reigned for 92
reigned for 11 years.
reigned for 29 years:
The twelfth Ptolemy, named Dionysios,
years.
he had a daughter named Cleopatra and a son named Ptolemy.
9.
Then the 13th ruler in the Ptolemaic line was Cleopatra,
The 13 Macedonian
daughter of Dionysios, and she reigned for 22 years.
of
Egypt., from Ptolemy, son
Ptolemies reigned over the whole land
of Lagos, to Cleopatra, daughter of Dionysios, for 300 years, until
the
15th year of the reign of Augustus Caesar, also known as Octavian
Augustus Imperator;
he
defeated Antony and Cleopatra in the offshore
sea-battle at the promontory of Leukate and killed them and subjugated
all Egypt, as Eusebios Pamphilou and Pausanias,
the chroniclers, have
written.
10.
He, (Alexander) ordained that Antigonos,
known as Poliorketes,
should control and reign over Asia Minor as far as Cilicia and the river
Drakon, now called the Orontes, which divides the land of Cilicia
from
Syria and which is known as Typhon and Ophites.
11.
He ordained that Seleukos Nikator should control and reign
over Syria, Babylonia and Palestine,
(198) He also reigned over Asia
Minor after killing Antigonos, for he joined battle with him since he
built near the lake and the river Drakon a city which he called
Antigonia.
After defeating him Seleukos took all Asia Minor, and all
Antigonos'
possessions.
Seleukos also ordered that. Nikomedes and
Nikanor,
his relatives, sons of his sister Didymea, should have charge
of the satrapy of all
Asia Minor,
During the war Seleukos Nikator
married a girl from Parthia,
named Apama. He carried her off after

7.
8.

Bo 196.17-21; JN 60, cf CP 326.3-327.1; Slav: Ist 2.5-9,

Soph 76.
Bo 196.22-197.7; cf Ke 289.18, 290.12, 291.1-3; Slav:
Ist 2.9-17,

Soph 76.
Epiphanes reigned (197.3): Slav adds 'for 25 years'.
92 years (197.5): cf '190 years' Slav.
Ke in this passage is following
a fuller tradition with more accurate numbering
of regnal years.
Dionysios (197.6 and 197.9,11) Slav, Ke: 'Dionysos'
Bo (corn Dind).
9.
Bo 197.7-17; Ke 284.21-23; Slav: Ist 2.17-3.7,
Soph 76.
22 years (197.9): cf '29 years' Slav.
13 Macedonian Ptolemies (197.9): cf '20
Macedonian Ptolemies' Slav.
Leukate (197.15): Slav adds 'in Epirus'.
Eusebios (197.16): 'the very learned
Eusebios' Slav.
the chroniclers (197.17; corn Chil): 'and
the chroniclers' Ba.
10. Bo 197.18-22; JN 61.1; Slav: Ist 3.7-10.
11. Bo 197.23-198.22; JN 61.2-3, cf
Ke 284.23-285.1; Slav: Ist 3.11-4.1,
Soph 76.
Nikator (198.1; corn Chil, cf 198.9,23):
'Nikanor' Ba, Ke, JN.
sons of his sister Didymea (198.8-9):
Slav adds 'nephews of Antiochos
Soter, son ('sons' ms) of Seleukos' (probably
corrupt).

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who was a great. Parthian general. By

killing her father Pithamenes,
Apama Seleukos had two daughters, Apama and Laodike. After his wife
he saw and fell in love with another woman,
Apama the Part.hian died,
a very beautiful girl, daughter of Demetrios son of
named Stratonike,
known as Poliorketes, who had been killed by him. Seleukos
Antigonos,
found her in Rhosos hiding with her father Demetrios. Kilix, son of
had built the city of Rhosos.
Seleukos had a daughter by
Agenor,
Then Seleukos reigned over Syria, all Asia
Stratonike named Phila.
Minor, Babylon and Palestine for 43 years.
12.
Immediately after his victory over Antigonos Poliorketes,
Nikat.or wanted
to build a number of cities and first
(199) Seleukos
Going down to the sea he saw on
began to build on the coast of Syria.
the mountain a small city which was called Palaiopolis, which Syros,
had built.
On 23rd Xanthikos he went to Mount
the son of Agenor,
Kasios to sacrifice to Zeus Kasios. After completing the sacrifice and
cutting up the meat, he asked in prayer where he should build a city.
Suddenly an eagle seized some of the sacrifice and carried it. off to the
Seleukos and the augurs with him followed close behind and
old city.
below the old city at. the
found the meat. thrown down by the sea,
After marking out the walls he
trading-station known as Pieria.
calling the city Seleukeia after
immediately laid its foundations,
To give thanks he went up to Iopolis, where three days later
himself.
he celebrated a festival in honour of Zeus Keraunios, in the temple
built by Perseus, the son of Picus and Danae, which is on Mount Silpios,
where Iopolis is situated. He made the sacrifice on 1st Artemisios.
13.
He came to the city of Antigonia built by Antigonos Poliorketes
which was surrounded by another river, the Arkeuthas, also known as
He made
Iaphtha, coming out of the lake, and was in a secure position.
a sacrifice there in honour of Zeus at the altars built. by Antigonos,
and cut up the meat. He prayed with the priest Amphion to learn by
the giving of a sign whether he ought to settle in the city of
Antigonia,
though (200) changing its name, or whether he ought not to
settle in it but build another city in another place. Suddenly a great.
from the sky and picked up some meat from the burnt
eagle came down
offering on the altar-fire and went. off to Mount. Silpios. He pursued it.
with his men, and found the sacred meat and the eagle standing on it.
"It
When the priest, the augurs and Seleukos saw the wonder, they said,
we must not settle in Antigonia nor should
is here that we must settle;
Then he discussed
a city, since the gods do not want this".
it become
Since he was
with them where to place the city to make it secure.
afraid of the streams from Mount. Silpios and the torrents that. came down
from it, it was there on the floor of the valley, opposite the mountain

Pithamenes (198.11; mistranslated as 'bet.rot.hed' Slav): cf 'Spit.hamenes'

Dind (correctly 'Spitamenes').
12. Bo 198.23-199.16; Slav: Ist 4.1-16.
which was called Palaiopolis (199.3) Slav: om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 225.
Xanthikos (199.4): 'Xanthikos-April' Slav.
old city (199.8, 10): cf 'Palaiopolis' Slav.
13. Bo 199.16-201.3; ,1N 61.4-5; Slav: Ist 4.16-17, Soph 76.
Arkeuthas (199.18): 'Archeuthas' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 225.
'through a sign given to him
by the giving of a sign whether (199.22):
and' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 225.

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near the great river Drakon, renamed the Orontes, on the site of the
village known as Bottia,
opposite
lopolis, that they marked out
the foundations for the wall. Through the agency of Amphion, the chief
priest and wonder worker, he sacrificed a virgin girl named Aimat.he,
between the city and the river, on 22nd Artemisios-May, at the first
hour of the day, at. sunrise. He called the city Ant.ioch after his son,
who was known as Antiochos Soter. He immediately built a temple which

he

called that of Zeus Bottios,

and

raised up the walls also to be

really tremendous
with the help of the architect Xenarios.
(201) He
set up a bronze statue of a human figure, the girl who had been
sacrificed as the
tyche of the city,
above the river, and he

immediately made a

sacrifice to this

troche.

He went
off and razed the whole city of Antigonia to the
ground.
He brought the materials from there down the river and made a
statue of the tyche Antigonia, a bronze figure holding Amaltheia's horn
in front of
her.
He constructed a four-columned shrine and put the
After
tyche in a high position, placing a lofty altar in front of it.
the death of Seleukos,
Demetrios, the son of Ant.igonos Poliorket.es,
carried this statue of the tyche off to Rhosos, the city in Cilicia.
14.

The

city. of Rhosos was built by Kilix, son of Agenor.

15.
After destroying Antigonia,
Seleukos made the Athenians who
used to live in Antigonia migrate to the city that he had built., Antioch
the Great.
Antigonos had left them there in Antigonia with his son
Demetrios
and some
others, some Macedonians
- a total of 5300 men.
Seleukos made a tremendous bronze statue of Athene in Antioch the Great
for the Athenians,
since they worshipped her.
He also brought. down
from the acropolis the Cretans whom Kasos, the son of Inachos, had
left to live up there.
They had migrated to Antioch with the Cypriots,
since the emperor Kasos married Amyke,
also known as Kitia,
(202)
daughter of Sasalaminos, emperor of Cyprus. Cypriots came with her
and made their homes on the acropolis. Amyke died and was buried 100
st.ades
from the city;
because of her the district was called Amyke.
Seleukos won over the Argive Ionitai as well and brought them down from
Iopolis to live in Antioch. He made them city officials, since they
were a priestly and well-born group.
16.
Seleukos set up a stone statue of an eagle just. outside the
city.
He ordered that the months in Syria should be named in the
Macedonian fashion,
since he found that giants had lived in the land;
for two miles from the city of Antioch is a place with human bodies
turned to stone because of God's anger, which are called giants to the

Xenarios (200.21): 'Xenaios' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 225.

above the river (201.2): 'sitting above the river' Ft5rster, 1897, 145,
cf 276.7 below and Downey, 1961, 73, note 88.
14. Bo 201.3-11; Slav: 1st 4.17-19.
15. Bo 201.12-202.6; Slav: Ist 4.20-5.1.
Antiqonia (201.12):
'the city of Antigonia' Slav.
worshipped (201.18): cf 'did not worship' Slav.
Inachos (201.20): 'the emperor Inachos' Slav.
Sasalaminos (201.22): 'Salaminos' Slav, cf Chil.
Iopolis (202.5): 'the city of Iopolis' Slav.
16. Bo 202.6-15; Slav: 1st 5.1-8, Soph 77.
turned to stone (202.11): cE 'turned to marble' Slav.

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equally,
a giant known as Pagras, who lived in the land,
by a thunderbolt.. So it is plain that the people of Antioch
in Syria live in the land of the giants.
17.
Seleukos set up just outside the city on the other side of
the river another statue,
of a horse's head, and next. to it a gilded
helmet.,
inscribing on them, "On this Seleukos fled from Ant.igonos, and
was saved;
he returned from there and conquered and killed him".
Seleukos also set. up inside the gate known as Romanesian a marble statue
of Amphion, who had made the bird-sacrifice with him.
18.
Seleukos Nikator also built. another coastal city in Syria
named Laodikeia, (203) after his daughter, which was formerly a village
named Mazabda.
He made the customary sacrifice to Zeus and when he
asked where he should build the city, an eagle came again and seized
some of the sacrifice.
In his pursuit. of the eagle he met. a great
wild-boar, emerging from a reed-bed, and killed it with the spear he was
holding.
After killing the boar, he marked out the walls with its, blood
by dragging the carcass,
and ignored the eagle.
And so he built the
city over the boar's blood and sacrificed an innocent. girl, named Agave,
setting up a bronze statue of her as the city's tycho.
19.
Seleukos Nikator built another great city in Syria, named
after his daughter Apama, after finding a village formerly known as
Pharnake.
Seleukos fortified it. and named it. a city, calling it.
Apameia, and made a sacrifice. He changed its name to Pella because the
present

was

day;

burnt.

tvche of the city of Apameia had

this

name,

for Seleukos

was from

Pella,

the city in Macedonia.

He made a sacrifice, of a bull and a goat.
Once
again the eagle came and picked up the heads of the bull and goat. He
marked out. the circuit of the walls with the blood. Seleukos also built
various other cities in other provinces and in Persian territory, as
many as 75 in number,
as the learned Pausanias the chronicler has
written.
Seleukos named (204) these cities after himself and his
children,
as he saw fit. The learned Pausanias stated that Seleukos
named Antioch the Great after his father, since his father was also
called Antiochos. But no one building a city calls it after a dead man,
for that is nonsense: he calls it. after a person who is alive and well.
He named this city after his son Antiochos, as mentioned above.
The
most learned Pausanias has written much else poetically.
20.
Seleukos planted the cypresses in the city that once was
Herakleis, but is now known as Daphne, near the temple of Apollo; these
followed the cypresses planted by Herakles, the wonder worker, who built
Daphne and called it the city of Herakleis, after himself.
The city had
been built outside the grove by the temple of Athene.
The temple of
Apollo was called the Daphnaion and was in the middle of the grove.
Herakles was the first to expound the art of wrestling.
Then Seleukos died at the Hellespont., at the age of 72, and he was
buried at Seleukeia in Syria.

17. Bo 202.15-21.

and conquered (202.19): om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 225 and Downey, 1961, 77,
note 107.
18. Bo 202.21-203.10; JN 61.6; Slav: Ist. 5.7-9, Soph 77.
19. Bo 203.10-204.8; JN 61.7, 62; Slav: Ist 5.9-20, Soph 77.
20. Bo 204.9-18; Slav: Ist 5.21-26, Soph 77.
expound (204.16): 'devise' Slav.

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21.

After

reigned for

the

20

reign of Seleukos, his son Antiochos, called Soter,

years.

This Antiochos fell in love with his stepmother

Stratonike, the daughter of Demetrios, and (205) he married her. He had

by her two sons, Seleukos who died in infancy, and Ant.iochos called
Theoeides.
Antiochos,
the son of Seleukos, died and after him
Antiochos Theoeides reigned for 15 years. After him his son by Bernike,
Seleukos
Kallinikos, reigned for 24 years and Alexander Nikator for 36
years, Seleukos Philopator for 10 years, and Antiochos Epiphanes for
12 years.
22.
During his reign,
when there was a plague and many people in
the city perished, Leios, a wonder worker, ordered that.a rock from the
mountain above the city be carved with an enormous mask, crowned and
looking towards the city and the valley. He wrote an inscription on it
and stopped the deaths from the plague.
To the present. day the
Antiochenes call this mask Charonion.
The emperor Antiochos, known as Epiphanes, first. built in Antioch
the Great outside the city the building known as the .bouleuterion, so
that all his senators might assemble there with the city officials
and all the landowners of the city and discuss what should be done

about the matters that arose and then refer

him.

their

recommendations to

He also built some other constructions outside the city and called

this area the city

of Epiphania

after himself:

but. he did not.

build a

wall for it, and the settlement was left open on the mountain.

23.

Ant.iochos

Epiphanes

grew

angry with

'

Ptolemy, (206) emperor

of Egypt, since he demanded taxes from the Jews who were from the
country under Antiochos' rule. The Jews came from Palestine to Ant.ioch
and asked Antiochos to write to Ptolemy, toparch and emperor of Egypt,
not to demand tax from them when they, imported grain for them to eat.,
since there was then a severe famine in Palestine;
for the Jews used to
import grain from the land of Egypt. After receiving Antiochos' letter,
Ptolemy ordered that more demands should be made of them.
Then

Antiochos Epiphanes began a campaign against. Ptolemy because he did not

When a battle took place between them, a large number
men
and he went. off in flight. to the
On
learning of this the Jews of Jerusalem, thinking that Antiochos was
dead,
lit.
bonfires in Ptolemy's honour, commending themselves to him.
But Antiochos Epiphanes gathered an army, fell upon Ptolemy and killed
him, cutting his army to pieces.
Learning how the Jews of Jerusalem had
acted against him out of pleasure at his defeat, he marched against
Jerusalem.
He besieged
it,
attacked and captured it. and massacred
everyone.
He brought Eleazar, the high priest of the Jews, and the
Maccabees to Ant.ioch, where he tortured and killed them. He abolished
the office of highpriest in Judaea and made the temple of the Jews, that

obey

his letter.

of Antiochos'

fell

21.

Bo 204.19-205.7; of JA 54-5; Slav: Ist. 5.27-6.6, Soph 78.

36 years (205.6): '4 years, and Antiochos Grypes 36 years' Slav; see
Downey, 1938, 112, note 1.
Epiphanes (205.7): 'called Epiphanestatos' Slav.
22. Bo 205.8-22; Slav: Ist. 6.6-15.
23. Bo 205.23-207.5; of Ke 339,15-16, Su I 464.7-11, JN 63: Slav:

6.15-7.6,

Soph 78.

Antiochos Epiphanes (205.23): of 'the emperor Ant.iochos' Slav.

fell upon Ptolemy (206.16): Slav adds 'suddenly'.

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Solomon,
(207) into a temple of Olympian Zeus and Athene, polluting
the building with pig flesh.
He prohibited the Jews from their
ancestral
worship and forced them to follow Hellenic customs for three
years.
Antiochos died and his son Antiochos Glaukos, known as Hierax,
reigned for two years.
24.
After him Demetrianos,
son of Seleukos, reigned for eight
years.
A man named Judas,
a Jew by race, came to Antioch the Great
and begged and entreated the emperor Demetrianos, and the emperor turned
over to him the temple and the Maccabees' remains.
He buried them in
Antioch the Great in the place known as the Kerateon; for there was a
Jewish
synagogue there.
Antiochos had executed them just outside the
city of Antioch,
on the Ever-Weeping Mountain, opposite Zeus Kasios.
After purifying the temple and rebuilding Jerusalem, Judas celebrated
the Paschal festival in honour of God.
This was the second capture of
Jerusalem, as Eusebios Pamphilou has written in his chronicle.
25.
After Demetrianos, Antiochos, grandson of Grypos and son of
Laodike,
daughter of Ariarathes, emperor of the Cappadocians, reigned
for nine years.
At.
time Antioch the Great, suffered from the wrath of God, in
the eighth year of his reign, in the time of the Macedonians, 152 years
of

that

after the original laying of the foundation of the wall

by (208)

Seleukos
on
Nikator,
at
the
tenth
hour of the day,
21st
It.
as
Domninos the
Perit.ios-February.
was completely rebuilt,
chronicler has written.
It was 122 years after the completion of the
walls and the whole city that it. suffered; it was rebuilt better.
26.
After Antiochos,
grandson of Grypos, Antiochos Euergetes
reigned.
The Part.hians rebelled against. him and he began a mighty
campaign against them. After many Parthians had been killed, they began
a treaty
of friendship.
He married his son Ant.iochos, known as
Kyzikenos,
to the daughter, named Brittane, of Arsakes the Parthian who
had rebelled against. him.
The war ended.
After Antiochos Euergetes, there reigned nine other emperors from
his family
up to the reign of Antiochos, the son of Dionikes the
Leper, father of Cleopatra and Antiochis.
27.
In the time of the reign of the emperors before Antiochos,
son of Dionikes,
mentioned above, the emperor, or toparch, Pyrrhos of
Epirus rebelled against the Romans, after receiving a prophecy that he
would be killed by a woman. Curius, the Roman consul, joined battle
with him and defeated him.
In his flight. Pyrrhos came near a city that.

Bo 207.6-16; Slav: Ist 7.6-14, Soph 80.

a Jew by race (207.8): 'a Jew by religion' Slav;
24.

see

Bickerman,

64, note 6.
He buried (207.10): 'They buried' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 225.
Eusebios (207.15): 'the very learned Eusebios' Slav.
25. Bo 207.17-208.4; Slav: Ist 7.14-21, Soph 80.
Domninos (208.2; corr) Slav: 'Domnos' Ba.
written (208.2): Slav adds 'and Pausanias also'.
26. Bo 208.5-208.14; Slav: Ist 7.21-29, Soph 81.
Dionikes (208.13): 'Dionysos' Slav.
27. Bo 208.15-21; Slav: Ist 7.30-8.5.
Dionikes (208.15): 'Dionysos' Slav.

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had buildings outside the wall and a woman threw a tile down onto his
head and killed him.
28.
After this Magnus Paulus the Macedonian became consul. He
killed in battle
(209) the emperor of Macedonia, named Perses. He
captured the
land of Macedonia and made it subject to the Romans.
Sallust mentions this in his Catilinarian history, in recording Caesar's
speech.

After this Perseus of Epirus, the sea warrior and t.oparch of

Thessaly,
reigned in his own land. Eutropius the Roman writer named
this Perseus in his account, in the translation.
Palaiphatos mentions
him too.
Lucius Paulus, the Roman consul, killed Perseus in battle.
29.
At this time a man named Hannibal, king of the Africans,
rebelled for 20 years against Rome, which had no emperor but was
administered by the consuls. He destroyed the greater part of all Italy
after conquering it in wars and he slew the Paulus mentioned above.
Then the senate
of
Rome
appointed a consul who was powerful in all
respects,
but particularly in war, the man known as Scipio the Great.
While Hannibal delayed in Italy, Scipio took a large army and went off
to Hannibal's land in Africa and destroyed it.
He burnt Carthage, the
city of which Hannibal was king, enslaved it. and captured all his people
together with his senate, and returned to Rome.
On learning of this,
Hannibal went off to Bithynia to (210)
Antiochos,
the son of Nikomedes, emperor of Asia, and called upon him
to become his ally.
The Macedonians had had solemn treaties of
friendship with the Romans from the time of Alexander of Macedon since
the Romans had supplied him with an army against Dareios. Ant.iochos,
emperor of Asia, was persuaded by Hannibal and joined with him.
He went
with him against the Romans, trusting in his army, and set. out from
Bithynia.
On hearing of this the senators of Rome appointed a powerful
consul,
the second Scipio, brother of the first Scipio. They sent. him
against these two, Antiochos, the emperor of Asia, and Hannibal, the

king

of Africa. He met them and engaged them in a great.

After
many had been slaughtered Hannibal fled, seeing Scipio's power and that
he had the upper hand.
He committed suicide by drinking a fatal potion,
and died.
On seeing that Hannibal had fled,
Antiochos turned in
flight.
Scipio pursued him as far as the mountain in Isauria known as
Tauros.
After going up there, Antiochos sent ambassadors to him,
pleading with him that he had no quarrel with the Romans but had been
fighting on behalf of another.
Scipio received him and made him subject to the Romans by a decree
of the senate of Rome, on condition that each year he should pay the
Romans four talents of gold and silver and (211) certain other
payments
for the rest of his life. Scipio gave a banquet and invited

battle.

killed (208.21): 'wounded' Slav.

28. Bo 208.22-209.9; cf JA 57; Slav: Ist 8.5-13.
See Sallust,
the Roman consul (209.8): 'another Roman consul' Slav.
Perseus (209.8): Slav adds 'the sea-warrior'.
29. Bo 209.10-211.3; Slav: Ist 8.13-9.13, Soph 82.
trusting in (210.6): cf 'sailing with' Slav.
had fled (210.15): 'was fleeing' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 225.
and silver (210.22): 'and the same amount of silver' Slav.

6 t.51.5.

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him and granted him first place, honouring him as an emperor.

Scipio
returned to Rome in glory, as the most learned Florus noted from
Livy's writings.
30.
In the 15th year of the Antiochos
the Leper,
son
of
Dionikes,
mentioned above,
emperor of Syria, a man called Tigranes,
emperor of the Armenians, came and fought. a great. battle with Ant.iochos.
After defeating Antiochos, Tigranes, emperor of the Armenians, captured
Ant.ioch the
Great.
and his empire, taking away from him all that he
possessed.
The emperor Antiochos fled from Tigranes to Persian
territory.
Pompeius Magnus came out. from Rome because of Caesar and
attacked the Cilicians, who had rebelled against him; and when he had
defeated them, he made war also on Tigranes, emperor of the Armenians.
After defeating him, he captured Armenia, Cilicia and Syria, putting an
He laid claim to the Ant.iochenes and,
end to these t.oparchies too.
entering the city of Antioch, he made it subject to the Romans, giving

generously to them

and

rebuilding the

for it.

had

fallen

down.
He honoured the Antiochenes since they were Athenians by
descent.
31.
Byblos,
a powerful general,
discovered a village on the
coast of Phoenice, and made it into a city by fortifying it, (212) and
called it. Byblos after himself. He asked the Antiochenes as a favour
for the statue of Athene that had been made by Seleukos and was
tremendous, and for the statue of Zeus Keraunios that had been made by
Seleukos and was tremendous too; he took them away and sent them to
Rome for the Capitol, since they were a magnificent. sight. and since they
had become
subject to the Romans.
The statues remain to the present
day.
The inscription is, "The people of Ant.ioch the Great. honoured the
Romans by presenting statues in gratitude".
32.
son of Dionikes,
on hearing of the
The emperor Ant.iochos,
downfall of Tigranes, emperor of the Armenians, and of Pompeius Magnus'
victory over him, came to Pompeius and fell down before him, asking him
to restore his empire to him. Pompeius was won over and restored to him
the empire of Syria,
Cilicia and everything that. Antiochos had held
formerly.
On 19th Daisios Pompeius set. out. from Antioch against Egypt.
Antiochos the Macedonian, the son of Dionikes, began to reign again.
33.
At that time lived Cicero and Sallust, the most learned Roman

poets.

When

34.

point

of

the

death,

emperor
he

left

together with his estate.

Antiochos,
the son of Dionikes, was on the
to the Romans all that. was subject to him,

After the death of the emperor Ar,t.iochos,

Livy's (211.3): 'the most learned Livy's' Slav.

Ist

30. Bo 211.4-19; Slav:

9.14-27, Soph 83.
fallen down (211.18): Slav adds 'They asked this of him, and'.
31. Bo 211.20-212.8; Slav: Ist 9.27-10.6.
a powerful general (211.20): 'and his powerful general' Slav.
the statues (212.7): 'statues' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 225 and Downey, 1961,
151, note 4.
Slav: Ist. 10.6-10, Soph 83, Meshchersky 283.
reign again (212.17): Slav adds 'in Antioch'.
33. Bo 212.18-19; Slav: Ist. 10.10-11, Soph 83.
34. Bo 212.20-213.4; Slav: Ist 10.11-17, Soph 83.
Antiochos (212.22): Slav adds 'Dionysos'.
32. Bo 212.9-17;

Antioch

the Great became subject to the Romans, as well as all the

land of Syria, (213) Cilicia and whatever the Macedonians had held.
Thus the Macedonians ruled Ant.ioch the Great., that is Syria, Cilicia
and other lands, for 263 years from Seleukos Nikator until the empire
was given to the Romans.

became subject (212.22): Slav adds 'again'.

BOOK 9

1.

for

464

The Time of the Consuls of Rome

(214) The Roman state was administered formerly by consuls,

years until Julius Caesar the dictator. He was not born

normally but.,

after his

mother had died in the ninth month, they cut her

and delivered the baby.

So he
Roman language Caesar means "dissection".
2.
After growing up and proving
open

triumvir with Pornpeius

Magnus

and

was called Caesar, for in the

his courage, he was appointed

Crassus.

The

Roman

state

was

administered by these three. After the murder of Crassus when he had

been captured by the Persians in battle in Persian territory, Caesar the
dictator remained fighting with his army in the western regions.
When
he was dismissed from the consulship, that. is, the triumvirate, after a
kind of scrutiny by the senate of Rome (215) and his father-in-law
Pompeius Magnus, Julius Caesar was displeased and rebelled against the
Romans.
Winning over the Romans' enemies, he began a campaign against
the senate of Rome and Pornpeius Magnus.
He reached Rome, captured it
and killed all the senators.
Pompeius set out against him but saw that
he was unable to fight him, so he abandoned the western regions and
went off to the East, intending to secure this region.
Julius Caesar
the dictator became absolute master of Rome and all the western regions,
and began a campaign against Pornpeius Magnus. When he caught up with
Pompeius,
he killed him in the land of Egypt., as the most. learned Lucan

has written about. him.

This Caesar was the first to win sole control over the Romans amid
great fear, and he laid claim to all authority.
For after Seleukos
Nikator the Macedonians were feeble and neglected the land of Babylonia,
permitting the Persians to set up an emperor for themselves.
Likewise
they allowed the Jews to accept. the tetrarchic empires from the senate
of Rome.
At that. time lived Livy,

the learned Roman historian, who wrote much

Bo 214.1-4; CP 353.15-354.3, LG 275.5-7 (53.21-54.3), GM 293.1-6, Ke

289.11-16, Sk 24.12-14, JN 64.1-2; Slav: Soph 84.
464 (214.2): cf '465' Slav, '364' Ke, CM, '393' CP.
delivered the baby (214.4;corr,
cf Dind)
CP:
'delivered him as a
baby' Ba.
for (214.5;corr Dind) CP: om Ba.
2.
Bo 214.4-215,20: CP 354.3-16; Slav: Ist 11.1--12.3. See Lucan, 8.456.
a kind of scrutiny by the senate (214.12): 'scrutiny by the whole body
of the senate' CP, cf Slav.
captured it (215.5): cf 'captured them' Slav.
fight him (215.6): Slav adds 'or resist him'.
written about him (215.12): Slav adds
later Eusebios Pamphilou
'and
wrote of the same events in his work'.
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about the Romans.

that is, monarch,
3.
After this,
Julius Caesar the dictator,
He
controlled everything arrogantly and as a usurper for 18 years.

devised the int.ercalary

clay and (216)

laid

down

laws for the Romans and

He appointed those whom he wanted each year

he named months for them.
as consuls.
4.
At that time Vergil, the learned Roman poet., wrote the story
of
Aineias and of Dido, who was originally from Phoenice, the wooden

horse and the capture of Troy.

5.
News was sent. immediately of the arrival of Julius Caesar,
the dictator,
that is, monarch, the rebel who captured Rome, murdered
the senate and became monarch.
The edict. reached the city of Ant.ioch on
following indiction. The city's freedom
12th Artemisios-May,
of the
(from when it. had become subject to Rome), sent by the Caesar Julius,
The edict was proclaimed,
was proclaimed in Antioch on 20th Artemisios.
the sacred, inviolate, autonomous
and went as follows,
"In Ant.ioch,
metropolis ruling and presiding over the East, Julius Gaius Caesar, and
the dictator,
entered Antioch
on 23rd
so on".
Julius Caesar,
Artemisios. He built a basilica, which he named the Kaisarion, opposite

the temple of Ares which

was renamed

the Macellum, and set up there a

bronze
statue of the tychh of Rome.
Equally he built, up on the place
known as the acropolis, on the mountain of Antioch the Great., a public
bath for the inhabitants of the acropolis, (217) bringing the water from
what are known as the waters of the road to Laodikeia through the
aqueduct built by him.
He also built up there a 1,7onomache1on and a
theatre.
He restored the Pantheon since
it.
was on the point of
collapsing, and re-erected the altar.

6.

Going

off to Alexandria the Great., Caesar built buildings

there in the name of the son whom he had by Cleopatra, whom he loved as
she was
a beautiful
woman.
He found that. she had been exiled to the
Caesar
Thebaid by her brother Ptolemy, who was displeased with her.
seduced her and made her pregnant.;
she bore a son whom she called
Kaisarion.
Julius, the Caesar, built the Kaisarion in Alexandria the
Great.,
and so named it after his son.
After expelling Cleopatra's
brother,
Ptolemy,
from the empire of Egypt, he gave her the empire of
Egypt and executed the two eunuchs who had induced Ptolemy to banish her
into the Thebaid.
The son of Cleopatra and Caesar died in childhood.

Bo 215.21-216.2;
CP 354,17-18,
GM 293.9-15, PsS 75r, Ke 303.21-22,
JN 64.4-5; Slav: Ist 12.2-3, Soph 84.
18 years (215.22) Slav,
GM: '4 years and 7
months from the 4th day
before the Ides of May of the 1st indiction' CP, Sk, but unlikely to
reflect Malalas.
4.
Bo 216.3-6; PsS 75r, Ke 303.22-23; Slav: Ist 12.4-6, Soph 85.
Dido (216.4): c 'Elisa' Slav.
5.
Bo 216.7-217.4; CP 354.19-355.4; Slav: Ist 12.6-23.
entered Antioch (216.18): 'entered Antioch the Great' CP, Slav.
the Pantheon (217.3): Slav adds 'in Antioch'.
6.
Bo 217.5-17; JN 64.6--8; Slav: Ist 12.23-13.1, Soph 85, KVI (Pol Pal)
126-128.
eunuchs (217.14): cf 'sons' Slav.
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7.
After arriving in Rome,
Caesar was murdered by the second
Brutus and other senators who collaborated with him,
during the
consulship of Isauricus and, for the second time, of Antony.
Antioch
the Great therefore calculates its first year from Caesar Gaius Julius,
in his honour.
8.
(218) After Caesar Gaius Julius,
the senate of Rome chose
Augustus Oct.avian,
a relative
of Caesar's,
and Antony, Augustus'
brother-in-law through his sister,
and Lepidus.
The three became
triumvirs and administered the Roman state themselves,
appointing
consuls each year.
9.
In the 15th year of the triumvirate of August-us Oct-avian, the
Egyptians and Cleopatra rebelled.
She built in Alexandria the Great the
Pharos,
the lighthouse on the island known as Proteus' island, which
is two miles
away opposite Alexandria; she heaped up earth and stones
in the sea
for all that. distance, for men and beasts to walk upon the
sea as far as this island and the Pharos.
Cleopatra achieved this
tremendous work with the aid of Dexiphanes of Knidos, an engineer, who
turned the sea into land. When news of the rebellion of the Egyptians
and their empress Cleopatra reached the Romans, Antony took up arms, and
set out from Rome against Cleopatra and the Egyptians and also against
Persian territory, since they were disturbing the East..
10.
Antony invaded Egypt with a large force of troops.
On arriving
at.
Alexandria the Great., he surrounded and besieged it, (219) sending a
message to Cleopatra to give up the city, for he had known her formerly,
when he had come to Egypt. with the Caesar Julius.
Cleopatra sent.
a seductive message back to him, saying that she desired him; Antony

CP 359.13-15, 355.4-6,
De insid 2
7. Bo 217.18-22;
Ist 13.1-6, Soph 85.
in Rome (217.18) CP: De insid adds 'from Ant.ioch'.
Caesar (217.18): 'Gains Julius Caesar' CP, cf Slav.

Isauricus (217.20; corn Chil): 'Chrysauricus' Ba.

Antioch ... honour (217.21-22): cf CP 'So this is

Anti och

(155.17-18);

reckoned as year

Slav:

of

the Great. in honour of the edict of her freedom, and the 1st.

year of the 15-year cycle of indictions is calculated from the 1st year
of Gaius Julius Caesar'.
8.
Bo 218.1-6; CP 359.16-360.2,
De insid 3
Slav:
Ist
(155.19-20);
13.7-11, Soph 86.
After (218.1): 'After the death of' CP, Slav.
Lepidus (218.4; corr Dind): 'Lepidius' Ba, 'Leonidas' Slav.
the Roman state (218.5): CP adds 'until their death', cf Slav.
9. Bo 218.7-19;
CP
363.13-364.4,
De insid 3
(155.20-21),
PsS 75v,
Ke 304.9-15, JN 67.4-6; Slav: Ist 13.11-22, Soph 86, KVI 129.
Proteus' (218.10) CP: om Ba, cf 'Keus' Slav.
two miles (218.11): 'four miles' CP, Slav, Ke, JN; see von S 4, 130,
note 15.
they were disturbing the East (218.19): 'they ('they too' De insid) were
disturbing
the East ('the entire East'
Slav) with warfare' Slav,
De insid.
10. Bo 218.19--220.20; De insid 3 (155.22-156.29); Slav: Ist.
Soph 86, KVI 129.

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overcome by passion, fell in love with her and was

was deceived and,
Cleopatra was short but very beautiful, and had
subjugated by her.
mystic knowledge.
She admitted Antony and his army into the city, and
Then Antony, after marrying her, joined in her rebellion
married him.
against the Romans. After slighting and repudiating his wife, Augustus
Octavian's sister, and recruiting another large army, he won over the
Persians, making them many promises; he also built many fast ships and
Liburnian warships and sailed from Alexandria. He set. out. against. the
Romans with Cleopatra, for he wanted to capture Rome itself and
intended to reach Rome by way of the land known as Epirus.
When news of this rebellion of Antony and Cleopatra reached Rome,

Oct.avian

arms against. them, both

immediately took up

for the

good of

since Antony had

Rome and because of the insult to his sister,
slighted her.
Augustus took a powerful general, selecting from the
senate a man named Marcus Agrippa, and he married his sister Octavia to
him.
He set. out from Rome with the general Agrippa and his military
forces.
When he arrived in the land of Epirus at the promontory known

as Leukat.e, he engaged (220) Antony and Cleopatra in a great. sea-battle,

as the learned Vergil has written in his X A-inq of the Shield in his
eighth book.
The troops of both armies covered the land and the sea.
Many of Antony and Cleopatra's men were killed in the battle so that the
sea-water was mixed with blood, and looked like nothing but. waves of
blood.
After his victory,
Augustus Octavian killed Antony but. he
captured Cleopat.ra and put her in chains, and celebrated a triumph. He
ordered that she was to be kept under guard to be taken to Rome as a

prisoner

and

be led in a triumph.

But.

Cleopatra committed suicide and

died after being bitten by an asp, for she used to carry asps and other
snakes in her ships for battle.
While she was being guarded by
soldiers,
she died after being secretly bitten by an asp, in order not

to be taken alive to

Rome.

After her death her body was embalmed and

to Rome,
as a favour to Augustus Octavian's sister, as the
chronicler Theophilos has recorded. Those who have written the
local history of Alexandria the Great said that Cleopatra was captured
in
Egypt., as well as other details that. are inconsistent. with the Roman
writers.
11.
After this great. victory Augustus Oct.avian with Agrippa, his
general and brother-in-law, set out from the village (221) in Epirus and

brought
learned

and Libuanian warships (219.12) De insid: cf 'cavalry' Slav, om Bo;

see
Bury, 1897, 225.
Rome (219.14): 'the city of Rome' De insicl.
both for the good of Rome and (219.18) De insid, Slav: om Bo; see Bury,
1897, 225.
Many... so that (220.5): 'Such a great. number...t.hat' De. insid, Slav.
of Antony and Cleopatra's men (220.5): cf 'on both sides' De insid.
waves of blood (220.6; corr) De insid, Slav: 'waves' Ba.
other snakes (220.11): De insid adds 'in mosaic boxes', cf Slav.
to Augustus Octavian's sister (220.16): 't.o Augustus'
sister Octavia'
Slav, cf 'to Augustus Octavian and his sister' De insid.
was captured (220,19; see von S 148, note 43) De insid, Slav: 'was left'

Ba (
11.

A, Up6 LCTCxv for Arlcp6%aav

Bo 220.21-221.6; De insid

).
3 (156.30-35);

Slav:

Ist.

14.29-15.4.

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went to subjugate the land of Egypt, and to celebrate a triumph for

his victory.
On his way back with his army, he subjugated the other
lands and abolished their toparchies.
He was 18 years old when he
became triumvir.
The Egyptian war lasted many years.
12.
After going through the whole of Europe, Augustus Octavian
crossed from Byzantion to Chalkedon, a city in Asia.
He immediately
made governor of Bithynia a man named Lausus, his own choice from among
his followers, deposing the man in charge of the country, Dienaros, who
had previously been appointed by his uncle Caesar.
For Bithynia
already had a governor because,
before his day, Pompeius Magnus had
captured Bithynia after the death of Nikomedes its toparch, who was of
Macedonian descent.
When he died he left it to the Romans.
13.
Augustus Octavian subjugated Galatia, after defeating its
tetrarch Deiotaros.
He fortified a village known as Arsine and made
it into
a city, which he called Ankyra because it is in the middle of
two seas, the Pontic and the Levantine sea.
After sacrificing a virgin
girl, named Gregoria, as a purification rite, he created the province of
Galatia,
leaving Gallic soldiers there to guard the countryside (222)
and the city, and he named both the province and the river Gallos after
them.
Likewise he captured Lydia and Parmphylia, the provinces governed
by Deiotaros, and made them subject to the Romans, and sent his general,
named Quirinius, with a large force. He made Phrygia Pacatiana, which
was part of Deiotaros' tetrarchy, subject to the Romans, and sent his
general Pacatianus with a force. He captured Lykaonia as well, whose
toparch was Lykaon,
son of Kapys, who had fallen humbly before
Augustus.
After winning him over, as he was a valiant man Augustus
took him to Egypt.
Syria and Cilicia had formerly become subject to the
Romans in the time of Julius Caesar.
14.
On reaching Syria, Augustus entered Antioch the Great to
celebrate a triumph with his brother-in-law Agrippa for his victory over
Antony and Cleopatra. Agrippa was delighted with the situation of the
city of Antioch and built there a public bath outside the city near the
mountain,
finding a spring there. He called this the Agrippianon after
himself; it is now known as the Ampelion bath. He also built a group of
dwellings and a bath, calling this the neighbourhood of Agrippitai.

went to subjugate

(221.1;

corr von S) De insid,

Slav:

'after subjugat-

ing' Ba.

to celebrate (221.2) Slav: cf 'celebrated' De insid,

'after celebrating'

Bo; see Bury, 1897, 225.

12. Bo 221.7-16; Slav: Ist 15.5-12.

Dienaros (221.11): probably Cn Domitius Ahenobarbus, Antony's governor

of Bithynia 40-34 BC.
previously (221.11): om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 225 and von S 7.
13. Bo 221.17-222.12; GM 294.11-12; Slav: Ist 15.12-28, Soph 87.
Deiotaros (222.3; corr Chil) Slav: 'Dieniotaros' Ba.
Quirinius (222.4;corr von S): 'Kurio' Ba.
Kapys (222.9; corr von S 7) Slav: 'Kapnos' (gen.) Ba.
After
over, as he was a valiant man
(222.9-10): cE
winning
him
'After granting him his former toparchy' Slav.
14. Bo 222.13-22; Slav: Ist 15.29-16.4.
Antony (222.14): Slav adds 'the rebel'.
Ampelion (222.19): 'Ampelinon' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 226 and von S 487.

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and added another tier above the first in the theatre

Aqrippa also built
large population.
of Ant.ioch because of the
there, Augustus came to Laodikeia, (223) a
from
out
Setting
15.
very large theatre in the city, and set up
a
He built.
city in Syria.
He also built. in the city the great
of
himself.
statue
a
marble
there

tetrtapylon,
it

rebuilt

which
in

for his victory.

used

to be small.

He

decorated it. with columns,

then held a triumph at it

marble and added mosaics, and
tetr,90-11c)n a bronze
with
He also set. up on

statue

this

four horses.
16. He subjugated Phoenice too, and
When they had defeated
as generals with, an army.

sent Lucu.l.lus and

he made it. into a province.

He made

Pont.it.is

its toparch Tigranes,

subject to himself, that. is, to the

the area known as Arabia, which was controlled by Arabas, king

Romans,
He
fortified a village which he called
of the Saracen barbarians.
sent by him.
And he conquered the
general
the
after Bostros,
Bostra,
whose toparch was Archelaos,
remaining t.oparchies except. Cappadocia,
of the land of Judaea, since they
and the t.etrarchy of Herod, tetrarch
both brought him large gifts.
Judaea, made the paved highway outside the
Herod,
emperor of
17.
city of Antioch the Great in his honour, for it used to be rough; he

paved

it

after

Caesar, to honour him.

with white

slabs.

Both

t.oparchs named

their metrotcJeis

Herod, emperor (224) and toparch, renamed

as Caesarea in Palestine the city formerly known as Straton's Tower.

Archelaos,
emperor and toparch, renamed as Caesarea in Cappadocia the
For Caesar was the uncle of Augustus,
city formerly known as Mazaka.
who permitted them to reign over the tetrarchy for their lifetime.
captured
Egypt.
Palestine and
After
18.
He set. out from
he entered Alexandria the Great, celebrated a triumph
subjugating it,

there for his victory and

made Egypt.

subject. to the Romans.

He

first.

appointed to govern the Egyptians in Alexandria the Great a governor

He gave him the
from among his followers, a man named Cornelius Gallus.
own name.
rank of uqustal.ios, a symbol of
19.
and returned to Rome, elated
Augustus crossed from Egypt
He rebelled against
and reckless,
since he had subjugated the world.
He killed
the senate and ruled on his own authority and was arrogant.
Caesar,
He sent and had Brutus
Brutus,
who had murdered his uncle
beheaded while he was defending Thessaly with an army, during the

his

Bo 222.23-223.6; Slav: Ist. 16.4-11.

Bo 223.7-16; GM 294.13-14, JN 65.1; Slav: Ist 1h.11.19, Soph 87.
Phoenice (223.7): 'the Phoenician land' Slav.
And he conquered (223.13; corr von S 8, cf Slav): om Ba.
except Cappadocia, whose toparch was Archelaos
(22-3.13-14:
corr Chil):
'of Cappadocia, whose toparch was Archelaos, except' Ba; see Bury, 1897,
15.

16.

226.
17. Bo 223.17-224.6; JN 65.1-2, 66.1-2; Slav: 1st.
Both toparchs named (223.20):cf 'He ordered both toparchs to name' Slav.
their lifetime (224.6): cf 'his lifetime' Slav.
18. Bo 224.7-13; Slav: 1st 16.26-31.
19. Bo 224.14-21; Slav: Ist 16.31-17.6, Soph 87, KVI 130.
Augustus crossed (224.14): Slav adds 'the sea'.
He sent ...with an army (224.18-19): cf 'Having allocated Brutus to guard
Pharsalia, he sent an army and' Slav.
16.19...26.

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consulship

of

Calvinus and Pollio, as Lucan the learned Roman poet has

written.
At that time lived Sosibios, an Ant.iochene senator, who had
20.
He died, leaving his income to his
returned with Augustus to Rome.
so that every quinquennium for 30 clays in the month of
native city,
Hyperberetaios (225) there could be held contests of theatrical and
dramatic performances of all kinds and athletics and also chariot.
racing.
21.
August-us'
brother-in-law Agrippa arrived in Ant.ioch on his
second visit..
He cleared the old hippodrome of rubble which had
accumulated as a result. of the previous earthquakes. He watched the
and went away from there in admiration. Quintus
various spectacles
king of the Romans, had formerly done building work on this
Marcianus,
old hippodrome and the old palace at his own expense, when he came to
the Macedonian who was
Antioch in Syria to visit Philip Barypous,
reigning over Antioch, in order to agree on the contribution that he was
to pay the Romans.

22. The most. sacred Augustus became the first. sole emperor of the
Romans, and also orrgloA7&wn&-s. He styled himself thus : Augustus Caesar
t.ri umphat.or , the August, mighty i mperat.or , that is, supreme
O ct.av i an ,
ruler. Augustus reigned for 56 years in all. In appearance he was
short., slender, with straight. hair, good eyes and a good nose,

Zeus in Rome and

23.
In his reign he built the temple of
reconstructed the Capitol, making both tremendous buildings.
In
the 39th year and 10th month of his reign, he
24.
(226)
promulgated a decree and proclaimed that there should be a census of all
the land which was subject to him - and of that which the Romans had
held formerly - during the consulship of Agrippa, for the second time,
and of Donatus; and all the land subject to the Romans was assessed by
For the emperor inspired great.
Eumenes and At.talus, Roman senators.
fear, since he was very irascible.

Calvinus (224.20;corr): 'Calvisianus' Ba.

20. Bo 224.22-225.2; CP 364.5-10; Slav: Ist. 17.6-12, Soph 88.
He died (224.23): cf Slav which adds 'in Rome'.
cf
'instructing the city to
leaving his income... city
(224.24):
commemorate him' Slav.
Hyperberetaios (224.25): 'Perit.ios' CP; Slav is ambiguous between these
two forms, slightly favouring 'Hyperberetaios'.
21. Bo 225.3-11; Slav: Ist. 17.12-19.
from there (225.7): 'from Syria' Slav.
1937, passim
Quintus Marcianus, king of the Romans (225.8-9): Downey,
establishes that this is a garbled form of 'Quintus Marcius Rex'.
when he came (225.9): Slav adds 'from Rome'.
Soph 88, KVI
Slav:
Ist
17.20-25,
22. Bo 225.12--17;
CP 364.11-14;
131,

133.

'mighty, Felix' Slav; see von S 172.

Slav.
with straight hair (225.17): 'with straight, black hair and a thin face'
Slav.
23. Bo 225.18-20; Slav: Ist 17,25-27.
24. Bo 226.1-6; JN 67.12; Slav: Ist 17.27-18.2, KVI 136.

mighty (225.14) CP:

56 (225.16):

cf

'52'

After the 41st year and the sixth month of

25.
on Sunday 25th Dystros,
at the second hour of
passed,
archangel Gabriel brought the good news to the Holy Virgin
God Mary,
in the
city of Nazareth, in the consulship of
who had recently been appointed
Longinus,
when Vitellius,
was governor of Syria.

25. Bo 226.7--13; LM 426.21-26;

Slav:
41st year (226,7) LM: cf '40th

his reign had

the day,
the
and Mother of
Cyrenius and
by Augustus,

Ist. 18,2-7.
year' Slav.
Cyrenius and Longinus
(226,11; von S 10)
of 'Cyrinius'
Ba,
LM: 'Kouinios'
of
Slav (perhaps
'Quirinius' Luke 2.2?).
2T.
Perhaps
Quinc `Kouinios and
Longinus, conceal the
suffect consuls for AD
Valerianus and A.Cornelius
uinctius Crispinus
Lentulus Scipio,
Vitellius (226.12;corr
Chil) LM: 'Ut.illius'
Ba,

isuOK 10 The Time of the Reign of

Augustus

In the 42nd
1.
(227)
year and the fourth month of the reign of
Augustus our Lord God Jesus Christ was born, eight days before the
on 25th December, at the seventh hour of the day,
Kalends of January,
city of Judaea named Bethlehem, which is near Jerusalem, in the
in a
year 42 according to the calendar of Antioch the Great, while Quirinius
the ex-consul was governor of Syria, Octavian and Silvanus were
consuls, and emperor Herod was toparch, or emperor, of Judaea.
Thus from Adam to Phalek, the son of Heber, the total is 2533
2.
and from Phalek until the 42nd year of the reign of Augustus
years,
Caesar
(228)
2967 years, so that the total from Adam the first-created
until the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. and the 42nd year of the
reign of Augustus Caesar is 5500 years.
Then our Lord God passed 33 years on earth among men, as is recorded
in the
scriptures, so that from Adam until the incarnation of our Lord
Jesus Christ and his crucifixion there were 5533 years.
For Phalek,
according to the prophetic words of Moses,
is said
to be at the
mid-point in time before the future coming of Christ. For just as he
created man on the sixth day, as Moses stated, he recorded this too in
his writings,
"One day for the Lord is as a thousand years".
It was on
the sixth day, as scripture said, that God created man and man fell into
so it is plain that it was on the sixth millennium day that our
sin,
Lord* Jesus Christ appeared on earth, and saved man through the Cross and
resurrection.
This has been written by Clement.,
Theophilos and
Timotheos,
the learned chroniclers, who agree among themselves. The
chronicler Eusebios Pamphilou, most dear to God, who became bishop of
Caesarea in Palestine, also says (229) that the Lord Jesus Christ, the
Saviour of all, appeared in the sixth millennium, corresponding to the

Bo 227.1-9; LM 426.20-21, 35-427.2, Hes 1-2, Ke 304.17-18; Slav: Ist

3.1-8, Soph 89.
December (227.3): 'Apellaios-December' LM, Slav.
Quirinius (227.6; corr): 'Kyrinios' Ba, cf LM.
emperor Herod (227.9): 'Herod the Great' LM, Slav.
2.
Bo 227.10-229.12; LM 427.3-36, Hes 3-end; Slav: Ist 3.8-4.14,
1.

Soph 89.
2533 (227.11): '3000' LM, Hes, cf Bo 34.13 and Gelzer, 1885, 130-2.
5500 (228.4): '5967' LM, Slav, cf Hes.
Adam (228.7): Slav adds 'the first-created'.
Crucifixion (228.8): LM, Slav add 'and Assumption'.
5533 (228.8): 'fully 6000' LM, Hes, Slav.
he recorded (228.11;corr) cf LM: 'having recorded' Ba.
it is plain that (228.15): LM, cf Hes, adds 'as it was on the sixth day
see Mommsen,
that man,
created in paradise, fell into sin, so';
1897,

487.

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But he said that it was

days of Adam's creation.
number of the six
our Lord God Jesus Christ
year
6000
that
of
the
before the completion
He was born and made man,
redeem the human race.
appeared on earth to
Jesus
Christ suffered and rose
Our
Lord
5500.
the
year
in
he said,
All agree that the
into heaven in the year 5533.
again and ascended
spite of variations up and down,
So,
in
year
6000.
in
the
Lord appeared
sixth year, in accordance with the
they said that he appeared in the
if those who have made statements about
and
even
of
prophecy;
words
he appeared at. the end of time, as the
the number of years do not agree,
shows.
scripture
sacred
3.
During the reign of the revered Augustus Caesar a city in
suffered from the wrath of God. Augustus
Palestine named Salamine
called
it Diospolis.
city
and
restored the
or emperor of Judaea, in that year was
Herod,
the toparch
4.
Persia, had entered the land of Judaea.
qoi
from
that
spies,
informed
The i9gai had come from Persia
He ordered that they should be arrested.
because of the star which had appeared, proclaiming in the East. the
they had learnt of the star because
Incarnation of Christ the Saviour;
they had mystic knowledge and they were bringing gifts (230) to Christ
They came to the East and asked,
as a great and victorious emperor.
Rumours about them
"Where is he who is born emperor of the Jews?"
When the ft qoi were recognized, they were
spread among the Jews.
He asked them, "Why have
arrested and brought. before the emperor Herod.
The z goi told him about
you become spies against the land of Judaea?"
the wonder of the star and that a great emperor had been born in the
world and,
"We have come bearing gifts for him as a great emperor, and
For we have
to offer to him as God, the gifts which we bring with us.
When Herod
seen his star in the East and have come to worship him".
heard these things he was astounded, wondering, "What kind of power does
the emperor who has been born have in relation to Augustus Caesar?"
The
qoi had come to Jerusalem in the consulship of Vinicius and Varus.
Herod discovered from them the exact time when the star had appeared and
said to the /,iagaf, "If you find him, come and
me, so
I too may
go and worship him". The magoi went away, guided by the star which they
had seen in the East,
and found Jesus and his mother in the city of
Bethlehem.
Falling to the ground, they worshipped the Saviour Christ.
For they said among themselves, "This star, which we honour as a god, is

tell

5500 (229.6)

Hes:

'5502'

LM,

'502nd year'

that

(ie of the sixth millennium)

Slav.

5533 (229.7): perhaps '5335', cf '5305' Slav, '5534' LM.

All (229.8):
'all
the accurate writers' Hes;
this reads like an
attempt to make sense of this sentence, an attempt with which one can
sympathize.
sixth year (229.9): 'the year 6000' LM, Slav, Hes.
and even if (229.10; corn von S) LM, Hes, 'and' Ba.
3.
Bo 229.13-16; GM 294.10,14; Slav: Ist 4.15-18.
revered (229.13): Slav adds 'Octavian'.
4.
Bo 229.17-231.11; LM 427.37-428.27; Slav: Ist 4.18-6.10.
to the East (230.1): 'from the East' LM, cf 'to Jerusalem' Slav.
Vinicius (230.14; corn): 'Vindicius' Ba, LM.
Varus (230.14; corr): 'Valerius' Ba, 'Varius' LM, cf Slav.

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They offered to him as god the

showing us the God greater than itself".
(231)
having been warned by a
gifts which they were carrying and,
they departed to Persian territory by another route, that
divine sign,
The emperor Herod
by the 12ne_q, taking no notice of the emperor Herod.
_qoi.
He enquired carefully from
was furious at being fooled by the
the high priests of the Jews and learnt where Christ. was born. He sent
his soldiers and slaughtered all the infants in the city of Bethlehem in
Herod was immediately overcome by
Judaea, as the sacred scripture says.
Archelaos,
incurable disease and died from being eaten by maggots.
an
his son, became emperor or toparch of the Jewish people for nine
consulship of Lamia and Servilius, as the most learned AD3
in the
years,
Clement. the chronicler has stated.
5.
Augustus Caesar Octavian in the 55th year of his reign, in
the month Oct.ober--Hyperberetaios, visited the oracle. He offered a
hecatomb in sacrifice and asked, "Who will reign over the Roman state
after me?" No answer was given him by the Pythia. Then he made another
sacrifice, and asked the Pythia why no answer had been given him but the
The Pythia made him the following reply, "A
oracle had remained silent..
Hebrew child ruling as god over the blessed ones bids me abandon
(232) So now depart from our leaders".
this abode and return to Hades.
Augustus Caesar left the oracle and came to the Capitol where he placed
tall altar, on which he inscribed in Roman letters, "This is
a great,
This altar stands on the Capitol to
the altar of the first-born god".

Ti.mot.hieos has written.

Caesar Oct.avian was stricken by an illness and died in Rome
as an old man aged 75; he was childless and had lived chastely, free
He was a high priest with mystic knowledge, and
from sins of the flesh.

the present day, as the learned

6.

emperor.
7.

After

the

reign

of

Augustus Caesar, Tiberius Caesar reigned

they were carrying (230.23): LM, Slav add 'gold, frankincense and
myrrh'.
sign (231.1): cf Slav which adds 'they did not return to Herod'.
toparch (231.9): 'toparch in the tetrarchy' LM, cf 'tetrarch' Slav.
Servilius (231.10; corr): 'Serellianus' Ba, 'Servilianus' LM, Slav.
probably
(for extra material,
LM 428.44-429.6
Bo 231.12-232.6;
5.
(57.1-7),
1927,
31-6),
LG
276.35-277.5
Malalas,
see
Weber,
irrelevant to
Su I
411.2-8, PsS 75v, Ke 320.17-22, Sk 25.11-20, Nik Kall I 17; Slav:
6.10-7.5,
Soph 91.
Ist
55th (231.12): cf '56th' LM.
oracle (231.14) Sk: cf 'Delphi' LG, Ke.
A Hebrew child (231.20): von S 15 proposes to omit 'child' and read 'A
examined by
Hebrew god'; this is unlikely, in view of the parallel text
Erbse,

1941, 179.

ruling as god over the blessed ones (231.20) LM, LG, Ke, Sk: cf 'ruling
the blessed gods' Slav, Su.
Hades (231.21) Slav: cf 'road' LG, Ke, Sk, 'song' Su.
our leaders
(232.1): 'our homes' LG, PsS, Ke, Sk, Slav, cf 'our altars'
Su.

placed (232.3): 'built' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 226.

first-born god (232.4) Su, Sk: 'son of God' LM, 'ancestor of god' Slav.
6.
Bo 232.7-9; Slav: Ist. 7.5-7, Soph 91.
7.
Bo 232.10-15; LM 435.15; Slav: Ist 7.8-14, Soph 92.

AD14

beginning from the consulship of Sextus and Sextus.

for 22 years,
thin, with good eyes, dark skin, short
He was of medium height, old,
upturned nose; he was an avid builder,
He
curly hair and a slightly
but fought, no battles and at their
campaigned against. the Persians
request made a peace treaty.
8.
On his return to Rome, he came to Ant.ioch the Great and built

known as Silpios two great and very

outside the city near the mountain
total length of four miles.
with
a
He built
colonnades,
roofed
handsome
tetrapyla at the cross-streets, adorning them with mosaic work
vaulted
and ornamented the street with bronze figures and statues.
and marble,
enclosing the mountain within
He surrounded the colonnades with a wall,
joined the new wall to the old city wall built by
it,
(233) and he
The
He enclosed the acropolis and Iopolis too with his wall.
Seleukos.
set up a bronze statue in honour of
of Antioch
council and people
Tiberius Caesar and placed it on a great Theban column in the street in
the centre of the colonnades he had built. This place was called the

navel

(omphalos) of

the city, and had a

relief of

an eye lophthalmos)

carved in stone. This statue stands to the present day.

9.
Tiberius Caesar learnt that the emperor Seleukos had avoided
the mountain and built the city on the plain, in fear of the floods of
So he
water coming down from the mountain in winter and forming lakes.
added to his statue a stone box, in which he put a talisman made by

priest, to prevent the waters from the

Ablakkon,
a wonder-worker and
winter torrents of the river Parmenios and the streams coming off the
mountain from harming that part of the city or from destroying the two
The citizens of Antioch say that this
great colonnades he had built.
stone box is their city's ransom-price, because Tiberius redeemed that
part of the city through the protection that the wall he built, gave them
against attack and capture by the barbarian Saracens and Persians. (234)
For there had formerly existed no wall for the part of the city by the
mountain that had been built by the illustrious emperor Antiochos
Epiphanes.
This
emperor also built the bouleuterion and other temples.
Equally the emperor Antiochos, known as Philadelphos, also built many
buildings outside the city.
It was he who built two temples, to Apollo
and Artemis, in the grove at Daphne, and he set up two golden images in
them and granted privileges to those who took refuge there so that
nobody could be driven out of these temples.
They built these buildings
during the existence of the Macedonian empire.
10.
Tiberius Caesar built a great temple to Capitoline Zeus in
the city of Antioch.
Likewise he built a public bath near the Olympias

22 years (232.11): '22 and a half years' LM, Slav.

and Sextus (232.11; corr): 'and Secticianus' Ba.
upturned nose (232.13): Slav adds 'generous'.
the Persians (232.14): Slav adds 'and the Medes'.
8.
Bo 232.16-233.9.

otIithal s (233.8): cf 'omphalos' proposed by MO1ler, 1839, 57, note

and Festugiere,
1979, 236, but Downey, 1961,
defends the reading of Ba.
9.
Bo 233.10-234.9; Slav: Ist 7.14-15.
This emperor (234.2; reading oCrUC, with Chil,
1979, 236): 'that (oTL
)
Ba.
10. Bo 234.10-236.2; GM 311.16-17,

10

183, note 91 successfully

von S 16 and Festugiere,

JN 69.2; Slav:

Ist 7.15-8.6.

spring that had been built. by Alexander the Macedonian and named after
For when Alexander came there and drank the water he said,
his mother.
have drunk my mother's milk". The spring lies near the mountain and
"I
it within the wall. The emperor Tiberius built as
Tiberius enclosed

well a

temple to

Dionysos near the mountain and set. up outside the

shrine two great statues of Amphion and Zethos, in their honour; they
were the Dioskouroi born to Antiope.
Tiberius renamed the city's river, previously known as Drakon, to be
Orentes in the Roman language, which means Eastern. He also built
(235)
the theatre, adding another tier on the side by the mountain and
sacrificing a virgin girl, named Ant.igone, but he did not. finish the
theatre completely.
He set a stone statue of the wolf suckling Romus and Remus above the
eastern gate which he built, showing that the wall that had been added
was of Roman construction. He also
to Ant.iochos'
a temple to
Pan behind the theatre. Domninos, the learned chronicler, has stated
this.
Tiberius built by the lake in the land of Judaea a city which he
Having discovered hot springs in the area, he built a
called Tiberias.
public bath for the city which was without furnaces but which served the
needs of the city from the hot springs.
He made Cappadocia subject. to the Romans after the death of
Archelaos, its toparch.
In
the time of Tiberius, there was a fire at. night in the city of
in
the 72nd year of its autonomy. Before being
Antioch in Syria,

city

built

noticed, it. burnt the greater part. of the market.-place, the bouieiaterfon
and the temple of the Muses built by Antiochos Philopator with the money
left. in the will of Maron of Antioch, who had gone to live in Athens and
then given orders that the temple of the Muses (236) and a library were
to be built. from his property.
Tiberius also built in Thrace another city which he called Tiberias.
11.
In the
15th year of his reign, in the consulship of Silanus
St John the Forerunner
and Nerva,
(the Baptist)
began to preach a
baptism of repentance and to baptise, in accordance with the words
of prophecy.
All the land of Judaea came out to him.
Then our
Lord Jesus Christ began his work of salvation when he was baptised by
John the Forerunner, being then about. 30 years old and working miracles.
He
was
baptised in the Jordan, a river in Palestine, on 6th
Audynaios-January, at the tenth hour of the night, in the consulship of
Fufius
and
Rubellius.
From then on John the Baptist
became
well-known to everyone and the emperor Herod, the son of Philip, the

great statues (234.18): cf 'bronze statues' Slav.

Orentes (234.21): 'Orontes' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 220-1, 226 and Downey,
1961, 184, note 93.
8.6-9.3,
11. Bo 236.3-18;
LM 429.10-23, JD 1369c-1372a;
Slav: Ist
Soph 92.
reign (236.3; corr Chil) LM, Slav: 'consulship' Ba.
Silanus (236.3; corr): 'Alvanus' Ba, 'Silvanus' LM, Slav.
and to baptise (236.5): 'to baptise' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 226.
Fufius (236.11; corr): 'Rufus' Ba, LM.
Rubellius (236.11; corr): 'Rubellio' Ba, LM.

AD23/4

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AD29

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AD17

land of Trachonitis, beheaded him in the

toparch or emperor of the
city of Sebaste eight days before the Kalends of June, in the consulship
Rufus, because of Herodias his wife, since John said
of Flaccus and
"It
is not right for you to have your brother's wife", as is
to him,
recorded in the sacred scriptures.
12.
(237)
King Herod II, the son of Philip, grieving for John,

came

from

the city of Sebast.e to the city of Paneas in Judaea.

very

wealthy woman, named Veronica, who lived in the city of Paneas,

approached him, wishing to erect a statue to Jesus since she had been
As she did not dare to do this without imperial
healed by him.
permission, she addressed a petition to the emperor Herod, asking to
The petition ran
erect a statue to our Saviour Christ in that city.
To the august toparch Herod, lawgiver to Jews and Hellenes,
as follows:
emperor of the land of Trachonitis, a humble petition from Veronica, a
dignitary of the city of Paneas. Justice and benevolence and all the
Thus, since I know
other virtues crown your highness's sacred head.
I
have come with every confidence that. I shall certainly obtain
this,
My words as they progress will
reveal to you what
my requests.
From my childhood I have
foundation there is for this present preamble.
I spent
been smitten with the affliction of an internal haemorrhage;
all my livelihood and wealth on doctors but. found no cure. (238) When I
of the cures which Christ performs with his miracles, who raises
heard
restores the blind to sight, drives demons out of men and
the dead,
heals with a word all those wasting away from disease, I too ran to him
as to God.
I noticed the crowd surrounding him and I was afraid to tell
him of my incurable disease in case he should recoil from the pollution
of my affliction
and be angry with me and the violence of the disease
should strike me even more. I reasoned to myself that, if I were able to
I crept
touch the hem of his garment., I would certainly be healed.
secretly into the crowd around him and I won my cure by touching his
hem.
The flow of blood was stopped and immediately I was healed.
He,
however,
as though he knew in advance my heart's purpose, cried out,
"Who
has touched me? For power has gone out of me".
I went. white with
terror and lamented, thinking that the disease would return to me with
greater force, and I fell before him covering the ground with tears.
I
told him of my boldness.
Out of his goodness he took pity on me and
confirmed my cure, saying, "Be of good courage, my daughter - your faith
has saved you. (239) Go your way in peace".
So, your highness, grant

or emperor of the land (236.14): cf 'in the empire of the land' JD.
Flaccus and Rufus (236.16; corr): 'Flacco and Rufinus' Ba.
his wife (236.16):
'the wife
of
his brother Philip' LM, Slav (Slav
omits 'son of Philip' at 236.13-14).
12. Bo 237.1-239.17; JD 1372a-1373a;
Slav: Ist 9.4-11.13.
See j4ft.thew
9.20-22, h rA- 5.25-34, Luke 8.43--48.

II, the son of Philip M7.2): cf 'the

Philip' Slav.

son of

Philip'

JD, 'second

after

Veronica (237.4,11, 239.8): cf 'Vernike' JD, cf Slav.

statue (237.7): 'bronze statue' Slav, cf 'gold statue' JD.
ran (237.8) JD, Slav: 'runs' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 226.
I have come (237.13): cf 'I write to you' JD.
certainly obtain my requests (237.14): c 'obtain all my requests' JD.
restores the blind to sight (238.2): 'restoring them to the light of

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your suppliant this urgent petition.

When the emperor Herod heard the contents of this petition, he was
amazed by the miracle and, fearing the mystery of the cure, said, "This
cure, woman, which was worked on you, is worthy of a greater statue.
Go
then and erect whatever kind of statue you wish to him, honouring by the
offering him who healed you".
Immediately Veronica, who had formerly
suffered from a haemorrhage, set tap in the middle of her city of Paneas
a bronze statue of beaten bronze, mixing it with a small quantity of
gold and silver, to our Lord God Jesus Christ.
This statue remains in
the city of Paneas to the present. day,
having been moved many years ago
from the
place where it stood in the middle of the city to a holy
I
chapel.
found this document. in the city of Paneas in the house of a
man
called Bassus, a Jew who had become Christian.
Included in it were
lives of all
the emperors who had formerly reigned over the land of
Judaea.
13.
The emperor Herod,
the son of Philip,
became plethoric
and was critically
ill
for eight months.
He was murdered in his
bed-chamber
(240) at the end of those eight months, with his wife's
complicity, as the most learned Clement has written.
14.
In the
18th year and seventh month of the reign of Tiberius
Caesar,
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, our God, having reached the
age of about. 33, was betrayed by Judas Iscariot., his disciple, on 23rd
Dystros-March, the moon being in its 13th day.
It was Thursday and at
the fifth hour of the night. He was brought. before Caiaphas the high
priest and from there was handed over to the governor Pontius Pilate.

Immediately

Pilate's

wife Procla sent. a message to him, "Have nothing to

do with that just man, for I have suffered much today in a dream because
of him".
When the Jews learned this, they began rioting and chanting,
"Away with him, away with him, crucify him".
Our Lord Jesus Christ was
crucified eight days before the Kalends of April, on 24th March, the
moon being in its 14th day.
It was at the sixth hour of the day, the
day being Friday. The sun was darkened and there was darkness over the

day' JD, Slav.

worthy of a greater statue (239.5-6) JD: cf 'greater than a petition for

a statue' Slav.
many years ago (239.12)
Slav:
cf
'not many years ago' JD; see Weber,
1929,

39.

found this document (239.14) Slav: cf 'This document. was found' JD.
13. Bo 239.18-240.2;
De insid 4
(156.36-157.3),
JA
80;
Slav: 1st
11.13-15.
Herod (239.18): 'Herod II' De insid.
critically ill (239.19): De insid, Slav add 'with a disease'.
14. Bo 240.3-242.7;
LM 429.24-430.13 (gives many attractive dates, most
of which seem irrelevant for the reconstruction of the original Malalas;
only a few of the most relevant are cited here; see von S 20-21), CP
411.19-22
(AD32),
413.4-8
(AD32),
De
insid 5
(157.4);
Slav:
Ist
I

12.1-14.4,

Soph

92.

See

Jf9tthew 27.19,

45,

51-2, 54, 28.1,

i+19r.1c

15.33,39, Luke 23.44-5, 47, John 14.15, Acts I 10-11, Eusebios I 148 ff.
Pilate (240.9): LM, Slav add 'in the morning'.
eight days ...on 24th March
(240.14-15)
Slav,
a false date:
cf
'eight...25t.h March' LM, 'nine days...24t.h March' von S 20.
March (240.15) LM: 'Dystros-March' Slav.

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of Athens has written in his work

The most learned Phlegon
"In the 18th year of the reign of
about this darkness as follows,
Tiberius Caesar there was a very great eclipse of the sun, greater than
any that had been known before. Night prevailed at the sixth hour of
the day so that even the stars appeared". (241) The Lord Jesus Christ,
the Son of the Living God, gave up his spirit on that Friday, at about
Immediately there was a great earthquake over all the
the ninth hour.
world. Graves were opened up, rocks were split and the dead rose up, as
is all recorded truly in the sacred scriptures, so that the Jews said,
"In truth he whom we crucified was the Son of God".
Jesus Christ was buried at the tenth hour of that Friday, in the
AD33 consulship of Sulpicius and Sulla, in the 79th year according to the
calendar of Antioch the Great, while Cassius, who had been appointed by
AD31 Tiberius Caesar, was governor of Syria.
Jesus,
our Lord God, rose on 25th Dystros-March, at the tenth hour
as Sunday 26th March was dawning, the moon being in its
AD30 of the night,
16th day.
He appeared to the apostles and to many other saints and
lived with them on earth for 40 days after his resurrection. Our Lord
God Jesus Christ was taken up into the heavens on Thursday 4th
Artemisios-May,
at the second hour of the day, while the holy apostles
and a great crowd of others saw how he was taken up into the clouds and
the holy angels said, "Men of Galilee, why do you gaze into the heavens?
This is Jesus". (242) The Holy Spirit, the Giver of Life, descended on
his holy apostles on Sunday 14th Artemisios-May, at the third hour of
the day,
while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea. He had been
appointed to govern that people by Tiberius Caesar, who had put an end
to the empire of the Jews and had assigned for them the governor whom he
had chosen.
Annas and Caiaphas were then high priests of the Jewish
people.
15.
Four years after the resurrection and ascension of our Saviour
Jesus Christ, during the reign of Tiberius Caesar - after St Paul
had left Antioch the Great where he had first proclaimed the word
with Barnabas in the street near the Pantheon, known as Singon, and
had gone to Cilicia - Peter came from Jerusalem to Antioch and began to
teach the Word.
Having installed himself there as bishop, he was
persuaded by the Christians who had converted from Judaism not. to accept
or cherish the faithful who had been gentiles.
He thus ignored them and
left the city.
After this St Paul returned to Antioch the Great and
learnt what St Peter had done; he removed the scandal everywhere and
accepted and cherished all equally, exhorting all to the faith, as the

world.

LM:
Slav adds
'from the
sixth hour to the
ninth', cf CP.
of Athens (240.18): Slav adds 'a Hellene'.
Sulla (241.9; corr): 'Sola' Ba,'Solatus' LM, Slav.
tenth hour (241.14) LM: cf 'sixth hour' Slav.
third hour (242.3; corr von S) LM, Slav (var.EL): '13th hour' Ba, 'first
hour' Slav (main tradition).
15. Bo 242.8-22; Slav: Ist 14,4-15.
Singon (242.12) :
Jaw-bone' Slav
E Laychv
) ; see Downey, 1961,

over the world (240.17)

275, note 13.

'the

(ie

Having installed himself there as bishop (242.15):

consecrated bishop and installed himself' Slav.

cf

'He

was

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most learned Clement and Tatianos the chroniclers have written.

16.
(243) The emperor Tiberius died a natural death in his palace
at the age of 78.
17.
After the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Helios Gaius, also known
as Caligula, reigned.
Before he began to reign he had inspired great
fear. among
all the barbarian peoples, and it was for this reason the
senate proclaimed him emperor. He began to reign during the consulship
of Gallus and Nonianus, and his reign lasted for four years and seven AD35
months.
He was of good height, well-knit, with delicate features, a
good colour, with the beginnings of a beard, straight hair, small eyes;
he was very quick, irascible and magnanimous.
18.
In the first year of his reign Antioch the Great. suffered
from the wrath of God, at dawn on 23rd Dystros-March, its second
calamity since the time of the Macedonians, in the year 85 according to AD37
the calendar of the Antiochenes. Part of Daphne also suffered. The
emperor Gaius provided large sums of money for the city and its
surviving inhabitants.
He built there a public bath near the mountain
of Gaius Caesar,
sending Salianus the prefect from Rome to Antioch
to build the public bath. Salianus also constructed a great aqueduct
from Daphne, cutting through the mountain and bringing the water to the
bath he had built. He also built temples.
19.
Gaius Caesar also sent two other senators from Rome, very
wealthy men whose names (244) were Pontous and Varius, to protect the
city and to rebuild it from the benefactions made by the emperor, and
equally to make donations to the city from their private income and to
live there.
They built very many dwellings
out. of their private
incomes.
In addition to the dwellings the
senators built other

buildings in the city of Antiochos from their private funds:

the great

public bath known as the Varium down by the wall near the river, where
they built their own dwellings close to the public bath; a very
handsome Trinymphon which they decorated with statues for the weddings
of all the maidens of the city.
They restored many buildings in the
city of the Antiochenes with the aid of the imperial benefactions.
The
senators remained living in the city. Gaius Caesar bestowed ranks upon
the remaining landowners.
20.
From the first year of Gaius Caesar the Green faction assumed
from him licence to do as they chose and rioted in Rome and every city
for three years until the end of his reign, for he favoured them.
In

16. Bo 243.1-2; CP 431.11-12 (AD36); Slav: Ist 14.15-16.

palace (243.1) Slav: c CP which adds 'at Rome, childless and without

a wife'.

78 (243.2): '70' CP, Slav; Slav adds 'having grown old'.

17. Bo 243.3-10; LM 435.20; Slav: Ist 15.1-6, Soph 93.
Nonianus (243.7): written 'Nonnianus' Ba.
18. Bo 243.10-21; Slav: Ist 15.6-8.
a public bath near the mountain of Gaius Caesar (243.17): we suspect
that 'a public bath of Gaius Caesar near the mountain' is intended; see,
eg, Downey, 1938, 7.
Salianus (243.18): perhaps 'Salvianus'; see Downey, 1961, 190, note 125.
19. Bo 243.22-244.14.
20. Bo 244.15-245.21; Slav: Ist 15.9-16.15.
three years (244.17): Slav adds 'and a half'.

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the third year of his reign, in Antioch of Syria, the supporters of the
chanted in the theatre against. the Greens
Blue faction in that city
the Greens are lechers",
there,
"Time raises up and casts down:
while the consular governor, Petronius, was watching the races.
There
For the
followed a great faction riot and disaster fell on the city.
Hellenes of Antioch fought with the Jews there in a faction brawl,

killed many Jews (245) and burnt their synagogues. When the priest of
named Phineas, heard of this, he collected a
the Jews in Palestine,
large number of Jews and Galileans who were citizens.
With about
suddenly to the city of Antiochos from the
30,000 of these he came
city of Tiberias and killed many there, for he made a single unexpected
attack with armed men. Then Phineas broke off the attack and returned
When the
emperor Gaius learnt of these events he was
to Tiberias.
angry with Pontous and Varius, the senators in the city of Antioch;
he
sent and confiscated their property, seizing all their wealth, and he
requisitioned the houses in Antioch that belonged to them.
These houses
were called "the Imperial Houses" in Antioch in Syria from that time.
The senators themselves were led away in chains, since they neither put
an end to the riot in the city, nor did they resist the priest Phineas
when he, was ravaging the city.
Gaius sent. to the city of Tiberias in
Palestine, captured Phineas the priest of the Jews and beheaded him as a
rebel; he also put many Jews and Galileans to deat.h.
He put. the head of
the priest Phineas on a pole outside the city of Antioch, on the other

side of the river Orent.es.

He

sent

money and

reconstructed the areas of

the city that had been burnt.

21.
In that year the emperor Gaius,
at
murdered in (246) the palace by his own

the

age

was
eunuch

39,

the

cuhieularii, with the complicity of the senate.

AD39

of

22.
After the reign
of Gaius Caesar, Claudius Caesar Germanicus
began to reign, during the consulship of Caesianus and Solon.
Claudius
Caesar reigned for 14 years and nine months.
He was short, sturdy,
with grey eyes, greying hair,
fair skin,
a long
face; he was of
a most calm disposition.
He built a city which he called Claudioupolis
after himself.
He also built Bretannia, a city near the Ocean.
The

and casts down (244.20):

'time
casts down' Slav and P. Maas in von S
271, note 28.
lechers (244.21; reading u&XXoL with von S;
see Downey, 1961, 193,
note 132): 116XO. Ba (see Bury 1897,226), 'warlike' (=
V&XLIOL ?) Slav,

waXo L

(?) Bo.

Petronius
(244.21; corr):
'Pronoios'
Ba;
see
note 127.
30,000 (245.3): '230,000' Slav.
Gaius learnt (245.8): 'Gaius Caesar learnt'
Slav.
21. Bo 245.22-246.2; CP 432.19-21 (AD40),

Ist. 16.15-18.

De

Downey,

1961,

191,

insid 6 (157.5-7); Slav:

at the age of 39 (246.2) CP, De insid:

cf Slav which adds 'and had ruled
3 years and 8 months'.
murdered (245.22): De insid adds 'following
a conspiracy'.
in the palace (246.1): CP, De insid
add 'in Rome', Slav adds 'as he was
washing in the morning'.
22. Bo 246.3-11; LM 435.21; Slav:
Ist 17.1-6, Soph 93.
Caesianus (246.4; corr): 'Casius'
Ba.

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emperor Claudius put. a limit. to the rioting by the Greens.

During his reign Ephesos, Smyrna and many other cities of
23.
Asia suffered from the wrath of God; Claudius gave generously to them
The city of Antioch the Great was also shaken by an
for reconstruction.
earthquake at that. time and the temple of Artemis, Ares and Herakles was
torn apart and several houses fell down. The emperor Claudius relieved
the guilds, or associations, in the city of the Antiochenes in Syria of
service of the hearth-tax which they performed, to
the
public

reconstruct the city's roofed colonnades

which

had

been

built

by

Tiberius Caesar.
24.
At.
the beginning of the reign of Claudius Caesar, ten years
after the ascension of our Lord God Jesus Christ, Euodios became
patriarch in the great city of the Antiochenes in Syria; he was the
first after the apostle St Peter to be consecrated bishop there (247).
Christians acquired this name during his time in office, for bishop
Euodios gave this name to them in his preaching; formerly Christians had
been called Nazarenes and Galileans.
In the
eighth year of the reign of Claudius Caesar the Jews
25.
began a fierce persecution of the apostles and their disciples, and
planned a rebellion against the Romans.
Therefore a tribune, named

Fest.us,

was

sent against

them

first.

and from that. time

destruction

came

upon them.
The emperor Claudius also appointed a governor over them,
named Felix, who harrassed them.
26.
Eighteen years after the ascension into heaven of our Lord
God Jesus Christ, at the Jews' festival of Pentecost., the priests heard
on that day a human voice speaking from the inner temple that is known
as the Holy of Holies, "We are departing from here". The priests heard
these words spoken three times as they made the sacrifices and the fact
became known to the whole people. And from that time destruction began
for the Jews, as Josephos the Hebrew philosopher has written. Josephos
also said this, that from the time when the Jews crucified (248) Jesus,
who was a good and just. man - if indeed, he said, one could call such a
person man and not god because of the signs that he performed sorrow did not cease in the land of Judaea.
Josephos stated these
matters for the Jews in his Jewish writings.
27.
During the reign of Claudius the Antiochene landowners and
citizens sent a report, petitioning the emperor that they might be

Bo 246.11-19; Slav: Ist 17.6-10.

public service of the hearth-tax (246.18): 'shopkeepers' public service'
von S 197, note 33; see Downey, 1961, 196, note 145.
24. Bo 246.20-247.5; Slav: Ist 17.10-14, Soph 95.
Euodios (247.1)
'Euodos' Ba second hand, Bo; see
Ba first hand, Slav:
23.

Bury,

1897, 226.

Euodios (247.2; corr von S 25): 'Euodos' Ba.

bishop Euodios...preaching (247.4):
c. 'they

named

themselves

thus'

Slav.
25. Bo 247.6-12; Slav: Ist 17.14-18.
26. Bo 247.13-248.4;
Slav:
Ke 343.1-3;
BJ VI 5.3, AJ XVIII 3.3.

Ist 17.19-18.7.

See Josephos,

because of the signs that he performed (248.2) cf Slav: om Bo; see Bury,
1897, 226.
27. Bo 248.5-249.22; Slav:

Ist 18.7-10.

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AD43/4

command to purchase the Olympic festival from

permitted by his sacred
of Hellas out of the annual income accruing
the
land
in
the Pisaians
by Sosibios, a senator and fellow-citizen of
from the money bequeathed
Claudius permitted them to purchase the Olympic
The emperor
theirs.
according to the calendar of the Syrian
year
92
in the
festival,
did this because they were displeased with
Antiochenes
The
Antiochenes,
the
income mentioned above which Sosibios had
about.
the city's officials
The learned chronicler Pausanias has stated
their
city.
to
bequeathed
Sosibios bequeathed to the great, city of
of Sosibios that on his death,
an annual income, 15 talents of gold.
This
the Antiochenes in his will
under the times of August.us Octavian.
has been already mentioned above
so that a varied programme of spectacles
income was bequeathed
The
his
fellow-citizens every quinquennium, with a
for
be
celebrated
should
tragic performances, athletics
theatrical and
contest in dramatic,
this was to last for 30 days
chariot-racing and gladiatorial contests;
in the month of Hyperberetaios-October.
(249) At.

first. the officials celebrated the festival;

later they

income.
Then compelled by the
deferred the games and pocketed the
the officials of Ant.ioch, together with the landowners,
sacred command,

purchased the Olympic

festival

from

the Pisaians.

The

councillors asked

everyone in the city, since they were prepared to do so, to allow them
With the
for the time being to celebrate the Olympic festival for them.
consent of the land-owners, the whole people and the priests they were
allowed to do so. The officials celebrated once more according to the
and athletics, theatrical and
former custom the contests for drama
And so this was done every
tragic performances, and chariot-racing.
quinquennium for 30 days from the time of the new moon in the month of
cycle came round. Again the
Hyperberetaios,
when the quinquennial
when various wars started in the East., or
officials found an excuse,
the city of Antioch itself was occupied by the enemy, or equally
indeed
when the wrath of Cod had occurred and sundry earthquakes and fires, and
they put off celebrating the varied programme of spectacular contests
instead they celebrated six other different cycles
every quinquennium;
for the above--mentioned festival, at intervals of 15 or even 20 years,
as they saw fit,
after the city of the Antiochenes was freed from
misfortune and once more at peace.
28.
(250)
In the
13th year of the reign of Claudius Caesar, the
entire island of Crete suffered from the wrath of God.
At this time there was found
in a
tin casket in the tomb of
Diktys,
the truthful account of the Trojan War that he had written in

full.

It lay

by

the head of Dikt.ys' remains.

Thinking that the casket

treasure, they offered it to the emperor Claudius.

When the casket
opened and its nature known, he ordered that the books should be
transcribed and placed in the public library.
Claudius died, having
given generously to Crete for rebuilding.
was
was

Then compelled (249.3): om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 226.

28. Bo 250.1-12; Su II 99.23-26, Tz E;f 21; Slav:

95.

See Sept,

Epistula.

Ist

18.10--19.4, Soph

At this time (250.2):

Tz adds
'Some buildings surrounding the tomb of
Diktys collapsed, and that too was shattered', cf Sept., but probably not
in Malalas.

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Claudius died a natural death in his palace at the age of 65,

having been ill for two days.
After the reign of Claudius Caesar, Nero his son began to
29.
reign during the consulship of Silanus and Antoninus. He reigned for
years and two months. He was tall, slender, handsome, with a good
13
nose, a florid complexion, large eyes, straight completely grey hair and
a bushy beard; he was well-disciplined.
30.
As soon as he began to reign, he made a thorough investigation
Being unaware that he had been crucified, he asked that he
of Jesus.
should be brought to Rome since he was a great philosopher and
For Nero had heard reports of this sort about. him before
wonder-worker.
he began to reign; so, wishing to question him, he asked for him to be
For the emperor Nero followed the belief (251) of those called
brought.
that is,
of those who believe that everything happens by
Epicureans,
accident and that. nothing is affected by providence. When the emperor
Nero learnt that the Jews, moved only by envy, had crucified him a long
though no fault was found in him, he was angry and gave
time before,
orders that Annas and Caiaphas should be brought to Rome by Maximus. He
also had Pilat.e brought to Rome by Maximus for Pilate had continued to
live in Palestine after the end of his term of office.
Annas and
Caiaphas gave many malicious reports about Pilate, including this, "We
handed him over to the laws". Annas and Caiaphas distributed money
widely and succeeded in obtaining their release.
In the time
of the reign of Nero, St Paul went to Athens,
31.
the city in Hellas, and found there a philosopher, named Dionysios the
the famous Athenian, full of philosophical teachings. He
Aeropagite,
stated that the sun is formed from an effusion of light from god, and
made other statements about the creation.
St Paul saw him and spoke to
him,
and Dionysios asked St Paul, "What god do you proclaim, you
babbler?" But when Dionysios had listened to St Paul as he was teaching
him,
he fell down before him and asked to be baptised and become a
Christian.
So St Paul baptised him and made him Christian.
(252)
Seeing the fervour of Dionysios' faith, St Paul made him bishop in that
land.
Dionysios, the ex-philosopher, wrote books opposing the Hellenes.
St Paul returned to Jerusalem.
32.
During the reign of Nero there came to Rome a man named
Simon, an Egyptian magcs,
creating displays by sorcery and calling
himself Christ..
The apostle St Peter heard about him and came to Rome.
On his journey to Rome and while he was passing through Antioch the

'65 and a half years'

29. Bo 250.13-17; LM 435.22; Slav:

65 (250.12):

Silanus (250.14; corr):

30. Bo
250.17-251.11;

Slav.
Ist 19.5-8, Soph 95, Abr.
'Silvanus' Ba.
cf JA
90,
Su III
455.19-29;

Slav:

Ist

19.8-19, Abr.

brought to Rome (251.5): 'bound and brought. to Rome' Slav, cf JA, Su.
Maximus (251.7; corr Chil): 'Aximus' Ba.
Pilate (251.7): Slav adds 'bound', cf JA, Su.
release (251.11): Slav adds 'and Pilate remained in prison', cf JA, Su.
31. Bo 251.12-252.4; Slav: Ist 19.19-20.8, Abr. See Arts 17.18.
Slav:
Ist
32. Bo 252.5-253.23;
GM 364.14-365.13,
Ke 362.12-363.8;
20.9-22.4, Abr.

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1:14

that Euodios, the bishop and patriarch of Antioch,

it happened
Great,
Ignat.ios took the office of bishop of Antioch the Great and the
died.
It happened that at
and enthroned him.
apostle St Peter consecrated
the Great the apostle Mark, who
that time there also died in Alexandria
Anianos his disciple took over the
was bishop and patriarch there.
the
learned
Theophilos the chronicler has
him,
as
bishopric from
written.
When

the apostle reached Rome and learnt. where Simon the

was staying. He found there
in the doorway where Simon the
up
with
chains
tied
sheep-dog
a great
Simon had tied him there because of Peter and those
nkagos was staying.
so that no chance visitor could come in to see
wishing to visit him,
the dog and the dog allowing
him without Simon giving an order to
This had formerly caused amazement in
those whom Simon wanted.
past.
Peter saw how huge and
anyone who wanted to visit (253) Simon.
terrifying this dog was and learnt. from those standing outside the door
Simon gave the dog orders, the dog would not. allow anyone
that, unless

magos

St

Peter

lived, he went to visit him where he

So Peter
to enter, but would attack and kill anyone who came near him,
set him free and said to him, "Go to Simon and
took the dog's chain,
tell him in a human voice, 'Peter, the servant of the most. High God,
wishes to come in"'. The dog immediately went in at a run and, while

Simon

was

giving instructions

about.

some magic

hocus-pocus, the dog

appeared amongst them and said to Simon in a human voice, "Peter, the
Those who
servant of the most High God, wishes to come in to see you".
heard the dog speaking with a human voice were astonished, saying, "Who
or what is the power of the man of whom the dog spoke, that
is Peter,
he has made the dog talk in a human way and bring him the message?"
Simon said to the men standing round and marvelling at. Peter, "Do not
see, I too will tell the dog to take him back a
let this astonish you;
reply in the same human voice".
Simon said to the dog, "I bid you go
and tell Peter in a human voice that Simon says, 'Come in'." Peter
came in to Simon and, working miracles himself, had a contest with Simon
the Egyptian.
He defeated Simon the 1&'igos by working cures.
Many
believed in Peter and were baptised.
33.
(254)
There was
a great uproar and scandal in Rome because
of Simon and Peter, since they were working miracles in competition with
each other.
The prefect Agrippa heard the uproar and reported it to the
emperor Nero, saying, "There are some men in this imperial city working
miracles in competition with each other.
One calls himself Christ; the
other says, 'He is not. Christ., but a ,m.9gos, for I tam a
of
Christ"'.
The emperor Nero ordered that Simon and Peter be brought
before him and Pilate be brought from prison.
When they were brought
before the emperor, Nero asked Simon, "Are you he whom men call Christ?"

disciple

Euodios (252.10): 'Euodos' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 226.

and enthroned (252.12): om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 226.
could come in to see him (252.23): om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 226.
This had formerly caused amazement in (252.25): cf 'This was the first
miracle for' GM, Ke.
what is the power of the man (253.13): 'what is the power of Peter' Bo;
see Bury, 1897, 226.
33. Bo 254.1-255.11; GM 365.14-366.11, Su III 456.1-13,
Slav: Ist 22.4-23.6, Abr.

Ke 363.8-364.2;

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Then Nero asked Peter, "Is he really Christ?" Peter

He replied, "Yes".
"He is notI am his disciple and in my presence he ascended
replied,
Summoning Pilate Nero asked him about Simon, "Is he the
into heaven".
man whom you handed over to be crucified?" Looking at him closely
"He is not, for this man has long hair and is very fat".
Pilate said,
Nero then asked Pilate about. Peter, "Do you recognize this man as a
"Yes;
for they brought him before me
disciple of his?" He replied,
as a disciple of his and I asked him, and he denied that he was his
so
I
let him go".
So, on the grounds that Simon was an
disciple,
imposter in calling himself Christ, which he was not, and that. Peter
too,
(255) when examined by Pilate, had denied Christ, Nero gave orders
They remained in Rome working
and both were thrown out of the palace.
in
competition with each other. Simon the magus had a great
miracles,
in;
he spoke a word in its ear and immediately the bull
bull brought
Peter immediately prayed, and,
fell down dead and Simon was applauded.
in the presence of all, made the bull come back to life and the bull was
restored to its master. All praised Peter, saying that to make the dead
They worked many other signs in
live was the greater miracle.
competition with each other, which are written in the Acts of the Holy
Apostles.
agns who
34.
The apostle Peter by his prayer killed Simon the
for Simon said to Peter, "You said that
had decided on an ascension;
Christ,
your god ascended into heaven; see, I too can ascend". Peter
saw that he was borne up in the air by his magic in the middle of the
Peter prayed, and Simon the m,9gn,: was hurled out of the
city of Rome.
His remains have lain
air to the ground in the street. and perished.
there where they fell to the present and have a stone balustrade around
them.
From that time on the place has been known as the Simonium.
When the emperor Nero heard that. Simon had been killed by
35.
Peter, he was angry and ordered Peter to be arrested (266) and put to
death.
As soon as St Peter was imprisoned, he handed over the vestments
of the bishopric of Rome to a disciple of his named Linos, for he was
following him when he was arrested. St Peter was an old man, in stature
with receding short hair, both hair and beard
of
average height,
completely grey,
fair but. rather sallow skin, wine-coloured eyes, a
a long nose, eyebrows that met, upright in posture; he was
good beard,
swift to anger, changeable, timorous; he spoke through
sensible,
The man known as Linos
the Holy Spirit and was a miracle-worker.
succeeded Peter,
the bishop or patriarch of Rome, as the learned
Eusebios Pamphilou has chronicled.
St.
Peter the apostle was martyred, being crucified upside down, for
the apostle had bound the prefect by an oath to this effect, saying,
St Peter was put. to death
"Let me not be crucified as my Lord was".
during the consulship of Apronianus and Capito.
,

they brought (254.20): 'The Jews brought' Slav.

They worked... Apostles (255.9-11): GM, Ke include extra material here
and in para 34 which is unlikely to have derived from Malalas.
34. Bo 255.11-20; GM 373.7-12, Ke 369.22-370.5; Slav: Ist 23.6-12.
You said (255.13; corr von S 31) cf GM: 'he said' Ba.
Ke 371.13-18; Slav: Ist 23.12-24.1;
35. Bo 255.21-256.15;
GM 376.8-12,
Soph 96.
Limos (256.2): 'Lenos' Ba second hand; see Bury, 1897, 226.

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likewise angry with Pilate and ordered

The emperor Nero was
did he hand the Lord Christ over to
saying,
"Why
beheaded,
to be
man and worked miracles.
innocent
was
an
If his
for he
Jews,

36.

him
the
disciple
been?"

could

work

such

wonderful

feats, how powerful must he have

St Paul
also arrived immediately after
During his reign,
to stand trial.
land
of
Judaea
(257)
from
the
was
sent
He
in Rome; he
cut off, three days before the
too was martyred, by having his head
of Nero and Lentulus.
The
Kalends of July, during the consulship
of the holy apostles should not be
emperor Nero ordered that the bodies
unburied.
While he was still
handed over for burial, but should remain
bald,
with
both
hair
and beard greying,
in
stature,
alive Paul was short
white skin, a florid face,
a good nose, greyish eyes, eyebrows that met,
he was sensible, moral,
and a cheerful appearance;
a good beard,
well-spoken and agreeable; he was inspired by the Holy Spirit and worked
37.

AD60

cures.

AD68

against Judaea and

The
emperor Nero sent an expedition
38.
the inhabitants badly, killing many in a
Jerusalem and treated all
pitched battle, since they had behaved rebelliously and had shouted out
insults. against Nero, because he had beheaded Pilate to avenge Christ.
Pilate had come before Nero for no other reason than that they had put
So Nero was
pressure on their governor when they had crucified Christ.
Annas and Caiaphas were slain
angry with them because they were rebels.
then by soldiers in the battle.
seized another area, in Pont.us; he
39.
During his reign Nero
sent Polemo as his general there, and he made it a province under the
name of Pontus Polemoniacus.
Nero strongly favoured the Blue faction.
40.
During the time of his reign the most
learned Lucan was
great and renowned among the Romans.
During
the consulship
(258)
of Italicus and Tolpillianus, also
the emperor Nero disappeared from view and died.
known as Trochelus,
Hellenic priests had plotted against him by giving him poison, for his
successor who took over the administration of
the empire from the
priests was of the Epicurean belief; his successor came in to see him,
as if he were ill, and stabbed him, in the palace.
So Nero died at the

age of 69.
41.

After

the

reign

of

Nero,

Galba

Augustus reigned for seven

36. Bo 256.16-20; Slav: Ist 24.1-4.

the Lord Christ (256.18): 'the one called Christ' Slav.
37. Bo 256.21-257.9; GM 377.11-12; Slav: Ist 24.4-11, Soph 96.
St Paul (256.22): Slav adds 'the apostle'.
38. Bo 257.10-17; Slav: Ist 24.11-17.
against Judaea (257.10): 'through all Judaea' Slav.
39. Bo 257.18-21; Slav: Ist 24.17-20.
40. Bo 257.22-258.7; CP 459.15-16 (AD68), De insid 7 (157.8-13).
Italicus (258.1; corr) CP: 'Itoricus' Ba.
Tolpillianus ... Trochelus (258.1): correctly 'P. Galerius Trachalus',
'Trachalus' CP, 'Tourpillianus' De insid.
41. Bo 258.8-15;
LM 435.23,
CP 459.18-19 (AD68),
460.7-10 (AD69),

29.9-11; Slav: Ist 25.1-6,

Soph 97.

Sk

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He was tall, valiant, white-skinned, with a slight squint, a

nose and greying hair; he was deranged. During the reign of
the bodies of the holy apostles were handed over for burial,
Galba,
for he was bidden in a dream to give the
at the emperor's command;
Galba died a natural death
bodies of the holy apostles for burial.
suddenly, after a blood-letting, at the age of 49.
After the reign of Galba, Lucius Otho reigned for three
42.
months. He was short, broad, valiant, with straight hair, small eyes, a
slightly upturned nose, and had a stutter. In his reign, there died St
James the apostle, the bishop and patriarch of Jerusalem, whom St Peter
in his place when he went to (259) Rome.
Symeon, known
had enthroned
took over the office of bishop of Jerusalem and became
also as Simon,
Ot.ho died after an illness, at. the age of 53.
patriarch.
43.
After the reign of Otho, Vitellius Augustus reigned for nine
years and eight months. He was of average height, with a good chest,
a ruddy complexion, a bushy beard, good eyes, and was
grey eyes,
In
his reign, Nikomedeia, a great city, the metropolis of
timorous.
Bithynia,
suffered from the wrath of God. The emperor gave generously
to the survivors and the city for reconstruction, for it had suffered
formerly from the wrath of God and was in ruins; he restored it.
During the reign of Vitellius Caesar the Jews rebelled and killed
their governor, by stoning. In the 35th year after the
Cyrenius,
ascension of our God and Saviour, the emperor Vit.ellius began a campaign
sending his general Vespasian and his son Titus. They
against them,
attacked the land of Judaea and made war on it and Jerusalem. During
the war the
emperor Vitellius was stricken with illness and died in
Rome, at the age of 48.
After him the most sacred Vespasian was proclaimed emperor.
44.
him during the consulship of Rufus and Capito. He AD67
The army crowned
was short,
bald, with a large belly, greying hair, a ruddy complexion,
and wine-coloured eyes, a broad face, and was irascible.
(260) Leaving
his son Titus to fight against the land of Judaea, he went. to Rome and
During his reign,
reigned there for nine years and ten months.
during the consulship of Decius and Rust.icius, there was a great AD251
persecution of the Christians.
months.

hooked

seven months (258.9) CP, Sk: cf 'one year and seven months' LM, 'nine
months and 13 days' Slav.
holy apostles (258.11-12): Slav adds 'Peter and Paul'.
49 (258.15): cf '59' Slav, '73' Sk.
CP 460.11-15 (AD69), Sk 29.13-15; Slav:
42. Bo 258.16-259.3; LM 435.24,
Ist 25.6-11.
43. Bo 259.4-19;
461.1-2 (AD69),
Sk 29.16;
LM 435.25, CP 460.16-17,
Slav: Ist 25.11-16, Soph 99.
nine years and eight months (259.5) LM: cf 'eight months and a half'
Slav, 'eight months' Sk; see von S 220-1.
Cyrenius (259.13; corr Dind) CP: 'Kyrenaios' Ba.
44. Bo 259.20-260.4; LM 435.26; Slav: Soph 99, Meshchersky 282,
Capito (259.22; corr): 'Capitianus' Ba.
During his reign... Christians (260.3-4): The consuls referred to are
those of the year 251 and the persecution is that of Decius; see von S
225-6.

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AD78

38th year after the ascension of the Saviour Christ,

45.
In the
during the reign of his father Vespasian and during the consulship of
Titus captured Judaea and Jerusalem.
He ravaged
Commodus and Rufus,
the temple of the Jews on
Jerusalem and all Palestine, and destroyed
its
1,100,000 souls perished,
day, when he captured the city;
festival
cut
A further 150,000
youths, both boys and
to pieces by the sword.
girls, he sold into slavery, as the most learned Josephos has
unmarried
written.
Josephos was a Hebrew and was present at the war.
Titus
The learned Eusebios Pamphilou
devastated all the provinces of Judaea.
has written thus, "The Jews crucified Christ during their festival and
when the Saviour abandoned them, they all
during that same festival,
Jerusalem was destroyed three times including this, as the
perished".
most learned Eusebios has written.
a
triumph for his victory and went. off to Rome.
Titus celebrated
from Judaea Vespasian built in Antioch (261) the
Out of the spoils
outside the city gate, what. are known as the Cherubim, for he
Great,
fixed there the bronze Cherubim, which Titus his son had found fixed to
When he destroyed the temple, he removed them
the temple, of Solomon.
from there and brought them to Antioch with the Seraphim, celebrating a
triumph. for the victory over the Jews that, had taken place during his
reign.
He set
on an upper level a bronze statue in honour of Selene
(the moon)
with four bulls facing Jerusalem, for he had captured the
city at night by moonlight.
He also built the theatre of Daphne,
(From the spoils
inscribing on it, "Ex praeda Iudaea"
of Judaea).
The site of the theatre
had formerly been a Jewish synagogue but he
destroyed their synagogue to insult them and made it a theatre, setting
up there a marble statue of himself, which stands to the present day,
46.
Vespasian also built in Caesarea
in Palestine out of the
spoils from Judaea a very large odeon, the size of a large theatre;
its
site too had formerly been that of a Jewish synagogue.
He created the province of Second Macedonia, dividing it off from
First Macedonia.
During his reign,
on
20th June-Daisios,
late in the evening,
Corinth,
the metropolis of Hellas, suffered from the wrath of God. He
gave generously to the survivors and the city.
He also built many
buildings in the provinces of Pannonia and Commagene.
(262) He divided
Europe from Thrace, building the city of Herakleia, formerly known as
Perinthos; he made it into a metropolis and gave it a governor.
He also
built near the theatre in Antioch the Great a temple which he called the
temple of the Winds.
He was stricken by illness and became paralysed,

45. Bo 260.4-261.12;

CP 461.11-463.2 (AD70)

Ist 25.17-26.6, Soph 100,

38th (260.4) Slav: '39th' CP.

Slav:

(see Duliere,

1961,

206-7);

Meshchersky 282.

Jerusalem was destroyed three times including this

(260.18-19) cf
Slav:
unsatisfactory Greek,
not much improved by the proposal of
Schurzfleisch, reported in Bo, 8d Ioc..
Antioch the Great (261.1): CP adds 'in Syria',
cf Slav.
He set on an upper level a bronze statue
(261.6; corn Chil)
CP,
Slav:
om Ba.
moonlight (261.8): CP adds 'and
for this reason he erected the statue'.
Ex praeda Iudaea (261.9): 'EX PRAEDA
IVDAEAE' CP (in Latin capitals).
46. Bo 261.13-262.6; CP 465,2-3 (AD79),
Sk 29.30-30.2.

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and died at the age of 71.

47.
After the reign of Vespasian, his son Titus reigned for
He was tall, slender, with a good colour, straight, short
two years.
and thin hair, and small eyes; he was stricken by an incurable disease
and died at the age of 42.
48.
After the reign of Titus, the most sacred Domitian reigned
for 15 years and two months. He was tall, slender, fair-skinned, with
short. fair hair, grey eyes, a slightly hunched back; he was a consummate
During his reign there was a persecution of Christians.
philosopher.
He had St John the Theologian brought. to Rome and examined him.. Being
amazed at the apostle's wisdom, he released him secretly, to go to
saying to him,
"Go and live in peace in the place you came
Ephesos,
But he was reproached for this and so banished John to Patmos.
from".
He punished many other Christians, with the result that a number of them
fled to Pontus,
as Bottios the learned chronicler has written about
them.
The emperor Domitian loved the dancer (263) known as Paris
49.
faction in Rome;
from the Green
he was reproached for this by the
senate at Rome and by the Roman poet Juvenal, for favouring the Green
faction.
The emperor banished the poet Juvenal to Pentapolis in Libya,
but enriched the dancer and sent him to Antioch the Great to live there,
So the dancer Paris went there and lived outside the
outside the city.
city, where he built a suburban mansion for himself, and a bath known as
Paradise,
which
is there to
the present day, as is the house. He
died there and is buried in a tomb behind the house in its gardens.
Domitian built in Antioch the Great a public bath known as
50.
that of Medeia, because he put a marvellous statue of Medeia in it, and
so the citizens used to call the public bath by this name and not the
Domitianum.
This public bath had been built by the mountain, near the
innnomacheJon and the temple of Aphrodite.
The emperor also built there
a temple of Asklepios.
51.
There
lived and flourished in the time of the reign of
Domitian the most learned Apollonios of Tyana who travelled round making
talismans everywhere in the cities and their territories. He went from
Rome and came to Byzantion.
On entering Byzoupolis, which is now
felicitously known as Constantinople, (264) he made many talismans there
too at the request of the Byzantines, one for the storks, one for the
river Lykos which runs through the middle of the city, one for the
tortoise,
one for horses,
as well as other miraculous things.
Then
Apollonios left. Byzantion and made talismans in other cities. He came

71

(262.6): cf '70'

47. Bo 262.7-10;

CP, 5k.

LM 435.27, CP 465.11-12 (AD81); Slav: Soph 100.

the reign of Vespasian (262.7): 'his reign' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 226.
two years (262.8) LM: 'two years and two months' Slav.
JN
48. Bo 262.11-21;
LM 435.30-32,
CP 468.7-8 (AD94), Sk 30.11-14,
71.1-5; Slav: Soph 100.
49. Bo 262.22-263.10; De virt 5 (160.10-17), Su II 640.27-641.6.
Paradise (263.9): Francke's suggestion (1820, 37-40; see Downey, 1961,
208, note 35) 'Parideion' is attractive.
50. Bo 263.11-17.
51. Bo 263.18-266.11;
CP 467.9-15 (AD93),
GM 444.14-16, 445.6-10, Ke
431.14-432.5, Sk 30.15; Slav: Soph 100.

LwA[

14U

Antioch the Great.

1U

The

Antiochene
and entered
to Syria from Tyana
to make talismans there to satisfy their needs.
He
landowners asked him
the north wind, putting this talisman at the
made one talisman against
Likewise he made a talisman in the city against scorpions,
east gate.
to approach the region.
He placed this
so that they should not, dare
making
a
bronze
scorpion
the
city,
and burying
of
talisman in the middle
column over it -- and the scorpions vanished from
a
small
setting
and
it
He made many other things there.
Antioch.
the entire neighbourhood of
him to make a talisman against mosquitoes, so that
The citizens asked
He did so, by
should not. have them any more.
the city of Antioch
in Antioch of Syria on the 7th Daisios-June
telling them to celebrate
Graste's, during the month of Daisios.
But
the chariot-races known as
at
the new moon of the month Daisios, and told
talisman
he set up the
same month,
of the
the day of the
them that on the seventh day
all to carry on canes small busts of
they
were
of
Graste,
chariot-races
of Ares and a shield of red leather
solid lead (265) with the features
the
other a red dagger equally hanging,
side,
and
on
on
one
hanging down
He told them to chant as they
both tied on with a linen thread.
in
the
city!"
and after the end of the
"No
mosquitoes
saying,
paraded,
everyone was to put the talisman in his own house. And
chariot-races
Antioch the Great.
there was not a single mosquito to be seen in
Antioch and examined its
Tyana went around
While Apollonios of
situation with the landowners of the city, he saw a porphyry column

standing

in the middle of the

city with nothing

on

it., but the

column

by being struck by lightning.

On enquiring
itself had been scorched
what it was, he learnt from them, "After the city's calamity in the time
of Gaius
Caesar, Debborios, a philosopher and wonder-worker, made this
fall,
even if shaken by an
talisman so that the city should not.
he set up the column with a marble bust on top of it and
earthquake;
When the bust. on top of
wrote on its breast.,
'Unshakeable, immovable'.
the column was burnt by a fire ball caused by lightning, it fell, and we
But, listen to our plea and make
fear that our city will suffer again.
us a talisman yourself, so that our city should not be shaken and suffer
reluctant to make another
again".
(266)
Apollonios groaned and was
When they saw him groaning,
talisman against earthquakes.
they

persisted

in

their pleas to

him.

He

took

diptych and wrote,

"Unhappy Antioch,
you will
suffer other disasters; once more there
will
come for you a time when
misery will
be piled on misery in
earthquakes;
twice again you will be burnt on the shores of the Orentes
if you do
not suffer yet again".
He gave the diptych to the
Antiochene landowners. Set+-ing out from the city of Antiochos he came
to Seleukeia
in Syria, and then sailed to Egypt.
Apollonios lived for

and wrote
(266.3):
What he wrote is corrupt in several places;
made some improvements and guessed at the rest..

you

will suffer other disasters

(266.4:

we have

reading bucr;raOci.(; for

a corruption caused

by the existence of both the

introduced
words later in the passage;
Ba reads czhact for &c?M Bo, Bury, 1897,
226):
'may you suffer twice; but' Bo.
for you (266.4): om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 226.
misery will be piled on misery (266.5; .:TL -[rJIC t.
suggests the phrase
oi.S rt&eot,S,

:tniiaTa EnL 1trjIaGL (xctTaL),

text is hard to translate.

cf LSJ sv;tf

ct

): the present

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years
written.
34

141

and eight months, as the most learned chronicler Domninos has

The most sacred emperor Domitian built a city in Isauria

52.
Domitian grew angry and executed the
which he named Domitianoupolis.
famous Asclepion who had said to him, "You will die by violence". A
short time later a plot was made by the senate against Domitian and when
he (267) entered the temple of Zeus to make a sacrifice, he disappeared
Everyone said that he had been taken up from
and died at the age of 45.
earth into the sky as a philosopher, but he had been killed, murdered in
the temple of Zeus by the senate, because he had been arrogant and had
The senators had the purple cloak which he wore
insulted them.
suspended from a chain belonging to one of the hanging lamps in the
All those who entered the temple were deceived, thinking that
temple.
It became known later that he had
he had been taken up into the sky.
been murdered and there was a great. uproar, for he had been murdered in
the temple.
After the reign of Domitian, Nerva Augustus reigned for one
53.
year and one month.
He was of average height, old, with good eyes, a
long nose, a good body, dark skin, greying curly hair, a bushy beard; he
was a good man.
During his reign Diokaisareia, a city in Cilicia, suffered its third
calamity from the wrath of God, as did Nikoupolis and its territory.
The emperor
immediately sent there a Roman senator named Zarbos, to
rebuild it,
providing him with eight centen rI& When the senator
Zarbos reached Cilicia and saw the destruction, he applied great energy
and reconstructed the city, making many improvements to it. And so the
city was named after him as an indication of the citizens' gratitude to
him.
The senator had called the city Nerva, after the emperor Nerva,
but it happened that the emperor died before the city had been
(268)
completed,
so they renamed it Anazarbos, ordering the notaries to call
it by this name;
for the city was originally named Skynta.
It
suffered its first calamity in the time of the Roman consuls, and was
reconstructed and renamed the city of Kiskos. It suffered again its
second calamity
in the
time of Julius Caesar, and was restored and
renamed Diokaisareia.
When it suffered in the time of Nerva, as
mentioned above, it was renamed Anazarbos. Zarbos sacrificed a country
girl named Kepara and made a bronze statue of her, as the tyche of the
city.
Zarbos informed the emperor of the citizens' plight and the
emperor, being munificent, gave generously to the survivors.
54.
Nerva recalled the apostle St John and he returned to Ephesos
from Patmos.
teaching and
During
his
reign
Manes
appeared,
preaching,

CP 468.12-469.3 (AD96),
De insid 8 (157.14-26), Sk
30.16, JN 71.6-10; Slav: Soph 100.
Asclepion (266.14) De insid: cf 'Asklepios' CP. JN has a number of extra
details which von S 254-5, note 86, is inclined to ascribe to the
original Malalas.
53. Bo 267.10-268.12; LM 435.33, Su I 167.31-168.3; Slav: Soph 100.
Skynta (268.4): cf 'Kyinda' Su.
Sk 30.
54. Bo
268.12-20;
CP 469.7-15 (AD97), De virt 6 (160.18-19),
18-21, JN 71.12; Slav: Soph 100.
from Patmos (268.14): cf 'from the island' Slav.
52. Bo 266.12-267.9;

attracting a mob.
Also,
during his reign, gladiators and gladiatorial spectacles
wer
Aynegla were devised in their place.
forbidden.
The emperor, after falling ill and wasting away, died at
the age o
71.

and attracting (268.16):

71

(268.20) Sk: c '70'

'attracting'
Slav.

So; Bury,

1897,

226,

BOOK 11 The Time of the Emperor Trajan

and the Third Calamity at Antioch

1.
(269)
After the reign of Nerva, the most sacred Trajan
reigned for 19 years and six months. He was tall, withered in body,
dark skinned, with delicate features, short grey hair and deep set eyes.
Until the second year of his reign St John the apostle and
2.
theologian was seen teaching in Ephesos as bishop and patriarch.
Then
withdrew himself from view and was no longer seen by anyone and no
he
one knows to the present day what happened to him, as the most learned
Africanus and Eirenaios have written.
During the reign of Trajan, there was a great persecution of the
Christians and many were punished with death.
3.
In that year (270) Meerdotes, emperor of the Persians who was
the brother of Osdroes, emperor of the
of Parthian descent and
Armenians,
began a campaign and came with a large force to make war on
the Roman state.
Accompanied by his son Sanatroukios, he captured
cities and plundered many districts.
While he was plundering the
district
of Euphratesia, he was thrown off his horse as he was riding.
He was badly injured and died a natural death. When on the point of
death,
he made his son Sanatroukios "Arsakes", that is, emperor, in his
place;
for in Persian "Torkim" is the translation for emperor.
emperor of the Persians, continued to ravage Roman
Sanatroukios,
territory.
When Osdroes, emperor of the Armenians and Meerdotes'
brother,
heard of his brother's death, he also immediately sent his son
Parthemaspates out from Armenia with a large army to help his cousin
Sanatroukios,
emperor of the Persians, against the Romans. When the
most sacred emperor Trajan heard this, he immediately began a campaign
in the 12th year of his reign and set out from Rome against them in the
month October-Hyperberetaios.
When they first arrived, he set out with
a large force of soldiers and senators and sailed for the East.
Among
the senators was Hadrian, his relative by marriage through his sister.
He reached Seleukeia in Syria in the month Apellaios-December in a fast
boat from the base known as Bytillion, which was a natural harbour near
Seleukeia (271) in Syria.
The Persians had captured Antioch the Great
and occupied it,
not indeed by force of arms but through an amicable
agreement and treaty by which they controlled and guarded it for the
Persian emperor Sanatroukios.
For the Ant.iochene dignitaries had of

Bo 269.1-4; LM 435.34; Slav: Soph 101.

Bo 269.5-11; CP 470.16-19 (AD104).
Bo 269.11-271.18.
Meerdotes (270.1; corr Dind): om Ba.
"Torkim" is the translation for emperor (270.9): unconvincing attempts
to avoid this illogicality are listed by von S 267, note 20.
12th (270.16): von S 278-9 proposes '17th', perhaps correctly.
Apellaios (270.22; corr Chil): 'Aprillaios' Ba.
1.

2.
3.

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their own accord set terms for peace and submission through an embassy
to the Persian emperor.
The emperor of the Persians agreed and sent two
rzamanata., whose names were Fortunus and Gargaris, with a large
Persian force of 3,000 men.
As soon as the emperor Trajan reached the
city of the Seleukeians in Syria by fast boat, he wrote in secret to the
Antiochene dignitaries and to all the citizens, announcing his arrival
and saying,
"We know that your city contains a large number of its own
men apart from the nuieri of soldiers stationed there.
The Persian
enemies who are in your city are few in comparison with your number.
So
let each man kill
the Persians he has in his own house, taking heart
from our arrival, for we have come to avenge the Roman cause".
4.
On hearing this the Antiochenes made an attack at night on the
Persians in their city.
They kept themselves awake and killed them all.
Seizing Fortunus and Gargaris, the two Persian generals known as
.Mrz&wnataj, they killed them too and they dragged their corpses
throughout the entire city chanting
this slogan about them, (272)
"Look!
Fortunus and Gargaris are being dragged along in honour of the
victory of the lord Trajan. Come on!
Come on! Gargaris, Fortunus!"
Those Persians who were able to escape while these men were being
dragged .about by the mob slipped out and fled. That night they started
a fire and burnt a small section of the city by the district known as
Skepine.
When he heard this, the emperor Trajan praised the bravery of
the citizens of Antioch.
The expedition's fleet having arrived from
Seleukeia,
they went up to holy Daphne to pray and to sacrifice at the
temple of Apollo.
And from Daphne he sent orders to the Antiochenes
that the corpses of the Persians who had been killed were to be removed
from the city; they were to be piled up some distance from the city and
burnt.
The whole city was to be purified, and there were to be pyres
made of laurel trees in each quarter and at each gateway of the city,
and much frankincense was to be thrown into the fire of laurel leaves
and they were to beat drums through the whole city to chase out the evil
spirits of the slaughtered Persians; and this was done.
The emperor
Trajan arrived from Daphne and entered Antioch in Syria through what is
known as the Golden Gate, that is, the Daphnetic Gate; he wore a crown
of
olive twigs on his head. This happened on Thursday 7th Audynaios January,
at the fourth hour of the day. (273) He ordered the drums to
be beaten every night for a period of 30 days, and he also ordered that
this should be done each year at the same time as a memorial of the
destruction of the Persians. Domninos the chronicler has written this.
5.
While the emperor Trajan was spending time in Antioch in
Syria making plans in connection with the war, Tiberianus, the governor
of the people of First Palestine sent him the following message, "To the
victorious Imperator,
Caesar, the most sacred Trajan.
I have grown
weary punishing and killing the Galileans who belong to the belief of
those known as Christians, in accordance with your decrees.
And they
will not stop incriminating themselves in order to be put to death.
So
,

hsrza wtai (271.7; corr

'barzamaratai' Ba.

von S 43,

Bo 271.19-273.4.
Seizing Fortunus and Gargaris
the two names.
5.
Bo 273.5-19.

cf 271.22;

see Bury, 1897, 227):

4.

(271.23):

von S 44

proposed

to

delete

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I have worked very hard,

advising them and threatening them not to be so
bold in betraying themselves to me as adherents of the belief mentioned
above.
But they will not give up being persecuted.
Be pleased
therefore to issue as a decree to me whatever solution presents itself
to Your
Triumphant Majesty".
Trajan
ordered him to stop killing the
Christians.
Likewise he gave this order to governors everywhere, not in
the future to kill those known as Christians.
And there came about a
small respite for the Christians.
6.
Trajan left. Antioch the Great and started war against the
Persians.
He conquered them completely in this way. Hearing that there
was a quarrel between Sanatroukios, emperor of the Persians, and his
cousin Parthemaspates,
(274)
the emperor Trajan sent a message to
Parthemaspates and offered him a bribe, promising to give him the empire
of the Persians
if he would become his ally.
Parthemaspates accepted
the bribe and came over to Trajan at night.
Taking him and his troops
on to his own side, the most sacred Trajan set out against Sanatroukios,
emperor
of
the Persians.
Many Persians
fell and he captured
Sanatroukios, emperor of the Persians, as he fled, and put him to death.
Trajan made the man named Parthemaspates, the son of Osdroes, emperor of
the Persians in his place, in accordance with the agreements, and those
Persians who survived prostrated themselves before him.
Trajan wrote to
the senate at Rome, "This country is so immeasurably vast and separated
from Rome by such an incalculable distance that we cannot administer it,
but let us grant them an emperor subject to the Roman power".
The
senate wrote back to him from Rome to do whatever he wished and
considered to be in the interests of the Roman empire.
Parthemaspates
reigned over the Persians.
The most learned Arrian the chronicler
composed an account of the war and of the most sacred Trajan's victory
over the Persians;
he investigated this and wrote it all down
accurately.
7.
The emperor also made Amida a metropolis, and designated
Mesopotamia a province, dividing it off from Osrhoene and giving it a
governor and the status of a metropolis.
He also (275) created another
province by the Danube river, which he called Dacia Ripensis.
8.
During the reign of the most sacred Trajan, Antioch the Great
near
Daphne
suffered
its
third
calamity,
on
Sunday
13th
Apellaios-December,
just after cock-crow in the year 164 according to
the calendar of the Antiochenes, two years after the arrival of the most
sacred emperor Trajan in the East.
The surviving Antiochenes who
remained then built a temple in Daphne on which they inscribed, "Those
who were saved erected this to Zeus the Saviour".
On the same night that Antioch the Great suffered, the island city
of Rhodes, which was part of the Hexapolis, suffered its second calamity
from the wrath of God.
9.
The most pious Trajan erected buildings in Antioch the Great,
beginning first with the building known as the Middle Gate near the
temple of Ares where the Parmenios torrent flows down, very close to

Bo 273.20-274.19.
Bo 274.20-275.2.
Bo 275.3-13; JN 72.12-13.
Apellaios (275.5; corr Chil):
9.
Bo 275.13-276.10.
6.

7.
8.

'Aprilleos' Ba.

AD1

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what is now called the Macellum; he had carved above it a statue of a

she-wolf suckling Romus and Remus, so that it should be recognized that
the building was Roman.
He sacrificed there a beautiful virgin girl
from Antioch, named Kalliope, as an atonement and for the purification
holding a bridal procession for her. He also restored
of the city,
immediately the two great colonnades, and he built many other things in
(276)
the city of Antiochos, including a public bath and an aqueduct,
having diverted the water pouring out from the springs of Daphne into
what are known as the Agriai. He named both the baths and the aqueduct
He completed the theatre of Antioch, which was
after himself.
unfinished, and he placed in it a gilded bronze statue of the girl whom
he had sacrificed.
The statue stood above four columns in the middle
of the nymphaion in the proscenium; she was seated above the river
Orontes and was being crowned by the emperors Seleukos and Ant.iochos in
the guise of the city's tyche, The emperor Trajan was living in the
city when the wrath of God struck.
10.
St Ignatios, the bishop of the city of Antioch, was martyred
then during Trajan's visit, for he incurred the emperor's anger through
abusing him.
At that time Trajan also arrested five persons, Christian women of
saying, "What is your hope, that you
Antioch,
and interrogated them,
give yourselves up to death like this?"
In reply they said, "When we
are killed by you we shall rise again in the body, as we are, to eternal
life".
He ordered them to be burned and he mixed the ashes from their
bones with bronze, and from this metal he made hot-water vessels in the
When the bath came into use,
public bath that he had constructed.
anyone who went to bathe in the bath became dizzy and fell down and had
to be carried out.
When the emperor Trajan learned this he replaced
those bronze vessels and made others of (277) pure bronze, saying, "It
was not right of me to mix in the ashes from their bodies and to
pollute the hot water".
He said this since the Christians had become
strident in boasting against. the Hellenes. He melted down the original
bronze vessels and made five bronze statues of the women, saying, "Look,
it is
I
who have resurrected them as they said, and not their god".
These statues are standing at that public bath to the present. He also
made a fiery furnace and ordered any Christian who wished to throw
Many threw themselves in and became
himself into it deliberately.
martyrs.
It
was at this time that St. Drosine and many other virgins
were martyred,
11.
He built in Daphne a temple to Artemis in the middle of the
grove.
The emperor also created two provinces in the western regions on the
other side of the river Danube. These he called First and Second Dacia.
12.
Then he was immediately stricken with illness and died at the

age of 66.
10. Bo 276.10-277.10: JN 72.3-11.
not right (277.1): 'right' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 227.
St Drosine
(277.10):
cf JN which adds
'his (ie Trajan's) daughter
Drusis and Junia the daughter of the patrician Filasanrun underwent

martyrdom'.
11. Bo 277.11-14.
12. Bo 277.15; Slav: Soph 102.

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13.
After the reign of Trajan, Aelius Hadrian began to reign
during the consulship of Apronianus and Niger.
He reigned for 22 years
and five months. He was of medium height, sturdy, white-skinned, with
greying hair,
handsome,
with a bushy beard, and grey eyes;
he was
peaceable, eloquent and priestly.
14.
He also built in Antioch the Great a (278) public bath and
aqueduct named after himself.
He also built the "Theatre" of the
Springs of Daphne, and he diverted the waters flowing out into the
ravines known as the Agriai. He constructed piers and made them solid
at great expense,
in order to withstand the force of the water and to
convey it through the aqueduct made by him to the city of Antiochos as a
plentiful supply for the city. He also built the temple of the Springs
from which the streams flow out at Daphne, and he erected in the temple
of the Nymphs a large seated statue of Zeus holding the celestial
sphere,
in honour of the Naiads; this was a thank-offering for having
completed such a tremendous task. He made the water that. bubbled from
the spring known as Saramanna flow out through a channel and pour into
the channel of the spring in the "Little Theatre"...t.he water coming
out
of
the temple in five different streams, which he called

.pentamodi on,

tetra r,7odi on,

trimodion,

dimodion and

mothon,

Hadrian

celebrated a festival of the Springs on 23rd Daisios-June, and the

sacrifices were to take place likewise. He channelled the ruined spring
in the Agriai, known as that of Pallas, and made an aqueduct for the use
of the inhabitants of holy Daphne.
15.
Before he began to reign, the emperor Hadrian was with the
emperor Trajan, because he was his relative by marriage, when the great
city of Antiochos suffered from the wrath of God. He was then a
senator.
There were many senators from Rome (279) in the city of
Antioch, who, ordered by him,
built many dwellings and baths in
Antioch.
16.
During the reign of the most sacred Hadrian, Kyzikos, which
is the great metropolis of the province of Hellespont, suffered an
earthquake from the wrath of God on the night of 10th November.
He gave
generously to the city and restored it.
He bestowed money and ranks on

13. Bo 277.16-20; LM 435.35, cf Sk 31.3-4; Slav: Soph 102.

14. Bo 277.20-278.19.
celestial sphere (278.9): reading 1t6XOS (Maass, 1902, 40, note 100 and
Downey, 1961, 222, note 102) for 1ttXoc, 'young eagle' (?) Ba.
and pour into the channel...and
(278.12-15):
This passage is
capable of translation as it stands in Bo, 'and he made the water coming
out
of
the temple in five different streams
(which he called

"ion

pentamoa'ion,

tetrawodion, trimodion, dimodi on and modeon,) pour into the

channel of the spring in the "Little Theatre".'

We have rejected
this, both for linguistic reasons (EtL6vaL K(Xi. KxLo-6aL seem naturally
to go together, and the postponement of 'the water coming out of the
temple'
to well after the infinitive of which it would be subject is
against Malalas' usual practice) and because it describes a complex
regulatory mechanism at a subsidiary point in the system.
We postulate
a lacuna after "Little Theatre".
15. Bo 278.20-279.2.
ordered by them (279.1): 'ordered by him' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 227.
16. Bo 279.2-11.

same

AD 1 1 7

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II

the surviving citizens. Hadrian built a very large temple in Kyzikos,

one of the wonders,
and he placed there on the roof of the temple a
marble statue, a very large bust of himself, on which he inscribed "Of
the sacred Hadrian", which remains to the present day.
Hadrian,
angered with the Jews, ordered Hellenes to settle in
17.
Jerusalem and changed that city's name to Aelia.
18.
In
his reign Hadrian also restored the Kolossos of Rhodes
which had fallen as a result of an earthquake, the wrath of God, when
It lay on the
the island city of Rhodes suffered in former times.
ground for 312 years, but no part of it was lost.
To re-erect it and
put it in its place he spent three centenari on machinery, ropes and
workmen, according to his inscription recording the time and the expense
involved.
19.
During the reign of Hadrian, a man named Markion disseminated
the
loathsome
Manichean belief, saying that the creation of the world
He subverted (280) many
had come about through some evil being.
Hellenes,
Jews and Christians and won them over to his teaching, as the
most learned Clement has recorded.
20.
Hadrian built a city in Thrace which he called Hadrianoupolis.
He also. built another city which he called Therai Hadrianou (Hunts of
Hadrian).
He built a city in Egypt which he called Antinoe.
Hadrian became swollen with dropsy and died in Baiae at the age
of

65.
21.

After the reign of Hadrian, Aelius Antoninus Pius the pious

for 23 years.
He was well grown, with a good figure, fair
skin,
with both hair and beard grey, a good nose, a broad face,
wine-coloured eyes, and ruddy complexion; he was always smiling and was
very magnanimous.
22.
He built in Helioupolis in Phoenice Libanensis a large temple
to Zeus, and this too was one of the wonders.
He also built the forum
in Laodikeia
in Syria,
a great wonder,
and the Antoninian public

reigned

baths.

Bo 279.12-13;
CP 474.16 (AD119), GM 450.18-451.4,
LG
284.5-11
(68.18-69.3), Ke 437.20-438.2; Slav: Soph 102.
Hadrian...Aelia (279.12-13):
GM (cf LG, Ke) has a fuller version which
may possibly derive from the original Malalas, 'When the Jews rioted and
resolved to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, he became very angry with
them.
A battle took place between them and he killed 48,000 of them in
a single day.
He destroyed the ancient remains of the city and the
temple and built a new Jerusalem, which he named Aelia after himself.
He set up an image of himself in the temple and gave orders that
Hellenes should settle in the city'.
18. Bo 279.14-20; CP 464.13-14 (AD74), 476.6-7 (AD130).
312 (279.17): von S 49 and 302 proposes '342'.
put it (279.17): 'put' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 227.
19. Bo 279.21-280.2; Slav: Soph 102.
20. Bo 280.3-7; Ke 437.17-19, Sk 31.14, JN 73.2; Slav: Soph 102.
Baiae (280.6; corr Chil): 'Batai' Ba.
21. Bo 280.8-12; LM 435.36; Slav: Soph 102.
23 years (280.9): cf '13 years' Slav.
22. Bo 280.12-15.
Antoninian (280.15; corr Dind): 'Antonian' Ba.
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23.
He began a campaign against the Egyptians who had rebelled
and killed the acxgust&/ios, Deinarchos.
After his revenge and victory
he went to Alexandria the Great and built the gates of the Sun and the
Moon and the race-course.
24.
When he came to Antioch the Great he carried out the paving
of the street of the great colonnades, that had been built by Tiberius,
(281)
and of the whole city; he used millstone, generously contributing
stone from the Thebaid out of his own resources, and the remaining
expenses too from his own pocket. He recorded this generosity on a
stone tablet and placed it at the Gate known as the Gate of the
Cherubim,
for it was there he had begun.
This monument is there to the
present day, as a record of his great munificence.
25.
He also built baths at Caesarea in Palestine and at Nikomedeia
in Bithynia and at Ephesos in Asia.
These public baths he named after

himself.
26.
When he returned to Rome he built a large aqueduct there.
He
burnt the treasury documents by which the senate had made a written
agreement in the time of Caesar Julius Gaius, and at his orders, that:
It was not
allowed for a senator to will his property to his family,
unless he bequeathed a half share of his fortune to the emperor of the
time.
The most pious Antoninus said through his sacred decree that each
person should enjoy his property and dispose of it as he wished.
27.
While he was in Lorium Antoninus became ill for a few days
and died, at the age of 77.
28.
After the reign of Antoninus, his son Marcus Antoninus, the
philosopher,
reigned for 18 years and nine months. He was short, thin,
fair-skinned, with greying short hair, good eyes, a good beard, delicate
features and a long nose.
29.
(282)
The emperor Marcus promulgated the most just law that,
in
intestacy, a father should inherit from his children, and
cases of
that a fourth part of the father's estate should be given to a rejected

child.
30.
During his reign he subjugated the German people. Equally
during the time of his reign the works of the great Julian the Chaldean
were much admired.

23. Bo 280.16-19; JN 74.6.

Deinarchos (280.17): Meyer,
1897, 221 conjectures 6tapxoc or43tapxoc
'the governor'; but see von S 50, 307-9.
24. Bo 280.20-281.6; JN 74.7-8.
25. Bo 281.7-9; JN 74.8.
26. Bo 281.10-17; Sk 31.18-21, JN 74.2-4.
27. Bo 281.18-19; Sk 31.22, JN 74.9.
Lorium (281.18; corn Chil): 'Dorium' Ba.
77 (281.15) JN: cf '72' Sk.
28. Bo 281.20-23; LM 435.37, Sk 31.23; Slav: Soph 104.
29. Bo 281.23-282.4; CP 489.6-8 (AD176), Sk 32.6-9.
a father should inherit from his children (282.2): hardly less likely
is the translation 'children should inherit from their father'; see von
S 321-2, and Meinhart, 1966, 115-7.
rejected child (282.2): cf 'ungrateful child' CP.
30. Bo 282.5-11.

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The emperor Marcus built, or reconstructed, in Antioch the Great the

For it had collapsed in the time
public bath known as the Centenarium.
of Trajan, during the wrath of God.
He also built the Mouseion and its
Nymphaion known as the Okeanon.
31.
The emperor Marcus Antoninus favoured the Green faction.
He went to the district of Pannonia, fell ill and died.
32.
After the reign of Marcus Antoninus, his son Antoninus Verus
He was of a good height, fat, with a crooked
reigned for eight years.
nose,
good eyes, dark skin, short curly hair, and a beard; he was a
great womanizer.
33.
He
made war on one of the tribes of Huns and, having defeated
them, subjugated many other tribes without a fight, for he was also
generous. He was murdered whilst on a ,nrnce..asus, at the age of 39.

31. Bo 282.12-13; Slav: Soph 104.

32. Bo 282.14-17; LM 435.38, GM 451,21; Slav: Soph 104.
eight (282.15) GM: cf '18' Slav, 'one' LM.
33. So 282.17-20; De insid 9 (157.27-8), GM 451.22; Slav: Soph 104.
whilst on a jrvicesrsus (282.19; corr von 5), De insid, GM:

Prokonesos' Ba.

'in

BOOK 12 The Time of the Emperor

Commodus and the Staging
of the Olympics
1.
(283) After the reign of Antoninus Verus, Commodus Augustus
reigned for 22 years and eight months.
He was of medium height,
fair-skinned, with greyish eyes, a broad face, an upturned nose, a good
chest,
with fair curly hair and the beginnings of a beard; he was an
avid builder and a religious man.
He built. in Antioch the Great. a public bath which he called
2.
the Commodium.
He also reconstructed the temple of Athene opposite it,
and in between these he constructed what is known as the Xystos, having
built seats and the colonnades. And at the lower end of the Xystos he
built. a temple to Olympian Zeus.
3.
(284) During his reign the landowners and citizens of Antioch
sent a message and petitioned the emperor Commodus that by his sacred
command he make over to the public treasury the revenues which Sosibios,
as mentioned above, had bequeathed to the city of the Antiochenes in
order that. a varied programme of spectacles and different contests might
be celebrated
in the city, and that the city's officials should not
appropriate the funds but. that the public treasury itself might. make
provision to celebrate the Olympic festival and certain other spectacles
in
the city of the Antiochenes
for the enjoyment of the city.
And
immediately the emperor Commodus by his sacred command made over the
revenues to the public treasury and decreed that. the Olympic festival be
celebrated.
He set aside from the public treasury specific funds to be
provided to cover the expenses of those rendering assistance in the holy
and universal festival of the Olympics,
and he made a law that the
festival be celebrated properly every fourth year during the festival of
the offerings,
or Traditional Sacrifices,
that is, in the months of
Panemos-July
and in Loos-August, for 45 days as a festival of Olympian
Zeus.
Equally he set aside another specific quantity of gold from the
revenues to celebrate properly the chariot-races on the day of the Sun,
that
is,
on the Lord's day.
Likewise for celebrating the nocturnal
dramatic festival, held every three years and known as the orgies, that.
is,
the Mysteries (285) of Dionysos and Aphrodite, that is, what is
known as the Maioumas because it is celebrated in the month of
May-Artemisios,
he set aside a specific quantity of gold for torches,
lights,
and other expenses for the thirty-day festival of all-night
revels.
The most learned Roman poet Vergil mentioned this nocturnal
festival in his fourth book, stating in the Roman language

Bo 283.1-4; LM.435.39; Slav: Soph 105.

Verus (283.1): cf 'Severus' Slav.
with fair curly hair (283.3): om Bo; see Bury, 1897, 227.
2.
Bo 283.4-9.
3.
Bo 284.1-285.11.
1.

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trieterica

Baccho

org/a nocturnusqup vocat clawore Cithaeron

which means
calls aloud
Kithairon".

"Every third year when Dionysos

in
the Greek language,
in the night the festival of the Orgies on the mountain of

aside a specific sum to pay for the kynegl.?

4.
The emperor set
which were to be celebrated in every period of four years as follows;
they were to be held for 42 months till the cessation of slaughter and
were then to be suspended for the remaining six months for the
collection of the wild beasts for the festival in honour of Ares and
Artemis.
5.
Immediately after that the first Syriarch was nominated; he
was Artabanes, an official appointed by the landowners and the whole
people.
He set aside the remaining funds to pay for mimes, (286)
and the other entertainments which are provided in public
festivals.
And from that time the necessary funds to enable the city of
the Antiochenes to put on the spectacles mentioned above were provided
And the
in full
from the public treasury in a proper manner.
Antiochenes set up a bronze statue to the emperor Commodus in the centre
of their city.
So during his reign the Olympic festival was celebrated for the
first time by the Syrian Antiochenes, in accordance with his sacred
command mentioned above in the year 260 according to the era of the
Syrian Antiochenes;
it was held in the Xystos which he had built.
The
Antiochenes had bought the Olympic festival from the Pisaians of Hellas
for 90 periods of the Olympic contests, that is, for 360 years, by an
unwritten agreement.
in Antioch by the same sacred
7.
An alytarch too was created
command, the first appointment
being Afranius, the ex-prefect and a
citizen of Antioch.
He wore the costume of the alytarch and was
honoured during his period in office and received obeisance as if he
were Zeus himself. He did not enter a house or lie down on a bed during
this period, but slept in the open courtyard on the ground on top of
stones with clean bedding, and a rush mat. He wore a robe as white as
snow and interwoven with gold, a crown of rubies, pearls and other
precious stones. He held an ebony sceptre and wore white sandals on his
(287)
feet.
During these days he would sleep in the open courtyard of
the basilica known as the Kaisarion, which had been built. by Caesar
Julius the dictator.
The statue of Caesar which was outside the Conch
of the basilica stood there. The Kaisarion was opposite the temple of
6.

dancers

AD211/2

trleter-.MB

.,.

C.tbae on (285.8-9; corr Chil

from

Aene..id IV 302-3):

'trieterika
baketeicho
horgian
hoktournous
kous boskan klamore
kithairon' Ba; see Bury, 1897, 227.
Dionysos calls (285.10: corr von S 53): 'Dionys' Ba.
4.
Bo 285.12-16.
42 (285.14; corr Chil): '32' Ba.
5.
Bo 285.17-19.
Artabanes (285.17; corr von S 53; cf 289.14, 290.2): 'Artabanios' Ba.
6.
Bo 285.20-286.11.
7.
Bo 286.12-287.7.
Afranius (286.13; corr von S 54; cf 417.7): 'Aphronios' Ba.

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Ares at what is known as the Macellum, because that. is the only place
where pig-meat is butchered, near the temple of Ares.
8.
The secretary was appointed for the first time by the council
and the people;
he was named Pompeianus Quaestor and was from a
senatorial Roman family.
He too wore a white robe and a solid gold
crown in the form of laurel leaves. They honoured and made obeisance to
him, they say, like some Apollo.
9.
The
council
and people also appointed as amphithales a man
named Cassius Illustris, who wore equally a white robe of pure silk and
a crown woven from laurel leaves with a gold bust of Zeus in the middle.
amphithales as Hermes,
They honoured and made obeisance to this
according to the learned Domninos, the chronicler, who has written about
all these arrangements.
Young people of noble birth from every city and country
10.
district would come to the sacred contest of the Olympic festival to
compete under a vow,
and they matched themselves against each other.
They conducted themselves chastely and with great moderation, and
received no gain from any source. For they were rich and had their own
slaves as attendants, (288) each according to his wealth. Many of them
But.
were girls.
They used to bring much gold from their native city.
they competed because of their oath and their vow and in order to win
glory in their own city. So they came in a competitive spirit and with
a formidable reputation.
Some wrestled,
some ran, some played the
trumpet,
some took part in the
rxwnkrition, others fought in boxing
matches wearing box-wood finger-guards, others drove chariots with young
horses,
while others sang songs from tragedy. There were also virgin
girls who practised philosophy and who were present under a vow of
chastity,
competing,
wrestling in leggings,
running, declaiming and
reciting various Hellenic hymns. These women fought against women and
the competition was fierce whether in the wrestling, the races or the
recitation.
Anyone among them, as they say, whether a woman or a young
man,
who was crowned as victor amid the acclamations of the holy
populace would remain chaste till the end of his life, for immediately
after the contest he would be ordained and become a priest.
Equally the
philosopher virgins who were crowned would become priestesses after the
contest.
Then they would all depart from there.
Those who were owners
of landed property did not pay taxes, but the victor's property remained
exempt from tax from the moment of his victory but only for his (289)
lifetime.
If he also owned workshops, the workshops that the competitor
So
possessed remained immune from obligations for his lifetime only.
many came to compete that their numbers were unparalleled, but however
many happened to arrive under a vow, whether young men or virgin girls,
they were all allowed to take part in the spectacle. Sometimes a great
number came,
and at other times they did not, depending on the seasons
and the sea winds.
11.
During the reign of Commodus, Nikomedeia, the metropolis of
Bithynia,
suffered from the wrath of God. This was her third calamity
and it extended to Moudoupolis and the river Sangaris and surrounding

Bo
Bo
10. Bo
11. Bo
8.
9.

287.8-12.
287.13-18.
287.19-289.7; Slav; Soph 105.
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districts, on 3rd May-Artemisios

at daybreak.
The emperor gave
generously to the city and restored it..
12.
In the
time of Commodus, a landowner and office-holder of
Antioch the Great named Artabanes, the alytarch, after completing the
festival at Daphne made a benefaction by
crowning at the Olympic
distributing to the people in holy Daphne many small reed tokens for
perpetual bread distributions. He called the loaves "politikoi" (civil)
because he bestowed them on his own city (poJ s,>, and he set aside from
his own estates a revenue sufficient to meet the cost of the bread.
(290) The Antiochenes
erected a marble statue to him at Daphne and
wrote on it, "An eternal memorial to Artabanes".
13.
The emperor Commodus went to the house of Faustinus, a
relative of his, and died from a sudden haemorrhage.
After the reign of Commodus, Pertinax Lucius Augustus reigned
14.
for two months and 18 days.
He was tall,
with a good chest, a
hook nose, straight hair and large eyes; he was old with completely grey
hair.
He
died,
murdered by the soldiers, as he was going out of the
palace to the Campus Martius, at the age of 70.
15.
After the reign of Pertinax, Didius Julianus Silvius reigned
for seven months. He was tall, with greying curly hair, eyebrows that.
met, a slight squint, delicate features and honey-coloured skin.
16.
He built in Antioch the Great what is known as the Plethrion,
because they had held the wrestling at the Olympic festival in the
theatre.
After receiving a letter of petition from the landowners of
the city of .Antioch, he provided them with funds to build the Plethrion.
They built it. near the Kaisarion, having bought the house of Asabinos, a
city official
who was of the Jewish religion, near the Xystos and the
bath of Commodus,
17.
Julianus Didius was murdered by a cubirularius at. the spring
inside the palace (291) at Rome while he was observing his fish, as a
result of a plot by his successor.
He was 60 years old.
18.
After the reign of Didius Julianus, the most sacred Severus

12. Bo 289.13-290.2; CP 490.8-16 (AD181).

alytarch (289.14): von S 56 corrects to 'Syriarch' (cf 285.17), probably
unnecessarily; cf Downey, 1937a, 153-4.
An eternal memorial to Artabanes (290.2; corn) CP: 'an eternal memorial
Artabanes' Ba.
13. Bo 290.3-5; CP 492.14-16 (AD192), Sk 32.22-3; Slav: Soph 105.
Faustinus (290.3): cf 'Festianus' Sk, 'Vestianus' CP.
haemorrhage (290.4): Sk, Slav add 'at the age of 41'.
14. Bo 290.6-10; LM 435.40, CP 493.3-4 (AD192), De insid 10 (157.29-30),

GM 452.8-10;

Slav: Soph 105.

two months and 18 days (290.7): cf 'two months and eight days' Slav,
'one year, two months and 18 days' LM, 'two months' GM.
15. Bo 290.11-13; LM 435.41, CP 493.5-6 (AD192); Slav: Soph 105.
16. Bo 290.14-20.
17. Bo 290.20-291.2; CP 493.8-10 (AD193),
De insid 11 (157.31-33),
GM
452.11-13,

Sk 32.27-29;

his successor (291.1):

Slav: Soph 105.

successors'

'his

De insid,

cf

'his companions'

CP.
18. Bo 291.3-9;
105.

LM 435,42,

CP 493.7 (AD192), 12-13 (AD193);

Slav: Soph

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Septimius began to reign. He was elected by the Roman senate during the
consulship of Falco and Clarus.
He reigned for 17 years and nine
He
was of medium height, slender, with a good chest, a long
months.
nose,
good eyes,
dark skin, completely grey curly hair, a large beard
and crippled feet.
He was magnanimous and prone to anger.
19.
During his reign the senator Albinus rebelled.
The army,
which had been sent by the previous emperor Didius to fight against the
Gepids,
proclaimed Albinus emperor, overruling the senate. Severus
pursued him into Thrace, captured him and put him to death.
20.
When Severus came to Byzantion and found that the situation
of the
city was good,
he restored Byzoupolis
and built a public
Bath known as the Zeuxippon because a bronze statue of Helios (the
stood there in the middle of the Tetrastoon. On its base was
sun)

inscribed the mystic

name of

the sun,

"To

the horse-yoking

god",
for that is-what the Thracians called the sun.
So the people of
the
city of
Byzas used to call the public bath Zeuxippon after the
(292) name of the place,
original
and they no longer used the name
The emperor
Severium which the emperor had given it after himself.
Severus added the public bath,
which he built,
to the Tetrastoon,
in the middle of which stood the statue of Helios.
In turn he built a
shrine or temple to Helios on the Acropolis of the city of Byzoupolis,
near to the other two temples there that had been built. formerly, one by
Byzas to Artemis with her deer, the other by Phidalia to Aphrodite.
Severus moved the statue of Helios from the Tetrastoon and placed it
above the temple, and he also built a very large kynegion opposite the
temple of Artemis and a theatre opposite the temple of Aphrodite.
The
in Byzantion;
after
most sacred Severus
set up the hippodrome
purchasing buildings and removing trees which were in the garden
there,
he constructed the hippodrome for the Byzantines, but he was not
able to complete this.
Severus also reconstructed what is known as the

which had been built formerly by Alexander of Macedon when

Strategion,
he campaigned against Dareios.
He had named the place Strategion
because it was after practising his generalship there that he set off
across the Bosphoros against the Persians.

Falco (291.5; corr): 'Flacco' Ba, 'Flaccus' CP.

19. Bo 291.10-14.
20. Bo
291.15-292.19; CP 494.12-495.16 (AD197), Su IV 334.30-335.3,
MK II 88.
When Sever-us came (291.15): before this CP 493.18-494.12 adds a passage
thinks is perhaps
on the foundation of Byzantion which von S 58
from Malalas; there are close resemblances of style and syntax, but the
passage integrates better into the Ba text at 320.19-321.15 than here.
to Byzantion (291.15): 'in this year of his reign to Byzantion from
Rome many years later' CP.
was inscribed (291.19; reading eyp&cM with von S 58): 'he inscribed' Ba.
added the public bath...to the Tetrastoon (292.3; corr, cf 'added to the
public bath...the Tetrastoon'
von 5): 'added the public bath...the
Tetrastoon' Ba.
temple to Helios (292.5): of 'temple to Apollo' CP.
purchasing buildings (292.13): CP adds 'and a garden from some orphan
brothers; by destroying buildings', cf Su.

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21.
During the reign of Severus,
another senator, named
rebelled after setting out
Niger,
against the Persians.
When a peace treaty
had been made with the Persians
the
army (293) heard that some
of the Roman senate
members
had named Niger as
emperor and so they proclaimed
him emperor.
And he seized all the East
as far as Egypt; however,
Syrian Laodikeians did
the
not accept him but resisted
him.
and captured Laodikeia and
So he besieged
destroyed it and slaughtered
population.
the entire
Severus began a campaign
against him, Pursuing
with him in the Thebaid
him till he caught up
in Egypt where he captured
him to death.
him in battle and put
After the victory he turned
back from the Thebaid
angry with the Alexandrians
and was
because they had accepted
and inscribed on their gates,
the rebel Niger
"The city of the Lord
people of the great
Niger".
So the
city of Alexandria went
out to greet the emperor
Severus and chanted the
following, "We know
we said 'The city of the
Lord Niger', but you
were Niger's Lord",
defence, overlooked
He accepted their ready
their mistake, offered
them forgiveness and received
them back into favour.
He built a public bath
for them which he called
the Severium, and
he also built a temple of
point of leaving,
Rhea. As he was on the
he arrested a man named
Thermos, one of the
ranking dignitaries of Alexandria
highest
the Great, who was very popular
the citizens.
with
Thermos had built a public
bath in the city at his own
expense and called it
Therma after himself.
Thermos'
Severus confiscated
property because he
had been a friend of
Alexandria he went to Laodikeia
Niger. On leaving
in
Syria (294) and praised
Laodikeians.
the surviving
He gave generously
to them and offered
of a metropolis for
the city the status
the duration of his
reign only. He gave
they should have the
orders that
name Septimians after
senatorial rank
himself, and he offered
to the surviving dignitaries
of the city of Laodikeia,
because they had not
accepted
him.
He offered them large the rebel Niger but had fought against
sums to purchase
yearly sums for civil
corn as well as large
expenditure, decreeing
that they should have
funds to rebuild their
the
city because, when
Niger had captured it,
had burned and destroyed
he
it and had slaughtered
resisted and fought against
all those who had
him.
So Severus built for
hippodrome,
the Laodikeians a
a Apnegion, and
a public bath down by
he found a spring
the harbour, because
there.
He also built there
Hexastoon.
what is known as the
22.
When he came to
Antioch the Great,
too,
he gave generously to
for they had given
them
him an omen of victory
when he set out for
in their acclamations
Egypt against Niger,
He
built
for the Antiochenes
a large public bath
by the mountain,
which he called the
after himself.
Severianum
He ordered the city
officials there to
public bath for the city
build another
from the surplus
accumulated in the funds
of the money which had
for heating baths
that. had collapsed.
city officials bought
So the
up the whole of
Antiochene citizen, including
the residence of
Livia, an
her bath and her garden,
and built (295)
a

21.

Bo 292.20-294.14; De insid
you were Niger's Lord (293.14): 12 (158.1-32), Su IV 335.5-10.
'you are Niger's
Lord' De insid,
large yearly sums ...the funds
Su,
to rebuild (294.8):
funds to rebuild' Bo; see
'large sums...yearly
Bury, 1897, 227.
22. Bo 294.15-295.5; CP 497.14-15
(AD212); Slav: Soph
105.

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public bath there in the level area of the city.

When they finished the
bath they named it, because of mutual jealousy, the Livianium after the
woman who had sold the site.
Severus set off for another war and died
in barbarian territory in the West, at the age of 65.
23.
After the reign of Severus, Antoninus Getas reigned for one
year.
He was short with a broad face, an upturned nose, slightly bald
with greying hair, a large belly, a large mouth, white skin and small
eyes.
The army killed him, and he died at the age of 51.
24.
After the reign of Antoninus Getas, Antoninus Caracallus, son
of Severus, reigned for six years and 22 days.
He was of a good height,
strong,
with a good colour, a crooked nose, a bushy beard, and greying
curly hair.
He was loved by all the people of Rome and favoured the
Green faction.
25.
...he was murdered in the palace as he was setting out for the
temple, at the age of 47.

Bo 295.6-10; LM 435.43, De insid 13 (158.33-4); Slav: Soph 107.

Bo 295.11-15; LM 436.1; Slav: Soph 107.
He was loved ... Green faction (295.14-15):
this startlingly inaccurate
sentence
(cf von S 353-4)
invites transposition to the end of the
following lacuna,
except that there it would refer to Aemilianus, who
never reached Rome and so seems an even less appropriate subject here
23.

24.

than Caracalla.
Green faction (295.15): Ba continues 'He was murdered in the palace as
he was setting out for the temple, at the age of 47';
De insid 23 gives
almost identical details
about Aemilianus (see below).
Von S accepts
the sentence
for both Caracalla and Aemilianus and provides complex
explanations (von S, 365-6); we prefer to restrict the sentence to
Aemilianus and to mark the lacuna one sentence earlier than does von S.
25. Bo 295.15-16.
...he was murdered...age of 47 (295.15-16): 'Aemilianus, emperor of the
Romans, was murdered...age of 47' De insid 23 (160.1-2).
At this point there is a lacuna in Ba covering about 40 years and
emperors from Caracalla to Aemilianus. The beginnings and many of the
ends of
imperial
reigns may be reconstructed from LM 436.3-17 and De
insid 14-23
(159.1-160.2).
Other material may be found in De virt 7
(160.20-26),
and
by sifting through the accounts in other texts which
use Malalas,
where they are extant for this passage, ie CP, GM, Ke, LG
and Sk.
The main technique is to search for passages which appear in
more than one text in this list, and cannot be traced to other sources
(see Patzig,
1896,
30-53);
but a good case may often be made out for
other material simply on the basis of similarity of content and style
with Ba.
We have been rather more adventurous in including questionable
material than von S, 61-4 and 354-66,
i
Caracalla
'Antoninus Caracallus marched out against the Persians and recovered
Osrhoene,
fought a battle and was murdered between Edessa and Carrhae,
at the age of 60'
CP 498.7-9, cf Sk 33.18-19; Sk 30.19-20 continues
'with the complicity of the prefect and his imperial successor'.
ii

Macrinus

'Macrinus Gallus ruled for 1 year and 7 months' LM 436.3, cf '...1 year'
CP 498.10, '...1 year and 8 months' Sk 33.22.
'Macrinus too was murdered in Archelais at the age of 52' De insid 14

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(159.1-2),

cf CP 498.12, SR 33.27.

Other material in SR is probably derived from Zosimos; see Patzig,

1896,

33.

iii Heliogabalus
'Antoninus II ruled for 4 years and 2 months' LM 436.4, cf '...4 years'
CP 498.13,
'He was eloquent,
an excellent man, fierce in battle, gentle, wise,
swift,
conciliating all and justifiably loved by all. He cancelled the
debts owed to the treasury.
The emperor of the day used to borrow
money, and these debts would be paid by the senators who did not take
the field with the emperor. They acted as surety and guaranteed that
If any of
all the money spent in wars was secured on their property.
them could not pay, their debts were passed on to their heirs and
relatives.
The advocati f1'sci would in time make over their possessions
to the treasury. At that time, the possessions of prominent people in
every
city
and country area under Roman rule were kept under
examination, and if anyone was found to have property beyond that
appropriate to his rank, the surplus would be made over to the f scus.
There existed constitutions from Julius Caesar and subsequent emperors
on this clause. Antoninus freed everyone from this clause, promulgating
a law that expenses incurred in wars should not be administered by
liability placed on the senate. He took the documents relevant to these
issues to the Forum of Hadrian and burnt them, over a period of 30 days'
Sk 33.31-34.19.
Heliogabalus
'Antoninus
('Augustus'
CP) was murdered in Rome by his
relative,
at the age of 36' De maid 15 (159.3-4), CP 499.9-10, cf SR
34.31.
Patzig,
1896,
41
and von S 355 recommend a search for passages from
Malalas in Sk's pages on Heliogabalus and Severus Alexander, which seem
independent. of
other sources of SR. The financial passage chosen here
follows a personal description reminiscent of Malalas' style, and
parallels the reform ascribed to Antoninus Pius at 281.11-17, using
several
characteristic features of Malalas' vocabulary and style.
The
narrative of Heliogabalus' adoption of Alexander is less like the style
of Malalas,
and implies a different death from that of De insid 15
above.
Two Eusebian entries in CP 499.2-7 resemble Malalas in subject.
but not vocabulary.
iv
Severus Alexander
'Alexander son of Mamaea reigned for 8 years and 4 months' LM 436.5, cf
'...for 13 years' CP 499.11.
'He made an expedition with his mother against the Persians, and in
Antioch appointed Maximinus as general.
The latter fought a battle
against the Persians but was defeated, and the emperor grew angry with
him. When the emperor learned from Rome that a war was being started by
the German people, he made peace with the Persians and marched against
Maximinus immediately rebelled behind him, was proclaimed
the Germans.
emperor by the army, and set out for Italy. Alexander learned of this,
fought a battle with him but was defeated' SR 35.8-15. SR continues with
the following passage, which is less likely to be from Malalas, 'She
happened to be a Christian, according to Eusebius, for she had summoned
Origen to Antioch and had been instructed in the Christian mystery' SR
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'The Augustus
Alexander was murdered by the army, when he was in the
tent in Mainz, at the age of 30. They strangled his mother Mamaea, who
was with him, with a rope inside the tent' CP 500.11-14.
Sk
begins
with an encomium on Alexander's (and Mamaea's)
good
government: but the style of Malalas only becomes evident. in the passage
translated here.
The CP narrative of his death (omitted by De insid) is
strongly marked by Malalas' style.
v
Maximinus
'Maximinus (cf 'Maximus' LM) Augustus ruled for 3 years (LM adds 'and 10
months'),
having been proclaimed by the army' CP 500.15-16 (cf LM

436.6).
'The
senate

of
Rome came to dislike Maximinus,
the persecutor of
Christians,
and they made threats against the soldiers who had made him
emperor (cf Sk 35.23).
So when a riot occurred among the populace
because of a food shortage, the inhabitants of the city of Rome attacked
the emperor Maximinus in the palace.
His son Pulcherianus made a sortie
against them,
fully armed and with a contingent of troops, but was
killed by the city mob.
The troops who were with him were terrified of
the huge mass of the citizens of Rome, so they abandoned him and fled,
leaving him to be seized on his own.
Maximinus left the palace and went
off to
Aquileia, angry with the inhabitants of the city and with the
army for their betrayal of his son.
The soldiers seized an opportunity
and attacked him.
He was killed there at the age of 75 (cf CP 501.2-3)'
De insid 16 (159.5-17).
This version of events is idiosyncratic,
and it is hard to combine
others with it - especially Sk 35.19-36.11 (on which, see Patzig, 1896,
39).

vi

Balbinus

'Balbinus reigned for 3 months and was murdered' CP 501.3-4, cf Sk

36.10-11
and
'...for
1 year and 3
months' LM 436.7 (von S 361 deletes
'1 year and').
'A
plot.
was made against Albinus ('Galbinus' Sk) in the palace and he
was murdered by his own relative at the age of
60' De insid 17
(159.19-20), cf Sk 36.13.
vii. Pupienus (Pompeianus)
'Pulpius reigned for 3 months' LM 436.8, 'Puplius reigned for 100 days'
CP 501.5,
'Pompianos,
2
months and he too was murdered.
Pouplios
Galbinus 3 months, and he was murdered' Sk 36.12-13. 'Pompeianus too set
out to war and
was murdered in Parthia at the age of 52' De insid 18
(159.20-21).
Confusion of names has caused duplication in Sk, and perhaps in Malalas;
see Patzig,
1896,
41.
The De insid passage links 'Pompeianus' to
Gordian
III,
whose death was caused on a Parthian campaign, though he
was much younger than 52.
viii Gordian I
'The aged emperor Gordian arrived from Libya.
He reigned for 22 days
only'
Sk 36.14-16, cf LM 436.9 and 'Gordian Senior reigned for 6 years'
CP 501.6 (cf Gordian III).
'The Augustus Gordian formed the
nu erus of those called Gann'Ic/at.1,
enrolling them selectively as being full-grown, strong and of imposing
appearance,
from the regiment known as the schoJarY , He called the
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the sixth srhola 'CP 501.13-18.

'Falling sick as a result of
the slowness of the voyage, he died at the
age of 79' Sk 36.15-16, cf 'He fell
sick and died at the age of 79' CP
502.3-4.
It
is
puzzling

that the episode of the candidate, with

its strong
reminiscences of Malalas' style, is
preserved only in CP which is in
error about the length of the reign.
Gordian I included the word Senior
as part of his titulature.
ix
Gordian II
'Gordian II reigned for 20 years
('20
Whether one follows text or emendation days' von S 62)' LM 436.10.
(which is based on Herodian,
our best source), this figure is to be
rejected because it differs from
the rest of the Malalas tradition,
where Gordian I is followed by an
emperor called either Gordian II
or Philip Junior or just Junior, who
reigned for 6 years and died as a result
of a fall from his horse and a
fractured thigh,
in spite of returning alive
to Rome.
Gordian II was
the only emperor of this period
to have Junior as part of his
titulature.
'Gordian, his (Gordian I's) son,
6 years' Sk 36.16-17.
'Philip Junior reigned with
his son Philip for 6 years' CP 502.5--6.
'The emperor Philip with
his son Philip established a nahnerus of
those
called
candldati, enrolling
them selectively as youths,
from the
scholar11;
They called the schola of the
regiment established by them
luniores after Philip the father.
These are the troops of the seventh
_srhola ' CP 502.14-19.
'Philip Junior took part
in many wars and was successful.
When fighting
with the Gepids his horse stumbled
and he fell and broke his thigh.
He
returned to Rome and died of the fracture
at the age of 45' CP 503.2-5;
'In the war against the Persians,
he (Gordian II) fell from
his horse
and suffered a fractured thigh.
He returned to Rome and died
as a
result, at the age of 50'
Sk 36.17-19, cf GM 461.14-16,
Ke 451.11-13,
who give the sequence of these
Gordians as Jounor-Gordian-Ounior
and
make the second, Gordian, die of the
fractured thigh.
Other details are
provided by Patzig, 1896, 41-2.
x
Gordian III
'Gordian III reigned for 6 years'
LM 436.11, Sk 36.20, cf CP 502.
5-6
(under Gordian II above).
'He was calm and eloquent' Sk
36.20-21.
'The army rose up against
him...and killed him
at the age of 28' Sk
36.29-31,
cf
a possible but distorted
parallel in De insid 18 (see
Pupienus, above).
xi
Marcus
'Marcus reigned for 6 years' LM
436.12.
'The
senate in Rome appointed Marcus, a philosopher,
who died suddenly
in the palace, at the age of
43' Sk 36.31-37.2.
See also GM 465.2, Ke
451.16.
xii Hostilianus Severus
'Hostilianus Severus ruled the empire.
He fell ill and died after
bled, at the age of 46' Sk 37.2-4.
being
'After Marcus Hostilianus reigned
for 2 years.
After being bled he
a haemorrhage in his sleep, lost consciousness
had
and
451.17-19.

died' GM 465.4-6,
Ke

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Both Marcus and Hostilianus, though shadowy figures historically, are

very likely to have been included by Malalas; see Patzig, 1896, 43.
xiii Philip the Arab
'Philip reigned for 6 and a half years' LM 436.13, Sk 37.5.
'Decius opposed him with his army. Philip marched out against him with
a mighty army and fought a battle, but was defeated and soon after fled
to Rome' Sk 37.5-8.
'During the reign of Philip the emperor of the Romans a civil war broke
out
in Rome
between soldiers because of the seduction of the Brutides
(cf
Bo
177.13),
and there were many deaths.
Philip came out of the
palace with his sons to stop them, and was attacked by the troops on one
side and murdered together with his children.
He died at the age of 63'
De insid 19 (159.22-28), cf Sk 37.8-10, 16-17.
xiv Valerian
'Valerian ruled for 2 and a half years' LM 436.14, cf 'After Philip,
Valerian ruled for 1 year and was murdered by his own people' GM
465.12-13, Ke 452.4.
These three references appear to confirm that Malalas included here a
doublet of the later Valerian (cf 295.17).
xv
Callus
'The very small Gallus reigned for 5 months' LM 436.15.
'Gallus was proclaimed emperor by the soldiers and immediately after his
arrival
in Rome he was murdered, at the age of
60' De insid 20
(159.29-30).
GM 466.17-18 seems to combine Gallus and Marius (see
below).
Ke 452.13-453.5 places Gallus here before Decius, and has
incorporated GM's confusion with Marius; but he has also included from
another source details of the historical Trebonianus Gallus who was
Decius' successor.
xvi

Marius

'Immediately (after the death of Philip the Arab) the senate made
emperor a man named Marius called the frugal, and he lasted... months
(gap in ms)' Sk 37.10-11.
'Marius the emperor was butchered by his wife as he slept. He had not
been proclaimed emperor by the senate, because the army had made him
emperor by overruling the senate' De insid 21 (159.31-3).
It
is unclear why these two references,
our only evidence for
Malalas on Marius, should directly contradict each other on the means of
his elevation.
xvii Decius
'Decius reigned for 1 year and 8 months' LM 436.16.
'Decius, emperor of the Romans, was a Christ-hater.
In his time a great
persecution of the Christians took place ('in the consulship of Decius
and Rusticius' Bo 260.3-4) and he proclaimed his godless edict that
people who found those called Christians anywhere and seized them and
put them to death and robbed them of all their possessions should go
without punishment.
Manx Christians were murdered indiscriminately
(reading tS &tUXE
for ov...) by mobs in the various cities and their
belongings looted' De virt 7 (160.20-26), cf JN 75.1-2.
For the first
part of the second sentence
compare the misplaced
sentence at Bo
260.3-4, inserted by Malalas or his textual tradition under Vespasian.
'The
emperor Decius brought tremendous lions and lionesses from Africa,
and set them loose on the lime..s of the East, from Arabia and Palestine

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Book

12.

Valerian reigned
26.
After the reign of Antoninus Caracallus,
for six years.
He was short,
slender, with straight grey hair, a
slightly upturned nose, a bushy beard, black pupils and large eyes; he
was timorous and mean.
During his reign one of the officials of Antioch the Great, named
Mariades, was expelled from the council through co-operation between the
whole
council
and
the people, because of deficiencies in his
administration of chariot-racing:
he had not bought horses for
whichever faction it was he led but (296) had embezzled the public
funds that were set aside for the hippodrome.
So he went to Persia and
told the Persian emperor Sapor that he would betray to him Antioch the
Great,
his own city. Sapor, emperor of the Persians, came through the
limes of Chalkis with a large military force and captured the whole of
Syria and plundered it. He captured the city of Antioch the Great in
the evening and plundered it, and then destroyed and burnt it in the
year 314 according to the era of Antioch the Great. He beheaded the
official,
since he was a traitor to his own country.
He captured all
the regions of the East as far as the city of Emesa in Phoenice
Libanensis,
and destroyed, burnt, and plundered it and killed everyone.
The priest of Aphrodite, called Sampsigeramos, came out with a force of
countrymen armed with slings and went to meet him.
The Persian emperor,
Sapor,
noticing his priestly costume, ordered his army not to shoot at
them nor to attack or fight them, and he received the priest as an
ambassador.
For the priest had sent him a message in advance asking him
to receive him as an ambassador for his country. While the emperor
Sapor was conversing with the priest, seated on a high platform, one of
the countrymen hurled a stone from his sling at him and hit the emperor
Sapor on the forehead; he died immediately on the spot. A disturbance
broke out and (297) his army heard of his death. Because they supposed
that the Romans had arrived, they all fled towards the l mes, pursued by
the farmers and the priest Sampsigeramos, and they abandoned all their
plunder and disappeared.
Across the Limes they were met by Enathos,

as far as the fortress of Kirkesion, so that they should breed, as a

measure against the barbarian Saracens. Equally he brought poisonous
snakes and tremendous bisexual creatures from the Libyan desert, as a

measure against the barbarian Nobades

(readingNo(36t ar, forNoud(Sas

and

Blemmyes.
This is why they depict him standing between lions and
serpents' CP 504.17-505.3, cf JN 75.3.
'Decius went out to fight against the Franks; as he departed he was
murdered with his son by one of the exarchs in Abyrtos ('Adytos' De
insid) at the age of 60' De insid 22 (159.34-6), cf CP 505.4-6.
xviii Aemilianus
'Aemilianus reigned for 4 months' LM 436.17, Sk 38.9.
26. Bo 295.17-298.2; LM 436.18.
Antoninus Caracallus (295.17): 'Aemilianus' von S 64.
for whichever ...he led (295.23): Bury, 1897, 227 marks an eL in Ba
before ecrt p aT1 yn o ev
(om Bo), neglected in the discussion of Cameron,
1976,
201;
we retain Cameron's sense though the additional word is
nearly enough to cause reversion to 'whenever he organized any of the
factions'.
314 (296.9; corn Chil): '304' von S 366 n.89, '310' Ensslin 1949, 33-5,
Ba; see Downey, 1961, 590-1.
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emperor of the Saracen barbarians, who controlled the land of Arabia and
took the side of
the Romans.
He had a wife named Zenobia, a Saracen
empress.
Enathos,
emperor of the Saracens, destroyed all the Persian
troops in Sapor's force, as the learned chronicler Domninos has stated.
The most learned Philostratos has written a different account of events
concerning Sapor, emperor of the Persians, saying that he also captured
the whole of Syria and burnt down many other cities as well as Antioch
the Great,
and that likewise he also took Cilicia and burnt Alexandria
Minor ana lthossos ana enazarnus aiiu Algae ana Nikopolis and many other
cities in Cilicia, and that he passed through Cappadocia into Persian
territory and that Enathos, emperor of the Saracens, came to meet him to
become,
he said, an ally of his and then killed him.
Domninos' record
is the truer; he said that he sent his satrap Spates to Cilicia with an
army.

emperor Valerian had left. Rome and had set off to fight at
Events in the East were reported to him and he (298) wanted to
turn back and set out for the East, but he was unable to do so because
he was surrounded and killed there at Milan, at the age of 61.
27.
After the reign of Valerian, Gallienus Licinianus reigned for
14 years.
He was well grown in stature and valiant, with a dark skin,
curly hair,
a bushy beard,
a good nose, and
large eyes; he was
magnanimous and he favoured the Blue faction.
As soon as he began to reign, he began a campaign against the
Persians and went to avenge the Romans. He gave generously to those who
had been
plundered and survived, and he restored what had been burnt
down and remitted taxes for four years. He also built a great temple in
Emesa. He joined battle with the Persians and, after many on both sides
had fallen, he made a peace treaty.
From there he turned back and went
to Arabia,
and joined battle with Enathos,
emperor of the Saracen
barbarians, and killed him and seized Arabia.
He returned to Rome,
where he died stricken with illness, at. the age of 50.
28.
After the reign of Gallienus Licinianus, Claudius Apollianus
reigned for nine years. He was of medium height, fair-skinned with a
big paunch,
straight hair,
a broad face, a slightly upturned nose,
greyish eyes,
fairish hair, a twisted mouth and a slight lisp; he was
magnanimous and he supported the Green faction.
During his reign Nikomedeia, the metropolis (299) of Bithynia,
suffered its fourth calamity from the wrath of God as far as the rivers
and Dacibyza.
He gave generously to the survivors and the city.
In that
year Zenobia the Saracen, the wife of Enathos, avenged the
death of her husband. She gathered his relatives and captured Arabia,
which was at that time in Roman possession. She killed the durof the
Romans,
Trassus, and all the troops with him in the reign of Apollianus
Claudius.
The emperor Claudius was campaigning in Sirmium, and he died
there at the age of 56.
29.
After the reign of Apollianus Claudius, Quintilian reigned
for 17 days. He was of medium height, slender, with a long face, a long
The
Milan.

the whole of Syria (297.12): 'Syria' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 227.
27. Bo 298.3-16; LM 436.19.
Licinianus (298.3): cf 'Licinius' LM.
28. Bo 298.17-299.10; LM 436.20, CP 508.8, Sk 39.2.
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dark skin,
straight hair, good eyes and both his hair and beard
were grizzled. He died in the palace at the age of 41, for he was sick
when of dire necessity he was proclaimed emperor.
30.
After the reign of Quintilian, the most sacred Aire.lian, the
reigned for six years. He was tall, slender, slightly bald,
warrior,
with small eyes and completely grey hair; he was magnanimous and quick
moving. He wore a diadem decorated with a star.
As soon as he began to reign, he started to rebuild the walls of
Rome to make them strong, for they had been ravaged by time. He himself
directed the work and forced the guilds of Rome to undertake the
construction.
He completed the walls in a very short (300) time, and he
issued his sacred command that from that time onward the workmen of the
whole city should be called Aureliani, taking the title from the name of
the emperor as an honour for their hard work.
After receiving a dispatch Aurelian began a campaign against
It was
Zenobia,
empress of the Saracens, and set out for the East.
reported about her that she had plundered and burned the eastern regions
up to the boundaries of Antioch the Great and that she had set up camp
near the river Orontes.
As soon as the emperor Aurelian reached
nose,

Antioch,.

he

immediately set out, just as he was, to march against her.

When they joined battle he cut down the entire mass of her troops. He
captured Zenobia herself, set her on a dromedary and paraded her through
all the districts of the East and brought her also to Antioch the Great.
After he had watched the chariot-racing there, he brought. her in on a
dromedary.
He built a structure in Antioch and placed her on top of it
in
chains for three days; he called the structure he built "Triumph".
He took her down from there and led her off to Rome as empress of the
barbarian Saracens.
After parading her in his triumph in Rome in the
old manner, he beheaded her.
The emperor Aurelian also made Arabia into a province under Roman
control.
It had been in the possession of barbarian Saracens, relatives
of Enathos the Saracen, all of whom Aurelian killed.
(301) When he was on the point of leaving Antioch the Great, those
known as the nonetari.i of Antioch rioted before him, chanting for some
customary rights. He was angry with them and punished them.
Aurelian also created the province of Dacia Ripensis; it was
situated near the river Danube. Aurelian began another war. He was
treacherously murdered by his army at a place known as New Fort., on the
grounds that he had commanded the army badly. He died at the age of 61.
31.
After the reign of Aurelian, Tacitus Augustus reigned for
seven months.
He was of medium height, slender, slightly bald and
eloquent, with short, completely grey hair and a delicate nose; he was

sensible.

30. Bo 299.17-301,9;
LM 436.22, CP 508.9 (AD271), 13-14 (AD273), 509.1
(AD276), De insid 24 (160.3-4), Ke 455.1-3., Sk 39.9-10, JN 76.1-5.
his sacred command (300.1): JN makes the main thrust of the legislation
the need for workmen to be registered in various categories, which may
well reflect the original Malalas; see von S 382-3, n.15.
for their hard work (300.4): JN adds 'And this institution has prevailed

to the present'.
31. Bo 301.10-17; LM 436.23, CP 509.3-4 (AD276),
of

MK

II 76.

of 477.18,

Sk 39.18-20,

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In his reign a Manichean named Kerdon appeared, who went about

teaching and preaching and gathering crowds.
During the reign of Tacitus there was war in the Pontic region. The
emperor went out to war, and was killed in Tzannic territory in Pontus,
at the age of 75.
32. After the reign of Tacitus,
Florianus Augustus reigned for
two months.
He was short and fat, with receding hair, fair-skinned,
with wine-coloured eyes, a slightly upturned nose, and greying hair and
beard;
he was an extremely sharp man. He began a campaign against the
Persians (302) and when he came to Tarsos was killed by his own men, at
the age of 65.
33.
After the reign of Florianus, Aelius Probus reigned for three
years and three months.
He was of medium height, with a large belly and
straight,
closely cropped hair,
a bushy
beard, dark skin, a ruddy
complexion,
good eyes and was very learned; he favoured the Green
faction.
In his reign he further decorated what is called the Mouseion in
Antioch the Great,
and the sigma-shaped Nymphaion
in it, making a
representation of Okeanos in it in mosaic.
The emperor also established
the food grants in the city of Antioch at public expense, decreeing by
his sacred ordinance that there should be free education.
The emperor Probus made war against the Goths at Sirmium.
During
the war there was a great universal famine and, because no wages could
be found, the army rioted.
They attacked and killed him in Sirmium, at
the age of 50.
34.
After the reign of Probus, the most sacred Carus reigned for
two years.
He was short, with a good chest, fair skin, with straight
greying hair, greyish eyes, a broad face, a good nose and thick lips; he
was arrogant.
During his reign he subjugated a region which he called Caria, and
made it into a province.
He also began a campaign against the Persians;

he advanced and captured Persian territory as far as the city of

Ktesiphon and returned. He constructed a walled fortress (303) on the
limes and made it into a city, giving it the status of a city; he called
it Carrhae after himself.
He returned to Rome and then set out on
another war, against the Huns; he was killed during the consulship of
Maximian and Januarianus, at the age of 60 and a half.
35.
After the reign of Carus, Numerian Augustus reigned for two
years.
He was tall, slender, with straight hair, a long face, delicate
features,
a good beard, greying hair, a good nose, good eyes and dark
skin.

32. Bo 301.18-302.2; LM 436.24, cf MK II 76.

33. Bo 302.3-15; LM 436.25, CP 509.13 (AD282), De insid 25 (160.5-9), Sk
40.4-5, MK II 79.
decreeing... education (302.11): 'a benefaction which he confirmed by his

sacred ordinance' von 5 69, possibly correctly.

wages (302.14): 'storehouses' De insid, cf MK.
50 (302.15) CP, Sk; c '40' De insid.
34. Bo 302.16-303.4; LM 436.26, Sk 40.6-8.
Maximian (303.4; corr): 'Maximus' Ba.
Januarianus (303.4; corr): 'Jannuarius' Ba.
35. Bo 303.5-304.6; LM 436.27, CP 510.2-12(AD284),

Sk 40.9-13, Mk II 79.

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of Christians.
Among
During his reign there was a great persecution
them St George the Cappadocian and St Babylas were martyred; the latter
The emperor Numerian arrived
was the bishop of Antioch the Great.
Wishing to observe
there as he was setting out to fight the Persians.
he
resolved
to
go into the holy
the
Christians,
mysteries
of
the sacred
church where the Christians used to gather to see what the mysteries
were which they were performing, because he had heard that the Galileans
performed their liturgies in secret. When he drew near he was suddenly
met by St Babylas, who stopped him, saying to him, "You are still
contaminated by the sacrifices you have made to idols and I will not
The emperor Numerian
allow you to see the mysteries of the living God".
put
him
to
death
immediately.
angry
with
him
and
was
Then he left Antioch and began a campaign against the Persians.
When he joined battle, the Persians attacked him (304) and destroyed the
The
larger part of his force, and he fled to the city of Carrhae.
Persians besieged him, took him prisoner and killed him immediately.
Then they flayed his skin and made it into a bag, which they pickled
with myrrh and kept for their own glory; the remainder of his troops
they butchered. The emperor Numerian died at the age of 36.
of Numerian, Carinus Augustus, his brother,
36.
After the reign
He was short, fat, with a broad face, fair skin,
reigned for two years.
He favoured
curly receding hair and a thin beard; he was magnanimous.
the Green faction,
As soon as he began
to reign he began a campaign against the
and he overcame them
Persians
to
avenge his brother Numerian,
completely.
During his reign the saints Kosmas and Damian were killed in the
following manner, because they were envied by their superintendent.
They were doctors by training and were highly favoured by the emperor
Carinus because they worked cures; for this is what had happened to the
emperor Carinus.
After he had gained the upper hand in a battle with
the Persians and had cut down an enormous number of them, a very harsh
Because
winter set in and the Persians asked for three months' truce.
of the harshness of the winter he spared his own army, because of their
exhaustion,
and he granted the request for peace for three months.
Taking his own forces he went to the region known as Kyrrhestike, (305)
wishing to rest his army and to have the wounded treated.
He arrived in
Kyrrhestike in winter and was staying there, dealing with the business
of
the war, when it suddenly happened that his face was twisted
backwards.
The many doctors in attendance on the emperor were not able
to help him at all, so the doctors of the region were summoned to the
emperor,
because they knew the airs of their own region.
Amongst these
was the superintendent of the saints Kosmas and Damian who came to the
emperor,
and the saints came with him.
When the doctors were unable to
help the emperor Carinus,
the saints Kosmas and Damian had a secret

The emperor Numerian (303.11) Sk: this role in CP is taken by Carinus,

who is accompanied
by Carus (who
dies by lightning strike in
Mesopotamia);
although in summary form, CP's text has many features in
common with Ba.
36. Bo 304.7-306.8; LM 436.28, CP 510.12-14 (AD284), Sk 40.14-26.
Numerian, Carinus (304.7):
CP gives the first two paragraphs of this
section with these two names still consistently reversed.

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discussion with some of the emperor's nobles so as to cure him. The

saints were brought in to the emperor in the night and they cured him by
He put his trust in them and said, "These men are the
their prayer.
The emperor, restored to his previous
servants of the most high God".
state of good health, held them in honour as did all his nobles. At the
request of the saints he immediately made a sacred ordinance to the
whole Roman state that none of those known as Christians should suffer
any harm, nor be prevented from worshipping as they wished.
superintendent, who had been brought in by the other
Their
high-ranking doctors attending the emperor, saw the favour which the
emperor had for the saints, (306) and was in a state of envy towards
After the emperor Carinus' departure from Kyrrhestike for Persia,
them.
superintendent took Kosmas and Damian by trickery with his
the saints'
own men and threw them over a precipice in the mountains because they
Thus the just men met their end.
were of the Christian belief.
In the middle of war the emperor Carinus died a natural death, at
the age of 32.
After the reign of Carinus, Diocletian reigned for 20 years
37.
He was tall, slender with a shrivelled face and both
and nine months.
his hair and beard completely grey; he had a fair-skinned body, grey
eyes, a thick nose, and a slightly hunched back; he was very magnanimous
and an avid builder.
He was proclaimed emperor during the consulship of
Bassus and Quintianus.
During his reign there was a great darkness for a whole day.
38.
After three years of his reign he appointed as Caesar his son
Because the Persians had been causing trouble
Maximian Herculianus.
Diocletian took up arms and began a campaign together with Maximian.
After they reached Antioch the Great, Diocletian sent the Caesar
Maximian against the Persians while he himself remained in Antioch.
He built there a large palace, having discovered foundations which
laid formerly by Gallienus Licinianus. (307) Diocletian also
had been
built a public bath, which he called the Diocletianum, in the level part
of the city near the old hippodrome, He also built granaries to store
corn,
and he gave everyone measures for corn and all other commodities
on sale, so that none of the market-traders should be intimidated by the
soldiers.
He also built what is known as the stadium at Daphne for the
Olympic athletes and the other competitors so that they should not go
out to Quadrigae and be crowned at the river Argyros; but after everyone
had competed in Antioch the Great, they should go up to the place known
as Daphne,
to prevent their going out such a distance by road to
Quadrigae on the Argyros river in Cilicia - both the Olympic competitors
and the Antiochenes coming out for the Olympic festival.
So he ordered
by his sacred ordinance that the competitors in the Olympic contest
should receive their laurel crowns at Daphne. He also built a temple of
Olympian Zeus in the stadium at Daphne, and at the curved end of the
stadium he built a temple to Nemesis. He reconstructed the temple of
Apollo, decorating
it with different kinds of marble.
He also built a
subterranean temple to Hekate with 365 steps. He built a palace also at
Daphne for visiting emperors to stay in, since formerly they had put up
tents in the grove and stayed there.
He built three arms factories for

37. Bo 306.9-13; Sk

38. Bo 306.14--308.5.

40.27.

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the manufacture of weapons for the army, and he built arms factories in
Edessa too to supply weapons for local use. Equally he built arms
bearing in mind (308) the incursions of the
factories at Damascus,
Saracens.
He also built in Antioch a mint so that coins might be struck
for the mint had been destroyed by an earthquake and was now
there,
He also built a bath, which he called the Senatorial,
reconstructed.
and likewise three other baths.
39.
The Caesar Maximian set out against the Persians, defeated
them completely and returned to Antioch, bringing as a captive the wife
of the emperor of the Persians, for the Persian leaders had fled with a
few men to the Indian Ilmes because their army had been destroyed. The
empress of the Persians, Arsane, lived under guard, though with honour,
in Daphne for some time at the command of the Roman emperor Diocletian.
she was restored to the
Later, when peace treaties had been made,
Persians and her husband, after honourable captivity.
40.
In that year gifts were distributed by the emperor to the
whole Roman state in celebration of the victory.
Diocletian also built fortresses on the l.ime..s from Egypt to the
Persian borders and stationed limitanei in them, and he appointed daces
for each province to be stationed further back from the fortresses with
a large force to ensure their security. They put up statues to the
emperor and the Caesar on the limes of Syria.
41.
In that year the Egyptians rebelled and killed their governors.
The emperor Diocletian began a campaign against them (309) and made an
attack on Alexandria the Great.
it, dug trenches and
He besieged
cut and destroyed the aqueduct which came from the place known
as Canopus and supplied the city. He captured Alexandria and burnt
it.
He made his entrance into the city on horseback with his
horse trampling on the corpses, for he had ordered his army not to stop
their slaughter until the blood of the slain came up to the knees of the
horse on which he was mounted.
It happened at God's command that, near
the gate where he had entered, the horse on which the emperor was
mounted trod on a man's corpse and stumbled and knelt on it so that the
horse's knee was bloodied.
The emperor noticed this and granted a
pardon,
and
the soldiers stopped cutting down the citizens of
Alexandria.
The Alexandrians erected a bronze statue to the horse in
thanksgiving.
This place is called to this day Diocletian's Horse.
From that time the year was designated as the first year of the era of
Alexandria, Thus the calendar of Egyptian Alexandria dates from that
year.
42.
During his reign there appeared in the city of Rome a
Manichean named Boundos. He broke away from the Manicheans' belief and
introduced his own belief, teaching that the good god had made war on
the evil one and had conquered him, and that it was necessary to honour
the victor.
He also went and taught in Persia.
(310) This Manichean
belief, is called by the Persians "that of the Daristhenoi" in their own
language, which means "that of the good one".

39. Bo 308.6-14.
40. Bo 308.15-22.
41. Bo 308.23-309.18.
which came (309.3; adding
42. Bo 309.19-310.2.

vta with von S

74):

om Ba.

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The

Christians.
St Menas.
fear.

emperor Diocletian carried out a persecution of the

Many were punished and suffered martyrdom; among them was
The churches were destroyed and there were threats and much

44.
In the year
of the Olympic festival the emperor Diocletian
arrived in Antioch, coming from Egypt.
As the celebration of the
Olympic contest was approaching, the emperor Dioclet.ian wore the costume
of the alytarch.
The alytarch used to wear a white robe of pure silk
but the emperor wore purple instead of white, though in all other
respects he wore what was customary for the alytarch. Holding the
sacred sceptre and making obeisance to the people, he watched the
Olympic contest for all the days prescribed.
Some of his dignitaries took part. in the Olympic contests to make an
honourable display.
Some wrestled, while others boxed or took part in
the ,1kgn4r tion, or ran. To the victors he gave imperial rescripts and
to all he gave many generous gifts, as the most learned Domninos has
written.
Diocletian,
who had put aside his imperial costume while he
was alytarch in Antioch, chose not to continue to reign after the
completion of the Olympic festival, saying, "I have laid the empire
aside and have put on the costume of (311) immortal Zeus". He continued
thus from then on. He died a natural death, at the age of 72.
45.
After Diocletian had laid the empire aside, Maximian, also
named Herculius, reigned for 19 years. On returning to Rome he
celebrated a triumph for the victory over the Persians and Egyptians.
He was tall and strong, with greying, straight hair on his head, a full
beard,
He too
dark skin and a good nose and eyes; he was eloquent.
carried out a persecution against the Christians and punished many holy
men.
Amongst those martyred were St Pantaleon,
St Hesychios, St
Hermippos, St. Hermolaos and St. Hermokrates.
46.

The

Olympic

festival

was

held again in his reign, at a time

he had gone to the East to fight. the Armenians,

who had rebelled

against the Romans.
After defeating them completely and subjugating
them,
he learned that it was the time for the Olympic festival and he
was present in Antioch throughout the days designated for the contest.
He too put on the alytarch's costume and acted as the alytarch. During
his tenure also senators' children among the population and the younger
senators competed.
others ran, or took part in the
Some wrestled,
aa4ration, or drove chariots or boxed or recited. The victors received
higher ranks, while some were promoted in the services as well as being
granted rewards. (312)
Maximian too laid aside the empire and the
purple and all the imperial costume and wore the alytarch's insignia.
After the days of the Olympic festival were finished, he too chose not
to continue to reign, but on returning to Rome he renounced the empire
and continued thus till his death. Some time later he died a natural
death at the age of 57.

when

43. Bo 310.3-6.
44. Bo 310.7-311.2.
Domninos (310.18-19; corr): 'Dometianos' Ba.
45. Bo 311.3-11; LM 436.30.
Naximian...ruled for 19 years (311.4): c 'Diocletian and Maximian ruled
for 19 years' LM, listed after Licinianus (cf Bo 314.9).
46. Bo 311.12-312.6.

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47.
After Maximian had laid aside the empire, Maxentius Galerius
reigned for three years.
He was short and broad with curly hair,
fair-skinned with a good beard, a slight squint and an upturned nose;
he was irascible and favoured the Blue faction.
During his reign lamblichos the philosopher taught, and lived in
Daphne until his death.
In that year the Persians became
allies of the Armenians, and
together they made war on the Romans, invading their territories and
plundering them.
Maxentius began a campaign against them and made war
on the Persians,
He marched out against them through Armenia and
destroyed them.
He detached territories from Persarmenia and put them
under Roman rule,
calling them First and Second Armenia, the Roman
provinces.
While Maxentius was in Persarmenia, the Persians invaded
Osrhoene.
They captured a city, burnt and destroyed it, and taking much
plunder made a quick retreat.
The city captured by them was called
Maximianoupolis. The emperor (313) Maxentius restored it and also built
its walls.
He gave many generous gifts to the survivors and remitted
their taxes for three years. On returning to Rome he was
murdered, at
the age of 53.
48.
After the reign of Maxentius, Constantius Chlorus reigned for
13 years,
He was tall, slender with greying hair, body and eyes both a
good
colour,
a good nose,
a thin beard;
he was peaceable and
magnanimous.
In his reign the city of Salamias in Cyprus suffered
from the wrath
of
God, and the greater part of the city was plunged
into the sea by an
earthquake,
The remainder was levelled to the ground.
Constantius
restored it, gave many extremely generous
gifts, undertook buildings and
remitted taxes from the surviving
citizens for four years.
As he
provided a variety of buildings for
what was previously known as
Salamias,
it had its name changed from that time
to Constantia.
It. is
now the metropolis of Cyprus.
In his reign he sent out Maximus,
also known as Licinianus, with a
large army to guard the regions of
the East against the Persians and the
Saracen raids, for they had formerly
been causing trouble in the East as
far as Egypt,
it happened in that year that
the emperor Constantius died after an
illness of 40 days.
He was 60 years old.
49.
After the reign of Constantius,
the army in the East (314)
proclaimed Maximus Licinianus
emperor.
He left Festianus as exarch in
the East with forces to guard the
East and he set out for Rome.
When he
was on the point of leaving Antioch
he watched chariot races,
and the
people of the city insulted him
because he had not. given generously
to
the city although he had been proclaimed
emperor there. He became angry
and ordered troops out against
them.
The soldiers shot at them
in the
hippodrome, and 2,000 perished.
The emperor Maximus went
to Rome and
reigned for seven years.
He had a good chest,
black hair, was
well-knit, had a bushy beard, good
eyes and a crooked nose;
he was a
keen soldier, irascible, and a good administrator,

47. Bo 312.7-313.3; De insid 26

(160.10-11),
48. Bo 313.4-21.

also known as Licinianus (313.16; corr

Chil):
49. Bo 313,22-314.11; LM 436.29.

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50.
In his reign he bestowed freedom on the Christians, so that
they did not have to hide but. could come out publicly.
In the time of
his reign there occurred the martyrdom of St Gelasinos at Helioupolis in
Phoenice.
He was second mime and came on to give a comic turn during
a popular festival.
In the presence of a crowd of spectators they threw
him into a large bath-house tub full of warm water, to parody Christian
belief and holy baptism. Gelasinos the mime was baptized, and when he
came out of the tub and put on white robes he refused to continue
performing and said before the people, "I am a Christian, for I saw a
tremendous vision of God in my baptism (315) in the tub and I will
die a Christian".
When they heard this, all the people watching in the
city theatre became violently enraged.
They rushed down from their
seats to the stage, took hold of him and dragged him out of the theatre
just. as he was, wearing white robes, and they stoned him to death.
That
is how
the just man died. Taking his corpse, his relatives conveyed
it to the village known as Mariamme, where he came from, which was half
a mile
outside the city of Damascus.
A chapel
was built in his

honour.
The emperor Licinianus Maximus died after undergoing surgery, at the

age of 46.

50. Bo 314.12-315.11;

CP 513.2-18 (AD297),

De virt 8

(160.27-28),

JN

77.78-82.

Phoenice (314.14): 'Libanensis' CP, cf JN.

they threw him (314.17): 'the other mimes threw him' CP.
'the second mime was baptized' CP.
the mime was baptized (314.19):
city theatre (315.2): 'the theatre of Helioupolis' CP.
his relatives conveyed (315.6) CP, cf JN: 'they conveyed' Bo; see Bury,
1897, 228.

Damascus
Weismann,

JN:
(315.8)
1975, 62-3.

cf

'Helioupolis' CP,

probably

correcting;

see

BOOK 13 The Time of the Emperor

Constantine

07

1.
(316)
After the reign of Maximus Licinius, the most sacred and
faithful Constantine the Great, the son of Constantius Chlorus, began to
reign eight days before the Kalends of August during the consulship of
His reign lasted for 32 years. He was tall,
Severus and Maximianus.
ruddy, magnanimous, peaceable and dear to God.
2.
In
the time of his reign a great war broke out in the West.
The most, sacred Constantine went out against the barbarians, but was
In his distress, when he was on the
defeated and encircled by them.
point of sleep, he prayed that he might be rescued from them. Overcome
by sleep he saw in a dream a cross in the sky on which was inscribed,
"In this, conquer".
After reading the inscription on the cross, he
awoke.
He got up and made a standard (317) showing the cross, just as
he had seen it in the sky, and had it carried before him. After urging
on his army, saying,
"Victory is ours", he set out and joined battle
with the barbarians. He won the battle so completely that none of the
barbarians survived but all perished. He returned to Rome victorious
amidst great joy, with the standard of the cross carried before him. He
explained to everyone the meaning of the vision and of the standard of
the cross, saying, "This is the sign of the God of the Galileans who are
known as Christians".
Immediately he destroyed the temples and all the
shrines of the Hellenes and opened up the Christian churches, sending
imperial edicts everywhere that the churches of the Christians should be
opened.
After fasting and having taken instruction, he was baptised by
Silvester, bishop of Rome - he himself and his mother Helena and all his
relatives and his friends and a whole host of other Romans. And so the
emperor Constantine became a Christian,
3.
He began a
campaign against the Persians, was victorious and
made a peace treaty with Sapor, the emperor of the Persians.
It was
the Persians who asked to have peace with the Romans.
The
emperor
Constantine (318) also created the province of
Euphratesia.,
dividing it off from Syria and Osrhoene and granting the
status of a metropolis to Hierapolis.
On his return he came to Antioch the Great and built there the Great
Church,
a very large undertaking,
after demolishing the public bath
known as that of the emperor Philip, for the bath was old and ruined by
time and unfit for bathing. He also built a hospice nearby. Likewise
he built the basilica known as that of Rufinus; this had been a temple
of Hermes which had been demolished by Rufinus, the prefect of the
sacred praetorians. He had set out with the emperor on the campaign but

Bo 316.1-5; LM 436.31.
Bo 316.6-317.16; JN 77,52-3, 60.
Bo 317.17-318.22; JN 77.61.
Sapor (317.18): written as 'Sarabaros' Ba.
1.

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3.

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ordered by him to remain in Antioch the Great. He completed this

basilica while the emperor was returning to Rome.
When the emperor Constantine was on the point of leaving Antioch,
for the first time he made a Christian, a man named Plutarch, governor
He was ordered to supervise the building of the
of Antioch
in Syria.
During the building of the hospice Plutarch
church and the basilica.
found the bronze
statue of Poseidon, which had stood as a talisman to
prevent the city from suffering an earthquake.
He removed it, melted it
down and made it into a statue of the emperor Constantine.
He set it up
outside his praetorium and inscribed beneath it ."Bono Constantino" (To
Constantine the Good). This bronze statue stands to the present day.
4.
In the great city of the Antiochenes the emperor, (319) during
the consulship of Julius and Albinus, appointed for the first time a
comes Orientis to fill the position of praetorian prefect in the East,
making the temple of the Muses his praetorium and choosing a Christian
named Felicianus.
He bestowed on the city of the Antiochenes by his
sacred decree the rank and privileges of a second comitatus, in the year
383 according to the era of the great city of the Antiochenes.
Formerly
there had not been a comes Orientis stationed in Antioch the Great; when
war started a delegaatar was stationed in Antioch in Syria and when the
war finished the delegntor was relieved.
The emperor Constantine
leaving the prefect Rufinus there.
departed from Antioch,
Rufinus
energetically completed the basilica, and for this reason it was called
the basilica of -Ruf inus.
5.
The emperor Constantine sent his mother,
lady Helena.,. to
Jerusalem to seek for the precious Cross.
She found the precious Cross,
with the five nails, and brought it back.
From that time Christianity
prospered in every way.
6.
The emperor created the province of Third Palestine.
7.
During his reign, during the consulship of Gallicanus and
Symmachus,
the former Byzantion was dedicated.
The emperor Constantine
made a lengthy procesaus, going from Rome to Byzantion. He reconstructed
the earlier (320)
city wall, that of Byzas, and added another great
extension to the wall and,
joining this to the old city wall, he
ordered the city to be called Constantinople.
He also completed
the hippodrome and adorned it with bronze statues and with ornamentation
was

of

every kind,

Rome,

for

the

and

built in

emperor

to

it

watch

a
the

kath.r:s
races.

just like the

e,

one in

He also built a large

4.
Bo
Julius
5.
Bo
6.
Bo
7.
Bo

318.23-319.13.
(319.1;): written as 'Illus' Ba.
319.14-18; JN 77.63.
319.19-20.
319.20-321.5;
CP 527.18-528.18 (AD328),
493.18-494.12
(AD197),
C 193.6-7, GM 499.15-18, 500.4-9.
Gallicanus (319.21; corr Chil) CP: 'Gallianus' Ba.
The emperor Constantine (319.22): 'The glorious emperor Constantine' CP.
made a lengthy procawus...Byzantion (319.22-3): 'went from Rome and
stayed in Nikomedeia,
the metropolis of Bithynia, and made a lengthy

ru-nceaus

at Byzantion'

CP.

the earlier city wall, that of Byzas (319.23-320.1):

of the city of Byzas' Bo, CP; see Bury, 1897, 228.

'the

earlier

wall

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and beautiful palace, equally on the pattern

of the one in Rome, near
the hippodrome, with the way up from the palace
to the A'dthiswain the
hippodrome by the staircase known

as the Kochlias.
He also built a
large and very beautiful forum,
and set up in the middle a marvellous
column,
all of
porphyry.
On this column he set
up a statue of
himself with seven rays on his head.
He had this bronze statue
brought
from where it had stood
in
Ilion,
a city in Phrygia.
Constantine took secretly from Rome
the wooden statue known as the
Palladion and placed it in the forum
he built, beneath the column which
supported his statue.
Some of the people of Byzantion say that it is
still there.
He made a bloodless sacrifice
to God, and the tyche of
the city which had been restored and built
and named after himself he
called Anthousa.
This city had originally been built
by Phidalia, and
she at that. time had called its
tyche Keroe.
Phidalia had been
married to Byzas, the king of Thrace,
after the death of her (321)
father Barbysios,
who was the toparch and the
warden of the port.
Barbysios on the point of death
told Phidalia to make a wall for the
place down to the sea. Byzas named the
area after himself and ruled
in the city.
8.
Constantine built from the
entrance of the palace up to his
forum two splendid colonnades decorated
with statues and different kinds
of marble,
and he called the place
with the colonnades the Regia.
Nearby he built a basilica with
great columns and statues outside;
this he called the Senaton.
Opposite this he set up a statue of his
mother Helena as Augusta, on
a
low porphyry column.
This place he
called the Augusteion.
Likewise he completed the public bath
known as the Zeuxippon, and
decorated it with columns and
marbles of many colours and bronze
statues.
He had found the public bath
unfinished;
it had been begun
formerly by the

emperor Severus.

He

also built the hippodrome and

many other buildings.

When he had

with the way up...hippodrome by (320.8_9;

corr Dind) CP; om Ba.
all Of porphyry (320.10): CP adds
'of Theban stone'.
a statue of himself (320.11): 'a
large statue of himself' CP.
still there (320.17): CP
adds
'having

heard of it by a popular
tradition'.
This city ...Keroe (320.19-21): 'Byzantion
is said to have been a trading
settlement in Thrace, and its toparch
to have been Barbysios the father
Phidalia.
While
Of
her father was still
constructed many buildings in the trading alive, the story continues, she
settlement, and she
also set
up there a tyche., which she called
Keroe'
CP;
CP 493.18-494.12 is
more
easily integrated into the text
around this point than at
Bo 291.15.
down to the sea (321.4): 'from sea to
sea,
which is now the old wall
of Constantinople, that is,
from the district called Petrion
to the gate
of St Aimilianos, near the area
called Rhabdos' CP.
and ruled in the city (321.5): 'It
lay at the point which
is now
called
the Nikai, near the Kilikes.
He gave the place the status
of a
city' CP.
8.
Bo 321.6-322.16; CP 528.19-529.7 (AD328),
18-530.11 (AD330).
basilica (321.9): CP adds 'with an apse'.
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finished
everything he celebrated a race-meeting.
He was the first to
watch the spectacle there, and he wore then for the first time on his
head a diadem set with pearls and precious stones, since he wished to
fulfil the prophetic words which said, "You placed on his head a crown
of precious stone" (Psalm 20.4); none of the previous emperors had ever
worn such a thing.
He also celebrated a great festival on 11th May-Artemisios (322) in
the year 378 according to the era of Antioch the Great, ordering by his
sacred decree that on that day the festival of the Anniversary of his
city should be celebrated.
On the same day, 11th May, he ordered that
the public bath, the Zeuxippon, should be opened near the hippodrome and
the Regia and the palace.
He had another statue made of himself in
gilded wood,
bearing in its right hand the tyche of the city, itself
gilded,
which he called Anthousa. He ordered that on the same day as
the Anniversary race-meeting this wooden statue should be brought in,
escorted
by the soldiers wearing
cloaks and boots,
all holding
candles;
the carriage should march around the turning post and reach
the pit opposite the
imperial
kathisma,
and the emperor of the
time should rise and make obeisance as he gazed at this statue of
Constantine and the tyche.of the city. This custom has been maintained
up to the present day.
9.
The
most sacred Constantine,
on the completion of
his
consulship,
distributed largesse in Constantinople to the Byzantines;
these were reed tokens for perpetual daily bread distribution.
He
called the loaves "palatine" because they were given out in the palace.
He set aside wine, meat and garments with (323) each loaf and set aside
revenues for them from his own resources;
he called the loaves
"politikoi" (civil).

When he had finished ...race-meeting (321.16-17): 'In the year 301 after
the Lord's Assumption
into heaven,
and the 25th year of his reign,
the most pious Constantine,
father of the Augustus Constantine the
Younger and of Constantius and Constans, the Caesars, built a great,
glorious and blessed city, honouring it with a senate.
On the fifth day
on the second
before the Ides of March,
day of the week, third
indiction,
he named it Constantinople, proclaiming that the city
formerly
called Byzantion was to be known as Second Rome' CP 529.11-18,
but probably not derived from Malalas.
Regia and the palace (322,5):' Regia of the palace'
CP; see Downey,
1961,

394.

candles (322.11): 'white candles' CP.

the carriage (322.11) CP: 'the detachment (?)'
Ba,
reading Oxnua
CP
foraxnua
Ba, cf &pna
Preger 42.8 (=173.1), 196.9.
the pit (322.12):
reading art&ua
'the
arena', 'the pit' for ox&ua
Ba,
ox&upa
CP; cf Preger 42.11 (=173.3), 143.15, 196.10. The assumption of
textual
corruption seems more likely than that adopted by Guilland,
1969,
452,
that both words were current. Greek for the same area of the
hippodrome.
make obeisance as he gazed at this statue (322.14):
cf 'make obeisance
to the statues' CP.
9.
Bo 322.17-323.2.
he called the loaves "politikoi" (civil)
(323.1-2):
Dagron, 1974, 533,
note
5
proposes, probably correctly, that the confusion between

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10.
Constantine continued to reign in Constantinople,
removing it
from the province of Europa and from its metropolis
Herakleia and giving
it,
from God, imperial status. He appointed
there a praetorian prefect
and a city prefect and the other great
magistrates, selecting only
Christians.
It
remained from that time felicitously an
imperial
capital.
11.
The emperor Constantine
created the province of
Phrygia
Salutaris.
During his reign the Council
of
318 Bishops took place against
Arius, concerning the Christian
faith. The most pious bishop Eusebios
Pamphilou, the chronicler, was present
at this council.
12.
During the reign of Constantine
Maximianoupolis in Osrhoene
suffered from the wrath of God, its second calamity
after its capture by
the Persians.
The emperor Constantine reconstructed
the city and its
walls,
for they had fallen down.
He gave generously to the survivors.
He renamed the city Constantina after himself.
He also did building work at the town
formerly known as Souga in
Bithynia,
giving it the status of a city
and calling it Helenoupolis
after his mother. He also called the
province Helenoupontos after his
mother.

13.
(324) In that year the emperor
Constantine gave orders that
the three temples in Constantinople
on what was formerly known as the
Acropolis - the temple of Helios, of Artemis
the moon, and of Aphrodite
-.
should remain in the future without
revenues.
14.
A short time later the emperor
Constantine died in Nikomedeia
in Bithynia, while he was on a processus
in a suburban estate known as
Achyron, a little distance from
the city. He had been ill for six days.
He died before the completion of the building,
in Antioch the Great in
Syria,
of the Great Church, a very
great work and one of the wonders.
He died at the age of 60 years and
three months, as the most learned
chronicler Nestorianos wrote, both about
these events and all the times
of the emperors mentioned
above.
15.
After the reign of Constantine the
Great, his son Constantine

"palatine" and "politikoi" here

may be due to a lacuna at some point
between the two names.
10. Bo 323.3-8; CP 530.12-16 (AD330).
11. Bo 323.9-13; JN 77,70.
12. Bo 323.14-23.
13. Bo 324.1-4.
14. Bo 324.5-13.
15. Bo 324.14-325.4; De insid 27 (160.12-13).
Paras 15-18: Patzig, 1891, 10 points
out that Ba gives little or
no
information
on Constantine
II,
Constans,
Constantius II and the
beginning of Julian's reign, while scattered
material reminiscent of
Malalas may be found common to CP
531-50 and Th 34-51 (marked
by
references to CP in the margins of de Boor's
edition
tempting
to claim these passages for the original of Th). It is
Malalas,
yet
dangerous, because there is no other passage in
common between Malalas
and Theophanes before
Bo 347 (Th 72; see Rochow, 1983,
461); equally,
(Bo
326-347)
may be established
with
TF,
Slav and CP, good
witnesses which

much of the intervening text

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was emperor at Rome.

His father made him emperor of Rome in his own
lifetime during the consulship of Ursus and Polemius.
(325)
The emperor Constantine the Younger reigned in Rome for 12
years. After the death of his father he went on a prose .sus, but he was
murdered in Mothone by his brother's men at the age of 20.
16.
After the reign of Constantine
the Younger,
his brother
Constans reigned in Rome for 16 years. He was stricken with dysentery
and died, at the age of 27.
17.
After the reign of Constantine the Great, his younger son
Constantius reigned in Constantinople for 30 years.
He was magnanimous
and an Exakionite, that is, an Arian.
During his reign the Persians, that is, their emperor Sapor, broke
the peace.
Constantius began a campaign against them, and appointed as
Caesar his relative Julian.
When he came to Antioch the Great he completed the Great Church and
inscribed on it the following, (326)
"For Christ Constantine wrought these beautiful
dwellings in all ways like the vaults of heaven,
brightly gleaming, with Constantius obeying the
commands of the ruler; the comes Gorgonios
carried out the function of cublcularius":
Advancing to Persian territory, he made a peace treaty with the Persians
for a certain period, after many on both sides had fallen in the battle.
He returned and performed the dedication of the Great Church in Antioch.
Then Constantius
left Antioch, on his way back to Constantinople, and
reached Cilicia.
He built there the bridge over the river Pyramos, a
very great work.
He came to Mopsuestia, a city in Cilicia, and fell ill
and died there, at the age of 40.
18.
After the reign of Constantius, his relative Julian the
had previously been appointed Caesar, began to reign
Apostate,
who
during the consulship of Mamertinus and Nevitta. He reigned for seven
years,
and was an eloquent man. He was called the Apostate because

confirm the absence of passages in common with Th.

If CP and Th are
following a common source for events covered in paras 15-18, it is
unlikely to be Malalas.
Polemius (324.17): written as 'Polybios' Ba.
16. Bo 325.5-7.
17. Bo 325.8-326.12; LM 436.32, GM 536.7-9.
30 years (325.10): cf 'one year' LM.
Sapor (325.11): written as 'Abbourarsakios'
(ie Sapor Arsakios) Ba, cf
328.20 etc.
For Christ...cu6.icularius (326.1-4):f or emendations to this inscription,
see Miller, 1839, 104, note 18 and Downey, 1961, 358-9 and note 182.
Constantine (326.1; corr Miller): 'Constantius' Ba.
these beautiful dwellings
(326.1; corn M(Jller):
'this
beautiful
dweiiing-

tsa.

18. Bo 326.13-327.3;
LM 436.33, CP 545.18 (AD362), JN 78.36; Slav: Ist
5.1-6, Soph 114.
Mamertinus (326.15; corn Chil) CP: 'Marmentius' Ba, cf 'Mamertius' Slav.
seven years (326.16) LM: 'two years' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 228.

an eloquent man (326.16): 'He was

a good nose and good eyes' Slav.

short, broad-chested,

handsome, with

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(327) he renounced the belief of his ancestors,

the Christian faith, and
became a Hellene.
He was a friend and contemporary of Libanios, the
famous sophist of Antioch.
19.
During his reign St Domitios was martyred. Julian
began a
campaign with a powerful army against the Persians
and on his way he
came to Antioch,
Going up on the mountain known as Kasios, he offered
a hecatomb there in sacrifice to Zeus Kasios.
Descending
came to Daphne and also made a sacrifice there to Apollo. from there he
He lay down
to sleep there and saw in a dream a youth with fair
hair saying to
him, "It is fated that you die in Asia".
Leaving Daphne he reached Antioch, and was
met by his senators, his
dignitaries and the people. Since
the people of Antioch were zealous
Christians,
they chanted insolent words to him, giving
him by their
words an omen that he would not return.
Two Christian c9ndidat1, whose
names were Juventinus and Maximianus, separated
themselves from his
entourage and mingled with the crowds who were
insulting him and then
further incited the people to insults,
When the emperor Julian saw
them, he ordered their arrest. He immediately
beheaded them in Antioch
and their remains were placed in the martyrium known as
the Koimeterion;
the Antiochenes call them "the Gentiles".
Julian was angry with the
Antiochenes and threatened them, saying
that he would return and punish
(328) them, since their omen was not valid.
He made a speech about the
Antiochenes,
attacking them as rebels.
He displayed the speech he had
delivered against them outside the palace
in the city on what is
known as Tetrepylon of the Elephants,
near the Regia,
20.
He set off against the Persians,
marching by
way
of
Kyrrhestike.
As he was passing by Kyrrhos, the
city in the region, he
saw a crowd standing at the cave of St. Domitios
and being healed by him.
He asked some people what the crowd
was which was gathering and learned
that there was a monk in the cave on the mountain
and it was around him
that the crowd standing there was gathering,
wishing to be healed and
blessed by him.
The emperor Julian sent this message to
St. Domitios
through a Christian referendarlus "It was to please
your God that you
entered this cave.

Do not desire to please men,

but. lead a solitary
St Domitios sent him a message in reply,
"It is because I have
devoted my soul and body to God that I
shut. myself up long ago in this
cave.
But the
crowd, who come to me in faith,
I cannot drive away".
The emperor Julian ordered the
cave to be blocked up with huge stones
with the just man inside. Thus perished
St Domitios.
life".

19. Bo 327.4-328.4; CP 550.6 (AD363),

JN 80.4; Slav: Ist 5.6-6.4.
known as Kasios (327.6-7): Slav adds 'which
is six
to Apollo (327.9): cf 'in (?) the Apollonia' Slav. miles from Antioch'.
to sleep there (327.9) Slav: 'to sleep' Bo;
see Bury, 1897, 228.
he displayed...against them (328.2-3): cf 'he
wrote out his speech
about them' Slav.
in the city (328.3): Slav adds
'so that they

would understand their

offence'.
20. Bo 328.5-19; CP 550.7-19 (AD363),
JN 80.4-11; Slav: Ist 6.4-15.
He set off (328.5): Slav adds 'from Antioch'.
It was to please...Do not desire (328.12-13);
'If it was to please...
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21.
As the emperor Julian was marching out against Sapor, emperor
the Persians,
he arrived at Hierapolis.
He sent (329) and had
a city in Euphratesia, some made of wood
boats built at Samosata,
and some made of skins,
as the very learned chronicler Magnus of
Carrhae, who accompanied the emperor Julian, wrote.
Leaving Hierapolis,
he came to the city of Carrhae, and there he found two routes, one
leading to the city of Nisibis, which once belonged to the Romans, and
the other to the Roman fortress known as Kirkesion, lying between the
This had been built by Diocletian,
two rivers Euphrates and Abboras.
emperor of the Romans.
The emperor divided his army and sent 16,000 legionaries to Nisibis
Sebastianus and Prokopios. Julian himself reached
under two exarchs,
the fortress at Kirkesion.
Leaving behind in the fortress at Kirkesion
the 6,000 soldiers whom he found stationed there, he added to them 4,000
other legionaries with two exarchs Accameus and Maurus.
He went on from
there and crossed the river Abboras by means of the bridge, since the
boats had arrived on the river Euphrates.
The number of these was
1,250.
He assembled his army, having with him the maq ster Anatolius,

of

Salutius the praetorian prefect and his inagistri milituun.

He mounted a
platform and addressed the army in person, praising them and
them to fight the Persians enthusiastically and with discipline.
(330)
The emperor commanded them to embark immediately on the boats,
and he went on board the boat prepared for him and ordered the advance
scouts to go ahead of them, 1,500 valiant men from the numerus of the
Lanciarii and Mattiarii.
He ordered his standards to be raised, and the
comes Lucianus, a most warlike man, to accompany him.
Lucianus
destroyed many Persian fortresses lying along the Euphrates and on
islands in the middle of the water, and killed the Persians who were in
them. Julian
instructed Victor and Dagalaifus to be behind the rest of
the boats and to guard the main body.
The emperor departed with all his army by means of the great canal
of the Euphrates, which connects with the river Tigris.
He came to the
river Tigris itself,'where the two rivers meet and form a great marsh.
He entered the Persian territory in the land of those known as the
Mauzanites,
near the city of Ktesiphon where the Persian court resided.
raised
urging

Bo 328.20-330.19; TF I 6-9; Slav: Ist 6.15-16.

As the emperor Julian (328.20): Before this TF I 6 adds '...when this
they ceased to insist on
had been reported to the emperor Julian,
rebuilding the temple'.
The sentence must be the last of a passage
the reference is probably to the prodigies which
omitted in Ba;
prevented Julian's rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem (see Patzig,
1891/2, 5); cf JN 80.1-2.
The order of narrative in JN suggests that TF
I may not have included the St Domitios story.
Sapor (328.20): written as 'Sabbourarsakios' Ba, IF.
once belonged (329.6): 'then belonged' TF.
Salutius (329.20): written as 'Salustius' Ba, TF.
Lucianus...to accompany him (330.5-6): 'Lucillianus...to accompany them'
Dilleman, 1969, 150 and Paschoud, 1979, 120, probably correctly.
the Persians who were in them (330.8): 'the Persians who were attacking
in ships' TF; see Patzig, 1891/2, 7.
Mendelssohn,
the rest of the boats (330.9): 'the rest of the troops'
1887, at 131.12-14, cf Paschoud, 1979, 120, probably correctly.
21.

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The emperor Julian was victorious and camped on the plain of the city
of Ktesiphon, desiring with the support of his senate to go on as far as
Babylon and take control of affairs there.
22.
The emperor Sapor, suspecting that the Roman emperor Julian
was marching by way of Nisibis, set out against him with his entire
force.
When he was informed that (331) the Roman emperor Julian was at
his rear taking over Persian territory, and that in front he was
confronted by the Roman generals and large forces, he realised that he
was surrounded and fled into Persarmenia. As a trick he slit the noses
of two of his senators at their own request, and sent them to Julian,
the Roman emperor, to lead him astray, so as to prevent his own close
pursuit and capture.
The Persians with their slit noses came to the
Roman emperor, saying that they wished to betray the emperor of the
Persians, as he had punished them. Deceived by the oaths which they
They diverted
swore,
the emperor Julian followed them with his army.
him into a waterless desert for 150 miles, leading the army astray, on
25th Daisios-June. Finding there the ancient ruined walls of a city
known as Boubion, and another place which was called Asia, with its
buildings still standing though it was deserted, the emperor Julian and
all the Roman army went and camped there. But when they were in this
area they lacked food, and there was not even any fodder for the
animals,
for it was a desert.
The whole Roman army realised that the
emperor had been deceived and had led them astray and had brought them
into desert regions, and they became extremely mutinous.
On the
following day, 26th June, the emperor took the Persians who had misled
him and questioned them. They confessed, saying, "For the sake of our
country and the safety of our emperor we have condemned ourselves to
death (332) and led you astray. Behold your slaves, ready for death".
Julian accepted their confession and did not kill them but gave them his
assurance, provided they got the army out of the desert region.
23.
About the second hour of that day the emperor Julian, while
moving among the army and urging them not to behave in an undisciplined
way,
was mysteriously wounded. He went into his tent and died during
the night,
as Magnus, whom we referred to above, stated. But the
Cappadocian chronicler Eutychianos, a soldier and vicarius of his
nunmerus,
the Primoarmeniaci, also took part in the war himself, and he
wrote that the emperor Julian went into Persian territory for a distance

The emperor Julian...on the plain (330.16-17): 'Achieving control over

the approach to Babylon, he crossed over the plain' TF; see Patzig,
1891/2,

7.

to go on as far as (330.18-19): 'to attack' TF,

22. Bo 330,20-332.4; TF 1 10-11, JN 80.13; Slav: Ist 6.16-7.6.
Sapor (330.20): written as 'Sabbourarsakios' Ba, TF.
that they wished to betray (331.8): cf 'that they were fleeing

from'

Slav.

Daisios-June (331.13, cf 21): cf 'Daisios-July' Slav,

Boubion (331.14): 'Babylon' Paschoud, 1975, 187, perhaps correctly.
fodder for the animals (331.18): cf 'grass or water for the horses'
Slav.
23. Bo 332.5-333.6; CP 550,20-551.12 (AD363); Slav: Ist 7.6-25.
a soldier (332.9): cf 'a general' Slav.
Primoarmeniaci (332,10): cf 'Armeniaci' Slav.

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15 days' march, entering via the Euphrates, had been victorious, and
had defeated all his opponents, and occupied the country as far as the
The
city known as Ktesiphon, where the Persian emperor had his court.
Julian wanted to set
emperor fled towards the region of Persarmenia.
off the next
day with his senate and army as far as Babylon, and to
capture it during the night. While he slept, he saw in a dream a fullgrown man wearing
a cuirass approaching him
in his tent in a city
known as Asia near the city of Ktesiphon; the man struck him with a
spear.
The emperor was frightened and woke up with a cry.
The eunuch
cubicularii and spatharii and the soldiers guarding the tent got up and
went in to him with imperial lamps.
(333) The emperor Julian, observing
that he had been fatally wounded in the armpit,
asked them, "What
is the name of the town where my tent. is?"
They told him that it
was called
Asia.
Immediately he cried out,
"0 Helios, you have
destroyed Julian".
And, bleeding profusely, he breathed his last at. the
fifth hour of the night in the year 411 according to the calendar of AD363
Antioch the Great..
24.
Before the Persian enemy heard what had happened, the army
immediately went to the tent of Jovian, who held the rank of comes
of

domesticnrum and

a9_grater mllittun.

They

brought him unawares into the

imperial tent,
pretending that the emperor Julian had sent for him.
When he
entered the tent they seized him and proclaimed him emperor on
27th Daisios-June,
before daybreak. The main body of the army, which
was encamped at Ktesiphon and was a fair way distant, did not learn
what had happened until sunrise, since they were at a distance.
So died
the emperor Julian at the age of 33.
25.
That same night Basil, the most holy bishop of Caesarea in
Cappadocia,
saw in a dream the heavens opened and the Saviour Christ
seated on a throne and saying loudly,
"Mercurius, go and kill the
emperor Julian, who is against the Christians".
St Mercurius, standing
before the Lord, wore a gleaming iron breast-plate. (334)
Hearing the
command,
he disappeared, and then he re-appeared, standing before the

capture it during the night.

While he slept (332.18): c 'capture it.
At night, while he slept' Slav.
cuirass (332.19):
cf
'the dress of
a consul' CP, 'a light-coloured
garment' Slav.
a city known as Asia (332.21): cf 'in a town called Rasia' CP (and at
333.3).
fifth hour of the night (333.5): cf CP which adds 'in the month Daisios,
six days before the Kalends of July'.
24. Bo 333.7-17; CP 551.12-21 (AD363); Slav: Ist 7.25-8.7.
unawares (333.9) Slav: cf 'unaware of Julian's death' CP.
27th Daisios-June
(333.12-13): cf '27th day of the month Daisios-July'
Slav,
on the sixth day before the Kalends of
'in
the month Daisios,
July' CP.
which was encamped at Ktesiphon and was a fair way distant (333.14;corr)
cf CP: Ba, Slav would more naturally be read to refer to two groups, one
at Ktesiphon and one distant -- but. CP and the sense of the passage have
led us to choose this less natural reading.
age of 33 (333.17): 'age of 36' CP, Slav.
25. Bo 333.18-334.12; CP 552.1--16(AD363), JN 80.20-26; Slav: Ist 8.7-21.
disappeared (334.1): Slav adds 'instantly'.

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Lord,

AD363

and cried out, "The emperor Julian has been fatally wounded and
has died, as you commanded, Lord". Frightened by the cry, bishop Basil
woke up in confusion; for the emperor Julian held him in honour both as
an eloquent man and as his fellow-student, and wrote to him frequently.
St Basil went to church for the morning service, summoned all his
clergy
and told them of his mysterious dream, and that the emperor Julian had
been fatally wounded and had died that same night. They all entreated
him to be silent and to tell nobody of such news. But the most learned
chronicler Eutropius did not agree with some of these details in his
account.
26.
After the reign of Julian the Apostate, Jovian, the son of
Varronianus, reigned; he was crowned by the army
there in Persian
territory during the consulship of Salustius.
He was a devout
Christian;
he reigned for seven months.
27.
As soon as he began to reign he addressed the whole army and
the senators with him, proclaiming in person, "If you wish me to reign
over you, you must all be Christians". The whole army and the senators
(335) acclaimed him.
When Jovian came out with his army from the
desert to the fertile Persian land, he considered anxiously how to
escape from Persian territory.
Now the Persian emperor Sapor had not yet learnt of the emperor
Julian's death and was filled with terror. Pleading
and begging for
peace, he sent from Persarmenia one of his nobles, named Surenas, as an
ambassador to the Roman emperor.
The most sacred emperor Jovian
welcomed him cordially and consented to receive the peace embassy,
saying that he too would send an ambassador to the Persian emperor.
Hearing this, Surenas, the Persian ambassador, asked the emperor Jovian
to agree on a peace treaty there and then. Selecting one of
his
senators, the patrician Arintheus, he entrusted
the whole affair to him.
He promised to abide by the terms approved or agreed
by him, for the
emperor was too proud to make a peace treaty with the Persian senator,
or ambassador;
a truce
in the war for three days was granted during

before the Lord (334.2): c 'before the throne of Christ' Slav.

26. Bo 334.13-16; LM 436.34,
CP 552.17-19 (AD363), JN 80.30-31;

Slav:

Ist 8.21-25, Soph 116.

Julian the Apostate (334.13): CP adds 'in the month Daisios'.

Varronianus (334.14; corn Chil): 'Uranianus' Ba.

He was a devout Christian (334.15-16):
'He
was short,
fair-skinned,
grey-haired, a devout Christian' Slav.
seven months (334.16) Slav: cf 'seven and a half months'
LM,
'eight
months' CP.
27. Bo 334.17-337.11; CP 552.19-555.3 (AD363),
9 (AD364),
JN 80.32-36,
81.19;
'

Slav:

ist 8.25-9.12.

the senators acclaimed him (335.1): 'the senators and the

units
army acclaimed him' CP, Slav.
out of Persian territory (335.3): cf 'out of
the rest of
territory' CP.
Sapor (335.4): written as 'Sabbourarsakios' Ba, cf CP.
not yet (335.4; corn Chil) CP, Slav: om Ba.
saying (335.10; corn Dind) CP: 'peacefully' Ba.
Hearing this ...ambassador (335.11; corn Chil) CP: om Ba.
by him, for the emperor... ambassador (335.15-16): cf 'and

of

the

Persian

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It was agreed (336) between the Roman patrician

the peace negotiations.
Arintheus and Surenas, senator and ambassador of the Persians, that the

Romans should cede to the Persians the entire province known as Mygdonia
and its metropolis known as Nisibis, just the city with its walls alone,
without the people who lived there.
When this had been confirmed and the peace treaty committed to
writing, the emperor Jovian took with him one of the Persian satraps,
named Junius,
who had been with the ambassador, to conduct him and his
expedition safely from Persian territory, and to take over the province
and its metropolis.
On reaching the city of Nisibis, the emperor Jovian
did not enter it,
but encamped outside its walls.
But Junius, the
Persian satrap, entered the city at the emperor's command, and set up a
Persian standard on one of the towers, since the Roman emperor had
ordered that all the citizens to the last man were to depart with all
their possessions.
Silvanus, a comes in rank and a magistrate of the
city, came out and threw himself down before the emperor, beseeching him
not to surrender the city to the Persians, but could not persuade him.
He said that he
had taken an oath, and added that he did not wish to
Then, having
have a reputation in the eyes of the world as a perjurer.
built a walled city outside the wall of the city of Amida, he called
it the town of Nisibis, and made all the people from the (337) area of
Mygdonia live there, including the magistrate Silvanus.
Then,
proceeding
to
Mesopotamia,
he
immediately
restored
Christianity completely, gave the Christians control of affairs and
The
appointed Christians as governors and exarchs throughout the East.
emperor Jovian,
leaving the East, after concluding a peace treaty with
the Persians for a short time, set off eagerly for Constantinople with
his army because the winter was severe.
As he journeyed back, he came
to the land of the Calatians, and he died of natural causes in a village
known as Dadastana, at the age of 60.
28.
After the reign of Jovian, Valentinian the Ruthless began to
and reigned
for 16 years.
He was a
reign in the city of Nikaia,
Christian.
He was appointed by the senate and crowned emperor by
Salutius,
the praetorian prefect, who had chosen him and forced him

together

with

the

council

and

the

Persian

ambassador,

as

he was

busy' CP.

were to depart (336.16): CP adds 'immediately'.

having built a walled city ...Amida (336.21): 'having built a walled city
outside the wall of the city of Amida he joined this wall to the wall of
the city of Amida' CP.
Dadastana
(337.11; corn Chil) CP,
Slav:
'Didastana' Ba, JN.
CP adds
'in the month Peritios, on the 12th day before the Kalends of March'; on
in
CP for this period in close
the sequence of Latin dates found
connection with Malalas material, see Patzig, 1890/1, 9-10, who thinks,
probably rightly, that they are not derived from Malalas.
28. Bo 337.12-338.6;
LM 436.35,
CP
555.10-556.5 (AD364), De virt 9
(160.29-161.2), Su IV 208.1-4, 316.30-33, Sk 57.29-58.14, JN 82.2-4.
Nikaia (337.13): cf CP which adds 'in Bithynia in the month Peritios,
five days before the Kalends of March'.
16 years (337.13): cf '17 years' LM, '14 years' CP.
Salutius (337.14, 338.1, 4): written as 'Sallustius' Ba, CP, Su.
the praetorian prefect (337.15): CP adds 'and former patrician'.

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The emperor Valentinian had been sent to Selymbria

to become emperor,
as military tribune by the emperor Julian the Apostate because he was a
devout Christian, for Julian had seen in a vision that he would rule
The prefect (338) Salutius had him brought from Selymbria,
after him.
the
army that nobody would make a better emperor of the Romans
telling
As soon as he began to reign he dismissed the prefect
than he.
taking sureties, published an edict against him, so
Salutius, and,
that anybody who had been wronged in any way by this man should approach
the emperor. But nobody came forward against Salutius, for he was a man

AD370

of the utmost integrity.

29.
The emperor Valentinian sponsored much building activity in
He also began a campaign against the Persians,
Antioch the Great.
sending his brother Valens, whom he had. made Caesar on 1st April;
Valens did not fight but marched out and made a peace treaty, for he had
full power, as the representative of his brother. The Persians had come
and sued for peace. Thus, having arrived in Antioch in Syria with the
greater part of the military forces on 10th November in the 14th
the
indiction,
Valens lingered there to conclude the peace treaty with
with
the
Persians
for
seven
years,
He
negotiated
a
treaty
Persians.
suing for peace and ceding half of Nisibis.
its air and water, he built the
30.
Enchanted by its situation,
of
the
Antiochenes. First the forum,
following buildings in the city
where he undertook a great project. He demolished the basilica formerly
known as the Kaisarion as far as the building known as the Plethrion.
The Kaisarion was near the horoJoglon and the bath, the Commodium, which
Valens
is now the praetorium of the consular governor of (339) Syria.
reconstructed the conch of the Kaisarion, and erected vaulting to cover
the winter torrent known as Parmenios, which flows down from the
mountain through the centre of the city of Antioch. He put. up another
basilica opposite the Commodium, and decorated the four basilicas with
The ceilings were coffered, and
great columns of Salona marble.
ornamented with paintings, a variety of marbles and mosaic work. He
completed his forum by paving in marble the whole of the inner court
above the vaults over the torrent. He embellished the four basilicas
In the middle he
with a variety of ornamentation, and erected statues.
placed a very large column, on which was a statue of the emperor
his brother.
A marble statue was set up also in the
Valentinian,
senators of the conch, and another seated statue in costly stone of the
most sacred emperor Valentinian, in the middle of the basilica attached
He built the two curved ends
of
the .kyneglon,
to the conch.
constructing them with vaults and filling them with seats, since
formerly it had been a monomachelon. He also built the public bath near
the hippodrome. He built many other wonderful buildings in the city.
31.
The most sacred emperor Valentinian executed numerous senators
and provincial governors for acts of injustice, theft and rapacity.

telling the army (338.2): CP adds 'and senate'.

an edict (338.4): 'edicts' CP, De virt, Su (twice).
29. Bo 338.7-19.
30. Bo 338.19-339.19.
31. Bo 339.20-341.7; CP 557.18-559,10 (AD369), De virt
Su IV 316,33-317.4, Sk 59.6-30, JN 82,6-14.
rapacity (339.22) De virt: cf 'false verdicts' CP.

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The prc9P.pos tus of his palace, (340) named Rhodanos, a most powerful
and wealthy man who administered the palace since he was chief eunuch
and held in great honour, was burned alive on a pyre of brushwood by the
emperor Valentinian at the curved
end of the hippodrome, while the
emperor was watching the races. His praaet7osltus Rhodanos had seized
some property belonging to a widow known as Beronike, having fabricated
a charge against her from his position of authority;
and she approached
the emperor Valentinian.
As soon as he began to reign he appointed
in the case,
and he found
the patrician Salutius as their judge
the araP.positus Rhodanos guilty. The emperor, learning of the judgement

from

the patrician Salutius,

ordered the

praaepoa,sltus

to return to

the widow what he had stolen from her.

But Rhodanos could not be
persuaded to make restitution to her,
and appealed against the
patrician Salutius.
In his anger,
the emperor told the woman to
approach him while he was watching the races, and the woman went up to
him at the time of the fifth race in the morning.
While the
prasposltus Rhodanos was standing next to him on his right, the emperor
gave the
order and he was dragged from the kathtsmet before the whole
city, and was taken to the curved end of the hippodrome and burned.
The
emperor Valentinian gave the widow all the praepositu_s Rhodanos'
possessions.
He was acclaimed by the whole people and the senate as
just and ruthless.
And a great fear arose among evildoers and those who
seized others' property, and justice prevailed.
(341)
Likewise, hearing that the lady Marina, his wife, had bought
an estate near the city that gave a good return and that she had paid
less
for the
estate than it was worth, since she was deferred to as
Augusta, he sent and had the estate valued, binding the valuers by oath.
When he learned that its value was far greater than the price paid, he
became angry with the empress and banished her from the city, and
returned the estate to the woman who had sold it.
The lady
32.
The emperor proclaimed his son Cratian emperor.
Marina was recalled by her son Valerian when he was made emperor in
Rome by his father.
The most sacred Valentinian was stricken with illness and died some
time later in the fort of Brigetio, at the age of 55.
33.
After the reign of Valentinian the Great, the Ruthless, the
army made
a man named Eugenios emperor, flouting the authority of the
senate. He reigned for 22 days and was immediately assassinated.
34.
(342)
The most sacred Valens,
brother of Valentinian the

Beronike (340.6) De virt: cf 'Berenike' CP.

Salutius (340.9, 11, 13): written as 'Sallustius' Ba, CP, De virt, Su.
the emperor told the woman to approach him (340.14):
'Sallustius told
the woman to approach the emperor' CP, cf De virt.
fifth race (340.16): cf 'fourth race' CP.
the emperor Valentinian gave the widow (340.20): 'the emperor gave the
woman Berenike' CP.
Marina (341.1) CP: written as 'Mariane' Ba, De virt.
32. Bo 341.8-13; CP 560.15-16 (AD378), De virt 10 (162.1-3), JN 82.16.
Marina (341.9) CP: written as 'Mariane' Ba.
Brigetio (341.13): written as 'Birgitino' Ba, 'the Bergitinoi' CP.
33. Bo 341.14-17.
34. Bo 342.1-13; LM 436.36, De virt 11 (162.4-8), cf JN 82.17-18.

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Ruthless, a man valiant
in war, began to rule,
AD277/8'of Constantinople
proclaimed by the senate
in the year 326 according
to the era of Antioch.
When his brother Valentinian
died, Valens was not
in Constantinople, for
he had been sent in his
brother's lifetime to
Goths.
Sirmium, to fight the
He defeated them completely and
returned;
reigned for 13 years.
he was crowned, and
He was an Exakionite by
belief, a fighting man,
magnanimous and an avid builder.
As soon as he began to
reign he gave the Arians
Constantinople and
the Great Church of
did the same in
other cities.
maltreated the Christians
He thoroughly
during his reign.
35.
Valens created the province
of Second Cappadocia, dividing
off from the First.
it
During his reign the
city
of Nikaia (343) in Bithynia
AD367 the wrath of
suffered from
God in the month
of September of

Valens died on a ,bore.. sus to

the 11th indiction,

build arms factories there...a Hadrianoupolis in Thrace, on his way to

house outside the
field.
city in another
The house in the field
was set alight .by
stairs caught alight
an unknown hand and the
in the night.
Thus he died with his
and ..Irmthezr11,
cublculeri.i
the age of 49.
36.
After the reign
of
Valens,
Valentinian's elder son,
AD379 Pious Gratian, began
the most
to reign during
the consulship of Ausonius
Hermogenianus.
and
He reigned for 17
years.
He was a peaceable man,
generous in bestowing honours.
During his reign
Theon, the most learned
interpreted astronomical
philosopher, taught
and
Trismegistos and Orpheus, writings, especially the works of Hermes
In the sixth year
of Gratian's reign,
proclaimed emperor
Theodosius the Spaniard
was
by him, since he
Placidia.
had married Gratian's
sister
(344) Before the
reign of Gratian,
Valerian, emperor of Rome,
died.
He was the son
had
of Valentinian and
and had reigned very
the elder brother of Gratian,
few years at Rome. His
emperor in Rome in his
relative Valentinian
became
place.
The emperor Gratian
fell ill of a disease
ill for a long time.
of the spleen and remained
While he was going
hippodrome at Constantinople
up through the Kochlias
in the
to watch the races,
known as the Dekimon,
at the door of what
he was murdered, dying
is
at the age of 28.

at

the year 326 (342.3): corrupt;

'the year
but not accurate.

426'

(Chil)
would be closer
35. Bo 342.14-343.6;
CP 557.13-15 (AD368),
JN 82.19.
factories there ...a house
(343.3): the transition
to build arms factories
from an intention
syntactically and in terms to the house in the field is sudden,
of the narrative;
both
seems the only solution.
the suggestion of
a lacuna
36. Bo 343.7-344.8;
LM 436.37,
CP 562.1-7 (AD380),
(160.14-16),
De insid 28
Ausonius (343.8; corn Chil):
'Ausonianus'

Ba.
Hennogenianus (343.9; corn
Chit): 'Hermogenes'
17 years (343.9): cf 'seven
Ba.
years and ten months'
he was murdered, dying
LM.
at the age of 28 (344.8):
step-mother,
plotted his death
'Justina,
Arian' CP; see Patzig, 1890/1, since he was a Christian; for she washis
12.
an

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37.
After the reign of Gratian, the senate of Constantinople
proclaimed as emperor Theodosius, who was related to the imperial family
and came from the land of Spain.
After being proclaimed by the senate,
the most
sacred Theodosius the Great, the Spaniard, the brother-in-law
of Gratian,
reigned for 17 years. He was a Christian, and a sensible,
pious and energetic man. As soon as he began to reign, he immediately
returned the churches to the Orthodox, issuing rescripts everywhere and
expelling the Arians.
The emperor crowned his two sons whom he had by
his first wife, Galla, and made Arcadius emperor in Constantinople and
Honorius
in Rome.
The emperor Theodosius razed all the shrines of the
Hellenes to the ground. He also destroyed the large and famous temple
of Helioupolis,
known as Trilithon,
and made it. a church for the
Christians.
Likewise he made the temple of Damascus a Christian church.
He made (345) many other temples into churches and Christianity advanced
further during his reign.
The emperor divided Phoenice Libanensis from Phoenice Maritima, and
made
it
a province, giving the status of a metropolis and an ordinary
governor to the city of Emesa. The emperor also divided Pontus and
created a province which he called Haemimontus.
38.
During his reign the Isaurian Balbinus rebelled and laid
waste the city of Anazarbos, and Eirenoupolis and Kastabala, cities in
Cilicia.
He was captured by the magister milituun Rufus and was

executed.
39.
The emperor Theodosius in that year pulled down the three
temples in Constantinople on what was formerly known as the Acropolis.
He made the temple of Helios into a courtyard surrounded by houses and
donated it to the Great Church of Constantinople.
This courtyard is
called the "Courtyard of Helios" to the present day.
The temple of
Artemis he made into a gaming room for dice players.
This place is
called "The Temple" to the present day, and the street nearby is called
"The Fawn".
The temple of Aphrodite he made into a carriage-house for
the praetorian prefect, and he built lodging-houses close by and gave
orders that penniless prostitutes could stay there free of charge.
Theodosius made the village formerly known as Resaina into a city,
which was renamed Theodosioupolis; (346) the village received the status
of a city during the consulship of Merobaudes and Saturninus, from that AD383
date to the present day.

Bo 344.9-345.7; LM 436.38, CP 561.6-16 (AD379), cf JN 83.2,4.

expelling the Arians
(344.16):
'expelling from them the Exakionite
37.

Arians' CP.
to the ground (344.20): CP adds
'When the glorious
Constantine was
emperor,
he only
closed the temples and shrines of the Hellenes;
despite
Theodosius
destroyed them';
probably not from Malalas,
Conybeare, 1902, 396.
temple of Helioupolis (344.21): 'temple of Balanion in Helioupolis' CP
(ie 'of Baal of Lebanon' Conybeare, 1902, 396).
38. Bo 345.8-11; De insid 29 (160.17-20).
Balbinus (345.8): cf 'Balbinius' De insid.
cities (345.10): cf 'the city' De insid.
39. Bo 345.12--346.2.
Resaina (345.22): written as 'Rophaina' Ba.

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40.
During his reign Theodosius held the Council
of 150 Bishops
in Constantinople concerning the consubstantiality
of the Holy Spirit.
Equally the emperor Theodosius promoted
as praetorian prefect
Antiochos nicknamed Chouzon, the Elder, originally
from Antioch the
Great.
As soon as he was promoted to prefect, he reported
to the
emperor Theodosius that the great city of Antioch
in Syria had spread
out and increased in size, and had many buildings
extending up to a mile
outside its walls. Then the emperor Theodosius ordered
that the houses
outside the city should also be surrounded
by a wall. A wall was built
from the gate known as the Philonauta to the
place known as Rhodion;
the new wall enclosed the mountain as far
as the old wall built by
Tiberius Caesar. He extended the new wall
as far as the stream known as
Phyrminos,
which runs down from a ravine in
the mountain; he brought
the stone down from the old monomachejon, which
was up on the acropolis.
He also pulled down the aqueduct leading to the
known as the Waters of the Road to Laodikeia. acropolis from what are
Julius Caesar had built
this aqueduct when he built the public bath (347)
up on the mountain for
the people known as the Akropolitai, those
who had remained living up
there together with those whom Seleukos
Nikator the Macedonian brought
down to the city founded by him in the
area known as the Valley, those
whom he asked to live with him in the city
below, Antioch the Great.
At that time Gindaros, Lytargon
and many other small Syrian towns
were also provided with walls.
41.
During his reign the Tzannoi crossed
Cilicia and Syria, plundering them and withdrawing over into Cappadocia,
again.
42.
The emperor Theodosius created the
province of Nova Epirus,
dividing it off from the Old, granting
the status of city and a governor
to the city of Dyrrachium, Likewise he
from the First and created a province, divided off Second Palestine
giving the status of a
metropolis and a governor to the place
known as Skythopolis.
43.
The emperor Theodosius left
Constantinople for Rome and entered
the city of Thessalonike. The
military
caused an uproar in the city over billeting,force which was with him
and so the inhabitants of
Thessalonike rioted and insulted the
emperor;
and when he was watching
the races in the city with the hippodrome
full, he ordered his archers
to shoot at the crowd and as many
Bishop
Ambrose was angry with him because as 15,000 were killed.
of this and placed him under
interdict.
He remained many days (348) without
entering the church,
until the bishop was persuaded
to receive him at the feast of the
Holy
Nativity.
But he only agreed to
receive him when he had issued an
imperial rescript that,
in any case of imperial displeasure,
whatever
its nature, a remission should be granted
by
and only then should the sentence be carried the arbitrators for 30 days
out.

40. Bo 346.3-347.7.
Philonauta (346.13; corr Chil): 'beloved
of him' (cpLXov avtiou
) Ba.
Julius Caesar (346.21; corr Chil): 'Julianus
Caesar' Ba.
41. Bo 347.8-10.
42. Bo
First and created a province (347.14;
corn Chil): 'First and created
governor' Ba.
43. Bo 347.16-348.5; Th 72.19-27 (AD391/2),
GM
577.1-5, 5k 65.15-31.

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44.
The emperor divided Second Galatia from the First and made it
a province,
giving the city of Pessinos the status of a city and a
governor.
45.
The emperor Theodosius,
while making a pnrocessus on his way
to
became ill in Milan and died there in Milan at the age of 65.
war,
His remains were brought to Constantinople.
When Theodosius was on the
point of death,
he learnt that Arcadius had gone to Rome to visit his
brother Honorius who was ill
and so he wrote to him, telling him to
But the emperor Arcadius
return to Constantinople to secure the East.
spent some time in Rome with his brother the emperor Honorius, and
equally delayed on the journey.
While Arcadius
was returning to
Constantinople,
Gainas the senator led a rebellion, wishing to become
emperor.
But Arcadius arrived back in Constantinople and executed the
rebel Gainas.
46.
After the reign of Theodosius the Great, the Spaniard, his
son Arcadius reigned in Constantinople (349) in all for 23 years, having
come from Rome where he left his younger brother Honorius.
He was very
quick in his movements and energetic.
Immediately on his arrival he
made his son, Theodosius the Younger, emperor in Constantinople.

44.
45.

46.

Bo 348.6-8.
Bo 348.9-20; JN 84.11-12.
Bo 348.21-349.4; LM 437.1,

307.3-8 (105.2-8).
in Constantinople

TF II 11-14,

CP 565.14-15 (AD394),

LG

(349.4): IT, cf LG, adds 'In the reign of

Arcadius
holy John, archbishop of Constantinople) was exiled as the
a plot made against him by Theophilos, bishop of Alexandria
the Great, Severianus, bishop of Gabala and the Augusta Eudoxia, wife of
At the moment
Arcadius.
He was sent to Koukousos, a city in Armenia.
he was exiled, the most holy bishop went into the baptistery of the most
holy Great Church of Constantinople and embraced the most pious
Olympias,
the daughter of Seleukos the ex-prefect, and other honourable
ladies.
He prayed and left the (church. Meanwhile fire suddenly
enveloped the church on all sides.
It came rushing) from the sanctuary
and went up by means of the chain of the ever-burning candle hanging in
the apse
of the sanctuary, and burned the whole church, and around the
church
(the senate house) as far as the palace.
There was a great
disturbance in the church and the city, for bishops were expelled from
various cities, and also clerics of different ranks, as well as monks
and lay people,
since they did not wish to take communion in church
because of the exile of John, the bishop.
Many senators of high rank
were beaten and had their property confiscated because they would not
But they
take communion in church. No one consented to take communion.
brought in honourable ladies of senatorial
rank from their houses,
dragging them shamelessly in public without veils and barefoot.
They
instructed them, at the command of the emperor Arcadius and Eudoxia his
either to take communion in church or to (pour out) a river of
wife,
gold'; the passages in brackets, which are missing or illegible in the
palimpsest fragment,
have been inserted by Mai on the basis of
corresponding passages in Sozomen, Socrates and Palladius.
See Patzig,
1890/1,
5 and 8-9 on the possible length of the lacuna of which this is
a part.
(the

most
result of

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47.
Arcadius created his own numerus which he called the Arcadiaci.
He fell ill and died suddenly, at the age of 31.
48.
After the reign
of Arcadius, his brother Honorius reigned in
Rome for 31 years. He was irascible and chaste.
This emperor closed the temple of Serapis Helios in Alexandria the

Great.
49.
During his reign a great civil disturbance
took place in
Rome and he left in anger for the city
of Ravenna.
He sent and
brought from Gaul the
miiitun Alaric, with his forces, to
plunder Rome. When Alaric arrived in the city, he allied himself to
the city and the senatorial enemies of Honorius.
He harmed nobody in
the city, but burst into the palace and took all the palace treasure and
Honorius' half-sister on his father's side, Placidia, (350) who was
still a young virgin. Then he went off again to Gaul in rebellion.
Constantius,
who was still a comes with Alaric and was entrusted by him
with the girl Placidia,
found an opportunity and took her away.
He
escaped from Alaric and brought her to the emperor Honorius.
Honorius
was grateful to him and made him a senator, gave him Placidia in
marriage and made him emperor in Rome.
Constantius had a son by her
whom he called Valentinian.
During his joint reign with Constantius,
Honorius killed the four senatorial usurpers, Attalus,
Sebastianus,
Maximus and Constans,
who were rebelling against him and seducing the
populace.
After they had been executed and their property confiscated,
Honorius left Constantius
reigning
in Rome, while he himself went to
Constantinople to reign with Theodosius the Younger.
50.
Constantius, emperor of Rome,
died a natural death during
the reign and lifetime of Honorius.
Then, with the collaboration of the
other senators, a senator named John
rebelled and reigned in Rome.
When
he learned this, Honorius went mad, was stricken
with the illness of
dropsy and died, at the age of 42.

47. Bo 349.5-7; Th 75.16-17

(AD398/9), 77.24-5 (AD402/3), 80.5(AD407/8),

GM 592.21-593.2, LG 306.32-307.3 (104.18-105.2).
Arcadius (349.5): GM, cf LG, Th
(77.24-5, 80.5), adds 'He erected the
column on the Xerolophos and
stood a statue of himself on it.
He built
a city
in
Thrace and called it Arkadioupolis.
In his reign the earth
groaned mightily for seven days,
and there was a great and universal
earthquake'; perhaps part of the lacuna
covering events of Arcadius'
reign postulated by Patzig, 1890/1,
12.
48. Bo 349.8-11; LM 437.2.
49. Bo 349.12-350.15;
Th 76.20-77.4 (AD402/3),
Sk 68.17-69.1,

15-20, 23.
in anger
(349.13):
matters' Th.

JN 84.

'Aroused against the citizens

because of some

minor

the city of Ravenna (349,13): 'Ravenna,

a coastal city in Italy' Th.
Alaric (349.14): Th adds 'a barbarian
of Gallic race'.
to plunder Rome (349,15); Th
adds
'and to harrass
those who had
wronged him.
All Rome was besieged by him
and all but destroyed'.
to Gaul (350.1): Th adds 'to his
own nation'.
made him a senator (350.5): Th adds
'a little later'.
Valentinian (350.8): Th adds 'the
Younger',
50. Bo 350.16-21; JN 84.24.

BOOK 14 The Reign of Theodosius the

Younger to the Reign of Leo
the Younger
1.
(351) After the reign of Honorius, the most sacred Theodosius
the Younger,
the son of the emperor Arcadius (brother of Honorius),
reigned alone. He had been crowned by his father during the consulship
of Stilicho and
Aurelianus.
He reigned
in all 50 years and seven
months.
2.
He favoured the Green faction and took their side in each
city.
In Constantinople, where they had formerly watched the races from
the section on his right, he moved them and made them watch from the
seats on the left, and he transferred the garrison troops who used to
watch from opposite the Jr thiiai to the Blue section, and he gave these
seats,
which extended over six column spaces, to the members of the
Green faction.
He told the prefect Kyros, "Those whom I support. (352) I
wish to watch opposite me".
Then the members of the Green faction
chanted in Constantinople to the emperor, "To each his own!" He sent
them proclamations by his chief courier, saying, "it was to honour you
I moved you to the left. of the hwth swa from which I watch the
races",
and they acclaimed him. He gave orders that in each city the
Greens should watch on the left of the officials.
3.
Theodosius had begun to reign as a boy;
when he grew older,
the emperor used to study in the palace in his father Arcadius'
lifetime.
After the death of his father, he was joined in his studies
by
another very talented youth named Paulinus,
son of a
chines

that

dnmest..icorum.

After the death of his father, the emperor Theodosius, having

reached manhood,
wanted to take a wife in marriage,
He pestered his
sister the lady Pulcheria who was a virgin; as she was fond of her
brother,
she had chosen not to marry anybody.
She thoroughly
investigated many virgin girls, daughters of patricians or of imperial
blood and reported to her brother the emperor Theodosius, since she
lived
in the palace with him.
The emperor Theodosius said to her,
"I
want you to find me a really lovely young girl, so that no other woman
in Constantinople, - whether she be of imperial blood or of the highest
(353) senatorial
family - may possess
such beauty.
If she is not
superlatively beautiful, I am not interested,
neither in high rank or
But whoever's daughter she is, providing she
imperial blood or wealth.

Bo 351.1-4; LM 437.3; Slav: Soph 118 (= Ist 101.1-3).

50 years and seven months (351.4): '48 years' LM, Slav.
2.
Bo 351.5-352.7.
Slav: Soph 118
3.
Bo 352.8-353.6; CP 575.3-576,4 (AD420), JN 87.1;
(= Ist 10.4-6).
damesticartrn (352.12): CP, Slav add 'and Theodosius loved him'.
and reported... with him (352.18-19): cf 'wishing to live with her
brother in the palace' CP.
1.

cues

AD 4 00

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47.
Arcadius created his own numerus which
he called the Arcadiaci.
He fell ill and died suddenly, at the age
of 31.
48.
After the reign of Arcadius, his brother Honorius reigned
in
Rome for 31 years. He was irascible and chaste.
This emperor closed the temple of Serapis
Helios in Alexandria the
Great.
49.
During his reign a great civil
disturbance took place in
Rome and he left in anger for the
city of Ravenna.
He sent and
brought from Gaul the iWglster militcun Alaric,
with his forces, to
plunder Rome.
When Alaric
arrived in the city, he allied himself to
the city and the senatorial enemies
of Honorius.
He harmed nobody in
the city, but burst into the palace
and took all the palace treasure and
Honorius' half-sister
on his father's side, Placidia, (350) who was
still a young virgin.
Then he went off again to Gaul in rebellion.
Constantius,
who was still a comes with Alaric and was entrusted by him
with the girl Placidia, found an opportunity and took
her away. He
escaped from Alaric and brought her
to the emperor Honorius. Honorius
was grateful to him and made him
a senator, gave him Placidia in
marriage and made him emperor in Rome. Constantius
had a son by her
whom he called Valentinian. During his joint
reign with Constantius,
Honorius killed the four senatorial
usurpers, Attalus, Sebastianus,
Maximus and Constans, who were rebelling
against him and seducing the
populace.
After they had been executed and their property confiscated,
Honorius left Constantius reigning
in Rome, while he himself went to
Constantinople to reign with Theodosius the Younger.
50.
Constantius,
emperor of Rome, died a natural death
during
the reign and lifetime of Honorius. Then,
with the collaboration of the
other senators, a senator named John rebelled
and reigned in Rome. When
he learned this, Honorius went
mad, was stricken with the illness of
dropsy and died, at the age of 42.

Bo 349.5-7; Th 75,16-17 (AD398/9),

77.24-5 (AD402/3), 80,5(AD407/8),
GM 592.21-593,2, LG 306.32-307.3
(104.18-105.2).
Arcadius (349.5): GM, cf LG, Th
(77.24-5,
column on the Xerolophos and stood a statue 80.5), adds 'He erected the
of himself on it.
He built
a
city in Thrace and called it Arkadioupolis.
In his reign the earth
groaned mightily for seven days,
and there was a great and universal
earthquake';
perhaps part of the lacuna
covering events of Arcadius'
reign postulated by Patzig, 1890/1, 12.
48. Bo 349.8-11; LM 437.2.
49. Bo 349.12-350.15;
Th 76.20-77.4 (AD402/3),
Sk 68.17-69.1,
JN 84.
15-20, 23.
in anger (349.13): 'Aroused against
the citizens because of some
minor
matters'
47.

Th.

the city of Ravenna (349,13): 'Ravenna,

a coastal city in Italy' Th.
Alaric (349.14): Th adds 'a barbarian of Gallic
race'.
to plunder Rome (349.15): Th adds 'and to
harrass those who had
wronged him. All Rome was besieged by him
and all but destroyed'.
to Gaul (350.1): Th adds 'to his own nation'.
made him a senator (350.5): Th adds 'a little
later',
Valentinian (350.8): Th adds 'the Younger'.
50. Bo 350.16-21; JN 84.24.

BOOK 14 The Reign of Theodosius the

Younger to the Reign of Leo
the Younger
After the reign of Honorius, the most sacred Theoclosius
1.
(351)
the Younger,
the son of the emperor Arcadius (brother of Honorius),
reigned alone. He had been crowned by his father during the consulship
of Stilicho and Aurelianus.
He reigned in all 50 years and seven

months.
Green faction and took their side in each
where they had formerly watched the races from
the section on his right, he moved them and made them watch from the
seats on the left, and he transferred the garrison troops who used to
watch from opposite the kthrsc at.o the Blue section, and he gave these
seats,
which extended over six column spaces, to the members of the
Green faction.
He told the prefect Kyros, "Those whom I support. (352) I
wish to watch opposite me".
Then the members of the Green faction
chanted in Constantinople to the emperor, "To each his own!" He sent
them proclamations by his chief courier, saying, "It was to honour you
that I moved you to the left. of the lwthisniv from which I watch the
races", and they acclaimed him.
He gave orders that in each city the
Greens should watch on the left of the officials.
3.
Theodosius had begun to reign as a boy; when he grew older,
the emperor used to study
in the
palace
in his father Arcadius'
lifetime.
After the death of his father, he was joined in his studies
by
another very talented youth named Paulinus,
son of a
cones
domesticorum.
After the death
of his father,
the
emperor Theodosius, having
reached manhood, wanted to take a wife in marriage.
He pestered his
sister the lady Pulcheria who was a virgin; as she was fond of her
brother,
she had chosen not to marry anybody.
She thoroughly
investigated many virgin girls, daughters of patricians or of imperial
blood and reported to her brother the emperor Theodosius, since she
lived in the palace with him.
The emperor Theodosius said to her,
"I
want you to find me a really lovely young girl, so that no other woman
in Constantinople, - whether she be of imperial blood or of the highest
(353)
senatorial family - may possess such beauty.
If she is not
superlatively beautiful, I am not interested, neither in high rank or
imperial blood or wealth. But whoever's daughter she is, providing she
2,

city.

He

favoured

the

In Constantinople,

Bo 351.1-4; LM 437.3; Slav: Soph 118 (= Ist 101.1-3).

50 years and seven months (351.4): '48 years' LM, Slav.
1.

Bo 351.5-352.7.
Bo 352.8-353.6;
(= Ist 10.4-6).

2.
3.

CP

575.3-576.4 (AD420),

cams damesticarrin (352.12) : CP, Slav add

and reported... with him (352.18-19): cf
brother in the palace' CP.

JN

87.1;

Slav:

Soph 118

'and Theodosius loved him'.

'wishing

to

live

with

her

AD 400

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is a virgin and exceedingly
beautiful, her I shall marry". Hearing
this, the lady Pulcheria
sent. messengers in all directions
to continue
her investigations. Paulinus, too,
rushed around to please him.
4.
In
the meantime there happened
to arrive in Constantinople,
together with her relatives,
a beautiful, eloquent girl from Hellas,
named Athena is, later renamed Eudokia.
She was the daughter of the
very wealthy Athenian
Philosopher Leontios. Athenais Eudokia had
been
compelled to come to
the imperial city to stay with her
aunt for the
following reason. The philosopher
Leontios, her father, had two fullgrown sons.
When he was on the point of
death, he drew up a will,
according to which he provided
that his two sons,
Valerius and
Gessius,
should
inherit the whole of the fortune
which he left behind
him.
He stated in the will,
"To Athenais, my beloved and
legitimate
daughter,
I
bequeath
100 nowj*s%9tc9 only;
for her good fortune, which
exceeds that of all other women,
is sufficient for her".
And Leontios
the philosopher died in Athens.
After he had departed this life,
Athenais Eudokia pleaded with
her brothers, since they were
older than
she, throwing herself before
them and entreating them not to adhere
to
the will, but to give her a
third share with them of (354) their
father's possessions,
saying, "I have done no wrong,
as you yourselves
know, to your father.
I
do not know why, on the point
of death, he
left me destitute and
bestowed upon me merely the
wealth which may come
by good fortune after his death".
Her brothers remained unmoved,
their anger even drove her
and in
out. of their father's
house, in which she
lived with them.
Her mother's sister took
her in as she was an orphan,
and protected her as a
virgin.
She took her with her and went
her other aunt, her father's
off to
sister, in Constantinople.
They took her
to make a petition against
her brothers, and prepared
her to approach
the most pious lady Pulcheria,
sister of the emperor Theodosius.
The
girl was admitted and explained
in an eloquent address that
she had been
treated with violence by her brothers.
Observing that she was beautiful

Paulinus (353.5): 'Paulinus, his

fellow-student and friend' CP.
to please him (353.6): CP adds
'in this matter'.
4.
Bo 353.7-355.10; Ev I 20 (28.23-30),
CP 576.4-578.8,13-19 (AD42C1),
GM 608,10-609.3,
Ke 590.9-18,
10.7-8),

JN 84.25-34, 37; Slav:

Soph 118 (= Ist

later renamed Eudokia (353,9)

cf JN 84.28: CP does not

mention the name
'Eudokia' until the very
end of this

whole episode.
Leontios
(353.10, 13, 20; cf
Ke,
Soc HE vii 21):
CP, JN.
Valerius (353.16): cf 'Valerian'
CP, JN.
the philosopher died in Athens (353.19-20)

died'

CP.

Ke: cf

cf

'the

'Herakleitos'

wise

Athenian

After he had departed this life (353.20):

cf CP which
adds
contents of his will had become clear',
'and
the
as you yourselves know, to your
father (354.1-2): 'and
you yourselves
know how I felt towards our common father'
CP.
as she was an orphan... virgin (354.7):
cf 'and looked after
as an orphan but as a virgin
her not only
and her niece' CP.
her other aunt, her father's sister
(354,8-9)
CP:
Ba would more
naturally read 'her aunt, her
father's other sister',
tempting to link to a confused reference
which it is
in JN
to a third aunt.,

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Pulcheria asked her aunts whether she was a virgin, and

and eloquent,
was informed by them that she was a virgin kept chaste by her father who
in Hellas, and that she had had an extensive
had been a philosopher
education in philosophy.
She gave orders that the girl and her aunts
should wait under the watchful eye of
and said that she
would take her petition from her and go in to see her brother the
She said to him,
"I have found a very good-looking
emperor Theodosius.
young woman, refined,
with a good figure, eloquent, from Hellas, a
When he heard this,
virgin (355) and the daughter of a philosopher".
being a young man, became excited.
He sent for his
Theodosius,
fellow-student and friend Paulinus, and asked his sister to bring
into her chamber on some other pretext, so that he,
Athenais Eudokia
together with Paulinus, might observe her from behind the curtain.
So
she was brought
in.
When he saw her he fell in love'with her, and
Paulinus too was struck by her.
He kept her and converted her to
and renamed her Eudokia; he
Christianity,
since she was a Hellene,
married her,
celebrating an imperial
wedding with her.
He had a
daughter by her named Eudoxia.
5.
When the brothers of the Augusta Eudokia heard that she had
they sought refuge in Hellas in terror. She sent for
become empress,
them and brought them from the city of Athens to Constantinople, with
reassurances, and gave them high rank: the emperor appointed the one
known as Gessius to be praetorian' prefect of Illyricum, and Valerius
to be
The empress Eudokia, their sister, said to them, "If
you had not treated me badly, I should not have been compelled to come
here and become empress. And so you bestowed upon me the imperial rank,
which goes beyond my birth-right.
For it was my good fortune, not your
attitude towards me, which made you uncharitable towards me".
6.
The emperor Theodosius also advanced Paulinus through all the
since he was his friend, (356) matchmaker for his marriage and
ranks,
their table companion.
After that he promoted him to
and so
his fortunes increased.
Since he had free access to the emperor
Theodosius,
as his bestman at his marriage, Paulinus also often visited
the Augusta Eudokia, as ,m.sgister.
7.

large

Theodosius the emperor sent the patrician Aspar to Rome with

military force against the rebel John.
Aspar defeated John,

with a good figure (354.22): CP adds 'with delicate features,

a good
nose,
skin white as snow and good eyes, utterly charming, with fair
curly hair and a dignified posture'; see Patzig, 1890/1,12.
imperial wedding
(355.9):
CP adds,
probably not from Malalas, 'the
Augustus Theodosius celebrated his marriage, taking as his wife Athenais
Eudokia,
in the month Daisios, on the seventh day before the Ides of
June.
In the month Daisios, on the fourth day before the Ides of June,
races
were
held to celebrate the marriage, as were theatrical
performances during the races'; see Patzig, 1890/1, 10, for arguments
against this passage being genuine Malalas.
5.
Bo 355.11-21; CP 578.20-579.9 (AD421), GM 609,5-6, JN 84.34-6.
Valerius (355.16): cf 'Valerian' CP, JN.
uncharitable (355.20): 'unyielding' CP,
6.
Bo 355.22-356.5; CP 579.10-14 (AD421), GM 609.3-5, JN 87.1-3; Slav:
Soph 118 (= Ist 10.9-10).
7.
Bo 356.6-16; CP 582,15-18 (AD437).

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deposed him from the imperial rule in Rome and executed him. The
emperor Theodosius made Valentinian the Younger emperor in Rome. He was
his relative, the son of the elder Placidia and the emperor Constantius.
Theodosius gave him his daughter, named Eudoxia, whom he had had by
By her Valentinian
the Augusta Eudokia, daughter of the philosopher.
had two daughters, Eudokia and Placidia.
when the emperor
8.
It so happened
that,
some
time later,
Theodosius was proceeding to the church at Holy Epiphany, the magi[ter
Paulinus, who was indisposed because of his foot, remained behind and
sent his apologies.
A poor man brought to the emperor Theodosius a
Phrygian apple of enormous size, so big as to defy description. The
emperor and all his senate were amazed.
Immediately the emperor gave
(357) 150 nomismetato the man who brought the apple, and sent it to the
Augusta Eudokia;
and the Augusta sent it to the magi ster Paulinus,
since he was a friend of the emperor; but the nwgister Paul inus, not
being aware that it was the emperor who had sent it to the Augusta, took
it
and sent it to the emperor Theodosius, as he was entering the
palace.
When the emperor received it, he recognised it and concealed
"Where is
it.
He called the Augusta and questioned her, saying,
the apple which I sent you?" She replied, "I ate it".
Then he made
her swear the truth by his salvation, whether she had eaten it or had
sent it. to somebody. She swore, "I have not sent. it to anybody, I have
eaten it myself".
Then the emperor commanded the apple to be brought in
and showed it. to her. He became angry with her, suspecting that. it
was because she was in love with Paulinus that she had sent him the
apple and had denied it.
For this reason the emperor Theodosius put
Paulinus to death. The Augusta Eudokia was offended at the insult she
had received, for it was known everywhere that Paulinus had been
The
executed on her account,
for he was a very handsome young man.
Augusta asked the emperor Theodosius to be allowed to go to the Holy
Places to pray, and he gave her permission.
She travelled from
Constantinople to pray in Jerusalem, and built many buildings in

Theodosius gave him (356,12): CP adds, perhaps not from Malalas, 'in the
month Hyperberetaios on the fourth day before the Kalends of November'.
8.
Bo 356.17-358.4;
TF II 14-16,
Ev I 20-21
(28.30-29.1, 7-9),
CP
584.5-585.23 (AD444), De virt 12 (162.9-24), Th 99.18-28 (AD447/8), GM
609.6-610.6,
LG 308.5-20 (106.16-107.10) Ke 591.2-24, JN 87.4-22; Slav:
Soph 118 (= Ist 10.11-11.2).
sent it to the emperor Theodosius (357.4): De virt. summarises from
this point 'and the result is obvious. For Theodosius had Paulinus
executed,
the Augusta went to Jerusalem and the Holy Places and erected
many buildings', returning to the full narrative only with the last
sentence 'when she was on the point. of death'.
as he was entering the palace (357.5) GM, LG: cf 'as he was leaving
the church' CP.
received it (357.5): cf CP which adds 'without the Augusta'.
and showed it to her (357.11-12): CP, Slav, LG, Ke, JN add 'and the
result was estrangement and separation between them'; see Patzig,
1890/1, 12.
put Paulinus to death (357.14) CP, GM, cf LG, Ke,
JN: of
'ordered
Paulinus to be exiled to Cappadocia and then put to death' Th,
to pray in Jerusalem (357.20): CP, cf TF, adds 'When she entered Antioch

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Jerusalem.
She reconstructed the wall of Jerusalem, saying, "It was of
me that the prophet David spoke when he said, 'In thy good pleasure
(ew'akie), (358) 0 Lord, the walls of Jerusalem
be
(P%7-1m
51.18).
She remained there and built an imperial tomb for herself;
she died and was buried in Jerusalem.
When she was on the point of
death she swore an oath that she was not guilty of the accusation
concerning Paulinus.
9.
The emperor Theodosius was eloquent, and loved by the whole
people and the senate.
10.
During his and Valentinian's reign, a campaign against Rome
and Constantinople was begun by Attila,
of the race of the Gepids,
with a host of many tens of thousands. He sent a message through a
Gothic ambassador to Valentinian, emperor of Rome, "Attila, my master
and yours, commands you through me to make ready your palace for him".
Likewise he sent the same message to the emperor Theodosius
in
Constantinople,
through a Gothic ambassador. When Aetius, the leading
senator of Rome, heard the incredible boldness of Attila's reckless
he went off to Theoderic in Gaul.
Though Theoderic was an
message,
enemy of the Romans, he was persuaded to join him against Attila, who
They made a sudden assault on Attila,
had attacked many Roman cities.
as he was making camp near the river Danube, and cut down many thousands
of his men.
In this battle Theoderic was wounded by an arrow and died.
(359)
Equally Attila died, suffering a haemorrhage through the nose at
night,
while he was sleeping with his Hunnish concubine.
This girl was
suspected of having murdered him. The history of this war has been

shall

built"'

she pronounced in the bouleutarion an encomium on Antioch

on the
building known as the bouleuterion' TF), sitting in
'inside') an imperial throne of solid gold set with jewels.
The
(lit.
people of the city chanted acclamations to her, a likeness of her in
gold was dedicated in the .bouleuterion, and they erected a bronze statue
of her in the building called the Mouseion, both of which stand to the
present day.
She bestowed money on the city of Antioch in Syria for the
corn-supply,
and set off for the Holy Places'; see Patzig, 1890/1, 5-6.
By adds 'She made a speech to the people here (ie in Antioch) with this
concluding epic line, "I boast that I am of your race and blood" (Iliad
6.211,
and 20.241),
hinting at the colony sent here from Hellas',
perhaps drawing on Malalas; see Patzig, 1890/1, 18.
CP, TF; see
She remained there (358.1): 'She remained in Jerusalem'
Patzig, 1890/1, 6.
9.
Bo 358.5-6; TF II 16; Slav: Ist 11.3-4.
was eloquent (358.5): '(...) by nature handsome, white-skinned, wellbuilt,
with a good nose, a good chest, black eyebrows, straight hair, a
thick beard (...); he was magnanimous, charming and eloquent' TF; cf 'of
white-skinned,
handsome' Slav; see Patzig, 1890/1, 6.
medium stature,
Plainly 'of medium stature'
may be inserted in the first of TF's
lacunas.
10. Bo 358.6-359.7; Ev I 17 (26.25-6), TF 11 16, CP 587.7-588.5 (A0450),
Slav: Ist 11.4-20.
Gepids (358.8): 'Gepid Huns' CP, Slav.
Theoderic (358.16,21; corr): 'Alaric' Ba, CP; see PLRE II 1070-1.
enemy of the Romans (358.16): CP, Slav add 'because of Honorius'.
Slav has a fuller version but which
Equally... murdered him (359.1-3):

the

('and

Great

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by

the

most

learned Priscus, the Thracian.

Others, however,
tisrWth&rius, who
stabbed and killed him, and that Aetius returned victorious
to Rome.
11.
At that time the emperor Theodosius built the
Great Church of
Alexandria, which is known to the present
day as the church of
Theodosius, for he favoured Cyril the
bishop of Alexandria.
12.
At that time the Alexandrians,
given free rein by their
bishop,
seized and burnt on a pyre of brushwood Hypatia
the famous
philosopher, who had a great reputation
and who was an old woman.
In his
reign the island of Crete suffered through
the wrath of
God,
"the island of a hundred cities in the
midst of the sea", as the
most learned Euripides described it.
Its whole surrounding area
suffered too,
In Crete the public bath built by the Caesar Julius in
the metropolis of Gortyn collapsed,
it had twelve distinct chambers and
one arrangement of chambers was
in service each month. (360)
The bath
was perfect, and the twelve chambers were heated
by a single furnace,
and it was a remarkable sight. The emperor Theodosius
restored six of
these,
that is, two patterns of the bath,
one for summer and one for
winter,
as the landowners of the city had petitioned
him.
He provided
large sums for the city and countryside
for building purposes.
13.
He also built in Antioch the Great,
a large, well lit and
very beautiful basilica opposite the building
known as the Athla,
The
Antiochenes call this the basilica of
Anatolius, because the magister
wiJ tum Anatolius supervised its construction
with funds he received
from the emperor, when he was appointed by him
roagister milrtu,w per
t2rientem.
For this reason, when he had completed
the building of the
basilica,
he inscribed on it in gold mosaic
the emperor Theodosius", as was correct. these words, "Erected by
Above, there were the two

have written that Aetius the patrician bribed

Attila's

is probably not from Malalas

since the vocabulary is untypical (despite
Tvorogov, 1975, 138).
11. Bo 359.8-11; JN 83.37; Slav:
Ist 11.20-23.
12. Bo 359.12--360.6; JN 84.45, 87;
Slav: Ist 11.23-12.2.
See Nauck, TGF
506 (Euripides, fr.472),
the island (359.17): 'the great island' Slav.
twelve distinct chambers ... month
(359.20-21):
'twelve
chambers,
according to the number of months, and which paid
a tax from one chamber
each month' Slav,
13. Bo 360.7-20; Ev 118 (27.18-28.3);
Slav: Ist 12.2-3,
He also built (360.7): Before speaking
of the basilica of Anatolius,
Ev
gives details of three other buildings, perhaps
drawing from Malalas
(see Patzig,
1890/1,
18),
'During these years Memnonios,
Zoilos and
Kallistos were sent. out as governors to Antioch,
shining examples of our
faith.
Memnonios completely rebuilt, splendidly
and diligently, the
structure known to us as the Psephion, leaving
Zoilos built the basilica on the south side a hypaethra1 inner court..
of that of Ruinus, which
has retained his name down to our day even
though
structure as the result of the variety of damageit has changed its
it has suffered.
Kallistos constructed a handsome and splendid building
known to the
people of the past and of our time as the stoa
of Kallistos, in front of
the seats of justice immediately opposite
the forum on which stands
the
beautiful edifice, the headquarters of the
generals'.

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Theodosius and his relative Valentinian, the emperor at Rome.

emperors,

the Daphnet.ic gate, after

Theodosius also gilded the two bronze doors of

the pattern of the gate he had gilded in Constantinople, which up to the

present.
is still
called the Golden Gate; likewise that of Antioch the
Great
is known to the present day as the Golden Gate.
It was gilded by
the consular Nymphidianos.
14.
In
that year the death was announced of Valentinian, emperor
at Rome, who was murdered by the senator Maximus, who gained power and

to reign in

began

Rome.

(361) The emperor Theodosius acted badly towards Antiochos,

the praepasitus and patrician, who was a powerful man in the palace and
in control
of
affairs.
He had brought up Theoclosius in his father's
lifetime,
as ruhicularicis and administrator of the Roman state from the
time of his father Arcadius. He continued, after Theodosius had grown
up,
to treat him overbearingly as he was a patrician.
Theodosius,
15.

became angry with him, confiscated

however,
and

made

that. eunuch

decree

his property, tonsured

him a priest of the Great Church in Constantinople,

ct1hlru.1&ri

him

issuing a

after the completion of their service,

that is, ex-praepositi of the palace,

should not be admitted to
senatorial or patrician rank. Antiochos died, as a presshyter.
The emperor appointed the patrician Kyros the philosopher, a
16.
man of great learning in every field, to be praetorian prefect and city
prefect.
He was in power for four years, holding the two offices,
riding out in the carriage of the city prefect, supervising building
operations and reconstructing the whole of Constantinople, for he was a

most
all

refined

day,

"Constantine

man.

while

The

Byzant.ines chanted about him in

Theodosius

was

watching

built., Kyros rebuilt,

put.

the

them

races,

at.

the

the hippodrome
as

follows,

same

level,

Augustus!" Kyros was amazed and commented,

"I do not like
fortune
when she smiles (362) too sweetly".
The emperor was angered that they
chanted about Kyros and coupled his name in their chants with that of
Constantine,
as having reconstructed the city.
So a plot. was made
against Kyros and he was charged with being a Hellene, so that his
property was confiscated and he was stripped of his office.
After
seeking asylum he too became a priest, and was sent to Phrygia as bishop

Bo 360.20-23;
Ev II 7 (54.6-10), De insid 30 (160.21-24), JN 83.14;
Ist 12.3-5.
Maximus (360.22) By, De insid: cf 'Maxirnian' Slav (and in para 26).
15. Bo 361.1--13;
Th 96.18-21
Su II
Slav:
(AD443/4),
695.9--10;
Ist
12.5-14.
after Theodosius had grown up (361.6):
cf
'after the death of
Theodosius' father' Slav.
16. Bo 361.14-362.18;
CP
(AD450), Th 96.31--97.15 (AD444/5),
LG 310.23-29 (110.16-23), Su II 695.10-15, III 220.14-15,
JN 84.48--58;
Slav: Ist 12.14-13.6.
riding out (361.17): CP adds 'as praetorian prefect in the prefects'
carriage, and riding back seated'.
a most refined man (361.19):
that.
CP adds 'and he decreed
lights
should be lit in the evenings, and likewise at night'; see Patzig,
14.

Slav:

1890/1,

12.

put them at the same level, Augustus!

II 695; see Dagron, 1974, 271, note 1.

('261.21)

Slav: om CP,

Th,

LG,

Su

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of the place known as Kotyaion. For the people of Kotyaion had

Kotyaion is a city in the province of Phrygia
murdered four bishops.
Salutaris.
Kyros arrived at Kotyaion as its bishop before the feast
When the clergy and citizens of the city learned
of the Holy Nativity.
that the emperor had sent him to them to be killed as a Hellene, they
immediately set up a chant in the church on the day of the Holy
So he was compelled to go up and
Nativity, demanding that he preach.
preach.
After giving them the sign of peace, he addressed them thus,
"Brethren, let the birth of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ be honoured
by silence,
because it was through hearing alone that. he was conceived
in the holy Virgin by the Word.
To him be the glory for ever and
ever.
Amen".
He was acclaimed and descended, and remained there until
his death.
the
Chouzon,
17.
emperor appointed as prefect, Antd ochos
The
grandson of the elder Antiochos Chouzon. He supplied funds for the
horse-races in Antioch the Great and for the Olympic festival and the
Maioumas.
After him (363) Rufinus the emperor's relative was appointed
18.
prefect.
He was put to death for plotting a rebellion.
love with the
emperor Theodosius was passionately in
19.
The
cuhicularius Chrysaphios, known as Ztoummas, since he was extremely
and
handsome.
He gave him many gifts, whatever he asked for,
Chrysaphios had free access to the emperor. He had control over all
He was the patron and protector of
affairs and plundered everything.
the Greens.
20.
During his reign Nikomedeia, the metropolis of Bithynia,
suffered its fifth calamity from the wrath of God. It happened late in
the evening, and the city.was razed to the ground and flooded by the
sea.
Theodosius built many buildings there including the public baths,

to Phrygia as bishop of the place known as Kotyaion (362.5-6) cf Su II,

JN;
III: 'to Asia as bishop of the city of Smyrna' Slav, cf CP, Th, LG,
the latter texts refer consistently to Smyrna. See Cameron, 1982, 223.
Kotyaion is a city ...Phrygia Salutaris (362.7-8): cf 'Smyrna is a city
in the province of Lydia under the proconsul of Asia' Slav.
He was conceived in the holy Virgin by the Word (362.16): 'He was
conceived in the holy Virgin; for he was the Word' CP, Slav (perhaps
preferable to Th, despite Bury, 1923, 228, note 6, Gregory, 1975, 318,
1982, 243, note 96), cf 'the Word of God was conceived in
and Cameron,
the holy Virgin' Th.
17. Bo 362.18-21; Slav: Ist 13.6-8.
18. Bo 362.21--363.2; TF III 17: Slav: Ist 13.8-10.
De virt 13 (162.25-163.2),
19. Bo 363.3-8; TF III 17,
Su IV 78.12-13;
Slav: Ist 13.10-15.
Ztoummas (363.4; corr from Bo 368.5): 'Ztommas' Ba, cf 'Stoummas' TF,
'Tzoummas' De virt.
had free access to the emperor (363,6): 'had influence over the emperor
since he had free access' IF, De virt, cf Slav.
over all affairs (363.6): De virt adds 'asking the emperor for
petitions', cf Su; TF adds 'turning them in his own favour', cf Slav.
of the Greens (363.3-7): TF, De virt add 'everywhere';
see Cameron,
1976, 21, note 5.
20. Bo 363.9-14; TF III 17-18; Slav: Ist. 13.15-19.

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the colonnades,
the harbour, the public arenas, the martyrium of St
Anthimos, and all the city's churches.
During his reign the Isaurians made a raid and captured
21.
Seleukeia in Syria in the month of Peritios, during the consulship of
Theodosius and Rumoridus.
Coming through the mountains, they plundered
and destroyed the area and, seizing all they could, returned to Isauria.
During his reign Constantinople suffered from the wrath of
22.
The earthquake occurred on the night of 26th
God for the first time.
January,
from the colonnades known as Troaclic to the bronze (364)
tetrapylon,
The emperor went barefoot in a procession of prayer with
the senate, the people and the clergy for many days.
emperor of the Persians, advanced to
23.
In that year Blasses,
When the emperor of the Romans heard of this,
make war on the Romans.
he made the patrician Prokopios magister milltum
z- Orientem, and sent
him with an expeditionary force to do battle. When he was about to
the Persian emperor sent him a message,
"If your whole
engage battle,
force
has a man able to fight in single combat and to defeat a Persian
selected by me,
I
shall immediately make a peace-treaty for 50 years
with the customary provision of gifts".
When these terms had been
agreed, the emperor of the Persians chose a Persian named Ardazanes from
the
division known as the Immortals,
while the Romans selected
Areobindus, a Gothic comes foedera?toz-uR.
The two came out on horseback
fully armed.
Areobindus also carried a lasso, as is the Gothic custom.
The Persian charged at him first with his lance, but Areobindus, bending
down to his right,
lassoed him, brought him down off his horse and
killed him.
Thereupon the Persian emperor made a peace treaty.
Areobindus returned to Constantinople after his victory with the general
Prokopios,
and
as a marls of gratitude was appointed consul by the
emperor.
24.
The emperor created a province which he called Lykia, by

arenas (363.13):
TF
illegible here,
but Mai proposes
is
'praetoria'.
21. Bo 363.15-19; TF III 18, JN 84.40; Slav: Ist 13.19-23.
in Syria
(363.16):
Slav adds 'which
is
in (E)pieria'; JN adds 'and
likewise the city of Tiberias'.
Runoridus (363.17; corr): 'Romoridus' Ba.
the mountains (363.18): TF, Slav, JN add 'named Amanos'.
22. Bo 363.20-364.2; TF III 18, CP 589.6-12 (AD450), JN 84.39; Slav: Ist
13.23-27.
January (363.21):
'Audynaios-January'
IT, cf 'Audynaios' CP.
TF adds
'and buildings collapsed from'.
tetrapylon (364.1):
CP adds
'It lasted for some time,
so that nobody
dared to remain indoors, but all fled out of the city in processions of
prayer by day and night'; this passage from CP, like another at the end
of the paragraph
on the earthquake's liturgical
commemoration, is
probably not from Malalas; see Croke, 1981, 142-4.
23. Bo 364.3-21; TF III 19-20, LG 309.8-21 (108.9-23), GM 606.23-607,12,
Blasses (364.3): of 'Blasys' TF,'Blasis' GM; an error, see PLRE 11 1136.
50 years with
(364.9): '50 years; but if he should be defeated, I shall
TF, GM, LG; LG continues
receive 50
See
1890/1, 6.
24. Bo 364.22-365.11; TF III 20-21; Slav: Ist 13.27-14.9.
public

rentenarla'

'and'.

Patzig,

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(365) dividing it off from Lykaonia, giving the status of a metropolis

and a governor to the city of Lykia known as Myra, where there is one of
God's mysteries, a fire burning of its own accord.
Likewise the
emperor divided off Second Syria from First, giving the status of a
metropolis and a governor to the city of Apameia, and he created the
province of Second Cilicia, dividing it off from First, giving the
status of a metropolis and a governor to the city of Anazarbos.
He also
created another province
which he called Honorias after his uncle
Honorius, dividing it off from Bithynia,
and gave the status of
metropolis and a governor to Herakleia, a city in Pontus.
25.
During his reign the career of Nestorios reached its climax.
He later became bishop of Constantinople.
A riot broke out while
he was preaching, and Theodosius was compelled to summon
the Council
of 240 bishops at Ephesos against
Nestorios, and to depose him from his
see.
The Council was led by Cyril, bishop of
Alexandria the Great.
26.
At that time, the lady Eudoxia, wife of the
emperor Valentinian
but now widowed, daughter of emperor Theodosius
and Eudokia, was
living in Rome.
She was displeased with Maximus the rebel, who
had
murdered her husband and become
emperor, and so she urged the Vandal
Geiseric,
the king of Africa,
to move against Maximus, emperor of
Rome.
Geiseric (366) suddenly arrived
at the city of Rome with a
large force and captured Rome.
He killed the emperor Maximus and
slaughtered everybody,
plundering everything in the palace down
to the
bronze statues, and taking the surviving
senators prisoner together with
their wives. Amongst these
he also took prisoner the lady Eudoxia, who
had urged him to attack, and
her daughter Placidia,
wife of the
patrician Olybrius, who himself
was living in Constantinople, and the
virgin Eudokia.
He carried them all off to the
city of Carthage in
Africa.
Geiseric immediately gave
the virgin Eudokia the younger, lady
Eudoxia's daughter,
in marriage to his own
son Huneric. He kept the
ladies with him in honourable
captivity.
The emperor Theodosius learnt
that it was at the instigation
of his own daughter Eudoxia that
Rome had
been betrayed.
He was displeased with her
and let her stay in Africa
with Geiseric, without communicating
with him.
But he made a xrrocesst44

a fire burning (365.3): 'a

mountain producing fire'
TF, cf 'a mountain
visibly producing fire
and water' Slav.
Second Syria from the First
(365.4): TF, Slav add 'creating
25. Bo 365.12-18; TF III
a province'.
21; Slav: Ist 14.9-12.
the career of Nestorios reached
its climax (365.12),
Nestorios' Slav:
cf
'lived also
'the affair of Nestorios
became muddied' TF; see
Patzig, 1891/2, 29 and
1898, 119.
from his see (365,16)
Slav:
'and remove his
diptychs' TF.
name. from
the holy
26. Bo 365.19-366.19;
TF III 21-22, Ev II 7 (54.10-30),
(AD455): Slav: Ist 14,13-15,3.
CP 591.19-592.7
The lady Elidoxia...now widowed
(365.19-20): 'the
who had become the wife
widowed lady Eudoxia,
of the emperor Valentinian'
TF cf Slav.
Geiseric (365,23): written
as 'Ginzirichos'
TF, 'Zinzerichos' Ba.
the emperor of Rome
(365.24):
'the emperor,
cf Slav.
and against Rome' TF,
Huneric (366.10): written
'Honorichos'
Ba.

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Constantinople to Ephesos, a city in Asia. There he prayed to St

the Theologian, asking who would reign after him. He received the
answer in a vision and returned to Constantinople.
27.
A short time later he went out riding, and while riding he
from his horse and injured his spine, so that he was brought. back
fell
on a
litter.
Calling his sister the lady Pulcheria, (367) he spoke to
her about. Marcian, who was to reign after him. He summoned Marcian, the
ex-tribune,
and said to him in the presence of Aspar and all the
senators, "It. was revealed to me that you must. become emperor after me".
Two days later Theodosius died, at the age of 51.
28.
After the reign of Theodosius, the most sacred Marcian reigned.
He was crowned by the senate.
He was tall,
with straight grey
hair and enflamed feet.
It was the year 499 according to the era of AD450/1
Antioch,
of the
fourth indiction,
As soon as he began to reign, he
married the emperor Theodosius' sister, the lady Pulcheria, who was a
virgin of 54.
He reigned for six years and five months.
29.
During his reign the city known as Tripolis in Phoenice
Maritima suffered from the wrath of God, at night, in the month of
Gorpiaios.
He restored the summer bath known as the Ikaros, which had
collapsed.
There were two bronze statues in it, which are also a
wonderful sight, of Ikaros and Daidalos and of Bellerophon and the horse
other
Pegasos.
He also reconstructed the Phakidion and several
buildings in the city, as well as the-aqueduct.
30.
During his reign he summoned the Council of Chalkedon, the
from
John

Council of 630 bishops.

31.
(368) During his reign the ladies Eudoxia and Placicia were
Olybrius
returned from
captivity, and arrived in Constantinople.
received back his wife Placidia, and she gave birth to Juliana in
Byzantion.

32.

The

emperor beheaded

Chrysaphios Zt.oumrnas, the

beloved of the previous emperor, and confiscated his property,

Chrysaphios had injured many people, who now bore witness against
him, and he was the protector and patron of the Greens.
33.
Marcian married his daughter by his former wife to Anthimios,
and made him emperor in Rome. By her Anthimios had a daughter, whom he
the
For

gave in marriage to the ine,gcter ini l i tuns Ri cimer.

LG 309.25-32 (109.4-11),
CP 589.17-590.5 (AD450),
GM 604.9-10; Slav: Ist 15.3-9.
spine (366.21) CP: cf 'neck' Slav.
on a litter (366.22): CP adds 'from the river Lykos'.
cf JN 87.44; Slav: let
28. Bo 367.6-11; LM 437.4,
CP 590.8-12 (AD450),
27. Bo 366.19.367.5;

15,10--14, Soph 120.

29. Bo 367.12-18; PsD 766 (AD454/5); Slav: Ist 15.14-19.
Phakidion (367.17): cf 'Phakalion' Slav.
30. Bo 367.19-20; Slav: 1st 15.19-20.
31. Bo 368.1-4; cf CP 594.4-10 (AD464), Slav: Ist 15.20-23.
32. Bo 368.5-8; De virt 13 (163.2-5): Slav: Ist 15.23-26.
of the previous emperor (368.7) De virt: cf 'of the emperor Theodosius'

Slav.
33. Bo 368.9-12;

Marcian (368.9):

Slav: Ist 15.26-28.

'the emperor Marcian' Slav.

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34.
Marcian favoured the Blue faction in each city.
When a
riot had been started by members of the Green faction, he promulgated
his sacred decree and gave orders that Greens should not hold official
or administrative posts for three years.
He was angry at the riot
and his feet became enflamed.
In
this way he fell ill for five
months and died of gangrene, at the age of 65.
The lady Pulcheria had
died two years before him.
35.
(369) After the reign of Marcian,
the most sacred Leo the
Elder,
the Bessian,
was crowned by the senate and reigned for 16
years and 11 months.
During his reign Anthimios, who had been crowned by Marcian, reigned

in Rome.
36.
In the reign of Leo,
Antioch the Great suffered
AD459
calamity
from the wrath of God, at dawn, on Sunday 13th
AD457/8 in the year 506 according to the era of Antioch, during
the
AD459
of Patricius.
The emperor gave generously to the Antiochenes
city for building purposes.

34. Bo 368.13-19;

Ist 15.28-16.5.

CP 592.10-14

(AD456),

16-7 (AD457),

314

its fourth
September,
consulship
and their

87.44; Slav:

in each city
(368.13): 'not only in Constantinople but also in each
city' CP.
35. Bo 369.1-4; LM 437.5; Slav: Ist 16.6-9, Soph 121.
and reigned (369.2; corr): om Ba (perhaps a lacuna resulting from a
failure to combine correctly two frequently used phrases).
11 months (369.2): Slav adds 'he was handsome'.
36. Bo 369.5-9; Ev II 12 (63.9-64.15), PsD 770 (AD458/9), JN 88.1; Slav:
Ist 16.9-13.
Antioch the Great (369.5): 'Syrian Antioch' Slav.
September (369.6) PsD: 'Gorpiaios-September' Ev, Slav.
This earthquake is dealt with at greater length than this by Ev who refers to an even more detailed account in 'John the Rhetor', who is very
likely to have been Malalas. Ev has made significant changes in style,
and also in details of the date and the numbering of the earthquake in
the Antioch series (see Brooks, 1892, 299; Patzig, 1890/1, 17-18; Gleye,
1896,
428-30;
Downey,
1961,
476-8,
597-604): 'In the second year of
Leo's reign there was a dreadful trembling and shaking of the earth in
the city of Antiochos.
Various episodes had previously occurred involving the people of the city, who showed the complete madness of those
beside themselves with frenzy and a savagery beyond that of any wild
animal, and these served, as it were,
as a prelude to these great
disasters.
The earthquake reached a fierce climax in the year 506 of
the era of the city (AD457/8), about the fourth hour of the night, on
the 14th of the month Gorpiaios, which the Romans call September, when
Sunday had begun, in the eleventh indiction of the cycle, the sixth
earthquake whose occurrence is recorded, 347 years having passed since
the one which took place under Trajan; that occurred in the 159th year
of
the autonomy of the city (AD110/11), while that in the reign
of Leo
occurred in the 506th, as has been stated by those who have made a
careful
investigation.
This earthquake threw down nearly all the
buildings of the new city, which had become populous and had no vacant
or
completely disregarded areas, but had been built up with great
elegance by the generosity of emperors competing with one another in

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37.

203
During

the patrician,

his reign St Symeon the Stylite died, while Ardabourios

the son of Aspar,

was mcagister ni1.r'tum

per

Orientem.

Antiochenes chanted, demanding the body of the righteous man,

so Ardabourios sent a force of Goths and brought the body of St
Symeon to Antioch the Great.
A martyrium was built for him there, a
great shrine, and he was laid inside, in a tomb.
38.
In the reign of Leo,
Isokasios, the gue?estor and philosopher,
was accused of being a Hellene.
He was originally from Aigai in
Cilicia,
but he was a landowner in Antioch the Great.. (370) He held
for he was a very learned man.
many offices with honour,
He was
arrested
the emperor's command,
at.
living
as he then was in
Constantinople,
and he was dismissed from his office.
Then he
The
and

In the palace, the first and second buildings were

their benefactions.
brought down,
while the others remained standing, together with the
neighbouring bath, which provided washing facilities for the city
because of the disaster, though previously it had not been in use.
This
was essential,
because of the destruction which occurred to the other
baths.
The earthquake brought down the colonnades in front of the
palace and the nearby
tet..rapylon,
and the towers at the gate of the
hippodrome and some of the neighbouring colonnades.
In the old city,
the
colonnades and houses were left completely untouched by the
earthquake,
but the baths of Trajan, Severus and Hadrian were a little
shaken and damaged.
In the neighbourhood
known as Ostrabine some
buildings
collapsed;
the
earthquakes destroyed that called the
Nymphaion, together with the colonnades. Details of each of these cases
have been carefully recorded by John the Rhet.or.
He says that 1000
talents of gold were remitted to the city from its taxes, while the
citizens were excused from tax on buildings destroyed in the earthquake.
The emperor also took responsibility for work on public buildings'.
37. Bo 369.10-16;
Ev I 13 (22.29-23.11), CP 593.17-594.3 (AD464),
PsD
771 (AD459/60); Slav: Ist 16.13-19, Soph 121.
St Symeon the Stylite (369.10) CP: cf 'Symeon the great Stylite' Slav.

the son of Aspar, was nagister mill tron p

Orientaw (369.11-12): 'the
son of Aspar, the 1w,9gi4ter militum, was comes Orientis' CP, probably
wrongly;
see PLRE lI 136.
CP later (594.12-20,
AD465) adds the
following passage in which Patzig, 1890/1, 10 rightly finds strong signs
of Malalas' style, 'Under these consuls (ie Basiliscus and Herminericus)
Menas the prcaefectus vigilum was accused of depravity and questioned by
the senate in the hippodrome. At the emperor's command a child tripped
him and threw him flat on his face at the furthest point of the
hippodrome
bend,
and the people took hold of him and began to drag him
along.
When the officials saw what had happened they were terrified and
withdrew.
They dragged him as far as the house of Stoudios.
A Goth
picked up a stone and struck him on the ear and killed him.
His corpse
was dragged by the people as far as the sea'.
38. Bo 369.17-371,4;
CP 595.6-596.12 (A0467), Th 115.9-18 (AD467/8), LG
313.24-30
(115.5-12),
Su II
601.14-15,
JN 88.7-11;
Slav: Ist
16.19-17.10.
landowner (369.19): CP, Slav add 'and householder'.
living as he then was (370.2-3) Slav: cf. 'because of the riot which had
then occurred' CP.

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was
sent
from
Constantinople to Chalkedon
to Theophilos,
the
governor of Bithynia, who took
statements
from him. But the roineg
Iakobos, the
arehiatros also known as
Psychristos, petitioned the
emperor,
for the emperor loved Iakobos,
as did the whole senate and the
rest of the city, since he was
an excellent doctor and philosopher.
The senate had even set
up an image of him
in
the Zeuxippon.
Iakobos made a vigorous
request to the emperor that
Isokasios

be examined in Constantinople
should
by the senate and the praetorian
prefect,
not by a provincial
governor, since he held quaestorial
rank.
The emperor Leo was
persuaded,
and ordered Isokasios to be brought
back from Chalkedon. He was
led into the Zeuxippon and was
examined
by the praetorian prefect Pousaios.
Pousaios reproached him as he
came before the tribunal,
stripped and with his arms
tied behind
his back, "Do you see, Isokasios,
the state to which you
have
reduced
yourself?"
Isokasios replied, "I see,
but I am not shocked, for I am
a human being who has met
with human calamities.
But pass an honest
judgement in my case,
as you used to when
you sat in judgement
with me".
When the people of
watching (371) heard Isokasios, Byzantion who were. standing by and
they shouted many acclamations
favour of the emperor
in
Leo,
Then they freed Isokasios
and took him
from the Zeuxippon to
the Great Church. He gave
his name, was
instructed and baptised,
and then sent to his own
country.
39.
The most sacred
emperor Leo ordered
that Sundays should be
days of rest, promulgating a
that neither flute nor lyre sacred law on the subject, to the effect
nor any other musical
instrument should
be played on Sunday, but that
everyone should have a holiday.
all observed it,
And
40,
During his reign
he suspected that Aspar
the patrician was
anal

from Constantinople to
Chalkedon (370.4):
'to
Chalkedon
Constantinople' CP, Slav,
opposite
the cclq Iakobos (370.5-6):
CP,
Slav add
'the Cilician' (perhaps an
error; see PLRE II 582).
arthistrns (370.6): CP adds
'of the city',
an image (370.9) Slav: cf 'images'
by the praetorian prefect (370.16) CP.
Slav: CP adds 'and
tribunal (370.17): cf 'curtain'
consul'.
CP.
39. Bo 371.5-8;
CP 596.13-16 (AD467),
PsD 776 (AD465/6), ,3N
Ist 17,10.13.
88.5; Slav:

flute nor lyre

(371.7;

corr Dind) CP:

'with flutes(?),
Bury, 1897, 228); cf PsD
lyre' Ba (see
which adds 'nor tambourine',

everyone (371,8) Slav: cf all

things' CP.
Observed (371.8) CP: cf 'was annoyed' Slav.
40. Bo 371.9-372.2; Ev
11 16
(66.14-18),
CP 596.17-597.9
insid 31 (160.25-161.11);
(AD467), De
Slav: Ist 17.13-27.
During his reign (371.9): De
insid adds before this
point
patrician behaved in a very troublesome
'Aspar the
way to the emperor
because of his confidence in
Leo.
It was
the force of Goths
he had at his disposal
that he did this.
During this period Aspar
the patrician made
to marry his son Patricius,
requests
who was Caesar, to the
emperor's daughter;
but when the people, the
monks and the clergy
opposed it, the marriage
plans were put. in abeyance'.
This and two other passages
(see bodies

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planning
him

rebellion, being the leader of the senate, and so

he

put

inside the palace, together with his sans Ardabourios

and
who were also senators,
at a convantus and mutilated
their bodies.
A riot
began in Constantinople, for the victims had a
large band of Goths and cawites and other followers, arid a large number
of supporters. Then a Goth who was one of Aspar's
a
conies named Ostrys, entered the palace with some other Coths, shooting
with their bows1 A battle broke out between the axcithitores and Ostrys,
and there were many casualties.
He was surrounded and saw that he
was beaten,
and so he fled, taking Aspar's concubine, a beautiful
Gothic girl, who escaped with him on horseback to (372) Thrace, where he
plundered
The Byzantines chanted an acclamation about him,
to

death

Patricius

associates,

estates.

"The dead man has no friend

41. The emperor Leo

except Ostrys".
a persecution of the Exakionite
and Ardabourios, sending decrees everywhere

carried out

Arians because of Aspar

to prevent them possessing churches or gathering together.
42, During his reign there occurred in Constantinople a

fall of

supporters below) may not be from }falalas, in spite of their

inclusion among the Constantinian excerpts (see Patzig, 189011, 13); Ba,

and

agree in omitting them.

The additions seem, however, to
good source (see Stein,
1949, 86, note 3).
This is a
problem area for the definition of the 'original Nalalas' which we are
seeking to reconstruct.
inside the palace (371.11) CP: 'in the palace' Do; see Bury, 1897, 228,
Patricius (371.11) CP: cE 'the Caesar Patricius' Dc insid.
bodies
(371.13) CP:
'and throwing them from the palace into panniers'
CP and Slav
come
from a

insid.
supporters
De

(371.20): De maid adds 'whom he called foeden'iti, from which

are derived the annonac
(on the last,
see Momrnsen, 1872,
350, note 2).
ostrys, and there were (371.23) cf Slav: ci 'Ostrys' men, and the latter
suffered' De maid.
beautiful (371.25): CP, De maid, Slav add 'and rich'.
estates (372.1) CP: cf 'many estates' De maid.
41. Bo 371.35;
CP 597,1012 (AD467),
De maid 31 (161.1214), PaD 783
(AD471/2), cf JN 88.6; Slav: 1st 17.2718.2.
persecution (372.3) De maid: 'great. persecution' CP, Slav.
gathering together (372.5): De insid adds 'in a church'.
CP adds
at this point four entries of which two seemed to Patzig,
1890/1,
10
to
show clear indications of Malalas' style (cf para 37
above);
1)
CP 597.13-15 'In that year there appeared in the sky a very
large sign,
called by some a trumpet,
by others a meteor' (cf Th
115.12,
which speaks of 'a cloud having the shape, as it were of a
trumpet, appearing Eor 40 days in the evening'; this parallel Tb passage
increases the likelihood that Malalas was the source); ii) CP 598.38
'Dengizich
354), the son of Attila, was
('Dinzirichos' UP;
ci PLRE
killed by Anagastes, the niaqister ffluJitu,w
and his h cad was
brought into Constantinople while chariot races were being held,
It was

II
per

carried in triumph down the Mese and taken to the Xylokerkos and stuck
The whole city went out to gaze at it for several days'.
on a pole.
42.

Bo 372.6lU; CP 59841014 (AD469), Th 119.2933 (AD473/4), Ecci Mist

112.710, PaD 784 (AD472/3), 3W 88.24; Slav: 1st 18.25.

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ash instead of rain, and the ash settled on the tiles to a depth of four
fingers.
Everyone was terrified and went on processions of prayer
saying, "It was fire, but through God's mercy it was quenched and became
ash".
43.
There
occurred
in
his reign a great. conflagration in
The flames
Constantinople, such as had never been experienced before.
spread from sea to sea, and the emperor Leo, fearing for the palace,
He spent six months there
left the city and crossed over to St Mamas.
on a proce.5Lsus, He built. a harbour there and a colonnade, which he
called the New Colonnade, as it is called to the present day.
44.
Leo in the time of his reign began a campaign against Geiseric
He
the Vandal, king of the Africans, fighting a tremendous sea-battle.
sent a large fleet under the command of the patrician Basiliscus, the
brother of the Augusta Verina, Leo's wife. Basiliscus accepted bribes
from Geiseric, king of the Vandals, and betrayed the ships, (373) with
the exarchs, the comites and the whole army. He with his ship - a fast
All the rest of the
vessel - was the first and only one to escape.
ships and the army perished, sunk at sea. Among them was Damonicus the
ex-dux, who had become the ma_gister nrilitum of the expedition, and was
He fought bravely
originally from the great city of the Antiochenes.
against the Africans, but was isolated and surrounded, captured and
flung,
fully armed, into the depths. Basiliscus returned, defeated, to
Constantinople.
45.
During the reign of Leo, Anthimios, the emperor in Rome, was
murdered. He had aroused the enmity of his son-in-law, Ricimer the
e_gister

militum, and was afraid of him, as he was a Goth.

The emperor

Anthimios then went and sought refuge in St Peter's, saying that he was
ill.
When the emperor Leo heard of this, he sent to Rome the Roman

Everyone was terrified... became ash (372.8-10) CP, of Th: of 'The whole
city and the whole area was in great fear; panic and terror took
hold of all who persisted in prayer, sorrow and tears by night and day;
everyone said,
"This dust which rained from heaven was fire which God
was to send in his wrath upon earth; but the mercy of the living God
spared the world and extinguished it and turned it into dust so that it
should not burn and consume the whole human race. And now let us turn
from our wrong-doings, lest we perish utterly in our sins"' PsD.
became ash (372.10): CP adds 'on 11th Dios-November', cf '6th November'
Eccl Hist.
43, Bo 372.11-16;
CP 598.15-19 (AD469),
Eccl Hist
112.4-7,
PsD 785
(AD473/4); Slav: Ist 18.5-10.
occurred (372.11) OF, Slav: of Eccl Hist which adds 'on 1st September'.
sea to sea (372.12-13) CP, Slav: Eccl Hist adds (probably not from
Malalas) 'that is, from Neorion to the harbour of Julian'.
harbour. (372.15) CP: of 'almshouse' Slav.
44. Bo 372.17-373.8; Slav: Ist 18.11-21.
Geiseric (372.17): written as 'Sinzirichos' Ba (of paras 26,
king of the Vandals (372.22): of 'king of Africa' Slav.
45. Bo
373.9-375.11; De insid 32, 33
(162.15-162.21);

45).

Slav:

Ist

18.21-19.27,

Ricimer

(373.11,

17 etc): written as 'Recimer'

Ba,

De insid;

II 942.

heard of this (373.13):

CP, Slav add

'in Constantinople'.

see PLRE

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patrician
Olybrius, after his consulship, which he had held together
with Rusticius.
He was told to reconcile the emperor Anthimios and his
son-in-law Ricimer, as they were both Roman senators. Leo's orders
were,
"After Anthimios and Ricimer have become friends, leave Rome
and go to Geiseric the Vandal, the king of Africa, since you have free
access to him because he has your wife Placidia's sister as his son's
bride, (374) and persuade him to become my ally".
But the emperor Leo suspected that Olybrius supported Geiseric
and was on his side, and so Leo was an his guard against him in case, if
Geiseric
were
to
declare
war on Leo, Olybrius should betray
Constantinople to Geiseric (being a relative) and Olybrius should become
emperor in Constantinople.
After Olybrius had travelled to Rome,
leaving his wife Placidia and daughter in Constantinople, the most
sacred emperor Leo wrote through a ingistrranus to Anthimios, emperor of
Rome,
as follows, "I put. to death Aspar and Ardabourios, so that nobody
should oppose my orders.
You too should
execute your son--in-law
Ricimer, to prevent him giving you orders.
See, I have also sent. to you
the patrician Olybrius.
Execute him too, and reign as one who gives
orders rather than as one who takes them".
Now Ricimer had stationed a
guard of Goths at every gate of Rome, and at the harbour, and whoever
was entering Rome was asked what he was carrying.
When the
qistrzlanus
Modestus,
who had been sent from Leo to the emperor Anthimios, arrived
and was searched,
the imperial rescripts from Leo to Anthimios were
removed and taken to Ricimer.
He showed them to Olybrius.
Then Ricimer
his sister's son, (375) and summoned him from
sent to Goundoubarios,
Gaul where he was
w.z7itum
He arrived and killed the emperor
Anthimios,
while he was in the holy church of the apostle Peter. Then
Goundoubarios immediately returned to Gaul. Ricimer crowned Olybrius
emperor with the consent of the Roman senate.
Olybrius reigned in Rome
for a few months,
but then he fell ill and died.
Then Ricimer chose
another emperor from the senate of Rome, Majorian, but. they killed
To
him as well,
since he supported Geiseric, king of the Africans.
replace him, Ricimer chose yet another emperor in Rome from the ranks of
the senate, named Nepos.
Then Ricimer died.
46.
The emperor Leo chose two sons-in-law for his daughters:
the elder, the patrician Marcianus, the son of Anthimios,
for Leontia,
He made
emperor of Rome, and for Ariadne, Zeno Kodisseos the Isaurian.

them

both

,nagistrl

1w/I tuJ7

and

patricians.

The most

Anthimios (373.18): 'the emperor Anthemios' De insid, Slav.

your wife Placidia's sister (373.20-21; corr Chil) De insid: 'your
sister Placidia's wife' Ba.
'Gizirichos' De
Geiseric (373.19 etc): written as 'Zinzirichos' Ba,
insid.

and at the harbour (374.15-16):

'and
at the portus,
that is, the
harbour' De insid.
Goundoubarios (374.21, 375.4): 'Goundabarios' Bo (see Bury, 1897, 228);
see PLRE II 524 (Gundobadus).
Majorian (375.8): written 'Majorinus' Ba.
they killed him as well (375.8-9): cf 'Ricimer killed him' De insid.
46. Bo 375.12-376.5; PsD 786 (AD474/5) Slav: Ist 19.27-20.5.
for his daughters (375.12): cf 'for his two daughters' Slav.

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AD474

AD474

AD474
AD474

illustrious Ariadne had

a son as her first child, and called him
Leo.
The most distinguished Leontia
had only daughters.
The emperor Leo crowned
Leo the Younger, his grandson,
son of Zeno,
in Constantinople, making
him (376) co-emperor with
himself.
The Caesar'
Leo the Younger became consul
in
the month of January of the 12th
indiction in the year 522 according
to the era of Ant.ioch. On the
following 3rd February
the emperor Leo the Elder was
stricken with
illness and died of dysentery
at the age of 73.
47.
After the reign of
for one year and 23 days. Leo the Elder, Leo the Younger reigned
He was a small boy. He was under
influence of his
the
mother,
the most illustrious Ariadne.
As Zeno the
X91ster
the patrician, his father,
made obeisance to him as
emperor,
he placed an imperial
crown on his father's head on
Peritios of the 12th indiction,
9th
and they reigned jointly.
The emperor Zeno Kodisseos
the Isaurian reigned with his son
a short time.
Leo for
The most sacred Leo
the Younger became consul in
522 according to the
the year
era of Antioch of the 12th
indiction.
But in the
11th month of his consulship
the most sacred Leo the Younger
and died, in the month
fell ill
of November of the 13th indiction,
523 according to the
in the year
era of Antioch,
at the age of seven, as was
written by the most learned
Nestorianos, whose chronicle
ended with Leo
the Younger.

most illustrious... most distinguished

(375.16, 18): our
is
a guess since a distinction
translation here
is being

made which is not

explicable.
obviously
47. Bo 376.6-20; LM 437,6,
CP 599,8-16 (AD474),
PsD 788, 789 (AD477/8);
Slav: Ist 20.5-14, Soph 121,
23 days (376.7) Slav: cf '22
days' LM,
a small boy (376.7): 'small
in stature and of good
appearance' Slav,
November (376.17): 'Dios-November'
CP,
seven (376.19): cf '17 and a half'
Slav,

'17' CP.

BOOK 15 The Time of the Reign of Zeno

to the Time of the Reign of
Anastasios
1.
(377) After the reign of Leo the Younger, the most sacred
In the eighth
month of his reign, he
Zeno reigned for 15 years.
appointed Peter, the porannonarios of St Euphemia's in Chalkedon, as
bishop and patriarch of Antioch the Great and sent him to Antioch.
2.
After two years and ten months of his reign, he quarrelled
with his mother-in-law, Verina, over a request she had made of him but
which he had refused her, and so his mother-in-law, the lady Verina,
Terrified that he would be assassinated by
began to plot against him.
someone in the palace, since his mother-in-law was living in the palace
with him, he made a processus to Chalkedon and escaped from there using
post-horses,
and got away to Isauria even though he was emperor.
(378)
The empress Ariadne, who had also secretly fled from her mother, caught
up with him in Isauria and remained with her husband.
3.
After the emperor Zeno and Ariadne had fled, the lady Verina
immediately chose an emperor by crowning her brother Basiliscus.
Basiliscus,
the brother of Zeno's mother-in-law Verina, reigned for two
years.
When Verina had made Basiliscus emperor, she also named him as
together with Armatus who had been appointed by Basiliscus as
consul,

senior ,'nagister niii

tum prae..Rentaiis.

These two held

the consulship.

As soon as Basiliscus began to reign, he crowned his son, named

These two reigned jointly.
Marcus, as emperor.
4.
During the reign of Basiliscus and his son Marcus, a city in
First Syria named Gabala suffered from the wrath of God in the month of
Gorpiaios at dawn.
The emperor Basiliscus bestowed 50 Iitraai of gold on
the city for its reconstruction.

Bo 377.1-5; LM 437.7; Slav: Ist 3.1-5.

15 years (377.2): '15 years and two months' LM (c 380.19 below), cf
'two years and ten months' Slav (but see 377.5 below).
Slav adds 'He
was of average stature' (perhaps, like the similar phrase used below of
1.

Basiliscus,
the Slavic translator's reaction to the lack of a personal
description in the text before him).
eighth month (377.2): cf Slav which adds 'of the second year'.
2.
Bo 377.5-378.2; CP 600.4-11 (AD477); Slav: Ist 3.5-12.
quarrelled ...refused her (377.6-8) of CP:
cf 'he was troubled because
made of him, and which he had
of ai request which his daughter had

granted' Slav.

mother-in-law (377.10): Slav, CP add 'Verina'.

3.
Bo 378.3-11;
CP 600.12-18 (AD477),
PsD 790

(AD478/9);

Slav:

Ist

3.12-17.

two years (378.6): of CP which adds 'which are counted in the total of
Zeno's previous and subsequent years' (anticipating 380.19-20 below).
Slav adds 'he was of average stature' (but see on 377.2 above).
4.
Bo 378.12-16; PsD 791 (AD479/80), JN 88.35; Slav: Ist 3.17-4.1.

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illustrious Ariadne had a son as her first child, and called him Leo.
The most distinguished Leontia had only daughters.
The emperor Leo crowned Leo the Younger, his grandson, son of Zeno,
in Constantinople, making him (376) co-emperor with himself.
The Caesar
Leo the Younger became consul in the month of January of the 12th
indiction,
in the year 522 according to the era of Antioch.
On the
following 3rd February the emperor Leo the Elder was stricken with
illness and died of dysentery at the age of 73.
47.
After the reign of Leo the Elder, Leo the Younger reigned
for one year and 23 days,
He was a small boy. He was under the
influence of his mother, the most illustrious Ariadne.
As Zeno the

mzagister mi,litcun,
emperor,

AD474

AD474
AD474

he

the patrician, his father,

made

obeisance to him as

placed an imperial crown on his father's head on 9th

Peritios of the 12th indiction, and they reigned jointly.
The emperor Zeno Kodisseos the Isaurian reigned with his son Leo for
a short time.
The most sacred Leo the Younger became consul in the year
522 according to the era of Antioch of the 12th
indiction. But in the
11th month of his consulship the
most sacred Leo the Younger fell ill
and died,
in the month of November of the 13th indiction, in the year
523 according
to the era of Antioch,
at the age of seven, as was
written by the most learned Nestorianos, whose chronicle ended
with Leo
the Younger.

most illustrious...most distinguished (375.16, 18):

our translation here
is a guess since a distinction is being
made which is not

obviously
explicable,
47. Bo 376.6-20; LM 437.61 CP 599.8-16 (AD474),
PsD 788, 789 (AD477/8);
Slav: Ist 20.5-14e Soph 121.
23 days (376.7) Slav: cf '22 days' LM.
a small boy (376.7): 'small in stature and of good appearance'
Slav.
November (376.17): 'Dios-November' CP.
seven (376.19): cf '17 and a half' Slav, '17' CP.

BOOK 15 The Time of the Reign of Zeno

to the Time of the Reign of
Anastasios
(377) After the reign of Leo the Younger, the most sacred
reigned for 15 years.
In
the eighth month of his reign, he
appointed Peter, the 6ra1#onarr'oq of St Euphemia's in Chalkedon, as
bishop and patriarch of Antioch the Great and sent him to Antioch.
After two years and ten months of his reign, he quarrelled
2.
with his mother-in-law, Verina, over a request she had made of him but
which he had refused her, and so his mother-in-law, the lady Verina,
began to plot against him. Terrified that he would be assassinated by
someone in the palace, since his mother-in-law was living in the palace
with him, he made a prvicessus to Chalkedon and escaped from there using
post-horses, and got away to Isauria even though he was emperor.
(378)
The empress Ariadne, who had also secretly fled from her mother, caught
up with him in Isauria and remained with her husband.
3.
After the emperor Zeno and Ariadne had fled, the lady Verina
immediately chose an emperor by crowning her brother Basiliscus.
Basiliscus,
the brother of Zeno's mother-in-law Verina, reigned for two
years.
When Verina had made Basiliscus emperor, she also named him as
consul, together with Armatus who had been appointed by Basiliscus as
senior / .9gister /1)111 tU/!Y , esentaJis, These two held the consulship.
As soon as Basiliscus began to reign, he crowned his son, named
Marcus, as emperor.
These two reigned jointly.
4.
During the reign of Basiliscus and his son Marcus, a city in
First
Syria named Gabala suffered from the wrath of God in the month of
Gorpiaios at dawn. The emperor Basiliscus bestowed 50 litrai of gold on
the city for its reconstruction.
1.

Zeno

Bo 377.1-5; LM 437.7; Slav: Ist 3.1-5.

15 years
(377.2): '15 years and two months' LM (cf 380.19 below), cf
'two years
and ten months' Slav (but see 377.5 below).
Slav adds 'He
was of average stature' (perhaps, like the similar phrase used below of
Basiliscus,
the Slavic translator's reaction to the lack of a personal
description in the text before him).
eighth month (377.2): cf Slav which adds 'of the second year'.
2.
Bo 377.5-378.2; CP 600.4-11 (AD477); Slav: Ist 3.5-12.
quarrelled... refused her (377.6-8) of CP:
cf 'he was troubled because
of a' request which his daughter had made of him, and which he had
granted' Slav.
mother-in-law (377.10): Slav, CP add 'Verina'.
Ist
3.
Bo 378.3-11;
CP 600.12-18 (AD477),
PsD 790
(AD478/9);
Slav:
3.12-17.
two years (378.6): of CP which adds 'which are counted in the total of
Zeno's previous and subsequent years' (anticipating 380.19-20 below).
Slav adds 'he was of average stature' (but see on 377.2 above).
4.
Bo 378.12-16; PsD 791 (AD479/80), JN 88.35; Slav: Ist 3.17-4.1.
1.

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5.
The emperor Zeno returned against Constantinople with
a large
force from Isauria, sending (379) the inagl:ster nui]i tin Trocundes
with a
garrison of Isaurians to Antioch the Great. On hearing of this the
patriarch Peter, though he had been appointed to the see by Zeno,
acted
on behalf of Basiliscus' party. When Basiliscus learned
of the emperor

Zeno's return, he sent Armatus,

AD476/7

the inaga',ster militcun,nraeaentalis,

together with all the forces of the army which he had in

Thrace, in
Constantinople and at the palace, making him swear
by his holy baptism
as a recent convert not to betray him.
So Armatus took the main body of
the army and crossed over. The emperor Zeno learnt of this in
advance
and sent a message to Armatus, making him many promises including
the
appointment as hgister m1litunn for life and
making his son Caesar.
So Armatus was won over by the emperor
Zeno, betrayed Basiliscus and
joined the emperor Zeno's party.
Armatus no longer opposed Zeno as he
approached, but decided to march on Isauria by
another route.
Zeno set out, crossed from the place known as
Pylai, and entered
the palace with his infantry in the 14th indiction.
He was received
by the troops and the senate.
The emperor Zeno relied on the Green
faction because he was supported by them; he too
used to favour the
Green faction.
Basiliscus heard suddenly that the emperor
Zeno had reached the
palace and entered it and that everyone had
received him, (380)
including his mother-in-law, the lady Verina.
So he took his wife and
children and fled to the great baptistery of
the Great Church of
Constantinople, since he had been betrayed
by Armat.us.
This was during
the consulship of Theoderic.
The most sacred emperor Zeno put
up the flag for the chariot-races
and immediately came to preside.
He was received by the whole city;
after he had been received and while he
was watching, he sent to the
Great Church and took the imperial insignia from
Basiliscus, his son and
his wife.
He got Basiliscus, his wife and
children out with an
assurance that they would not be beheaded
nor put to death and he sent
him and his family to the fortress of Limnai
in Cappadocia.
They were
thrown into a tower in the fortress,
the door was sealed, and a large
force of Isaurian soldiers guarded the tower
and the fortress of Limnai
until Basiliscus his wife and
children starved to death and gave up
their souls. They
were entombed in that tower in Cappadocia.

5.
Bo 378.17-380.17; Ev III 8 (108,6-10), CP 600.20-602.11
(AD478), PsD
792 (AD480/1), cf Th 124.15-18,
124.30-125.1 (AD476/7),
GM 618.5-9, JN
88.36-42; Slav: Ist 4.1-5,2.
Armatus (379.5): the form of 'Armatus'
varies in Ba and the other
witnesses
reviewed
here,
eg
'Harmatus',
'Harmatius'
'Armatus',
'Armatius'; see PLRE II 148.

wc9gister mil!trwv for

life'

CP.

life

'

(379.11)

' Iwgister 1#11.i tun,

prae_aentalls for

to march on Isauria...crossed (379.14-16): 'to set

out by another route.
But the emperor Zeno set out with his army along
the route from Isauria,
crossed' CP, cf Slav; see Patzig, 1890/1,
12.

the palace (379.17): 'Constantinople and the palace'

CP, Slav.
Limnai in Cappadocia (380.12) Slav, CP,
cf JN:
cf
'Koukousos
Cappadocia' Ev, Th; see Rochow, 1983, 462.
in Cappadocia (380.17): 'of Limnai' CP.

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After
his return Zeno reigned for 12 more years, that is he
6.
reigned in all for 15 years and two months.
Some people also include
Basiliscus'
two years as part of his reign.
The emperor Zeno on his
return immediately removed Peter, bishop and patriarch of Antioch the
Great, because of his support for Basiliscus, and exiled him to Euchaita
He appointed Stephanos as bishop of Antioch in his place.
in Pontus.
(381) The
emperor Zeno distributed gifts to all his tax-payers to mark
his return.
In his reign bishop Stephanos of Antioch was murdered with sharpened
reeds by his own clergy, for being a Nestorian.
This occurred when he
had gone out of the city, to the festival of the Forty Martyrs at a
place known as that of Barlaam. His corpse was thrown into the river
Orontes.
When the emperor Zeno learned about this, he appointed another
bishop and patriarch, named Kalandion, for the city of the Antiochenes
in Syria.
But he too was exiled for being a Nestorian, whereupon bishop
Peter was recalled from exile by the emperor Zeno, at the request of the
people and clergy of Antioch.
After returning from Euchaita, Peter
again became patriarch and died on his throne in Antioch.
7.
During the reign of Zeno,
the son of Armatus the in9gaster
,w l.itum preesental.rs, named Basiliscus, was appointed by Zeno in
accordance with the agreement and became Caesar. Basiliscus sat at
Zeno's side while he presided over the races, and both emperor and
Caesar awarded honours to the charioteers.
But Zeno reflected that the

Caesar's father Armatus, the

9glster

had broken

the oath sworn to the emperor Basiliscus by his holy baptism not to
betray him; he had then been won over by Zeno (382) himself and had
betrayed Basiliscus and let him be killed,
"How", he asked, "will he
stay faithful to me as emperor? For in a little while, if his son the
Caesar grows to manhood,
it is certain that he will wrong me.
But I
have done him no wrong but even immediately made him a patrician and
niagister miJJtum and made his son Caesar".
So he ordered that Armatus
be killed as a perjurer; and he was killed near the Dekimon as he was
going up to preside over the races.
After Armatus' execution, Zeno
consecrated his son the Caesar Basiliscus,
although only a boy, as

6.

Bo

380.18-381.13;

Ev III 10

(109.8-12),

PsD

794

(AD482/3),

JN

88.43-4; Slav:
gifts (381.1):

Ist 5.3-17.
'many gifts' Slav.
that of Barlaam (381.5; corr, see Downey, 1961, 489 and note 68) cf JN:
'Barlae' Ba, cf Slav.
on his throne (381.13): cf Slav which adds the difficult phrase 'wearing

gal igia and ordaria ',

Bo 381.14-382.9; Ev III 24 (122.1-8),
CP 602.20-603.18 (AD484), Th
125.2-13 (AD476/7), JN 88.45-6; Slav: Ist 5.18-6.5.
"How", he asked, "will he stay faithful
(382.1; corr Dind) CP: 'since,
he said, he had not stayed faithful' Ba, corrected to the reading of CP
by a second hand.
Armatus (382,5) Slav, Th, cf JN: CP adds 'the ex-consul,
the )n9gister
7.

nuilitu/n ;' see Patzig, 1890/1, 11.

'in the Kochlias in the palace',

near the Dekimon (382.6): CP adds
cf
Slav and Th, who use this phrase instead of 'near the Dekimon'; see

Rochow,

1983, 462.

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bishop in Kyzikos, the metropolis of Hellespont.

8.
During his reign the Samaritans rebelled in Palestine and
a Samaritan named Justasas.
He entered
crowned a bandit chief,
Caesarea, presided over the chariot-races and killed many Christians.
Poyphyrios was then governor of First Palestine. Justasas also burned
the church of St Prokopios while Timothy was bishop of Caesarea.
Asklepiades, the rlurof Palestine, came with his force and also Rheges,
the 1estadiolrtes who was a dignitary of Caesarea, together with the
Arcadiaci. They set out against Justasas, joined battle and captured
him.
He was beheaded and his head, along with his crown, was sent to
the emperor Zeno. The emperor Zeno immediately turned their synagogue,
into a chapel dedicated to Mary, the
(383) which was on Mount Garizim,
He also reconstructed the church of St Prokopios,
Holy Mother of God.
issued an edict that no Samaritan could enter public service and
Order was restored.
confiscated the property of the wealthy among them.
During his reign the ex-consul Theoderic, the son of Valamer,
9.
who had been brought up and educated in Constantinople, was mrgister

mr'.l.itcyn

,rn,esentall;s

But

after seeing

what had happened

to

Armatus,

he became afraid of the emperor Zeno.

So he took his army and
left
Constantinople,
making for Selymbria because of the numeri
Thrace.
stationed there.
He then rebelled and seized all
He marched
which
against the emperor Zeno as far as Sykai,
is
opposite
Constantinople,
across the strait, and cut the city's aqueduct.
After
remaining for a number of days without being able to harm the emperor,
he left there and set off for Rome which was then controlled by
Odovacer,
king of the barbarians. He made war on Odovacer with the
treacherous support of the Roman senate and captured both Rome and king
control of Rome after killing
Odovacer without any loss.
He took

bishop in Kyzikos (382.8): 'was ordained a lector.

For Ariadne saved
him since he was her nephew. Later he served very well as bishop of
Kyzikos'
Th,
possibly derived from the original Malalas; see Croke,
1983,

85.

CP,
Slav add,
JN,
Hellespont (382.9);
cf
'Since he had worn the
imperial purple as Caesar.
Zeno confiscated all Armatus' property'; see

Patzig, 1890/1, 12.

8.
Bo 382.10-383.4; CP 603.19-604.13 (AD484), De insid 34 (162.22-36);
Slav: Ist 6.5-18.
his reign (382.10): 'Zeno's reign' De insid, Slav.
the Samaritans rebelled in Palestine (382.10): 'those of the Samaritan
race in Palestine found a pretext to revolt' CP, De insid, Slav.
came (382.15): 'came immediately' CP, De insid.
Garizim (383.1):
written as
'Gargizi'
Ba,
'Gargarizi' De insid,
'Gargarides' CP, 'Gargad' Slav.
Order was restored (383.4): There was fear and peace' CP, De insid,
Slav.
9.
Bo 383,5-384.4; Ev III 27 (124.9-18), De insid 34 (163.1-21), cf Th
130.32-131.5, 9-14 (AD584/5), JN 88.47-51; Slav: Ist 6.18-7.5.
Valamer (383.6) Th: written as 'Valemer' Ba; see PLRE II, 1135-6.
because of the nzaerl stationed there (383.9-10) De insid: cf 'and he
seized those stationed there' Slav, cf JN.
He then rebelled (383.10):'On leaving he immediately rebelled' De insid.
Odovacer (383.15, 17): written as 'Odoacer' Ba,

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Odovacer, in whose place he ruled Rome as king for 47 years. After this
he was reconciled with the emperor Zeno and did everything in accordance
with his wishes,
recognizing the consuls of Constantinople and (384)
praetorian prefects;
he also received the codicils of his chief

magistrates from the emperor Zeno, notifying Zeno whom he wanted to be

appointed.
He even received the rods of the consuls in the presence
of the emperor himself.
10.
As soon as Theoderic became king, a Roman widow of senatorial
rank, named Juvenalia, approached him with the following information,
"For 30 years I have been involved in a law-case with the patrician
Firmus.
Please free me from it". So he brought in the lawyers
of both parties and said to them,
"If you do not give them the
judgement and discharge them by tomorrow or the day after it, I shall
behead you".
So they sat down for two days, pronounced a legal
decision, gave them a judgement and discharged them.
Juvenalia lit some
candles and approached Theoderic to thank him for freeing her from her
case.
He was angry with the lawyers, summoned them and said, "Why did
you not do in 30 years what you have done in two days so as to discharge
them?"
So he sent and had the lawyers of both parties beheaded, and
there was much fear. He published a decree about each law.
He left Rome and lived in Ravenna, a coastal city, until his death.
After his death (385) his grandson Athalaric became king of Rome. He
was Arian in belief, that is to say, an Exakionite.
11.
During the reign of Zeno Constantinople suffered its second
calamity from the wrath of God, an earthquake over a small area as far
as the Forum Tauri.
the metropolis of Bithynia, also
Nikomedeia,
suffered then, its sixth calamity, and likewise Helenoupolis in the same
province. Zeno provided them with much assistance.

he wanted (384.3): 'he really wanted' De insid.

in the presence of the emperor (384.4): cf 'from the emperor'
Jones,
10.

1962,

Slav;

cf

127.

Bo 384.5-385.2;

CP 604.15-605.13 (AD485),

JN

88.52-56;

Slav:

Ist

7.5-21.

As soon as (384.5; corr Dind): 'Only'

Ba.

30 years (384.7): 'three years' CP, Slav, JN; see PLRE II 472.
Firmus (384.8) JN: cf 'Formus' CP, Slav.

Athalaric (385.1; corr) CP, Slav, JN: 'Alaric' Ba.

11. Bo 385.3-8;
Ev III 28 (124.19-125.5),
CP 605.16-18 (AD487), Th
125.29-126.5 (AD477/8),
cf Eccl Hist 112.11-18, Ke 618.16-22; Slav: Ist
7.21-25.
earthquake (385.3):
CP adds 'on 26th Gorpiaios-September', cf Slav,
Th; Th has 'on 25th September of the 1st indiction'.
Forum Tauri
(385,5):
Th adds
'Many churches,
houses and porticoes
collapsed to the ground and countless numbers of people were buried.
globe of the statue in the Forum also fell and so did the statue of
The
Theodosios the Great, the one on the column of the Forum Tauri, and also
the inner walls for a considerable distance.
The earthquake lasted a
long time, so that the city began to sink', cf Eccl Hist.
them with much assistance
(385.7):
'much
assistance for their
reconstruction' Slav. Slav adds 'During the reign of Zeno, Mammianos, a
patrician of Antioch in Syria, Phoenician by descent, built much in
Syrian Daphne'.
This sentence
in Slav
is the remnant of a longer

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He was an Isaurian
Illus rebelled.
his reign the patrician
him back with
had
escorted
Zeno and
and friend of the emperor
he had fled there
after
Isauria,
from
a large force on his second return
Illus had returned to Constantinople
from Constantinople while emperor.
enjoyed each other's confidence,
they
Since
with the emperor Zeno,
from
Zeno's mother-in-law
to
expel
Zeno
Illus
had schemed with
the
as
on
again,
him
not plot against
Constantinople so that she would
brother
Zeno's
to
fetch
to
Isauria
Illus
Zeno sent
first occasion.
Isauria, from where he wrote
So Illus went out and stayed in
Longinus.
said,
through the lady Verina,
he
as
to Zeno to obtain assurance,
he
was
afraid of the emperor
as
mother-in-law (386) of the emperor Zeno,
Verina, just as Illus and
the
lady
Zeno
persuaded
Her son-in-law
Zeno.
give Illus a guarantee of immunity
Zeno had agreed, to go out and
to bring him back with his brother
and
of
Zeno,
of
his
fear
because
by
Isauria, where she was received
out
to
So Verina went
Longinus.
and
in
Isauria
fortress
Illus who imprisoned her in a well-garrisoned
soldiers. Then taking the emperor's
ordered her to be guarded by his
There Illus became
to
Constantinople.
brother Longinus, he returned
so that he was administering
patrician
inagister
and
consul,
senator,
Longinus became
Likewise the emperor"s brother
the whole state.
12,

AD486

In

ipagister ,-,,ilit!m vnaesentalis and consul,

For

the four factions of

ascribes it to John
passage reflected in the following page of Ev, who
Patzig,
1890/1, 17, for
Malalas
(see
who
is
assumed
to
be
the Rhet.or. 1896, 430
C1eye,
in ignorance of Slav, this passage is a problem;
whom,
1937b, 203, note 2), 'John the Rhetor relates that, during
and Downey,
a
Mammianos, who was formerly an artisan, reached
the reign of Zeno,
He built what is
prominent position,
becoming a member of the senate.
known as the antiforurn in the suburb of Daphne, on ground previously
planted with vines and suitable for cultivation, situated opposite the
public bath, where the bronze statue was set up to Mammianos as
Antioch,
he constructed two imperial
benefactor of the city.
In
colonnades, very beautiful in their architecture, and in the brilliant
and translucent marble of their decoration, and as a kind of boundary
between the two imperial colonnades he erected a tetrepylon, with very
Ev continues with a
refined adornments of columns and bronze statues'.
passage on an attempt to identify Mammianos' work after subsequent
disasters in Antioch,
but changed syntax implies
that this is not
derived from Malalas.
12. Do 385.9-386.24;
Ev III 27 (123.27-30),
Th 127.13-17 (AD479/80),
De insid 35 (163.22-164.10), JN 88.65-67; Slav: Ist 7.25-8.19.
In his reign (385.9): 'In the reign of Zeno' De insid, Slav.
friend (385.10)
Slav:
'uncle'
De insid
(probably wrongly;
see PLRE
II

589).

through the lady Verina (385.21) De insid: cf

'that the
lady Verina
should come to him' Slav,
guarantee of immunity (386.4) Slav: De insid adds 'by his sacred
command'; see Mommsen,
1872,
370 for a detailed collation of the De
maid variants for this passage,
So Verina went out (386.6): 'So Verina, Zeno's mother-in-law, went out'
De insid; see Mommsen, 1872, 370,

sister
silitaw praeisentalis (386.13):
proosentalis immediately' De insid, Slav.

'senior

mg:ister

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Constantinople he provided four young

animalos dancers because the
dancers in Constantinople, though they were famous, were old.
He made
them retire after bestowing many gifts on them.
To the Greens he gave
the
emmalos Autokyon, known as Karamallos, from Alexandria the Great,
and he gave Rhodos, known as Chrysomallos, also an Alexandrian, to the
Blue
faction and Helladios, from the city of Emesa, to the Red faction
and he also gave the dancer known as Margarites Katzamys, from Kyzikos,
granting him to the Whites.
Longinus then stepped down from his second
consulship.
13.
(387)
The empress Ariadne, the wife of Zeno, after receiving
a letter from her mother secretly, begged the emperor Zeno that the
lady Verina be released from the fortress where she was imprisoned.
The
emperor Zeno told her to ask the patrician Illus about her. After
summoning Illus, the empress Ariadne tearfully asked him for her mother
Verina to be released.
Illus was not persuaded but said to her, "Why do
you ask for her?
Is it so that she can again make another emperor in
place of your husband?" So Ariadne said to the emperor Zeno again,
"Is it to be Illus in the palace,
or I?"
The emperor said to her,
"Do
whatever you can;
as for me, I want you."
So then Ariadne plotted to
kill
Illus.
During the races, as Illus was going up through the
Poulpita to the Dekimon, he was struck on the head with a sword by a
scholarius named Sporakios, who had been induced to join the plot and
was intending to cut him in two. But Illus' statharius was nearby and
he noticed the sword coming down and took the blow on his right hand.
The tip of the sword struck Illus on the head and sliced off his right
ear.
The ,scho.1arius was killed on the spot.
But Illus was rescued by
his own men,
picked up and carried home.
When Zeno heard about this,
he swore falsely that he knew nothing about the plot against illus.
Illus was not convinced, but restrained his anger and sought treatment.
(388)
When he was rather better, he went across the water, wanting to
take some action.
He was restored completely to health, but always had

387.1-389.3; Ev III 27 (124.5-7), Th 127.17-128.12 (AD479/80),

128.30-129.21,
29-130.8 (AD480-4), De insid 35
(164.11-166.12),
JN
88.68-85; Slav: Ist 8,19-10.28.
her mother (387.2): Slav, De insid add 'Verina'.
to kill Illus
(387.12): Slav adds 'for preventing her mother's return';
De insid continues 'and ordered the eunuch Urbicius, the
cubi culari us,
to induce someone to murder the patrician and nk?gister Illus', cf Slav,
13. Bo

Th, JN.

During the races (387.13): De insid adds 'Illus was summoned by Zeno to
go down from the A'athisme to the Delphinx of the palace to receive
The evidence of Slav is a decisive
barbarian ambassadors',
cf
Slav.
1890/1, 13 who regards this passage as an
argument against Patzig,
interpolation; cf Mommsen, 1872, 370.
through the Poulpita (387.13): 'up the Kochlias' De insid, Slav, Th.
on the head (387.15): De insid adds 'by the ear'.
'Spanikios'
Sporakios (387.15) Slav: written as 'Sphorakios' De insid,
Th, 'Scholarios' JN; see PLRE II 1026.
by his own men
(387.20): 'by other s4aetharii and his own men' De insid,
cf Slav.

nothing about the plot

De insid.

(387.22):

'nothing

about

the

murderous plot'

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scar from the wound.

He went to the emperor Zeno and asked for
leave to go to the East for a short while for a change of air, as he
said,
because he was ill from the wound.
The emperor Zeno was
persuaded by this and released him from his position as
and
made him magister militum per Orientem, granting him full authority.
Illus asked to take with him, to conciliate the Augusta, the patrician
Leontius, the son of Paulina, so that he could hand over to him the lady
Verina,
the
mother
of
the empress Ariadne,
to convey her to
Constantinople.
Illus asked the emperor for permission to take other
senators too to enhance his own reputation; permission was given him.
So
the patrician Illus departed, taking with him the patrician
Leontius and the other senators. He arrived in Antioch the Great
and stayed there for a short time and gave generously to the people
before departing for Isauria.
He took the lady Verina from the
fortress,
and made her crown the patrician Leontius as emperor in St
Peter's outside the city of Tarsos in Cilicia. Leontius was persuaded
to accept the crown since he was a free-born man. Verina issued
sacred commands for each city and imperial rescripts for the governors
and soldiers,
so that they should receive Leontius (389) and there
should be no resistance.
She wrote a rescript that contained much
a

scar from a wound

(388.2): Th,
De insid, Slav add 'and he used to wear
a cap'.
ill from the wound (388.5):
Slav appears to add at this point 'as
Plato,
the city prefect,
had fled to escape the attacks of the
populace'; see PLRE 11 892.
But in Slav (EL) Bo 388.5-407.7 is
transposed with 407.7-428.4; Istrin restores the correct order, but by
an ,oversight he leaves the start of the later passage, 407.7-9, in
the wrong
place
so that
it appears as a spurious 'addition' here.
Spinka/Downey, 1940, 106 and Tvorogov, 1975, 140 compound the error.
full authority (388.7): De insid adds 'to do whatever he saw fit', cf
Th
'even to appoint duces' (probably supported by a muddled passage in
Slav).
taking with him the patrician Leontius (388.14): De insid adds 'to take
and escort Verina'.
He arrived in Antioch the Great (388.15): De insid, cf Slav, Th, JN and
Ev,
add 'having with him a large army and Leontius (Th adds 'the
patrician, who was a Syrian by birth, and an excellent man in education
and military experience, and the nzagister militia per Thracias . cf 'the
patrician, who was Thracian by birth' Slav; see Stein, 1949, 28, note 2
and Downey, 1961, 494, note 95), the patrician Pamprepius (Th adds 'the
senator who was accused of magic'), the ex-consul Marsos, the ex-consul
Justinian,
the ex-prefect Ailianos, the ex-illustris Matronianus, the
ex-prefect Kouttoules and many cnmites'.
Again there is decisive
evidence against Patzig, 1890/1, 15 who regarded this passage too as an
insertion; cf Downey, 1961, 490, note 73.
for a short time (388.16): 'two years and erected many ('certain' Slav)
buildings' De insid, Slav.
free-born man (388,20): Slav, De insid add 'Leontius was handsome,
with curly abundant hair'; Slav continues 'young, pure, with a fair
complexion,
a good nose and good eyes, and courteous', cf 'well-grown
and pure' De insid.
Verina issued ...no resistance (388.21-389.1): 'Verina issued a ('her'

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abuse of Zeno. Leontius ruled in
Antioch for
14.
At this news
the emperor Zeno sent a few days.
)m.?_qster miiitum, John the
out a large force
Illus and his supporters, Scythian. When Leontius heard this with the
they went up with
and also
Papyrion.
Verina died there of
Verina to the
fortress of
natural causes.
on the battlements as a
Pamprepius was killed
traitor in their
midst, and his
corpse was
De insid) rescript to the
Syrians for them to
Leontius as emperor (De insid, Antiochene
Slav add 'and
receive
not resist
issued rescripts to all the
him').
diocese (Th adds 'and that of governors of the East and the She also
Libya to accept
Egyptian
not to oppose him', of JN)'
Leontius as emperor
De insid, Slav,
and
Th, of JN.
letters were first read in the
Slav adds 'These
praetorium of the
Antioch, and ran as follows', c
magrster militia in
'it ran as
She wrote...Zeno
follows' De
(389.1-2): "'Aelia Verina,
insid.
of
citizens
perpetual Augusta,
Antioch (cf 'Verina
to our
Augusta,
to our
Christ-loving peoples, greeting' Th,
governors and
who, unlike
not want to
De insid and
confine the letter
Slav,
to the
imperial rule is ours, and that
Antiochenes). Know that does
after
the
the
we
chose as emperor
death of Leo of
pious memory,
Traskilisseos (Th, JN,
of
De insid), later
'Stratokodisseos'
'Traskoliseos' Slav,
renamed
and all military
contingents should benefit. Zeno, so that the subjects
state together with its
But now, seeing
subjects are being
we have considered
ruined through his that the
it necessary to
avarice,
crown you a
distinguished for his piety and
Christian emperor,
justice, so that he
Roman state, bring a peaceful
may preserve the
end to the war
and
accordance with the laws.
We have crowned protect all subjects in
(Slav, Th, of JN, add
the most pious
'emperor of the
Leontius
on all of you".
And immediately theRomans'), who will bestow his
care
as one and cried out,
whole populace of
"God is great" and
Antioch rose up
you what is good and
"Lord, have
mercy; may he
beneficial"' De insid,
grant
1961, 495, note 98.
Slav, Th, of
JN; see Downey,
,Leontius ruled in
Antioch for a few days
usurper left the city of
(389.2-3):
Tarsos and came
'Leontius the
(Slav
alone without
adds 'the Great, in the
Illus to Antioch
consulship
of
June in the seventh
Theoderic', of Th
indiction') and ruled
'on 27th
Great
as usurper in
(Slav adds 'and remained
Antioch the
there for twelve
palace of that city', of
days.
JN).
He appointed
Entering the
JN) as praetorian
Ailianos (cf
prefect, Pamprepius as
'Lilianos' Th,
_gi.ater
and Justinian as
jargitionuin.
From there he went and
cams
fought against
in Syria,
because they did not
the city of
receive his portraits
Chalkis
half' De insid, Slav, of Th,
for a month and
JN.
a
14. Bo 389.4-14;
De insid 35
(166.13-28),
cf
129,23-26 (AD482/3),
Th 132.16-18
129.29-130.8 (AD483/4),
JN 88.86-91; (AD487/8),
10,28-11.8.
Slav: Ist
When Leontius heard
this...Papyrion
(389.5-7):
Cilicia,
heard of this and
'Illus,
who remained in
wrote to Leontius
Antioch,
both of them and
in Antioch;
Pamrepius and Verina and
leaving
the fortress of
the rest went up
Papyrion in Isauria' De
to
on the
insid, Slav, cf
battlements (389.8): literally
JR.
'up high' Ba,
and the following
De insid, Slav;
phrase suggest the
JN
as a traitor
interpretation given,
(389.8) 'as he was
suspected of being a
Slav.
traitor' De insid,

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thrown out on the mountains.

Illus and
Leontius were besieged and
captured.
They were publicly interrogated
before the governor of
Seleukeia in Isauria and were beheaded
at his orders. Their heads
were brought to Zeno in Constantinople,
stuck on poles, and a great mob
went out to gaze at them, for they
had been taken across to St Konon's
at Sykai.
15.
During his reign Perozes began
to reign over the Persians.
The Greens were responsible for
many riots and murders at that time
in
Antioch.
They murdered Jews,
it is said,
sparing no one.
The
comes Orientis at the time, Theodoros,
was deposed, having aroused the
emperor's anger, after which the faction
riots died down. The impious
actions of the Greens against
the Jews were reported to the emperor
Zeno. He became angry with
the Greens (390) in Antioch, asking, "Why
were besieged (389.9-10): De insid,
Slav add 'for a long time'.
were beheaded (389.11): De insid
adds 'by an executioner'.
stuck on poles...at Sykai (389.12-14):
'While he was watching the races,
their heads were brought in on poles
('poles' Slav, De insid, Ba:
pole'
Bo; see Bury, 1897, 229),
and from there they crossed over to St
Konon's.
They remained on the poles
for many days, and the whole
populace of Constantinople went out
to view the heads' De insid,

cf
Slav, Th.
15. Bo 389.15-390.3; De insid
35 (166.28-167.20): Slav: Ist 11.9-12.9.
The Greens... sparing no one (389.16-18):
'Those of the Green faction
in the city (De insid
adds 'of Antioch') began a fight
with stones
against the Blues during a spectacle
at the hippodrome, while Thalassios
the governor and consular was watching.
And they struck him on the head
(De insid adds 'with a
stone') and
Looking around for the man who had chased him from the hippodrome.
struck him, he ('Thalassios' De
insid) recognized him and
sent to have him arrested (De
insid adds 'by
his cnmmentarienses',> and brought
bath-attendant of the bath called him to his praetorium. He was a
Urbicius and Eupatios (Gleye,
1894,
626 conjectures 'of the bath
called Urbicius, named Olympios',
a violent
emendation which does, however,
create good sense, and is accepted
by
Downey,
1961,
635,
note 17).
And he immediately began
to beat
('interrogate' De insid) him.
And when the people of the
Green Faction
heard about this, they rushed to the
consuls' praetorium to attack
governor, and set fire to
the
and burned the
portico burned as far as the consuls'so-called Xystos, and the whole
praetorium, and they released
Olympios,
and the governor Thalassios
fled out of the city and
residence at a place called Hippokephalos,
took up
and resigned from his office,
and Quadratus took his place.
But the rioting in the city
did not
cease.
Six months later the Antiochenes
of the Green faction gathered
again and, during a disturbance at the
hippodrome, they killed
burned the synagogue called Asabiniani
many and
(see Downey, 1961, 499,
120),
note
because the Jews were on the side
of the Blues. And they
plundered all that was in the synagogue,
and those who lived there'
Slav, cf De insid.
The impious actions...of emperor Zeno
(389.19-21): 'A
monk had
shut
himself in a tower on the wall and had blocked
up the entrance, speaking
through a window to those who came to
pay their respects,
Welcoming an
excuse, the Greens from the city,
who had the upper hand,
rioted because
of the
monk and burned the Jewish synagogue
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did they burn only the corpses of the Jews? They ought to have burned
live Jews too".
This silenced the affair.
16.
The emperor Zeno asked the very learned comes Maurianos who
would reign after him, for Maurianos used to foretell many things for
him
since
he
had
mystic
knowledge.
He predicted that an

state

succeed both to his

and his wife. When he
this the emperor Zeno arrested the patrician Pelagius, who was an
and had attained the rank of patrician, a learned man.
Zeno confiscated his property and ordered that he be kept under guard.
During the night his guards strangled him and threw his corpse into
the sea at the emperor's command.
When Arcadius, the praetorian
prefect,
heard this, he rebuked the emperor Zeno about Pelagius.
This
reached Zeno's ears and he ordered that Arcadius be killed as he
entered the palace.
But Arcadius learned
of this and when he was
summoned by the emperor, as he was passing the church, pretended he
wanted to pray. So he got out of the carriage and went into the Great
While
Church of Constantinople. He stayed inside, and escaped death.
he was there, (391) the emperor Zeno confiscated his property.
But a short time later the emperor Zeno was overcome by dysentery
60 years and nine months, on 9th Xanthikos
and died,
at the age of
of the 14th indiction, in the year 539 according to the era of Antioch.
Thus from Adam to the death of the emperor Zeno there were 5983
ex- silentiariti.s would
heard

years.

wall.
They dug up the remains of the Jews who were buried along the
length of the synagogue, collected a lot of brushwood and set it alight
and threw the bones on the fire. The churches and houses of the streets
known as the Distadia were burned down. The emperor Zeno heard of this
when the Jews came and made supplication to him' Slav, cf De insid which
begins the passage 'During the reign of the emperor Zeno'.
Slav adds,
cf De
They ought to have burned live Jews too (390.2-3):
insid, 'throwing them on the fire together with the dead ones'.
the affair (390.3): Slav adds 'in Antioch'.
16. Bo 390.4-391.6; CP 606.3-21 (AD490), 607.3-4(AD491), Th 134.25-135.6
(AD489/90), 136.16-20(AD490/91), Ke 620.20-621.2, LG 315.5-11(117.8-14),
JN 88.92-97; Slav: Ist 12.10-26, Soph 123,

When he heard this the emperor Zeno arrested the patrician Pelagius who
was an ex-silentiarsus (390.8-9) CP, Slav, JN: these words are omitted
by Ba.
for this and
his guards (390.11): CP, Slav, Th add 'the excubitnres
subsequent small additions, see Patzig, 1890/1, 11.
strangled him (390.12) CP adds 'with a noose'.
CP, Slav;
about Pelagius
(390.14): 'because of the murder of Pelagius'
Slav adds 'the patrician'.
Arcadius (390.16): 'Arcadius, the praetorian prefect' CP.
the church (390.17): 'the Great Church' CP, Slav.
escaped death (390.20): 'escaped a bitter death' CP, Slav, Th.
Slav,
cf
60 years and nine months (391.3): '65 years and nine months'
'65 years and nine days' CP.
Xanthikos (391.3): 'Xanthikos-April' CP.
5983 years (391.6): cf Th
'5983 years according to the accurate true
calculations of the Alexandrians',.'5458 years and seven months' Slav.

AD491

BOOK 16 The Time of the Emperor

Anastasios

AD491

1.
(392) After the reign of Zeno, the most sacred Anastasios,
known as Dikoros, began to reign during the consulship of Olybrius, the
son of Areobindus.
He came from Dyrrachium in Nova Epirus, and was an
ex- silentidrius.
He reigned for 27 years and three months and was
crowned in the month of April on Holy Thursday of Holy Week. He
married Ariadne, who had been the wife of the previous emperor Zeno. He
was very tall, with short hair, a good figure, a round face, both hair
and beard greying; he had a grey pupil in his right eye and a black one
in his left though his eyesight was perfect.; and he shaved his beard

frequently.

AD494/5

2.
In
his reign he made the patrician Hierios praetorian prefect,
who then appointed his relative Kalliopios as comes Orlentis. While
Kalliopios was in office (393) the Greens of Antioch attacked him in the
praetorium,
but he escaped to safety. When he learned of this, the
prefect Hierios reported it to the emperor Anastasios who immediately
appointed Constantius of Tarsos as comes Orientis, granting him full
authority over life and death since the Green faction, which was
rioting in Antioch, was attacking the governors. Constantius made the
people of Antioch obey the governors' orders. This was in the year 543
according to the era of Antioch.
This emperor supported the Red faction at Constantinople and took
measures against the Greens and Blues everywhere when they caused
disturbances.
3.
When the emperor heard that the Isaurians were gathering in

Bo 392.1-10; LM 437.8, CP 607,5-12 (AD491), Th 136.20-22 (AD491/2);

Slav: Ist 13.1-6, Soph 124.
in Nova Epirus (392.2): 'in the province of Nova Epirus' CP, Slav.
27 years and three months (392.4): '27 years, nine months and nine
days' LM, Slav.
and was crowned...Holy Week (392.5): 'he was crowned in the month of
Xanthikos-April ('on 14th April' Th), on Thursday of Holy Week, in the
14th indication' CP, Slav, Th. CP adds 'in the year 537 (to be corrected
to
'539',
see 391.3 above), according to the era of Antioch'; see
(14 April 491 was in fact Easter Day).
Patzig, 1890/1, 10.
2.
Bo 392.11-393.11; De insid 36 (167.21-23).
1.

life and death (393.4; corr Chil): 'every zone' Ba.

The emperor supported... caused disturbances (393.9-11): Before, during
or after para 2 (ie before para 3, cf JA De insid 100; see Cameron,
226,
note 7) we must place De insid 36,
'During the reign of
1976,
Anastasios there occurred a disturbance in the hippodrome; there
were many fatalities and serious fires, and the four dancers were
exiled'.
3.
Bo 393.12-394.10; De insid 37 (167.24-168.10), cf Th 137.23-140.7

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their own area

against them.

inagz'ster inilitum

intending to
He made war

rebel, he immediately began a campaign

on them and sent out as generals the

John,

nicknamed the hunchback, and the

patrician Diogenianos, the relative of the Augusta, and others, with a

and a band of Goths and Bessoi. He massacred the
force of Scythians,
Isaurians,
ravaged their land, destroyed their cities and burned down
he took prisoner the exarchs who had led their
their fortresses;
rebellion,
the ex- magi_ster L,onginus the bald, Athenodoros the younger,
Longinines the lame and the ex-bishop of Apameia Konon, the son of
Fuscianus.
Longinines was the first to perish at the outset of the war
when (394) the armies met each other at Kotyaion, a city in Phrygia. He
was killed there and after him Konon, the son of Fuscianus, was struck
The Isaurians were put to flight and then
by a spear and fell.
captured,
with their remaining exarchs taken alive. They were beheaded
and their heads taken to the emperor Anastasios.
After this victory he
bestowed gifts on all tax-payers under his rule.
The most sacred emperor Anastasios imposed on all land-holders a tax
to be paid in gold, based on acreage, to prevent taxes in kind being
demanded and used for their own purposes by the soldiers.
4.
During his reign the supporters of the Greens at Constantinople
appealed to the emperor,
while the chariot-races were being held,
for the release of some people who had been arrested by the city
stones.
The
emperor did not yield to them but
prefect. for throwing
grew angry and ordered troops to attack them, and there was great
disorder.
The supporters advanced against the excuhitores, and
approached the Jath.isma and they threw stones at the emperor Anastasios.
Among them
was a man called Mauros who threw a stone at the emperor,
who stood up and dodged it. The e.rcubitores, having seen the man's

Ist 13.6-8.
intending to rebel (393.13): De insid adds 'which they did, and advanced
as far as Kotyaion; taking up arms he'.
as generals (393.14): of 'three inagistri mil.itum' De insid.
the patrician Diogenianos (393.16): of 'Diogenianos and Patricius'
De
insid
(probably incorrectly, an error which may also have motivated the
'three tagistri .wilitum'above; see PLRE II 840, but of .ibid 362).
Longinines
(393.22): of 'Lingines' De insid,
'Ninilingis'
Th; on this
difficult name, see PLRE II 683, s, v, Lilingis.
under his rule (394.7): De insid adds 'battle was joined again with
the Isaurians, and Longinus of Seli.nus (written as 'Silountios', of PLRE
II
688)
and Indes and his brother were brought as prisoners from
Isauria, and Longinus, the brother of the emperor Zeno, was exiled'.
used for
own purposes (394.10; reading (fLrj) 6Larrpelrso6aL for
SLaip&peoOaL
with Dihle,
1976,
5):
'nourished' Ba; of Festugiere,
1978,
237
who proposes for the whole phrase 'and the soldiers being
nourished by them'.
4.
Bo 394.11-395.5;
CP 608.1-18 (AD498),
Th 147.17-20 (AD504/5), De
insid 38 (168.11-25), 39 (168.26-34), JN 89.19-21.
they threw stones...Mauros who threw a stone
(394.17-18; corr Dind) CP:
'they threw a stone' Ba, of 'someone threw a stone' De insid; see
of
Patzig, 1890/1,12.
dodged it (394.19): CP, De insid add 'since he would have been killed';
see Patzig, 1890/1, 13.

(AD492/6); Slav:

their

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AD507

and so he
boldness, went for him and dismembered him limb by limb,
breathed his last.
The
crowd, which was hemmed in, set fire to the
and the colonnade was
of
the hippodrome,
Chalke,
as it is known,
burned as far as the imperial Awthisirhe (395); and also the public
colonnade,
as far as the Hexahippion and the Forum of Constantine, was
completely burned and destroyed, collapsing throughout its length.
After many had been arrested and punished, there was quiet, when Plato,
who was patron of the Green faction, was appointed as the city prefect.
5.
During his reign a man named John Isthmeos, who came from the
city of Amida, appeared in Antioch the Great. He was an alchemist and a
He secretly went to the money dealers and showed
tremendous imposter.
them some hands and feet of statues made of gold, and also other
figurines, saying that he had found a hoard of such figurines of pure
gold.
And so he tricked many of them and conned them out. of a lot of
money. The Antiochenes nicknamed him Bagoulas, which means a slick
imposter.
He
slipped
through
everyone's fingers and fled to
Constantinople, and there too he conned many money dealers and so came
to the emperor's attention. When he was arrested and brought before the
emperor,
he offered him a horse's bridle of solid gold with the
nose-piece inlaid with pearls. The emperor Anastasios took it, saying
to him, "He you will not con", and banished him to Petra, where he died.
6.
In the same year of his reign, during the third consulship
of
the
emperor
Anastasios,
a
charioteer named Kalliopas, an
exfrom Constantinople,
came out to Antioch the Great.
(396) He was given to the Green faction at Antioch while Basileios of
Edessa was comes. He took over the stable of the Green faction, which
was vacant, and was completely victorious, A short time later the usual
celebration of the Olympic festival was held in the customary way at
Antiochene Daphne. The Antiochene populace went up to Daphne, and those
who had been on the rampage set off with the charioteer Kalliopas and

the man's boldness (394.20) cf De insid: 'Mauros' boldness' CP.

dismembered him (394.21) CP: cf 'dismembered Mauros' De insid,
the colonnade was turned (394.23): 'that side of the arena was
De insid; see Guilland, 1969, 481.
Here,
or after para 5 (ie between paras

burned'

CP,

and 6), De insid adds, 'When

Constantius ('Constantinus'
in De insid here, but 'Constantius' later
and in JA and Marcellinus; see PLRE II 313), surnamed Tzouroukkas, was
city prefect, a disturbance took place. While Constantius the prefect
was watching the afternoon session (of the races, see Cameron, 1976a,
288) during the festival known as the Brytai in the theatre,
the factMany were drowned in the water,
ions set on each other in the theatre.
wounded or killed in fighting with swords, resulting in the death in the
theatre of the emperor's son by a concubine (cf Th).
The emperor grew
angry and punished many from both factions, and also exiled the
factions' four dancers', cf Th.
5.
Bo 395.6-19; De virt 14 (163.6-19), Th 150,12-22 (AD506/7), GM
622.9-18,

LG 317.33-318.6 (121.19-122.5); Slav: Ist 13.8-12.

(395,8): 'tremendous alchemist

alchemist and tremendous imposter

imposter' De virt, cf Th.

and

Bo 395.20-398.4; cf De insid 40 (168.35-6), JN 89.23-29.

in De insid,
in the same year (395.20): para 6 is probably summarized
'In his reign there were many riots in Antioch and many murders'.
6.

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the Jewish synagogue which was in Daphne; they set fire to it,
attacked
plundered
everything that was in the synagogue and massacred many
people.
This was on 9th July of the 15th indiction.- They set up the
holy cross there, and turned the place into a martyrium of St Leontios.
When these events were reported to the emperor Anastasios, he
appointed Prokopios of Antioch, the ex-CORM-M-1 arius, as comes Orientis:
The latter took out with him, in accordance with a sacred decree, a man
named Menas of Byzantion as praefectus vigilum.
When a riot broke out,
caused by members of the Green faction, Menas wanted to arrest some of
the rioters.
They heard about this and sought refuge at St John's
When the preefectus vigilwn heard about this, he went
outside the city.
He entered
in the middle of the day to St John's with a force of Goths.
the church unexpectedly and found there one of the troublemakers, named
Eleutherios, under the holy altar in the sanctuary.
He stabbed him with
his sword there, dragged (397) his body from the sanctuary and cut off
his head, with the result that the holy sanctuary was drenched in blood.
Then,
taking the head, he set off for the city of Antioch and when he
reached the bridge over the river Orontes, he threw the head into the
river.
He then went to Prokopios, the comes Orientls, and told him of
these events.
This was reported to the Greens during the afternoon and
they went out to St John's, where they found Eleutherios' headless
They took the body,
put it on a litter and carried it back to
corpse.
the city. But at the bath known as the Bath of Olbia, opposite what is
known as the basilica of Rufinus, they were met and joined battle with

the combined forces of the preefectus vigil um and the members of the

Blue faction in the street of the Thassalioi.

The Green faction got the
better of the encounter, seized the basilica of Rufinus and that known
as the basilica of Zenodotos, and set fire to them.
The entire basilica
of Rufinus was burned, including the two tetrapyla on each side of it,
and the praetorium of the comes e)rientis
All these were destroyed by
the fire and collapsed.
The comes Orientis fled to the Alexandria of
Cambyses.
The members of the Green faction seized Menas, the praefectus
vi_gilum,
slit him open and disembowelled him.
Then after dragging
his corpse around, they hung it on the bronze statue known as
the Kolonisios,
in the middle of the antiforum.
(398) They then
removed his corpse and dragged it outside the city of Antioch and burned
it on a
pyre of brushwood.
On being informed of this, the emperor
an Antiochene, as comes
Anastasios appointed Eirenaios Pentadiastes,
This man brought vengeance and fear upon the city.
orient.rs
7.
The emperor remitted by sacred decree the whole of the
recurrent tax known as the chrysargyron and in its place he provided
revenue for the Sacred Largesse from his own funds.
This was a great
and tremendous example of his munificence.
8.
The emperor built the basilica in Antioch known as that of
Rufinus, and also various buildings in every city of the Roman state.
9.
During his reign Amida, the extremely strong metropolis of
Mesopotamia, and also Theodosioupolis were captured in a campaign by

The members (397.19; corr. Chil): om. Ba.

7.
Bo 398.5-8; c Ev III 39 (136.32-33): Slav: 1st 13.12-13.
8.
Bo 398.9-10; JN 89.30-31.
9.
Bo 398.11-399.12; cf Ev III 37 (135.27-136.7), PsD 814 (AD502/3),
817 (AD505/6) (=Jo Styl); Slav: Ist 13.13-14.1.

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Koades,
emperor of the Persians, who
had attacked with a large
army.
The Persian emperor took
prisoner the powerful Roman
Constantine, who was
general
defending Theodosioupolis, and
many others, who
died in Persian territory.
The emperor Anastasios began

against

the Persians,

Areobindus,

son

of

sending the i,&sg'ister nzil tum

campaign

per Oriente/n

Dagalaifus and husband of Juliana,

the senior
Patricius, the BMgister ffluJJt.1zm
Hypatios, who was the son
of the patrician Secundinus, the
patrician Appion whom he made
praetorian prefect of the East,
them a huge military (399)
and with
force consisting of infantry and
cavalry.
Battle was joined between
the two armies and many
were the dead and
fallen from both
sides.
The most learned chronicler
Eustathios wrote
about this battle;
however, he died shortly afterwards,
before he was
able to complete the writing of
his narrative. The emperor
recalled the general
Anastasios
Hypatios, the son of Secundinus,
to Constantinople
and sent in his place the most
illustrious Celer the Illyrian,
man.
a learned
The cities held by
the Persians were regained by
ilzagister,
Celer, the
Then there was peace
and an end to hostilities and the
withdrew, together with
armies
all the Roman and Persian
forces.
10.
The most sacred Anastasios
immediately fortified
place in Mesopotamia,
Data,
a
as a very large and powerful
stronghold, lying
between the Roman and Persian
frontiers.
In it he built two public
baths,
churches,
colonnades, warehouses
for storing grain and cisterns
for water.
The reason why this
place received the name Dara from
Alexander of Macedon
was that he had captured
Persians there, and
the emperor of the
it derives
its name from this.
been given the status of
But now, it has
a city and renamed Anastasioupolis.
up statues of Anastasios there.
They set
11.
(400) In his reign Euphemios,
the patriarch of Constantinople,
was deposed.
Anastasios banished him to
Euchaita in Pontus as a
Nestorian.
In his place Makedonios
became patriarch of Constantinople,
but he too was deposed
as a Nestorian.
Likewise Flavian, the patriarch
of Antioch, was banished
as a Nestorian to a city
called Petra, which is
in Third Palestine.
Severus, who was a monk,
replaced him as patriarch
of
Antioch the Great on
6th November in the year
561 according to the
era of the Antiochenes.
12.
The emperor relieved
John the Paphlagonian
of his post as

m..?gisster

AD512

the

Inllitzhv

praesentalYs

who had attacked (398.13):

cf Slav which adds
'the
Greeks',
translating 'l paLOL.
probably
Persian emperor (398.15): 'Koades',
Slav.
Juliana (398.20): 'the lady Juliana'
Slav.
10. Bo 399.13-399.21;
CP 608.19-609.7 (AD498),
Th 150.24-29 (AD507/8),
Ke 630.14-18, JN 89.32 PsD 817
(AD505/6) (= Jo Styl);
Slav: Ist 14.1--5.
The most sacred (399,13): 'the emperor'
CP, Slav.
he had captured the emperor
of the Persians there
(399.19):
struck Dareios the emperor
'Alexander
of the Persians there
with a spear' CP,
('with a spear', 56patiL
Slav
reflects Ba's writing
of Dara, as Dopdq
CP, thus making the etymological
c
point).
its name (399.20): CP adds 'to
the present day'.
It. Bo 400.1-10; cf JN 89.46,
PsD 809 (AD497); Slav:
Ist 14.6--11,
Severus (400.8): 'the presbyter
Severus' Slav.
12. Bo 400.11-21; cf Ev 111
42 (144.24-28); Slav:
Ist 14.12-13.

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of public documents in the praetorium of the prefects and gave

the rank
of
ex-consul, and in his place he appointed Marinus the
Syrian as both trectatar and 1ngotheteq This man dismissed all members
of the
city councils, and in their place created the vindJces, as they
are known,
in each city of the Roman state. The emperor appointed the
ex-consul John the Paphlagonian, known as Caiaphas, as comes Jaz9YtJOn1an
in
Constantinople.
This man changed all the current small coinage
into
f011es which were to be current from then on throughout the Roman
him

state.
13.
John melted down the bronze
statues of the Plat.eia of
Constantinople, which the most sacred emperor Constantine (401) had
collected from every city as being the finest, and brought. for the
decoration and adornment of Constantinople. After melting these down,
John made from them an exceedingly large statue
of
the emperor
Anastasios, and placed this statue on the great column which stood
This column had
unused in the place known as the forum Tauri.
previously held a statue of Theodosios the Great, but the statue alone
had fallen during the earthquakes.
14.
In that year the emperor promulgated a decree outlawing the
practice of making a record by tattooing;
the actual name of tattooist
was banned and likewise the practice. The law was as follows: "That it
is
our,
desire to free those under the yoke of slavery. How therefore
can we tolerate
that those who are free be brought into a servile
condition?"
The emperor published another sacred decree that no one,
without an imperial rescript,
was to adopt children either male or
female,
but only by a rescript., so that. even an adopted child should
have the right of a legitimate son or daughter to inherit the property
of the adoptive parent even if intestate.
15.
In that
year of his reign the people of Alexandria the Great,

their

at4pZ4ato'JJOS,
a shortage of oil, rioted and murdered
named Theodosios, who was originally from Antioch, the son of the
patrician Kalliopios.
This was in the year 564 according to the era of AD515/6
the Antiochenes, of the 9th indiction.
(402) The emperor became angry
and punished many Alexandrians for rebelling against. their governor.
16.
During his reign the Thracian Vitalian rebelled, allegedly
giving the banishment of the bishops as a pretext. He gained control of

because of

current (400.19):-reading npoxwpofiv with Dind; of Bury, 1897, 229.

13. Bo 400.22-401,8; Th 149.10-14'(AD505/6); Slav: Ist 14.14-19.
14. Bo 401.9-19; Slav: Ist 14.19-23.
15. Bo 401.20-402.2;
De insid 41 (169.1-7), Th 163.9-16 (AD516/?),

JN

89.35.

shortage of oil (401.23); 'shortage of bread and oil' De insid.

the son of the patrician Kalliopios (401.23): of, incorrectly, 'the son
of Patrikios, the son of Kalliopios' De insid, cf Th; see PLRE II 1102.
governor (402.2): 'governors. The factions again began a fight and the
soldiers went out against. them. The factions became reconciled, and
killed many people and burned much property' De insid; see Mommsen,
1872, 374.
16. Bo 402.3-406.8;
Ev III 43
(145.1-29), De insid 41
Th 160.13-18 (AD513/4), GM 619.16-620.2,
JN 89,71-88,
(118.18-119.3); Slav: Ist 14.23-15.5.

(169.8-170.3),
cf LG 316.3-9

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Thrace,

him

the

Scythia and Moesia as far as Odessos

and Anchialos, having with
large army of Huns and Bulgars.
The emperor sent out Hypatios,

ma_gs:ster militcun per Thfl?c2As, who engaged

Vitalian in battle but
was betrayed and was captured by him.
He was given back to the Romans
after payment of a large ransom. Hypatios was
dismissed and, after his
return to Constantinople,
the Illyrian Cyril was appointed to succeed
him as
.9gister milltwn per Thraac &c, Cyril immediately went out and
engaged Vitalian and in the battle many
from both sides fell.
Cyril
however proved superior and entered the city
of Odessos where he stayed,
while Vitalian retreated from those
regions, Vitalian bribed those who
were guarding the gates of the city of
Odessos, with a gift of money.
Through some relatives of the gate-keepers
he sent the money and various
promises.
As a result of this treachery
Vitalian entered the city of
Odessos
night,

at

captured Cyril, the nkagister

milituim per Thrlecias, and

killed him. He then went and plundered
again (403) the whole of Thrace
and Europa until he reached Sykai
and Anaplous opposite Constantinople,
as he wanted to take Constantinople
itself.
He took up his position at
Anaplous at a place known as Sosthenion
in the chapel of the archangel
Michael.
The

emperor

Anastasios had formerly summoned, through

Marinus, the
philosopher Proklos of Athens,
a famous man.
The emperor Anastasios
asked him,
"Philosopher,
what am
I
to do with this dog who is so
disturbing me and the state?" Proklos
replied to him, "Do
emperor.

not despair,

For

he will go away and leave as

soon as you send some men
against
him",
The emperor Anastasios
immediately
spoke to the
ex-prefect Marinus the Syrian, who
was standing close by while the
emperor was conversing with the
philosopher Proklos, and told him to
prepare
for
battle
against
Vitalian
who
was
then opposite
Constantinople,
The philosopher Proklos said to
Marinus the Syrian in
the presence of the emperor,
"Take what I give you and go out
against
Vitalian".
And the philosopher ordered
that a large amount of what is
known as elemental sulphur be brought
in and that it be ground into fine
powder.
He gave it to Marinus with the
words, "Wherever you throw some
of
this,
be it at a building or a ship,
after sunrise, the building or
ship will immediately ignite and be
destroyed by fire". Marinus asked
the emperor to send one of his magistri
militum with the weapon.
The emperor immediately summoned
(404) the Phrygian Patricius, the
mtryister milituni,
and John, the son of Valeriana,
and told them to
prepare an attack against Vitalian
across the water, and to take
fast
ships and soldiers.
They fell at the emperor's
feet, saying, "We two
have been his friends and his
father's
chance may bring an unfavourable result friends. We are afraid that
and we might be suspected
treachery".
of
The emperor was angry with them
and dismissed them from the
palace.
He then ordered Marinus the
Syrian to take the ships,
the
elemental sulphur and the force of soldiers
that had been prepared
to go out against Vitalian.
and
When Vitalian heard
that Marinus was moving
against him with a large force, he
seized

every ship he could find

and

During his reign ...Huns and Bulgars (402.3-7):

on
between Ba and Th here, see Besevliev, 1980,
539-43.
Athens (403.6): De insid adds 'a city in Hellas'.
or a ship (403.20) JN: cf 'or ships' De insid,
Slav.

the

relationship

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loaded them with bands of Huns and Goths, fully armed.

He then set out
to attack Constantinople, confident that, he would certainly capture it
and crush Marinus, who was coming to meet him, together with the force
under his command.
Marinus distributed the elemental sulphur, which the philosopher had
given to him,
among all the fast ships,
telling the soldiers and
sailors,
"There is no need for weapons but throw some of this at the
ships that are coming against you and they will burn.
And if we get to
the houses on the other side, where the enemies of the emperor are,
throw it there".
Marinus told his men to throw it exactly as the
philosopher had told him, when he had said that the ships would be set
alight by the fire (405) and sunk with the men on board.
So he set out
for the other side against Vitalian and his men, and Vitalian's ships
came to meet
them.
They drew very close to one another opposite St
Thekla's
in Sykai
at that part of the Bosphorus which is called
Bytharion.
The sea battle took place there at the third hour of the
day.
Suddenly all the ships of the rebel Vitalian caught fire and were
set ablaze and plunged to the bottom of the Bosphorus, taking with them
the Gothic, Hunnish and Scythian soldiers who had joined him.
But when
Vitalian and those on the other ships saw what happened, that their own
ships had suddenly been set ablaze, they fled and returned to Anaplous.
The ex-prefect Marinus crossed over to Sykai and killed all Vitalian's
men whom he found in the suburbs and houses, pursuing them as far as St
Mamas.
When evening fell, Marinus and his force stayed there,
defending
those areas.
Vitalian fled from Anaplous during the night
with his remaining men and travelled 60 miles that night. At daybreak
none of Vitalian's men could be found on the other side.
Christ the
Saviour and the emperor's tyche.had won the victory.
The emperor Anastasios made a proce.s-qus to Sosthenion and gave
thanks in the church of the archangel Michael for many days.
The
philosopher Proklos the Athenian (406) successfully sought permission
from the
emperor to leave and refused to accept anything from the
emperor, who had in fact ordered that he should receive four centenaris.
The philosopher returned to his own city of Athens, where he immediately
died.
There were some people in Constantinople who said that it was
from the heat of the sun that the elemental sulphur, as it was so fine,
caught fire,
when it was thrown into the air, and that this was its
nature.
Vitalian withdrew to Anchialos and stayed there quietly.
17.
In the time of the emperor Anastasios the Sabir Huns, a very
warlike
race,
crossed the Caspian
Gates and reached Cappadocia,
plundering it and all the Roman territory they passed through. They
killed a great many people, burned estates and then returned home with
much booty.
Those who had been plundered of their possessions went to
the emperor,
who provided generously for those who had been looted in
each city.
He also built walls around the large towns in Cappadocia and
He granted that the taxes of all the
made the two Cappadocias secure.
provinces that had been plundered be completely remitted for three
years.
18.
During his reign the island of Rhodes suffered its third
calamity from the wrath of God, at night. The emperor gave generously

17.
18.

Bo 406.9-18; c Ev III 43 (145.30-31), Th 161.28-30 (AD515/6).

Bo 406.19-21; Ev III 43 (145,32-146.2), cf PsD 815 (AD503/4).

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both to the survivors and

to the city for building purposes.
19.
In
his reign a civic insurrection
took place (407) among the
Byzantines in Constantinople
over Christian belief, because
the emperor
wanted to add to the
7r graq on the phrase they use
in the eastern
cities, "He who was crucified
for us, have mercy on us".
The population
of the city crowded
together and rioted violently
on the grounds that
something alien had been
added to the Christian
faith.
There was uproar
in the palace which
caused the city prefect Plato
to run in, flee and
hide from the people's
anger.
The rioters set up a chant "A
emperor for the
new
Roman state", and went
off to the residence of the
ex-prefect Marinus the
Syrian, burned his house
and plundered everything
he had, since they could not
find him.
For he had heard that this
mob of people was coming towards
great
his house, and had fled.
that, as an easterner,
They claimed
Marinus had suggested
this phrase to the emperor.
After plundering his official
apartments they cut up
axes and divided it out.
his silver with
They found an eastern
monk in the house whom
they seized and killed
and then,
carrying his head on a pole, they
chanted, "Here is the enemy
of the Trinity".
They went to the residence
of Juliana, a patrician
of the most illustrious rank,
and chanted for
her husband, Areobindus,
to be emperor of the Roman state. Areobindus
fled and hid in
Perama.
The emperor Anastasios
katb.zsmW in the hippodrome,
went up to the
(408) without a crown.
learned this, they
When the people
went into the hippodrome.
The emperor, through his
sacred pronouncement,
gained control of
the populace
exhorting them to stop
of the city,
murdering and attacking people
whole crowd became
at random.
The
quiet and begged him
to put on his crown.
they became quiet and stopped
As soon as
forming crowds, the emperor
arrests be made. Of the
ordered that
many brought
and others thrown into the Bosphorus into custody, he had some punished
by the city prefect.
in this way for many
They suffered
days and after countless
numbers had been executed,
excellent order
and no little fear prevailed
in Constantinople and in
every city of the Roman
state.

19. Bo 406.22--408.11;
CP 610.1-6 (AD507),
De insid 42
620.3-621.4,
(170.4-17),
JN 89.58-68, cf Ev III
GM
44
(146.3-30),
316.10-24 (119.4-19), PsD
Ke 631.12-21,
LG
818 (AD506/7); Slav:
Ist 15.5-24, 9.18-20.
run in, flee (407.8): Gleye,
1896,
447 conjectures
ship', reading eLS Spdovva
'flee
in a fast
forcLa5pau6via.
in Perama (407.21):
'On the other side'
CP,
which has a lacuna here,
ending at 'the residence
of Juliana'.
De insid summarizes
part of this passage, between
the first
an introduction
Anastasios' arrival
on the Trisaglnn and
in the Aathj'mq, as follows,
'The populace killed
male and female anchorite' (see
a
Mommsen, 1872, 375).
is
mentioned in Ba, CP (lacunose)
No female victim
Slav or JN.
However,
one male and one female
the murders of
anchorite are described
latter having a version
in Ke, LG and GM, the
closer to Ba than
the other two,
all share some common
though
elements with the
translation printed
Comparisons
between
here.
versions at this
climax
controversy suggest interesting
of the
monophysite
insights into textual
Gleye,
1896,
history (see
447-9 and Patzig, 1898,
120-3); but they
here, since it is
will not. be made
uncertain whether the
textual history concerned
that of Malalas or of his source.
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20.
A short. time later the emperor Anastasios saw, in a dream, an
elegant,
full
grown man standing in front of him. He was carrying a
book with
writing in it,
which he was reading.
He turned over five
pages,
read out the emperor's name and said to him, "See, because of
your insatiability,
I
am erasing 14".
And with his finger he erased
them,
it was said.
The emperor Anastasios woke up in a panic, summoned

Amantios,

the

cut

cuJc

rids

and

prn.eposl tus,

and

told

him about.

the

had in his dream.

(409) Amantios said to him, "May you live
forever,
emperor,
I too have had a dream tonight that
I was standing
facing your majesty,
and from behind me a pig, as big as a wild boar,
came up and seized the edge of my cloak in its mouth, shook me and
pulled me to the ground and killed me by trampling on me and devouring
me".
The emperor summoned Proklos the philosopher from Asia, the
interpreter of dreams who was a close associate of his, and told him his
dream, as did Amantios likewise.
He explained to them the meaning of
the dream, which was that they would die some time later.
21.
In addition to his original
gifts the emperor Anastasios
again sent other gifts to all tax-.payers in his state,
In every city of
the Roman state he carried out. a variety of building projects, including
walls and aqueducts;
he dredged harbours, constructed public baths from
their foundations and provided much else in every city.
22.
Shortly afterwards the emperor Anastasios became ill and was
confined to bed.
There was a great, flash
of
lightning and a
thunderclap;
he was terrified and breathed his last, at the age of 90
years and five months.
vision

he

Th
JM 2888c-2889a,
CP 610.10-611.8 (AD518),
(AD517/8),
Ke
cf LG 317.1-3 (120.8-10), Sk
91.3-7; Slav: Ist. 15.24-16.6.
elegant (408.13-14):
'white-robed' JM, CP
(reading A,eu xeLuc)v for
XsuaXnuov app), Slav; on this and other textual points in this para,
see PAtzig, 1898, 125-6,
Slav:
insatiability (408,16) CP,
of
'lack of belief' JM, LG, 'wrong
20. Bo

163.31-164.8

belief'

Th, Ke, Sic.

14 (408.17) CP1 JM,

Th:

cf

'11 years'

Ke, LG, Sk.

and told him his dream ...to them the meaning (409.8-9; corn. Dind) CP:
'and told him the meaning' Ba; see Patzig, 1890/1, 12,
some time later (409,9-10):
'a
short time after'
CP,
of 'not long
after' Th, Ke.
21. Bo 409.11-16; Slav:
22. Bo
409.17-20; CP

(AD517/8),

Ist 16.6-7, Soph 126.

611.8--10 (AD518),
JM 2889a,
GM 619.11-15, Sk 91.7-9; Slav: Ist 16.7-10,

cf
Th
Soph 126.

BOOK 17 The Time of the Emperor Justin

1.
(410) After the
reign of Anast.asios, the
most sacred Justin,
a Thracian from Bederiana,
began to reign on 9th July in
AD518 indiction during
the eleventh
the consulship of Magnus.
At God's command the army
with the excubitores
guarding
crowned him and made him emperor, the palace, together with the people,
for he had been

the comes
He reigned for nine years
and 22 days.
In stature he was of medium
height,
with a good chest, curly
completely grey hair, a good
rather ruddy complexion,
nose, a
and handsome.
He was a veteran of war,
generous, but unlettered.
2.

As

soon

as

he

began

to

reign

he executed his praepositus

Book 17...Justin: 'Book

16. The time
of the emperor Justin ('Justinian'
mss) and the destruction
(in Antioch)' Slav.
1.
Bo 410.1-8; LM 437.9,
Ev IV 1 (153.5-11), CP
611.11-17 (AD518), cf
LG 318.19-22 (122.17-123.1),
Ke 636.17-637.1, JN 90.2;
Soph 127.
Slav: Ist 17.1-7,
Anastasios (410.1): CP,
Slav add 'Dikoros',
Bederiana (410.2):
cf 'Bendara' CP, Slav.
July (410,3): 'Panemos-July'
CP, Ev, Slav,
eleventh indiction
(410,3): CP, Ev, Slav
add 'in the year 566 according
to the era of the
Syrian Antiochenes'.
See Patzig, 1890/1, 10; Gleye,
1896, 434; Vasiliev,
1950,
At God's command (410.4):70, note 53.
like 'by the will of
phrase is not found in
God' (411.2), this
any witness to the text
apart from Ba; see Gleye,
1896, 435.
the army with the excub torns
(410.3;
see Bury,
1897, 229): 'the army
of excubitores' Bo, CP,
cf Ev,
2.
Bo 410.8-411.5; CP 611,19-612.8
(AD519),
Th 165.24-166.2 (AD518/9),
De
i.nsid
43
(170.18-22),
cf Ev IV 2
(153.17-154,5),
(123.5-11), Ke 637.23-638.1,
LG 318.26-32
Sk 93.19-24,
94.1-3,
JN 90.3; Slav: Ist
17.7.14.
As soon as (410.8):
In place of
the whole of this paragraph
reads 'Under the emperor
De insid
Justin uproar broke
out in the most holy
and Amantios the praepnsjtus
church
and Marinus the
down.
illustris were shouted
Amantios the praepositus,
Theokritos the domesticus
Lausiacus were put to
and Andreas
death. The cithicularii
Ardabourios and Misael
were sent into exile'.
The excerpt in question
(De insid 43) continues
without a break with
the Vitalian story given
under paragraphs
below.
Patzig,
5 and 8
1890/1,
13 lists the additional
material from the
excerpt
(also available in, eg,
Marcellinus Comes sub
and calls into question whether
annis 519, 520)
this is really an excerpt
Malalas text. Certainly, at
from a fuller
a point where Ba, Slav,
CP and Th agree
the
general shape of the text given
on
(with some confirmation
from Ev and

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Amantios and his

cubr'cularius Andreas Lausiacus as well as the comes
Theokritos,
the dome_stscus of Amantios.
Amantios had planned to make
the latter emperor by giving Justin money to distribute so that
Theokritos might become emperor; and (411) Justin distributed it.
However,
the army and people, after accepting the money, did not choose
to make Theokritos emperor, but by the will of God made Justin emperor.
After beginning to reign Justin put to death inside the palace those who
had intended to plot against his rule.
3.
The emperor recalled the patrician Appion and also the senators
Diogenianos and Philoxenos, who had been sent into exile by the
previous emperor.
He made Appion praetorian prefect and Diogenianos
later he made Philoxenos
magister militaw per Orientem.
Some time
consul.
4.
At the beginning of his reign there arose in the East a
tremendous star, named a comet which sent out a beam pointing downwards.
People called it Bearded, and they were afraid.
5.
The emperor
immediately won over Vitalian as well, who had
rebelled against. the emperor Anastasios and the state, and appointed him

inagister lm litum praesentalis.

6.

Antioch,

In the first
year of his reign, Severus, the patriarch of
fled to Egypt in fear of Vitalian, and in his place Paul, the

LG),
it
is hard to suggest how the passage in De insid may be defined
within the textual history of Malalas.
his praepasitus Amantios (410.9) CP,
Th,
c De insid:
but. 'Amantios
the praepositus and eunuch'
Slav, cf Ev, underlines the point of the

story.

against his rule (411,4): CP, Slav add 'as usurpers', cf Th.
3.
Bo 411.6-.10; CP 612.9-14 (AD519), Th 166.2-5 (AD518/9),
319.29-30 (124.17-18), Ke 638.1-2; Slav: Ist 17.14-15.

cf

LG

the senators Diogenianos and Philoxenos (411.7): 'Diogenianos the exmagl3ter mllitum and Phi loxenos who was also an ex-tnagLc'ter milituin' CP.
aagister,rrilitruer ,per Orientaw (411.9) Th:
mi1iturn per
Orientem'
Bo

CP;

see

PLRE

II,

362.

CP 612.15-18 (AD519),
Th 166.6-8 (AD518/9),
cf
Ke
638.3-5, PsD 836 (AD524/5) JN 90.5; Slav: Ist 17.16-18.
At the beginning of his reign (411.11) cf Slav:
'In the same year' CP,
Th, Ke.
in the East (411.11): 'throughout the East.'
CP; cf Slav which adds 'in
the evening', Ke adds 'it had a beam pointing to the West'.
5.
Bo 411.14-16; Th 165.3-6 (AD518/9), De insid 43 (170,23-26).
The emperor (411.14): The whole story of Vitalian during Justin's reign
is included in De insid 43 (see para 2 above).
Corresponding to para 5
here we find,
'Vitalian immediately came to Constantinople, and became
4.

411.11--13;

,,wigister militu,uw, with the rank of ex-consul

and consul nm'irk9rius

in

negotiations with him, Justin the emperor appealed to him and gave him
sworn assurances', cf Th for another version, which has some points of
similarity with De insid.
praesentalis (411.16) : Th adds 'and comes ; see PLRE
.n
M

gister litr

II 1174.

Bo 411.17-412.2; Th 165.15-18 (AD518/9),

JN 90.7-9,
cf
Ev IV 4
(154.22-155.17), Ke 637.17-20, PsD 831 (AD519/20); Slav: Ist 17.18-18.5.
Antioch (411.18): 'Antioch the Great' Slav.
6.

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ex-warden of the hospice in

the quarter of Euboulos,
was appointed
patriarch. He included
in the diptychs of the churches
of each city the
630 bishops of the Council
of Chalkedon.
As a result there was a great
schism and many broke communion
with him,
(412)
stating that those
who followed the Council supported
the doctrines of Nestorios.
7.
During his reign hippodromes
were provided for the Seleukeians
and Isaurians.
In that year a woman from
the region of Cilicia appeared.
She was
the race of the giants,
in stature being a cubit taller
and broader
than a full-grown man. She
travelled around the whole
Roman state
begging, and turned up at
Antioch the Great where she collected
from
each workshop one foll1s.

of

8.

)520

The

emperor

Justin

designated
praesentalis Vitalian, and he served as consul the aggi_atPr mill tcun
as consul of the Romans.
he was consul, after his first
While
race, Vitalian was put to
death in the

Euboulos (411.20): Slav adds 'in

Constantinople'.
Patriarch (411.19): Slav adds
'in Antioch'.
Gleye, 1896, 433-4 sees
the influence of Malalas in
an Antiochene date inserted
in Ev's account
at this point, and makes proposals
about possible omissions from Ba.
7.
Bo 412.3-9; Th 171.29-32 (AD524/5),
LG 319.15-19
(124.2-6),
626.19-21; Slav: Ist 18.5-12.
GM
taller and broader than
a full-grown man (412.6;
corn Chil) reading
tncpexouoa TexLOV
Th: unepTkXELov
Ba.
one follis (412.9) Th: c
'one copper coin, and after
accumulating 40
silver coins, which is what
the Antiochenes call. a fouls,
city' Slav.
she left the

Bo 412.10-15; Ev IV 3 (154.17-20),
Th 165.6-8 (AD518/9), 166.19-21
(AD519/20), De insid 43
(170.26-171.5), cf LG 318.25-6(123.4-5).
While he was consul,
after
some point after para 5 above his first race, Vitalian (412.12-13): At
and before the death
here,
of Vitalian narrated
De insid refers to some
hippodrome disturbances.
continues without interruption,
The text
but the transition
(Vasiliev,
is
most abrupt
1950,
111)
and it seems best to
regard them as a separate
event,
distinct from Vitalian's
death.
Further, all sources agree
Vitalian was killed inside
that
connected with the hippodrome. the palace, and nowhere else is his death
A particular problem with
that there is no suggestion
the Ba text is
elsewhere that Vitalian
was murdered at the
his consulate (see,
eg, Stein 1949, 230;
beginning
PLRE II 1176),
implied
ofed by
'after his first race'.
We
lacuna (or a clumsy abbreviation
s
amounting to the same
propose some degree of connection
thing), and
between 'after his first
hippodrome disturbances of
race' and the
De insid.
Within this lacuna, therefore,
insid adds
'When
De
the chariot races had
been held, the faction
created a disturbance
members
in the afternoon.
The soldiers came out and
killed many of them. After that
the factions were
reconciled, while the
prefect Theodoros was watching the
afternoon session (see
285),
Cameron, 1976a
and both left the hippodrome,
joining in revelry.
they assembled in the hippodrome
The next day
and asked the emperor
races, and the factions chanted
to watch the
requests for dancers.
for Karamallos, the Blues
The Greens called
for a certain Porphyrios
from Alexandria, the
Reds and Whites for their favourites.
The emperor granted
what it had asked for.
each faction
After this they rushed
with their cloaks through
8.

tentatively

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palace for having rebelled against the Romans and for having plundered
many cities and territories of the Roman state.
9.
During his reign Ztathios, the emperor of the Laz, angrily
departed
from Persian territory. This was while the Persians were
ruled by Koades,
a friend of
Ztathios,
emperor of the Laz,
who had
once been under the rule of Koades.
Thus whenever an emperor of the Laz
his successor, though from the race of the Laz, was
happened
to die,
appointed and crowned by the emperor of the Persians.
(413) The
emperor of the Laz had rejected the belief of the Hellenes and so as not
to be appointed by Koades, emperor of the Persians, and not to perform
sacrifices and all the other Persian customs, as soon as his father
Damnazes died, he immediately travelled to the emperor Justin in
Byzantion, put himself at his disposal and asked to be proclaimed
emperor of the Laz.
He was received by the emperor, baptized, and,
having become a Christian, married a Roman wife named Valeriana, the
granddaughter of Nomos the patrician,. and he took her back with him
to his own country. He had been crowned by Justin, the emperor of the
Romans,
and had put on a Roman imperial crown and a white cloak of pure
silk.
Instead of the purple border it had the gold imperial border; in
its middle was a true purple portrait medallion with a likeness of the
emperor
He also wore a white
a ,a9rc9gazeion, with gold
imperial
embroideries,
equally
including the likeness of the emperor.
The shoes that he wore he had brought from his own country, and they
were studded with pearls in Persian fashion.
Likewise his belt was

tunic,

Justin.

the
the

city and the hippodrome, and paraded in celebration over nearly all
city.
Members of the factions joined together and dragged around
some of the
(reading napaxev @v
cf CP
rzapaxevotia)v
622.20, but the meaning is uncertain) and threw them into the sea'.
Vitalian was put to death in the palace (412.13): 'Vitalian, the consul
and magister wnilitum, was put to death in the palace, as was Celerianus,
other
his treasurer'
(reading oalEAtpLoc for xsX.dpLoc,
'cellarer';
'bodyguard', or even, 'secretary)
possible readings are (3OUJCCAMPLo(;
De insid; see PLRE II, 278 and Vasiliev, 1950, 111.
Roman state (412.14): cf Th which adds 'at the time of his uprising
against Anastasios'.
9.
Bo 412.16-414.16; CP 613.3-615.4 (AD522), Th 168.14-169.12(AD522/3),
JN 90.35-41, Ke 638.17-639.7; Slav: Ist 18.12-19.13.
During his reign (412.16): cf CP, which presents the material of the
first few sentences in a different order from Ba; neither is really
satisfactory.
Ztathios (412.6): written as 'Tzathios' CP, Th, cf Ke, JN; see Vasiliev,
1950, 259, note 1 and Rochow, 1983, 464-5.
crowned by the emperor of the Persians (412.21): CP adds 'of the time'.
Damnazes (413.5): cf 'Zamnaxes' CP.
Nomos (413.9) Th: written as 'Oninos' CP, cf Slav, JN.
the patrician (413.9): CP, Th, Slav add
'and ex- curatalates
see
Patzig, 1890/1, 11.
He had been crowned (413.10-11):
'He
had been appointed and crowned'
CP, Slav, cf Th; see Rochow, 1983, 465.
true purple portrait
medallion (413.14):
'small
purple portrait
medallion' CP, cf Slav.
shoes (413.17): 'red shoes' CP, Th, Slav; see Rochow, 1983, 465.

riff-raff

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decorated with pearls. He received many gifts from the

emperor Justin,
as did his wife Valeriana.
When Koades, the emperor of the Persians, learned
of this, he sent
(414) the following message to the emperor Justin by
an ambassador,
"Though friendship and peace between
us are discussed and are now
established,
your actions are hostile. Witness the fact that
you have
appointed as emperor of the Laz a subordinate of
mine, who does not come
under the Roman administration but has from time immemorial
belonged to
the Persian state".
In reply Justin, the emperor of the Romans, made
the following statement through an ambassador,
"We have neither annexed
nor won over any of those subordinate to your empire.
In fact, a man
named Ztathios came to us in our empire and begged as a
suppliant to be
rescued from Hellenic belief, from impious sacrifices
and from the
errors of demons, and asked to become a Christian,
worthy of the grace
of the eternal God, the Creator of all
things.
It was impossible to
prevent someone who wished to enter a better way and
to know the true
God.
Thus,
when he had become a Christian and worthy of
the heavenly
mysteries, we sent him back to his own
country". As a result, there was
enmity between Romans and Persians,
10.
In
that year the emperor of the Persians won
over a king of
the Huns, named Zilgibi. The emperor Justin
heard about this, and
since he had formerly won over Zilgibi to aid the
Romans and had sent
him many gifts and made an agreement.
with him on oath,
he was
exceedingly displeased at the news that he had gone
over to the Persian
emperor.
(415) After he had been won over by Koades,
emperor of the
Persians,
the Hun marched to join Koades, the Persian
emperor,
against
the Romans with 20,000 men, to begin a campaign
against the Romans. The
most sacred Justin revealed king Zilgibi's perfidy
and perjury to the
emperor Koades through his envoy in a friendly
message proposing peace,
just as if, it is said, he had written
for another purpose.
He told him
that he had accepted money from the Romans
to act against the Persians,
to betray them and to join the Romans the
moment the battle began;
"It
is necessary",
he continued, "for us, brothers as
we are, to speak out
in
friendship and not be made the sport
of these dogs",
When the
Persian emperor learned of this, he asked
Zilgibi, "Have you accepted
gifts from the Romans and been won over
against the Persians?" Zilgibi
told the truth and confessed. Koades,
emperor of the Persians, was

his wife Valeriana (413.21): CP adds 'since

she had now been compelled,
or persuaded, to marry him and to go
to a foreign empire', cf Slav; see
Patzig, 1890/1, 12.
Hellenic belief (414.9): 'polluted Hellenic
belief' CP, Th, Slav.
it was impossible (414.13; corr Dind)
CP: 'we win him over'
Ba;
Dind
points out the problem.
10.
Bo 414.17--415.21; CP 615,5-616.8 (AD522), Th 167.4-20
(AD520/1), JN
90.42-6; Slav: Ist 19.13.
Zilgibi
(414.18): on the forms of the name in the
texts deriving from
Malalas, see Vasiliev, 1950, 265, note
18.
gone over to the Persian emperor (414.22): CP adds
to join Koades, the Persian emperor (415.1; corr) 'Koades'.
CP, cf JN:
om Ba; see

Patzig,

1890/1, 12,
Zilgibi told the truth and confessed
CP1

Th,

JN.

(415.12-13):

'Zilgibi said,

"Yes"'

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enraged and, suspecting that Zilgibi had come to him treacherously, put
him to death and destroyed many of his horde at night. He despatched a
large force against the Huns, who were unaware that this force had been
sent against them by the Persian emperor but thought. that it was an
invasion
from some other country against the Huns and their king.
The
remaining Huns who survived fled. Then the emperor Koades resolved to
discuss terms for peace and informed the Roman emperor Justin of this
through the envoy Labroios.
11.
In this year Paul,
the patriarch of Antioch, died and (416)
Euphrasios of Jerusalem was appointed in his place.
He carried out a
great persecution of those known as Orthodox, and put many to death.
12.
At that time the Blue faction rioted
in all
the cities
and threw the cities into confusion with stone-throwing, violence and
They even attacked the officials
murder.
in each city, beginning
in Byzantion.
These activities continued
until the appointment in
Constantinople of the ex--cameo Orientlss Theodotos as city prefect. He
was appointed during the first indiction and restored order over the AD522/3
rioting among the Byzantines by punishing many of the rioters at
the emperor Justin's command.
Among these he arrested a certain
Theodosios, nicknamed Ztikkas, who was very wealthy and held the rank of
put him to death without
illustris
Theodotos,
on his own authority,

Labroios (415.20): written as 'Broios' CP; see PLRE II 652.

11. Bo 415.22-416.2; Ev IV 4 (155,21-2), JN 90.14; Slav: Ist 19.13-16.
of Jerusalem (416.1) cf JN: cf 'patriarch of Jerusalem' Slav.
12.
Bo 416.3-417.4; Th 166.26-33 (AD519/20),
Ke 638.5-11,
cf JN
90.16-23; Slav: Ist. 19,17-20.
At that time
'In
the second year of the reign of Justin'
(416.3):
Slav, cf Th.
beginning in Byzantion (416.6): 'This evil disorder arose in Antioch'
Th, Ke, cf Slav; Th adds (replacing the rest of this section), 'and from
there spread to all cities and was rampant for five years. They killed
going up and
with their swords the Greens whom they encountered,
murdering even those who were hiding at. home.
The authorities did not
dare
impose punishments for the murders.
This went on until the sixth
year of the pious Justin', cf Ke, Slav.
the ex-caws 6&-lentis Theodotos (416,8):
before this JN adds 'And
there arose many men belonging to the people who in Constantinople and
Justinian, his
the cities of Hellas
loudly accused the patrician
brother's son.
Now Justinian helped the Blue faction to commit murder
and pillage among the various nations,
And the emperor appointed (as)
prefect'.
This and the following readings of JN are interesting in that
they provide a narrative which could have been abbreviated into Ba,
a)
since there are several points of correspondence; b) they seem to show
some knowledge
of the situation described in Prokopios, SH IX 35-42,
especially Justinian's personal involvement and his illness at a crucial
On the other hand a) JN does not correspond to Prokopios in
moment.
detail; b) the monophysite JN was anxious to find material derogatory to
the orthodox Justin and Justinian.
The issues are partly faced by
Vasiliev, 1950, 117.
Justin's command (416.11): JN adds
'and he made him swear that he
would show no partiality'.
put him to death (416.14): JN adds 'And next he had Justinian the

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anger and he

AD520

t.he emperor'S
This met with
exile
reporting this to the emperor.
and ordered into
rank
his
of
deprived
third
office,
the
from
in
was dismissed
he fled in terror
After reaching the East,
in hiding.
East.
stayed
in the
he
jerusalem where
city
asylum in
indiction' and sought
was appointed
Teganistes1
nicknamed
He
ex-consUl,
A.ntioch.
in
Theodoros, the
appointed
of Mnida was
the
rioting
of
prefect in his place. Ephraimios
the
Then
rioting by the Blues.
took measures against the
disturb&)Ces in the cities.
rio more
caused
ceased
and
Blue faction (417)
the East were
and all dancers
prohibited
were
spectacles
But
the Great lfl Egypt.
banished, except from Alexandria
festival from being
the Olympic
prevented
emperor
The
13.
The number of alytarchs
the 14th indiction.
celebrated in Antioch aEter
the Olympic festival
Afranius to the year 568 when
who held office, from
was stopped, WaS 77.
was cot/las
Carinus,
son of
year while Anatolius,
divine
14,
In that
through
occurred in Antioch
The
a great conflagration
displeasure.
corning
God's
This conflagration foretold
praetorium
anger.
the
to
Stephen
of St
occurred
burned area extended from the
many
Even
ipiJituin.
ir*,qister
and
the
of
burned
were
houses
many
At
in various neighbourhOods of Antioch
fire.
the
of
discover the source
many lives lost and no one could
the emperor
Antioch,
of
patriarch
the
the entreaty of Euphraisios,
the places that had been
cent anon/a of gold to
generously gave two

after this

burned.
15,

In

that

year

it happened

that the place

known

as

Dyrrachium.

fell

But when he
and wished to put him to death.
arrested,
ill, he let him go'
13. Bc 417.58; Slav: 1st 19.2123.
The emperor (417.5): 'Justin' Slav.
Ke 640.1217, iN
Tb 172,111 (ADS2S/6), LJE 224.1218,
14. Bc 417.919;
90.245, cf Lv IV 5 (155.236): slav: 1st 19.2327.
in October of the fourth
'In
this year,
cf
that year (417.9):
In

patrician

indiction' Tb.
great
'a
(417.10-11):
cf
a great conflagration occurred in Antioth
the
city'
Th.
middle
of
unseen
in
the
conflagration arrived
iN adds 'and as far as
of the asqistersilituw (417.13):
of the Syrian nation'; see
and
the
bath
Talnadonhus
bath
called
the

Downey, 1961, 520, note 76.

'for six months';
neighbourhoods of Antioch (417.15): Th, JE, cf iN add
texts
throughout
the description
.JE
to
the
Greek
relationship
of
for the
293-5.
of the Antioch fire and earthquake, see Brooks, 1892,
up
source of the fire (417.16): Slav and Th add 'For the fire flared
five(JE
adds
'and
continues,
cf
JE,
'of
the
roof-tiles';
Th
from the
See Stein, 1949, 242, note 3.
six') storey buildings'.
see PLRE II
Eupbrasios (417.17; corr Chil) Tb, 51ev: 'Euphraimios' Ba;
395.
15. Bc

Tb
168.811 (ADS2I/2),
IV 8
(159.10-23),
417.20419.4;
Lv
(124.1824),
ef ICe
638.1416,
LG
(AD524/5),
171.14-28
Slav: 1st 19.2820.23.
iN 100, PsD 842 (A0530/1)
In that year (417.20) Th: cf 'During his reign' Slav.

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city in the province of Nova Epirus, the birthplace of the emperor

Anastasios,
suffered from the wrath of God. Anastasios had built many
buildings there and (418) had even provided a hippodrome for the
inhabitants.
The emperor Justin provided the city of Dyrrachium with
much money for reconstruction; it had formerly been called Epidamnos.
Likewise he gave generously to the survivors.
In
that year Corinth in Hellas also suffered;
and the emperor
graciously gave much there too.
In the next year Anazarbos, a city in Cilicia, suffered its fourth
calamity from the wrath of God.
The emperor restored it.
In that year Edessa, a great. city in the province of Osrhoene, was
engulfed one evening by the wrath of God in the form of river-water,
from the river known as Skirtos which flows through the middle of
the
city.
The inhabitants
perished together with their houses.
The
survivors and inhabitants of the city used to say that the river had
flooded
this city on another occasion but had not caused such
destruction.
"For we have learned", they said, "that the same thing has
happened on other occasions".
After the anger had ceased, there was
found by the buildings near the river,
when they were having their
foundations cleaned out, a large stone tablet,
on which was carved
the following inscription,
"The river Skirtos
(Leaper) will leap
terrible leapings for the citizens".
The city of Edessa was built by
Seleukos Nikator, who fortified it.
Seleukos, who was a Macedonian, had
named it Antioch the Half-barbarian and, after its first (419) calamity,
it was renamed
Edessa.
The emperor gave much to each city, renewing
them with many beautiful works and giving generously to the survivors.
He renamed Edessa Justinoupolis.
a

Nova Epirus (417,21): Th adds 'in Illyricum'.

in Hellas (418.5): 'the metropolis of Hellas' Th, Slav.
a city in Cilicia (418.7): 'the metropolis of Cilicia Secunda' Ev, Th
Slav; Th adds 'while Kalliopios, son of Eirenaios, was its governor; and
the whole city collapsed'.
restored it (418.7-8): Th adds, cf Ev, 'and named it Justinoupolis'; see
Rochow, 1983, 465.
a great city in (418.9):

'a

great and famous city'

Th; Slav and Th add

'and metropolis of'.

middle of the city (418.10): Slav adds, cf Th, LG,

'and providing it
with beauty and with its needs.
And through the wrath of God it became
swollen with water, more than the sea, and it flooded the city and its
inhabitants and flattened all the houses which stood there, while those
to be spared,
for they were unable to help
in the houses shouted
themselves'.
the anger had ceased (418.16): Slav adds,
cf Th,
LG,
'the water had
dried up'.
by the buildings near the river... cleaned out (418.16-17; corr) cf Slav:
'the buildings near the foundations
of the river which were being
cleaned out' Ba ('by' has been proposed by Chil and inserted in Ba by a
late
hand, see Bury,
1897,
229;
and
'foundations'
seems to be
misplaced); cf 'on the banks of the river' Th, LG.
carved (418.18): cf Th, LG which add 'in hieroglyphics'.

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In the seventh year of his
reign,
in
the month of May,
Antioch the Great suffered its
fifth calamity from the wrath of God,
during the consulship of Olybrius.
Great was the fear of God that
occurred then, in that those caught in
the earth beneath the buildings
were incinerated and sparks of
fire appeared out of the air and
burned anyone they struck like lightning.
The surface of the earth
boiled and foundations of buildings
were
up by the earthquakes and were burned struck by thunderbolts thrown
to ashes by fire, so that even
those who fled were met by flames.
It was a tremendous and incredible
marvel with fire belching
out rain,
rain falling from tremendous
furnaces,
flame dissolving
into showers,
and showers kindling like
flames consumed even those
in the
earth who were crying out. As a
result Antioch became desolate, for
nothing remained apart from some
buildings beside the mountain.
No holy
chapel nor monastery nor any

16. Bo

419.5-421.21;

Ev IV 5

(155.23-156.9),

JE
224.18-225.25,
Th
172.11-173.7 (AD525-7), GM 626.8-15,
LG 319.9-13,
20-24
(123.20-24,
124.7-11), Ke 640.18-641.16,
JN 90,26-34, PsD 846 (AD534/5); Slav:
Ist
20.24-24.20.
seventh year (419,5): Slav and Ev
add 'and the tenth month'.
in the month of May (419.6):
'on 29th Artemisios-May'
Slav, Ev, cf 'on
20th May' Th; Slav and Th add 'of
the fourth indiction'; cf Ev which
adds 'on Friday'; Slav adds
'at
the
the seventh hour' Th, JE. See Rochow, sixth and seventh hours', cf 'at
1983, 465.
Antioch the Great (419.6): Slav, Th,
JN add 'in Syria'.
Olybrius (419.7): Slav, Th add
'in Rome';
Slav, PsD, JE continue, cf
Th.
Ev, LG, GM, 'The destruction
was indescribable, such that no mortal
tongue could express'.
Great was the fear (419.7): 'So great.
cf Slav.

was

the

anger'

Th, JE,

LG,

GM,

in that (419.8): 'that' JE, Th,

LG,
those caught... incinerated (419.8-.9)GM, Slav.
cf Slav, JE: cf 'Almost the
entire
city collapsed and became
a tomb for
its inhabitants.
Some of
those who were buried and still
alive beneath the ground were
burned by
fire that came out of the earth'
Th, Ke, GM, cf LG, probably
from an attempt to tidy the
resulting
text.

boiled (419.11): PsD, JE,

everything',
met by flames (419,13): Slav,

cf Slav, add

'and blazed, setting fire

to

JN add 'like those who remained

in their
houses'.
Slav continues 'Except
for the soil in the fields
this fire
consumed everything in the city,
as soon as it had received
the command
from God; everything was consigned
to a single conflagration'.
sentence may be an interpolation,
The
since Slav is concerned,
elsewhere in
this description, to stress the directness
Antioch (419.17): 'Christ-loving Antioch' of divine intervention.
nothing remained (419,18): Slav adds 'in Slav.
this glorious

city'.
some buildings
(419.18-19):
'sporadic rows of buildings'
Slav,
few buildings' JE.
cf 'a
beside the mountain (419.18): Slav adds,
cf
Olympias to the gates known as those JE, 'From the spring called
of Draduon one could
see them
standing,
but with crumbling walls that threatened
death' many of them
fell
(JE
adds 'the next day'), killing
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Everything
other holy place remained which had not been torn apart.
The great church of Antioch, which had been
had been utterly destroyed.
built by the emperor Constantine the Great, (420) stood for seven
days after this tremendous threat from God, when everything else had
Then it too was
collapsed to the ground during the wrath of God.
overcome by fire and razed to the ground. Likewise other houses
which had not collapsed through the divine calamity were destroyed to
their foundations by fire.
In this terror up to
250,000 people
For this was the great festival of the Ascension of Christ
perished.
our God and a great throng of visitors had come to town. During the
wrath of God it became clear what a great number of citizens there
Many of those who had been buried by earth survived to be
was.

Not one single dwelling, house or stall ('garden

passers-by.
wall' JE) in the city remained undestroyed'.
torn apart (419.20): Slav adds 'and collapsed to its foundations through
the wrath of God'; PsD, JE continue, cf Slav, 'The rest of the buildings
Liquid mud
were reduced to heaps of dust and were destroyed by fire.
('sea sand,
as it were' Slav) boiled and bubbled up from the nether
regions,
there was a rank stench of the sea, and water seemed to flow
out, just as if sea-water were coming up together with the hot mud'.
Constantine the Great (419.22): Slav, PsD JE add 'and which had no equal
even among the Romans ('Greeks' Slav)'.
seven days (420.2) JE:
't.wo
days'
Bo (see Bury, 1897, 229), cf 'five
days' Slav.
from God (420.2-3): JE adds 'though it was cracked'.
razed to the ground (420.4): Slav adds
'Likewise the great church of
the Archangel Michael and the church of the Holy Virgin Mary collapsed
to the ground.
The church of the Archangel Michael had been built by
the emperor Zeno.
Both these sacred houses had remained standing,
wholly undamaged by the earthquake.
But through the wrath of God they
suddenly caught fire, together with the church of the Holy Prophets and
the church of St Zacharias, and then they collapsed to the ground'.
other houses (420.4): 'other churches' Slav, JE.
In this terror
(420.6): 'As far as the survivors were able to count the
dead or their bodies were found'
JE,
cf
'According to informed
estimates' Slav.
Slav adds 'citizens and strangers'; Slav and JN
perished
(420.6):
continue 'men and women, young and old ('babies' JN)'.
to town (420.8):
Slav adds,
cf JN,
'and
just when the bells of the
church called Kration (probably 'Kerateion') were ringing across the
in
customary celebration of the sacred
litany,
at that very
city
moment the earthquakes started'; despite Downey, 1961, 522, note 85, it
seems likely that Slav and JN are referring to the same service here at
the same moment of the earthquake.
During the wrath of God...citizens there was (420.8-10): 'There had been
a great multitude
of
citizens; and the wealth of the property of that
multitude and the length and breadth of their civic possessions were
As for the splendour of the city and its good climate and
inestimable.
the beauty of its churches,
visitors who had seen it both before and
after exclaimed, "This quiet haven from the world, this refuge of the
universe has been utterly desolated!
Where are its creatures and their
finery?" Slav.

burying

'

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Some of the citizens who survived

brought up alive but then died.
gathered whatever of their possessions they could and fled. Peasants
attacked them, stole their goods and killed them. But God's benevolent
for all those robbers
chastisement
of man was revealed even in this,
died violently, some by putrefaction, some were blinded and others
died under the surgeon's knife, and after confessing their sins they
gave up their souls.
One who plundered at that time was Thomas,
SilentJar!us,
a
who had escaped in flight from the wrath of God
and lived three miles out of the city at the place known as St
Julian's Gate, and, by means of his servants, stole everything from the
fugitives. He did this for four days,
and as he was polluting
everything he suddenly died though he had been in good health, (421)
and everyone glorified God.
His property was stolen and lost. He
was buried there, in the place where he died.
For
Other mysteries of God's love for man were also revealed.
pregnant women who had been buried for 20 or even 30 days were brought
up from the rubble in good health. Many, who gave birth underground
beneath the rubble, were brought up unharmed with their babies and
survived together with the children to whom they had given birth.

strangers robbed
stole their goods and killed them (420.13-14):
'and
them and stole from them. For there were robbers who entered the city
to plunder, and they killed many who refused to hand over their
property. When these strangers killed, they robbed their victims of the
only hope or possession left to them: their lives, The strangers
entered the city and pillaged the ruins.
They found caskets of silver
plate, and gold coins and silver lying about.
They found many women
adorned with much gold and with precious stones and beads' Slav.
even in this, for... violently (420,14-15): 'in the fate of these looters
for all who took whatever it was that they had decided
and strangers,
upon died instantly, and not one of them remained alive' Slav.
plundered at that time (420.18): 'with his servants plundered a
lot' Slav.

Thomas (420.18): 'called Thomas the Hebrew' Slav.

in flight (420.19): 'unharmed' Slav.
three miles (420.20): 'two or three miles' Slav.
fugitives (420.21): 'from passers-by and from those fleeing the wrath of
God.
Slav.

There

were also looters who took much gold from under the rubble'

for four days (420.22): Slav adds 'and they took much gold and silver
and other possessions'.
in good health (420.23): Slav adds 'and strong, he collapsed and died
suddenly, before he had even compiled an inventory of all that he had
plundered'.
everyone glorified God (421.1): 'everyone who heard of this glorified
God, the righteous judge' Slav.
His property (421.1): Slav adds 'was dispersed by the elders, and some
of it'.

stolen and lost (421.1-2): Slav adds 'so that he had nothing left but
the robes he wore'.
where he died (421.2): Slav adds 'and in that robe, for fear of the
citizens who were clamouring against him'.
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Equally other children were brought out alive after 30 days. Many
On the third day after the
even more tremendous things occurred.
collapse the Holy Cross appeared in the sky in the clouds above the
northern district of the city, and all who saw it stayed weeping and
praying for an hour.
After the collapse of the city many other
earthquakes occurred during the next 18 months. Buildings collapsed
too at Seleukeia and at Daphne over a distance of some 20 miles.
The
emperor provided much money for the cities that had suffered.
When he
had heard of God's benevolent chastisement of man, he was afflicted with
great sorrow; the games were not held in Byzantion and, when the
time of
Holy Pentecost came, he entered the church without his crown,
weeping and wearing a purple cloak along with all the senators who also
were wearing purple.

were brought out alive (421.8): cf 'perished' Slav.

cf JN,
after 30 days (421.8): Slav adds,
'Other infant children lay
next to their mothers, who were stretched out dead beside them, yet the
children lived and sucked from the women who had died'.
occurred
(421.9):
Slav adds 'the like of which no human tongue can
express, but only immortal God knows the secret'.
after the collapse (421.9): Slav adds,
cf JE,
'that is, on Sunday at
the eighth hour'.
northern (421.10): 'western' S lav, PsD, JE.
an hour (421.12) PsD,
JE:
cf
'one and a half hours,
so long did it
remain after it had appeared in the heavens' Slav, which, in a very
corrupt and difficult addition to the next sentence, may be attempting a
parallel between the hour and a half of vision and the year and a half
of earthquakes.
18 months
(421.14) Slav, PsD, JE: cf 'one year' Th, Ke; Slav adds 'Yet
of that which remained,
nothing fell; no house or church or anything
else fell, though
its fall seemed constantly imminent.
It was as if
someone had said, "God, the lover of all mankind, has forbidden it; they
must stand,
and not. fall". And so they survived the later earthquakes
intact'.
over a distance of some 20 miles (421.14-15):
'over an area some 20
miles square' Slav, cf 'within a radius of 20 miles' JN.
'the divine Justin sent
The emperor provided much money (421.15-16):
many centenaria of gold, more than any other emperor' Slav, JN.
with great sorrow (421.17): Th adds,
cf LG,
Ke, Slav, JN 'he took off
(Slav adds
'immediately') the diadem from his head and the purple, and
mourned in sack-cloth (LG, Ke add 'and ashes') for many days'.
Constantinople,
in Byzantion
(421.18):
'in
for he knew the city of
Antioch and praised and loved it' Slav.
Holy Pentecost (421.18): c
'Holy Thursday of the Great
(ie Easter)
Week' Slav, JN.
(421.19-21): 'When he went (Slav
he entered the church... wearing purple
adds 'in Constantinople from the palace') to the church on a feast day,
he refused to wear the crown or the chlamys, but he went dressed very
plainly in a purple mantle and wept in the presence of the whole senate
(Slav adds
'and the citizens');
everybody wept ('watched him' Slav),
and wore mourning
like him' Th, cf Slav, Ke.
Ke adds (perhaps from
another source) 'all the inhabitants of the city put on dark clothes
and met together in the plain,
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17,
(422)
In that year the emperor sent out the comes Carinus
centenarla.
With him he also sent Phokas the patrician
with five
and Asterios, learned men, giving them much money for the reconstruction
of the city, its aqueducts and bridges over the river, since he knew the
city; for he had lived in it for some time when he had gone there with
He wrote frequently to
the magi strs' milltuw during the Persian war.
these patricians to take care of the city.
Justin's reign the
After eight years and nine months of
18.
most sacred Justinian became co-emperor with him, together with the
Augusta Theodora, and was crowned by his most sacred uncle during
AD527 the consulship of Mavortius. The emperor Justinian gave generously to
the city of the Antiochenes. He established a secure, orderly condition
in
every city of the Roman state and despatched sacred rescripts to

fasting'; see
went on processions of prayer for seven days,
Praechter, 1897, 105.
It
is
interesting that Ev's reference to loannes Rhetor (=Malalas)
here mentions that the earthquake is the last event in the chronicle;
see Patzig, 1890/1, 20.
17. Bo 422.1--8; Th 173.7-13 (AD526/7); Slav: Ist 24.21-25.4.
to see
'for excavation,
five centemria (422.2): Slav adds, cf Th,
whether any person or property had survived'; Th continues 'and to
preserve what had been buried from robbers and looters'; Slav continues
'and to investigate the earthquake thoroughly and on his return he was
to report to the emperor what should be done'.
Phokas the patrician (422.2-3): Slav adds, cf Th, 'son of Krateros, and
a rich man'.
and Asterios (422.3): Slav continues, cf Th,
'the patrician and
ex- referendarius and ex-prefect of the city, a wise man, instructing
"Both of you,
see that the men survive, and put up the city's
them,
buildings quickly"'. See Rochow, 1983, 465.
for the reconstruction of the city (422,4) Th: 'and told them about the
various places in the city, about the public baths and' Slav.
had lived in it (422.6): Slav adds 'pleasantly'.
frequently (422.7): 'every day' Slav.
take care of the city (422.8): 'saying, "As many centerarre as you need,
let me know, so that I may send them"' Slav.
Th
18. Bo 422.9-21;
Ev IV 9
(159.24-29),
CP 616.15-617.6 (AD527),
170.24-29 (AD52314), Eccl Hist 109.26-30, 110.6-7, JN 90.48; Slav: Ist
25.5-11, Soph 127.
nine months (422.10): CP, Slav, cf Ev, add 'and five days'.
most sacred Justinian (422.10): CP adds, of Slav, 'his relative, who was
magnanimous beyond measure',
together with the Augusta Theodora (422.11) Slav:
cf
'was proclaimed
together with his wife Theodora' CP.
uncle (422.12): CP, Slav add 'Justin'.
'on
in the consulship of lavortius (422.12):
1st Xanthikos,
April
of the fifth indiction, in the year 575 of
according to the Romans,
Antioch in Syria, when Mavortius was consul in Rome' CP, Slav, of Ev,
Tb; see Patzig, 1890/1, 10,
The emperor Justinian...Antiochenes (422.12-13): 'The emperors provided
many gifts of money for restoration in Antioch' Eccl Hist.
orderly condition in (422.14-15): CP adds 'Constantinople and'.

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every city so that rioters or murderers, no matter to what faction

they belonged, were to be punished;
thus in future no one dared
to cause any kind of disorder, since Justinian had struck fear
into all provinces.
For a short period the factions of Antioch the
Great were on friendly terms.
19.
(423) He built in Antioch a
church of the Holy Mother of
God and ever-virgin Mary, opposite the building known as the basilica of
Rufinus,
building close to it another church, that of Saints Kosmas and
Damian.
Equally he also built a hospice, baths and cisterns. Likewise
the most. devout Theodora also provided much for the city.
She built an
extremely fine .church of the archangel Michael; she also built what is
known as the basilica of Anatolius, for which the columns were sent
from Constantinople.
The Augusta Theodora made and sent to Jerusalem a
set with pearls.
very costly cross,
The emperor Justinian despatched
gifts to all tax-payers in the Roman state.
20.
The emperors appointed the patrician Hypatios as wgister
militum per Orientem to protect the eastern regions from Saracen
incursions.
21.
At.
that time many Manicheans were punished in every city.
Among those punished was the wife of the senator Erythrios and
other women as well.
22. The conies Orient.l's, when the wrath of God occurred, was
Ephraimios, who was compelled a short time later to accept appointment
as patriarch of Antioch, for his predecessor Euphrasios had been burned
to death during the wrath of God.
The pious emperors, learning (424)
that Ephraimios, the
comes Orient-is, had been consecrated patriarch
canonically by the clergy, appointed as comes Orientl's in his place

to be punished
(422.16):
CP adds
'and that nobody was to throw stones
or commit murder, but to watch the races in good order'.
19. Bo 423.1-12; Eccl Hist 110.7-9, 3N 90.50.
he built (423.1): 'the emperors built' Eccl Hist.
a hospice
Eccl Hist adds
'the one named after Just.inian'; of
(423.4):
Eccl
Hist which continues 'They (ie probably Justinian and Theodora)
ordained that the city be named Theoupolis'; but cf Book 18, para 29.
the columns were sent (423.8): the translation with a passive verb
reflects an active masculine participle,
which apparently refers to
Theodora (but in a formulaic construction normally applied to an
emperor).
20. Bo 423.13-15; Th 170.30-171.2 (AD523/4).
Hypatios (423.13):
Th adds
'the son of Secundinus'; see Rochow, 1983,
465,

the eastern regions from (423.15): Th adds 'the Persians and'.

21. Bo 423.16--18; Th 171.2-3 (AD523/4); Slav: Ist 25.11-13.
At that time ...every city (423.16-17):
'The two emperors undertook the
persecution of God's enemies,
the Manicheans'
Slav;
Slav and Th
continue 'and they punished many of them'.
the senator Erythrios (423.17): of 'the patrician Andronikos' Slav.
other women as well (423.18): Slav adds 'and from that time the theatre
was discontinued'.
22. Bo 423.19-424.13;
cf Th 173.21-22 (AD526/7),
172.30-31 (AD526/7),
Eccl Hist 109.31-110.2, PsD 842 (AD530/1); Slav: Ist 25.14-15.
Ephraimios (423.20): cf Th, Eccl Hist, who add 'of Amida'.

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Zacharias,
who came from Tyre,
When Zacharias saw the destruction
in
the city, he entreated the pious emperors
by letter to let him come to
Byzantion
and lead a delegation on
behalf of the city of the
Antiochenes.
He took with him the bishop
of Amida, a devout man, and
other clergy.
They reached Constantinople and,
after accomplishing
much, they returned to
Antioch the Great with imperial
gifts, bringing
30
centeriarla of gold and decrees
on a variety
of subjects to
maintain the ancestral customs
in that
emperors bestowed on the city an additional city. A short time later the
ten centera9.rL9,
23.
Meanwhile the most sacred
Justin became ill from the ulcer
which he had on his foot, for he had been
struck there in battle by an
arrow and that is what caused the
danger to his life.
He died at the
age of 75 on 1st August of the
fifth
indiction. Altogether his
reign lasted nine years and
22 days, including four months with
his
nephew.

30 centerarla of gold
(424.10):
Slav summarizes this
whole section as
follows 'For the rebuilding of the
city 30 centenarsa were
given and ten
for restoring the churches'.
23. Bo 424.14-20; CP 617.6-10
(AD527), Th 173.17-19
(AD526/7), Eccl Hist
109.26-29, JN 90,47; Slav: 1st
25,15-21.
the age of 75 (424.18): 'the age of
77'
Slav,
CP; see Vasiliev, 1950,
63, note 43.

on 1st August of the fifth indiction

(424.17):
'in the month
August according to the Romans, on Sunday
Loos,
1st, at the third
current fifth indiction' CP, cf Slav.
hour in the

BOOK 18 The Time of the Emperor Justinian

1.
(425) After the reign of
Justin, the most sacred Justinian
ruled for' 38 years,
and
7 months
13 days from 1st April in the 5th
indiction, in the year 575 according to the calendar of Antioch, during
AD527
the consulship of Mavortius.
In appearance he was short,
with a good chest, a good nose,
fair-skinned, curly-haired, round-faced, handsome, with receding hair, a
florid complexion,
with his hair and beard greying; he was magnanimous
and Christian.
He favoured the Blue faction.
He too was a Thracian
from Bederiana.
2.
In the month of October of the
6th indiction the emperor AD527
appointed an Armenian named Patrikios as comes Orientis in Antioch.
He
gave him a large sum of money with
instructions (426) to go and
reconstruct the city in Phoenice on the Limes, known as Palmyra, and
its churches and public baths.
He ordered a numerus of soldiers to be
stationed there with the Jimitanei, and also the day of Emesa, to
protect the Roman territories and Jerusalem. Palmyra had formerly been
great,
for in that place, before the city was built, David fought with
the fully armed Goliath in single combat.
David struck Goliath with a
stone and felled him and, running up, beheaded him with the sword which
Goliath had been carrying. He took his head and kept it for some days,
and then brought it into Jerusalem in victory, raised on a pole before
him.
So the emperor Solomon made Palmyra a great city because of his
father David's victory and gave it its name, since it had been the death
(moira,) of Goliath.
Formerly this city also protected Jerusalem. Thus

Book 18...Justinian:

'Book 17

(si c), The sixth destruction in Antioch'

Slav.

Bo 425.1-9; CP 616.19-617.1,11-15 (AD527), cf Th 173.13-14(AD526/7),

241.3-4 (AD565), Ke
Slav: Ist 26.1-5.
ruled...13 days
(425.1-2): 'reigned alone, reckoning the years from the
time when he was proclaimed emperor;
that is, from the month of
Xanthikos,
which
is April 4th' Slav, cf CP.
This variant may indicate
that Slav's text of Malalas derived from a stage in the tradition in
which the chronicle did not extend to Justinian's death - perhaps coming
to an end approximately where Slav itself now ends (cf the comments of
Ev at Book 17,
para 16).
CP, which seems to reflect the phrasing of
Slav and gives a different length for Justinian's reign (38 years and 11
months),
hints at. the possibility of an intermediate stage of the
tradition.
he was short (425.5): Slav adds 'he made mistakes while speaking the
Roman language, though he wrote it flawlessly'.
2.
Bo 425.10-426.20; Th 174.12-15 (AD527/8).
in Phoenice on the limes (426.1):
'in Phoenice Libanensis situated
on
the inner limes'Th.
1.

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Zacharias, who came from Tyre.
When Zacharias saw the destruction
in
the city, he entreated the pious emperors
by letter to let him come to
Byzantion
and lead a delegation on behalf of the
city of the
Antiochenes.
He took with him the bishop of Amida,
a devout man, and
other clergy.
They reached Constantinople
and, after accomplishing
much,
they returned to Antioch the Great
with imperial gifts, bringing
30
centenarla of gold and decrees
on a variety of subjects to
maintain the ancestral customs in
that city.
A short time later the
emperors bestowed on the city an additional
ten centeresrth.
23.
Meanwhile the most sacred Justin
became ill from the ulcer
which he had on his foot, for he
had been struck there in battle by an
arrow and that is what caused the danger
to his life.
He died at the
age of 75 on 1st August of the fifth
indiction. Altogether his
reign lasted nine years and 22
days, including four months with his
nephew.

30 centenaries of gold (424.10);

Slav summarizes this
whole section as
follows 'For the rebuilding of the city
30 centenarta were given
for restoring the churches'.
and ten
23. Bo 424.14-20; CP 617.6-10 (AD527),
Th 173.17-19 (AD526/7),
Eccl Hist
109.26-29, JN 90.47; Slav: 1st 25.15-21.
the age of 75 (424.18): 'the age of
77'
Slav,
CP; see Vasiliev, 1950,
63, note 43,

on 1st August of the fifth indiction

(424.17):
'in
the month Loos,
August according to the Romans, on Sunday
1st, at the third hour
current fifth indiction' CP, cf Slav.
in the

BOOK 18 The Time of the Emperor Justinian

After the reign of

years,
7 months and
38
indiction,
in the year 575 according
the consulship of Mavortius.
(425)

1.

ruled

for'

Justin, the most sacred Justinian

13 days from 1st April in the 5th
to the calendar of Antioch, during

AD527

a good nose,
appearance he was short, with a good chest,
fair-skinned, curly-haired, round-faced, handsome, with receding hair, a
florid complexion, with his hair and beard greying; he was magnanimous
He favoured the Blue faction.
He too was a Thracian
and Christian.

in

from Bederiana.
2.
In the month of October of the
6th indiction the emperor AD527
He
appointed an Armenian named Patrikios as comes Orientis in Antioch.
gave him a large
sum of money with instructions
(426) to go and
reconstruct the city in Phoenice on the Jimes, known as Palmyra, and
its churches and public baths.
He ordered a ntunerus of soldiers to be
stationed there with the Jiinitanei, and also the dour of Emesa, to
protect the Roman territories and Jerusalem. Palmyra had formerly been
great,
for in that place, before the city was built, David fought with
the fully armed Goliath in single combat. David struck Goliath with a
stone and felled him and, running up, beheaded him with the sword which
Goliath had been carrying. He took his head and kept it. for some days,
and then brought it into Jerusalem in victory, raised on a pole before
him.
So the emperor Solomon made Palmyra a great city because of his
father David's victory and gave it its name, since it had been the death
of Goliath.
Formerly this city also protected Jerusalem. Thus

Book 18...Justinian:

'Book 17

lsic..1,

The sixth destruction in Antioch'

Slav.

Bo 425.1-9; CP 616.19-617.1,11-15 (AD527), cf Th 173.13-14(AD526/7),

241.3-4 (AD565), Ke 642.10--15; Slav: Ist 26.1-5.
ruled...13 days (425.1-2): 'reigned alone, reckoning the years from the
time when he was proclaimed emperor; that is,
from the month of
Xanthikos,
which is April 4th' Slav, cf CP. This variant may indicate
that Slav's text of Malalas derived from a stage in the tradition in
which the chronicle did not extend to Justinian's death - perhaps coming
to an end approximately where Slav itself now ends (cf the comments of
Ev at Book 17, para 16). CP, which seems to reflect the phrasing of
Slav and gives a different length for Justinian's reign (38 years and 11
months),
hints at. the possibility of an intermediate stage of the
tradition.
he was short (425.5): Slav adds 'he made mistakes while speaking the
Roman language, though he wrote it flawlessly'.
2.
Bo 425.10-426.20; Th 174.12-15 (AD527/8).
'in Phoenice Libanensis situated on
in Phoenice on the Mmes (426.1):
1.

the inner

I,ime._s' Th.

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the Persian emperor Nebuchadnezzar advanced by way of it and took it

with great effort first, for he feared to leave it at his rear since an
army of Jewish soldiers was stationed there. He captured it, burnt it

and so took Jerusalem.

D528

3.
Justinian distributed consular largesse in the 6th indiction
in the month of January.
4.
In that year .the Persian
emperor went to war with
(427)
Ztathios,
the emperor of the Laz,
because he had gone over to the
The emperor of the Laz sent a request to the emperor of the
Romans.
Romans, asking for a military force from him.
Justinian sent him

three ma_gistri

1#11ittnn

- Gilderic,

Kerykos and

Eirenaios - with a

Roman force,
and
when they joined battle many fell on both
sides.
On hearing of this the Roman emperor was angry with the
,gistri mllitum,
since they had betrayed one another through mutual
jealousy. Because of his anger he dismissed them.
The J7/ogister militum
Peter came, removed their commission, took their armies from them and

great

withdrew from that area.

5..

The emperor reconstructed a city in Armenia named Martyropolis,

renaming it Justinianoupolis.
He constructed its walls and colonnades
for they had fallen into ruin in the course of time, and transferred

took Jerusalem (426.20): Th has a lacuna in this paragraph from 'and

also the dur'up to its last words, which are '...and the Holy Places'.
3.
Bo 426.21-22; CP 617.18-21 (AD528),
Th 174.16-18 (AD527/8),
Ke
Slav: Ist 26.6-8.
(426.21-2):

Justinian...January
of
his reign,
in

'The emperor Justinian in the 1st year

month Audynaios,
on 1st January by the Roman
system, in the 6th indiction, distributed more money, and bestowed it. on
all, than any other emperor during his consulship' CP, cf Th, Slav.
At
this
point,
in an area otherwise apparently
drawing on
Theophanes, Ke has a passage on Justinian's persecution of Arians and
his construction of a monastery out of the churches of Saints Sergius
and Bacchus and of the Holy Apostles near his palace and the sea; since
it is not attested by Th or CP its position in the tradition is unclear.
4.
Bo 427.1-13; CP 618.1-13 (AD528), Th 174.19-26 (AD527/8), JN 90.52,
Ke 643.3-9; Slav: Ist 26.8-12.
Ztathios (427.2): written as 'Tzathios' CP, Th.
emperor of the Romans (427.3): 'the emperor Justinian' CP, Slav.
Gilderic (427.5): 'Belisarios' CP, Th, Ke, JN, Slav; see Patzig,
1891/2, 26.
Eirenaios (427.5): CP adds 'son of Pentadia', cf Slav.
many fell on both sides (427,6-7): 'many Romans fell' CP1 JN, cf Th,
cf
'many Persians fell' Slav (perhaps by confusion with 'they cut. down
many Persians', as read by CP, JN, cf Th, at 427.12-13.
betrayed one another (427.9): CP adds 'and sent information to the
emperor against each other'.
The isgister milltrv Peter (427.11):
'Peter,
the 'Re'gister milltum and

the

ex-imperial notaries' CP, cf

Th.

withdrew from that area (427.12-13): 'When he attacked the Persians

with the Laz, they cut down many Persians' CP, JN, cf Th.
5.
Bo 427.14-17; Slav: Ist 26,12-14.
in Armenia
(427.14):
'in Armenian Souphania
(= Sophanene)' Slav;
see
Jones, 1971, 224-5.

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an eastern nunerus there.
6.
In that year the king
of
the Heruli, named
over to
the Romans and arrived
Grapes, came
in Byzantion with
his own force. He
obeisance
made
to the emperor Justinian
and asked to become
He was baptized at Holy Epiphany
a Christian.
with the emperor Justinian
his sponsor
in holy baptism.
acting as
His senators and (428)
relations were baptized with
twelve
of his
him,
When Justinian
had bestowed many
gifts on him and dismissed him,
he travelled with
his force
homeland, with the emperor of the Romans
saying to him, "Whenever to his
you, I will inform you".
I want
7.
In his reign
various heresies
were suppressed
churches taken away from them, except
and their
for those known
as the Exakionite
Arians.
8.
The whole period from
the accession of Augustus
Imperator to the completion of
Octavian
the second consulship of
Justinian in the 7th
the emperor AD528
indiction is 559
years, so
years from Adam to this
of
indiction
is
6497, which tisttheenumber
AD528/
years I
found in the works of
of
Clement., Theophilos
and Timot.heos, the
chroniclers who agree among themselves.
In the chronology
of Eusebios
Pamphilou,
I
found the number of
years from Adam to the
of the
emperor Justinian in the 7th
consulship
indiction to be 6432,
chroniclers Theophilos and Timotheos
but the
have calculated and
recorded the
years with
greater accuracy.
The writings of all
that the sixth
millennium had been passed. So therefore indicate
from the foundation

total

6.

Bo 427.17-428.4; Th 174.27-175.5
(AD527/8),

Ke 643.10-15
PsO 844 (AD532/3), MS 9.21 (192); Slav:
Ist 26,14-27.1,
Grapes (427.19):
written as 'Grates' Th, Ke, 'Grates'
Slav,
MS; see Stein, 1949, 305, note 3.

JN 90,70,

'Agripas'
Byzantion (427.19): 'Constantinople'
Th, Slav.
7.
Bo 428.5-7; Th 176.17-19 (AD527/8),
Ke 645.7--8; Slav: Ist 27,1_3,
away from them (428.1): Th adds, cf
Ke, 'and given to the
Orthodox
8.
Bo 428.8-429.9; Slav: Ist 27.3-28.6,
Soph 128.
559 (428.11): cf '6059' Slav.
from Adam to this indiction
(428.11-12):
'from Adam the
first-created
to the
imperial consulship of the
divine
to its termination
and to the end of the indict.ion' Slav.
6497
(428.12;
'4' is in rasura and
a later hand, see Bury,
1897, 229):
cf
'6407'
('6417'
Soph)
Slav.
Slav continues
'According to the
Antiochenes who live in the city by
the Orontes this was
the 577th year
starting
from Juliuus Caesar.
According to the Alexandrians
who are
Egyptians and live by the Nile, this was
the 245th year from Diocletian,
According to the so-called Syrian
Macedonians of Apamea,
40th (sic) year from Seleukos Nikator'
this was the
Slav.
Clement,
Theophilos and Timotheos, the
chroniclers (428.1,1-14):
'Timotheos and Theophilos, the very
of
learned chroniclers'
Slav.
agree among themselves (428.14): cf 'spoke
accurately' Slav,
6432 (428.17): cf 'b032' Slav.

Justinian,

Theophilos and Timotheos (428.17.-18): cf

Slav which adds
(428.19): cf 'and that'andtheclement'.
thousand is to come lura; after the
seventh
corrupt passage; see Franklin, 19871, present seventh inx]iction' Slav (a

sixth millennium had been passed

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Rome to the second consulship of the most sacred Justinian there

were 1280 years more or less; from the foundation of Constantinople
to the consulship mentioned above of Justinian and the completion
of
the 7th (429) indiction is 199 years.
One must not add up the
years of the earlier emperors according to the number mentioned above
for their reigns, because two used to reign at the same time;
equally fathers would crown their children from infancy and reign with
them.
The chronicler must thus record how many years each emperor
reigned, but readers of chronicles must pay attention simply to the
sum of the years that have elapsed in the case of the reigns of all the
emperors mentioned above.
9.
At this time, as I mentioned above, the most sacred Justinian
reigned;
Koades Darasthenos,
the son of Perozes, was emperor of the
Persians and Athalaric, grandson of Valemeriacus, reigned in Rome;
Andas,
who
Hilderic, grandson of Geiseric, was king of Africa;
became a Christian, reigned over the Axoumite Indians, and Samanazos
over the Iberians.
10.
In the year of Justinian's reign mentioned above a man named
Sittas was dispatched as 1&4gister militum per Armeniam, for in previous
of

times Armenia did not have a mrtgister milittum but daces, governors
and

tri militia preesentaies and the mtagister ini1ittum per Orlentem,

conrites.

two ,,zaq

The

emperor

gave

Sittas

numbei

of soldiers from the

Sittas enrolled indigenous (430) scriniarii and made them his own
military
scriniarii in accord with an imperial rescript,
having
requested the emperor to enrol natives since they knew the regions of
The emperor granted him this and the rights of the Armenian
Armenia.
duces and comites, and also consulars who were formerly milites
for the former offices had been abolished.
He also took

cf
1280 years more or less (428.21):
'1200 years,
no more, no less'
Slav.
foundation of Constantinople (428.22): 'foundation of the very rich city
that is, from 11th of the month of May-Artemision'
of Constantinople,
Slav.
199 years (429.1): Slav adds 'no more, no less'.
reign with them (429.4): Slav adds 'Others reigned in Rome'.
each emperor reigned (429.6): Slav adds 'from the time he was proclaimed
emperor'.
simply (429.8): 'not simply' Slav; see Gleye, 1896, 425.
9.
Bo 429.10-15; Slav: Ist 28.7-12.
reigned (429.10): Slav adds 'over the Romans and in Constantinople'.
son of Perozes (429.12): 'elder son of Perozes' Slav.
Athalaric (429.12; cart Chil): 'Alaric' Ba; see PLRE II 172-3.
Hilderic (429.13): written as 'Gilderic' Ba.
Geiseric (429.13): written as 'Ginzirichos' Ba.
Axoumite (429.14): Slav adds 'and Amerite' (= 'Homerite').
Samanazos over the Iberians (429.15; 'Zamanazos' Ba, see Bury, 1897,
229): 'Samanazos reigned in Lazica' Slav.
10. Bo 429.16--430.11;
Th 175.5-11 (AD527/8),
Ke 643.16-22; Slav: Ist
28.12-22.
Sittas (429.17): written as 'Ztittas' Ba (see PLRE III).

dts,

governors and crxsites (429.19):

governors' Slav.

'satraps,

duces,

comites and

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four numeri from the maglster milltuo jer Orientem and from

that time

he

became a great bulwark for the Romans.

Sittas was a warlike man who
married the sister of the }Augusta Theodora, named Komito, whose wedding
in the
palace
of Antiochos near the hippodrome in
took
place
Constantinople.
11.
In that year the emperor promulgated a sacred decree concerning
bishops,
heads of orphanages,
oikonomoi and wardens of hospices, that
each of those mentioned above should have power of bequest only
over those things held as property before entering office, and that
immediately upon appointment his wealth was to be declared.
In that year the district of Sykai with its theatre and walls
12.
was reconstructed, and he renamed it Justinianoupolis.
13.
In that year the queen of the Sabir Huns came over to the
She was a woman manly both in size and wisdom, named Boa, a
Romans.
widow with two small sons and 100,000 people under her command. (431)
She ruled the lands of the Huns after the death of her husband Blach.
Having been won over by the emperor Justinian with many gifts of
imperial raiment and a variety of silver vessels and not a little money,
she took
captive two other Hunnish kings whom Koades, the emperor of
the Persians, had persuaded into an alliance with him against the
Romans.
Queen Boa captured them as they were passing into Persian
territory to Koades,
emperor of the Persians, with a force of 20,000
men, the majority of whom were slain in the battle.
She captured one of
the kings,
named Tyranx, and she sent him as a prisoner to the emperor
Justinian in Constantinople, who had him executed at St Konon's on the
other side of the Golden Horn.
Glom, the other king of the Huns, was

Bo 430.12-17;

Th 176.20-24 (AD527/8),
Ke 645.9-14,
MS 9.21 (193);
Ist 28.23-29.2.
to be declared (430.16): Slav adds
'From the time he is subject to
It.

Slav:

ecclesiastical
jurisdiction,
then the following applies: whatever he
acquires or disposes of subsequently - that is, after taking office all goes to the church or to the institution which he administers'; cf
Th, Ke, MS.
12. Bo 430.18-17; CP 618.14-17 (AD528); Slav:

In that year the district...Justinianoupolis

Ist 29.2-4.
(430.18-19):

'In that year

the emperor Justinian restored the suburb formerly known as Sykai,

which lies opposite Constantinople, and also the theatre at Sykai and
its
walls,
giving
it
the status of a city and renaming it
Justinianoupolis' CP, cf Slav;
CP
adds 'He also built the bridge by
which one can make the crossing from the other side to the all-blessed
city'.
13.

Bo

Slav:

430.20-431.15;

Th 175.12-23 (AD527/8), Ke 644.1-12, JN 90.61-5;

Ist 29.4-8.

Boa (430.22): 'Boa, rex' Slav, Th, of 'Borax' Ke.

Blach (431.2): written as 'Balach' Th, JN, 'Malach' Ke.
two other Hunnish kings (431.5):
'two kings from another tribe of the
inner Huns' Slav, Th.
into Persian territory (431.8): Slav, Th, Ke add 'through her own land'.
Tyranx (431.11):
written as 'Styrax'
Th,
Ke,
'Stourax'
Slav,
'Astera' JN,
Th,
Glom (431.13): written as
'clones'
'Gloes'
Ke,
'Eglon' Slav,
'Aglanos' JN.

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killed in the battle by the queen's warriors.

year the king of the Hums near Bosporos, named Grod,
14.
In that
also came over to the emperor.
He came to Constantinople and was
baptized. The emperor stood sponsor for him at baptism, and after
bestowing many gifts upon him sent him away to his own country, to guard
the Roman territory, including Bosporos, the city built by Herakles who
came from Spain. Herakles made i'' contribute a yearly tax of cattle to
the Romans instead of money, and named the city "Boon phoros" (tax of
He stationed in
cattle)
(432) which is what he had ordered it to pay.
that city a numerus of Roman or Italian troops known as Spaniards,
giving them a tribune to be on guard with them. There was trade in
the city between Romans and Huns.
This king who had become Christian went away to his own country
near Bosporos where he found his brother.
Leaving him behind with a
they
force of Huns, he went away.
The Huns used to worship idols;
took these and melted them down, for they were made of silver and
elect.rum, and they exchanged them at Bosporos, taking mi l r19rea1R in
return.
The priests of the Huns were furious, and killed the king and
made his brother Mougel king in his place. Fearing the Romans, they
went to Bosporos and killed those who were guarding the city.
Hearing this, the emperor made the ex-consul John the comes of the
Straits of the Pontic Sea, and ordered him to take up his position at
the place known as Hieron, at the mouth of the Pontic Sea, despatching
him with a force of Goths. The emperor began a campaign against the
Huns, sending ships full of soldiers, together with an exarch, through
the Pontic Sea and sending likewise by land a large force under the
command of the general Badouarios.
When the barbarians heard this (433)

queen's warriors (431.15): Th, Ke add 'And in this way she became an
ally at peace with the emperor Justinian'. Slav adds '(Here) ends the
Hellenic chronicle'.
14. Bo 431.16-433.2; Th 175.24-176.17 (AD527/8),
Ke 644.13-645.6,
PsD
845 (AD533/4), MS 9.21 (192), JN 90.66-9.
Grod (431.17): written as 'Gordas' Th, Ke, 'Gourdios' MS.
to Constantinople (431.18): Th adds 'and became a Christian', cf Ke, JN.
to be on guard with them (432.3): Th adds 'against the Huns and to exact
the cattle tax', cf Ke.

trade (432.4): 'much trade' Th.

This king (432.5): Th adds 'of the Huns'.
his brother (432.6): Th, Ke add 'and told him of the emperor's love
and liberality and that he had become Christian', cf JN.
furious (432.10): Th adds 'and, united with his brother, went away',

cf Ke.
Mougel (432.12): written as 'Mouageris' Th, 'Mougeras' Ke.
Fearing the Romans... guarding the city (432.12-13): 'In fear that the
Romans might seek him out, they fell suddenly on the city of Bosphoros
and killed the tribune Dalmatius and his soldiers' Th, cf Ke.
the ex-consul John (432,16): Th adds 'the grandson of John the Scyth
and son of the patrician Rufinus', cf Ke.

force of Goths (432.17): 'large force of Scyths' Th, Ke, cf JN.

by land (432,20): Th, Ke add 'Godilas from Odyssopolis and'.

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they fled, and Bosporos became peaceful under Roman government.

15.
In that
year a war occurred among the Indians, between those
called the Axoumitai and the Homeritai.
The cause of the war was as
follows.
The emperor of the Axoumitai is further into the interior than the
Homeritai,
while the emperor of the Homeritai is near Egypt,
It is
through the country of the Homeritai that the Roman traders reach Axoum
and the
Indian empires further into the interior.
For there are seven
empires of Indians and Ethiopians - three of the Indians and four of the
Ethiopians, the latter being close to the Ocean in the areas further
east.
Now when the traders entered the country of the Homeritai for
trading purposes, Dimnos, the emperor of the Homeritai heard of it and
killed them, confiscating all their goods.
He alleged that the
Christian Romans were
ill-treating the Jews in their territory, and
killing many of them each year. That was why trade was cut off. The
emperor of the Axoumitai declared to the emperor of the Homeritai,
"You have done wrong in killing the Christian Roman traders, and you
have caused damage to my empire".
As a result of this there was great
enmity between them, and they went to war against each other.
When the
emperor of the Axoumitai was on the point of fighting, he made a vow,
(434)
saying, "If I defeat Dimnos the emperor of the Homeritai, I shall
become a Christian, for I am fighting him on behalf of the Christians".
The emperor of the Axoumitai was victorious and took Dimnos prisoner,
killed him and all his forces, and took over his land and empire.
After the victory he sent two of his senators and with them 200
men to Alexandria, asking the emperor Justinian that he might receive a
bishop and clergy, be introduced to and taught the Christian mysteries
and be baptized, and that all the land of India phss under the Romans.
All this news was brought to the emperor Justinian by Licinius, the

9uqustaiz'os of Alexandria.
whomever

they

wanted

as

emperor decreed

The
bishop.

The

Indian

that they should take

ambassadors chose the

they fled (433.1): Th, Ke add 'and disappeared', cf JN.

under Roman government (433.1): Th, Ke add 'without fear'.
See Patzig,
1892, 26 on the textual variants of this passage.
15. Bo 433.2-434.18; Th 222.33-223.27 (AD542/3),
PsD 846
Ke 656.6-15,
(AD534/5), JN 90.71-8.
Axoumitai
(433.4):
Th
adds 'Indians', and probably after 'Homeritai'
adds 'Jews' though the text has a partial lacuna.
areas further east (433.11; Bury, 1897, 229): 'eastern areas' Bo.
Dimnos (433.13): written as 'Damianos' Th (and elsewhere), Ke, 'Damnus'
JN,

'Dimnun' PsD.

trade was cut off

(433.17):

Th

'with

adds

the more inland Indians',

cf JN.
(cf
The emperor of the Axoumitai (433.18):
Th adds
'Adad',
'Andas'
434.16, cf 'Andug' PsD) here and elsewhere.
to my empire (433.20):
Th adds
'and inland India by preventing Roman
traders from reaching us', cf JN.
was victorious (434.3): Th adds 'with the help of God', cf Ke.
After the victory (434.6): Th adds 'and giving thanks to God', cf Ke.

azxyusta]ios of Alexandria

(434.12):

Th

adds

'and Justinian rejoiced

greatly at this'.
Indian ambassadors (434.14): Th adds 'after thorough enquiries'.

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juramonarl'os of St John's in Alexandria, a devout and

John,

A3528

celibate

man named

years of age.
Taking the bishop and the clergy whom John
himself had chosen, they brought them back to the land of India to Andas
their emperor.
16.
In that year it
happened that enmity developed between the
dux of Palestine Diomedes, a silentlarrus, and the phylarch Arethas.
Arethas took fright and went to the inner limes
towards India.
On
learning this Alamoundaros, the Persian
Saracen, attacked the Roman
phylarch,
(435) captured
him and killed him, for he had 30,000 men
with him. On learning this, the emperor Justinian
wrote to the daces of
Phoenice, Arabia and Mesopotamia and
to the phylarchs of the provinces
to go after him and pursue him and his
army.
There set out at once the
phylarch Arethas, Gnouphas, Naaman,
Dionysios dux of Phoenice, John dtix
of Euphratesia, and the chiliarch
Sebastianus with their military force.
Learning of this Alamoundaros
the Saracen
fled to Indian territory
with the Saracen force that he had.
The Roman duce ; and phylarchs went
in with an accompanying force
and, not finding him anywhere there, they
set off towards Persian territory.
They captured his camp and took
prisoner a number of men,
women and children, as many dromedaries as
they found and other
animals of various kinds.
They burnt four
Persian fortresses,
capturing the Saracens and Persians
in them, and
they returned victorious
to Roman territory in the
month of April of
the 6th indiction.
62

known7.

The

emperor

eAnapublic
in
tbuild.
awhichcthel emperor
stasiothad begun tto
He built the central
hall of the Basilican cistern
(436), intending to
bring the water of Hadrian's
aqueduct into it.
He also reconstructed
the city's aqueduct.

their emperor

(434,18): Th adds
and so became believers in Christ and
were baptized', cf Ke.
16. Bo 434.19-435.17;
Th 179.15-27 (AD528/9),
JN 90.79-80.
Phylarch Arethas (434.20):
Th adds 'of these
Saracens under the Romans'.
killed him (435.1):
Th adds
'and took
his women and children and
returned'.

Indian territory

(435.9): Th

adds

'where none of the Romans

have

ever

as many draaedaries...kinds
(435.14):
'as many Roman prisoners
found, plus camels,
as they
sheep, oxen and much
silk and clothing'
victorious (435.17);
Th.
'most victorious'
Th.
in the month ... indiction (435.17;
Bury, 1897, 229):
17. Bo 435.18-436.2;
om Bo.
cP 618.20-619.6
(AD528), Th 176.24-27
645.14-16.
(AD527/8), Ke
known as Dagiatheos'
(435.20): 'in the quarter
He built the central
of Dagistheos'
hall of the Basilican
CP, Th.
cistern (435.20-436.1):
made the central
hall of the Basilica
of Illos into
LT', Th, cf Ke.
a
He also recanstzvcted
the city's aqueduct
reconstructed this
(436.2):
aqueduct which
'The
emperor
had been built
emperor Hadian
Previously by the
to
CPwater
thlspeople
f mperorion
of Byzantion before
Bt Provide
Byzantion had a water
SPeuev6aL 'before
supply'); see Downey,

great

ri

'

r'

reservoir

the

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that year some of the bishops from various provinces were

living immorally in matters of the flesh and of homosexual
Amongst. them was Isaiah, bishop of Rhodes, an ex-prapefectus
Constantinople,
and likewise the bishop from Diospolis in
Thrace,
named Alexander.
In accordance with a sacred ordinance they
were brought to Constantinople and were examined and condemned by Victor
who punished them:
he tortured Isaiah severely and
the city prefect,
exiled him and he amputated Alexander's genitals and paraded him
around on a litter.
The
emperor immediately decreed that those
detected in pederasty should have their genitals amputated. At that
time many homosexuals were arrested and died after having their genitals
amputated.
From then on there was fear amongst those afflicted with
homosexual lust..
19.
in that year Pompeioupolis
in Mysia suffered from the wrath
of God.
When the earthquake occurred,
the ground suddenly split
open and half the city with its inhabitants was swallowed up. They
were beneath the ground and the sound of their voices was carried
to the survivors.
The emperor made many benefactions for excavations
to rescue those beneath the ground, and equally to those left
(437)
alive and to the city for its reconstruction.
18.

In

accused of
practices.
vigilun at

Bo 436.3-16; Th 177.11-17 (AD528/9),

Ke 645,17-646,2, GM 645.1-8,
MS 9.26 (221).
He tortured... genitals (436.10-11): cf 'He mutilated the genitals of
some and ordered sharp straws to be inserted into the genital orifices
of others and they were to be paraded naked in the forum' Ke, cf M5; cf
'they were punished dreadfully by the emperor' Th.
on a litter (436.11-12): Th adds 'and the crier yelled out,
"As
bishops, you are not to abuse your holy dress"', of MS.
19. Bo 436.17-437.2; Th 216.17-22 (AD535/6), JE 225.26-226.2 (AD538/9),
GM 626,15-19, PsD 850 (AD538/9), MS 9.21 (193).
wrath of God (436.17): JE adds
'Not only was this city, like others,
demolished by the earthquakes, but there occurred an event of portentous
horror'.
split open (436.18): JE adds 'in the middle of the city', cf MS.
'into a terrible, grim chasm.
swallowed up (436.19): JE adds
As it
is written, it descended alive into the underworld', cf MS.
They were beneath the ground... survivors (436.20): 'Those who had fallen
into the terrible, grim trench, buried deep in the earth, all together
called upon the survivors from the ground in a most piteous tone for
many days. The latter,
though their hearts were wrung by the wails
rising from the uttermost depths, were able to bring them no help' JE,
cf Th, MS.
The emperor (436.21):
'When
this news was brought to the emperor,
18.

he' JE,

(437.1-2):
and equally...reconstruction
'But when not even one person
could be helped or saved in any way, he gave gold to the surviving
inhabitants,
who had escaped the cruel and bitter anger aroused by our
sins and were safe, for the restoration of the rest of the city' JE; see
Brooks,
1892,
295,
One may add that. the Syriac of JE may well be more
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20.
The emperor renewed the laws decreed
by previous emperors
and made new laws which he sent to each city:
that
a governor should
not build a house or buy property
while he held office, unless a
relative of his was involved; the
purpose of this was to prevent owners
from being
coerced
or anyone else forced to make
a bequest to him
because of his official position.
Likewise in the case of natural
children:
that they should inherit according
to the law of the emperor
Anastasios.
As regards an heir:
that he should be permitted to
reject
the inheritance whenever he
wished and he should not be restricted
by a
time limit.
As regards witnesses:
that private citizens should be
forced to give evidence even
against their will.
The
emperor
revoked
the Gothic wood-and-oil tax,
relieving
tax-payers of

this burden.
During his reign two Hunnish
generals invaded Scythia and
Moesia with an army, Badouarios
and Justin being magistri inilitum of
the Romans there. They went
out against the Huns and, when
a battle
took place, Justin was killed
in the fighting.
(438)
Constantiolus,
the son
21,

of Florentius, took his place as magister

per

nzz'J tun
.Hbesaa.
The Huns went plundering
as far as Thrace.
The magister militum
Constantiolus went out against
them,
with Godilas and the magi ster
mllitum per Illyricum Askoum the Hun,
whom the emperor Justinian had
sponsored in holy baptism.
The Huns were surrounded in the
fighting and
many of them fell, all their booty
passing out of their hands.
The
Romans were victorious and even
killed the two kings.
On their way
back they were met by other Huns.
When they joined battle, the Roman
generals,
being weakened from their exercise,
turned and ran. The Huns
came in pursuit and lassoed the
Roman exarchs as they fled.
Godilas
drew his sword, cut the lasso and
made off.
Constantiolus was pulled
from his horse to the ground
and Askoum was captured. After
taking
the two prisoners they
handed back Constantiolus,
for whom they
received 10,000
nomismata from the Roman
emperor, and he returned to
Constantinople.
They kept Askoum the Hun
and returned to their own
territory with many other
prisoners. The region of
Thrace was then at
peace.

20. Bo 437.3-18;
Th
177.17-21
(AD528/9),
CP 619.8-10
(AD529),
646.2-4,
Ke
MS 9.21 (193).
Cf
Bo 448.6-10,
para 38 (apart from CP the
later witnesses combine Malalas'
two entries).

made new laws which he sent to each

city
'made a ronohi.hlos
entitled "The New Constitutions",
In
build a house or buy property (437.6):this he stipulated' Th, cf Ke, MS.
'buy land or build
a house or
inherit alien property except from
somebody related to
him' Th.
21. Bo 437.19-438.20; Th 217.26-218.17
(A0538/9) Ke 651.17-23.
Mannish (437.19): 'Bulgarian' Th, Ke here
1980,

340-5,

and elsewhere;

see Besevliev,

generals (437.19):

'kings' Th.
army (437.20): Th adds 'of Bulgarians
and a droungos
Badouarios and Justin ...
there (437.21):
'when Justin

millturn.,w.r,loeslamand

Badouarios in
Askoum (438.4 etc): written as 'Akoum' Scythia' Th.
Th, Ke,
way back (438.8): Th adds 'joyfully', cf
Ke.
10, 000 nnwz s%wta (438.16) : cf 'a thousand
noml s .yta

Th.

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year Probus the patrician, a relative of the emperor

incurred anger for having slandered the emperor Justinian.
A silenf uv et conventus was held to produce a written record, (439) and
when all the proceedings had been read out to the emperor after Probus'
conviction at a full meeting of the senate,
the emperor took the
proceedings and tore them up, saying to Probus, "I forgive you for the
offence you committed against me. Pray then that. God too may forgive
you".
The emperor was applauded by the senate.
23.
In that year a man
called Eulalios, a comes
went from riches to poverty in the following manner:
a fire broke out
where he was living and he escaped naked with his three children.
He
owed a great many debts and, when on the point of death, made a will in
favour of the emperor, saying in his will:
"The most pious Justinian is
to provide for my daughters at a daily rate of 15 folle.4.
When they are
full-grown and are entering into marriage they are to receive a dowry of
ten litrai o gold each.
My creditors are to be discharged by my heir".
Upon this Eulalios died.
The will was reported to the emperor by the
He ordered him to take up the inheritance.
curator.
He went to the
house where Eulalios had lived and, after making an inventory of his
property,
his wealth was found to amount to 564 nomis,ata.
Returning,
(440) he reported to the emperor the valuation of the property and the
legacies
On hearing, this the emperor instructed the
bequeathed by him.
curator Makedonios to take up the inheritance.
When the curator
objected
to the emperor that the value of the estate was not sufficient
for the terms of the will, the emperor gave his command, saying,
"Why
are you preventing me from taking up the inheritance when I wish to do a
pious act? Go, discharge all his creditors and the legacies devised by
him.
As for his three daughters, I order that they be brought to the
Augusta Theodora to be looked after in the imperial apartments, and I
order that there be given to them as a dowry 20 litrai of gold each and
all the property that their father left to them".
24.
At that time the pious Theodora added the following to her
other good works.
Those known as brothel-keepers used to go about in
every district on the look-out for poor men who had daughters and giving
them,
it is said, their oath and a few nomiswata, they used to take the
girls as though under a contract; they used to make them into public
prostitutes,
dressing them up as their wretched lot. required and,
receiving from them the miserable price of their bodies, they forced
them into prostitution.
She ordered that all such brothel-keepers
should be arrested as a matter of urgency.
When they had been brought
in with the
girls,
(441) she ordered each of them to declare on oath
what they had paid the girls' parents.
They said they had given them
five nomilsn?ta each.
When they had all given information on oath, the
pious empress returned the money and freed the girls from the yoke of
their wretched slavery,
ordering that henceforward there should be no
brothel-keepers.
She presented the girls with a set of clothes and
22.

In

that.

Anastasios,

22. Bo 438.21-439.7.
23. Bo 439.8-440.13; Ke 637.3-9.
24. Bo 440.14-441.7.
as though under a contract (440.18):

difficult phrase, cf Justinian,

Novel 14.
all such brothel-keepers (440.22; Bury,

1897,

229):

'all' om Bo.

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dismissed them with one

nomis9 each.
25.
At the end of this
indiction the Augusta Theodora
set out
for the place known as Pythion
with patricians and
accompanied by 4,000 people.
cuhiculajj',
After giving generously
to the churches in
each place she returned to Constantinople.
26.
In that year news
was brought to the emperor
battle between the Persians
Justinian of a
and the Romans following
a Persian invasion
of Mesopotamia by
an army of 30,000 men under
Xerxes, the son of the
emperor Koades.
His elder
Persarmenia with a large force, son Perozes was fighting in Lazica and
and at that time their father
not enter Roman territory.
Koades did
Against Meran and Xerxes
there set out the
ex- dux of Damascus, Koutzis
the son of Vitalianus,
an excellent soldier,
and Sebastianus with
the Isaurian contingent,
and Proclianus the dcur of
Phoenice and the co/#oqBasileios.
Belisarios and Tapharas
were also with them. Tapharas
the phylarch
(442) was thrown to the
when his horse stumbled,
ground and killed
and Proclianus likewise.
Basileios were taken prisoners,
Sebastianus and
Koutzis was captured after
wounded, but Belisarios
being
escaped by taking flight.
were reported to the emperor
When these events
JustinianI he was extremely
Some generals also fell
distressed.
on the Persian side with
many of their forces,
and the Persians returned
to their own country.
The emperor sent
senators from Constantinople
of
to defend the cities
the East with their
forces,
the patrician Plato to Amida,
patrician Theodoros
the
to Edessa, Alexander
the son of Hierios to Beroia,
and other senators
to Souron and Constantia
to defend the cities.
that time the patrician
At
Pompeios was sent with
included Illyrians,
a large force, which
Scythians,
Isaurians and Thracians.
were suspended by
Hostilities
agreement between the
Romans and the Persians because
of the onset of severe
winter

conditions.
was at that time
that Antioch suffered its
from the wrath of
sixth calamity
God.
The earthquake that occurred
and was accompanied
lasted for one hour
by a terrible roaring
sound, so the buildings
27.

It

that

25. Bo 441.8-12; Th 186.8-13

Augusta (441.9): 'most pious (AD532/3),
Augusta' Th.
set out.
4,000 people (441.9-10):
'journeyed to the
Pythia to take the waters.
hot springs of
She was accompanied
the prefect, the
by the patrician Menas
patrician Helias the
comes largit.ionuw, and
patricians and the cubiculsril
other
and satraps, 4,000 in
churches (441.11): Th adds
number' Th.
'poorhouses and monasteries'.
26. Bo 441.13-442.17.
Constantia (442.12): written

27.

as 'Constantina' Ba.

Bo 442.18-443.7; Th 177.22-33

(AD528/9),
Ke 646.5-21, GM 643.3-10,
JE 226.3-227.3(AD539/40),
PsD 851(AD539/40), MS
at that time (442.18):
9.21 (193-5), 9.29(243).
In
this year on 29th
November at the 3rd
on a Thursday in the 7th
hour
indiction' (ie AD528)
Th, JE, Ke; for varying
dates of sources, see Stein,
1949, 420, note 2.
wrath of God (442.18): Th, JE,
Ke add 'two years after
the first shock'.
earthquake (442,19): 'strong earthquake'
Th, JE, Ke, GM.
terrible roaring sound (442.20):
Th
GM add 'from heaven';
which add 'like the sound
cf JE, MS
of a roaring bull'.
so the buildings,.. churches
(442.21-22): 'and the
trembling ground
shaken by that most dreadful
was
sound, so that

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had been reconstructed after the former shocks collapsed, as did the
walls and some of the churches. (443) When the other cities heard what
had happened,
they all held processions of prayer in mourning. Parts
of the area around the city suffered also.
Up to 5,000 lives were lost
in this
earthquake. The surviving citizens fled to the other cities,
The patriarch Euphraimios
but a number of them lived in the mountains.
reported all
these events to the emperor,
and when the people at
Byzantion heard what had happened, they held processions of prayer for a
considerable number of days.

been reconstructed after their destruction all fell to the ground - the
walls and gates of the city, and above all the great church and the
other churches and martyrs' shrines, and the other houses which the
previous earthquake had spared all collapsed, with few exceptions' JE,
cf Th;
Th adds
'All
the magnificence
with which the city had been
invested through acts of generosity by the emperor and through the
buildings
erected by the citizens at their own expense was all
destroyed'.
Parts of the... suffered also (443.2): 'the surrounding villages, which
had earlier been rebuilt, were all destroyed for a distance of 10
miles.
But the 6th earthquake did no damage to Seleukeia or Daphne,
cities situated at a distance of 20'miles from Antioch in different
which
in
the 5th disaster had been destroyed and
directions,
overwhelmed, not by fire but only by the earthquake. They too had
struck terror into onlookers' at
up to 5,000 (443.3): '4870' Th, GM, cf '4770' MS.
in this earthquake
(443.3):
JE adds
'apart from the injured, of whom
some had broken limbs, others had suffered a variety of injuries.
But
God's mercy and grace were made manifest in the fact that he did not
permit the city again to catch fire and be burned as in the last
disaster'.
The surviving citizens (443.4): 'The majority of the surviving citizens'
JE.

fled (443.4; Bury, 1897, 226): om Bo.

the other cities (443.4): JE adds 'leaving Antioch abandoned and in
ruins', c MS.
in the mountains (443.4):
'on the
mountain facing the city, and made
themselves huts out of blankets, clothing and rugs, in which to spend
the bleak winter.
For after the collapse and destruction of Antioch,
the earthquake was followed by a harsh winter, and snow fell to a depth
Those who had remained in the city itself spent their
of three cubits.
time in lamentations and great grief.
They went on processions of
prayer carrying olive branches, barefoot in the snow, and when they had
processed in a snow storm out of the city into the open plain as far as
the first milestone, they threw themselves headlong into the snow,
They were a sad and terrible sight as
chanting the "Kyrie eleison".
they froze in the snow, very pale, crying out in great bodily and mental
and they lay there, grim-faced, weeping, suffering, disfigured by
pain,
the extreme winter cold, But while they were praying, it was revealed
in a vision to a pious Christian that he should tell all the Antiochene
citizens who had survived to write on the lintels of the doors of the
houses and shops which had remained intact, "Christ is with you ('us'
Th,
GM): stand".
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28.
In that
year Laodikeia suffered its
first calamity through
earthquake. Half the city
was brought down by the shock,
including the
Jewish synagogues, and 7,500 people
perished in the shock, a large
number of Hebrews and a few Christians.
The churches of the city
remained intact,
being preserved by God. The
emperor bestowed two
centenaria upon the people
of Laodikeia to excavate their city.
29.
In that
year Antioch was renamed
Theoupolis by order of the
emperor.
Also a written oracle was
discovered at Antioch, which read
as follows,
"And you, unhappy city, shall not
be called the city of
Antiochos". Likewise it was found
in the papers of those who record
the
acclamations in the city,
that they had provided an omen
when they had
chanted for the city's name
to be changed.
This too was reported to the
emperor (444) Justinian, and
he granted sacred munificence to
the people
of
Antioch,
Laodikeia and Seleukeia, so
that their taxes were remitted
for three years. He bestowed
200
on these
and the
of .illustris on their
land-owners.
30.
In that year
the Manichean belief
appeared
in
Persian
territory, and the Persian
emperor was angry when he learned
of it, as
were equally the chief mago of
the Persians. These Manicheans
had even
created a bishop, named
Indarazar.
The Persian emperor held a

1itnai

cities

title

the buildings which had not.

collapsed, and so, with this
assurance, they
entered them' JE, cf Th,
GM, M5; see Brooks, 1892,
295-6.
28. Bo 443.8-15; JE 227.4-13,
PsD 852(AD540/1), MS
9.21(195), 9.29(243).
In that year
(443.8):
JE adds 'on 2nd January
at the 8th hour in the
year 852 (ADS40/1)',
earthquake (443.8): JE adds
'the city was completely
destroyed from
the
Antioch gate to the Jewish
quarter, and the land moved
But the part to the left
seawards.
of the East of the church
of the Blessed Mother
of God did not collapse'.
in the shock (443.11): JE
adds 'those who were counted,
at least'.
a large number of Hebrews
and a few Christians
(443.11-12): JE adds
'were found alive but
very seriously injured,
274 Hebrews and 40
Christians'.

reserved

by God (443.13):
JE
adds 'and no fire raged
destruction',
at this
excavate their city (443.14):
JE adds
'and
so the city was restored
and its walls rebuilt'.
29. Bo 443.16-444.4; Th 178.5-7
(AD528/9), cf Eccl Hist
110.8-9.
by order of the emperor (443.17)
Ba first hand,
cf Th: 'by order of
St Symeon the Miracle-Worker'
Ba second hand; see
Bury, 1897, 229 and
Chrysos,
1966,
147-52.
'The emperors ordained
that the city be named
Theoupolis' Eccl Hist, but cf
Book 17 para 22.
30. Bo 444.5--19; Th 169.27--170.24
(AD523/4), PsD 842 (AD530/1),
(190-1).
MS 9.21
In that year the Manichean belief...Indarazar
(444.5-9): 'Kavades,
son of Perozes, the emperor
the
of the Persians, in
a single day destroyed
thousands upon thousands of
Manicheans,
along with their bishop,
Indazaros,
and including those Persian
senators who were
persuasion.
of their
For his third son, named
Phthasouarsan, whom his
Samb,ike had borne to him,
daughter
had been brought up
by the Manicheans,
and won over to their views.
They declared to him,
"Your father
has grown old and if he happens
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,Ulentium and, having detained all the Manicheans with their bishop,
he gave
orders to the armed
force that was in attendance and they
put to the sword all the Manicheans,
their bishop and his clergy.
They were all
slaughtered before the eyes of the emperor and the
Christian bishop. Their property was confiscated, and the emperor gave
their churches to the Christians. He also sent out sacred rescripts
throughout the state governed by him,
that any Manichean who was
discovered should be burnt to death, and he had all their books burnt.
This was related by the Persian carrier, who was baptized and renamed

Timot.heos.
31.
In that year the Roman emperor renamed the fortress known as
Anasarthon Theodorias after the Augusta, having granted it the status of
a city.
Likewise he renamed the fortress at Sousa Justinianoupolis.
32.
(445)
In
that y ear Alamoundaros,
the Persian Saracen, came
with a force
of
Persian s and Saracens and plundered First Syria as
far as the borders of Antioch,
even burning some places within its
territory.
On hearing these events, the Roman exarchs went out
against them.
Once the Saracens became aware of this, they took all
their booty and escaped across the outer J.imes.
At
33.
that time the aqueduct of Alexandria the Great was

one of your brothers emperor so that their own teaching should prevail.
We are able, however, by our prayers to persuade your father to abdicate
from the kingdom and to assign it to you, so that you may strengthen the
teaching of the Manicheans everywhere".
He agreed to do this if he
became emperor. Having been informed of it' Th.
The Persian emperor held a silentiaw (444.10):
'Kavades ordered a
conventus to be held' Th; Th adds 'for the alleged purpose of making his
son Phthasouarsan emperor'.
having detained all the Manicheans (444.10):
'He
ordered all the
Manicheans to be present at the conventus'Th, cf MS.
Th adds
'their women and children, and
with their bishop (444.10):
likewise the chief egos Glonazes and the ,c?goi and also the bishop of
the Christians Boazanes, who was loved by Kavades for being an excellent
physician.
Having summoned the Manicheans he said, "I rejoice at your
teaching and, while I am still alive, I want to give my empire to my son
Phthasouarsan, who shares your beliefs.
But set yourselves apart to
receive him". Encouraged by this they stood apart with confidence',
cf MS.
before the eyes of the emperor (444.13):
'before the eyes of the chief

gkagas ' Th.

31. Bo 444.20-23.
32. Bo 445.1-7; Th 178.7-15 (A0528/9).
In that year (445,1): 'On 21st. March of the 7th indiction'

Th.

Alamoundaros, the Persian Saracen (445.1): 'Alamoundaros, son of Zekike,

kinglet of the Saracens' Th.
the borders of Antioch (445.3): Th adds
'at a place called Litargon
and the estates of Skapathai.
He killed many people'.
its territory (445.4): 'the territory outside Chalkedon and the.Sermian
estate and the Kynegian country' Th.
booty (445.6): Th adds 'and prisoners'.
outer (445.6): 'inner' Th; see Rubin, 1960, 492-3, note 820.
33. Bo 445.8-9.

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reconstructed by the emperor
Justinian.
34.
When the emperor heard
what the Saracens had done, he
considerable force of infantry,
sent a
known as the Lykokranitai,
from Phrygia
and they set out for the Saracen
Belisarios was appointed exarch and Persian territory. At that time
patrician Hypatios, the previous of the Romans by the emperor, for the
milituan, had been dismissed,
and Belisarios was entrusted
with the armed forces and the
duces for the
war against the Persians.
In that year the Scythian
Hermogenes, the ex- w ql ster and
man, was sent to Persian
a learned
territory.

gister,

AD529

35.
In the month
of June of the 7th
indiction a riot broke out
among the local people when
the Samaritans fought with the
and Jews, and many parts
Christians
of Scythopolis were
set on fire by the
Samaritans.
On hearing of this the
emperor was angry with the governor
Bassus, and so
he relieved him of his office
and had him beheaded in
that district. When the
Samaritans (446) learnt of the
emperor's anger
against them, they rebelled
and crowned a bandit chief,
named Julian, and they
a Samaritan
burnt estates and churches
Christians.
and killed many
On entering Neapolis
Julian watched chariot races
large number of
with a
Samaritans, and the first
event was won by a certain

34. Bo 445.10-19; Th
178.15-22 (AD528/9).
When (445.10): 'In the month
of April of the 7th indiction'
the Patrician Hypatios (445.15):
Th.
Th adds 'the son of Sekoundinos'.
In that Year (445.17): 'On 12th May,

Th.
Hermogenes, the ex-aagister(445.17):
'Hermogenes the
Was sent (445.17): 'arrived
in Antioch'

/&gister' Th.
Th.
to Persian territory (445.18):
'sent as an envoy
Justinian to discuss peace
by the emperor
with the emperor of
the Persians' Th.
35. Bo 445.19-447.21;
De insid

44 (171.6-34),
CP 619.14-620.2 (AD529),
Th 178.22-27 (AD528/9),
Ke 646.22-647.3, Eccl
Hist 110.12-15, JN 93.4-9,
MS 9.21 (191).
named Julian (446.2): De insid
adds 'son of the
c JN which adds
man known as Sabaron';
'And he seduced many
of his people by his
statement when he declared,
lying
"God bath sent
me to re-establish the
Samaritan kingdom"; just
as Jeroboam the son of
after the wise Solomon
Nebat who, reigning
the son of David, seduced
the people of Israel
and made them serve idols'.
and they burnt estates and
churches and killed many
Christians (446.3):
'The Samaritans attacked
the Christians
there and massacred
of them in this
many
way.
There was a custom
which was common in the
land of Palestine and in
the whole of the East
that on the Sabbath,
after the reading of the gospel,
the children of the
leave the church and
Christians would
go and play near the
synagogues of the Samaritans,
and throw stones at their
houses.
It was the custom
on this day to withdraw
of the Samaritans
and keep to themselves.
On that occasion
could not bear to give way
they
to the Christians,
and so when the children
came out after the holy gospel
and went to the Samaritan
started throwing stones,
synagogues and
the Samaritans came out
against the children
with swords and killed
many of them. Many
children fled to the
altar of St Basil's, which is
holy
there, and some of the
Samaritans pursued
and slew them under the altar'
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Nikeas,
a Christian charioteer.
There were other charioteers at
Neapolis, both Samaritans and news, wu,um cue cnatiot.eer Naxeas defeated.
When he approached the rebel to be honoured as was his due, he asked him
what his religion was.
When he learnt that he was a Christian, he took
the fact that the very first victory had gone to the Christians as an
ill
omen against. himself,
which in fact it proved to be, and so he
immediately sent and had the charioteer beheaded in the hippodrome.
He
also
ill-treated the bishop of the city.
When the governors of
Palestine and the diurTheodoros, the snub-nosed, learnt of this, they
immediately reported the daring rebel to the emperor Justinian. The dux
set out against Julian with a large force, taking with him the phylarch
of Palestine.
On
learning of this Julian, the Samaritan rebel, fled
from Neapolis.
The day pursued him with his force, and they joined
battle.
The dzir cut down a large number of the Samaritans and captured
the Samaritan Julian,
whom God
(447) delivered into his hands,
He
beheaded Julian and sent his head with the diadem to the emperor
Justinian.
When the emperor learnt about the rebellion of the
Samaritans and the ill-fated Julian, the information from the governors
arrived at Constantinople at the same time as the rebel leader's head.
20,000 of the Samaritans fell in the battle.
some of them fled to the
mountain known as Garizim, and others to Trachon, to what is known as
the Iron Mountain.
The Saracen phylarch of the Romans took 20,000 boys
and girls as booty from the Samaritans; he took these as prisoners and
sold them in Persian and Indian territory.
When the emperor learnt that the Samaritans had burnt many estates
in Palestine at. the start of their rebellion, he was angry with the dus'
of Palestine for not having proceeded against them and scattered them as
soon as he heard that they were gathering, before their attack on the
estates and the city. He relieved the dux of his office with ignominy
and ordered him to be kept under strict guard.
Eirenaios the Antiochene
was sent as
duly in his place.
He set out against the Samaritans who
still remained in the mountains
and killed many of them, exacting a
harsh vengeance.

When the governors... the phylarch of Palestine (446.13-17): this passage

is hard to reconcile with its equivalent in De insid, 'When Justinian
learnt of this,
he sent. the ex-prefect Eirenaios, son of Pentadia,
giving him authority to write to the regional governors. Having led
these out. with a military force, he also brought Theodotos, surnamed
Magalas,
the dies' of Palestine,
with a large body of men, and many
others,
to take up arms against the Samaritans': it seems however
to belong at this point,
despite the double role
it implies for
Eirenaios, son of Pentadia (see 447.19 below).
head with the diadem (447.2): De
insid adds
'and the rest of his
royal dress'.
Garizim (447.7): written as 'Arparizin' Ba.

was

sent as

dusr (447.19)

'was sent as

magister ms l.i tum' CP.

harsh vengeance
(447.21):
CP adds
'Some of them in terror were
converted under compulsion to Christianity, and they were received and
baptized.
To
this day they play a double game: at moments when their
governors are harsh they wear a false mask and treacherously and
maliciously proclaim themselves Christians, while when their governors
are slack and avaricious the Samaritans act as haters of Christians - as

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36.

In the month of
July the emperor of the
Persians, Koades,
received (448) the
Asg.Lstar Hermogenes, who had
been sent on an embassy
of
friendship with gifts
marking the proclamation
of the emperor
Justinian.
37,
At that time it happened
that Amaseia
in Pontus suffered
through the wrath
of God, as did parts of
its surrounding area.
emperor gave generously
The
to the city,
38.

that year the re-codification

of
the ancient laws took
When he had composed his
own laws the emperor sent them
out to
cities,
in order that people
involved in legal proceedings
should not suffer hardship
or loss and matters should
be brought. to a
speedy conclusion.
When he had compiled these
as a single volume he
sent it to Athens and
Beirut.
39.
The emperor divided off
from Antioch in First
cities of Laodikeia,
Syria the
Gabala and Paltos,
and from Apameia in Second
Syria the city of
Balaneai,
creating a province
Theodorias and gave
which he named
metropolitan status
to Laodikeia.
free the bishop of
But he did not
Laodikeia from his subordination
the city of the
to the patriarch of
Antiochenes.
40.
In that. year Myra,
the metropolis of Lykia, suffered
the wrath of God,
through
and the emperor gave generously
to the survivors and
the city for building purposes,
41.
In that year a riot
occurred in the theatre
Great,
at. Antioch the
and news of the riot
was reported to the
emperor.
and from that time
He was angry
he prohibited (449) the
performance of theatrical
shows in the city of
the Antiochenes.
42.
In that. year there was
a great persecution of Hellenes.
In

place.
all the

Many

if they know nothing

of Christianity - persuading
their governors by
bribery to favour the
Samaritans'; for this
whole revolt, see Winkler,
1965, 447.
36. Bo 447.22-448.2; Th
178.27-29 (AD528/9).
In the month of July
(448.2): Th adds 'of
the 7th indiction'; on
rewriting of this passage,
Th's
see Winkler, 1965,
447.
marking the proclamation
of the emperor Justinian
peace' Th.
(448.2):
'concerning
37. Bo 448.3-5,
38. Bo 448.6-10; CP
619.8-10 (AD529), 633.19-634,2
MS 9.21 (193), Cf Bo
(AD534),
Re 646.2-4,
437.3-18, para 20.
In that Year...Athens and
Beirut (448.6-10):
cf CP (AD529) 'In this year
the Coa'ex Justlnranus was completed,
By imperial command
become valid on 16th March
was to
(16th day before
the Kalends of April) of
current 7th indiction'.
the

it

Bo 448.11-16.
to Laodikeia (448.14):
'to
it'
Ba (leaving unclear
pronoun refers).
to which name the
Cf
George of Cyprus, Descrintjo
Gelzer, 1890) 45, 886-90,
orbl"s Roakenl (ed
40. Bo 448.17-19,
41. Bo 448.20-449.2.
39.

42. Bo 449.3-11; Th 180.11-21

(AD529/30), Re 647.3-7,
MS 9.24 (207).
PsD 852 (AD540/1),

In that year (449,3):

Th adds 'of the 8th indiction'.
of Hellenes (449.3): Th,
Re add 'and of every
heresy'.

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had their property confiscated.

Some of them died:
Makedonios,
Asklepiodotos, Phokas, the son of Krat.eros, and Thomas the qukaestar.
This caused great fear.
The emperor decreed that those who held
Hellenic beliefs should not hold any state office, whilst those
who belonged to the other heresies were to disappear from the Roman
state, after they had been given a period of three months to embrace
the orthodox faith.
This sacred decree was displayed in all provincial
cities,
43.
At that time Priscus, ex-consul and former imperial secretary,
incurred
anger. His property was confiscated and he was made a deacon
and sent to Kyzikos.
44.
At.
that time the ilk9gl'ster Hermogenes returned from Persia,
after he had presented the gifts, and reported the reply from Koades the
Persian emperor to Justinian the Roman emperor. He brought a letter

that read as follows:

Emperor of Emperors,
of the rising sun, to
Flavius Justinian Caesar, of the setting moon. We have
found it. written in our ancient records
we are
brothers of one another,
and (450) that if one of us
should stand in need of men or money, the other should
provide them.
From that time till the present we have
remained constant in this. Whenever nations have risen
against us, against some we have been compelled to
fight, whilst others we have persuaded by gifts of money
to submit to us, so it is clear that everything in our
treasury has been spent.
We informed the emperors
Anastasios and Justin about this, but we achieved
nothing.
Thus we have been compelled to mobilize for
and having become neighbours of Roman territory we
war,
have been compelled to destroy the peoples in between on
the pretext of their disobedience, even though they had
"Koades,

that

Some of them died: Makedonios, Asklepiodotos

(449.4):
'The exreferendarius
Makedonios
was
denounced and also the ex-prefect
Asklepiodotos who,
in
fear,
took poison and died.
Pegasios of
Helioupolis was tried by the courts along with his children' Th.
Phokas, the son of Krateros,
and Thomas the qu9estor (449.5):
'Among
others Phokas the patrician, son of Krateros and Thomas the quaeator,
were arrested' Th; see Bury, 1923, 367, note 3,
Hellenic beliefs (449.7): Th, Ke add 'and heretics'.
state office (449.7): Th, Ke add 'but only orthodox Christians'.
43. Bo 449.12-14; De insid 45 (171.35-172.6), Th 186,15--17 (AD533/4).
ex--consul

former

(449.12): c 'consul' Th.

secretary (449.13):

imperial

De

insid

adds

'who

was

comes

eyccrhl torum',
'for having insulted and
incurred anger (449.12): De insid adds
slandered the empress Theodora', cf Th,
and sent to Kyzikos (449,14): 'Justinian banished him to Kyzikos, where
he was to be put in prison.
After being imprisoned he dug his way out
and escaped from there to Art.ake,
which he used as a sanctuary.
Soon afterwards he was ordered to live at Nikaia as a cleric' De insid,
cf Th.
44. Bo 449.15-450.15.

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done nothing wrong.
But, as pious Christians,
spare
lives and bodies
and give us some of your gold.
If you
do not do this,
prepare yourselves for
war.
For this
you have a whole year's
notice, so that we should
not be
thought to have
stolen our victory or to
have won the
war by trickery".
45.
In that year the
emperor Justinian
its imperial jewels
bestowed his toga with
upon the Antiochenes;
it was displayed in the
church known as that of
Kassianos.
AD529
46.
During the consulship
of Decius,
belonged to the
Moundos, who by descent
Gepids and was a king's
son, went over to the Romans.
After the death of
his father he attached
himself to Thraustila, his
uncle, and lived in
Sirmium.
(451) When the king of
known also as Theoderic,
Rome, Valemeriacus,
learnt this, he sent
Moundos over. Moundos was
messages and won
persuaded and went
to Valemeriacus Theoderic,
together with his men,
and stayed with
of him.
him fighting in support
Moundos left Rome
and when he reached
he sent ambassadors
the river Danube,
to the emperor Justinian,
might become a subject
requesting that he
his men; he made him of his empire. Justinian accepted Moundos and
in
this capacity.
111yricuanand sent him out
On arriving in the land
of Illyricum he was attacked
by the Huns with a large
army of various barbarians.
a ttacked them, and
He set out and
destroyed them all.
He sent off booty acquired from
them,
her with one
their
Thrace,tandtthus
Peace was established in
fear restrained the
barbarian
47.
During the consulship
of Decius, the emperor
and sent it to Athens
issued a decree
ordering that no-one
interpret the
should teach philosophy nor
laws;
nor should gaming
some gamblers who had
be allowed in any city, for
been discovered in
themselves in
Byzantion had been indulging
dreadful blasphemies.
Their hands were
were paraded around on
cut off and they
camels.

glvter
f

Bo 450.16-18.
Bo 450.19-451.15; Th 218.31-219.14
(AD539/40), Ke 652.3-12.
king's son (450.20): 'son
his uncle (450.21): 'his of Giesmos' Th, Ke; Ke adds 'king of Sirmium'.
maternal uncle'
Th.
Moundos left Rome and when
he reached (451.4-5):
Theoderic, journeying
'After the death of
to' Th.
subject of his empire (451.7):
Th
adds 'and he came
Justinian accepted Houndos
to Constantinople'.
many gifts on him and his and his men (451.7-8): 'The emperor bestowed
sons' Th.
Hums (451.11): 'Bulgarians'
Th, Ke.
and one of their kings
(451.13):
'and
from among the
their leader and others to
captives he sent
Constantinople where
hippodrome' Th.
they were paraded in
the
Peace (451.14): 'Deep Peace'
Th, Ke.
in Thrace
(451,14):
Th
45.
46.

adds
'for the Huns no
the Danube (cf
longer dared to cross
Ke).
The emperor sent the
Bulgar prisoners
and Lazica, and had them enrolled
to Armenia
in
the ntemers
47. Bo 451.16-21;
Vat Gr

163 26v, lines 25-27.

the laws (451.18): 'astrology'
Vat ie datrpoyouLav
they

were paraded around

for vbuLua of Bo.
(451.21):
reading TIEPLE(3Q4cyO Oav
cav
cf Lampe, sv nEPriWu06w.

for

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48.
(452) In that year an annual income of 4000 normwata was
bestowed by the pious emperor upon the hospice in Antioch.
49.
In that year the precious relics of the holy martyr Marinos
were found in First Syria outside the place known as Gindaroupolis.
The
visiting priest of the area had very often seen in a vision the place
where the saint lay. He had iron nails through all his body from the
head down and was stretched out on a board and nailed to it, and he had
been placed in a rock that was hollowed out to form a tomb for him. His
body was removed and carried away and laid to rest outside the city of
the Antiochenes at St Julian's.
50.
In that year during the consulship of Lampadios and Orestes, AD530
Hermogenes and the magister mili twhn Rufinus were sent as ambassadors of
the Romans into Persian territory. When they had reached Data, which
had been renamed Anastasioupolis, they sent a message to Koades, the
emperor of the Persians, who put off receiving them. While they were
staying at Dara together with the magister militum Belisarios, the
other exarchs and the army, they encamped outside the city and awaited
the response from the Persian emperor.
Meram, the chief Persian exarch,
and the
son of the Persian emperor, with other Persian exarchs were
based at Nisibis. When they discovered that the Romans were encamped
outside Dara,
(453)
the Persians divided their forces
into three
commands and attacked with 70,000 men.
Realizing this, the Roman exarchs came out against the Persians
and attacked them.
In
the battle that followed the Persian and Roman
armies fought at close quarters; the Romans cut the Persians completely
Meram fled with a few
to pieces and also captured a Persian standard.
men,
including the emperor's son, and escaped to Hisibis.
In this
conflict a Persian exarch named Sagos was slain; the dux 5ounikas, a
Roman exarch, had challenged him to single combat. Here, with the dead
strewn over the ground, could be seen a victory over Persian folly.
Hearing of this Koades, the emperor of the Persians, instructed the
patrician Rufinus,
with the comes Alexander, to enter his territory
on their embassy.

48. Bo 452.1-3.
49. Bo 452.4-12; MS 9.24 (206--7).
50. Bo 452.13-453.14; Th 180.21-181.11

(AD529/30).
during the consulship...Rufinus (452.13-15):
'in the month of March of
the 8th indiction in Antioch Hermogenes, the maaglsgter and ex-consul, and
Rufinus, the ex-magister milituan (see PLRE II 955) and patrician' Th.
sent a message to Koades, the emperor of the Persians (452,17): Th adds
'to receive them'.
at Nisibis (452.24): Th adds 'with a large Persian force, in the
month of June of the 8th indiction'.
Roman exarchs (453.3):
Th adds 'with the m<agrgter, beginning a skilful
campaign'.
In the battle that followed
(453.4): 'In a great battle and terrible
clash' Th.
Nisibis (453.7): Th adds 'so the Romans won a great victory'.
Rufinus (453.13): Th adds 'alone'.
on their embassy (453.14):
Th adds 'in the month of August and, after
they established
the terms of peace and departed
much discussion,
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51.

In
that year a travelling showman
from the region of Italy
his appearance.
He had with him a tawny-coloured
dog which,
instructions from his master,
would perform various remarkable
tricks.
His master would stand
in the market-place
and when a
crowd had collected to
watch he used to take rings from
the bystanders
- without the dog seeing
- and would put them on the ground,
covering
them with earth. Then
he would order the dog to
pick up and return
their rings to each of
them.
The dog would hunt around and then,
with his mouth, would give
his ring back to each
person as he
recognized it. The dog
would also give back a large number
of coins
from different emperors
according to the emperors'
names.
(454) When
a
crowd of men and
women were standing round, he would,
when asked,
point out pregnant women,
brothel-keepers, adulterers,
misers and the
magnanimous.
He always picked them out
correctly, and so many people
said that he had the spirit
of Pytho.
52.
During this reign
there appeared a tremendous great
star
in the western region,
sending a white beam upwards;
its surface
emitted flashes of
lightning.
Some people called it the
Firebrand.
It
continued shining for 20 days,
and there were droughts and murders
during riots in every
city and many other events
full of ill omen.

made
upon

51. Bo 453.15-454.4; Th
224.15-27 (AD543/4),
Th d
(de Boor II, 370-1),
Ke 657.4-14, GM 643.20-644.12,
LG 323.9-19(130.1-12).
travelling (453.16;xcwuo5pouwv
Chil):xoauobpouwv Ba;
see Bury, 1897, 230.
showman (453.16): Th,
Ke add 'named Andreas'.
tawny-coloured dog (453.16):
Th,
Ke,
GM
add
'blind'; Th d adds 'not
large in size, with its ears
and tail cut off'.
rings (453.20):
'gold,
silver and iron rings' Th,
Ke; GM adds 'and
bronze'; Th d adds 'and
coins of various emperors'.
hunt around (453.22): Th d adds 'and remove
the rings from the ground'.
large number (453.24): 'mixed
up' Th, Ke.
The dog would also give
back,.. different emperors
(453.23-4):
'and
everybody was amazed.
Then again he would say
to the dog, "Give me the
coin of the emperor Leo".
The dog would hunt around,
take the coin in
his mouth and give it to him.
And he would say, "Give me Zeno's
and the dog would bring it,
coin",
and likewise for each emperor
he told him he
would give him the coin with the
emperor's inscription' Th
d.
picked them out correctly (454.3):
Th d adds
'and
all pregnant women
whom the dog prophesied
would have male or female
children gave birth
accordingly.
Thus everybody was astounded'.
spirit of I>ytho (454.5): Th d adds
'for its eyes were transformed'.
52. Bo 454.5-10; Th 181.14-18
(AD530/1), GM 643.10-14,
JE 227.17-24.
During this reign (454.5):
'In September of
this year in the 9th
indiction' Th, cf 'In this
year in the evening'
JE.
star (454.5): Th, GM, cf JE, add
'a comet',
in the western region (454.6):
JE adds 'like a spear
of fire'.
Firebrand (454.7): JE adds
'all who saw it were struck
with terror'.
and there were droughts (454.9):
'Afterwards many
who were waiting
for what would happen after
that portent saw many
wars, the spread of
fear, hunger, drought'
JE.
murders during riots (454.9): 'universal
riots and murders' Th
ill omen (454.10):
GM.
cf
JE which adds 'We are
unable to describe these
evils and record them as they were
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At the end of the month of September the Roman ambassadors who

been sent to Persian territory returned, having made a treaty.
The
emperor Justinian, on learning that he had won peace for the Romans, was
filled with joy.
When he received the letter accompanying the treaty
and read it, he found that it was as follows:
"Our ambassadors who had been sent to your Clemency have
now returned and have announced to us the good intention
of your paternal disposition.
We have rendered thanks
for all things to the Lord God in that an event
befitting his goodness has taken place and that peace
has been made with the help of God to the benefit of the
two states and the credit of us both.
It is clear
that great glory and credit is due in all the earth
before God and men for the fact that peace has been
established between the two worlds (455) under the reign
of your
Clemency and
of
us who truly love you. The
enemies of both our states will be destroyed when with
God's help this peace is established.
Our ambassadors
then will arrive with all speed, for they must complete
what is necessary to secure the peace. We pray indeed
that your paternal disposition be preserved for many
years".
54.
Rufinus was sent once more by the Romans, whence a second
letter was despatched to Persian territory;
he found the Persian
emperor had withdrawn from the peace agreement they had made between
them.
For news had come that the Samaritans in Roman territory,
incurring the anger of the emperor Justinian, as was described above,
had
fled and gone over to Koades, the Persian emperor, from their own
territory of Palestine, and had promised to fight for him.
They
numbered 50,000.
They promised to hand over to the Persian emperor
their own land, all Palestine and the Holy Places, a city which
possessed donations from various emperors, both a large sum of gold and
an untold quantity of precious stones.
When the Persian emperor heard
this and had been convinced by their statements, he withdrew from the
agreement to make the treaty.
He made his excuse the question of the
gold-bearing
area that had been discovered
formerly in the time of
the emperor Anastasios and was under Roman jurisdiction; these mountains
had formerly been part of the Persian state.
The gold-bearing mountains
lie
on the border between Roman Armenia (456) and Persarmenia, as the
experts say.
These mountains produce much gold, for when rain and
storms occur the soil of these mountains is washed away and pours out
flakes of gold.
Previously certain people leased these mountains from
the Romans and Persians for 200 litrai of gold, but from the time the
53.

had

Bo 454.11-455.6; Th 181.18-22 (AD530/1).

September (454.11): cf 'November' Th.
Roman ambassadors (454.11): 'the patrician Rufinus from his embassy' Th.
and the credit of us both (454.20; Ba, see Bury, 1897, 230): om Bo.
many years (455.5): This letter is much more likely to be Justinian's
than Koades'; see Sotiriadis, 1888, 119-20.
54. Bo 455.7-456.18; Th 178.29-179.14 (AD528/9).
gold-bearing (455.21, 23; Ba, see Bury, 1897, 230): 'gold-flowing' Bo.
200 1.tra (456.5): cf 'about a talent' Th.
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mountains were taken over by the most sacred Anastasios only the
Romans
were in receipt of the revenue that had been decreed.
This was what
upset negotiations over the treaty.
The Romans
learnt of the Samaritan betrayal when certain of their
men of substance were captured on their return from Persian
territory,
and were recognized after their journey
to Koades, the emperor of the
Persians, and after their agreement
with him to betray their land as was
mentioned above.
There were five Samaritans who were recognized.
On
being captured,
these were taken before the
_gister ml]itcuw per
Orientem and were examined in his
presence.
They confessed to the
treachery which they were planning.
The report on them was read to the
emperor Justinian.
55.
In that year there were widespread
earthquakes and much time
was spent in prayer in each city.
56.
At this time an ambassador was
sent by the Persian emperor
to the Roman emperor and, having
handed over the letter he was carrying,
he was sent away bearing gifts.
When the Roman emperor heard
from the patrician Rufinus (457) about
the transgression
of the emperor of the Persians,
Koades, he composed
and despatched sacred commands
to the emperor of the Axoumitai.
When
this Indian emperor had joined
battle with the emperor of the
Homerite
Indians,
he defeated him completely, capturing
his empire and his whole
territory.
In his place he made Anganes,
from his own family, emperor
of
the Homerite Indians,
so that the empire of
the Amerite Indians
should also be subject
to him.
The Roman ambassador set sail
Alexandria and reached
for
the Indian territory by way
of the Nile and the
Indian Sea.
When he came into the presence
of the Indian emperor, the
emperor of the Indians
was overcome with great
delight, because he had
for many years wanted
to secure the friendship
of the emperor of the
Romans.
In the ambassador's
account of the occasion when
received by the
he was
Indian emperor,
he described the form of the
imperial ceremonial:
Indian
the emperor was naked,
wearing from his belt to
his loins gold-threaded
linen clothing, and
stomach a tunic
over his shoulders and
decorated with pearls,
and bracelets in groups
and gold bangles on
of five
his arms.
Around his head was wound
linen turban with four
a gold-threaded
cords on either side
and a gold collar around
neck.
He stood on top
his
of four elephants which
discs,
had a yoke and four
and upon them
something like a tall
leaf, just as the
carriage covered with gold
chariots of the provincial
governors are covered
in silver,
The emperor of the
(458)
Indians stood on
high holding a small
On being captured (456.14):
Th adds 'at Ammadios'.

Wa9Jster

a JJtuwPar ar entaw (456.15);

55. Bo 456.19-20.

Th

adds

'Belisarios'

56. Bo 456.21-459,3;

Th 244.14-245.13
(AD571/2).
despatched sacred cawftnds
to the emperor
of the Axoumitai
'sent Julian the
(457.2):
with an imperial
emperor of the Ethiopians'
Th;
Th inserts thename
later.
e'Arethas' twice
'Julian'
is likely to be
more
an accurate name,
probably wrong, resulting
while 'Arethas' is
from the late position
passage; see Kawar, 1960,
in
which Th places this
63-4.
ambassador's account
(457.13): 'Julian's
account after his
four elephants (457.21):
return' Th.
'four upright
elephants'
Th.

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gilt shield and two spears, also gilt, in his hands. His whole senate
stood likewise at arms, with flute-players providing music.
When
the Roman ambassador was brought. in he knelt and made
obeisance, and the Indian emperor ordered me !",sic) to arise and approach
him.
When he received the letter from the Roman emperor he kissed the
seal, and when he received the gifts the emperor sent him he was amazed.
Opening the letter and reading it, through an interpreter, he discovered
that its contents were that he should arm himself against Koades, the
emperor of the Persians,
and destroy the territory bordering on his
own, and
in future no longer engage in commerce with him but carry on
trade through the country of the Amerit.e Indians he had subjugated, by
way of the Nile to Alexandria in Egypt.
Immediately Elesboas the
emperor of the Indians, in the sight of the Roman ambassador, declared
war on the Persians.
He sent out ahead the
Indian Saracens he
had under him and attacked Persian territory on behalf of the Romans,
advising the emperor of the Persians that he should expect the emperor
of the Indians to wage war against him and to plunder all the land ruled
by him.
With everything thus under way the Indian emperor (459)
embraced the head of the Roman ambassador, gave him the kiss of peace
and dismissed him with much ceremony, for he sent a letter and gifts to
the Roman emperor through an Indian ambassador,
57.
In that year a plea was sent from Hilderic, king of the
Africans,
that his cousin had rebelled against him and the Moors had
made war on the Africans. They had captured much of his territory,
including the city known locally as Tripolis, Leptoma, Sabatha and
Byzakin,
and taken prisoners over an area of a ten days' march.
Hilderic, the king of the Africans, began a campaign against them with a
large army, together with the general named Gelimer, who joined battle
with the Moors and completely overwhelmed them. And when he had united
in friendship with them, he took them into alliance and after rebelling
he entered Carthage in opposition to Hilderic,
captured him and
imprisoned him in a house with his wife and children and killed the
senators.
Gelimer sent gifts to the emperor Justinian through his
ambassador.
When the Roman emperor was informed he was angry with them
because of the king of the Africans,
for he had learnt about the
rebellion
against Hilderic; and he dismissed them with much abuse.
He sent a inagr:strJ'anu-s to Rome (460)
king At.hal c , grandson of
Valemeriacus, telling him not to receive ambassadors sent to him by
Gelimer,
and not to acknowledge his title of king because he was a
rebel.
When he had received the letter sent by the emperor, he complied
with it and did not. receive ambassadors from Gelimer the African.
58.
In that year the emperor, wanting to fight against the Persians
both on land and on sea, sent out an army to keep the Roman state free
from disturbance,

to

ari

seal (458.9) 'seal which bore the emperor's portrait bust'. Th.
destroy the territory (458.13): 'destroy Persian territory' Th.

Roman ambassador (459.1): 'Julian' Th.

57. Bo 459.4-460.6.
Hilderic (459.4, 10; corr Chil): 'Theuderich' Ba.
Valemeriacus (460.1; corr Dind): 'Alemeriacus' Ba.
58. Bo 460.7-9.

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59.

In
that year a petition was
sent to the patriarch Ephraimios
from those remaining in captivity
under the Saracen Alamoundaros, to the
effect that their imprisonment
had been accompanied by harsh
punishment;
for he beheaded some of them,
fearing they might act treacherously.
Some had fallen at his
feet, begging him to give them a few
days' grace
to send a petition to
the Roman state for money to
be sent for their
ransom.
When Alamounderos heard
this, he agreed gladly, it was said.
He gave them a limit of
60 days after Taizanes the Saracen
chieftain had
interceded on their behalf.
When the petition was sent out, it was
read
in Antioch and everyone
tearfully contributed according
to his means to
what are known as offertory
boxes in each church.
First among them the
patriarch,
moved to pity,
(461)
with his clergy and the civic
magistrates contributed
of
their own volition. And when the petition
sent by the captives was read,
the whole population asked for a public
meeting to be summoned.
When the public meeting was
summoned and a
carpet stretched out,
each threw what he could
afford on the carpet.
When all the money was gathered
up and sent, the captives were ransomed.
60.
In that year the nk7gister
regions because of the Persian Hermogenes was sent into the eastern
war, for the Roman emperor had learnt
that a Persian general
named Exarath, with a Persian
force and in
possession of a royal
standard, had set out against
Roman
territory.
Alamoundaros,
the Saracen prince, with
a great armed force, appeared at
Kallinikon,
a city in Osrhoene,
having come by way of Kirkesion.
When
the nk?g ster mllittun
Belisarios learnt this,
he came to support the
duces with 8,000 men; among
them was the phylarch Arethas
men.
with 5,000
The Persians advanced
with their Saracens and encamped
at night
near the fortress of Gabboula
beside which flowed a small
river.
they had dug a ditch
After
there they scattered iron
caltrops over a great
distance around the
ditch, (462) leaving one
entrance for themselves.
Coming behind them with
4,000 men, the diLr Sounikas
Persians and Saracens
found some of the
plundering the villages round
about, and hunted
them down.
He killed a few of them
and captured some others whom
interrogated and learnt
he
about their plans.
The Roman
g ster came to Hierapolis and learnt
that the Persians
had encamped on Roman territory.
He went off to Belisarios
the Persians at the
who was near
city of Barbalissos together
with Stephanos and
Apakal,
the exarchs and the
dux
Simmas, with 4,000 men.
angry with Sounikas because
Belisarios was
he had attacked the Persian army
initiative.
on his own
When thegister arrived
he reconciled them,
to advance on the
urging them
Persians.
The Persians and their
intercepted at the village
Saracens were
known as Beselathon and
at Batnai and at the
cities round about.
The Persians made
wooden engines, breached
destroyed the walls of Gabboula
and
and, when they entered
everyone they found and also
it, they killed
took captives.
They
captured other places
as well in sudden raids.
When the Antiochenes
heard what. had happened,
they fled (463) to the
coast of Syria. The Roman
generals sent messages
to one another to be
ready to fight with them, for it
had been made clear on
the Persian side
that they would join battle.
They collected all
their booty and

Bo 460.10-461.7.
Bo 461.8-465.16,
Barbalissos (462.11; corn Dind):
'Barbaisissos' Ba.
59.
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withdrew by night. When Belisarios and the Roman exarchs learnt this,
they pursued and overtook them.
The Persians turned and stopped and,
drawing themselves up, they encamped on the Ilmes across the Euphrates
and made plans. Likewise the Roman exarchs drew up their army and took
a position opposite the Persians.
They were arranged with the Euphrates
at their back,
while Belisarios ordered that boats be stationed along
the river banks.
Arethas was encamped on the southern section with
Dorotheos and Mamantios, the Isaurian exarchs,
while Sounikas and
Simmas, with their army, were on the north.
It was on 19th April, on
Holy Saturday, at Faster,
that the battle took place. The Persians
attacked Sounikas and Simmas and, as the Romans resisted, the Persians
as a trick turned their backs and retreated to their own men.
When the
Persians had come together they realized that the Romans had the
Euphrates at their back, so they attacked with their Saracens and joined
battle; many fell on both sides.
Among those who fell on the Persian
side were Andrazes the tribune and Naaman, son of Alamoundaros;
on the
side of the Roman Saracens the day named Abros was captured, while
Stephanakios was wounded and fell.
In the general melee (464) Apskal
charged into the middle of the Persians and was killed there when his
horse trampled on a corpse. When the Phrygians saw their exarch fall
and his standard captured by the Persians, they turned in flight and the
Roman Saracens fled with them,
but others continued with Arethas
fighting.
Some supposed that a number of the Saracens fled because of
the treachery of the phylarchs.
When the Isaurians who were stationed
nearby saw the Saracens fleeing,
they threw themselves into the
Euphrates thinking they could get across.
When Belisarios saw what. was
happening, he took his standard with him and got into a boat; he crossed
the Euphrates and came to Kallinikon.
His army followed him.
Some used
boats, others tried to swim with their horses, and they filled the river
with corpses.
Sounikas and Simmas continued fighting the Persians and
these two exarchs, persevering with their surviving army, dismounted and
valiantly fought a battle on foot. By skilful deployment they destroyed
many of the Persians. They did not allow them to pursue the fugitives
but intercepted three of their exarchs.
They killed two of them and
captured alive one named Amerdach, a warlike man whose right arm had
been cut. off at the elbow by Sounikas.
(465) They continued fighting
with their army.
When evening fell the Roman exarchs and their army came to the city
of Kallinikon, after the Persians had been pursued for two miles. At
sunrise the next day they left the city of Kallinikon, crossed the
Euphrates with their army and the citizens and despoiled the Persian
corpses.
When the inags:ater (Hermogenes) learnt all that had happened in
the battle, he informed the Roman emperor.
Having read the letter, the

emperor

Justinian ordered

by

letter the inaglster militcrm

resident in Armenia, to journey to the East to give military

Sittas also captured Persian lands,
He came to Samosata by
Constantiolus was also ordered to go
traversing the Armenian mountains.
to the East to find out the truth about the battle. After reaching
Antioch he set out in the direction of the Roman exarchs, to learn the
complete truth.
Sittas,
help.

Mamantios
1897, 230.

(463.12;

corr

Dind):

'Mama'

Ba,

first

hand;

see

Bury,

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61.
At that time Julian the praetorian prefect was dismissed from
office and John the Cappadocian was appointed in his place.
The Romans learned that Persian exarchs with a Persian
force and
Saracens had moved against Osrhoene, and had encircled the fort known
as
Abgersaton,
which had been built by Abgaros, the toparch of the
city of
Osrhoene.
It had an old brick wall.
The garrison inside (466) killed
1,000 of the Persians by shooting down with their arrows;
and when they
ran out of arrows they used slings and
killed many of them.
As a result
the Persians were hard-pressed, and by use
of a variety of engines they
dug through the brick wall of the fortress
and started to make their way
in.
But those on the wall became aware of the breach that
had been made
by the barbarians and came down
from the wall; they began to cut down
with their swords the Persians who were
entering.
The Persians realized
this and, while the Roman soldiers
were occupied at the breach, they
took ladders and made their way
up to the wall at night.
They forced
their way in,
captured the fortress and killed everyone,
except for a
few who were able to escape and
brought news of what had happened.
The
Persians set out from there
and returned to Persian territory.
When Constantiolus learned of the

events

of the exarchs, he set out for Byzantion from the nagrster and the
and reported the events to
the emperor.
When he had heard a report
on the battle from
Constantiolos, he relieved Belisarios
of his command and appointed
Moundos to the position of f#ag ster
militum ,tar Orlentem,
In the month of June, while the
Roman
m111ttan

rest

were making
preparations against the
Persians, Alamoundaros,
the prince of the
Saracens, wrote to the
Romans for a deacon called
Sergius to be sent to
him so that he could
convey peace terms
through
him to the Roman
emperor.'
Sergius was sent back
to the Roman emperor with the letter
(467) sent by Alamoundaros.
The emperor, having read
the letter, did
not stop his campaign
against the Persians.
He sent Rufinus as an
ambassador to Persia
with a letter for the
king recommending that he
accept.
friendship;
"for it is honourable
and glorious to make the two
states to live in peace.
If you do not do
Persian land for myself".
I shall seize the
At the same time Sergius
the deacon was sent to
with imperial gifts.
king Alamoundaros
In that year gifts
were sent from the
emperor of the Romans to the
emperor of the Persians.
Likewise the Augusta
sent gifts to the Persian
City
empress,
who was his sister.
When Rufinus and
city of Edessa they
Strategios reached the
sent a message to
Persians He put off receiving
Koades, the emperor of the
them, since he had
against the Romans.
sent a force secretly
62.
In that year
there was a fire
in
candles in the theatre,
Antioch.
Somebody lit
and when the wax dripped
caught fire. A crowd
on to the timbers, they
rushed up and the
fire was put out.
63.
In that
year Demosthenes
was sent to the
considerable sum
East, conveying a
of money to prepare
granaries in each
the war with Persia,
city because of
When he reached
Osrhoene.
Antioch he then went
on to

this,

61. Bo 465.17-467.14.

62. Bo 467.15-18.
63. Bo 467.19-22,

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were sent to the cities, saying that those

take communion
in the holy churches should be sent into
exile,
for they were excusing themselves by citing the Council of
Chalkedon, that is, the Council of the 630 Bishops. A riot broke out in
Antioch,
and the mob burst into the bishop's residence, throwing stones
and chanting insults.
Those who were in the patriarchate came out,
together with the comes Orlentls, and resisted them with missiles and
stones and killed many of the rioters.
These events were reported to
the emperor, and he ordered many to be punished.
65.
In that year a report was sent from Hermogenes concerning a
battle which had taken place between Romans and Persians. The Persian
generals had made a raid with a force of 6,000 men, to capture
Martyropolis,
for they had
camped in the area of Amida by the river
known as Nymphios.
The Romans made a stand against the Persians but
could not drive them back. When a second battle took place, the Romans,
using the tactic of flight, appeared to be in retreat. The Persians
made a charge and, thinking their opponents were in flight, broke their
own ranks.
The Romans turned and cut. down 2000 of the Persians, taking
some of their exarchs as prisoners and capturing some standards from
them.
When the rest escaped and expected to cross the river Nymphios,
they perished in its currents as they were pursued. The Romans returned
victorious (469) to Martyropolis.
The Roman dux went out with the
landowners and stripped the Persian corpses, having put their exarchs
under guard.
who

,-

273

did

66.

(468) Rescripts
not.

In that year Dorot.heos,

the

milrt-tam

Armenl'am,

also set out against the Persians with a Roman force. He won a victory,
and killed Persarmenians and Persians,
whom he treated cruelly.
He
also captured many Persian fortresses.
One of those he captured was a
strong fortress on top of a mountain, approached by a single narrow
pathway, by which the inhabitants came down to draw their water from the
river which flowed past. The Persian traders used to store up there all
the goods they carried with them for their business, since the place was
safe.
When news of this was brought to Dorotheos, he encircled the
fortress and put a guard on the path to it. The Persians inside were
starved out and surrendered, persuaded by sworn promises.
When a report
was sent by Dorotheos to the emperor Justinian about what had been found

in the fortress, he sent

was

stored

there.

out.

Narses the cuhlculetrstss to take over what

When Narses arrived, they handed everything over to

him.
The Persian exarchs reported the events to their emperor.
A large
Persian army was sent out, and came close (470) to Martyropolis, for
they had received a message from their emperor not to return to Persia
until they had recaptured that fortress.
They appeared before the place
and besieged it, making attacks.
They undermined the wall and made
scaling-ladders,
setting them up against the wall.
Later they
constructed a tall wooden tower but won no advantage, for among those
besieged there was a clever man who worked out counter-strategies to

64. Bo 468.1-9.
65. Bo 468.10-469.3.
and expected (468.22; see Bury, 1897, 230): om Bo.
victorious (469.1; see Bury, 1897, 230): om Bo.
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oppose the Persian schemes.

He made a taller tower inside the walls
with the Persians fighting from the tower outside and the Romans
fighting back from the tower inside, the Romans used a machine to drop a
column which smashed everything to the ground and killed many Persians
at the some time.
When the rest of the Persians saw what had happened,
since they were suffering losses and had also heard that Sittas, the
Roman maglster mllitum, was approaching to help those in the fortress,
they withdrew,
frightened that they would be surrounded.
When the
emperor Justinian heard this, he instructed his ambassadors
not to enter
Persia until he sent them a second letter, and so they remained on Roman
territory with the gifts,
67.
The emperor sent to all the cities laws
for litigants,
dealing with the expenses involved in obtaining judgements.
Likewise
with regard to the payment of swrtulae,
he decreed that no one was to
dare to take more than the amount prescribed
by him.
(471) In the city
of
the Antiochenes these were written
in Greek letters
on
the
notice-boards.
At the
same time the theat re o f th e c t y receSved
financial support.
/
68.
On 8th September Koades,
the emperor of the Persians,
hearing
of the losses sustained
by the Persians at the hands of the Romans,
suffered a sudden paralysis on
the right side of his body.
He summoned
his second son Chosroes and
proclaimed him as emperor, placing a crown
on his head.
After an illness of five days, Koades,
the emperor of the
Persians,
died at the age of 82 years and three
months.
He had reigned
for 43 years and two months.
When Chosroes was proclaimed
message to the Roman ambassadors emperor of the Persians, he sent a
by a Persian maglstrl'anuq
should enter Persian territory
and make a peace treaty between Romans
and Persians.
The Roman ambassadors refused
to enter Persia without
imperial command, explaining,
"We do not dare to come
to visit you".
When the emperor of the
Persians learned of this, he
wrote a letter and
sent it to the emperor Justinian,
asking that permission be given
Roman ambassadors to
to the
enter Persia and to make a
treaty. The emperor of
the Persians wrote a friendly
letter and sent
it by the nnag.ister
Hermog enes.
When the Roman emperor
received this message, he
reply,
wrote in
"We do not give permission for
our ambassadors (472) to come
you, nor do we recognize you as
to
emperor of the Persians".
69.
In that
year the emperor of
the
Persians
told the Manicheans
who were subject to his
state that they could practise
they wished.
their religion as
The Persian magni, distressed
by this event, plotted with
the senators and decided
to depose him from the
throne and to put his
brother
in his place.
When the emperor of
the Persians heard of this,
he beheaded his brother
and executed the senators
and the magol, He
wrote a letter to the Roman
emperor containing
a proposal for a three
months' truce.
The Roman emperor wrote back
to the m agi'ster
the three months' truce
and to exchange hostages
with the Persians.
ordered Strategius and Rufinus,
He
his ambassadors, to
70,
return to Byzantion.
In
that year Sabir Huns passe
d through the Caspian
Gates and
and,

11

that they

to accept

67.
68.
69.
70.

Bo
Bo
Bo
Bo

470.19-471.3.
471.4-472.2.
472.3-14.
472.15-473.4.

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appeared in Roman territory,

plundering as far as the land of the
Armenians.
Then they spread out. and reached as far as Euphratesia,
Second Cilicia and Kyrrhestike.
On learning of this, the Roman emperor
summoned the patrician Rufinus and ordered him to set out for the
eastern territories and find out whether they had come against the
Romans at. the prompting of the Persian king. Rufinus set out and, after
communicating with the Persian emperor, found that the Huns had not
invaded with the Persian emperor's authority. He wrote to Dorotheos,

thegrster
Huns.

by way

mllitum per Armenlam, (473) to take up arms against the

The Huns heard of this and, taking all their booty, they returned

of the places through which they had

come.

The

tagister.nil.itum

Dorotheos pursued them and took a good deal of booty from them.
71.
In that
year of
the 10th
indiction, a pretext for rioting
occurred in Byzantion caused by some avenging demons when Eudaimon was
city prefect and was holding
in
custody trouble makers from both
factions.
When he had examined various persons, he found seven of them
guilty of murder and sentenced four of them to be beheaded and three to
be impaled.
After they had been paraded through the whole city and had
crossed to the other side, some of them were hanged.
But two of them,
one a Blue and the other a Green, fell as the scaffold broke.
The
people who were standing round saw what had happened and acclaimed the
emperor.
When the monks near St. Konon's had heard this and came out,
they found two of those who had been hanged lying on the ground still
alive.
Taking them down by the sea and putting them in a boat, they
sent them to St Laurence's to a place of sanctuary.
On learning of
this,
the city prefect sent a military force and kept guard over them
where they were.
(474)
Three days later the chariot-races known as those of the Ides
were held.
They are known as the
Ides because the Roman emperor
entertains at banquets in his palace all those who are being promoted in
bestowing on each the office of priinlceri us, While the
the service,

Th
181.24-31
473.5-477.3; CP 620.3-4,
620.13-629.6
(AD532),
(AD531/2), 184.3-186.2 (AD531/2),
De insid 46 (172.7-30), Eccl Hist
112.19-27.
In that year of the 10th indiction (473.5): Th gives 2 texts before
beginning at this point on the Nika riot: a) a brief summary of the riot
as Appendix I below and b) the
(= Eccl
Hist 112.9-27) translated
"Acclamations
at Kalopodios", translated
in
Bury,
1923,
71-4 and
Cameron,
1976,
319-22.
On the textual confusion of Th at. this point,
particularly in relation to b) and its apparent presence in CP, see
and Cameron,
318-29, who show that this
Maas,
1912,
46-51
1976,
acclamation is out of context in the preliminaries to the Nika riot.
Another summary of the riot. (= De insid 46) is translated as Appendix II
below.
as the scaffold broke (473.13): Th adds 'They were hanged again, and
again fell'.
'chanted, "Get them to the church"'
acclaimed the emperor (473.14-15):
Th; see Bury, 1897a, who derives both phrases from the original Malalas.
'because there was a custom that
to a place of sanctuary (473.19):
should be removed from the church till he had suffered
nobody
Th.
(Th's language is obscure here.
He may mean 'until
sufficiently'
bail was granted'.)

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chariot-racing was being
call upon
held on 13th
the
January, both factions
began to
22nd race and emperor to show mercy. They
they were not
continued chanting until the
evil counsels
granted an
answer. Then the devil
in them and
prompted
they chanted to one
merciful Blues and
another, "Long live the
Greens!"
After the
having given
races the crowds went off
as not to themselves a watch-word with the
united,
be infiltrated
word, "Conquer"
so
by
charged on.
soldiers
or excubitores, And so they
Towards
demanding an answer evening they went to the city
about the
prefect's praetorium,
an answer, they
set fire to fugitives at St Laurence. Not receiving
the
praetorium,
the
praetorium.
Great Church and Chalke Gate of the palace as This fire destroyed the
far as the Scholae, the
the
public
on their
disorderly way. At colonnade. The people continued to charge
be held and
daybreak the emperor
after
members now set fire the customary flag had been ordered the races to
to the tiers of
hoisted the faction
colonnade as far
the hippodrome.
as the Zeuxippon
Part of the public
Constantiolus and
was burnt.
Basilides went out (475)
Moundos,
command,
with a force at
intending to
the emperor's
silence the rioting
chanting against
mob
John, nicknamed
which by then was
and the city
the
Cappadocian, the
prefect Eudaimon.
gtestor Tribonian
The senators
who had been
sent

the fugitives
at St
remove the soldiers Laurence (474.15-16): Th adds
on guard
'asking the prefect to
This fire
there'.
destroyed the
'The porticoes
praetorium
...
public colonnade
from the arch
of the Forum
also the shops
to the Chalke(474.17-19): cf Th
of the
were burned; and
silversmiths and the
destroyed by fire.
whole palace of
They killed
them.
Lausos were
Then they
unsparingly the
broke into houses
soldiers who attacked
see Bury,
and
1897a, 117,
began to loot
who suggests
their contents';
independence of
that Th is here
in
showing mistaken
a way which judgement in arranging the
lists of burned
seemed to him more
either can be
buildings
logical.
It is
trusted for
than one
unlikely that Ba
catalogue of burnt this list, which probably
points out that
reflects more
buildings; see
Ba,
CP and Th
Gleye, 1896, 444,
different stages of
give the
who
burning of St
the riot. CP
Sophia at three
most
should be
detailed
trusted most since it
account,
free,
is the
abbreviation.
apparently,
However since CP is
from errors
was burnt at
caused by
in lacuna
this
here,
we do not know
point apart
Chalke and St
from the
what
Sophia probably
praetorium - except
the Zeuxippon was
survived one or
that the
two more days
burnt
'(The emperor
(see below).
CP adds,
sent to see (474.23-475.1):
after the lacuna,
what they were
a serious
chanting) "at
emergency arises,
random. But
emperor said to
then you do what
them, "Go out and
you have decided". when
The
Sotiriadis,
discover why they
1888,
112-13; Bury,
are
46-8;
rioting"'; see
1897a, 98, note 3
Cameron, 1976,

324-5,
and 99; Maas, 1912,
of a later
The first
words, bracketed
attempt to fill the
above, are part
lacuna in CP.
Moundos...emperor's command
Maas,
(475.1-2):
1912, 48, note
'The patrician
3), who was
in
Basilides (see
deputising for the
and Constantiolus
,
gister Hermogenes
the Constantinople,
rioting mob outside
went out of the
the palace
palace.
them, asking,
and silencing
Halting
"What do you want
them, they
and why are
John, nicknamed
addressed
you rioting?"'
the Cappadocian
CP.
the Cappadocian'
(475.4):
'the praetorian
CP.
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heard this chanting
from
Immediately John, Tribonian andthem and reported it to the
Eudaimon were
emperor.
went out with a troop
dismissed.
of Goths;
there was fighting
Belisarios
faction members were cut
down. The mob
and many of the
was incensed
and started fires
out

1Yibonian (475.4): cf 'Rufinus'

CP; see
Baldwin, 1981,
Immediately John ... dismissed
304 and note
27.
praetorian prefect John and (475.7-8): 'He immediately
appointed
dismissed the
the
Krateros,
patrician Phokas,
praetorian prefect in
the son of
his place.
('Rufinus'
CP)
the Qwestor
He dismissed
and appointed
Tribonian
in
patrician Basilides who, as
his place as
gckie,ator the
mentioned above, was
He dismissed the
city prefect.
deputising for the
prefect in his place
Eudaimon and
Tryphon, the
appointed as city
brother
prefect. But the people
of Theodoros
continued rioting
the
faction members were cut down
outside the palace'former city
CP.
(475.9-10):
CP
started fires...
adds 'till
indiscriminately
evening'.
bronze-roofed entrance to the (475.10-11): 'they then set.
fire to the
palace, and it
the portico of the
was burnt,
together with
,rrroteotares
collapsed.
and
Likewise the Senate
ciafx/'ieati, which
was burnt,
Augusteion, and the Great Church
by the area
with its
known as the
was completely
tremendous, wonderful
destroyed on all four
columns
sides.
down,
rioting once more, to
From there the
the harbour of
crowd went
that of Sophia') to the
Julian
(Th
adds, 'I
residence of Probus.
him and chanted,
mean,
They demanded
"Probus for emperor
weapons from
of the Roman
emperor for the city' Th).
world"
They set fire
(cf 'Another
to the
Probus.
When a small part had
been burnt, the house of the patrician
extinguished ('the house was burnt
fire died down and
down' Th),
was
on Friday 16th of
that month the
the prefects
people went to
and started a
the praetorium of
fire there.
imperial
houses of the
Only the roofs
of the two
praetorium
were burnt - where
kept for a north wind
the ,.acrini are
sprang up and blew
praetorium (for the second burning
the flames away
of the
from the
here,
see Bury,
praet.orium and for
1897a, 116-7).
The baths in
punctuation
were burnt.,
as was part. of the
the quarter of
hospice in the
St Eirene,
Alexander
which had been built
quarter of Euboulos,
by Illus the
and
against the emperor
Zeno.
Isaurian, who
The great.
rebelled
and its sick
occupants perished (athospice of Sampson was burnt
down
this point St
according to Th;
see Bury, 1897a.
103.
Th also adds Sophia was burnt,
later,
though it precedes in
here, or
his narrative
mentioned below,
the indiscriminate perhaps
'The emperor
in his terror
into a boat and
wanted to load his murders
withdraw to Herakleia in
monies
be guarded by the
Thrace, leaving
the palace to
militum Maundos with
Constantiolus and the
his son and 3000
, see Bury,
men,
on Saturday, thatcubicularli
1897a, 104).
is the 17t.h
of the month
who had come
from the Hebdomon
and Rhegion Audynaios, the soldiers
Calabria,
clashed with the
and Athyras, and
people, since
from
murders
the crowd were
indiscriminately, dragging their
committing
the sea like
victims
and
riff-raff; they were
throwing them into
likewise killing women
number of women').
Many faction--members
(Th 'a large
they were being
died. When the
attacked, they went
mob saw that
to the Oktagon,
basilica of the Furriers
which is between
and the public
the
portico of the
soldiers realised that they
Rhegia.
could not get
When the
in, they threw
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in other places and
began killing indiscriminately.
On the 18th of the
same month

the emperor went up to

carrying the Holy
the hippodrome
Gospels.
On learning of
this the crowds came
in
too and he made
a proclamation to
them oni oath. Many of
people chanted for
the
him as emperor,
but others rioted, chanting
Hypatios.
The people took
for
Hypatios and led
known as the Forum
him off to the place
of Constantine.
Setting
him on high on the steps
and bringing regalia
and a golden collar
out from the palace,
these on his head.
they put
Then they took
him and led him off to
hippodrome,
intending to take
the
him up into the imperial
Aaathisnq, for
on them, and set
fire to the Oktagon.
As a result of this fire
around St Theodoros
the area
quarter of Sphorakios
the Skeuophylakion ofin the
was burnt, except for
the
holy
house
gloss of mss 'oven',
looks
a
(pou'pvog , or 'prison',
(poupLOV = (ppoipi.ov
gives no satisfactory
which
sense). The entire
the house of Symmachus
the ex-consul ord arfi
candfSthAquilinasastfar
as the vault of the
other portico at. the
Forum of Constantine
down.
The people fled
were burnt
from there and set fire
Magnaura.
to the Libyrnos by the
But a large crowd
gathered and it was
cf Th.
quickly put out..' CP,
On the 18th (475.11):
'On Sunday, that is,
the 18th' CP.
the emperor went up
to the hippodrome
(475.12):
A thi,%w early in the morning'.
CP adds
'into the

('.

pori,
like

CP adds 'and the

thelcd wwdds ccamerindtoo (475'13)'
whole hippodrome was
he made a proclamation
to than on oath
(475.14):
oath before them, saying,
'the emperor took an
"By this power
I forgive you
and I order that
this wrong-doing,
none of you be
arrested.
fault lies not with
But be at peace, for the
you but with me.
For my sins made
you asked of me
me refuse what
in the hippodrome"'
CP.
chanted for him
as
emperor
(475.15):
,VS
'chanted, "Augustus
CF,
Justinian, to
but others rioted,
chanting for Hypatios
chanted,
(475.15-16):
"You are breaking
'but
others
your oath, you donkey!"
silent and left
The emperor fell
the hippodrome.
He immediately dismissed
palace and said to the
those in the
senators, "Go,
As they left,
and each of you guard
the people met
his house".
Hypatios
the patrician and
patrician, and chanted,
Pompeius the
"Hypatios Augustus,
to vr'ncas "'CP.
The people took Hypatios
(475.16):
'The people took
Hypatios, wearing
a white cloak' CP.
the patrician
on the steps (475.18):
CP adds
of
the
column
emperor Constantine',
of the statue of
the
hringing regalia ...they
put these on his
head (475.18-19):
from the palace
known as the Placillianai
'bringin
out
which were stored
the imperial insignia
there.
They put them on
collar around his
Hypatios' head and
neck.
(De insid also
a golden
shield).
refers to raising
When this became known
him on a
to the emperor,
CP.
the palace was
sealed
Then they took him...iathi
y
(475.20-21):
'The
Hypatios and Pompeius
crowds of people
the patrician and
took
Julian the former
prefect,
and brought Hypatios
praetorian
to the hippodrome,
CP.
to the imperial

vinc"'

off'

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the crowd was eager to throw

imperial robes for him out from the
palace.
Hypatios had learnt that the emperor had left and, seating
himself in the
he boldly came out in rebellion.
(476) When Moundos, Constantiolus, Belisarios, other senators and an
armed force had come up through
the kathi.s.s from behind, Narses,
the
cuhi
and sa tharios, slipped out without being noticed and
beguiled
some of the Blue faction by distributing money. Some of the
mob started a disturbance and chanted for Justinian as emperor for the
city.
The mob was divided and set upon one another.
The nhagistri

imperial robes (475.22): 'imperial purple and a diadem' CP.

from the palace (475.22):
CP adds 'and crown him emperor.
All the
people who were in the hippodrome shouted to him, "Augustus Hypatios, to

vincas'.

"

Hypatios had learnt that the emperor had left (475.22-23):

'Hypatios,
foreseeing that the people were fickle and that the emperor would regain
control,
secretly
sent the candid,., tus Ephraim,
in
whom he had
confidence, to announce to the emperor Justinian, "See, I have assembled
all
your enemies in the hippodrome; give your orders and carry them
out".
Ephraim went to the palace and wanted to enter and deliver the
message to the emperor, but he was met by Thomas, an a seer etis. who was
the emperor's doctor and was greatly favoured by him.
Thomas said to
the
caixl'idatus,
"Where are you going? There is nobody inside, for the
emperor has left here". Ephraim returned and said to Hypatios, "Lord,
it seems that God wants you to rule, for Justinian has fled and there is
nobody in the palace"' CP,
seating himself...rebellion (475.23-24):
'On hearing
this, Hypatios
decided with greater boldness to sit. in the imperial kathi.%w in the
hippodrome,
and to listen to the acclamations chanted to him by the
people,
and the insulting phrases they uttered against the emperor
Justinian and the Augusta Theodora.
Two hundred and fifty ('200' Th)
young
Greens
came
from
Konstantianai
('Flakianai'
Th
where
'Flacillianai' perhaps should be read), wearing breastplates.
These
young men came fully armed, reckoning that they could force open the
palace and install Hypatios inside' CP, cf Th,
When Moundos ... the kathiaw from behind (476.1-2):
'The most sacred
emperor Justinian, hearing of the reckless actions of the people and of
Hypatios and Pompeius (reading nap&
for nep
with CP, ms P),
immediately came up by the stairway known as the Kochlias to what are
called the Poulpita,
behind the kathiwas of the hippodrome, to the
triclinlim with the bronze doors, which were locked. With the emperor
were Moundos,
Constantiolus, Basilides,
Belisarios and some other
senators.
He also had the armed troops of the palace together with his
own s4vathariJ and cubicularii CP, cf Th.
Narses (476.3): 'When this had happened, Narses' CP.
without being noticed and (476.3): CP adds 'by his own actions and those
of his men'.
started a disturbance... for the city (476.5-6): 'separated off and began
to chant,
"Augustus Justinian,
to vincas; Lord,
save the emperor
Justinian and the Augusta Theodora". The whole crowd in the hippodrome
roared.
Some of the rabble-rousers from the Green faction rushed
against them and began to throw stones at them' CP, cf Th.
set upon one another (476.6-7): CP adds (cf Th) 'Those inside the palace

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entered the hippodrome

with a force and
crowds from both
began to cut down the
entrances,
some with
Belisarios went off
arrows,
others with swords.
unnoticed,
seized hold of Hypatios
and brought them to
and Pompeius
the emperor Justinian.
emperor's feet,
They fell down at the
saying in their defence,
for us to assemble
"Lord, it was a great
effort
the enemies of your
majesty in the hippodrome".
emperor answered
The
them,
"You have done well.
your authority, why
But if they were obeying
did you not do
this before the whole
burnt?"
At an order from
city was
the emperor the
and Pompeius
spatharii arrested Hypatios
and put them in
prison.
hippodrome amounted
Those slaughtered
in the
to 35,000, more or
less.
On the next day Hypatios
and Pompeius were put
to death and
their bodies were thrown
the sea.
The emperor announced
into
his victory and the
rebels' destruction

itary

dexcubitere1landd

to the people'.

The
own
the

alstrl

re, and

scholerriat forsttheseetoo
h

beguiled
defected

allitur. ,-both entrances

(476.7-8): 'Coming
they charged into
out with their
the hi
of
Moundos through
the curved end, others
door of the imperial
through the single
box into the
quarter of Antiochos
arena, still others through
the
and what is known
cut down the people
as the Dead Gate.
They began to
at random' CP, cf
Th.
some with arrows,
BOW with swords (476.9): CP
result that none
adds (cf Th)
'with the
of the citizens or
found in the
foreigners ('Blues
hippodrome survived.
or Greens' Th)
Amongst
of Antioch-Theoupolis,
these Antipatros,
the virwex
was slain'.
Belisarios went off...Hypatios
and Poorpeius
those under Belisarios,
the nergiste
to
']! u,4openedlthe
the imperial Irathi'm?and
dooseleading
charged in with the
Hypatios, together
gretharii.
with Pompeius
Arresting
the
patrician,
They fell down (476.12):
his cousin' CP, cf
'When they were
Th.
At an order ...Pu them in prison
brought in, they
fell down' CP.
(476.17-19): 'He
and scttharii
instructed his eunuchs
and the J rtgtus
Eulalios and the
and lock them up".
cam ilati, "Take them
They took them down
Hypatios and Pompeius alone'
into the palace and
locked up
CP.
35,000, more or less
(476.20): '35,000
who made the estimates
citizens and foreigners,
say.
as those
No faction-member
and there was peace
was to be seen
till the evening'
anywhere,
On the next
CP, cf Th,
day (476.21): CP adds 'which
was Monday 19th
Hypatios and Pompeius (476.21):
Audynaios'.
Th adds 'his brother',
Patricians'.
CP adds 'the
were put to death (476.21):
De insid adds 'one
regalia and revolted,
as having worn imperial
the other as his
accomplice'.
thrown into the sea (476.22):
CP adds
body was washed up on
(cf Th and De insid)
the shore, and the
emperor ordered
in the middle of
the
it to be buried
over the body, on other executed criminals, and a stone
which was inscribed,
to be placed
Louppa".
"Here
Some days later
lies the emperor
the emperor ordered
of
his body and bury it.
Hypatios' family
They took it and buried
to take
Mauna.
it
Pompeius' body
in the martyrium
never reappeared.
of St
confiscated.
All their Possessions
The rest of the patricians
were
found with them
fled, some to

men
son

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to all the cities (477) and he undertook to rebuild the places that had
been burnt.. He built a granary and reservoirs near the palace so as to
have supplies in times of crisis.

monasteries,
others to churches, and their homes were sealed, together
with a further 18 patricians, J1lustres and consulars, whose property
was confiscated and who were exiled as supporters of Hypat.ios.
There
was widespread fear of the emperor.
When the emperor learnt later of

the reply given

by Thomas,

the a serreta s, to the

Ephraim, he

beheaded Thomas and exiled Ephraim to Alexandria the Great.

On Tuesday 20th Audynaios all Constantinople was quiet and nobody
dared to appear in public, but only the shops which supplied food and
drink to the needy were open. Business was suspended and Constantinople
had no commercial activity for several days'.
'The emperor
The emperor announced... had been burnt (476.22-477.1):
Justinian immediately announced his victory to all the cities of his
empire,
as well as the destruction of the rebels who had risen up
against him, undertaking to rebuild splendidly, better than before, the
Great Church, the palace and all the public buildings of the city which
had been burned down' CP.
He built a granary... times of crisis (477.2-3):
'Inside the palace he
built bakeries and granaries to store grain and likewise a cistern for
water because of crises arising from riots. He ordered the city prefect
to punish those of the Blue faction who had joined with the Greens and
the other factions against him' CP.
Th, De insid add 'No chariot-races
were held for a considerable period'; see Sotiriadis, 1888, 109-11.
Appendix I.
Tb 181.24-31 (= Eccl Hist 112.19-27), 'In this year, the
5th of Justinian's reign,
in January of the 10th indiction, occurred
what is known as the Nika revolt.
The members of the factions crowned
as emperor Hypatios, the relative of the emperor Anastasios. A large
part of the city was burned, including the Great Church, St. Eirene, the
Hospice of Sampson, the Augusteion, the portico of the Basilica and the
Chalke of the palace. There was great panic and many of those found in
the hippodrome with Hypatios perished; the number reported is 35,000'.
'In the 2nd year of Justinian's
Appendix II. De insid 46(172.7-30),
reign the faction of the Greens-and-Blues rose up against him and caused
great disorder and destruction at Constantinople.
These faction members
burnt the places that they took over, from the palace to the Forum and
the Arca,
to right and left, including all the adjacent houses, the
praetorium
of
the city prefect and the Oktagon.
Then after that the
They brought Hypatios,
people shouted, "Iv vines, Hypatios Augustus".
the maglster militum, from his house, made him wear imperial dress and
raised him on the shield.
The whole hippodrome was filled with the
people,
as they wanted to watch an emperor being crowned.
Whilst the
hippodrome was still packed with the crowd, the emperor ordered his
Moundos entered
soldiery to be let loose with some of the commanders.
from the imperial box above the gate and attacked the people in the
hippodrome while Belisarios entered from below the box, and they put to
the sword about 30,000.
Justinian arrested both Hypatios and Pompeius
and executed them, one for having worn imperial regalia and revolting,
the other for being his accomplice.
Also, he banished 18 i11u-stre.q and
confiscating their property, for having joined the usurpation
senators,
He appointed Tryphon
of Hypatios.
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72,
In that year
Rufinus set out for Persian
territory with
sacred memoranda to make a peace
treaty with the Persians.
73.
In that year an
Indian ambassador was sent
with gifts to
Constantinople,
74.
In that year John the Cappadocian
became praetorian prefect.
75.
In that year there occurred
a great shower of stars from dusk
to dawn,
so that everyone was astounded
and said, "We have never known
anything like this to happen".
76.
In that year Hermogenes
and Rufinus returned from Persia,
bringing with them a
peace treaty between the two
states of Rome and
Persia,.. of the two
states for the duration of
both their lives. The
region of Pharangion
was to be restored to the Persians
with all the
prisoners,
while the forts that had
been captured by the Persians were
restored to the
Romans,
with those captured in them.
The two rulers
agreed and said explicitly
in
the treaty that they
were brothers
according to the ancient
custom and that if one of
them needed military
assistance in money or men,
they should provide it without
dispute.
(478) After these
proceedings both armies,
the Roman and the
Persian,
withdrew.
The war had lasted 31 years
from the time that
Koades,
the emperor of the Persians,
had advanced as aggressor into
Roman territory, as was
mentioned above during the
reign of Anastasios,
and the capture of Amida,
mentioned above, and the
restoration of that
city of Amida to the
Romans, and the local wars
with raiding Saracens.
77.
In that
year an earthquake occurred
in Byzantion late in the
evening, so that the whole
city gathered in the place
known as the Forum
of Constantine, assembling
for prayers, petitions and
vigils.
78.
In those days the emperor
Justinian sent to each city
sacred

as city prefect and

punished many of the faction
members, and the
chariot-races were not held
for a long time',
72. Bo 477.4-6.
73. Bo 477.7-8.
74. Bo 477.8-9.
75. Bo 477.10-12; Th 186.3-5
(AD531/2), GM 643.14-16.
and said (477,11): Th adds
"'The stars are falling
and', cf GM.
76. Bo 477.13-478.7.
...of the two states (477.15_16):
despite Festugiere,
1979, 236-7, a
lacuna seems more likely
than the simple repetition
of 'of the two
states'.
77. Bo 478.8-11; CP 629.10-20
(AD532).
In that year an
earthquake.. petitions and vigils
(478.8-11):
year,
'In this
in the month
of Dios, November according
to the Romans, in the
12th indiction,
there was a severe earthquake
that caused no damage
Constantinople, late in the
in
evening, so that the
entire city gathered in
the Forum of Constantine
in a procession of prayer
and said, "God is
holy, holy and strong, holy
and immortal, who was
crucified for us, have
mercy on us".
They spent the whole night
in vigil and prayer.

When day
the people who were
processing in prayer
shouted out,
the tyche of the Christians.
You who were crucified,
city.
save
Augustus Justinian, to vlncoas.
Remove and burn the
decree formulated by the bishops
at the Council of Chalkedon"'
78. Bo 478.12-15;
CP.
CP 630.1-633.16 (AD533);
Justinian,
C.1.1,6. See M.
Amelotti and Zingale, 1977,
31-5.
dawned, all
"Victory to
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decrees containing the following provisions;

orthodox faith and against impious heretics.
churches in each city.

Edict

concerning the

It was displayed in the

In those days...in each city

(478.12-15):
'On the
20th of the month
the
Dios,
of
12th
indiction,
the emperor Justinian issued at
Constantinople
his sacred edict, which he sent to the city of Rome, to
Jerusalem,
to the great Theoupolis of the Antiochenes in Syria, to the
great city of the Alexandrians in Egypt, to Thessalonike the city of the
prefecture of Illyricum and to Ephesos the city of Asia.
The contents

were as follows:
The
emperor Caesar Justinian,
Pious,
Victorious,
Triumphator,
to our citizens - We are desirous in
Maximus,
ever-revered,
Augustus,
all things to worship the Saviour and Lord of all, Jesus Christ, our
True God,
and to imitate his condescension as far as the human mind is
able to comprehend it. Finding some people infected by the sickness and
madness of Nestorios and Eutyches, the enemies of God and of the most
holy catholic and apostolic church, and refusing to name the holy and
glorious ever-virgin Mary as Theotokos rightly and in truth, we have
been eager that they should be instructed in the correct faith.
Incurable
as they are and concealing their error they go around, as we
have
learnt, disturbing and scandalizing the souls of the simple and
speaking in opposition to the teachings of the holy catholic and
apostolic church. Therefore we have thought it necessary to refute the
falsehoods of the heretics and to make plain to all the doctrine of
God's holy and apostolic church and the teaching of her most holy
priests,
whom we follow in making clear what pertains to the hope that
is in us, not making inovations in the faith - heaven forbid - but
demonstrating the madness of those who favour the teaching of the
impious heretics,
as we have already done in the preamble to our reign
and made obvious to all.
We believe in one God, the father omnipotent, and in one Lord Jesus
Christ, the son of God, and in the Holy Spirit, worshipping one essence
one godhead,
one power,
the consubstantial
in three
hynnstasel_s,
Trinity.
In
the last days we confess Jesus Christ, the only-begotten
son of God, son of the True God, begotten of the Father before all ages,
from whom and through whom all things have
co-eval with the Father,
from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy
their being,
who descended
Spirit of the holy, glorious and ever-virgin Theotokos Mary and, being
made man, endured the cross for us under Pontius Pilate, and was buried
and we know his miracles and the
and rose again on the third day;
suffering which he endured willingly in the flesh were of one and the
same Christ.
For we know that God the Word and Christ are not separate;
the one and the same is consubstantial with us in humanity; and we
For the Trinity remained a
accept and confess the unity in hypostasis.
Trinity even when
one part of
the Trinity, the Word of God, became
flesh.
For the Holy Trinity does not allow of the addition of a fourth
person.
Since this is so we anathematize every heresy, especially
Nestorios the man-worshipper and those who have agreed or now agree with
him, who divide our one Lord Jesus Christ, the son of God, and our God
and who do not confess rightly and in truth the holy, glorious
ever-virgin,
Mary to be Theotokos, that is, Mother of God, but who say
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79.

Not long
afterwards a tremendous

Great but

it

earthquake occurred in
caused no damage.
Antioch
that year the
emperor
consulship and
distributed largesse for his
recalled the
third
exile, granting
patricians Olybrios and
them all their
Probus, then in
AD533/4
property.
81,
in the 12th
indiction the king
prisoner, with his
of Africa (479) was
wife,
by Belisarios
taken
Constantinople.
and they were
They were
brought to
brought in as
the
captives with the spoils
chariot-races were being
held.
while
82.
In that year
the
been placed in
statue of Julian
the middle of
the Julian Harbour, the Apostate, which had
a cross in
place of the
fell down.
They set up
statue.
After
83.
After
Belisarios'
AD535
consulship
a
Constantinople by the
council
was
bishop of Rome,
held at
the patriarch of
Agapetos. He deposed
Constantinople.
Anthemios,

AD533)

80.

In

born from
by grace

the ever-virgin
and connection Theotokos Mary and deny that he was
and relationship
himself;
and who do not
to God the Word begotten
and God
confess that our
God and our
Lord Jesus Christ,
God who was
the son of
with the
incarnate and made
man and
consubstantial Trinity.
crucified, is one
and glorified
For he alone it
is who is
together with the
worshipped
We
Father and the Holy
anathematize also
Spirit.
Eutyches, who is out
have agreed
of his mind,
or now agree with
and those who
the true
him, who
introduce delusions
incarnation by the
and who deny
holy,
and Saviour
ever-virgin
Jesus Christ,
Theotokos Mary of our
that is, our
Lord
that he is
salvation, and who do
consubstantial with
not confess
the Father in
anathematize
divinity.
Apollinarios the
Likewise we
agreed or now agree
destroyer of
souls and those who
with him, who
of God and
say that our
have
our God is man
Lord Jesus Christ
only; and those
the son
turbulence to the
who introduce
incarnation of the
confusion and
who have agreed
or do agree
only-begotten Son of God,
with
and all
them.
All the
bishops received a
copy of this
displayed it in the
in their
churches' CP.
79. Bo
cities and
478.16-17.
80. Bo
478.18-21.
81. Bo
478.22-479.3.
82. Bo
479.4-6.
83. Bo 479.7-12;
Th 217.1-12
After Belisarios'
(AD536/7), Eccl Hist
112.29-31.
consulship.. patriarch
'In this year
of Constantinople
Epiphanios, bishop of
the 15th
(479.1-12):
indiction,
having been Constantinople, died on 5th June of
Anthimos,
bishop for 16
a
heretic,
years and 3
bishop
of
months,
Constantinople.
Trebizond
In this year
was translated to
Agapetos, bishop
Constantinople and called a
of Rome,
synod against
of Halikarnassos
came to
the impious
and the other
Severus and Julian
the bishop of
Theopaschites. Among
these was Anthimos
Constantinople, who for
deposed and driven
being of one mind
out of the
with them was
Menas, presbyter
capital after
and steward of
ten months as
the Sampson
stead by
bishop.
Agapetos, the pope
hospice, was
of Rome.
ordained in his
while he was in
Agapetos, bishop of
Byzantion,
In his place
Rome, died
lived
for one year'
Silverius was
Th; cf Eccl
ordained, who
Hist, whose
briefer account, while

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In that year the bishop of Rome died in Byzantion.

Menas, ex-warden
of the hospice of Sampson, became patriarch in Constantinople.
84.
In the consulship of John the Cappadocian the Arians' churches

were

AD538

confiscated.

85.
In that year the Chalke Gate of the palace at Constantinople
was finished,
being decorated
with various kinds of marble and with
The horologion near the Augusteion and the Basilica was
mosaic work.
moved.

In that year the office of the ,L1t"c4P.fe tus

praetor was appointed in his place.
In that year a c7uaestor was appointed.
86.

In

this

consulship

the

dedication

vi_gilum was

abolished and

of the Great Church took

place.
87.
In the month of
June of the 3rd indiction Antioch the Great AD54O
(480)
was captured by Chosroes, emperor of the Persians,
Germanus was
sent with his son Justin to carry on the war, after being appointed
magister inilitum. Achieving nothing, he stayed in Antioch buying silver

for

two

or three noini;ta a litres from the Antiochenes.

The emperor of

the Persians entered Apameia and other cities of the East.

88.
In that year Belisarias was sent to Rome.
He attacked and
captured Rome,
Sicily and the surrounding cities held by Witigis, king
of the
Goths. He attacked and captured Witigis with his wife and son,
and brought them to Byzantion.
A short. time later the emperor sent Narses, the cuhicularitLc;, with a
large force to Rome against the Goths.
89.
In the month of August John, nicknamed the Cappadocian, was
dismissed, after twice discharging the office of prefect.
His property

chronologically fantastic, may more accurately preserve the sequence of

events than Th.
84. Bo 479.13-14.
85. Bo 479.15-20; Th 216.23-25 (AD535/6), GM 627.3-7.
The horologion...was moved (479.17-18): 'He also made the horologion
at the Milion' Th; around this point (just before the horologion entry
in Th and in connection with the dedication of St Sophia in GM) Th, cf
GM,
adds
'In that year Justinian directed
that the hymn "The
only-begotten Son and Word of God" ('of the troirion beginning, "The
only-begotten Son and Word of God"' GM) be sung in churches'.
86. Bo 479.21-22; Th 217.16-22 (AD537/8), Eccl Hist 112.35-113.3.
In this consulship... took place
(479.21-22):
'In this year,
on 27th
December of the 1st indiction, the first dedication of the Great Church
took place.
The procession set out from St. Anastasia, with Menas the
patriarch sitting in the imperial carriage and the emperor joining in
the procession with the people.
From the day when the most holy Great
Church was burned until the day of its dedication was 5 years, 11 months
and 10 days' Th, cf Eccl Hist.
87. Bo 479.23-480.7; Th 218.18-20 (AD538/9).
88. Bo 480.8-15; Th 205.24-28.
Cf Bo 484.22-485.3, pares 110.
large force to Rome (480.14): 'a fleet to Rome to maintain control of
those parts' Th.
89. Bo 480.16-481.2; De insid 47 (172.31-173.12).
John (480.16): De insid adds 'the praetorian prefect'.
office of prefect (480.17): De insid adds 'having enjoyed great power'.

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was confiscated and he was sent to Kyzikos, being ordained a deacon

at
Artake. There he formed a conspiracy with some
landowners and they
killed Eusebios,
the bishop of the city of Kyzikos.
On learning this,
the emperor was angry with John and sent and examined
him there over the
murder which had occurred. At the emperor's command
(481) he was exiled
from there to Antinoe.
Some time later he was recalled, and died in
Byzantion.
90.
In the
5th indiction the following incident took place.
A
woman living near what is known as the Golden
Gate went into ecstasy one
night and spoke a lot of nonsense, so that
the people of Constantinople
came running up and went
off
in a procession
of prayer to St
Diomedes-in-Jerusalem.
They brought the woman out of
house and took
her
her to the church of St Diomedes, for she
was saying that in three days'
time the sea would rise and
take everybody.
Everybody went in
processions of prayer and chanted, "Lord,
have mercy", for reports were
circulating that many cities
had been swallowed up.
It was then that
men died of a plague in Egypt,
including Alexandria.
The emperor sent

Narses,

the

cith cuJarhkq,

and

others in fast ships

to

learn

what had
happened.
When Narses' servants had gone
off on his instructions to St
Diomedes'
and learnt from the crowd gathered
there what was being said
by the woman, they came and
reported to Narses what had happened
in the
church,
and also that they had heard from
the woman who was in ecstasy
that in three days' time the
sea would rise and submerge
everybody.
On
hearing what was said by her, the
crowds went away in alarm.
91.
(482)
In that
year Longinus was appointed
city prefect. He
paved the central hall of
the Basilican cistern.
He also built the
colonnades of the Basilica
magnificently.
92.
The Lord God saw that
man's transgressions
had multiplied and

confiscated (480.17): De
insid adds 'on the grounds
that he had acted
with the patrician Antonia
(slc,),
wife of Belisarios
against the emperor Justinian'.
in p lotting
to Kyzikos (480.18): De insid adds
'to live there'.
was angry with John and
sent (480.21); De
insid adds
patrician and consular
'certain men of
rank, Florus, the ex-consul
the Patrician Phokas and
Paul
the Galatian,
the ex-prefect Thomas'.
At the emperor's command
(480.22):
'Since he was
the murder' De insid.
found to blame for
Some time
... BYzantion
(481.2):
'John
lived at Antinoe for a
years until the death
number of
of Theodora, when he
was recalled but remained
private person, not
being appointed to office'
a
90. Bo 481.3-21; Th
De insid.
224.29-33 (AD544/5),
GM 628.14-17, Ke
many cities had been
657.15-19.
swallowed up (481.11):
Perhaps
passage in Th, cf GM,
the following
probably from the
original Malalas, came
point,
'In this
year the sea advanced
at this
on Thrace by four ('three'
miles and covered
it in the territories
GM)
of
Odyssos
also Aphrodision.
and Di onysopolis and
Many were drowned
in the waters.
the sea then retreated
By God's command
to its own place'.
91. Bo 482,1-3.
central hall (482.2): perhaps
'central courtyard';
see Guilland, 1969a,
92. Bo 482.4-11;
Th 222.22-23 (AD541/2),
(AD544/5) MS 9.28 (235--8),
JE 227.25-240.30,
PsD 855
GM 641.1-17.

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caused the overthrow of man on the earth, leading to his destruction

all cities and lands. The plague lasted a while, so that. there were
not enough people to bury the dead.
Some carried out the corpses from
their own houses on wooden litters and even so they could not manage.
Some of
the corpses remained unburied for days.
Some people did not
attend their own relatives'
funerals.
God's compassion lasted at
he

in

Byzantion for two months.

In the month of September of the 7th indiction an earthquake AD543
93.
occurred in Kyzikos, and half of the city collapsed.
In that year an equestrian statue of the emperor Justinian was
94.
set up near the palace in what is known as the Augousteion. This statue
had been of the emperor Arcadius, having previously stood on a pedestal
in the Forum Tauri.
95.
In that year a shortage of wine occurred.
In the month of November an error occurred over the Sunday
96.
before Lent.
The emperor ordered that meat. should be sold for another
week.
All the butchers killed and set out meat for sale, (483)
but no one ate it;
but the Holy Passion of Christ.
our God was

The Lord God...two months (482.4-11): JE preserves a long and somewhat

rhetorical description of the plague qnd its effects in Palestine and
Constantinople;
it includes some incidents that are also mentioned in
Ba,
as well as in GM, but at no point does the wording in either JE or
GM come convincingly close to Ba.
93. Bo 482.12-13;
JE 227.14-16, PsD 855 (AD544/5), MS 9.31 (262), Th
224.11-13 (AD543/4), Gr Chron 9.
In the month of September (482.12): 'on Sunday 6th September' Th.
in Kyzikos (482.12): JE adds 'most of its wall was brought down or
shattered, while the part which had not fallen was left leaning at an
angle as if it were about to fall'; Th adds 'a great. earthquake occurred
throughout the world'.
94. Bo 482.14-17; Th 224.13-15 (AD543/4).
In that year ...Forum Tauri (482.14-17):
'In

that year the great bronze

column called Augusteus near the palace was completed and the equestrian
statue of the emperor Justinian was put on top' Th.
95. Bo 482.18; Th 225.4-5 (AD545/6), Ke 657.20-21.
shortage of wine (482.18):
'shortage of corn and wine, and much bad
weather.
There was a great earthquake at Byzantion' Th, cf Ke.
96. Bo 482.19-483.2; Th 225.5--10
GM 644.13-18,
Ke 657,
(AD545/6),
21-658.2, PsD 857 (AD545/6), MS 9.33 (271).
the Sunday before Lent (482.19):
'Holy Easter and the people held the
Sunday before Lent on 4th February' Th, cf GM; cf 'the beginning of
Some had begun to fast two weeks previously, others a week after.
Lent,
In the imperial city the emperor and the nobles, who had returned a week
after the fast had begun, decided that the fast should not start until
the following week. The emperor ordered the butchers to sell meat but
they did not wish to slaughter the sheep and cattle and, apart from a
few gluttons, the people considered this meat carrion. Some threw chalk
and dust over it and spoilt it to prevent it being sold.
The emperor
compelled the butchers to slaughter more beasts and paid them out of the
public treasury' MS.
ate (483.1): 'bought or ate' Th, GM.
Holy (483.1; see Bury, 1897, 230): om Bo.

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)celebrated as the emperor had wanted.

of February of the 10th indiction the bishop of
97,
In the month
arrived
in
Constantinople.
Rome, Vigilius,
In that. year Rome was captured by the Goths.
the patriarch of Constantinople, was
98.
In that year Menas,
deposed by the pope of Rome on certain charges under canon law.
In that indiction,
while the City's Anniversary was being
99.
celebrated in Byzantion and Thomas was city prefect, a riot occurred
The emperor saw what had happened and gave
between both factions.
excuhltores,
who set upon the mob. Some were suffocated
orders to the
as they fled and others were slaughtered.
100. In that indiction Menas, the archbishop of Constantinople, was

wanted (483.2):
Th adds
'and the people continued fasting for an
extra week', cf GM.
97.
Bo 483.3-5; Th 225.12-13 (AD546/7).
cf Th
which reverses
In the month of February...the Goths
these sentences.
98.
Bo 483.6-8; Th 225.13-28 (AD546/7).
In that year ...canon law (483.6-8):
Th collects several references to
the pope's quarrels in Constantinople into one passage (see Stein, 1949,
641, note 2 and 652, note 1) which seems to be an inefficient summary of
entries in the original Malalas, corresponding to paras 98, 100 and 111,
while pan 107 is directly reflected in Th 227.2-4.
Ba does not read as
a consistent
narrative and both Ba and Th are difficult to reconcile
with facts known from other sources; it is best to regard both as poor
summaries,
on different principles, of a longer original Malalas, parts
of
which can also be glimpsed in TF (see para 111).
Th's passage is
translated as a whole here (and will be referred to in paras 100 and
111):
'Pope Vigilius arrived in Constantinople and after being received
with great honour by the emperor, he promised to unite the catholic
church and to anathematize
the Three
Chapters.
He was so greatly
honoured by the emperor that he became puffed up and excommunicated
for four months by way of penance.
Menas, bishop of Constantinople,
The emperor,
Menas replied by imposing the same penance on Vigilius.
angry with Vigilius because of the penance and the delay in fulfilling
his promises about uniting the church, despatched men to arrest him.
Vigilius, fearing the emperor's wrath, sought refuge in the sanctuary of
As he was being
Sergius the martyr in the monastery of Hormisdas.
dragged from there, he clung on to the columns supporting the altar and
brought them down, for he was a large, heavy man. The emperor repented
and received pope Vigilius, who in turn, at the request of the Augusta
Theodora, received Menas, the patriarch of Constantinople, on 29th June,
the day of the Holy Apostles'.
99.
Bo 483.9-13; Th 225.29-226.2 (AD54617).
'In the same year on 11th May,
In that indiction...celebrated (483.9):
on the Saturday of Holy Pentecost, while the City's Birthday chariotraces were taking place' Th.

excubltams (483.11): 'excithitonesand armed soldiers' Th.

slaughtered (483.13): Th adds 'and there was a heavy death toll'.

100. Bo 483.14-16; cf Th 225.25-28.

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installed in his see. He went off to the monastery of the Holy Apostles
in Periteichisma,
101. In that. year,
while a
comes nicknamed Dipundiaristes was
prLgetor,
those who had been implicated in the murder of the bishop of
Kyzikos, Ardreas and John nicknamed Dandax, were tried in public.
After
the trial the two had their right hands cut off.
102. In that. year continual earthquakes occurred.
103. In
the month of June in that indiction there occurred the most AD547
tremendous thunder (484) and lightning, so that people were injured by
the lightning even in their sleep.
During these terrors part of the
column on Xerolophos was stripped off.
104. On the
28th of this month of the 10th indiction the Augusta
Theodora died.
105. In the month of July,
after fighting had occurred between
both factions, a fire broke out in the building known as the House of
Pardos.
Many places were burnt. and many murders were committed.
106. In the
13th indiction
an Indian
ambassador was sent to AD549/50
Constantinople with an elephant.

In that indiction..,Periteichisma
(483.14-16):
'Vigilius,
at the
request of the Augusta Theodora, received Menas,
the patriarch of
Constantinople,
on 29th June, the day of the Holy Apostles' Th (as in
para
98).
Ba is unsatisfactory
(see FestugiOre, 1979, 237,)
and can
only be translated as in the text (see Janin, 1953, 55).
In view of the
passage in Th from a similar stage in the story, however, the reference
to the Holy Apostles could merely reflect a date, with the sense of the
rest of Ba's sentence irrecoverable.
101. Bo 483.17-20.
102. Bo 483.21; Th 226.4-7 (AD547/8), Ke 658,8.
continual earthquakes occurred (483.21): Th adds
'and heavy rain and
likewise a great earthquake in the month of February, when everyone
despaired
and
became
very frightened,
and held processions of
supplication and begged God to be saved from the impending dangers'.
103. Bo 483.22-484.3; Th 226.11--15(AD548/9), Ke 658.10-11, GM 641.17-19.
people (484.1): 'many people' Th, Ke,
During these terrors ...stripped off (484.2-3):
'On St John's day the
thunder and lightning was so terrible that part of the column of the
Xerolophos was sliced off, as was the column's carved capital' Th.
104. Bo 484.4-5; Th 226.8-9 (AD547/8), Eccl Hist. 113.8-9, Ke 658.9,
10th (484.4): '11th' Th, Eccl Hist.
died (484.4): 'died in piety' Th, Ke.
105. Bo 484.6-8; TF IV, 22-23, Th 226,15-22 (AD548/9), Ke 658.11-17.
were burnt
(484.8): Th adds 'that is, from the bronze
as far
as the district known as Eleusia'.
were committed
(484.8): Th adds 'During the procession at the Hebclomon,
the vestltores lost the crown of the emperor'; TF, beginning at this
point (see Patzig,
1891/2, 6) adds
'our lord Justinian,
it. was found
eight months later by the praetor, the comes known as Diapoundaristes;
one pearl and all the remaining jewels were safely recovered', cf Th.
106. Bo 484.9-10; TF IV,23, Th 226.33-227.2 (AD549/50), Ke 658.18-19.
(484.9-10): 'In the month of October,
In the 13th indiction...elephant
in the 13th
indiction,
while the chariot races were being held, an
elephant and an Indian ambassador entered the hippodrome' TF, cf Th, Ke.

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107.

name

of

In that year there was erased

from the holy diptychs the
Menas,
the archbishop, and the name of Vigilius, the pope of

Rome.

AD550

108. In the month of April a faction riot occurred in the hippodrome

when no races were being held. There were many deaths on both sides.
109. On 28th June
in that indiction there occurred the dedication
of the Holy Apostles and
the deposition of the precious relics of
Andrew, Luke and Timothy
in Constantinople.
The bishop Menas rode
with the holy remains, seated in an imperial carriage.
110. In that
year Narses, the
us was sent (485) to Rome
to fight against the Goths, because after Belisarios had taken Rome
it was retaken by the Goths,
111. On 26th June
in that indiction the bishop of Rome, Vigilius,
was received by the emperor.
He had incurred the emperor's anger and

107. Bo 484.11-13; TF IV.23, Th 227.2-6 (AD549/50), Ke 658.19-20.

In that year (484.11): 'In the month of January, in the 13th indiction'
TF, cf Th.
the pope of Rome (484.13): 'the archbishop of Rome was pronounced first'
TF,
cf Th.
TF adds 'In the month of March, in the 13th indiction, the
elephant escaped from its stable at night and killed and maimed many
people', cf Th, Ke.
108. Bo 484.14-16; TF IV,24, Th 227.6--10 (AD549/50), Ke 658.20-22.
In the month of April
(484.14): 'On 16th April in the 13th indiction'

TF,

cf Th.

a faction riot
TF,

(484.14):

'a clash

between the Greens and Blues at dusk'

cf Th.

both sides

(484.15): TF adds (sentence obscured by lacuna) 'and some

(received) painful wounds from the partisans'.
TF continues 'But the
partisans got. into the workshops and made off with whatever they could
find.
John surnamed Kokkorobios was city prefect at the time', cf Th,
Ke;
see Maricq, 1950, 410, note 1.
TF continues 'In the battle a young
man was killed, Pamphemos from the neighbourhood known as Dagistheos'
(reading T&Tv dawLoBeou dvduaTL for Tu7vb' 'AVLoUeou ov%dTCav
).
109. Bo 484.17-21;
TF
IV.24-5,
Th
227.10-15 (AD549/S0),
Ecci
Hist
113.10-14, Ke 658,22-659.3, MS 9.33(269-70).
28th June (484.17): 'Tuesday 28th June' TF, Th.
indiction (484.17): TF adds 'in the 9th year after the consulship of
Basilios'.
Timothy (484.19): TF adds 'in the house of the Holy Apostles'.
imperial carriage (484.21): TF adds 'holding the three caskets with the
holy relics on his knees', cf Th; TF continues 'and another imperial
carriage was led without a driver (reading abtOTpatov see Sophocles, ad

Joe'., from Eccl Hist dScotptTou

in place of 6 6t

TOOTOV

in front

of the holy relics and the archbishop Menas', cf Eccl Hist.

110. Bo 484.22-485.3:
TF IV.26, Th 227.17-20 (AD550/1), Ke 659.4-6. Cf
Bo 480.8-15, para 88.
In that year (484.22): 'In the month of April in the 13th ('14th' Th)
indiction' TF, Th.
against the Goths (485.1): TF adds 'who were holding Rome', cf Th.
Belisarios (485,2): TF adds two illegible words.
111. Bo 485.4-7; TF IV.26-27, Th 225.21-25 (AD546/7).

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had taken sanctuary at St Sergius' in the district known as Hormisdas.

112. In
the 14th indiction a severe and tremendous earthquake
occurred throughout the land of Palestine, in Arabia and in the land
of Mesopotamia,
Antiochia,
Phoenice Maritima and Phoenice Libanensis,
In
this terror the following cities suffered:
Tyre, Sidon, Beirut,
Tripolis,
Byblos,
Botrys and parts of other cities.
Large numbers of
people were trapped in them.
In
the city of Botrys part of the
mountain called Lithoprosopon, which is close to the sea, was broken off
and fell
into the sea.
It.
made a harbour, so that very large ships
were able to anchor
in the harbour formed by the ruptured mountain.
This city had not had a harbour in the past.
The emperor sent money to
all the
provinces and restored parts of these cities.
At the time of
the earthquake the sea retreated out to the deep for a mile and many
ships were destroyed.
At God's command the sea was restored again to
its original bed.

by the emperor...Hormisdas (485.5-7): 'by our pious lord, because he had

broken off relations with him and taken refuge in St Sergius in the
district called Hormisdas' TF, cf Th. TF continues 'Our pious lord sent
the
,praetor,
the
comes known as Diapoundaristes,
and a serious
disturbance occurred. Pope Vigilius went to the holy sanctuary, and the
comes grasped him by the beard to remove him from there. The bishop
held on to the column of the holy altar and the holy altar fell to the
ground.
Later the pope went to the city of Chalkedon...pope
Vigilius...by (?) our most pious lord', cf Th in para 97.
112.Bo 485.8-23; TF IV.27-28, Th 227.21-228.4 (AD550/1), Ke 659,6-15,
GM 642.2-7,
JE 241.17-31,
PsD 868 (AD556/7), 870 (AD558/9), MS 9,29
(247).
In the 14th indiction (485.8): 'In
this year in the reign of our most
pious lord, on the 6th day of the month of July, in the 14th indiction'
TF.

throughout the land of Palestine,, in Arabia (485.9): 'in the whole area
of the East
I mean, in Arabia, the whole of Palestine' TF.
Phoenice Maritima...in them (485.10-14): 'Many cities collapsed in the
area of Phoenice Maritima - that is, Tyre, Sidon, Beirut, Tripolis,
Byblos,
Bot.rys and
other cities,
and certain (reading (pavspd for
Q
pa')
of
their surrounding areas also fell.
Large numbers of men
and animals were swallowed up in these cities' IF.
to anchor in the harbour (485.17): at this point TF IV ends.
and restored parts of the cities (485.19-20): 'for restoring what. had
fallen in these cities' Th.
At the time of the earthquake...original bed (485.20-23): JE gives the
following narrative which, despite its emotional overtones, presumably
reflects the original Malalas, 'The sea also along the whole Phoenician
coast retreated and went back nearly two miles.
But we have decided to
report for posterity a terrible disaster and a great and remarkable
portent which happened in the city of Beirut in Phoenicia during the
earthquake which destroyed the cities.
For in the terrible confusion,
when the sea at God's will had retreated and withdrawn from Beirut and
the other coastal cities of Phoenicia for a distance of nearly two
miles, the dreadful depths of the sea became visible.
Suddenly,
wonderful,
varied and amazing sights could be seen - sunken ships full
of different cargoes, and other things too when the waters had retreated
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113. (486)
In
the month of September of the 15th indiction there
occurred the dedication of St Eirene which is across the Golden Horn
in
Justinianai. The holy relics left the Great Church with the

from the land. Some ships which were moored in the harbours settled on
the sea-bottom since at God's command they had been left high and dry as
the water flowed away. Therefore men, moved by that disaster and led to
grief and penitence by the brutal spectacle of wrath, would have felt
contempt not only for the impious world but also for their own lives,
had their hearts not been hardened like Pharaoh's - not by God as was
written about him but by the devil. For the inhabitants of the cities
and towns on the coast immediately rushed into the sea on a bold and
determined impulse, to steal with wicked avarice the huge overturned
treasures which were at the bottom of the sea - an impulse which cost
them their lives. Therefore when many thousands of people, rushing into
the depths of the sea on a deadly impulse, had begun to take the
treasures and remove them quickly and others, seeing them laden with
deadly wealth, had rushed up with great enthusiasm so as not to be
deprived of the hidden treasures which had suddenly been revealed by the
earthquake, when some of them had rushed down to the bottom others were
hastening above, others were trying their utmost in the middle, and all
were rushing around in confusion, then a tremendous surge of the sea,
rushing up unobserved to return to its original depth, overwhelmed and
consumed in the depths of its eddying waters all those wretched people
who had rushed to find wealth from the bottom of the sea and, like
Pharaoh, they went down to the depths and were drowned, as it is
written, like stones, and God rolled the waters of the sea over them, as
the flood burst forth and flowed back to its former abundance.
Those
who had lingered on the edge of the shore in these places, and were now
hurrying to go down, those who were closest to the land, fled to the
shore when they saw the deep sea rushing back to its former position.
But after they had escaped, as if from hunters, a violent earthquake
took place which overturned houses in the cities, especially Beirut.
The
houses as they fell crushed those who had escaped from the sea, and
so nobody survived.
For with the sea rising up against them from behind
and the earthquake bringing down the city in front of them because of
their evil greed, they were caught between two disasters. This happened
to them in accordance with the priestly saying, "though saved from the
sea
Justice would not let them live". Therefore those who had sought
wealth were delivered up to total destruction and lost their lives, and
their bodies were found floating on the waves like rubbish,
Then in the
rubble of the destroyed city, at God's command, fire broke out and for
almost two months the flames burned and flared up among the ruins, till
even the stones were burnt and turned to lime. Then the Lord sent down
rain from heaven for three days and nights, and so the fire burning in
the city of Beirut was put out. Any who had been saved from the sea's
return and the collapse of the city, lay in the city wounded and injured
and consumed by thirst, since the city's aqueduct had been destroyed.
this report was received the emperor Justinian sent gold through
When
several noblemen, who removed and carried out innumerable human bodies
and restored the city to some extent', cf MS.
113. Bo 486.1-7; Th 228.6-13 (AD551/2), Eccl Hist 113.15-19.
in Justinianai (486.2): 'at Sykai' Th, Eccl Hist.

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two patriarchs,
I
mean Menas, the patriarch of Constantinople, and
They both sat in the imperial
Apollinarios, the pope of Alexandria.
carriage, holding the precious relics on their knees.
114. In that year the harbour near the palace of the Secundianai
was emptied and dredged.
115. In the month of August of
the 15th indiction Menas, the
archbishop of Constantinople,
died.
While his body lay in the holy
sanctuary of the Great Church, Eut.ychios, the apnkr c'i',9rios of Amaseia,
became patriarch.
116. In that.
month there came from Rome news of victory from
the cubicularius and exarch of the Romans. He had fought a
Narses,
battle with Totila, king of the Goths, and had completely defeated him
and killed him. His bloodstained clothes were sent to Constantinople.
117. In the month of
March of the 1st indiction there occurred a
debasement of the coinage,
There was a riot and uproar among the poor
and it was reported to the emperor.
He ordered that the standard of the
coinage should continue according to the old practice.
118. In the month of August of
the 2nd indiction there (487)
occurred a tremendous earthquake and many houses, baths and churches
suffered and also parts of the walls at Byzantion.
During this shock

knees (486.6): Th adds 'They went as far as Perama, then crossed over
and the emperor met them. They then inaugurated the church of the holy
martyr Eirene'.
114. Bo 486.8-9; Th 228,13-14 (AD551/2).
near the palace of the Secundianai (486.9): cf 'of the Hebdomon' Th.
115. Bo 486.10-13; Th 228.14-18 (A055112), Eccl Hist 113.19-23.
While his body... patriarch (486.11-13): 'Eutychios, the apal-risiarias of
Amaseia,
a monk and presbyter of the monastery at Amaseia, replaced him
on the same day, while Menas' body was still lying in the sanctuary' Th,
Eccl Hist.
116. Bo 486.14-18; Th 228.18-24 (AD551/2), Ke 659.15-17.
completely defeated him (486.16-17): Th adds 'and captured Rome', cf Ke.
His bloodstained clothes...Constantinople
(486.17-18): 'He sent back to
Constantinople his bloodstained garments and jewelled cap.
These were
thrown at the emperor's feet during the secre.tuw'Th.
117. Bo 486.19-22.
118. Bo 486.23-487.9; Th 222.25-30 (AD541/2) (=Th a), 229.5-10 (AD553/4)
(=Th b),
229.29-230.3 (AD554/5)
(=Th c),
Gr Chron 8,
Eccl Hist 113.
25-30,
GM 642.8-11,
Schreiner I 10,
JE 241.1-16, PsD 862 (AD550/1),
MS 9.29 (245-6). Th b certainly reflects Ba here; Th a has strong
similarities to Ba in the list of destroyed buildings and the fallen
spear and to Th b in the same list and in reference to the Golden Gate;
we,
Stein, 1949, 828 suggests that the doublet. may derive from Malalas;
however, have consolidated all the references into one.
In the month of August of the 2nd indiction (486.23): 'On 15th August of
the 2nd indiction,
in the middle of the night, as Sunday was dawning'
Th b, of JE; cf 'On 16th August of the 5th indiction' Th a, Eccl Hist.
tremendous earthquake (487.1): Th a, GM, Schreiner, Gr Chron, Eccl Hist
add 'at Constantinople'.
parts of the walls at Byzantion (487.2): 'the wall, especially the part
near the Golden Gate' Th a, Th b, JE, Schreiner, Gr Chron, Eccl Hist.

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the spear, which the statue in the Forum

of Constantine was holding,
fell and drove itself into
the ground to a depth of three cubits.
Many were trapped in the rubble.
During this shock other cities
suffered,
amongst them Nikomedeia,
part of which collapsed.
Days
later people were brought up alive
out of the rubble at Nikomedeia.
This earthquake
AD556

lasted 40 days.

119.

the month of July of the 4th

indiction the Samaritans
,!and
Jews at Caesarea in Palestine rioted.
After
faction members they attacked the Christians uniting together like
of the city and killed
many of them.
They attacked
and plundered the churches.
When the
governor of the city went out to help the
Christians, the Samaritans
attacked
and
killed him in the praetorium
and looted all his
possessions.
The wife of the governor Stephanos
went to Constantinople
and approached the emperor.
On hearing what had been done
by the
Samaritans, he was incensed
and ordered Amantios, the governor of the
East at that time, to
investigate the events, including the murder
of
Stephanos. After receiving
imperial messages and going off to Caesarea,
Amantios searched for and found
those who had committed the murders.
He
hanged some,
(488)
beheaded others or cut off
their right. hands, and
In

three cubits (487.4-5): Th a., Schreiner,

right hand of the statue of the Xerolophos Gr Chron, Eccl Hist. add 'the
also fell'.
Many were trapped in the rubble (487.5):
cf
'Many died,
and there *was
great fear' Th a, Schreiner, Gr Chron, Eccl
Hist.
Nikomedeia, part of which
collapsed
(487.6-7)
cf Th b:
'Nikomedeia,
metropolis of Bithynia, which was completely
overthrown and destroyed.
people...Nikomedeia
(487.7-8): J'E adds
'some of these came out untouched, others with injuries'.
40 days (487.9): JE adds
'during which
the pity
of
merciful God
intervened to summon mankind
to the amendment of their lives';
Th b
continues,
cf JE,

'For a while men were overcome

by contrition, went on
litanies and frequented churches, but
after God's mercy had returned,
they lapsed again into worse
habits';
JE continues, cf Th b, 'The
commemoration of the earthquakes
takes place in the great, very
wide
Campus, seven miles from Constantinople.
On the very days on which they
occurred,
each year,
almost the whole city goes
out there and carries
out many religious ceremonies
('performs
Less
certainly Th c also is derived from Malalas, a litany' Th b)'.
'In this year, on 11th July
of the
3rd indiction,
at the commemoration of
St Euphemia and the
Definition, there was a great
earthquake.
On the 19th of the same month
e was
violent south-west. wind,
asera result
osslthatnstoodninside the
Rhesion gate fell
down'.
119. no 487.10-488.3;

De

insid 48 (173.13-29), Th
230.5-15 (AD555/6),
PsD 863 (AD551/2), MS 9.31 (262).
4th indiction (487.10) Th:
on false dates implied by
other witnesses,
see Stein, 1949, 374, note 2.
faction members (487.12): 'a Green-Blue faction'
Th, De insid.
the churches (487.14): 'the churches
of the Orthodox' De insid.
the governor of the city (487.14): 'Stephanos,
the pro-consul, surnamed
Syros' De insid, cf 'Stephanos the
city prefect'

Th.
governor of the East at that time
(487.21):
Orlentem at that time, connected with Zemarchos' 'iyg1Star mizitaw ,cer
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confiscated others' property.

There was great fear in the city of
Caesarea and the eastern regions.
120. In the month of December in that indiction people died of the
plague in various cities.
121. In the month
of May
of that indiction
there occurred a
shortage of bread in Constantinople and people were hard pressed for a
time.
They chanted against the emperor during the City's Anniversary
when a Persian ambassador was watching the races with the emperor.
The emperor was angry and gave orders to Mousonios, who was city
prefect.
Some of the prominent members of the Blue faction were
arrested and punished.
This shortage of bread
lasted for three
months.
A few days later there occurred tremendous thunder and
lightning in various cities with the result that. many people were
injured.
122. In the month
of
November of the 5th indiction fire appeared
the sky shaped like a spear, extending from the eastern regions to
the western.
123. In the month of April in that indiction occurred a tremendous
earthquake that caused no damage.
124. In the month of December
of the 6th indiction another most
tremendous
earthquake
occurred at midnight.
The two walls of
Constantinople suffered, both the old, one which had been put up by

AD556

in

120. Bo 488.4-5;

Th 230.15-17 (AD555/6).

cities (488.5): Th adds 'especially children'.

121. Bo 488.6-14; Th 230.17-27 (AD555/6).
against the emperor (488.8): Th adds
"'Lord, provisions for the city".
They cursed the city prefect'; see Rochow, 1983, 470 for Th's additions
to this paragraph.
Persian ambassador (488.9): 'Persian ambassadors' Th.
punished (488.11): Th adds 'for they had vexed the emperor because the
faction members had shouted against him in the presence of the Persian
ambassador'.
The shortage... three months (488.12-13):
'There was plenty of wine and
salted meat and everything else, but a shortage of corn and barley' Th.
A few days later (488.13): 'On Thursday 13th July' Th.
injured (488.14): Th adds 'There was heavy rain, so that after the long
drought the land was sated'.
122. Bo 488.15-17;
Th 230.30-231.1
GM 642,11-12,
PsD 885
(AD556/7),
(AD573/4).
In the month of November
(488.15):
Before this Th adds,
possibly not
from Malalas, 'In this year on 6th November, on the Commemoration of the
Dust, there died Timothy, the exarch of the monasteries and abbot of the
monastery of Dalmatos,
Anthimos, an anchorite of the same monastery,
replaced him' Th.
eastern regions (488.16): 'north' Th, GM.
123. Bo 488.18-19; Th 231.1-2 (AD556/7).
In the month...indiction (488.18): 'On Monday 16th April' Th.
124. Bo 488.20-489.10;
Th 231.13-232.6
Eccl Hist
113.31(AD567/8),
114.9, GM 642.12-22, PsD 879 (AD567/8).
In the month...indiction (488.20): 'In this year, on Friday 19th October
of the 6th indiction, there was a great earthquake just as Saturday was
dawning.
On 14th December' Th, cf Eccl Hist..

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Constantine and (489) the one built by Theodosius, and parts of churches
collapsed,
especially those on the far side of Hebdomon. The column
which was in the Secundianai was brought down, together with its statue.
A very large part of the Rhegion collapsed.
Many people were killed in
the falling buildings. Days later some of those who had been trapped
in the rubble were rescued alive.
In this shock many places in outlying
cities also collapsed, This tremendous threat lasted for ten days.
For a time people were conscience-stricken and continued to offer
prayers and supplications in the church. The emperor Justinian did
not wear a diadem for 30 days.
125. In
that year an outlandish tribe of Huns, known as the Avars,
came to Constantinople.
126. In those days the bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia died in
Byzantion.
Theokritos became bishop in his place.
127. In the month of February of the 6th indiction deaths occurred
in
Constantinople from bubonic plague. During this terror the guilds
all
made silver biers. This tremendous threat from God lasted for six

Hebdomon (489.2): Th, cf Eccl Hist, adds 'and St Samuel, the Holy Mother
of God at Petalas and St Vikentios (Eccl Hist adds 'in the Campus')
and
many church altars and 1-Y' oaria from the Golden Gate as far as the
Rhesion.
There was no place or suburban estate which did not suffer
damage from the terrible threat of the earthquake. Rhegion suffered
so
badly that it was unrecognizable (= 489.3-4).
The churches of
Saints Stratonikos and Kallinikos, both in Rhegion, collapsed to the
ground'.
The column... statue (489.3):
cf Th,
PsD, 'The
porphyry column, which
stood in front of the palace of Jucundianai, with the statue on top of
it,
collapsed and was driven eight feet into the ground'; Th acids 'The
statue of the emperor Arcadius, which stood to.the left of the arch of
the Forum Tauri, also fell'.
Days later (489.5): 'even two or three days after' Th.
cities also collapsed (489.6): Th adds 'No man on earth in that
generation could remember so great and terrible an earthquake'.
This tremendous threat ... days (489.7-8): 'The earth continued to shake
night and day through God's benevolence for ten days' Th, cf GM, PsD,
the church (489.9): Th adds
'But after experiencing God's benevolence
they lapsed again into worse habits'.
30 days
(489.10): '40 days' Th and adds 'and even on holy Christmas Day
('and at the Theophany' adds Eccl Hist) processed to church without it.
As a result. he stopped the customary Banquet. of the Nineteen Couches
('of
the Twelve
Days' GM) and gave the expense set aside for this to
the poor'; cf Eccl Hist, GM.
125. Bo 489.11--12; Th 232.6-14 (AD557/8), Eccl Hist 114.10-13.
Constantinople (489.11): Th adds 'Everyone thronged to gaze at them as
they had never before seen such a people. They wore their hair very
long at the back, tied with ribbons and plaited. The rest of their
clothing was like that of the other Huns. They had come as fugitives
from their own country to Scythia and Moesia and sent envoys to
Justinian, asking to be admitted'; cf Eccl Hist.
126. Bo 489.13-14.
127. Bo 489.15-18; Th 232.13-16 (AD557/8), GM 642.22-643.3.
bubonic plague... silver biers (489.16-17): 'bubonic plague, particularly

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months.
128. In that year the dome of the Great Church was being restored,
for it had cracked in several places (490) because of the shocks that
had occurred through God's benevolence. As the Isaurians were working,
suddenly the eastern part of the supporting dome fell and crushed the
ki:bourion,
together with the holy altar.
The remaining part that had
stayed in place was also brought down, as was the vault itself.
The
dome was rebuilt 20 feet higher.
129. In the month of March of the 7th indiction the Huns and the AD559
Slavs made an attack on Thrace. They killed many in battle and took
some captives, including the magister miJitaw Sergius, the son of
Bacchus,
and Edermas, major domo of Kalopodios, making them prisoners.
They found parts of the wall
of
Constantinople had collapsed and,
entering there, they raided as far as St Stratonikos.
Everyone fled

with

their posessions into the city.

emperor

On Ding informed of thl;s, the

many and sent them to the Long fiall. They engaged
scholarii, were. killed.
arn' ft/any Ro .ans, es ec.

conscripted'

the enemy there

Then the emperor ordered that the
tables that were outside the city
the

protect ores,

ally
silver kibouria and silver altar

be. removed while the scholae,

the numeri and the whale senate guarded all the gates

among the young, so that the living were too few to bury the dead' Th.
six months (489.18): 'from February to July' Th.
128. Bo 489.19-490.5; Th 232.27-233.3 (AD558/9), Eccl Hist 114.14-22, Gr
Chron 11.
In that year (489.19): 'In this year, on Tuesday 7th May, at. the fifth
hour' Th, cf Eccl.Hist.
supporting done (490.2): Th, Eccl Hist, cf Gr Chron, add 'of the holy
sanctuary'; see Mango, 1966, 364-65.
The remaining part...higher (490.3-5):
'The engineers
were blamed
to avoid expense, they had not secured the suspension from
because,
beneath but had bored through the piers that supported the dome, for
which reason these had not held.
Realizing this, the most pious emperor
erected new piers to hold the dome, which was built in such a way that
it was raised twenty feet higher than the first building' Th, cf Eccl
Hist.
129. Bo 490.6-12 up to italics, thereafter Th 233.11-234.12 (AD558/9);
Th 233.4-11
(for passage with Bo base text),
Ke 677.20-678,14,
cf
MS
9.33 (269). We have filled the lacuna in Ba to para 133 from Theophanes,
who at this point has been using Malalas as his main source. We do not
presume that Theophanes gives more than a rough approximation of
Malalas' wording and so have marked the change with italics.
the Huns and the Slavs (490.6-7): Th adds 'in great numbers'.
Bacchus (490.8):
Th (perhaps
'the presbyter
'the elder Bacchus'
Bacchus').
Asjar dayw (490.9): c 'general' Th, Ke; see PLRE III, sv Edermas.
Th adds
Kalopodios
(490.9):
'the most glorious
cubi cularius and
praeposi tuvcr '.
the wall of Constantinople (490.10): 'the Anastasian wall' Th, Ke.
had collapsed (490.11): Th adds 'from the earthquakes'.
'as far as Drypia, Nymphai and the
as far as St Stratonikos (490.12):
village of Chiton' Th; at this point Ba breaks off.

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Theodosian wall,

staying put, he ordered Men the emperor ,saw that the .lt n%
the ,tkatriciaan
rians were
them with same
Belisxarios to march out
members of
against
horse, inciz.r/ding other
senate,
those of the
Belisaat-os
establishments and from everyemperor, of the hippodrome, oftook every
his, troops arms led
religious
ordinary man who had a
them
horse. He armed
entrenched camp and began out to the village of [hiton.
Be shade an
to capture same of the
Next he ordered trees
and 14-/11 them.
blew up a cloud of to be crrt and dragged .behindenemy
the aril'. The wind
thinking that an ennxmousdust, which drifted over the
farce was there, fled and barbarians, They,
of St .Stratonikos
to the district
greaat garrison forceat Detaton,
aen they learnedwent
from scouts
was at the
the
that a

the

walls of
region of Tzouroulon,
they went to
renhained encamped there
ArAadioupol.is and[:on_atantinople,
Aie4rander of Zogvara and
until holy Easter. 5tAfter
the emperor Went
the feast of .Easter,
out to Selymbria and
him to rebuild the
everyone
from
the city went with
Long
Wail where the
emperor remained there
.txartharz4ans had entered. The
until
August.
about outside.
city until August,Likewise the b rtkarianss wandered
double prowed shthe
z'Xq to be
the emperor ordered
built to go toThen
.t&rtharians as they
the Danube aand oppose
crossed
and
the
make wor on them,
discovered this, they as6-Pd
Danzzt saafely. The
through an envoy to he When the .thartaariaane
emperor sent 7ustin,
to cross the
conduct them.
his nephew, allowed
the
+

curoavlates, to
In this year the
emperor began to
build the .bridge over the
After
imposing arches anddiverting the river into another
so made the river
bed, he built
there had only been
crossa hle, where
a
121. In this ,year,wooden bridge.,
previously
on Thursday,
a rumour arose in
4th September of the.
9th 1nc7diction,
returned from ThraceConstantinople
that the emperor had
but did not receive
died.
For he had
seized the .bread from
the bread shopsanyone, So the people suddenly
third hour no tread
and
bakeries,
downpour of rain thatcould be found in the whole city. and at about the
day. The shops
There was also a
the ,palace was
were
the emperor had closed and the common talk at
senator because he that
not
he had died, Abouthad a headache. For this granted an audience to any
the. ninth hour
reason it was believed
the prefect to
that
have lights lit the senate called a meeting
the emperor was
sent
well. In this way throughout the city to and
Show that
(235) the. city
disturbaance,
After
accused Cvecrye, the the emperor had recovered, theAVE; rained aafter the
exprefect Eugenios
curator of the rxalace
Curator of the
of 1'larina,
of Antiochos,
son of Peter aglace
of
having intended to aand Aitherioa,
the irhagister,
make rheadore,
prefect, was in accordd.
emperor, with whom
When the nkatter
cerontios, the city
diswrroved,
Eugenlas came under
had .been
investigated and
confiscated, He. sought refuge
displeaasure,
in the church and and his house was
was .siaved.
1,?0.

river
five

S.Rngaarioe,

130.

Th 234.15-18
(AD559/60); LG 323.20-22
100.18-19.

(130,13-15),

Ke 678.15-18,
sangarias (234.16): Ke
5k
woolen bridge (234.18): adds 'that called the five-fold
Ke, LG, cf
'Be also built
bridge'.
Sk, add
the church of
the all holy (perhaps from another source)
131. Th
Mother of God at
234.20--235.15 (AD560/1);
Ke
the Spring'.
678.19-679.4.

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In December there was a large firo in ,Iul.ran ss harbour, and many

houses were burned as well as churches from the edge of the harbour
as far as the quarter of Pro.bus.
There was also a big plague at
AAasarhns and elsewhere j n CiiJeta and Yn Antioch the teat, as well as
earthquakes.
The orthodox and the supporters of Severus clashed with
one another and there were many Jnurders.
The emperor dispa.tched
Zemarchos, the comes Orientis, who checked the trouble makers, many of
whom were punished by e..nie, confiscation of property and mutilation.
1 2. On Wednesday, 12th October of this .year, in the 117th indiction,
late in the. evening, there was a big fire in the quarter of
as far as Ompha/reraa, as Y t is called. All the shops and portals
as far as the. Forum Tauri were burned. In November, during the. races,
before the emperors arc val a rent among the partisans .broke out.
The Greens attacked the. Blues.
'hen the emperor heard, he. went tp to
the. kathlsnka, looked at the fi_ghtinq and ordered ffarinos, the comes
escubitnrum, with the curator of the estate of Aiaisarios (236) to go
down and separate the factions.
They went off but were unable to
disperse them, Al9ni., from both factions were. killed and many others
wounded.
The Blues then invaded the Careens' seats, chanting, 'Fire
this1 Fire. that. ! No Q een is to be seen here
In return the rx-e. ens
chanted 'tome, come, everybody, everybody!" They Trent to the Alese, to
the residential quarters of the Blue. s and ,stoned thoso they encountered,
chanting, 'Fire, fire) No Blue z s to be se. en here ' . They invaded the
residential quarters as SuiWay wags oSSwninq and stole property. The
emperor ordered the Greens to bq arrested, and they were pun.t'shecf wi th
many tortuure._s,
The Blues sought refine in the church of the Mother of
God at Blachernai.
The Greens who stole out sought refuge in St
fl phemla at Chal edon. The prefect eiec: ted them and pulzt;shed them.
The
rr/ ves and mothers began to shout in the churches at the emperor
that he grant. indulgences to the Teens. They' were driven off with
sticks and the emperor was not reconciled to them (the Greens,) until

it

In F&brtA7rj, the emperor ordered that of the men of the seven

scholae, those who were stationed at Nikomedera, I:ios. Prnt,sa, Ayzikos,
Antyaio)7 and Iloryla9ion leavq and take tp quarters in Thraace., J. e. 1n
Heraakleia and the surrounding cities.
In i/arch, the scholae rose tp against their comes because of some
payments they used to receive which had been abolished; so they attacked
him. The adore h'nndncheres, the son of Peter the maagister, chant. ed to be
there and by a threatening speech mkanaged to appease them.
in the. same year Q.tkiisipolis was captured by the Huns. The
emperor sent out his nephew Alarcellus, the magister mill tim, with a
large. force to rescue both this city and Persi.G.
In April Anastasioupolis in Thrice was also captured K2,77) by the
same Huns.

erl'ge of the lmrbo r- (235.8-10) : cf 'from the 5ophiai' Ke.

132. Th 235.26-237.1 (AD561/2); cf Ke 679.5--10.
Oboisi,aolis (236.25): probably corrupt;
cf
de Boor who suggests 'the
city of Novae'. Perhaps 'Odyssopolis' (Odessa)?
its
Persis (236.27): probably corrupt; cf de Boor, who suggests
surroundings' (reading nepLoLxCba for flcpal6a
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133.

...the orthodox faith.

the month of May

134. In

Zemarchos, the ex-prefect and curator

domus Placidiae, was dismissed.
Theodoros,
nicknamed the
Nilcomedian, was appointed in his place.
135. In that
month the City's Anniversary was
not celebrated in
the customary way, but was
held on the 13th of that month.
After the
close of the races, as the Greens
were leaving and were coming down the
colonnade of Moschianos' with an
armed guard, suddenly these Greens were
insulted by some people
from the place known as the House of Appion.
The Blue faction attacked
the Greens and fighting occurred in various
places.
The Blues crossed over from Sykai
and began to light fires and
(491) to burn the warehouses
along the shore.
If anyone tried to put
the fires out, he was shot with
arrows by members of the Blue faction.
They had various exchanges with
the workmen there.
Those caught up in the struggle
burnt the building known as the
House of Andreas which was in
the Neorion. Likewise they fought on
the
Mese.
Then they set fire to the House
known as that of Barsymias (he at
that time was completing
his term as prefect). The colonnade
opposite
was burnt as far as the bronze
Tetrapylon.
The fighting lasted for two
days.
When the comes excuhitorum Marinos
and Justin, the _glnriosissimus
rcro slates, went out with
a large military force, they were
able with
difficulty

dominicee

to restrain both factions,

that year, when Gerontios
was city prefect, many fires occurred
in various parts of Constantinople.
Members of both factions were
arrested, and many were punished,
while some were even beheaded.
Their
detention lasted for 70 days.
136. In the month of June
in that indiction Hellenes were arrested
and paraded around. Their
books were burnt in the
Avnegion, together
with pictures and statues of
their loathsome gods.
In that month the synodical letter
of the pope in Rome was brought.
In that month a faction
fight took place in Kyzikos, (492)
so that
many members of both factions
fell.
During this fighting some of the
buildings there were also destroyed.
137. In the month
of August of the 10th indiction
there occurred
the dedication of the church
of the Holy Martyr Theodora,
near the
In

AD562

133. Bo 490.12.
the orthodox faith (490.12): the last
words of a passage, the rest of
which falls within the lacuna;
it is impossible to suggest what
subject was.
its
134. Bo 490.13-15; Th 237.1-4 (AD561/2).
In the month of May (490.13):
'On 3rd May' Th.
Placidiae (490.14): Th adds 'was
accused of making many
terrible
statements against the emperor
by George,
curator of the palace of
Marina, and by John the
ex-consul,
both relatives of
the empress
Theodora and'; see Stein, 1949,
799 and Rochow, 1983, 471.
135. Bo 490.16-491.17.
136. Bo 491.18-492.2; MS 9.33 (271).
Their books...gods (491.19-20): Details
of the arrest of pagan
in MS may derive
priests
from Malalas, but there
is little similarity
wording;
of
for the dating of this
and neighbouring events, see
Stein,

1949, 799-800.
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bridge.
At the emperor's command the money dealers put on a display
with lavish illuminations.
138. In the month
of October
of the 11th indiction a faction AD562
struggle was caused by the Blues in Byzantion. Fighting took place
between them in the place nicknamed Pittakia; swords were drawn and
Klerikos,
the son of John the commentariensis, nicknamed Gylos, lost a
hand while fighting.
139. In
the month of November a severe drought occurred in
Constantinople so that many fights occurred at the cisterns.
North
winds blew frequently.
From the beginning of the month of August the
south wind had not blown and the third convoy of ships did not arrive,
so that the patriarch Eutychios ordered processions of prayers to
Jerusalem.
140. In that month news of victory came from the patrician Narses at
Rome,
to the
effect that he had captured some strong cities of the
Goths,
that is, Verona and Brescia. He sent the keys of these cities
with the spoils.
141. (493) In the month of November of the 11th indiction certain AD562
persons devised a plot against the emperor Justinian, to kill him as he
was sitting in the palace.
Those who had devised the plot for the
evening attack were Ablabios,
son of Meltiades, Markellos the money
Their plan was
dealer and Sergius, the nephew of the cur,9tor Ait.herios.
the following, that as the emperor was sitting in the triclinium in the
evening they should go in and murder him.
They had stationed their own
men in various places so that they could create a disturbance when the

138. Bo 492.7-10; Th 237.6-7 (AD562/3), Ke 679.11-12.

while fighting (492.10): Th adds
'and the
emperor

punished a great
many'.
139. Bo 492.11-16; Th 237.7-12 (AD562/3), cf Ke 679.12-13.
drought occurred (492.11): Th adds 'and water became scarce'.
Jerusalem (492.16): Th adds 'that. is, to St Diomedes'.
140. Bo 492.17-20; Th 237.13-15 (AD562/3), Ke 679.13-15.
some (492.18): 'two' Th.
Verona and Brescia (492.19): written as 'Veroia and Vrinkas' Ba, Th, Ke.
De insid 49
(173.30
141. Bo 493.1-495.5;
Th 237.15-238.18
(AD562/3),
-175.18).
In the month of November (493.1): 'In the same month
(November), on
Saturday 25th,
in the evening' Th, cf 'On Saturday at the second lamp'
De insid; see Rochow, 1983, 471.
Ablabios, son of Meltiades (493.14):
'Ablabios,
from the household of

the welistes' De insid, cf 'Ablabios, the ex-mell ste..s' Th;

see Cameron, 1978, 91-2 and note 19.
Markellos, the money dealer (493.7): De insid adds 'from Cilicia who had
his workshop near St Eirene the Old and the New, who was from the
Patzig, 1890/1, 16 suggests that
household of Aitherios the curator
this may be an insertion by De insid, without convincing reasons.
in the
triclinium (493.8): Th,
De insid add 'before the formal
dismissal'; see Patzig, 1890/1, 16 and Rochow, 1983, 471.
in various places (493.8): 'at the Arma, the office of the silentiorius,
the Indoi and the Archangelos' De insid, c Th; see Patzig, 1890/1, 16
and Rochow, 1983, 471.
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plot had been carried out.
Ablabios had taken money from Markellos,
about 50 litr&i of gold, to join in
the attempt.
However, through God's
good grace, one of those who
had devised the plot, Ablabios, son of
Meltiades,
confided the plan to Eusebios, the
comes fnederaatorum, and
John,
son of Dometiolos; he said, "In the
evening we intend to attack
the pious emperor while he is seated
in the triclinium';
When the plot
had been revealed, Markellos the money
dealer was found, on the evening
on which he was going to
carry out what the plotters had planned,
entering the palace carrying
a dagger.
Likewise Ablabios, who had
disclosed the plot, was found
with a sword.
The plot had been
discovered in advance; Markellos
was arrested and, having failed in
his
aim,
he drew the dagger which he was wearing
and inflicted three wounds
on himself, and so died.
Sergius, the nephew of Aitherios,
(494) sought
sanctuary in Our Lady Mother
of God at. Blachernal,
Expelled from the
precincts on the grounds that
he had conspired against the emperor,
he
was questioned.
He made a deposition that
Isakios the money dealer,
from the household of
the patrician Belisarios,
also knew about the
plot,
as did
Vitus the money dealer and Paulus,
Belisarios' subnptdo.
Both were arrested and turned
over to Prokopios, the city prefect.
Constantine,
the gtkwestor, Julian, the chief
secretary, and Zenodoros,
the
a secretes, who took down their answers,
sat with Prokopios and

from Markellos (493.10): De

insid and Th add 'the money dealer'.
attempt
(493.11): De insid adds
'and at all costs to kill the
emperor,
together with Markellos and Eusebios'.
Eusebios (493,13): Th adds
'the ex-consul and', cf 'proconsul
and' De
insid; see PLRE III, sv Eusebios.
John,
son of Dometiolos
(493.14):
'John the logothete,
from the
household of Domentziolos' De
insid; Th; see Cameron, 1978,
92.
When the plot (493.16): 'When
the plan had been made and the
plot' De
insid.
Markellos was arrested (493.20-21):
'Markellos the money dealer
was
arrested in the triclinitun'De insid,
cf Th.
having failed in his aim (493.21):
De insid,
cf Th, adds 'while under
arrest'.

he drew the dagger which he was wearing

and inflicted (493.21-22)
Th: cf
'he committed suicide, inflicting'
De insid.
and so died (493.22) Th: cf
De insid,
which adds
'cutting his own
throat'.
the nephew of Aitherios (493.23):
De insid, of Th, adds 'succeeded
escaping and'.
in
from the household of the patrician
Belisarios (494.3):
of
and
Belisarios the most glorious patrician'
Th; see Rochow, 1983, 471.
about the plot (494.4): De
insid adds 'as Markellos had
borrowed gold
from him' (perhaps added by De
insid; see Patzig, 1890/1,
16).
as did (494.4): 'and' De insid, Th.

sutoptio (494.5)

92,

note 21.

1890/1,

16.

De

'optio' De insid,

insid

and

of

'curator'

Th;

see Cameron, 1978,

Th add 'were implicated too';

see Patzig,

arrested (494.6) Th: of De insid,

which adds
the city prefect (494.6) Th: of De insid 'and tortured'
'who then held the office
of
city prefect'.

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joined in the examination.

They denounced Belisarios the patrician and
so he incurred the emperor's anger.
Certain others of those who had
been named by them fled. On 5th December the emperor had a shlentium
at conventus and ordered all office-holders to attend, including the
patriarch Eutychios and certain others from the gcholae, Receiving them
in the
triclinium, he ordered the
men's depositions to be read out
and the details of the plot to be revealed to all,
I mean the
depositions of Sergius, the nephew of Aitherios, Eusebios the money
dealer, the suboptio Paulus and Vitus.
Their depositions were read
out.
and as a result. the patrician Belisarios incurred anger.
The
emperor sent and removed all Belisarios' men; Belisarios did not resist
in any way.
The
quaastor Constantine and the secretary Julian were
suspected,
(495)
it is said,
of having acted in the interest of
Aitherios,
on
the grounds that Ait.herios himself knew about the plot.
Six days
later those who had devised the plot were again questioned by
the comes arcubitnrun Marinos and the inTgister militum Constantianus,
and Belisarios remained under imperial anger.
142. In that, month an edict. was published by the emperor in
various churches about the Separatists lDiskrinawenni,l; After the union
one must. not speak of a single nature but acknowledge two.
143. In
that indiction occurred the dedication of the most holy
Great Church for the second time. Thirty feet had been added to the
dome compared with the original decision, and they had also added two
arches, the northern one and the southern one.
On the completion of the
roof reconstruction, as Eutychios the patriarch held the Holy Gospels
and the crowd stood around, a psalm was sung, "Lift up your gates, you
rulers, and be lifted up, you everlasting gates, and the King of Glory
shall come in, etc" (P .9Jm 23.7).

named by them (494.11) De insid, Th: 'named' Bo; see Bury, 1897, 227.
the men's depositions (494.19) Th:
c
'the
depositions of all those
arrested because of the plot' De insid.
and Vitus (494.18): De insid adds 'the money dealer'.
were read out
(494.18): De insid adds,
cf
Th,
'Belisarios was
implicated'.
in any way (494,21): 'but sent them all to the emperor' De insid.
and the sagrster- mllltur (495.5):
'and the
patrician and 1&4gister
militum' De insid,
under imperial anger (495.5): De insid adds,
cf Th, 'staying at his
house,
neither suffering confiscation nor exile but remaining in his
house'; see Patzig, 1890/1, 16.
142. Bo 495.6-8; cf CP 635.9-684.15 (AD552).
In that month (495.6): This entry appears to be misplaced by Malalas; CP
gives the correct context in the Fifth Oecumenical Council held in
Constantinople in 553, as well as providing a full text; it is, however,
unlikely that so huge a document was derived from Malalas, especially in
view of this misdating.
143. Bo 495.9-16; CP 687.12-15 (AD563), Th 238.18-24(AD562/3), Eccl Hist
114.26-31.
In that indiction (495.9): Th, CP, Ecc1 Hist add 'on 24th December'.
Thirty feet...Glory shall come in etc" (495.11-16): 'The all-night vigil
before the dedication took place at St Plato's.
Eutychios, the
'

304

AD563

Book 18

of
January of the 11th indiction, when the
144. In the month
were being held,
the charioteer Julianikos was dragged
chariot--races
along in the hippodrome and died,
were captured by the Moors.
145. In that month parts of Africa
Koutzines, the exarch of this tribe, was used to receiving a quantity of
since he
gold from the Romans through each successive governor,
When John, nicknamed
was the ruler of the tribe of Moors.
(496)
Rogathinos,
came out and gave him nothing, breaking the former custom,
and on the contrary, had him assassinated, Koutzines' sons revolted, to
Attacking
districts in Africa, they
avenge their father's blood.
captured
some places, killing and plundering. The emperor Justinian

sent his nephew Markianos, the magister milittun, to the assistance of

Africa with an army to ziacify the ,doors, They went over to him and
Africa gained race.
116. In April Prokopi os was di,sw ssed from the. city prefecture
and replaced by Andreas, the e..r-logothete.. As he rceme out of the place
throcx7h the Chalke, seated in his carrThge on his way to the anietoriwn,
the Greens met his at the palace of Lauso_s, They began to insult him
and throw stones at him.
This led to a .big dLsturA?nce of the two
factions in the Hess. They broke into the prisons and fighting went on
The emperor sent out his ns.,nhew L711stin, the
from the tenth hour.
curotaelates, who chased them away. But they clashed again about the
twelfth hour, and they were arrested and ,caeraded publicly for many days.
Those who had fought with swords had their thumbs cut off,
11,? On 1.9th 7uly the a?tricsan Belisarr'ns was received 'gay q_1 Von
taeck all his honours,
Peter the magister arrived from Persia after
securing a peace treaty for 17,years as regards Lazica ancr' the eastern
regions.
In the same month envoys arrived in Constantinople from Aske1, king
of the. Hernmi chiones, who dwell inland of the A?z- aerian nation near the
Ocean.

patriarch of Constantinople,
set out from there with the litany,
accompanied by the emperor. Eutychios ('St Eutychios' Eccl Hist) sat in
the carriage ('golden carriage' Eccl Hist) wearing apostolic dress and
holding the holy Gospels, while everyone sang the psalm, "Lift up your
gates, you rulers"
Th,
cf
Eccl Hist.
This appears to be another
independent summary of a rather larger original.
144. Bo 495.17-18.
145. Bo 495.19-496.7 up to italics,
thereafter Th 239.4-6 (AD562/3). Ba
breaks off at this point.
If
the chronicle was completed in the
remaining pages of the folio, only two pages or 70 lines have been lost.
As with the lacuna between paras 129 and 133, we have attempted to
subject-matter for the remainder of the chronicle by
indicate Malalas'
using Theophanes,
but we do not presume that this gives more than a
The two remaining excerpts from De Insid (paras
rough approximation.
150 and 151) will, however, be genuine Malalas.
'who had risen in revolt in Africa in the
following manner'.
successive governor (495.21): Th adds 'of Africa'.
146.Th 239.6-17 (AD562/3).
147.Th 239.17-25 (AD562/3).

by the Moors (495.20): Th adds

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wer&

305

In August there was a shortage of water, so that the public

closed and miazlers occurred at the. fountains,
149,

In

.Tustinian,

this

year,

in

October of the 12th indiction,

vow, vz:sited 1'lyrtc9ngeloi,

in fulfilment of a

the

the emperor

known

as Gexmia, a city in Calatia,

In No vemtaer, Arethas the pa clan and phylarch of the. araacens,
came to Byzaantion, since he was obliged to report to the emperor which

tri

of his sans, after his death, would obtain his phylarchy, aril to discuss
the activities of Ainkros, son of Alamourxd'aros, in his territory.
In December a great fire brokie out, and the hospice of Saamzpson waas
completely gutted, as too were the buildings in front of the quarter of
Rufus am' also the central hall, near the Cyst. Church (the one called
Gaar.aonostasion) and the two monasteries near St h'irene., along with its
central hall and part of iis narthe.,r.
14.9. In March of this year, in the 13th indiction, Beli;%qrios the
rutriczan died in Byzantion, and his property accrued to the imperial
house of Marina.
On 12th April of the same 17th infliction, &itychias, Astriarch of
Constantinople was deposed and tarnished to Amrsseia by .7ustinian. He ,.as
replaced by Tohn, the. ex-scholasticu.S, an c9,nnrf risi ari ns of Antinch the
Creat and vresbvter of the same church,
150.
In the reign of Justinian there was paraded a member of the
Green faction, who was due to be castrated for raping a girl. The girl
was the daughter of Akakios, the imperial curator. While he was being
paraded,
just as he was being taken through the quarter of Pittakia,
members of the Blue faction attacked and seized him and took him into
the Great Church.
There was much disturbance over him and turmoil in
the church. The emperor exercised clemency, announcing his instructions
to the people through a silentiarius, He paraded the members of the
Blue faction for two days.
151. While
Zemarchos was city prefect a disturbance in the quarter
of Mazentiolos occurred
in
this way.
When the prefect Zemarchos
sent some of the commentarienses to arrest a young man named Kaisarios,
the inhabitants of the quarter of Mazentiolos resisted them, and they
mutilated many soldiers as well as the commentarienses themselves. The
fighting lasted for two days, and the emperor Justinian sent even more
soldiers and e=uhitores.
Many of the exctzhitoresand soldiers were
killed,
and also many of the Green faction died. They continued
fighting as far as the Forum, the Tetraspylon and the praetorium of the
city prefect.
The Blue faction did not engage with the Greens, but the
fighting was between them and the excubitores and soldiers. A clash
took place in the Strategion on the same day.
The ex-prefect Zemarchos,
after twice discharging the office of prefect, was replaced, and in his

148. Th 240.11-22 (AD563/4), Ke 679.19-23.

149. Th 240.24-30 (AD564/5), Ke 680.1-4.
150. De Insid 50 (175.19-28). The position of this para cannot be placed
more precisely than somewhere between paras 141 (De Insid 49) and 151
but probably occurs at some point after the end of Ba
(De Insid 51),
(para 145).
151. De Insid 51 (175.29-176.19).
Zemarchos (175.29): written as 'Zimarchos' De Insid.

Book 18

307

the ccrojalates.

of nine years of Justin II's 13-year reign in LM and the presence of

material reminiscent of Malalas in Th's account of Justin II.
LM's main
resemblance to Malalas is in its account of the birth of Christ and the
calculation of the aennus munch, which may well be based on Malalas, Book
10.
Thereafter the work consists only of the figures for the length of
sucessive imperial reigns, which correspond with those in Malalas but
need not. be drawn directly from him. Mommsen, 1897, 488 believed that
LM demonstrates that the Chronicle ended in the ninth year of Justin's
reign (ie.AD 574).
It. is, however,
also possible that LM's reference to
an unspecified Justin ruling for nine years is simply a misplaced
doublet of Justin I, with the omission of '22 days'. (cf Bo 410.6).
Th's 'chronicle material' from Justin
II and beyond certainly has a
flavour and style reminiscent of Malalas (eg Th 243.4-14, 243.31-244.5,
244.7-12,
246.11-27, 246.31-247.3 (= ninth year of Justin II), 246.5-8,
249.21-250.5,
250.8-13, 251.16-19 etc).
Stylistically and thematically
all
this could well be derived from Malalas but such an assumption is
difficult in view of Malalas' claim, in the prologue to Book 1, to have
used oral sources from the reign of Zeno. This 'chronicle material' is
interspersed with and increasingly replaced by matter drawn from an
unidentified Alexandrian source (eg Th 241.6-15,
241.26-242.7, 242.
13-19) and
(Th 244.12-13, 245.13-26, 246.28-29,
Theophylakt Simokatta
247.3-17, 248.14-249.11, 250.13-23 etc).
it is of course impossible to
argue that the point at which Th was able to turn to the earliest event
in Theophylakt's History (at Th 244.12, in the seventh year of Justin's
reign) marks the end of Malalas.
Nor is there anything in Th's text to
reflect a change in chronicle source in the ninth year of Justin.
In
view of this it would be rash to argue that Th's chronicle source after
AD 565 was necessarily Malalas.
The problem is complex, and involves several larger questions: the
authorship of Book 18, the editions in which the chronicle may have
circulated and the possibility that the extant witnesses may contain a
continuation of the original Malalas by one chronicler or more. Apart
from the summary account given in the Introduction (p xxiii), a full
discussion of this issue will
be found in the forthcoming St[x/'ie..a
volume.

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Indices

References are to the page numbers of Bo (the Bonn edition), which are
printed in bold thus (192) in the translation.
'app' after a page number means that the name or term is to be found
in the sub-text to that page of Bo.
'Book 18 App.I' and 'Book 18
App.II' refer to material given in the sub-text to Book 18, para 71.
Entries like '295 iv' refer to the lacuna in Book 12, at Bo 295, where
material in the sub-text is given in numbered sections in pare 25.
'490a' and '496a' refer to material supplied from Th and De insid to
fill the lacunas that occur on Bo 490 and 496.

Glossary of technical terms

This glossary aims at providing, for those unfamiliar with the period
covered by the chronicle and the era in which it was written, a brief
explanation of the phrases which have been left untranslated, or
translated into a Latin form.
(The information has been largely drawn
from Bury, 1923 and Jones, 1964.) Most of these are technical terms for
army and court ranks or offices which have no meaningful English
equivalent.
Also included are some frequently recurring words which
might have unexpected connotations (eg 'emperor', 'calamity', 'wrath of
God').
Not included, however, are transliterated words which are either

kept in the translation to explain a pun (eg

or are explained by the context (eg

'tarsos' on

p. 37)

;nerseai , also on p. 37).

advocati fisci senior advocates in the bar attached to a magistrate's

court;

295 iii.

alytarch principal official in charge of the celebration of the Olympic

festival in Antioch; 286, 289, 310-2, 417.
ceremonial participant in the Antiochene Olympic festival;
287.

Anniversary, festival of anniversary of the official inauguration of

Constantinople on 11th May 330; 322 (cf City's anniversary; 483, 488,
490).

annon9e faerieraticve annual

supplied by them; 321 app.

sum

paid to a federate state for troops

antiforun area opposite the forum in Antioch; 397.

apa risiarias the representative of a particular church and its bishop;
486.

arrfiiatr.w

medical officer for a community; 370.

a secretis private secretary; 475 app, 476 app, 494.

Augusta title of the wife of the reigning emperor; see Name Index for

314

Glossary

individual empresses.
arqustalios prefect of Egypt; 224, 280,
401, 434.
Augustus title of reigning emperor;
see Name
emperors.

Index

for

individual

.iasrbatus bearded,

i.e. not a eunuch (eunuchs were not

eligible for
certain posts); 476 app.
harzaipanstai Persian officers; 271.
basilica a large hall with columns (but
Malalas also uses the same Greek
word to refer to a covered colonnade;
see Downey, 1937, 194-211); 216,
287, 318-9, 321, 338-9, 360, 397-8,
422.
fuleuterion chamber where the city council
met; 205, 211, 234-5.
Caesar title given to a junior
emperor; 306, 325-6, 337, 379, 381-2.
calamity a natural disaster, usually
an earthquake but also fire or
flood; 237-8, 243, 265, 267-9,
275, 289, 299, 323, 363, 369,
385, 406
418-20,

442-3.

carxr'idatusmember of the imperial guard

(with a white uniform); 295 app,
327, 475 app, 476 app.
centeraaria hundred pounds weight
(of gold); 267,
422, 424, 443.

cbzysw

279,

406,

417,

421 app,

on

tax levied every four

or five years on commercial
transactions, payable in gold;
398.
codicils imperial letter confirming
an appointment; 384.
cues, cawites title of holder of a civil
or imperial office, literally
'companion'; the nearest equivalent
is

326,
441,

330, 336, 350, 370-1, 373,

453, 483, 484 app, 485 app.

perhaps 'councillor'; 182,

388 app,

390,

396,

410,

422,

185,

429-30,

--dontesticorum commander of a unit of soldiers attached

to the imperial
household; 333, 352, 439.
--excubitotw commander of the imperial bodyguard;
410, 449 app, 490a,
491, 495.

-- foederatoxw commander of
493.

units of mainly barbarian

soldiers;

364,

--Ja-g-tionin official responsible

for mints and payments to
state
employees; 400, 441 app.
--of the Straits of the Pontic sea
official stationed at the
northern
end of the Bosphorus to examine
cargoes passing to the Black
Sea; 432.
-- Otlentis governor of the diocese
(administrative
office abolished 535; 319,
389,

ex- cans

(&

district)

392-3, 396-8,

ientis former governor

417, 423-5,

of Ori ens ; 416.

of Oriens;
468, 490a.

ccawitatus the emperor's household,

and thus the central administration;
'second caw tc tus'an alternative
administrative centre; 319.
comwntarienses assistants in a government
department, 389 app, 493,
496a.

ex- co/i rciariw former tax-collector;

396.
Conch an apse with a vaulted roof;
287.
consuls chief magistrates, elected
in the Republic but later
nominated
by the emperor; 182, 187-8, 191, 208-10,
214, 216, 218, 227, 268,
364,
411-2.
ex-consul former consul, honorary
consul; 227, 383, 400,
416, 449,
452 app, 481 app.
376, 378,

383,

386,

ex-consul orn'in.9rius former consul,

who took up office on
January and so gave his name to the yearone
1st
411 app, 475 app.
pro-consul official with
the powers of a consul; 487 app.
consulars with the rank of a consul;
360, 430, 476 app.

Glossary

315

consular governors governors with the rank of consul; 183, 244, 338.
consular largesse donations made during celebrations on taking up the
office of consul; 426.
consulship office of consul (referred to by Malalas primarily for dating
purposes); 214, 217, 224, 226, 230-2, 236, 241, 243, 246, 250, 256-60,
277, 291, 306, 318-9, 326, 334, 343,
346, 351,
363, 369,
378-9, 386, 392, 395, 410, 419, 422, 425, 428, 450-2, 478-9.

373,

376,

conventas meeting of the senate; 102, 184, 371, 444 app.

silentIw at conventus meeting of the senate and emperor's advisory
council together; 438.
council of Antioch; 233, 287, 295.
--of the Church 323, 346, 365, 367, 411-2, 479.
cubicularius, cubicularii eunuch attendant(s) of the sacred bedchamber
of the emperor and empress; 95, 246, 290, 326, 332, 343, 354, 361, 368,
387 app, 408, 410, 441, 469, 476, 480-1, 484, 486,

curator (divinse dawus) official in charge of the estates owned by the

emperor; 439-40, 490a, 493, 496a.
curator dowin,icae dcww Placidiae official in charge of the estates

Placidia; 490.
curopslates (gloriosisshnss> rank created by Justinian to denote the
heir apparent 412 app, 490a, 491, 496a.
owned by

cugpos wooden fetters; 50.

delegator official assisting in the supplying and transport of troops;
319.

dictator magistrate in the Roman Republic with supreme powers, used by

Malalas only of Julius Caesar; 214-6, 287.
diptychs hinged writing tablet; 138, 155-6, 266.
--official ecclesiastical record on such a tablet; 411, 484.
dawk5sticus personal assistant to a state officer; 410.

drourx,Pos a body of

app.

infantry consisting of from

1000

to 3000

men; 437

dux, daces commander of one of the regional armies (e.g. of Phoenice,

Euphratesia); 299, 308, 382, 426, 429-30, 434-5, 441, 445-7, 453, 461-3,
469.

ex-dux former diet; 373, 441.

alas epithet

of unknown meaning, applied to a dancer; 386.

emperor every ruler, whether Agamemnon of Justinian, is considered to be
an 'emperor'; see also 'king', 'toparch'.
ex- e.g. ex-bishop, ex- commercarlus, etc; see relevant entry.
exarch, exarchs commander; 101, 109, 112, 121, 159, 314, 329, 337, 373,
393-4, 432, 438, 445, 452-3, 462-6, 468-9, 486, 495.
excubitares imperial body guard; 372, 387app, 394, 410, 474, 476 app,
483, 496a.

faction supporters of one of the chariot. teams racing in the hippodrome;

see also Blues, Greens in the Name Index; 175-6, 244, 257, 263, 282,
295,
476,

298, 304, 351-2, 368,

484, 487-8, 490-1.

379,

386,

393,

395-7,

ex-factionarius former senior charioteer; 395.

fiscus imperial treasury; 295 app.
focderati troops supplied by a federate state ;

folks, folles small coin(s);

416,

422,

425,

473-4,

app.

371

400, 412, 439.

forum public square, market place;

Name Index.
Hellenes, Hellenic pagan; 55, 63-4,

see Antioch,
252,

258,

Constantinople in the

277,

317,

327,

344,

355,

316

Glossary
361, 369, 412, 414, 449, 491; for references
to the geographical area,
see Hellas, Hellenes in the Name Index.
Hexastoon hall with 'six rows
of columns; see Laodikeia in the
Name
Index.

hippodrome

race course,

track

for chariot

races;

173, 175, 178, 225,

394, 408-9, 412, 417,
Antioch in the Name Index.
for telling the time; 338, 479.

292, 294, 296, 307, 314, 320-22,

339-40, 347, 361,
474-6, 484, 495; see also Constantinople,

horologion device (sun dial?)

hospice charitable institution,
usually for the
frequently large and well-endowed;
318, 423, 452.
wardens of hospices 430.
ex-warden of the hospice 411.
ex-warden of the hospice of Sampson
479,

care of

the sick and

hycsstas'.is, hj wtaseis state of being (term used

in theological debate
over the 'essence' of God) 478 app.
.illustrls, illustres grade in the senatorial order
416, 444, 476 app; cf
illustrious 234, most illustrious
375-6, 399, 407.

Imperator supreme commander,

used as an element in imperial
titles
(especially of Octavian) 197,
225, 273, 428,
indiction a 15-year cycle, originally
introduced for taxation purposes;
338,

343,

478-9, 481,

367, 376, 379,

483-92, 495,

391,

396,

401,

410,

424-5,

428,

445,

473,

kathiww the emperor's viewing stand

(box) in the hippodrome; 320, 322,

387 app, 394, 408, 473, 476,
490a.
kihourion canopy over the altar; 490,
490a.
king ruler over a small, subordinate
state; 161, 184-5, 209-10, 365,
372-3, 375, 383-5, 414-5,
427, 431-2, 438, 450-1, 459-60,
478, 480; cf
queen 430-1.
340, 351-2,

kynegion wild beast shows, hunting exhibitions;

268, 285.
kylgio place where such shows are held; 292,
294, 339, 491.
land owner members of the
curial class, serving on the
city council;
205, 244, 248-9, 264-6, 284-5,
289-90, 360, 369, 444, 469, 480.
Iestadioktes bandit-hunter, an
unpopular and brutal local police-chief;

382,

111ws frontier;

30,

139,

143,

206,

231,

463.

295

app, 296-7,

302, 308,

426,

inner llmxss
outer 1J4e9
Indian

434.
445.
lines 308.

lisitanei troops stationed on the eastern frontier;

Iitra, Iitrai a measure of weight, a pound; 95,

308, 426.
378, 439-40,

480, 493.

44,

56,

logothetes member of financial department;

400.

.o

gister (i.e. agister officiorzn>

master of

offices, minister in
charge of miscellaneous administrative
duties in the imperial household
and especially foreign affairs;
app, 461-2,

465-6,

329,
471-2, 475 app.

355-7,

386,

388,

399,

448-9,

452

ex-.avgister former magister officiorwn 393,

445.
g-ister rrlltia, mgistrY w-i1ituow commander(s)

of an army; 329, 333,

345, 349, 360, 368, 373, 375-6,
379, 382, 389, 393 app, 403-4,
417, 422,
427-8, 437-8, 445, 452, 461, 470, 473,
475 app, 476,

480, 490, 495.

ex-1wgister silitun former commander; 452
app.
nJsgister inilitw, per krmeniaw commander
of the army in Armenia;
429,
469, 472.

Glossary

--,xwr-

317

I11yricrn commander of the army in Illyricum; 438, 451,

of the army in hoesia; 437 app, 438.

-per.Atesiap commander

-per &lentew commander

369, 388, 398,

--Iwr acacias

of the army in Oriens (the East); 360,

411, 423, 429-30, 456, 466, 487 app.
commander of the army in Thrace; 388 app, 402.

nigister (iagistri> militurr praesentalis

army that accompanied the emperor 375,

364,

(xrraesentales.) commander of the

378--9,

381,

383,

386,

398,

411-2,

429, 465.

senior masgister militun praesentalis 378, 398.

gister scriniorvn official responsible for
secretarial business; 496a.

gistrianus

member

of the

conduct

of

staff of the inagrster officiort.un,,

imperial

374, 456

app, 459, 471.

a goi Persian priest(s); 38, 63, 151, 229-31, 252-5, 444, 473.
martyriun shrine or chapel dedicated to a martyr; 327, 363, 369, 396,
nk4ga4,

417.

melisteis musician (and not a money-dealer) 498.

ietrapoiis, aaetropoleis capital city of a province; 9, 77, 176, 216,
223, 259, 261-2, 274, 279, 289, 294, 299, 313, 318, 323, 345, 347, 359,
363, 365, 382, 385, 398, 448.
miliaresia small coins; 432.
castrensiani soldiers serving on the frontier; 430,
mime, mimes act.or(s) in a theatrical performance; 285, 314,
second mime 314.

(also wnt9n?odion, tetrewno lion, trr'mcWlon, dimcxlion) pipes of

graduated size, used to regulate the flow of waater; 278.
mradion

mnnetarii those who worked in the mint; 301.

money-dealers or bankers, or silver-merchants; 395, 492-4,
,oncawacheion ampitheatre, gladiatorial school; 217, 263, 339, 346.
Mouseion building dedicated to the Muses; see Antioch in the Name index,
mysteries 1. pagan cult.; 14, 24, 29, 35, 38, 41-2, 45, 54-5, 284,
2. Christian religion; 239, 303, 365, 414, 421, 434.
mystic magic, supernatural; mystic knowledge 16, 21, 81, 86, 118, 219,
229, 232, 390; mystical practises 42, 55; mystic wisdom 43; mystic
prayers 61; mystic name 291; mystic t.rlampet. 69; mystic powers 119.
naavismw, n aaviswta coin(s), the solidus (gold unit of currency) ; 353,
438-41, 452-3, 480.
nuaseri regiment.,
contingent of troops;
329-30, 332, 349, 383, 426-7, 429-30, 432, 451 app,
356,

nuancs,

295

271,

179,

app,

490a.

--Arcadiaci 349.
--Primoarmeniaci 332.
--Lancearii and Mattiarii 329.
Nymphaion a building, often an ornamental fountain, dedicated to the
Nymphs; see Antioch in the Name Index.
odeon small roofed theatre; see Antioch in the Name Index.
oikonaaai stewards, administrators, heads of monastic houses; 430.
orrgiop&antes priest, a cult title; 225.
psoura three-stringed lute; 179.
pan ration wrestling contest; 288, 310-1,
psranxm2rias ecclesiastical administrator; 377, 434.
patriarch senior bishop, especially the bishop of Constantinople; 246,
252,
460,

256, 258-9, 269, 377, 379-81,

479, 483, 486, 492, 494-5.

patrician,

patricians

title

400,

bestowed

411,

by

417,

423-4,

emperor

as

415,

the

442,

mark

448,

of

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Glossary
personal distinction; 335, 340; 353,
356, 361, 364, 366, 369, 371-3,
375-6, 384-8, 392-3, 396, 398,
401, 407, 411, 413, 422-3, 438, 441-2,
445, 454 app, 472, 478, 492, 494,
philosopher, philosophers a person of
some education; 13-14, 24 app, 32,
34, 40, 61, 76, 85, 97, 109,
152, 161, 169, 188, 210, 250-1, 262, 265,
267, 281, 288, 295 app, 312, 343,
353-4, 354, 356, 359, 361, 369-70,
403-6,
409.

ex-philosopher 252,
philosophy not only Hellenic philosophy
but the art of living a chaste
and moderate life; 14, 17-8, 30,
85, 153,

phylarch,
(Saracen);

phylarchs
434-5,

commander

441, 446-7,

of

288,

allied

354, 451.
troops,
especially

Arab

461, 464.

praefectus vigilun chief of police, subject

to the city prefect; 396-7,
479.

ex-praefectus v gilvo 436.

praepositus (sacri cubiculjl superintendent. or
chamberlain (of the
sacred bedchamber); 339-40,
ex-piaepositus

361, 408, 410.

361.

praetar (of the demes) chief of police,

of the praefectus vigilum,' 479, 4$3,

praetorian prefect(s) leading

civilian
323, 329, 337-8,

345-6,

361, 370,

--of the east 319, 398.

--of Illyricum 355.

praetorium minister's office;

487.

office created

minister,

381, 390, 392,

319,

338,

392,

to replace that

with wide powers; 319,

411,

397,

465,

417,

475 app, 477.

474,

475

app,

prefect minister, officer, governor,

used by Malalas for both military
and civilian offices; 243, 254,
256, 362, 363, 480.
--ex-prefect 287, 403, 405, 407,
446 app, 449 app, 481 app, 490.
----city
prefect governor, chief administrator
of the city, usually
Constantinople; 323, 361, 394-5,
407-8, 416, 436, 473-5,
482,

494.

primicerius

488,

491,

head of a government. department.;

474,

proce,sus imperial progress or journey;

282, 320, 324-5, 343, 348, 366,
372, 377, 405.
pnatector'es section of the imperial
bodyguard; 475 app, 490a.
q aestor chief legal minister; 369, 449,
475, 475 app, 479, 494.
ref ndarius judicial official, an
intermediary between the emperor
and
judges; 328,

ex-r

422 app, 449 app.

by the emperor to

rescripts responses

questions or petitions, with the

force of law; 310, 344, 348, 374, 388-9,
401, 422, 430, 444, 449, 456,
458-9, 468.
rods of the consuls symbols of office;
satrap, satrapy Persian admistrative

384.

official

or area; 198, 336,

429
Schola, Scholae imperial guard;
295 app, 490a, 494.
scholarius, sctolarii member(s)
of the imperial guard; 295
app, 387, 475
app, 476 app, 490a.
scxinia offices, departments; 475
app.
app.

scriniarti keepers of records, clerks;

430,
secrwtr n council chamber; 486 app,
senate a legislative body, perfunctory
in the imperial period but
still
having considerable prestige; 52,
88, 133,
166,

179, 181-4,

186,

209-10,

Glossary

319

214-6, 218-9, 224, 243, 263, 266-7, 281, 291-2, 330, 337, 340, 342, 344,
357, 367, 370-1, 375, 379, 383, 439, 457.
senator(s) member(s) of the senate, or deemed eligible for membership;
44-6, 62, 82, 87, 93, 133, 135, 164, 166, 181, 184-6, 205, 215, 217,
224, 226, 243, 245, 248, 267, 278, 281, 291-2, 295 app, 311, 327, 334-6,
339, 348, 350, 358, 360, 366-7, 371, 373, 386, 388, 411, 434, 442, 459,
475-6.
senaton meeting place for the senate (of Antioch); 339.
sigma-shaped curved, like a lunate 's' (sigma); 302.

silentiarius

usher

in
the
434, 496a.
ex-silentiarius 390, 392.

silentium,

an

imperial

administrative

official; 420,

silentitm imperial advisory council; 444,

silenticon et conventus see con vent us.

skevophylakion sacristy 475 app.

skyplicw meaning unclear, literally

'cup',

possibly 'skull' or 'shield';

35, 37.

spstharii bodyguard; 246, 332, 343, 387 app, 476.

spntlmrius member of a bodyguard; 359, 389, 476.
srartulae fees, bribe; 470.
stades measure of distance (about 200 metres) 202.
stratopedarch military commander; 97.
sulwptio a junior officer, assistant; 494,
talents monetary unit: 113, 210, 248.
talisman(s) charm, usually a statue, to ward off ill-luck;

233,

264-6,

318.

tavla board
tetrapylon,

223,

233,

game; 103.
tetrapyla triumphal arch(es),

328,

363,

structure(s) with four doors;

491.
tetrarchy the territory of a subordinate ruler;
397,

tetrastoon hall with four rows of

Name Index.
toparch(s) governor of a toparchy,

columns;

222-44.
see Constantinople

region; 93-4,
208-9, 221-4, 227, 229, 231, 235-7, 466.
tractator treasury official; 400.
tribune military officer; 247, 432, 435, 463.

97-8,

144,

in

168,

the
192,

206,

ex-tribune 367.

tricliniaw dining room, hall in the Great Palace; 475 app, 493-4.
Trinymphon building dedicated to the Nymphs; see Antioch in the Name
Index.
fl i sagion Thrice Holy (theopaschite addition to the liturgy); 407.
triumph procession to celebrate a victory; 157, 183, 220-4, 260-1, 300,

311.

triuinphator
225.

one who celebrates a triumph (part of Octavian's title);

triumvir(s) three men appointed to an office (here Antony, Octavian and

Lepidus to restore the Roman Republic); 214, 218, 221.
tropsrion chant in church service; 479 app.
tyche personified Fortune of a city, usually represented by a female
statue; 31, 36, 139, 184, 201, 203, 216, 267, 276, 320, 322, 405, 478
app.

vestitores keepers of the imperial wardrobe; 484 app.

vicarius deputy, here the second-in-command of a regiment; 332.

vinlex, vincces treasury

official;

400, 476 app,

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Glossar

wonder-worker maker of charms and theurgic

manifestations;
200, 204-5,
233,

250,

265,

wrath of God a natural

disaster

(earthquake,

55,

86,

109

fire, flood); 190, 207

229, 243, 246, 249-50, 259,
261, 267, 275-6, 278-9,
282, 289, 299, 313
323,
343, 359, 363, 367, 369,
378, 385, 406, 417-20, 423, 436,
442
447-8.

Index of names

Aaron, brother of Moses 61, 63-4, 66-7, 69.

Abas, ruler of the Hellenes 83.
Abasgoi, the If.
Abboras, river in Mesopotamia 329.
Abel, son of Adam 6.
Abgaros, ruler of Osrhoene 465.
Abgersaton, fortress in Osrhoene 465.
Abinoem, father of Barach 70.
Ablabios, son of Meltiades (raid-6th cent.; PLRE III) 493.
Ablakkon, priest in Antioch 233.
Abraham, son of Tharras 55, 57-9, 61.
Abros ('Amr, mid-6th cent.; PLRE III) 463.
Accarneus (perhaps Macarnaeus, exarch at Kirkesion; PLRE 1 524) 329.
Achaia, land of 82.
Achaian, Achaians 91, 102, 104, 107-9, 118-9, 129-30, 132, 166.
Achaos, son of Lapithos 81.
Acheloos, formerly Phorbas, river in Aitolia 165.
Acheloos, son of Poseidonios 164-5.
Achilles, son of Peleus 91 app, 97-102, 104, 108, 110-1, 122-31 193.
Achyron, country estate near Nikomedeia 324.
Adam 5-7, 9-11, 34, 58, 61, 143-4, 149, 162, 193, 195, 227-9 391, 428.
Addous, Jewish high-priest 194.
Adiabenoi, the 10, 139.
Adonis, son of Kinyros 13-4.
Adramelech, son of Sennacherib 148.
Adrastos, of Argos 53.
Adriatic Sea 11.
Aelia (Jerusalem) 279.
Aetius; see Antoninus Pius, Hadrian, Probus.
Aemilianus (M. Aemilius Aemilianus, Augustus 253) 295 xviii.
Aetes, father of Medeia 79.
Aetius (Fl. Aetius, cos 431, 437, 446; PLRE II 21-29) 358-9.
Afranius, first. alytarch of Antioch 286, 417.
Africa 11, 25, 162-3, 209-10, 365-6, 373, 429, 478, 495-6.
Africans, the 209, 372-3, 375, 459-60.
Africanus (Sextus Julius Africanus, fl. 220, chronicle writer) 5, 53,
62, 69, 72,

90,

158,

269.

Agamemnon, of Mykenai 82-3, 85,

94,

97-8,

107,

126,

Agave; see Laodikeia.

Agenor, of Tyre 30-1, 34, 39, 96, 107, 132 app, 198-9, 201.
Agriai; see Daphne.
Agrippa, Marcus (M. Vipsanius Agrippa, cos 37, 28, 27 BC) 219-20,

222,

91,

111,

113-4,

122,

133-4,

137-8.

Agapetus (bishop of Rome, 535-6) 479.

Agave, daughter of Kadmos 39, 41, 43-4.

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Index
225-6.
Agrippa, Prefect of Rome under Nero
254.
Agrippianon; see Antioch, baths.
Agrippitai, see Antioch, districts.
Ahab, ruler of the Jews 148.
Aiaia, Kirke's island 117.
Aias: Lokrian Aias 104, 108.
Aias Telamonios 99, 102, 107-9,
113-4, 122, 128-32.
Aiases, the two 126.
Aides, father of Persephone 62.
Aigai (mod. Ayes), in Cilicia
297, 369.
Aigeus, father of Theseus 87-8.
Aigialeia, wife of Diomedes 166.
Aigialeus, of Sikyon 68.
Aigisthos, of Mykenai 133-4.
Ailianos (PPO Orientis 484; PLRE
II 14) 388 app, 389 app.
Aimar, god of 147.
Aineiades, descendants of
Aineias 171.
Aineias, son of Anchises 106, 162-3,
167-70, 216.

.Aio.lian

Islands

117,

Aiolos,

of the Aiolian Islands 117,

119.
Aischines (orator, c.397-322 BC)
188.
Aischylos, ruler of Athens
72.

Aite.gia, written by Kal.limachos 175.

Aitham, god of 145.

Aitherion,

father of Polymedon

Aitherios (curator divl'ra domes41.Antiochi

560-5;
Aithra, relative of Menelaos 95.
Aitolia,

land of 164-7.

.Aitolian

163.

PLRE

III)

490a, 493-5.

Akakios, curator 496a,

Akrisios, father of Danae 34,
84.
Akrisios, ruler of the Hellenes 84.
Alamoundaros (al-Mundhir III, ruler
of the Lalchmids 505-54;
40-3) 434-5, 445, 460-1, 463, 466-7,
496a.
Alaric (Visigothic leader, c.391-410;
PLRE II 43-8) 349-50.
Albania, city founded by Askanios
168-9.
Albania, daughter of Latinus
168.
Albanol, the 169.
Albas, son of Aslcanios 169-70.
Albinus, rebel senator under
Sept.imius Severus 291.
Albinus (Ceionius Rufinus Albinus, cos
335; PLRE I 37) 319.
Aleos, father of Auge 161.
Aletes, of Corinth 90.
Alexander; (Alexander III of Macedon,
356-323
192-6,

210,

234, 292,

BC)

PLRE

II

189-90,

399.

Alexander Nikator (Se.leukos III Soter 226-223

BC) 205.
Alexander (M. Aurelius Severus Alexander, Augustus 222-35)
295 iv.
Alexander, bishop of Diospolis 436.
son of Hierios (MUM vacans 528; PLRE
II 58) 442.
Alexander, see Paris.
Alexandria, also Alexandria the Great,
Egyptian Alexandria
217-20, 224, 252, 280, 293, 297, 309,
349,
.Alexander.,

359,

386,

401,

188,

417,

192,
434',

Index

323

445, 457-8, 481, 486; formerly Rakoustis 192.

basilica, Kaisarion 217.
baths, The Horse 192, Therma 293.
churches, Theodosius 359, St John's 434.
gate, of the Sun and Moon 280.

Pharos 218.
temples, Rhea 293, Serapis Helios 192, 349.
Alexandria of Cambyses (?Alexandria ad Issum; mod. Iskencleron) 397.
Alexandrian, A.lexandrians 293, 309, 359, 386, 402, 428 app. 478 app.
Alkamenes, ruler of Lakedaimon 90.
Alkinoos, of Phaia.kia 122 app.
Alkmaion, of Athens 72.
Alkmene, mother of Herakles 17, 161.
Althaia, mother of Meleager 164-5.
Amaltheia; see Antigonia.
Amandra, see Iconium, Parios.
Amanos, mountain 142, 363 app.
Amantios (PSC East 518; PLRE II 67-8) 408-10.
Amantios (MUM per Orientem 555; PLRE III) 487.
Amaseia, in Pontus (mod. Amasya) 448, 486, 496a.
Amazons, the 125, 127.
Ambros, son of Alamoundaros 496a.
Ambrose (bishop of Milan 374-97; PLRE 1 52) 347.
Amerdach, Persian exarch 484,
Amerite Indians (Himyarites of Yemen) 429 app, 457-8; see also Homerite.
Amida, in Mesopotamia (mod. Diyarbakir) 274, 336, 395, 398, 416, 424,
442, 468,

478.

Ammadios, fortress 456 app.

.Ammon; see Zeus.
Amos, the prophet 146, 148.

Ampelion; see Ant.i.och, baths.

Amphiaraos, who fought at Thebes 53.

Amphigeneias, from Ilion 108.

Amphion, son of Dirke 46, 48-9; see also Antioch, statues.
Amphion, priest in Antioch 199, 200, 202.
Amphitryon, husband of. Alkmene 17.
Amulius, grandfather of Romulus and Remus 178.
Amyke, plain of, near Antioch (mod. Amuk) 202.
Amyke, also known as Kitia, wife of Kasos 201-2.
Amykos, attacker of the Argonauts 78-9.
.Anagestes (MUM
7hraac..itss 469-70; PLRE II 75-6) 372 app.
Anaplous (on European side of the Bosphorus) 403, 405.
Anasarthon, city in Syria 444; renamed Theoclorias 444.
Anastasios (Augustus, 491-518; PLRE II 78-80) 392-6, 398-9, 401,
405-11, 417, 435, 437-8, 450, 455-6, 478.
Anastasioupolis, city in Mesopotamia 399, 452; see Dara.
Anastasioupolis, in Thrace 490a.
Anatolius, son of Carinus ( comes Orlent.is 525; PLRE II 84) 417.
Anatolius (77.9glsterofficinrcnn360-3; PLRE 1 61) 329.

per

403,

Anatolius; see Antioch, basilicas.

Anaximander, philosopher (c. 610-540 BC) 158.

Anazarbos, city in Cilicia (mod. Anavarza) 268, 297, 345, 365, 418,
490a; formerly known as Diokaisareia, Kiskospolis, Nerva, Skynta 268.

tyche (Kepara) 268.

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324

Anchialos, city in Thrace (mod. Anhial) 402, 406.

Anchises, father of Aineias 162.
Andas, ruler of the Axoumitai 429, 434.
Andorides, place 107 app.
Andrasos; see Tarsos.
Ardrazes, Persian officer 463.
Andreas Lausiacus ('cuhlcultarlexs 518; PLRE II 88) 410.
483.
Andreas (executed in 547; PLRE
Andreas, the ex-logothete 496a.
Andreas, showman 453 app.
Andreas; see Constantinople, House of.
Andrew, the apostle 484.
Androgeos, son of Pasiphae and Minos 86, 87.
Andromache, wife of Hektor and Pyrrhos 106, 123-5, 193.
Andromeda, daughter of Kepheus 36, 38-9.
Andros, brother of Hippodameia Briseis 101.
Anganes, ruler of the Himyarites 457.
.Ankyra, in Galatia (mod. Ankara), formerly Arsine 221.
Anianos, patriarch of Alexandria 252.
Annas, Jewish high priest 242, 251, 257.
Antaion, defeated by Herakles 86.
Anteia; see Stheneboia.
Antenor, Trojan leader 106, 109, 112.
Anthemios (Aug4.istus in the West 467-72; PLRE II 97-8) 368-9, 373-5.
Anthemios, patriarch of Constantinople (535-6) 479.
Anthios, chronicler 37 app.
Anthousa; see Constantinople,
Antigone, daughter of Oidipous and Iokaste 52.
Antigone, sacrificed by Tiberius 235.
Antigonia, on the Orontes 198-201.
tyche (Amaltheia) 201.
Antigonos Poliorketes, founder of Antigonia (Antigonos .I. d. 301 BC)
197-9, 201-2,
Antimachos, leader of the Hellenes 107 app.
Antinoe, in Egypt 280, 481.
Antioch
(Antioch the Great,
Antioch in Syria,
the city of the
Antiochenes), in Syria 29, 200-202, 204-7, 211-3, 216-7, 222-3, 225,
227, 232-5, 241-6, 249, 252, 260-6, 269, 271-3, 275-7, 279-80, 282-84,
286, 289-90, 294-7, 300, 302-3, 307-8, 310-11, 314, 318-9, 322, 324-7,
333, 338-9, 342, 346-7, 360, 362, 367, 369, 376-8, 380-1, 389-91, 393,
395-8, 400-1, 411-2, 415-7, 419, 422-3, 425, 442-3, 445, 448, 452,

III)

460,

465,

467-8, 478-80,

485,

490a,

renamed Theoupolis 476 app.

basilicas: Anatolius 360, 423; Kaisarion 216, 287, 290, 338-9; Rufinus
397-8, 423; Zenodotos 397,
Agrippianum 222; Ampelion 222; Antoninian 280; Centenarium 282
Commodium 283, 338-9; Diocletianum 307; Domitianum 263; of Hadrian 369
cipp; Livian.im 295; of Medeia 263; of. Olbia 397; Paradise 263; of the
emperor Philip 318; Severianum 294, 369 app; of Syrian nation 417 app;
of Tainadonhus 417 app; of Trajan 369 app; of Urbicius 389 app; Varii.m
244.
318-9,
baths:

Charonion 205.
churches:
Archangel Michael 420 app; Blessed Mother of God 443 app;
'Holy Prophets 420 app; St John 396, 397; St Julian 452; St Kassianos

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325

St Zacharias 420 app.

Conch 287, 339.
districts: Agrippitai 222; Hippokephalas; Jewish quarter 443 app;
Ostrabine 369 app; Skepine 272,
festivals: Dionysos 285; Maiournas 285, 362; Orgies 284.
gates: Cherubim 281; Golden 272; St Julian 420; Middle 275; Rhodion
346; Romania 202.
hippodrome 339.
Kerateion 207, 420 app.
Martyrium: the Koimeterion 327; St Stephen 417.
450;

Aynegion 339.
Macellurn 216,
mint 308.

275,

287.

,wonomtecheion 217, 263, 339, 346.

Mouseion 282, 302.
Nymphaion 369 app; sigma-shaped, known as Okeanon 282, 302.
Nymphaion in the theatre 276.
Plethr.ion 290,

339.

Regia 328.
rivers: Parmen.ios 233, 275, 339; Phyrminos 346; see also Orontes.
senaton 339.
Singon Street 242.
springs: Olympias 419 app; Pallas 278.
statues: Amphion 234; Antiope 234; Cherubim 261; Dioskouroi (Amphion
and Zethos) 234; Kolonision 397; Medeia 263; Poseidon 318; Romus and
Remus 235, 275; Selene 261; Seraphim 261; Zethos 234; Zeus 278.
Synagogue, of Sabiniani 389 app.
temples: Aphrodite 263; Ares 216, 246, 275, 285, 287; Ares, Aphrodite
and Herakles 246; Artemis 246; Asklepios 263; Athene 201, 204, 207,
212, 283; Dionysos 234; Hekate 307; Hermes 318; Hestia 136, 140-2;
Kronos on Mt Silpios 30; Muses 235, 319; Pan 235; Pantheon 217, 242;
Winds 262; Capitoline Zeus 234, Olympian Zeus 283.

Tetraapylon of the Elephants 328.

Trinymphon 244.

tyche: Kalliope 245; Aimathe 200.

Xystos 283, 286, 290.
Antiochenes 142, 205, 211-2, 233, 243-4,

246, 248-9, 264, 266, 271-2,

284, 286, 290, 294, 307, 319, 327-8, 338, 360, 369, 373, 381,
395-6, 398, 400-1, 422, 424, 444, 448-50, 452, 462, 471, 480.
Antiochis, daughter of Antiochos, son of Dionikes 208.
Antiochos, father of Seleukos Nikator 204.
Antiochos (PSC East, c.421; PLRE II 101) 361.
Antiochos Chouzon (PPO Orient.is 430-1, cos 431; PLRE II 103-4; put by
Malalas under Theodosius I instead of Theodosius II) 346.
Antiochos Chouzon (PPO Orient.is 448; PLRE Ii 104) 362,
Antiochos, son of Dionikes (? Antiochos XII Dionysos 87-84 BC, conflated
132), 208,
with Antiochos XIII Asiaticus 69-4 BC; Downey 1942,
275,

211-2,

Antiochos Epiphanes (Antiochos IV Epiphanes 175-64 BC) 205-7, 234,

Antiochos Euergetes (Antiochos VII Euergetes 138-29 BC) 208.
Antiochos Glaukos Hierax (Antiochos V Eupator 164-2 BC) 207.
Antiochos Gryps (Antiochos VIII Grypos 121-96 BC? Antiochos III
Great 223-187 BC?; Downey, 1942, 132) 207-8.
Antiochos Kyzikenos (Antiochos IX Kyzikenos 115-95 BC) 197, 208.

the

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Index
Antiochos, son of Nikomedes (Antiochos
III the Great 223-187 BC) 210.
Philadelphos (Antiochos XI Philadelphos
92 BC) 234.
Philopater (Antiochos IX Kyzikenos
115-95 BC or Antiochos X
87-84 BC; Downey, 1942, 132)
235.
Soter (Antiochos I Soter 281-262
BC) 200, 204-5, 276; city of
Antiochos 235, 244-5, 266, 276,
278, 443.
Antiochos Theoeides (Antiochos
II Theoeides 261-246 BC) 205.
Antiochos, see Constantinople, districts.
Antiope, mother of Amphion
and Zethos 45-9, 234; see also
Antioch,
statues.

Antiochos
Antiochos
Eusebes
Antiochos

.Antipattos,

vindex of Antioch 476 app.

Antiphates, brother of Polyphemos
114-6.
Antiphos, member of the Hellenes'
fleet 108.
Antonia, (Antonina) wife of
Belisarios 480 app.
Antoninian, see Antioch and Laod.ikeia,
baths.
Antoninus (Q. Haterus Antoninus,
cos 53) 250.
Antoninus; see Caracal.la,
Geta, Marcus Antoninus, Heliogaba.lus,
Antoninus Pius (Aelius Antoninus
Pius, Augustus 138-161) 280-1.
Antoninus Verus U. Aurelius
Verus, Augustus 161-169) 282-3,
Antonius (L. Antonius, cos 41
BC) 217.
Arit.ony (M. Antonius, c.83-32 BC)

197, 218-20, 222.

wife of Seleukos Nikat.or 198,
daughter of Seleukos Nikator 203.
Apameia, in Phrygia 9.
Apama,
Apama,

Apameiia

(in Syria; mod, Qal'at el-Mudiq)

203, 365, 428 app, 448, 480;
formerly Pharnake 203.
Aphrodision, in Thrace 481 app.
Aphrodite 24-5, 92-3, 296; daughter
of Aphros 13-4; planet 6,
13; see
also Antioch and Constantinople,
temples.
Aphros, son of Kronos 13.
Apoolianus; see Claudius,
.Apollinarios, heretic (c.,310-390)
478 app.
Apollinarios, patriarch of Alexandria
486.
Apollo 93-5, 100, 112, 130-1,
134-5, 327; Daphnaios 40, 93;
Thymbraios
110, 130; Phoibos 77;
see also Daphne,
Apo.l.lonios (Apol.lonios Rhodios, 3rd cent. temple, Delphi, statue.
BC) 79,
Apollonios of Tyana, maker
of talismans (let cent
BC?) 263-6.
Appion (PPO IJ.rlent/a 518;
PLRE II 111-2) 398, 411.
Appion; see Constantinople, House
of.,
Apronianus (C. Vipstanus Apronianus,
cos 59) 256.
Apronianus (M. Rebilus Apronianus,
cos 117) 277,
.Apskal, Roman officer (531;
PLRE III) 462, 464.
Apsyrtos, charioteer 174,
Apulia, land of 184.
Aquila, the Jew, interpreter
of Scriptures 7.
Aquile.ia, metropolis of Venetia
176, 295 v.
Arabas, Saracen ruler 223.
Arabia, province 223, 295 app.,
297-300, 435, 485.
Ararat, Mount 9, 10.

Arcad.iaci, nume..rus of 349, 382,

Arcadius
351-2,

Arcadius

(Flavius
361,

482.

(PPO

Or

Arcad.ius,

ont/s 490;

Archelais, in Jordan

295

ii.

Augustus
PLRE 11

383-408;

131) 390.

PLRE

99)

344,

348-9,

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327

Archelaos, toparch of Cappadocia 223-4.

Archelaos, son of Herod, toparch of Judaea 231, 235.
Archilochos, poet (7th cent. BC) 68.
Arda.boi.trios, son of Aspar (cos 447; PLRE II 135-7) 369,
Ardabourios (catzicul,xrius 518; PLRE II 137) 410 app.
Ardazanes, Persian officer 364.
Ardeni, the, enemies of Rome in Italy 181.

371-2, 374.

Ardeus, of Lydia 151, 153.

Areobindus

(Fl.

Areobindus,

MUM East 434-441,

cos 434;

PLRE

11

145-6)

364.

Areobindus (Fl. Areobindus Dagalaiphus, MUM East.503-4, cos 504; PLRE II

143-4) 392, 398, 407.
Areopagite, see Dionysios.
Areopagos, the 135.
Ares 172-3, 178; planet 6, 25; lover of Aphrodite 13, 24; son of Zames,
originally named Tharras 15-6; see also Antioch and Rome, temples.
Arethas (al-Harith, ruler of the Kindite Arabs, c.498-528; PLRE .II
139-40) 434-S,
Arethas (al-Harith, ruler of the Ghassanid Arabs; PLRE III) 461, 463-4,
496a.

Arethas,

ruler of the Ethiopians

456 app.

Argaios, Mount. (in Cappadocia; mod. Erciyes Dag) 37.

Argives, the 28-30, 34, 37, 47, 68, 83, 94, 98, 122 app, 141, 166, 202.
Argonauts, the 77-9.
Argos, with a hundred eyes 69-70.
Argos, city of 37, 45--6, 53, 97-8, 107-8, 122 app, 166.
Argyrippe; see Beneventum.
Argyros, river 307.
Ariadne, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae 87-8,
Ariadne (Aelia Ariadne, Augusta 474-515; PLRE II 140-1) 375-6, 378,
387-8,
Arian, Arians 325, 342, 344, 479; Exakionite Arians 372, 385, 428.
Ariarathes, of Cappadocia 207.
.Arintheus (Flavius Arintheus, cos 372; PLRE 1102-3) 335-6.
Aristophanes, comic poet (c.445-385 BC) 169,
Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 DC) 188.
.Arius, heretic (c.260-336) 323.
Arkadioupolis, in Thrace (mod. Lule-Bergas) 349 app, 490a.
Arkesilaos, member of the Hellenes' fleet 107,

M.

Arkeuthas, also known as Iaphtha, river near Antigonia 199.

Armatus (cos 476; PLRE II 148-9) 375, 379-83.

Armenia, province 10, 149, 211, 270, 31.2, 427, 429-30, 455, 465,
473; Armenia Prima et Secunda 312; Armenia Sophanene 427 app,
Armenians, the 10, 211-2, 270, 311-2, 425, 430, 455, 465, 472.
Arpad, god of 145, 147.
Arphaxad Cainan, son of Shem 10-11.
Arrian (Flavius Arrian, 2nd cent,) 274,
.Arnins, son of Tarquinius Superbus 180-1.
Arsakes, Parthian, father of Brittane 208.

469,

Arsane, empress of Persia 308.

Arsine; see Ankyra,
Ardazanes, Syriarch and alytarch 285, 289-90,
Artake, near Kyzikos 449 app, 480.
.Artaxerxes, ruler of the Assyrians (Artaxerxes

I,

c.465-424

BC)

160,

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Index
162.

Artaxerxes Mnemon (Artaxerxes

11, c.436-358 BC) 169, 189.
Artemis;
see Antioch, Constantinople,
Daphne, temples.
Asabinos, Official in Antioch
290.
Asaph, father of Joah 144,
146.
Asia, province 25, 81, 94,
109, 197-8,

210, 221, 246, 281, 327,

409, 478 app; i.e. Ephesos
108.
Asios, a wonder-worker 109.
Askalaphos, one of the Hellenes'
leaders 107, 126.
Askanios, son of Aineias
and Kreousa 169; Askanios
Julius 168.
Askel, king of the Hermichiones
Asklepiades (diix P,9.1 st.irkse ?484;496a.
PLRE
366,

331-3

II 159) 382.

Asklepiodotos, executed as
a pagan (529) 445,
.Asklepion, executed by Domitian
(= Ascletarion?) 266.
Asklephos; see Antioch, temples.
Asklepios, addressee of Hermes
Trismegistos 26.
Askoum, a Hun (MUM per
Illyrlcum; PLRE III) 438.
Asouam, daughter of Adam
and Eve 6.
Aspar (F. Ardabur Aspar, MUM,
East,
367,

431-471,

371-2, 374.

cos

434;

PLRE 11 164-9)

Assalam, father of Dareios (Dareios

III) 191-3.
Assyria, land of 12-15.
'Assyrians,
192-3.

.Asterion,

the

12,

14-16,

25,

35-7,

59,

63,

144-51,

158,

160,

162,

190,

home of

Eurypolos 107
Asterios (,ctrJclus 526; PLRE II app.
172-3) 422.
.Aster:ios; see Zeus
Astyages, ruler of Persia (c.584-550
BC) 152-3.
Astyanax, son of He.ktor
and Andromache 123,
Astynome, mother of Aphrodite
13.
Astynome Chryseis, wife
of Eetion 100-1.
At.a.lante, daughter of Schoineus
165, 189,
Athalaric (king of the Ostrogoths
526-534; PLRE II :175-6) 385,
Athena is; see Eudokia Athenais.
429, 460.
Athene, daughter of Zeus
92, 135; see also Antioch,
temples.
Athenian, Athenians 13, 70-2,
85, 169, 201, 211,
251, 353, 403, 405.
Athenodoros (Isaurian
rebel 492-7; PLRE
.II 178-9)
393,
Athens 108, 235, 251, 353, 355,
406, 448, 451.
Atlas, an astronomer 69-70.

Atlas, son of Plesione 96.

Atlas, father of Kirke and
Kalypso 117 app, 118.
Atreidai, the (Agamemnon and
Menlaos) 94, 97-98.
Atreus, of Argos 85, 94,
107, 124.
Attalesis, near Rhodes and
Cyprus 11.
Attalus, Roman senator 226.
Attalus (Priscus Attalus, usurper 409-10,
414-5; PLRE II 180-1) 350.
Attica, land of 62, 70-1.
Attila (king of the Huns c.435/443-453;
PLRE II 182-3) 358-9.
Auge, mother of Telephos
161-2.
.Augusta; Ariadne 388, 393;
Eudokia 355-7; Helena 321;
Mariana 341;
Verina 372; Theodora 422-3, 430, 440-1,
444, 467, 484; see also
individuals.
under
Augusteion, see Constant.inople,
Augustus (63 BC-14 AD; referred to as Octavian,
Octavian Caesar, Caesar

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329

Augustus, Augustus) 187, 197, 218-22, 224-32, 248, 428.

Augustus, title; see Carinus, Commodos, Galba, Florianus, Numerianus,
Pertinax, Pertinax, Vitellius.
Auleas, author of tragedies 61, 143.
Aulis, land of 98, 108, 136.
Aurelian (L. Domitius Aurelianus, Augustus 270-5; PLRE 1 129-30)
299-301.
Aureliani, the, workmen in Rome 300.
Aurelianus (cos 400; PLRE I 128-9) 351.
Ausonius (Decimus Magnus Ausonius, cos 379; PLRE I 140-1) 343.
Autokyon Karamallos (dancer for the Greens 490) 386, 412 app.
Automedon, Achilles' charioteer 123.
Automenes, ruler of Corinth 90.
Avars, the 489.
Axoum (Ethiopia) 433.
Axoumitai 433-4, 457; Axoumite Indians 429.
Azoura, Cain's wife 6.
Babel, Tower of 55.
Babylas, St (bishop of Antioch 238/4-250) 303.
Babylon, city of 12, 25, 150, 169, 194, 198, 330, 332.
Babylonia, land of 11, 39, 197, 215.
Babylonian, Babylonians 16, 19, 55, 191, 193.
Bacchanal, Bacchanals 42, 45.
Bacchus (father of Sergius; PLRE III) 490.
Bactria, land of 11.
Bagoulas; see John Isthmeos.
Baiae, in Italy 280.
Bakchylides (lyric poet, f1. 5th cent. BC) 169.
Balaneai, in Syria (mod. Banyas) 448.
Balbinus (D. Caelius Calvinus Balbinus, Augustus 238) 295 vi.
Balbinus (Isaurian rebel, mid.5th cent; PLRE II 209) 345.
Barach, son of Aminoem 70, 72.
Barbalissos (in Euphratesia; mod. Balis) 462.
Barbysios, father of Phidalia 319 app, 321.
Bardane, wife of Dareios 153.

Barlae, outside Antioch 381.

Barnabos, the apostle 242.

Barsymias (Peter Barsymes, PPO orientis ca 555-562; PLRE III) 491.

Basil, St (bishop of Caesarea c.330-379) 333-4.
Basileios (comes
mi.litaris ?528; PLRE
441-2.
Basileios (comes Orient./s 507; PLRE II 215) 396.
Basilides (a99.aff. 536-9; PLRE III) 475, 476 app.
Basiliscus (Fl. Basiliscus, Augustus 475-6; PLRE II 212-4) 369 app,

ref

III)

372-3, 378-81.

Basiliscus (Caesar 476/8; PLRE II 21) 379, 381-2.

Bassus (M. Magrius Bassus, cos. 289; PLRE 1 155) 306.
Bassus
Palestinae Secuncae 529; PLRE
445.
Batnai (in Osrhoene; mod. Serug) 462.
Bederiana, in Thrace 410, 425.
Beirut (in Phoenice) 448, 485.
Bellerephon, from Hellas 83-4; see also Tripolis, statues.
Belisarios (Flavius Belisarius, cos 535; PLRE III) 441-2, 445, 452, 456
494-5, Book 18 App.II,
app, 461-4, 466, 475-6, 479-80, 485, 490a,

III)

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Inde,
496a.
Belos, Persian name for Ares
16.
Belos, son of Picus Zeus 13, 14.
Belos, son of Libye and Poseidon
28, 30.
Belshazzar, son of Nebuchadnezzar
151.
Beneventum, originally called
Argyrippe 122 app.
Benjamin, son of Jacob 60, 90.
Bernike, wife of Antiochos Seleukos
205.
Beronike, widow 340,

Beselathon (in Osrhoene)

462.
Bessoi, the 393.
Bessoi, land of 43.
Bethlehem 227, 230-1.
Bithynia, province of 193,
209-10,

221, 259,
app, 343, 363, 365, 370, 385, 487
app.
(Hun king, before 528; PLRE
111) 431.

163,

281,

167.

289,

299,

323-4,

327

B.lach

Blachernai; see Constantinople.

Black Sea 100.
Blasses, emperor of the Persians
(Valas 484-488, in error for Vararanes
V Gororanes, 421-438; PLRE II
1136) 364.
Blemmyes (nomadic tribe in Nubia)
295 xvii.
Blues; see factions
Boa (Hun queen, 528; PLRE III)
430, 431.
Boazanes, bishop in Persia
444 app.
Bolotia, land of 39-40, 42,
44-6, 48-9, 53.
Boiotian, Boiotians 39-40, 42--3,
48-9.
Boon Phoros; see Bosporos.
Bosporos, city of 431-3;
also known as Boon Phoros 431.
Bostra (in Arabia; mod. Bosra)
223.
Bostros, a general 223.
Botrys (in Syria; mod. Batrun)
485.
Bottia, village near Antioch
200.
Bottios, unidentified chronicler
34, 193, 262.
Bottios; see Zeus.
Boubion, in desert 331.
Boundos, a schismatic Manichaean
309.
Bounimos, son of Paris and Helen
111.
Brennus, king of the Gauls
184-5, 187.

Brescia (in Italy) 492.

Br'r.ttania, built by Claudius

246.
Brigetion (in Pannonia) 341.
Briseis; see Hippodameia.
Br.ises, from Legopolis 100-2.
British Isles 11.
Brittane, wife of Antiochos Kyzikenos
208.
Bronton, father of Theoboos 45.
Brumalia; see Festivals.
Brunichius, unidentified author 187,
Brutides, daughters of Bru.utus 177,
295 app.
Brutus, who expelled Tarquinius
Superbus (L, Junius Brutus)
181-2, 188,
Brutus Of. Junius Brutus 85-42 BC)
217, 224.
Bulgarian, Bulgarians 437 app, 451
app.
Bulgars 97 (cf. Huns), 402 (cf
Myrmidons).
Byblos (in Phoenice; mod, Gebel)
212, 485.

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331

Byblos, eponymous builder of the city (M. Calpurnius Bibulus, proconsul

of Syria 51/50 BC) 211.
Bytharion, on the European bank of the Bosphoros 405.
Bytillion, near Seleukeia 270.
Byzakin, in North Africa 459.
Byzantines, the 264, 292, 320, 322, 361, 407, 416.
Byzantion 78, 221, 263-4, 291-2, 319, 368, 370, 396, 413, 416, 421, 424,
443,
451, 466, 472-3,
478-83, 487, 489, 492, 496a; see also
427,
Byzoupolis, Constantinople.
baths: Severium, also known as Zeuxippon 292.

.kynegion 292,
temples: Helios 292.
statues: Helios 291-2,

Strategion 292.

Tetrastoon 291-2.
Byzas, eponymous founder of Byzoupolis 291-2, 320-1.
Byzoupolis, later Constantinople 192, 263, 291-2.

Caesar 214;
see also Augustus,
Claudius,
Julian,
Julius,
Gaius,
Maximianus Herculius, Tiberius, Valens.
Caesarea (in Cappadocia, mod. Kayseri) 224, 333, 489; formerly Mazaka
224.

church; St Prokopios 382.

Caesarea (in Palestine; mod. Qaisariye) 228, 261, 281, 382, 387,
formerly Straton's Tower 224.
Caesianus (L. Apronius Caesianus, cos 39) 246.
Caiaphas, Jewish high priest 240, 242, 251, 257.'
Caiaphas; see John the Paphlagonian.
Cain, son of Adam 6, 7.

487-8;

Cainan; see Arphaxad.

Calabria, land of 122 app, 163, 475 app,
Calabrians, the 167.
Caligula; see Gaius,
Calvinus (Cn. Domitius Calvinus, cos 40 BC) 224.
Campus Martius, see Rome,
Canaan, land of 60.
Canaanites, the 58.
Canopus, in Egypt 309.
Capito (C. Fonteius Capito, cos 59) 256.
Capito (Fonteius Capito, cos 67) 259.
Capitolinus, see Manlius.
Cappadocia, province 157, 224, 235, 297, 333, 347, 357 app, 380,
489; Cappadocia Secunda 342; toparchy 223.
Cappadocian, Cappadocians 207, 303, 332, 465, 475, 477, 479-80,
Caracalla (M. Aurelius Antoninus, Augustus 198-217) 295, 295 i.
Caria, province of 61, 302.
Carinus (M. Aurelius Carinus, Augustus 283-5; PLRE I 181) 304-6.
Carinus, father of Anatolius (PLRE 11 262) 417.
Carinus (rawer Or/entth 526; PLRE II 261) 422.
Carrhae (in Osrhoene; mod. Harran) 295 i, 303-4, 329.
Carthage, in Africa 163, 209, 366, 459.
Carus (M. Aurelius Carus, Augustus 282-3; PLRE 1 183) 302, 303.

Caspian Gates 406,

Cassius Illustris,

472.

ana4'ithales in Antioch 287,

406,

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Index
Cassius (?C. Cassius Longinus,
cos 30) 241.
Catilinarian history 209.
Caucausus mountains 11.
Celer (lAw off, East 503-518,
cos 508; PLRE II
Celeriani, the, troops 181.

Celerianus (dnmest..icj&s of Vita.lian, 520;

Celtic
land 7.

PLRE

2757)

399.

II 278)

412 app.

Centenarit.un;

see Antioch, baths.

Chaironeia (in Boiotia) 7,
56.
Chaldaean, Chaldaeans 25,
194, 282.
Chalias, member of the Hellenes'
fleet 108.
Cha.lke; see Constantinople,
hippodrome.
Chalkedon (in Bithynia; mod,
Kadikoy) 78, 221,
app.
church: St Euphemia 377, 490a.
Chalkedon, Council of 367,
411,

468,

370,

377,

445 app,

485

478 app.

Chalias (in Syria; mod, Quennisrin)

77, 296, 389 app.
Charax (of. Pergamon,
historian; ?1st-6th cent, AD) 81,
175.
Charoneion; see Antioch.
Chartima, city between
Tyre and Sidon 162.
Charybdis, a wild place
121.
Cheiron, father of Thetis
14, 97.
Chersonese, the 102, 125,
Cherubim 147,
Cherubim; see Antioch,
Jerusalem.
Chiton, village 490a.
Chloros; see Constantine.
Chosroes (Chosroes Tanoushirvan,
emperor of the Persians
531-579; PLRE
III) 447 app, 471, 480,
Chouzon; see Antiochos.
Christ 228, 231, 252, 254-7,
260, 326,
333,
405, 420, 434 app, 485;
also Jesus, Jesus Christ.
see
Christian, Christians 239,
242, 247,
280,

251,

295 xvii, 407.

Christianity 447 app,

C,hrysaphios Ztoummas
368.

(,spgtharj us,

East,

260,

443-450;

262,

269,

PLRE

II

273,

295-7)

276-7,

363,

Chryseis; see Astynome.

Chryses, priest of Apollo 100.
Chrysoma.llos; see Rhodos.
Chrysopolis (in Bithynia;
mod. Uskudar) 193.
Chrysothemis, daughter of Agamemnon
138,
Cicero (M, Tullius Cicero,
cos 63 BC) 212.
Cilicia, province 31, 36, 107
app,
307,

326,

Cilicia

345,

347,

365, 472.

369,

412,

197, 201, 211-3, 222,

242, 267, 297,
418, 490a; First Cilicia
365; Second

Cilicians 100, 211.

Clarus (C. Julius Erucius
Clarus Vibianus, cos, 193)
291.
Claudioupolis (?in Honorias,
?in Isauria) 246,
Claudius (Ti. Claudiius Caesar
Augustus Germanicus, 41-54)
246-8, 250,
Claudius Apollianus (Claudius 11
Gothicus, Augustus 268-270:
298-9.
PLRE I 209)
Claudius; see Nero.
Clement (of Alexandria, c. 150-211/6)
5,
34, 280,
228,

231,

240,

242,

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333

428.

Cleopatra, daughter of Dionysos (Cleopatra VII Philopator 69-30 BC) 197,

217-20, 222.
Cleopatra, daughter of Antiochos Dionikes 208.
Collatinus (L. Tarquinius Collatinus, cos 509 BC) 181-2, 188.
Commagene, province 261.
Commentarisios; see John.
Commodiuun; see Antioch, baths.
Commodus (L. Ceionius Commodus, cos 78) 260.
Commodus (M. Aurelius Commodus, Augustus 176-192) 283-4, 286, 289-90.
Conch; see Antioch.
Consilia; see Festivals.
Constans (Fl. Julius Constans, Augustus 337-350; PLRE 1220) 325.
Constans (Augustus 404/10-411; PLRE II 310) 350.
Constantia (in Osrhoene; mod. Viransehir) 442; formerly Maximianoupolis
323.

Constantia (in Cyprus; near mod. Farmagusta), formerly Saiamias 313.

Constantianus (MUM 563; PLRE III) 495.
Constantine the Great (Fl. Val. Constantinus, Augustus 306-337; PLRE I
223-4) 5, 79, 316-26, 361-2, 395, 400, 419.
Constantine the Younger (F1. Clauclius Constantinus, Augustus 337-340;
PLRE I 223) 324--5.
Constantine (?Comes
m1;lltat rev zn &wenja 502; PLRE II 513) 398.
Constantine (QSP 548/9-562; PLRE
494.
Constantinople 6, 263-4, 320, 322-6,.337, 342, 344-55, 357-8, 360-1,
363-6, 368, 370-5, 378-80, 383, 385-6, 388-90, 393-96, 399-404, 406-8,

rei

41.6,

app,

423-4,
477,

427 app,
478

app,

III)

428, 429 app, 430-1, 435-6, 438, 441-2, 447, 476

479,
481, 483-4,
486,
488-92, 496a; see also

Byzantion.
acropolis 345.
aqueducts, Hadrian's 436.
Augusteion 321, 475 app, 479,
482, Bk 18: App 1.
Basilike Bk 18: App I.
.basilicas: the Senaton 321; of the Furriers 475 app.
baths: Dagistheos' 435; Zeuxippon 291, 321-2, 370-1, 474.
Campus 487 app.
Chalke 474 app, Bk 18: App I.
churches: St. Anastasia 479 app; St. Aquilina 475 app; Biachernai, the
Virgin 490a 494; St Diomedes in Jerusalem 481, 492; St Eirene 475 app,
Bk. 18:
App I; in Justinianai 486; of the Horos 487 app; Great Church
348 app, 475 app, 476 app, Bk 18: App I, 496a Sts Kosmas and Damian
423; St Konon 389 app; St Laurence 473-4;
St Mamas 382, 405; St. Maura 476 app; St Sergius 483 app, 485; St
Stratonikos 490, 490a; Holy Martyr Theodora 492; St. Theodoros 475 app.
courtyard, of Helios 345,

Dekimon 344, 382, 387.

Delphinx 387 app.
districts: Alexander 475 app; Antiochos 430, 476 app; Dagistheos 484
app; Euboulos 411, 475 app; Eleusia 484 app; Hormisdas 483 app 485;
Justinianai 486; Kaisarios 490a; Mazentiolos 496a; Moschianos 490;
Petrion 321app; Pittakia 492, 496a; Probus 490a; Rhabdos 321 app;
Sphorakios 475 app.

forum 474 app; of Constant.ine 475 app, 478 app; Forum Tauri 385, 401,

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Index

482 490a,
gates: Dead 476 app: Golden 481; St
Aimilianos
app, 485 app, 489,
harbour: Julian 372 app, 475 app, 479, 490a.

Hebdomon 475 app,

489.

484

321

Rhegion 475

app;

app, 486 app, 489; Secundianai, palace at. 486,

Hexahippion 395.
hippodrome 292, 320-2, 340, 344,
408, 475; Kochl.ias of, 320, 344, 382
app, 387 app, 476 app; Chalke of, 394.
hospice of Sampson 475 app, 479, Book 18;
App. I, 496a,
house of: Andreas 491; Appion 490, Barsymias
491, Lausus 474 app,
496a; Marina 496x; Pardos 404;
P.lacidia 490; P.lac.illianai 475 app;
Probus 475 app; Stoudios 369 app;
Symmachus 475 app.

.h7-wegion 491.

Libyrnus 475 app.

Magnaura 475 app.
Mese 372 app, 490a, 491, 496a.
Milion 479 app.
Neorion 372 app, 491.
Nikai, near the Kilikes 321
app.
Oktagon Book 18: App.II.
Omphakera 490a.
Perama 407, 486 app.
Peritei.chisma

poulpita

483.

476 app.

Regia J21-2, 475 app.

river Lykos 264.
senate 475 app.
statues: Hellos 291-2; Zeuxippos
291.
temples: Aphrodite 292, 324, 345;
Artemis
345.

292,

324,

345;

Helios 324,

tetrapylon 491, 496a.

Theodosian Wall 490a.
Troadic colonnade 363.
tythe; Keroe 320; Anthousa 320,
322.
Xerolophos 349 app, 484, 487 app,
Xylokerkos 372 app,
Constantiolus (MUM 528: PLRE 1.11)
438, 465-6, 475-6.
Constantius Chiorus (Fl,
Val. Constantius, Augustus 305-6;
PLRE 1227-8)
313, 316.

Constantius (.F.l. Jul. Constantius, Augustus 337-61;

PLRE t 226) 325-6,
Constantius 01. Constantius, Augustus 421;
PLRE II 321-5) 350.
Constantius (roles Irientj's 494; PLRE II 320-1)

Constantius, surnamed T2ouroukkas

(PUC 509; PLRE
Corinth 261, 418.
Corinthian, Corinthians 90, 117,

393,
II

313) 394 app.

120.

Corne.l.ius Callus (C. Cornelius Callus c,69-26

BC) 214.
Cretans 88, 201,
Crete 17, 30-1, 39, 85-8,
Cumaian; see Sibyl,

94-5,

107-8,

Curius (unidentified consul) 208.

Cush, father of Nimrod 12.
Cyprus i1, 101, 122, 313,
Cyrenius (unidentified consul) 226.

119,

121,

134 app,

250,

359,

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335

Cyrenius, governor of Judaea 259,

Cyril (bishop of Alexandria, d.444) 27, 58, 1.88, 359, 365,
Cyril (MLIM
Thneciam 513; PLRE II 335) 402.

per

Dacia, province: Ripensis 275, 301; First and Second 277.

Dacibyza (on the Propontis; mod, Gebze) 299,

Dadastana (in Galatia) 337.

Dagalaifus (cos 366; PLRE 1239) 330, 398,
Dagistheos; see Constantinople, baths, districts.
Daidalos, father of Ikaros 85-6; see also Tripolis, statues.
Dalmatius (tribune 528) 432 app.
Damascus (in Phoenice Libanensis) 307, 344, 441.
Damian, St 304-6; see also Constantinople, churches.
Damnazes (king of the Laz 522; PLRE II 344) 413.
Darnnos, father of Kronos 12.
Damonicus (F. Sabinus Damon.icus, MUM 468; PLRE II 344) 373.
Danae, mother of Perseus 16, 34-5, 199.
Danaoi, the 99, 103, 107, 109, 112, 126, 130, 143.
Danaos, son of Belos 30, 68, 96.
Dandax; see John.
Daniel, the prophet 16, 151-2, 154, 156-8.
Danube, river 11, 275, 277, 301, 358, 451, 490a.
Daphnaion; see Daphne.
Daphnaios; see Apollo.
Daphne, near Antioch 204, 234, 243, 261, 272, 275-8, 289-90, 307-8, 312,
327, 396, 421, 443 app; formerly Herakii,s 204.
Daphnet.ic Gate 272, 360.
martyrium: St Leontios 396,
temples:
Apollo 204, 307,
327;
Daphnaion 204; Artemis 234, 277;
Nemesis 307; Nymphs 278; Olympian Zeus 307; the Springs 278.
theatre of the Springs 278.
springs: Olympias 234; Saramanna 278; Agriai 276, 278.
Dara (in Mesopotamia; mod. Dara) 399, 452; renamed Anastasioupolis 399.
Darasthenos; see Koades.
Dardanon, city 91.
Dardanos, son of Ilios 83, 86, 96,
Dareios, son of Assalam (Dareios 111, son of Arsames, c. 380-330 BC)

191-4, 210, 292.

Dareios the Mede 152-4.
Dareios Kambyses (emperor of Persia 530-522 BC) 158-60.
Dareios the Younger (Darreios II, emperor of Persia 424-405 BC) 162,
Daristhenoi (applied to Persian Manichees) 310.

Dark. Rock,

in the Black

169.

Sea 137.

143, 148, 160, 357, 426, 445 app.

Debborios, wonder-worker 265.
Deborah, prophetess 70.
Decius (C. Messius Quintus Traianus Decius, Augustus 249-251) 295 xiii,
Decius (Imp. Decius III, cos 251) 260, 295 xvii.
Decius (Decius Junius, cos 529; PLRE III) 450-1.
Deianeira, daughter of Oineus 164-5,

David, son of Jesse 90-1,

Deidameia, daughter of Lykomecles 97, 104.

Deinarchos (of Delos, 4th cent. BC) 45.
Deinarchos (unknown
280.
Deiotaros, tetrarch

of.

Galatia (d. 40 BC) 221-2.

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Deiphobos, son of Priam 105, 110-11, 129, 131,

Dekimon; see Constantinople.
Delphi 45, 135, 154-5, 231 app, statue of Apollo 45.
Demeter, symbol of the earth 173-4.
Demetrianos, son of Seleukos (Demetrius I Soter, 162-150 BC) 207.
Demetrios, son of Antigonos
(Demetrios I Poliorlcetes of Macedonia,
336-283 BC) 196, 198, 201, 204.
Demokritos, philosopher (460/457-c. 360 BC) 85.
Demosthenes (Athenian orator, 384-322 BC) 169,
Demosthenes (Fl. Theodorus Petrus Demosthenes, PPO 521-2; PLRE II 353-4)
467.

Derasthea, near Mt Kithairon 47.

Deukalion, son of Picus 70.
Dexiphanes of Knidos (Sostratos,
builder of the Pharos 218,

son

of

Dexiphanes,

c.323-285

BC),

Dia, name for Picus Zeus 17.

Julianus Silvius (M. Didius Severus Ju.rlianus, Augustus 193)
290-1.
Dido, wife of Sychaios 162-3, 216; also known as Elissa 162.
Didymea, sister of Seleukos Nikator 198.
Didymos, writer (Didymos Chalkenteros, c.80-10 BC) 5, 81, 86, 166.
Dienaros, probably L. Domit.ius Ahenobarbus, governor of Bithynia 40-34
BC, 221.
Diktys of Crete, writer (2nd-3rd cent.) 107, 119, 122, 132, 135, 250.
Dimnos, ruler of the Homerite Indians 433-4.
Didius

Diocletian (C. Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, Augustus 284-305) 306-11,

329,

428 app,

Diocletianum; see Antioch, baths.

Diodorus, writer (Diodorus Siculus, died c. 21 BC) 5, 17-18 app, 54, 68.
Or./entew ?518-520; PLRE II 362) 383, 411.
Diogenianos (MUM
Diokaisareia (in Cilicia; mod, Uzunca-Burc) 267-8.
Diomeda, daughter of Phorbas 100.
Diomedes, son of Tydeus 99, 107-9, 111-4, 122, 126-7, 130-1, 163, 166-8,
Diomedes (P,9./esti'nae dui 528; PLRE
434.
Diomedes, St; see Constantinople, churches.
D.ionikes; see Antigohos,
Dionysios Ptolemy (Ptolemy XII Dionysos Auletes, 116/108-51 BC) 197.
Dionysios, writer (? Dionysios of Halikarnassos, fl, 30-8 BC) 190.
Dionysios the Areopagit.e (1st/5th cent. AD) 251-2.
Dionysios (diux of Phoenice 528; PLRE III) 435.
Dionysopolis (in Thrace; mod. Ba.lcik) 481 app.
Dionysos, son of Semele 41-5; see also festivals and Antioch, temples.
Dioslcouroi; see Antioch, statues.
Diospolis (in Palestine; mod. Lod) 229.
Diospolis (in Thrace) 436.

jr

III)

Dipoundiaristes (comes, praetor) 483,

Dirke, wife
Diskoi,

of. Lykos 45,

in Bithynia 193,

47-9.

484 app, 485 app,

Doliche, in Hel.las 107.

Dornitian (T. Flavius Domitianus, Augustus 96-98)
Domit.ianoupolis (in Isauri.a; ?mod, Satala) 266.

see Antioch, baths.

Dometiolus, father of John (563) 493,

Domit.ianum;

Domit.ios, St. 327--8.

262-3, 266-7.

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337
Domitius Ahenobarbus, governor
of Bithynia 40-34
Domn.inos, writer (?5th cent.
Bc, 221 app
AD) 5
88
297, 310
142, 201, 219,
266,
Donatus (unidentified conrq.11)
,

273

287

226.

Dores,

member of the Hellenes'

fleet 907 app,
in Hellas

Dorias,
Dorotheos (MUM
Dorylaion 490a,

107 app,

III)

463, 469, 472,

463,

Athenian .lawgiver (E1.

621/20 8c) 72.
Drakon, river 38, 197-8,
200, 234; see
also tlrontea.
Drosine, St 277.
Dymas, father of Hekabe
96,
Dyrrachiurn (in Ep.i.rus: rood.
Durres) 347,
D.rakon,

392, 417-8; formerly

Epidemnos

418.

Echion, husband of .Agave 41-2,

Ederion, of Achai.a 82.

Edermas (MUM per

559 PLRE IT I) 490.
Edessa (in 0srhoene, mod,
Urfa) 295 i 207,
renamed ,7t.tst.inoupolis 419.

396,

Eetion, of Lyrnessos

418-9

442,

467;

1001,
Eglom, the Zaboulorrite
79.

Egypt 11, 18, 24, 26-9, 58, 60-4,

66^7, 70-1, 81
206478
21app.2,
215, 217-22, 224, r..66,

95-6,

280, 293-4, 308

Egyptian, Egyptians 18, 21, 23._7

193, 196, 218, 221, 224,

252--3,

Egyptos, son of Belos 30, 57,

J71

55-7,

63-6

308-9,

144

310,

189

36,

41
414

70, 154-5

196-7,
,

417,

189-9Q

Eirenaios,

writer (? bishop of Lyons,

c. '177/8) 160
1900
C/1.4k .Fel
;f.r: 9e 5:10; PLRE
app, 427, 446 app, 447,
111

(son of Pentadia,

Eirene, St; see

Eirenoupolis (in Second c:'ilicia) churches
E.leazar, high priest of the Jews 34`i
206,
Elektra, daughter of Agamemnon 134,
137,
Elektra, daughter of Plesione
96,

Elesboas (Kaleb Ella Ashcaha,

458.

ruler

Eieutherios, rioter in Ant inch

Eli, the priest 86, 90.
Eliakim,

398, 418

142.

Ethiopia e.519-c,531;

PLRE I1

,196--7,

the ruler 149.

Eliakim, the high

priest
Elias, the patrician arid
Eliakim,

OF

625-6)

169,

the steward 144-6.

Elijah, the Tishhitp 143,

com3g

441

Elissw see Dido.

Elpe, daughter of Polyphemoc.
114, 11-11,
Elphenor, of Euhoi,a 107.
Emesa (in Phoenice LibancJnc,rs;
mod. Horns) 2216,
Enathos (Septimi,.)s Odrienathii,.,
ruler.- of Palmyra
Enchilia,' see Thehes.
Endelechos, of Assyria `;9,
Endymion, of the trihe of
J;ippth 61.
Enoch,
son of

Jareth

7.

app,

(1,

'145, 386, 426,

266/7) 29I-;lfl0,

388)

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Index
Enyalios, son of Libye 30, 174.
Ephesos, in the province of Asia

Ephraim,

108,

246,

(532) 475 app, 476 app.

262, 268-9,

365-6,

478 app.

Ephraimios (comes crient1s 523-526,

patriarch of Antioch 527-545; PLRE
394-6) 416, 423-4, 443, 460,
Epicureans 251, 258.
Epidamnos; see Dyrrachium 418.
Epimetheus, inventor of music 69-70.
Epiphanes; see Antiochos IV Epiphanes.
Epiphania (in Second Syria;
mod. Hama) 205.
Epiphanios (patriarch of Constantinople
520-535) 479 app.
Epirus, province 196, 197 app,
208-9; New Epirus 347, 392, 417; Old
Epirus 347.
Epistrophos, member of the Hel.lenes'
fleet 107.
Epitropos, previous name for
Asia 109.
Erechtheus, ruler of Assyria 63.
Eriboia, wife of Oineus 164.
Erichthonios, inventor of fourhorse chariot races 1.75.
Erigone, daughter of Klytaimnestra
and Aigisthos 133.
Erikepaios, Orphic cult-name
74
Erythraian; see Sibyl 79.
Eryt.hrios (?patricius c.527;
PLRE II 402) 423
Eryxias, ruler of Athens
72.
Esdra, the prophet 161.
Eteokles, son of Oidipous 52-3.
Ethiopia 36, 38-9, 195.
Ethiopian, Ethiopians 12, 129, 147,
159 433
Euboia 107.
Euboulos; see Constantinople,
districts.
Euchaita (in Pontus) 380-1,
400.
Eudaimon (PUC 532) 473, 475.
Eudokia (daughter of Valentinian
III; PLRE II 407-8) 356,
366.
Eu.clokia (Aelia Euciox_ia
Athenais, Augusta 423-460;
PLRE II 408-9) 353,
355-7, 365,
.

Eudoxia

(Licinia

365-6, 368.

Eudoxia,

Augusta

439-c.462;

Euergetes; see Antiochos

VII
Eugenius (Fl. Eugenius, Augustus
392-394;
Eugenius, ex-prefect 490a.

PLRE

PLRE

II

410-412)

355-6,

293) 341.

Eula.lios

( comes domesticorwn x...528; PLRE

II 418) 435, 439, 476 app.
Eumenes, Roman senator 226.
Eumenes, member of the Hellenes' fleet
107.

Euodios (patriarch of Antioch 41/44-c.70)

247, 252.

Euphern.ia,

St; see Cha.lkedon.

Euphemios (patriarch of Constantinople

490-496) 400.
Euphrasios (patriarch of Antioch,
d. 527) 416-7, 423.
Euphrates, river 11, 329-30, 332,
463-5.
Euphratesia, province 270, 318,
329, 435, 472.
Euripides, tragic poet (c.485-c.406
BC)
117,

Europe,

137,

31,

143,

161,

166,

daughter of Agenor 30-1,

Europe 25, 80, 93, 98,

European 31, 173.
Eurotas, river 82.

192,

34,

49,

53,

359.

196,

39, 85, 94-5.

221, 403; province 262,

72,

323.

84,

86,

88,

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339

Eurydike, daughter of Kadmos 39.

Eurynome, daughter of. Kadmos 39.
Eurypolos, from Asterion 107 app.
Eurysa.kes, son of Aias 132.
Eurystheus, ruler of Lakedaimon 90.
Eurystheus, ruler in Spain 161.
Eurytion, leader of the Hellenes 101.
Eusebios, bishop of Kyzikos 480.
Eusebios ( conies foeditorum 562 ; PLRE

Eusebios (conspirator 563;

III)

493.

PLRE 111) 494.

Eusebios Pamphilou (bishop of Caesarea c.260-340) 5,

9, 11, 57, 70, 127

190, 197, 207, 215 app, 228, 256, 260, 323, 428.
Eustathios (of Epiphaneia, historian, early 6th cent; PLRE II 435-6) 5,
399.
Eutropius (historian, cos 387; PLRE 1317) 209, 334,

app,

150,

Eutyches, heretic (c. 378-454) 478 app.

Eut.ychianos (soldier/historian 30; PLRE
319) 332.
Eutychios (patriarch of Constantinople 552-565) 486, 492, 494-5,
Evander, father of Pallas 168,
Eve 6.
Exakionite, see Arians.
Exarath (Persian general 531) 461.
.I

496a,

Factions: Blues 175, 244, 257, 298, 312,

51,
68, 386,
93, 397, 416,
425
488 490 a, 490-2
473-4
476
Greens 175-6, 244, 246, 263, 282, 295, 298, 302, 304, 351-2, 363, 368,
379, 386, 389, 393, 395-7, 473-4, 475 app, 476 app, 484 app, 487 app,
,

490.

Greens-and-Blues Book 18: App I.I..

Reds 175-6, 386, 393.
Whites 175-6, 386.
Falco (Q. Pompeius Sosius Falco, cos 193) 291,
Faunus, son of Picus Zeus 16-17; also called Hermes 16-18, 21,
Faustinus, relative of Commodus 290.

Faustus, foster-father of

28,

34.

Romus and Remus 180.

Februarius, Gallic senator and scapegoat 183-4, 186,

Felicianus (Fl. Felicianus, conies (2rientis 335, cos 337;

PLRE I

330-1)

319,

Felix (M, Antonius Felix, procurator of Palestine c,53-60) 247.

Festianus (? 312/324; PLRE 1 333) 314.

festivals: Brumalia

179;

Consilia 183;

.Ayneg',Y 285: "Mars on

the

cam

us"

173; Nemean 153; Olympic 90, 248-9, 284, 286-7, 289-90, 307, 310-12,
362, 396, 417; Sun 81; Maioumas 286, 362.
Festus (Porcius Festus, procurator of Palestine c.60-62) 247.
Firmus (patrician, in Italy, late 5th cent; PLRE II 472) 384.
Flaccus, (L, Pomponius Flaccus, cos 17) 236.
Flavian, patriarch of Antioch (498-512) 400.
Florentinus, father of Constantiolus (early 6th cent.) 438,
Florianus (M. Annius Florianus, Augustus 276; PLRE 1 367) 301-2.

Florus (F. Annius Florus, 2nd cent

AD)

author of the Epitome of Livy

211.
Florus, patrician (541) 480 app.
Fortunus, unidentifiable Roman chronicler 6.
Fortunus, Persian officer 271-2.

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340

Fufius Geminus, cos 29) 236.

II 489) 393-4.
mid 5th cent.; PLRE
Fuscianus (father of Konon,
Fuf.ius (C.

Jeble) 378, 448.

Gabala (in Syria; mod.
Gabaon, where Saul ruled 90.
province of Antioch 461-2.
Gabboula, see in ecclesiastical
Gabriel, archangel 226.
346.
Gainas (MUM 399; PLRE 1379-80)
37-41)
Germanicus, emperor
Augustus
C.
Caesar
Gaius (Caligula;

243-6,

265.

Second Galatia 348.

Galatia, province 221, 496a;
Galatians 337.
emperor 68-69) 258.
Galba (Ser. Sulpicius Galba,
Galeri.us; see Maxentius.
301, 317.
Galileans 245, 247, 273,

Galilee 241.

Galla (second, not

first,

wife of Theodosius 1, 387-394;

PLRE

382)

344.
cos 33C1; PLRE I 382-3) 319.
Gallicanus (Flavius Gallic:anus,
253-268;
Egnatius Gallienus, Augustus
Gallienus Licinianus (P, Licinius
PLRE 1 383-4) 298, 306.
222.
Gallos, river in Galatia

Gallus (C. Cest.us Gallus, cos 35

AD)

243.

Gallus,
Gall.us (C,Vibi.us Trebonianus

Augustus 251-3)) 295 xv.

Gallus; see Macr..inus.

Ganymede, son of Tros 79-81.

Gandoubar.ios, astronomer 12.

cent. AD) 271-2.

Gargaris, Persian official (1st 383,
447.
Car.i i.m, mountain in Palestine
Gaul,

land of 349-50,

358,

375.

Gaul, Gauls 183-7, 221.

496-9) 365-6, 372-5
Ge.iseric (Vandal king 428-477; PLRE .II
Gel.asinos, St 314,
459, 460.
Gelimer (Vandal leader, 530-3)

429.

George, St of Cappadocia 303.

490a.
George, r.in?tor of the palace of Marina
450.
291,
358,
the
Gepids,
German 282.
cent,; PLRE it 505-7) 480.
Ger.rnanos (MUM, patrician, mid. 6th
Germia; see Myriange.lol.
III) 491.
Ger.ontios (.PUC 560-2; PLRE
510-1) 353, 355.
Ge$Ssiu.; (PP? ll.lyrici 421/c.443; PLRE lI
209-212)
295.
Augustus
Geta,
Geta (P. Septimius
72, 76,
Gideon, leader of Israel
(early 6th cent.) 450 app.
Aioundon
of
Giesmos, father
III) 427,
527;
PLRE
Gilderic (MUM vacans
452.
Syria
347,
in
Gindaroupolis,

Lakonia 82.
Glauke, wife of Was 132.
Glauke, daughter of Kreon 79.
99.
Glauke, daughter of Kyknos
V,
Antiochas
see
Glaukos;

Githillia, in

PLRE .III) 431.

Glom (Hun king, 528;
gOS444 app.
Glonazes, a

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Gnouphas (phylarch 528; PLRE III) 435.

Godilas (MUM
.rhrac..z'aP 528; PLRE

III)

her

Goliath, killed by David 143, 426,

Gordian

(M.

432 app, 438.

Antonius Gordianus Sempronianus Africanus Senior, Augustus

238) 295 viii.

Gordian

II

(M.

Antonius

Augustus 238) 295 ix,

Gordianus

Sempronianus

Africanus

Iunior,

(M. Antonius Gordianus, Augustus 238-244) 295 x.

Gorgon, the enchanted head 36-.7,

Gordian III

39.
Corgonius (comes, East, c.341; PLRE
Gortyn, in Crete 31, 87, 94-6, 359.
tycbo, Kallinike 31.
Goth,

Goths

302,

342,

364,

369,

371,

398) 326.
373-4,

193,

396,

404,

432,

475,

480, 483, 485-6, 492.

Gothic 358,

371,

405.

Gounclabarios (Gundobadus,
PLRE II 524-5) 374-5.

MUM

er

txal.lr4atis 472,

Burgundian king 474-516;

Gozan, city 147.

Graste, horse race 264.
Grat.ian (Fl. Gratianus, Augustus 367-383) 341, 143-4.
Greek language 187, 196; script. 471,
Greens; see factions.
Gregoria, sacrificed in Galatia 221,
Crepes (king of the Heruli 527-8; PLRE III) 427.
Groci (king of the Huns in the Crimea 528; PLRE III) 431,
Gryps; see Ant.iochos VIII.
Gylos; see John Commentarisius.

Hades,

the Underworld

14, 231.

Hadrian (P. Aelius Hadrian, emperor 117-138) 270, 277-80, 436.

Hadrianoupolis (in Thrace; mod. Edirne) 280, 343.
Haemimontus, province 345,
Halikarnassos (in Caria; mod. Bodrum) 479 app.
Halys, river in Cappadocia 155, 157.
Ham, son of Noah 9, 11, 18, 21, 25, 59.
Hannibal, king of Africa 209-10.
Harmonia, wife of Kadmos 39.
Hebdomon; see Constantinople.
Heber, father of Phalek 34, 227.
Hebrew, Hebrews 5, 58, 60-1, 65, 81, 151, 154, 159-60, 190, 196, 231,
247, 260, 443; see also Jewish, Jews.
Hekabe, wife of Priam 92, 96-7, 106, 108, 130.
Hekate; see Antioch.
Hektor, son of Priam 105, 109, 123-5.
Helen, daughter of Leda 83, 91, 95-7, 103, 110-11, 113, 124.
Helena, mother of Constantine 317, 319, 321.
Helenos, son of Priam 105,
Helenoupolis (in Bithynia) 232, 385; formerly Souga 323.
Helenoupontus, province 323.
Heliogabalus (M. Aurelius Antoninus, Augustus 218-222) 295 .iii.
Helios; son of Hephaist.os 23-4.
Helios (the Sun) 45, 48, 117-8, 152, 173, 333.
Helios, see Alexandria, temples; Byzantion, statues; Constant inop.le,

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temples, statues; Gaius (= Il.ius, Julius);

Rhodes.
Helioupolis (in Egypt) 60.
Helioupolis (in Phoenice Libanensis) 280, 314, 344,
449 app.
temple, Trilithon 344; Zeus 280.

the 68, 84, c 353-4.

Helladios, a dancer (c. 481) 386.
Hel.lad.i.ko.i,
Hellas 55,

83, 85, 93-6, 1(17-8, 1371 142, 248, 251,

261, 286, 353-5, 403
app, 418.
Hellen, son of Picus Zeus 55, 70.
He.llene, Hellenic (i.e. pagan) 55,
63-4, 252, 258, 277, 317, 327, 344,
355, 361, 369, 412, 414, 449, 491,
Hellenes 7 app, 29, 40, 55-6,
59, 63-4, 69-70, 79, 81, 83-5, 99-100,
103, 107-12, 123-4, 126-30, 132, 142,
158-9, 169, 188, 193, 195, 239,
244, 252, 277, 279, 280, 317, 344,
413, 449, 491,
Hellespont 77-8; province 204, 279,
382.
Hephaistos, ruler of. Egypt 21, 23-4,
Hera, a planet 6.
Hera, wife and sister of Picus Zeus
13-15.
Hera, goddess 92,
Herak.leia (mod. Eregli),
formerly Perinthos 262;
in Europa 3223; in
Thrace 475 app, 490a; in Pontus
365.
Herakleitos, philosopher. (.fl. c.500
BC) 161.
Herakles, son of Alkmene 17-18,
34, 161, 171;

also known as Trisperos

1.7.
Herakles, other 18.
Herakles, the Tyrian philosopher.
32.
Herakles, the wonder-worker,
who performed labours 86.
Heraicles, the hero who accompanied
the Argonauts 77.
Herakles, ruler of Italy 161,
163, 431,
Herakles Po.lyphemos, from Phthia
164-5.
Herakles, the wonder-worker who built
Daphne 204.
Heraicles; see also Antioch, temples.
Herakles, pillars of 11.

Heraiclis; see Daphne.

Herculianus, Herculius; see Maximian.

Hermes 287.

Hermes, the planet 6, 25.

Hermes T.r.isrnegi.stos 26-7, 343.
Hermes; see Picus Zeus.

Herm.ichiones; see Askel.

Herminericus (son of Aspar, cos 465;

PLRE
Hermippos, St. 311.

Hermogenes (.9g, off, 529-533; 535; PLRE

468, 471, 475 app, 477,
Hermogenianus

(Q.

343.

1.1

549) 369 app.

III)

445, 447, 449, 452, 461,

Clod.ius Hermogenianus Olybrius,

cos 379;

PLRE

640)

Hermokrates, St 311.
Hermolaos, St 311.
Herod the Great (c, 73-4 BC) 223, 227,
229-31.
Herod II, son (correctly, brother)
of Philip
Antipas, d.39) 236-7, 239.
Herodias, wife of Herod 236.
Herodotos, historian (c. 490-c. 420 BC) 18,
26,
Heruli, the 427.

(but referring

157,

161.

to Herod

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343

Hesiod, epic poet (8th cent BC) 59.

Hestia; see Antioch, temples.
Hesychios, St 311.
Hexahippion; see Constantinople.
Hexapolis, includes Rhodes 275.
Hexastoon; see Laodikeia.
Hezekiah, ruler of the Jews 143-9.
Hierapoiis (in Euphratesia; mod. Menibij) 318, 328-9, 462.
Hierax; see Antiochos V.
Hierios (PPO Orient.i..s494-496; PLRE II 558-9) 392-3, 442.
Hieron, on the Pontic Sea 432,
Hilderic (Hildericus, king of the Vandals) 523-530; PLRE II 564-5) 429,
459.

Hilkiab, .father of Eliakim 144-6.

Hippasios (Pythagorean philosopher) 169.
Hippodameia Briseis, wife of Menetes 101, 104.
Hippokrates (of Kos, 469-399 BC) 85.
Hippolytos, son of Theseus 88-90.
Hippomedon, who fought at Thebes 53,
Hippomene, daughter of Megareus 189,
Holofernes, Persian general 159-60.
Homer, epic poet (8th cent. BC) 15, 24, 117, 119, 132-3, 143.
Homeritai (H.imyarites of Yemen) 433-4; see also Amerite Indians.
Honorias, province 365.

Honorius (Fl. Honorius, Augustus 393-423;

app, 365.

PLRE I

442) 344, 348-51, 358

Hormisdas;

see Constantinople, districts.

ruler of Egypt 24.
Hostiliarn.is Severus (C. Valens Hostilianus
Horus,

Messius Quintus, Augustus

251) 295xii.
Hun, Hunnish, Huns 282, 303, 359, 402, 404-6, 431-2, 437-8, 451, 472-3,
489-90, 490a; see also Heruli, Sabir.
Huneric (Hunericus, king of the Vandals 477-484; PLRE 11 572-3) 366.
Hylas, one of the Argonauts 77.
Hypatia (mathematician and phi,l.osopher, late 4th/early 5th cent.; PLRE
II 575) 359.

Hypatios (Fl. Hypatius, cos 500;

475-6, Book 18 App. I, U.

PLRE

II 577-81) 398-9,

402, 423, 445,

Hypermnestra, daughter of Danaos 68.

lakobos, also known as Psychristos ( comes and chief physician,
cent.; PLRE ii 582-6) 370.
Ialmenos, brother of Askalaphos 107, 126.
Iamblichos (Neoplatonic philosopher, c.250-c.325) 312.
Iaphtha; see Arkeuthas.
Iarbas, king of Africa 162.
Iberians, the 429.
iconium (in Lykaonia; mod. Konya) 36; originally Amandra 36.

tyche, Persis 36.

Idaios, son of Paris and Helen 111..

Idaios, Priam's messenger 130.
Idomeneus, of Crete 102-3, 107-8, 121, 124, 126.
Ignatios, patriarch of Antioch (d. 116) 252, 276.
Ikaros, son of Daidalos 85-6; see also Tripolis, statues.

mid 5th

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Index

Ilia mother of Romus and Remus 178.

Ilia; see Phaidra,

Iliad, the 132,

Ilion (in Phrygia;

mod, Hisarlik) 79,

125, 127, 130, 132, 162, 320.

Ilios, son of T.ros 79-81, 83,

Illus (cos 478; PLRE II 586--590)
385-9,
Illyrian, Illyrians 399, 402, 442.

Illyricum (diocese of) 355,

478 app.
Tnachos, of Argos 28-9, 68, 189,
201.
Indarazar, Manichee bishop 444,
India 11, 154, 194; (= Arabia)
435;
app; Indian regions (= Arabia)
447;

86, 91, 96-9, 104, 107-13, 123,

435 app,

475 app.

(= Ethiopia) 434; inner India 433

Indian territory (= Ethiopia) 457.

Indians 12, 127-8,. 194, 429, 433-4, 457-9, 477,

484; see also Amerite,
Axoummite, Homerits.
Indian Ocean 457,
Ino, daughter of Kadmos 39.
Io, daughter of .Tnachos 28-30,
lo,

55,

1.74,

1.89.

secret name of the moon 28.

loaneus, a giant. 55.

Iobates, father of Stheneboia
84.
Tokaste, mother of Oidipous
49-50, 52-3.
Iokkas; see Oidipous.
Ionians, the 55.
Ionitai, inhabitants of lopolis
29, 37-8, 141-2, 202.
Iopolis, on Mount Silpios 28-9,
199-200, 202, 233.

Iotbor, Moses' father-in-law 63--4.

Iphianassa, daughter of Agamemnon

138 app,
Iphigene.ia, daughter of Agamemnon
98, 136-40,
Iron Mountain; see Trachon.

Isaac, son of

Abraham 58.

Isaiah, the prophet 144, 146,

Isaiah

142.

vlgflum

148,

156.

at Constantinople, later bishop

of Rhodes
529; PLRE
627) 436.
Isakios, money-deather (562)
494.
Isauria, province of. 36, 102, 210,
266, 363, 377--9, 385-6, 388-9.
Isaurian, Isaurians 33, 345,
363, 375-6, 379, 385, 393-4,
412, 441-2,
464, 490.

II

isauricus (P. Servi.lius

Vatia Isauricus, cos 41 BC) 217.
Iscariot; see Judas,
islands of the Blessed 55.
ismene, daughter of Oidipous 52.
Isokasios (sophist and philosopher,
QSP c.465; PLRE 11 633-4) 369--70.
Isokrates (orator, 436-338
BC) 169.
Israel,

Israel,

land of 61, 69,

72,

76,

81,

86,

God of 65, 146-8.

Israel, people of 63, 65--6, 150, 154,
Israel, sons of 61-3.
Israelites, the 66.

143,

157.

157.

Ist.hmeos;

see John.
Isthmian games 153.
Italian, Italians 161, 432, 453.
Italicus (Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus,
Italy 14, 16-17, 69, 161-3, 167-8,
175,

209,

cos 68) 258.

453.

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345

Ithake 114, 119 app, 122; Kephalenian Ithake 108.

Jacob, son of Isaac 58-60, Q.
Jaddus, Jewish high priest 188.

Jambres, Egyptian nhg.&s 63-44.

the apostle 258.
nksguus 63-4.
Januarianus (Pomponius Ianuarianus, cos 288; PLRE 1 452) 303.
Japheth, son of Noah 9, 11, 15-16, 28, 53, 55, 59, 61.
Jareth, father of Enoch 7.
Jason, the Argonaut 77, 79.
Jeboum, alternative name for Jerusalem 69, 163.
Jericho 69.
Jeroboam, son of Nebat 445 app.
Jerusalem 69, 143--4, 147, 150, 157-60, 169, 206-7, 227, 229 app, 230,
242, 252, 257-60, 279, 319, 357-8, 416, 478 app,
statues: Cherubim 143; Seraphim :143.
See also Constantinople, St Diomedes.
Jesse, father of David 90, 143.
Jesus 230, 237, 241, 248, 250; Jesus Christ 227-30, 237, 240-2, 246-7,
260, 362, 478 app; see also Christ.
Jew, Jewish, Jews 7, 59, 63-7, 69-70, 90, 143-4, 149-51, 1.59-60, 188,
190, 194, 196, 206-7, 215, 230-1, 237, 239-42, 244-5, 247-8, 251, 256,
259-61, 389-90, 445-6, 487.
Joah, son of Asaph 144-6.
Joakim, ruler of Judaea 149-50, 188.
John's, St.; see Alexandria and Antioch, churches.
John, St., the Forerunner (Baptist) 236-7.
John, St, the Theologian 262, 268-9, 366.
John the Cappodocian (PPO Qr;ienti's 532-541, cos 538 etc; PLRE 111) 465,
James, St,

Jannes, Egyptian

475, 477, 479-80.

John
John
John
John

Commentarisius, nicknamed Gylus (562; PLRE II.I) 492.

Dandax (547; PLRE III) 483.
the hunchback (cos 499; PLRE II 61.7-8) 393.
Isthmeos, nicknamed Bagoulas, from Amida 395.
John, surnamed Kokkorobios (PUC 548; FLARE 111) 484 app.
John Malalas 5 app; also John the Rhetor 369 app,
John the Paphlagonian (CSL 498 etc; PLRE II 604-5) 400-1; also known as
Caiaphas 400,
John Rogathinos (PPO .A.frica9e 593; PLRE
496.
John the Scythian (cos 498; PLRE II 602--3) 389, 432 app.
John (Augustus, in Italy 423-425; PLRE II 594-5) 350, 356.
John, bishop and author 58.
John, bishop of Constantinople (Chrysostom, 398-404) 348 app.
John, patriarch of Constantinople (Scholast.ikos, 565-77) 496a.
John (dray
528; PLRE
435 ,

III)

John,
John (,

Ill)

str/cius

434,
567; PLRE

III)

493.

John (comes of the Straits of the Pontic Sea) 432.

John (MUM
514-515; PLRE II 608, loannes 60; cf
40) 404.

Jordan, river. 7, 36, 69.

Joseph, son of Jacob 59-60, 63.
Josephos, historian (37/8-100) 9-10,

58,

247-8, 260.

.Ibid.

604,

Ioannes

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Index

Joshua, son of Nun 69.

Joshua, father of Eliakim 169.

Jovian (Fl. Iov.ianus, Augustus

Judaea :144, 147, 149-50,
256-7, 259-61.
Judah, son of Jacob 59,

158

PLRE

app 206,

223,

1461) 33;1-7.
227,

229-31,

235-7,

242,

Judas, Jewish high priest 190.

Judas Iscariot 240.
Judas, who buried the Maccabees 207,
Judith, killer of Holofernes 159.

Julian
Julian
Julian
Julian

the Chaldaean (wonder- worker; 2nd cent, AD) 282.

(Fl, Claudius Julianus, Augustus 360-363)
27, 128, 325-35.
(Samaritan rebel 529; PLRE 111) 446-7.
(PPO Orient.rs 530-531; PLRE III) 465.

Jul ian la gi.Str.Ianug (envoy to the Auxoumitai 531)

Julian

456 app,

(ex-praetorian prefect 532) 475 app.

Julian'(monophys.it.e bishop of Halikarnassos)
479 app.
Julian (imperial secretary 562) 494,
Julian (ex-mPgister nrrinJorum, PUC
565) 496a.
Julian; see Constantinople, harbour.
Julian, St; see Antioch, churches, gates.
Juliana (Anicia Juliana, daughter
of Olybrius, early 6t.h cent.; PLRE II
635-6) 368, 398, 407.
Julianikios (charioteer 563) 495,
Julianus; see Didius Julianuss Silvius.
Julius Caesar (dictator, d.44 BC)
187--8, 214-8, 222, 268, 287, 346, 359;
Caesar 214-18, 221, 223-4; Gaius Julius Caesar
216-18, 281.
Julius; see Askanios,
Julius (.Iulius Const.antius, cos 335; PLRE
1 226)
319.
Junia, martyr under Trajan 277 app,
JUnius (Persian satrap 363) 336.
Justasas (Samaritan rebel ?484;
PLRE; 11 644) 382,
Justin (son ofGermanos, cos 540; PLRE
III) 480,
Justin (Justinus, Augustus 518-527;
PLRE II 648-51) 410-16, 418, 421
app, 422, 424-5.
(MUM and dug ./Jnesr',9e. 528; PLRE
111) 437.

Justin
Justin

(ruro4ttuJat.PS

559, Augustus 565-578; PLRE 111) 491,

496a,
Justina, step-mother of Gratian (PLRE
1 488-9) 344 app,
Justinian (ex-consul 484; PLRE II 645)
388 app, 389 app.
Justinian (Fl. Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus
= Justinian 1 527-565; PLRE
11 645-8) 422-3, 425-9, 431, 434-5,
438-9,
465,

469-71,

475

app,

476

app,

478,

479

App.IT, 496a.

Justinianai; see Constantinople, districts.

Justinianoupolis
Justin.ianoupol.is;

(in Armenia; mod. Farqun),

see Sykai, Sousa.

441-2, 444-51, 454-6, 459,

app, 482, 489, Book 18:

formerly Martyropolis 427.

Justinoupolis; see Edessa.

Juvenal (D. Iun.ius luvenalis, poet 50/65-c,127) 263.

Juvenalia (of senatorial family, late 5th cent;
PLRE
Juvent.inus ( Iuventinus, scat .r/u.g,' PLRE 1491) 327.
Kadmeia, in Boiotia 40, 42, 44,
Kadmiades, daughters of Kadmos 40.
Kadmos, son of Agenor 30-1, 39, 41-3, 45.

II

651) 384.

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347

Kaisarion, son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra 217.

Kaisarion; see Antioch and Alexandria, basilicas.
Kaisarios 496a.
Ka.landio

(patriarch of Antioch 484)

381.

KaIapodios ( cuhicu arius and p ve4z7C?SI tC/.s,

Kalchas, the seer 98, 105, 107 app.

PLRE I I I )

490,

Kallimachos (poet, c.305-c.240 BC) 175.

Kallinike; see Cort.yn.
Kallinikon (in Osrhoene; mod. ar-Raqqa) 461, 464-5.
Kallinikos; see Seleukos.
Kalliopas (Porphyrios Kalliopas, charioteer c.480-c.540) 395-6, 412 app.
Kalliope; see Antioch,tyche.
Kalliopios (governor of Seconnd Cilicia, before 527; PLRE II 253) 418

app.
Kal.l.iopios

( comes arient..is c. 494; PLRE I 1251) 392.

Kalliopios (vlcarius of the usurper Orestes 513/8;
417 app.
Kalliste, daughter of Lykaon 188.
Kallistos (governor of Syria, before 433; PLRE lI
Kalydonia, land of 165.
Kalypso, daughter of Atlas 118, 121.
Kambyses; see Dareios, son of Kyros.
Kandake, queen of the Indians 194-5.

PLRE

11

252-3) 401,

254) 360 app.

Kapaneus, one of those who attacked Thebes 53.

Kapys, father of Lykaon 222.
Karamallos; see Autokyon.
Kasios, Mount, near Antioch 199, 327.
Kasios; see Zeus.
Kasos, son of Inachos 28, 201.

Kassancl.ra, daughter of Priarn 106, 1.22, 133.

Kassandros (son of Antipater, c.358-297 BC) 196.
Kassianos; see Antioch, churches.
Kastabala (in Cilicia) 345.
Kastor, son of Leda 77, 82.
Kastor (historian, early 1st. cent BC) 157.
Katzamys; see Marga.rit.es.
Kaukasos, giant 15.
Kekrops, ruler of Athens 70-1.
Kepara; see Anazarbos.
Kephalion (rhetorician, 1st. cent.) 40, 45, 49, 90, 165.
Kephalenia, village of 122 app.
Kephalenian; see Ithake.
Kepheus, father of Andromeda 36, 38-9.
Kerateon; see Antioch.
Keraunios; see Zeus.
Kerdon, a Manichee (c.275) 301.
Keroe; see Constantinople, t.,vche.
Kerykos (MUM, East c.527/528; PLRE III) 427.
Kilix, son of Agenor 30-1, 198, 201.
Kinyros, father of Adonis 13,
Kios 490a.
Kirke, daughter of Atlas 117-21, 122 app.
Kirkesion (in Osrhoene; mod. el-Busera) 295 xvii, 329, 461.
Kiskopolis; see Anazarbos.

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Index
Kish, father of Saul 90.
Kithairon, Mount, in Boiot.ia 42,
Kitia; see Amyke.

47,

285.

Xleantho, daughter of Kadmos 39.

Kleitophon, from Ithake 122 app.
Klerikos, father of John Gylus 492.
Klonios, member of the Hellenes' fleet
107.
K.lymene, Helen's handmaid 95.
Klytaimnestra, wife of Agamemnon
82, 97, 133-5,

K.lyt.ie, daughter of Thestios 82.

137-8.

Knidos, city of 218,

Koades (emperor of Persia 458-531;
PLRE II 273-4) 398, 412-3, 415, 431,
441, 447, 449, 452-3, 455-8, 467,
471, 478; Koades Darasthenos 429.
Kobes, son of Kyknos 99.
Kochlias; see Constantinople.
Kodisseos; see Zeno.
Kodron, ruler of Athens 72.
.Koimeterion; see Antioch, ma.rtyriurn.
Kokarkos, son of Kyknos 99.
Kokkorobios; see John.
Kolchis, in Scythia 79.
Kolonision; see Antioch, statues.
Kolossians, the 149,
Kolossos; see Rhodes.
Kometes, one of Diomedes' senators
166 app,
Komit.o (sister of Theodora,
early 6th cent.; PLRE III) 4,]0.
Konon (bishop of Apamea 484, military
commander; PLRE II 306-7) 393-4.
Korion, St; see Sykai.
Korythaios, son of Paris and
Helen 111.
Kos, island of 117, 119, 132; see
Sisyphos.
Kosmas, St 304-6; see also Constantinople,
churches.
Kotyaion (in Phrygia Salutaris) 362, 393
app, 394, 490a.
Koukousos (in Cappacldocia) 349 app,
379 app.
Kouttoules (ex-prefect 484; PLRE
II 331), 388 app.
Koutzines (leader of the Moors
563) 495-6.
Kout.zis (clu.r Phoenices L.t:l nen_sLs' 528; PLRE
) 441-2.

Kranaos,

ruler of

Kranaos, ruler of Macedonia 161.

Krateros, father of Phokas (early

Kreon,

father

III

Athens 72.

of Gl.auke 79.

6th cent.)

421 app,

Kreousa, wife of Aineias 168.

Kroisos, ruler of. Lydia (c.560-546

Kronos, the planet 6.
Kronos,
Kronos,

BC)

153-7.

ruler of the Assyrians 12-15, 17.

temple of 30,

Kronos; see Arit.ioch.

Kt.esiphon,

in Babylonia 302, 330, 332,

Kyklopaian mountains 115.

Kyklops, son of Sikanos 114-7.
Kyknos, son of Ederion 82.
Kyknos, of Neandros 99.

h vneq/,, see Constantinople, Festivals.

Kynegia, district of 445 app.
Kyros (Kyros 11 the Great, 550/549- 529 BC) 153-9.

449.

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Kyros (Fl. Taurus Seleucus Cyrus, cos 441 etc; PLRE

Kyrrhestike, district of N. Syria 304-6, 328, 472.
Kyrrhos (in Euphratesia; mod. Khor.os) 328.
Kyzikenos; see Antiochos IX.

II

336-9) 361-2.

Kyzikos, metropolis of Helllespont (mod. Bal.k.iz-Kale) 77, 279, 382, 386,

449, 480, 482-3, 490a, 491.
Kyzikos, ruler of Hellespont 77.

Labroios (Persian envoy, c.522; PLRE II 652) 415.

Labyrinth, district in Crete 87.
Lacedaimoians, the 90.
Lachish, in Assyria 144.
Lagos, father of Ptolemy I 196-7.

Laios, father of O.idipous 49, 51-2.

Laistrygones, the, in Sikila 115,
Lakeria, island of 13.
Lakon, son of Lapathos 81-2.

Lakonia, land of 82.

Lakonians, the 82.
Lakonides, daughters of Lakon 82.
Lames, ruler of Assyria 16.
Lamia (L. Aelius Lamia, cos 3) 231.
Lampadios (Flavius Lampadius, cos 530) 452.

Lanciar:ii, numerus of 330.

Laodamas, son of Hektor 123.
Laodike, daughter of Agamemnon 138,
Laodike, daughter of Seleukos 198.
Laodike, daughter of Ariarathes 207.
Laodikeia (in Syria; mod. el-Ladiqiye) 202, 217,

222, 280, 293-4,

448; formerly Mazabdas 224.

baths, the Antonine 280.

Hexastoon 294.
hippodrome 294.

.Arfnegiran 294,
t.,rfche, Agave 203.
Laodikeians, the 293-4.
Laomedes, son of Dardanos 86, 91.
Lapathos, ruler of Egypt. 81.
Latins, the 162
Latinus, son of Telephos 162, 167-8.
Latos, in the Thebaid 161.

Laurence, St; see Constantinople, churches.

Lausiacus; see Andreas.
Lausus, governor of Bit.hynia 221.
Lavinia, built by Askanios Julius 169.
Lavinesii, the 169.
Laz, the 412-14, 427,
Lazica, territory of the Laz 429 app, 441, 451 app,
Leapers, the, Dionysos' army 43.
Leda, daughter of Thestios 82-3, 96.
Legopolis, city of Brises 100-1,
Leion, one of Odysseus' men 116.
Leios, a wonder-worker 205.
Leistos, one of the Hellenes' commanders 107.

496a.

443-4,

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Index
Lentulus (P. Cornelius Lentulus
Scipio, cos si.if 2), 226 app.
Lentulus (Cossus Cornelius Lentulus,
cos 60) 257.
Leo (Augustus, 457-474; PLRE II
663-4) 369-76, 453 app.
Leo (Augustus 474; PLRE II 664-5)
375-7.
Leonteus, commander of the Hel.lenes 108.
Leontia (daughter of Leo I,
457/480: PLRE II 667) 375.
Leontios (sophist, at Athens,
c.415/420; PLRE II 668-9) 353.
Leontios (usurper, East
484-486; PLRE II 670-1) 389.
Leontius, St; see Daphne, martyrium.
Lepidus (M. Aemilius Lepidus,
90-12 BC) 218.
Leptoma, in North Africa (?Leptis
Magna) 459,
Lesbos, city of 100.
Leto, mother of Phoibos 73.
Leukate, promontory in Leukas
197, 219.
Levaritine Sea 221,
Libanios (sophist, 314-393; PLRE
1 305-7) 327,
Libya, land of 11, 13, 35, 57,
86, 107 app, 162-3,
Libye, daughter of to 28,
30, 174.
Lichon, home of Tr.ipto.lemos
107 app,
Licinianus; see Gallienus,
Maximus.

174,

196,

Licinius (praefectc&a Augzisttalrs, late

5th/early 6th cent.
434.

263.

PLRE

Licinius, unidentified chronicler

180.
Limnnai (in Cappadocia; mod.
Golcuk) 380.
Lirxlos, home of Tlepolemos 107
app.
Linos, bishop of Rome (1st
cent.) 256.
Lithoprosopon, mountain in the
city of Botrys 485.
Livia, wealthy citizen of
Antioch 294,
Livianum; see Antioch, baths.
Livy (T. Livius, 59 BC-17 AD)
178, 183, 211, 215.
Lokrian; see Aias.
Lomnas, beseiged by Assyrians
147.
Longinines (Lilingis, praeses
L%uzriae 491; PLRE 11 683)
393.
Longinus, unidentified consul
226.
Longinus (of Canda.la, .Msy, Off,,
East 484-491; PLRE 11 688)
393.
Longinus (Fl. Longinus, cos
489, 490; PLRE II 689) 385-6.
Longinus (PUC ?536/7-c,542;
PLRE III) 482.
Longinus of Selinus (Isaurian
rebel 494-498; PLRE II
688) 393 app.
Lorium, near Rome 281.
Lotophagoi, the 114,
Louppa, emperor of 476 app.
Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus 39--65)
215, 224, 257.
Lucian (of Samosata, 120-c.180)
77.

Lucillianus

(c-nme.s ret iay'litaris,

Lucius; see Otho, Paulus, Pertinax,East 363;

PLRE I

Lucretia, wife of Collatinus 180-2,

188.
Lucullus (L. Licinius Lucullus
117-56 BC) 223.
Luke, the Apostle 454,
Lydia, province 153, 222.

Lydians, the 81, 151-6, 158, 174.

Lykaina, wife of Faustus 178,

180.
Lykaon, son of Priam 129-30.
Lykaon, father of Kalliste 188,
Lykaon, son of Kapys 222,

517) 330.

1.11)

Index

351

Lykaonia, province 35, 101, 222, 365.

Lykaonians, the 36, 101.
Lykia, province 101-2, 365, 448.
Lykians, the 101.
Lykokranitai, infantry regiment. 445.
Lykomedes, father of Deidameia 97, 104,
Lykos, ruler of Argos 45-7, 49.
Lykos, river; see Constantinople.
Lykourgos, opponent of Dionysos 44-5.
Lynkeus, ruler of Argos 68.
Lyrnesos, city of Eetion 100,
Lytargon, in Syria 347, 445 app.

132.

Maccabees, the 206-7.

Macedon 193, 195, 210, 292, 399; see also Alexander.
Macedonia 161, 189-90, 192, 196, 203, 208-9; First Macedonia 261;
Second Macedonia 261.
Macedonia, girl sacrificed at Alexandria 192.
Macedonian, Macedonians 29, 190, 194, 196-7, 201, 207-8, 210, 212-13,
215, 221, 225, 234, 343, 347, 418, 428 app.
Macehlum; see Antioch,
Macrinus Cal.lus (M. Opellius Macrinus, Augustus 217-18) 295 ii.
Magnetor, commander of the Hellenes 107.
Magnus of Carrhae (historian 363; PLRE I 534) 329, 332.
Magnus (Fl. Anastasius Paulus Probus Moschianus Probus Magnus, cos 515;
PLRE II 701) 410.
Magnus; see Paulus.
Mala, wife of Zeus 17 app.
Makedonios (patriarch of Constantinople 496-511) 400.

III)

c. 528-531; PLRE
Makedonios (persecuted for Hellenism 562) 449.
Maioumas; see Antioch, festivals.
Majorian (Fl. Iulius Va.lerius Maiorianus, Augustus
702-3) 375.
Malalas; see John.
Mamas, St.; see Constantinople, churches,
Mamas (military commander, East 531; PLRE III) 461.
Makedonios (curtgtnr dominicae

Mamert.inus

440.

475-461;

PLRE

(Fl. Claudius Mamertinus cas 362) 326.

Mammaea, mother of Alexander Severus 295 iv.

Mammianos (member of senate, mid 5th cent..; PLRE II 705) 385 app.
Manasses, ruler of Judaea 149.
Manes, preacher under Nero (? Mani, 216-277) 268.
Manetho, historian (fl. 280 BC) 25, 59.
Manichean, Manicheans 279, 301, 309-10, 423, 444, 472.
Manlius Capitolinus (M. Manlius Capitolinus, cos 392 BC) 183-7.
Marabitis, district in Egypt 154.
Marcellus, nephew of Justinian 490a.
Marcian (Marcianus, Augustus 450-457; PLRE II 714-5) 367-9,
Marcianus (Fl. Marcianus, cos 469, 472; PLRE II 717-8) 375.
Marcianus; see Quintus.
Marcus (Augustus, 244) 295 xi.
Marcus (Augustus, 476; PLRE II 720) 378,
Marcus Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Augustus 161-180) 281-2.
Marcus; see Agrippa.

II

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Index

Margarites Katzamys (dancer, 490) 386.

Mariades, Antioc..hene traitor (256-260)
295.
Mariamne (in Syria; mod. Miryamin)
315.
Mariana (Marina Severa, first wife of
Valent.inian
I

828) 341.

Marinos (comes
Marinos, martyr 452.
Marinas (PPO

T,

raid

4th cent.; PLRE

562) 491, 495,

512/515,

C)rient..r's,

app.

519; PLRE 11 726-8) 400,

403-5,

Marinus, conies excuhitorum

490a.
Marius (Augustus, 249) 295
xvi.
Mark, the Apostle 252.
Markellos, the money-dealer (562) 493.
Markianos, nephew of Just.inian
496.
Markion a Manichee under Hadrian (?heretic,
fl. 140) 279.
Maron, benefactor of Antioch 235.
Maronis, land of 114.
Mars; see Antioch, temples;
festivals; Rome.
Marsos (ex-consul, East 484;
PLRE II 728-9) 388 app.
Marsyas, inventor of reed
flutes 76.
Marsyas, river in Phrygia
76.
Martyropolis
(in
.Armenia;
mod.
Silvan)
427,
468-70;
Justinianoupolis 427.
Mary, Mother of God 78, 226,
383, 423, 478 app.
Matronianos (late 5th cent.;
PLRE 11 735-6) 388 app.

407,

410

renamed

Mattiari.1, numP,rus of 330,

Maurianog (comes, East and astrologer, 5th

cent.; PLRE
Mauritania,
land of 11.

Mai.irus ((1L1r

Phoenrces; after 363;

Marrus, rioter (? 507) 394.

PLRE

737)

;190.

1570) 329.

Mauzanites, who live near Ktesiphon

330.
Mavortius (Vettius Agorius Basilius
Mavortius,

422, 425.
Maxent.ius Gale.rius

11

cos 527;

PLRE IT 736-7)

(C.

Ga.ler.ius
Valerius
Augustus 305-311; PLRE I 574) 312-3, 316. Maximianus, Caesar 293-305,
Maximian (M.Aur,Val. Maximianus,
signo Hercullius, Augustus 286-305;
PLRE
I 573-4) 306,
308, 312; Herculius 311;
Herculianus 306.
Maximianoupolis; see Constantia.

Maximianus (Maximinus,

?scutarius 363;

1 576) 327,
Maximinus (C. Tulius Verus Maximinus,
Augustus 235-238) 295 iv, v.
Maximus (usurper, 409-411; PLRE
IT 744-5) 350.
Maximus (Petronius Maximus, Augustus
455; PLRE II 749-51) 360, 365-6.
Maximus, sent by Nero to Palestine
251.
Maximus Lic.inianus (?Val. Licinlanus
Licinius, Augustus 308-324;
509) 313-6.
PLRE

PLRE

Mazabdas; see Laod.i.keia.

Mazaka; see Caesarea in Cappadocia.
Medeia, daughter of Aetes 79.
Medeia; see Antioch, baths,
statues.
Medes 37, 152, 159, 190-4, 231
app.
Media, land of 11.
Medusa, beheaded by Perseus 35, 37.
Meerdotes, Parthian ruler c.115 (?
Meherdates,

128/9-147) 270.

fl.

50;

? Mithridates

IV

Index

Megareus, father of Hippomene 189.

Meges, from Doliche 107.
Melanippe, daughter of Thestios 82.
Melantia, two rivers in Syria 141.
Melantios, Mount, near Antioch 136, 140-2.
Melchi, renamed Melchisedek 58.
Melchisedek, son of Sedek 57-8.
Meleager, son of Oineus 164-6.
Meleagros of Epirus (279 BC) 196,
Melia, wife of Inachas 28.
Meliboios, Oidipous' rescuer 50, 52.
Melindia, wife of Aides 62.
Meltiades, father of Ablabios 493.
Membronios of Babylon, writer 16.
Memnon, ruler of the Indians 127-9,
Memnonios (governor of Syria, before 433; PLRE II 754) 360 app.
Memphis, in Egypt 65-6.
Menados, son of Zeus 17.
Menas (,nraefectus vlq_iltuwat Antioch, 507; PLRE 11 755) 396-7.

Menas (PPO, East., 528-9; PLRE II 755) 441 app.

Menas (patriarch of Constantinople 536-552) 479, 483-4, 486.
Menas, St 310.
Menelaos, son of P.leist.henes 82, 91, 94-7, 107, 110-12, 126.
Mene.laos, commander of the Hellenes 107,
Menestheus, from Athens 108, 135.
Menetes, husband of Hippodameia Briseis 101-2,
Meram, Persian commander (Mermmeroes, Mihr-Mihroe) 452-3.
Meran, Persian commander 441; cf Meram.
Mercurius, St 333.
Meriones, from Crete 103, 108, 126,
Merobaudes (Flavius Merobaudes, cos 377, 383, 388; PLRE 1598-9) 346.
Meros, son of. Perseus 39 app.
Mese; see Constantinople.
Mesopotamia, province 57, 279, 337, 398-9, 435, 441, 485.
Mestrem, ruler-of Egypt 19.
Met.hone, in Messenia 108,
Metis, Orphic cult-name 74.
Michael, archangel 79, 405, 423.
Michael, chapel of archangel, at Sosthenion 403, 405.
Mikkalion, killed by Kyklops 115.
Milan 297-8, 348.
Milesian; see Thales.
Minos, writer of tragic choruses 143.
Minos, son of Europe 31, 85-6, 87.
Minos, son of Pasiphae 86-8.
Misael ( ctthirularzus, 518; PLRE II 763-4) 410.
Mnemon; see Artaxerxess.
Moabe, Sphinx's village 50.
Modest.us (agens In .rebus, East, 472; PLRE II 764) 374,
Moesia, province 25, 402, 436-8.
Molossians, the 62,
Molossos, son of Pyrrhos 193.
Moors, the 459, 495.
Mopsuestia (in Cilicia; mod. Misis) 325.

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Index
Moschianos; see Constantinople,
districts.
Moses, leader of the Jews 5, 7-8, 34, 60-7,
69, 75, 228,
Mothone, site of death of Constantine
II 325.
Moudoupolis (in Bithynia) 289.
Mougel (king of the Huns, 528; PLRE
III) 432.
Moundos (MUM per i]Jyricum, 532-6;
PLRE 11i) 450-1, 466, 475-6, Book 18:
App II.
Mouseion; see Antioch.
Mousonios (PUC, 556) 488.
Muses; see Antioch, temples.
Muses, the 72 app.
Mygdonia, district. round Nisibis
336-7,
Mykenai 107, 133-4, 137-8.
Mykenaians, the 80, 82, 107, 122,
133-4, 142.
Myra (in Lykia) 365, 448.
Myriangeloi, in Galatia, also
known as Germia 496a.
Myrmidons, Achilles' army
97-8, 100, 106; also known as Bulgars
97.
Naaman (al Nu'man, pylarch 528;
PLRE III) 435.
Naaman, son of Alamoundaros (531;
PLRE III) 463.
Nachordan, son of Sermacherim
149.
Naiads 278.
Naracho, Pharaoh 27, 59, 70.

Narses

(PSC

537/8-554/558, ex- consul etc;

484, 486, 492,

PLRE

111) 469, 476,

480-1,

Naupl.ios,

father of Oiax 166.

Nausikaa, daughter of Alkinoos
122 app.
Nazarenes, the 247.
Nazareth, in Palestine 226.
Nea Andros, city near Troy 99.
Neapolis (in Palestine; mod. Nablus)
69, 446;
Nebat, father of Jeroboam 445
app.
Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of
the Assyrians 150-1,
Nehemiah, the prophet 160.
Nektanebo, ruler of Egypt 189.

Nekyopompos, lake

visited

formerly Shechem 69.

426.

by Odysseus 121.

Nemean games 153.

Nemesis; see Daphne.
Neoptolernos Pyrrhos, son of
Achilles 91, 104, 113.
Neorion; see Constantinople.
Nepos (Julius Nepos, Augustus
474-475; PLRE .II 777-8) 375.
Nereus, from Mykenai 107,
Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus
Germanicus, emperor

254-8.
Nerva (P. Silius Nerva, cos
28) 236.
Nerva (M. Cocceius Nerva, emperor
96-98) 267-9.
Nerva; see Anazarbos.
Nestor, commander of the tlellenes
97, 107, 124.
Nestorior, (adherent of Nestorios)
381, 400.
Nestorianos, chronicler (5th cent.)
324, 376.
Nestorios, bishop of Constantinople (428-431)
365, 412,
Nevitta (1'l.avius Nevitta, cos 362;
PLRE 1 626) 326.
New Fort,
of xAure.l.ian's death 301.
Niger (C. Pescennius Niger, emperor
193-194) 292-4.

site

54-68)

478 app.

133,

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355

Niger (Q. Aquilius Niger, cos 117) 277.

Nika riot. Book 18: App.I,
Nikaia (in Bithynia; mod, Iznik) 337, 343, 449 app.
Nikanor, satrap of Asia 198.
Nikator; see Alexander, Seleukos.
Nikeas, Christian charioteer (529) 446.
Nikomedeia (in Bithynia) 259, 281, 289,
487,

298,

319

app,

324,

363,

385,

490a.

Nikomedes, satrap of Asia 198, 210.

Nikomedes, toparch of Bithynia (ri. 74 BC) 221.
Nikomedian; see Theodoros.
Nikoupolis (in Euphratesia; mod. Islahiye) 267,
Nile, river. 6, 11, 428 app, 657, 458.
Nimrod, giant 12; see also Orion.

city of

Nineveh,

297.

15, 148.

Ninos, son of Kronos 12, 14--16, 35.

Ninos, writer of Marsyas 76.
Niobe, daughter of Tantalos 189,
Nisibis (in Mesopotamia; mod. Nesibin) 329-30, 336, 338, 452-3.
Noah, father of Them, Ham and Japhet.h 9-12, 15-16, 18, 55, 59.
Nobadas, barbarians 295 xvii.
Nomos
522; PLRE 11 787) 413.
Nonianus (M. Servilius Nonianus, cos 35) 243,
Numa Pompilius, ruler of Rome 33.
NLUnerian (M. Aurelius Numerius Numer.iantts, Augustus 283-284; PLRE 1 634)
303-4.
Nun, father of Joshua 61, 69.
Nykteus, father of Antiope 45--6, 48-9.
Nymphaion; see Antioch.
Nymphidianos (cnnaul.9rr:s
9e., mid 5th
PLRE 11 788-9) 360.

Syri

river

cent.;

468.
Nymphs; see Daphne, temples.
Nysia, land of 41.
Nymphios,

Nysios, epithet of Dionysos 41,

Nyssa; see Scythopolis, and Trikomia,

tyche.

Oba.isipol.is, in Thrace 490a.

Ocean, the 25, 246, 433, 496a.
Ochos, .ruler
189-91.
Oct.avia

of

(Augustus'

the

Persians

sister,

Octavian (C. Octavius,

70-11

later

C.

(Artaxerxes
BC) 219,

Julius

III

Ochos,

359/8-337

220 app.

C.E. Caesar, Augustus 27

218-21, 225, 227, 229 app, 428; see also Augustus.

Odovacer (ruler of Italy, 476-493; PLRE II
383.
Oclessos (in Moesia; mod. Varna) 402, 432 app, 480 app.
0dryssian, epithet of Orpheus 72.
Odysseus, from Ithake 98, 108-11, 113-9, 121-2, 126, 130-1, 167.
Ogyges, of Attica 62,
Oiax, son of Nauplios 135, 166.
Oidipous, son of Laios 49-52; formerly Iokkas 50.
Oineus, ruler of Aitolia 164-6.
Oinoe, wife of. Paris 111.
Olnomaos of Pisa 81, 84, 173-4, 175 app.
14) 187, 197,

Okeanon; see Antioch, Nymphaion.

BC)

BC-AD

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Index
Olbia; see Antioch, baths.

Olybrius (Anicius Olybrius, Augustus,

368, 374-5.

West.,

472; PLRE

II 796-8)

366,

Olybrius (son of Juliana and Areobindus,

cos 491; PLRE Ii 795) 392.
O.lybrius (Fl. Anicius Olybrius, cos 526;
PLRE II 798) 419.
Olympian; see Zeus.
Olympias, mother of Alexander of Macedon
189, 193.
Olympias (correspondent of John Chrysostom,
early 5th cent.; PLRE
642-3) 348 app.
Olympias; see Daphne.
Olympic festival; see Antioch, festivals.
Olympius, bath-attendant in Antioch
Ophites 197; see also Orontes.
Ordion, foster-father of Zethos and
Orentes, .river; see Orontes.
Orestes, son of Agamemnon 133-42.
Orestes (Fl. Rufus Gennadius Probus
Orgies; see Antioch, festivals.
Orion, a star 12, 15.
Orontes, river (frequently Orentes
197,

200,

234, 245,

266,

276,

381,

Orpheus, poet from Thrace 72-6, 343.

Orthodox 427 app.

389 app.

Amphion 47-8.

Orestes, cos 530; PLRE

in Ba; see Bury,

397,

1897,

.III)

452.

220) 38,

141,

ruler of the Armenians (Osroes,

king of Parthia, 1.09/110-128/9)
270, 274.
Osiris, ruler of Egypt 24.
Osrhoene, province 274, 295, 312,
318, 323, 418, 461, 465.
Osta.bine; see Antioch, districts.
Osciroe,s,

Ostrys (comes 471/2; PLRE II 814-5)

371-2.
Otho (M. Sa.lvius Otho, emperor 69)
259; Lucius Otho 258.
Ovid (P. Ovidius Naso, 43BC-18 AD)
7.

Pacatiana; see Phrygia.

Pacatianus, eponymous general in
Phrygia Pacatiana 222.
Palaiopolis; see Seleukeia.
Palaiphatos, mythographer (?
4th cent. BC) 24, 33, 41, 5;;1, 63,
88, 209.
Palamedes, a leader of the Hellenes
108, 110.
Palestine 58, 69, 1.39-40, 197-8, 206,
224, 228-9, 236, 245, 251, 260-1,
281, 295 xvii, 382, 434, 446-7,
455, 485, 487; First Palestine
273,
382; Second Palestine 347; Third Palestine
319, 400.
Palladion, statue of Pallas 109,
113, 122, 167-71, 320.
Pallantia, house of Pallas
168, 171.
Pallas, goddess 40, 92, 109.
Pallas, son of Evander 168, 171.
Pallas; see Antioch, springs,
Palmyra, city of 143, 426.
Paltos (in Syria; mod. Belde) 448.
Pamphemos, a youth (d. 548) 484 app,
Pamphilia, province 222.
Pamphyl.ian; see Pergamos.
Pamprepius (QSP, East, 479; PLRE II 825-8)
388 app, 389.
Pan; see Antioch, temples.

Pandion, father of Philornela 189.

Paneas (in Phoenice; mod. Baniyas) 237,

239.

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357

province 261, 282.

Pantaleon, St 311.
Pantheon; see Antioch.
Paphlagonian; see John.
Papyrin, fortress in .Isauria 389.
Paradise; see Antioch, baths.
Pardos; see Constantinople, house of.
Parion, previously known as Amandra 92,
Paris, son of Priam, also known as Alexander Paris 91-7, 105, 110-12,
125, 129-31.
Paris (dancer in time of Domitian) 263.
Parmenios, river; see Antioch.
Parthemaspates (Parthian ruler, c.117) 270, 273-4.
Parthenope, sacrificed at Tarsos 37.
Parthenopeus, who fought at Thebes 53.
Parthia 198.
Part.hian, Parthians 10, 26, 190, 192-4, 198, 208, 270.
Pasiphae, wife of Minos 86-8,
Patmos, island of 262, 268.
Patricius (lulius Patricius, cos 459, Caesar 470-1; PLRE II 842-3) 369,
Panno.ia,

371,

Patricius (Fl. Patricius, cos 500; PLRE 11 840-2) 398, 303.

425,
Patricius (comes Orienf..rs 527; PLRE
Patrok.los, from Argos 97, 108.

III)

Paul, St 242,

256-7,

258 app,

Paul (patriarch of Antioch 519-521) 411, 415.

Paul, the Galatian ex--consul (541; PLRE III) 480 app.

Paulinus (.#&g, (7ff,, East., 430: PLRE II 846-7) 352-3, 355-8.

Paulus (suboptio of Belisarios, 562; PLRE III) 494.
Paulus: Magnus Paulus 208, 209,
Paulus: Lucius Paulus (L, Aemilius Paulus Macedonius 228-160 BC) 209.
Pausanias (writer in Antioch, 2nd or 4th cent.) 5, 38, 197, 203-4, 208
app, 248.
Pegasios of Helioupolis (529) 449 app.
Pegasos; see Tripolis, statues,
Peirithous, abductor of. Persephone 62.
Peisistratos (of Athens, d. 527 BC) 152.
Pelagius (patrician, East, 490; PLRE II 857-8) 390.
Pelasgians, the 33.

Peleus, father of Achilles 97, 104, 137.

Pella (in Macedonia; mod. Pella) 189, 203.
Pella, renamed Apameia (in Syria; mod. Qul'at. el-Mudiq) 203.
Peloponnesian, Peloponnesians 84-5, 169.
Pe.loponnesos 134; city of 84.
Pelops, the Lydian 81, 84-5, 95, 124.
Pelousion, in Egypt 189,
Penelope, wife of Odysseus 122 app.
Pentadiastes; see Eirenaios, son of Pentadia.
Pentapolis, in Lydia 263.

Pentecost 247.

Penthesileia, leader, of the

Pent.heus, son of Agave 41-4,

Amazons 123, 125-7,

Perama; see Constantinople.

Pergamos, the Pamphylian (unidentified writer) 9.

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Index

Perikles (of Athens, c.495-429 BC)

169.
Perinthos; see Heraklei.a,
Perozes (ruler of Persia 459-484; PLRE II 860)
389, 429.
Perozes (Caoses, Persian prince, early 6th
cent,, PLRE II 259) 441,
Persarmenia 312, 331-2, 335, 441,
456.
Persarrnenians 469.
Persephone, daughter of Aides 62.
Perseus, son of Danae 16, 34-5, 37-9,
59, 199.
Perseus (ruler of Macedonia, 179-168 BC)
196, 209.
Persia 11-12, 26, 38, 157, 229, 296,
306, 309, 449,
462,

477.

467,

470-1,

Persian, Persians 12, 14-16, 25-6, 37-9, 42,

152-3, 155-60, 169, 173,
189-90, 192-4, 203, 211, 214-5, 218-9, 231-3,
270-4, 292, 296-8, 302,
304, 306, 308, 310-1.3, 317, 323,
326-38, 364, 389, 398-9, 412-5, 422,
425-7, 429, 431, 434-5, 441-2, 444-5,
447, 449, 452-8, 460--9, 471-2,
477-8, 480, 488, 496a,
Persis 490a; see lconium,

Pertinax (P. Helvid.ius Pertinax, Augustus 193) 290.

Pessinos (in Galatia; mod. Balhisar) 348.
Petephres, Pharaoh's cook 59.

Peter's, St; see Rome.

Peter, St 242, 246, 252-6, 258.
Peter (patriarch of Antioch, 469-491)
377,

Peter the lm!?gister 496a,

Petissoni.os; see Pharaoh.

Petra (in Third Palestine; mod,
Petronius (P. Petronius, legate
Petrus (MUM, East, c.526/7-544;
Phaiakia, land of 122 app,
Phaidra, wife of Theseus 88-90;
Phakidion; see Tripolis,
Pha.lek, son of Heber 34, 227-8.

379-80.

Wadi Mu.utia) 395, 400,

in Syria 39-41/2) 244.
PLRE II 870-1) 427.

also .kown as Ilia 88,

Phanes, Orphic cult-name 24.

Pharangion, site of gold-mines 477.

Pharaoh 144; Naracho 27, 59-60,
70; Petissonios 63-7.
Pharnake; see Apameia.
Pharos; see Alexandria,
Pheidalios (writer,?2nd cent.)
120.
Pheidias (sculptor, c.460-430 BC)
169,
Phida.lia, daughter of Barbis.ios 292, 310-1.
Phila, daughter of Seleukos Nikator
(born c. 297 BC) 198,
Phi.ladelphos; see Antiochos XI, Ptolemy.
Philip (Philip II of Macedon, 359-336
BC) 161, 190-2,
Philip (Philip III Arrhidaios,
c.,350-317 BC) 196,
Philip Barypous (Philip II Barypous
67-65 BC) 225.
Philip, father (correctly brother)
of Herod Antipas (d.34) 236.
Philip the Arab (M. Iulius Philippus,
Augustus 244-249) 295 xiii,
Philip Junior; see Gordian .II,
Philip, bath of; see Antioch.

Philippos,

Philochoros

member of

the Hellenes' fleet 108.

Athens, c.340- 267/61 BC) 45, 81 app,

Philo.ktet.es, from Met.hone 104, 108,
110-11, 126.
Philornela, daughter of Pandion 189.
Phiiometor; see Ptolemy.
(of.

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359

Phi.lopater;

see Antiochos,

Ptolemy, Seleukos.

Philostratos (historian, late 3rd cent.; PLRE 1 698) 297.

Philoxenos (Fl. Theodorus Philoxenus Soterichus Philoxenus, cos 525;
PLRE II 879) 411.
Philyra, wife of Kronos 13, 14.
Phineas, Jewish high priest (40 AD) 245.
Phinees, son of Eleazar 61, 69.
Phlegon of Athens, writer (? Phlegon Aetius of Tralles, fl. 140) 240.
Phoenice 30-1,
33,
39,
163,
211,
216,
223,
314,
426,
435,
441;
Libanensis 280, 296, 345, 426 app, 485; Maritima 162, 367, 485.
Phoenician, Phoenicians 34, 39, 121, 127, 162.
Phoibos 73, 92; see Apollo, Sun.
Phoinix, son of Agenor 30-2, 96.
Phokas, son of Krateros (PPO Orient.is 532; PLRE II 881-2)
app,

422, 449,

475

480 app.

Phorbas, relative of Priam 100.

Phorbas, river; see
Phoroneus, ruler of
Phrygia 76, 79, 91,
.Phrygian, Phrygians

Acheloos.
the .Argives 68, 72.
94, 362, 394; Pacatiana 222; Salutaris 323, 362.
55,

81,

85,

91-3,

101,

108,

109,

137,

162,

356,

404,

464,

Phthaethon, son of the Sun 7.

Phthasouarsan (Phthasuarsas, Persian prince,

early

6t.h

cent.; PLRE II

884) 444 app.

Phthia, city in Thessa.ly 132.

Phthia, land of 164.
Phyrminos; see Antioch, rivers.
Picus 13, 15, 28, 35, 70, 199; see also Zeus.
Pieria; see Seleukeia.
Pindar, poet (518-438 BC) 8.
Pisaian, Pisaians 90, 152-3, 248-9, 286.
Pisidia, province 9.

Pithamenes (Spitamenes, Parth.ian general 4th cent..

Pittakia; see Constantinople, districts.

BC) 198.

Pius; see Antoninus.

Placidia, sister of Gratian, wife of Theodosius I (? Ga.lla, sister of

Valent.inian II and so cousin of Gratian; PLRE II 382) 343.
P.lacidia
356.

(Ae.l.ia

Gal.la

Placidia. Augusta 421-450; PLRE II 888-9) 349-50,

Placidia (wife of O.lybrius, mid. 5th cent.

373-4.

PLRE

II

887) 356, 366, 368,

PJaridiae, con/ us dnmznirae,' see Constantinople, house of.

Plato (philosopher, 418/7-349/8 BC) 85, 188.
Plato (PUC 507-512; PLRE II 891-2) 387 app, 395, 407.
Plato, patrician, (MUM vacans 518; PLRE III) 442.
Pleisthenes, father of Menelaos 94, 96, 107, 113.
Plesione, daughter of Danaos 96.
Plethrion; see Antioch.
Pliny (C. Plinius Secundus 23/24 BC - 79 AD) 178.
Plutarch of Chaironeia (45-c.120) 7, 56; the younger Plutarch 121 app.
Plutarch (Plutarchus, ? governor of Syria 324/327; PLRE I 707) 318,
Pluto, abductor of Persephone 63; recipient of Isthmian games 153.
Podarkes, member of the Hellenes' fleet 108.
Polemius (Fl. Polemius, cos 338; PLRE 11 710) 324.

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Polemo, general under Nero (Polemo
Poliorketes; see Antigonos.

.II,

king of Pontus 38-63) 257.

Pol.lio (C.

Asinus Pollio, cos 40 BC) 224.

Polybios (historian, c.200-c.120 BC)
157,
Polydamas, realer of the Phoenicians 127,
129.
Polydeukes, brother of Kastor and Helen
77, 83.
Polydoros, son of Priam 102-3.
Polymedon, son of Aitherion 41.
Polymestor, ruler of Thrace 102.
Polyneikes, son of Oidipous 52-3.
Polypetes, member of the Hellenes' fleet
108.
Polyphemos, son of Sikanos
114, 116-7, 164-5,
Polyphemos of Argos 122 app.
Polyxene, daughter of Priam
106, 111, 123-5, 130-1.
Pompeianus Quaestor (? Claudius
Pompeianus Quintianus; Downey, 1961,
230, note 144) 287.
Pompe0s (Patrician, nephew of Anastasios
d. 532; PLRE III) 442,
475
app, 476, Bk 18:App 11.
Pompeioupolis, in Moesia 436.
Pompeius Magnus (Gn.Pompeius Magnus
106-48 BC) 211-2, 214-5, 221.
Pontic region 301, Pontic Sea 11, 77
app, 78-9, 114, 136, 221, 432;
Straits of the Pontic Sea 432.
Pontius, with Lucullus defeated
Tigranes 223.
Pontius Pilate (prefect of Judaea,
26-36) 240, 242, 251, 254-7, 478 app.
Pontous (? Pontius; Downey, 1961, 1.91,
note 127) 244-5.
Pontus, province 257, 301, 345,
365, 380, 448; Polemoniacus 257.
Poros, emperor, of the Indians 194.
Porphyrios (philosopher, 234/301/4)
56.
Porphyrios (governor of First Palestine,
?484: PLRE II 900) 382.
Porphyrios; see Kailiopas.

Poseidon, husband of Libye 30; temple of 36;

of the sea 173-4; statue, see Antioch.

sacrifices to

89; symbols

Poseidonios, father of Acheloos

164.
Priam, ruler of Troy 91-4, 96-7,
99-100, 102-3, 105, 108, 111-13,
123-5,
127, 129-30.
Primoarmeniaci, numerus of 332.
Princes' Islands (in the Sea
of Marmara) 78.
Priscus (historian; PLRE II 906)
359.
Priscus ( camel excubitortsn 529: PLRE
449.
Probes (Fl. Probes, cos 502; PLRE
II 912-3) 436, 439475 app, 478.
Probus (M. Aurelius Probus,
Augustus 276-282; PLRE 1'736) 302.
Procla, wife of Pontius Pilate
240.
Procl.ianus (dais' Phoen/ra..s, 528; PLRE
441-2.

III)

Proitos, ruler of the Hellenes 83-4. III)

Proklos (Proclus, philosopher at Athens,

515; PLRE II 919) 403, 405.
Proklos (Proclus, philosopher
from proconsular Asia, early
6th cent.;
PLRE .11 919) 409,
Prokne, daughter of Pandion 189.
Prokopios (Procopius, Augustus,
365-366; PLRE 1742-3) 329.
Prokopios (Procopios, MUM per Orientem,
422-424;
II 920-1) 364.
Prokopios (Procopius, comes O.rient..rs, 507: PLRE IIPLRE
921) 396-7.
Prokopios (PUC, 562; PLRE III)
494, 496a.
Prokopios, St; see Caesarea.
Prometheus, inventor of writing 69-70,

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361

Protesilaos, leader of the Danaoi 99, 108.

Proteus, ruler of Egypt 96; island of 218.
Prothoenor, member of the Hellenes' fleet 107.
Prot.hoos, member of the Hellenes' fleet 107.
Prousa 490a.
Psychristos; see Iakobos.
Ptolemy, son of Lagos (Ptolemy I Soter, 367/6-283/2 BC) 196-7.
Ptolemy III Philadelphos (Ptolemy II Philadelphos, 246 BC) 196-7.
Ptolemy IV Euergetes (Ptolemy Ill Euergetes, c.284-221 BC) 197.
Ptolemy V Philopator (Ptolemy IV Philopator c.240-204 BC) 197.
Ptolemy VI Epiphanes (Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 210-180 BC) 197.
Ptolemy VII Philomet.or (Ptolemy VI Philometor, 194-145 BC) 197.
Ptolemy XII Dionysos (Ptolemy XII Theos Philopator Philadelphos Neos
Dionysos Auletes, 111/108-51 BC) 197.
Ptolemy (Ptolemy IX Ph.i.lometor Soter 143/2-80 BC) 205-6.
Ptolemy (Ptolemy XIII Philopator Philadelphos 61-47 BC) 2'17.
Pt.oliporthos, of Ithake 122 app.
Pulcheria (Aelia Pulcheria, Augusta 414-453: PLRE II 929-30) 352-44,
366-8.

Puicherian,is, son of emperor Maximin.s (d.238) 295 v.

Pousaios (cos 467; PLRE II 930) 370.
Pupienus (M. C.lodius Pupienus, Augustus 238) 295 vii.
Pygmalion, brother of Dido 163.
Pylades, son of Strophios 134-40, 142.
Pylai, in Bithynia 379.
Pyramos, river (in Cilicia; mod. Ceyhan Nehri) 326.
Pyrrhos, son of Achilles 111, 114, 122-3, 132, 193;

also

known

as

Neopt.olemos 94, 104, 113.

Pyrrhos of Epirus (319/8-272 BC) 196, 208.
Pythagoras of Samos (philosopher, 6th cent. BC) 158-9, 161.
Pythagorean 169.
Pythia, oracle 135, 167, 231; at Delphi 155; at Memphis 65; at. Pyt.hia.
Therma 77.
Pythia Therma (in Bithynia; mod. Yalova) 77; Pythia 441; temple of Rhea,

rededicated to the Theotokos 78.

Pythian games 152.
Pytho, spirit of 454.

Quadratus (governor of. Syria, 474/491;

Quadrigae, by river Argyros, 307.

PLRE

iI

932) 389 app.

Quinctius (T. Quinctius Crispinus Valerianus, cos suf 2),

Quintianus (L. Ragonius Quintianus, cos 289; PLRE

226

app.

758) 306.
Quintilian (N. Aur. Cla.ulius Qui.ntilius, Augustus 270; PLRE 1759) 299.
Quintus Marcianus (Q. Marcius Rex, proconsul of Cilicia 67) 225.
Quirinius (?P. Sulpicius Quirinius, cos 12 BC, governor of Syria 6/7 AD)
222, 227.

Rabshakeh, Assyrian general 144-7.

Rakoustis; see Alexandria.
Rapheis, in Thaiman 142.
Ravenna, in Italy 349, 384.
Red; see Factions.
Regia; see Antioch, Constantinople.
Remus, brother of Romus 33, 171-2, 178,

180;

see also Antioch, statues.

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362

Resaina; see Theodosioupolis.

Rhea, wife of Kronos 12-13, 15; also known as Semiramis 14.
Rhea; see Alexandria, Pythia Therma.
Rheges (military officer at Caesarea ?484; PLRE II 941) 382.
Rheginos (rnyt.hographer, ?2nd cent) 54.
Rhegion; see Constantinople, gates.
Rhinakoukouroi 11.
Rhodanos (PSC East, 364; PLRE 1764) 340.
Rhodes, island of 11, 190, 406, 436; island state 275, 279.
Rhodes, Kolossos, statue of Helios 149, 279.
Rhodian, Rhodians 122, 149,
Rhodion; see Antioch.
Rhodos Chrysomallos, dancer 386.
Rhosos (in Cilicia; mod. Arsuz) 198, 201, 297.
Ricimer (Fl. Ricimer, MUM West, 456-472; PLRE .II 942-5) 368, 373-5.
Rocky Islands 121 app.
Rogathinos; see John.
215-6,
Roman, Romans 6, 33-4, 162, 171--3, 178-87, 191, 193, 208-13,
218-26, 232, 234-5, 247, 257, 263, 267, 270-1, 275, 285, 287, 291,
297-300, 308, 311-2, 317, 329-31, 335-6, 338, 358, 364, 373, 384,
398-400, 402, 406, 412-15, 427-8, 430-5, 437-8, 441-2, 444-5, 447,
449, 452-9, 461-7, 469-72, 474, 477-8, 486, 490a; Roman state 33, 179,
182, 214, 218, 270, 274, 308, 398, 400, 407-9, 412, 422-3, 449, 460;
Roman territory 185, 426, 431, 435, 441, 450, 455, 461-2, 470, 472,
478.

Romanesia; see Antioch, gates,

Rome 33, 171-3, 175-8, 180-7, 209-1.2,
254-6,
324-5,
428-9,

214-20, 224-5, 232, 243-41, 250-2,

262-3, 293, 295, 297-300, 303, 309, 311-14, 317-20,
341, 344,
347-50, 356, 358-60, 365-6, 368-9, 373-5, 383-5,
451, 459, 479-80, 483-6, 491-2.
259-60,

Campus Mart.ius 290.

Capitol 171, 185, 212, 225,

festival

232,

of Brumalia 179,

Forum of Hadrian 295 ii

temples: Ares 172; Zeus 225, 267.

St.

Peter's

373, 375.

brother of Remus 33, 171-2, 175-80, 237;

statues,
Roxane, daughter of Dareios 194,
Rubellius (L. Rubellius Geminus, cos 29) 236.
Rufirais (MUM per Thraciam 515 etc; PLRE I.I 954-7)
Romus,

see

also

452-3,

Ant.ioch,

455-6,

467,

472, 477.

Rufinus (? F]. Rufinus, cos 392; PLRE I 778-81) 318-9, 363,

Rufus, (C. Caelius Rufus or Nepos, cos 17) 236.
Rufus (? D. Tunius Nov.ius
cos 78) 260.
Rufus (L, lulius Rufus, cos 67) 259.
Rufus (MUM, East, 379/395; PLRE 1784) 345.
Rumoridus (F1. Rumoridus, cos 403; PLRE I 786) 363.

Rusticius

(Q. Herermius Etruascus Messius Decius Caesar, cos 251) 260.

Rust.ICius (Fl. Rusticius, cos 464; PLRE II 962) 373.
Rustuli,

the 1667-8.

Sabaoth,
Saharon,

the Lord God 157,

father of Julian 446 app.

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363

Sabatha (?Sabratha, in N. Africa) 459.

Sabines, the 178.
Sabir. Huns 406, 430, 472.
Sagas, Persian commander (531AD) 453.
Salamias; see Constantia.
Salamina, renamed Diospolis (in Palestine; mod. Ludd) 229.
Salamis, in Cyprus 197, 122, 132.
Salem, later Jerusalem 58, 143; see also Jeboum, Sion.
Salianus (? Salvienus) 243.
Salona, source of marble 339.
Sallust (C. Sallustius Crispus, historian 86-34 BC) 209, 212.
Salustius (Fl. Salustius, cos 363; PLRE I 797-8) 334.
Salutarius; see Phrygia.
Salutius (Saturninus Secundus Salutius, PPO Orientis 361-5, 365-7; PLRE
I

814-7) 329,

337-8, 340.

Samanazos (emperor of the Persians, c.527-8; PLRE Il1) 429.

Samaria, land of 146, 150.
Samaritan, Samaritans 382-3, 445-7, 455-6, 487.
Sambike, daughter of Koades 444 app.
Samian, Samians 158-9.
Samosata (in Euphratesia; mod. Samsat) 329, 465.
Sampsigeramus, priest of Aphrodite at Emesa 296-7.
Sampson, judge of Israel 81, 83, 86.
Sampson; see Constantinople.
Samuel the prophet 90.
Sanatroukios, son of ileerdotes, ruler of the Persians (2nd

cent. AD)
270-1, 273-4.
Sangaris, river (in Bithynia; mod. Sakarya) 289, 490a.
Sapor (Sapor I, emperor of Persia 241-272; PLRE I 802-3) 296-7.
Sapor (Sapor 11, emperor of Persia 309/10-379; PLRE 1 803) 317, 325,
328, 330, 335.
Sappho, lyric poet.ess(c.630 BC) 72.
Saracen, Saracens 59, 139, 223, 233, 295 app, 297-300, 308, 313, 423,
435, 445, 447, 460-6, 478; Indian Saracens 458; Persian Saracens 434,
445; Roman Saracens 463-4.
Sarach, ancestor of Sennacherim 148.
Saramanna; see Daphne, springs,

Sardanapolos, ruler of Assyria 16, 37.

Sarsar, son of Sennacherim 149,
Sasalaminos of Cyprus, father of Amyke 201.
Saturninus (F1. Saturninus, cos 383; PLRE I 807-8) 346.

Saul, son of Kish 90.

Schedios, member of the Hellenes' fleet 107.
Schoineus, father of Ata.lante 165, 189.
Schoineus, foster-father of Orestes 133.
Scipio the Great (P. Scipio Africanus, 236-184/3 BC) 209-11.
Scythia, land of 25-6, 79, 136, 139-40, 402, 417.
Scythian, Scythians 26, 137-8, 140, 393, 405, 432 app, 442, 445; see
also John.
Scythopolis (in Palestine; mod. Besan) 140, 347, 445; previously called
Nyssa 139, and Trikomia 139-40.
Sebaste (in Palestine; mod. Sebastya) 236-7.
Sebastianus (A/2iq. Ped , East, 378; PLRE 1 812-3) 329.
Sebastianus (usurper in Gaul, 412-413; PLRE II 983) 350,

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Index
Seksastianus (military commander,
East, 528, PLRE III) 435, 441-2.
Secundianai; see Constantinople,
Hebdomon.
Secundinus (cos 511; PLRE .11 986) 398,
423 app, 445 app.
Sedek, father of Melchi
58.
Selene; see Antioch, statues.
Seleukeia (in Syria; mod. el-Kabusiye)
142, 199, 204, 264, 270,
363, 421, 443 app, 444; formerly
Palaiopolis 142, Pieria 199.

Seleukeia (.in Isauria;

mod.

Silifke)

Seleukeians, the 271, 412.

Seleukos Nikator (359/354-281

272,

389.

BC) 29, 198-205, 207, 212-3,

276, 347, 418, 428 app.
Seleukos Ka.llinikos (Seleukos II
Kailin.ikos,
Seleukos (Seleukos IV Philopator, 187/6-176/5)246-226 BC) 205.
205, 207.

Seleukos, ex-prefect, father of Olympias (mid,

4th cent.;
348 app,

PLRE

215,

.I

233,

81.8-9)

Selymbria (in Thrace; mod Si.l.ivri)

337-8, 383, 490a.
Selymbria (in Thrace; mod, Silivri)
337-8, 383, 490a.
Semele, daughter of Kadmos 39,
41, 43, 45.
Semeronios, the Babylonian Persian,

historian 16.
Semi.ramis; see Rhea.
Senaton; see Antioch,
Constantinople.
Sennac:herim, ruler of Assyria
144, 148.
Seppharim, city of 146-7.
Septimians, the 294.
Sept.imius Severus (L,
Sept.irnius Severus Pertinax,
291-5, 321.
Seraphim; see Antioch, Jerusalem 143,
261.
Serapis; see Alexandria, temples.
Serenidai, hazardous rocks 121.

Augustus

Sergius, deacon 466-7.

son of Bacchos (MUM, 544-549;
PLRE III) 490.
Sergius, nephew of Aitherios
(562) 493-4.
Sergius, St; see Constantinople,
churches.
Sermion, estate 445 app.
Seruch, inventor of idolatry
53.
Serrjiu,.s,

Servilius (M. Servilius, cos 3)

231.
Servius (grammarian, c.400) 8, :1.62, 181.
Seth, son of Adam 6-7, 10,

Severiarn.un; see Antioch, baths.

Severianus, bishop of Gabala (early

4th cent.) 348 app.
Severium; see Byzantion, baths.
Severus (Fl. Vat, Severus, Augustus
306-307; PLRE
316.
Severus (patriarch of Antioch, 512-518)
400, 411, 470 app, 490a.
Severus; see Flostilianus,
Sextus (Sextus Appuleius, cos 14)
232.
Sextus (Sextus Pompeius, cos 14) 232,

Shec:hem;

see Neapolis.

Shem, son of Noah 9-12, 59.

Sibyl 70; Erythraian 79; Curna ian 180.

Sicily, island of 114, 116-7, 163, 480.
Sida, wife of Belos 30.
Siclon (in Phoenice; mod. Saida) 59, 95,
Sidonians, the 96.
Sidos, son of Egyptos 57-8.

162, 485.

193-211)

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365

Sigris, burial site of Achilles 122, 132 app.

Sikanos, ruler of Sik.i.le 114.
Sikila, renamed Sicily 114.
Sikyonians, the 68.
Silanus (C. Appius Iunius Silanus, cos 28) 236.
Silanus (D. Iunius Sillanus Torquatus, cos 53) 250.
Silpios, Mount, near Antioch 29-30, 37, 136, 141, 199-200,
Silva, city built by Albas 169, 170, 171.
Silvanus (lawyer at Nisibis, 363; PLRE I 841) 336-7.
Silvanus (M. Plautius Silvanus, cos 2 BC) 227.
Silverius (bishop of Rome, 536--7) 479 app.
Silvester (bishop of Rome, 314-335) 317.
Silvii, the 169,

232.

Silv.ius; see Didius Julianus.

Simmas (dux, East, 531; PLRE III) 462-4.
Simon, the ,9gos 252-5.
Simonium, grave of Simon the inagos 255.
Sion, mountain 58.
Siren women 121 app.
Siris, mount 10.
Sirmium (in Pannonia; mod. Sremska Mitrovica) 299, 302, 342, 450.
Sisyphos of Kos (mythographer, 2nd cent.) 117, 119, 132.
Sit.tas (MUM jzraes. 510-538/9, cos 536; PLRE III) 429, 465, 470.
Skamandros, river (mod. Menderes Su) 127, 130.
Skapatha estate 445 app.
Skepine; see Antioch, districts.
Skirt.os, river on which Edessa stands 418.
Skitinoi, original name of the Latins 162.
Skynt.a; see Anazarbos.
Skyrioi, ruled by Lykomedes 132.
Slavs, the 490.
Smyrna (in Asia; mod, .Izmir) 246, 362 app.
Sokrates (philosopher, 469-399 BC) 161.
Solomon, son of David 143, 426, 445 app.
Solomon, temple of 206, 261.
Sol.on of Athens (c.640-c.560 BC) 72, 153.
Solon (unknown consul; perhaps concealing C, Caesar Augustus Germanicus
II, cos 39) 246.
Somnas the scribe 144-6.
Sophokles, tragic poet (497-406/5 BC) 40-1, 161.
Sorthes, member of the Hellenes' fleet. 108.
Sosibios, senator of Antioch (late 1st. cent. BC) 224, 248, 284.
Sosthenion (mod, Istiniye), site of chapel of the Archangel Michael 78,
403,

405.

Sostris, ruler of Egypt 25-27; Sosis 244.

Sotates, unidentified mythographer 255.
Soter; see Antiochos 1.
Souga; see Helenoupolis.

Sounikas (duy, fast, 530-531; PLRE 111) 453, 462-4.

Souron (in Osrhoene) 442,
Sousa, fortress renamed Just.inianoupol..is 444.
Spain 161, 344, 431.
Spaniard
Spart.a,

(of Theodosius) 343, 345, 348;

in Hellas 94-6, 107, 122 app.

Spaniards 432.

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Spates, Persian satrap (c.256)

297.
Sphinx, a widow and a brigand
50-1, 53.
Sporakios (scholarius, East., ?481;
PURE lI 1026) 387.
St.heneboia, also known as Anteia,

wife of Proitos 83.

Stephanikios (military commander,
East, 531; PLRE III) 463.
Stephen, St; see Antioch, martyrium.
Stephanos (bishop of Antioch,
476-479) 380-1.
Stephanos (Roman officer,
531; PLRE III) 462,
Stephanos, surnamed Syros
(proconsul in First Palestine, 555;

PLRE III)

(lyric poet, 6th cent. BC) 1.69.

Stilicho, maq,mil,, West, 394-408,

PLRE

487.
St.esichoros

Stilicho

(Fl.
351.

453-8)
Stoudios; see Constantinople, House
of.
Strategion; see Byzantion, Byzoupolis.

Strategios

(Fl.

Strategius,

467-472.

patricius etc,

cos 400,

535-c,538;

405;

.PURE

1034-6)

II

Strat.on's Tower;

see Caesarea in Palestine.

Stratonike, wife of Seleukos
Nikator 198, 204.

Stxatonikos, St.; see Constantinople, churches.

Strophios, father of Pylades

134.
Suetanius; see Tranquillus.
Sulla (L, Cornelius Sulla
Felix, cos 33) 241.
Sulpicius (L. Livius Ocella
Sulpir_ius Galba, cos 33)
241.
Sun 73, 173, 175; Phoibos
Titan 73; see also Festivals.
Surenas (Persian noble, 363;
PLRE 1861) 335, 336.
Sychaios, husband of Dido 162-3.
Sykai (mod, Galata) 383, 389,
403, 405, 430, 485 app, 490;
renamed
Justinianoupolis 430; churcbl%
St Konon's 389, 431, 473; St Thekla
405.

Symeon,

St, the Stylite 369,

Symeon, also known as Simon, patriarch

of Antioch 259.
Symeon, St. the Miracle Worker
443 app.
Symmachus (Aurelius Valerius
Tullianus Symmachus, cos 330;
PLRE
319.

Syria

app,

11-12,

29-31,

871)

37,

140-1, 197-9, 202-4, 211-13,

222-3,
225-7, 235, 241, 244-7, 264, 136,
266, 270-1, 273, 280, 293, 296-7,
308,
318-9, 324, 338, 346-7,

363,

381;

First

Syria

Second Syria 448; First and

Second Syria 365.
Syrian, Syrians 29, 141-2, 248,
286, 293, 347, 400,
Syros, son of Agenor 30-1, 34, 199.

378,

445,

403-4,

407,

448,

452;

428 app.

Tacitt.ts

(M. Clauclius Tacitus, Augustus 275-276;

PLRE 1873) 301.
Taizanes, Saracen chieftan (c.531)
460.
Tanais, river (mod. Don) 11.
Tantalos, ruler of the Mykenaians
80-1.
Tanta.los, father of Niobe 189,
Tapharas (phylarch of pro-Roman
Arabs, 528; PLRE III) 441.
Tarluinius Superbus (L. Targt.tinius
Superbus, last king of Rome)
188.
Tarsos (mod. Tarsus) 37, 302, 393; previously
Andrasos 37.
Tatianos (Christian apologist,
2nd cent.) 242.
Tauros, ruler of Crete 30-1.
Taurus, Pasiphae's secretary 86-7.

180-3,

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Tauros, mountain in Isauria 210.

Teiresias, Boiotian philosopher 40, 42.
Tekmessa, daughter of Teuthras 103, 132.
Telamon, father of Aias 77.
Telamonios; see Aias.
Telegonos, son of Odysseus 122 app.
Telemachos, son of Odysseus 122 app.
Telephos, son of Herakies 162, 167.
Tenedos, island of 113.
Teukros, brother of Aias Telamonios 102, 122-3, 126, 132.
Teuthides, member of the Hellenes' fleet 107.
Teuthhras, father of Tekmessa 103.
Thaiman, land of 147,
Thalassios (governor of Syria, 474/491; PLRE II 1061) 389 app.
Thales (philosopher, 6th cent. BC) 72, 157.
Tha.llos (historian, 1st cent.) 157.
Thalpis, member of the Hellenes' fleet 107 app.
Thara, ruler of the Ethiopians 147.
Tharras, father of Abraham 55, 57.
Tharras; see Ares.
Theano, wife of Antenor 109.

Thebaid, the, in Egypt 161, 217, 28:1, 293.

Theban, Thebans 17, 190, 233.

Thebes, in Boiotia 49-53; formerly Enchilia 49.

Thekla, St; see Sykai.
Themis, inventor of tragic songs 142.
Theoboos, son of Bronton 45-6, 49.
Theoder.ic (Fl. Theodericus, king of the Ostrogoths 471-526, ruler of
Italy 493-526; PLRE II 1077-84) 358, 380, 383-4, 451, 459 app.
Theodora (Augusta 527-548; PLRE IIi) 422-3, 430, 440-1, 449 app, 475
app, 476 app, 480 app, 483 app, 484.
Theodora, Holy Martyr; see Constantinople, churches.
Theodore Kondocheres, son of Peter the ,awiater 490a,
Theodorias; see Anascirthon.
Theodorias, province 448.
Theodoros (cones [7rientr:s, ?c.489/490; PLRE 11 1092) 389.
Theodoros (Theodorus Teganistes, PUC 518/519, 520, 524/526; PLRE II
1096) 412 app, 416, 475 app.

Theodoros (patricius, ?MUM vacans 528:

Theodoros (?MUM honorary, day Pa.lest.ri
Theodoros, nicknamed the Nikomedian (
562; PLRE III) 490.
Theodosioupolis
Resaina 345.

Theodosius
Spaniard

(in

Osrhoene;

(Fl. Theodosius,

mod.

PLRE
.9e

III)

529;

442.
111) 446.

PLRE

curator dolenicaee.
Ras

Augustus

el-Ain)

379-395;

domus

PIacrdiae

398;

formerly

345,

PLRE

.1

904-5),

the

401, 489.

Theodosius the

Younger (Theodosius 11, Augustus 402-450; PLRE

349-61,

363, 365-7,
Theodosius ( rwafectus

9.l.is 516: PLRE 11 1102) 401.

Theodosius; see Alexandria, churches.

Theodosius Zt.ikkas ( v. .inl. East, c.523; PLRE .II 1102) 416.

Theodotos (Theodotos Colocynthius, PUC 522/3; PLRE II 1104) 416.
Theodotos, surnamed Magalas, durof Palestine 446 app.
Theoeides; see Antiochos II.

II

11.00)

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Index
Theokritos (Theocritus,
comes, East
Theokrit.os (bishop of
518; PLRE II
1065) 410, 411.
Caesarea in Cappadocia)
Theon,
philosopher (of
489.
Theophilos, chronicler Alexandria, fl. 364) 343.
(? bishop

app, 157, 195,

of Antioch,
169) 5, 18, 29, 59,
220, 228, 252,
85, 143
428.
Theophi.los (bishop of
Alexandria, 385-412)
Theophilos
349 app.
r1S 81t../1ypni i 467;
Theoupolis; see
PLRE
Antioch.
1109) 370.
Therai
Hadrianou, in Thrace
280.
Therma; see
Alexandria, baths.
Thermal; see

(cons,I

II

Thessalonike.
Thermos, builder
of the
Therma in Alexandria
Theseus, son of
293.
Aigeus 87-9.
Thessalonike, in Macedonia
187,
190,
hippodrome 347,
347, 478 app;
formerly Thermal 190.
Thessaly 77, 79,
87-8, 132, 190,
Thestia, mythical
209, 224.
city in Lakonia
Thestias, father
82.
of Leda 82.
Thetis, wife of
Peleus 97, 104.
Thaas, ruler of
Sc_ythia 107, 140.
Tholas, Israelite
leader 76-7,
Thomas
79.
East, 526),
Thomas (quaestor,
called the
Thomas (PUC, 547; 528-529; PLRE III) 449, 475 Hebrew 420.
PLRE III) 480
app, 476 app.
app, 483.
Thoukydicles,
historian (460/455-Thoulis, ruler of
c.400 BC) 169,
Egypt. 24.
Thrace, province
16,

72,

236, 262,
402, 403, 436,
280, 291, 320,
438, 451, 475
343,
app, 481 app,
Thracian, Thracians
490, 490a.
102, 291, 359,
402, 410,
Thraustila (king of the
425, 442.
Gepids, d. before
Thyas, brother of
504) 450.
Thyestes, ruler of Hippodame.ia Briseis 101.
the
Thymbrios; see
Peloponnesians 85, 133.
Apollo.
Tiberianus, governor
of First
Tiberias (in
Palestine 273.
Palestine; mod.
Tiberias, in Thrace
Tabariye) 235,
236.
2455.

Tiberius

(Tiberius Julius

346.

Tigranes (Tigranes
Tigris, river,

Timotheos,

Caesar,

Augustus 14-47)

372,

232-4,

of Armenia,
c.95-c.55 BC) 211-2,
in
Mesopotamia 11, 330,
223.
I

379,

240-3,

383,

246,

converted
444.
Timotheos, chronicler Persian
8, 76, 158-9,
Timothy,
228, 232, 428.
of 484.
Timothy (bishop of
Caesarea, c.484)
T.ishbite; see
382.
Elijah.
Titan; see Sun.
Tithon, Indian
leader at Troy 127.
Titus (T. Flavius
Vespasienus, Augustus
Tlepolemos, one of
79-81) 259-62.
the Hellenes'
leaders 107 app,
To.lpillianus, also known
108, 126.
as Trochelus
258.
(P. Galerius
Trachalus, cos
Totila (Totila
68)
Baduila, king of the
Trachon, also
Goths, 541-552;
known as Iron
PLRE III)
Mountain (mod. Gebel
486.
T.rac,hon.it.is, subject

relics

to

Nero 236-7.

Hauran) 447.

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369

Il.lp.i.L1s Tralanus, Augustus 98-117)

Tranquillus, historian (G. Suetonius Tranquil.lus,
Trassus, Roman dux defeated by Zenobia 299.
Tr.ibonian (c.490-542; PLRE II) 475.

Trajan (H.

Triesperos; see Heraltles, son of

282.
c,69- c.125) 344.

A1.kmene.

Trikerberos, Aides' dog 62.

Trikka, in Thessa.ly 108.
Trikomia, renamed Nyssa and Scythopolis 139-40.

Trikonitans, the 139.

Trilithon; see Helioupolis.
Trinymphon; see Antioch.
Triopas, ruler of the Argives 68.
Tripolis, in North Africa 459,
Tripolis, in Phoenice 367, 485.
bath, the Ikaros 367.
Phakidion 367.
statues: Bellerophon 367; Daiclalos 367; Pegasos 367.
Triptolemos, sent in search of Io 29,
Triptolemos from Lichon, member of the Heilenes' fleet 107 app.
Trismegistos; see Hermes.
Trochelus; see To.lpil.lianus.
Trocundes (Fl. Appa.lius Il.lus T.rocundes, cos 482; PLRE IT 1127-8)

Troilos, son of Priam 105, 129-30.

Trojan, Trojans 99-100, 109-12, 123, 126,

128-;11

143, 167; Trojan War

162, 166, 250.

Tros, father of Illios and Ganymede 79, 81, 96, 109.

Troy 79, 91, 93, 95, 97-9, 104--5, 108-10,
113, 115,
166-8, 193, 216.
Tryphon (PUC, 532) 475 app, Bk 18: App U.

Turrnas,

379.

119,

132,

142,

ruler' of the Rustuli 168.

Tyana (in Cappadocia; mod. Kilise Hisar) 263-6.

Tydeus, father of Diomedes 53 app, 163-6.
Tyndareos, father of Klytaimnestra 82-3, 135.
Typhon, river, alternative namme for Orontes 141.,
Tyranx (Hun king, 528; PLRE 111) 431.
Tyre (.in Phoenice; mod. Tyr) 30-2, 162, 424, 485.
Tyrian 32.
Tyro, wife of Agenor 30.
Tzannic territory 301.
Tzannoi, the 347.
Tzouroukkas; see Constantius.
Tzouroulon, in Thrace 490a.

Urbicius (PSC East, micl.5th-ear.l.y 6th cent.;

Urbicius; see Antioch, baths.
Ursus (F.lavius Ursus, cos 338) 324.

197.

PLRE .I.i

1188-90) 387 app.

Valamar (king of the Ostrogoths, c.447-c.465; PLRE II 1135--6) 383, 429,

460; see also Theoderic.
Valens (Fiav.ius Valens, Augustus 364-378; PLRE 1 930) 338, 342-3.
Valentia, later Rome 168, 171.
Forum Boar.ium 171.
Valentinian (Flav.ius Va.lent.inianus, August.Lls 364-375; PLRE 1 933-4)

337-43.

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Index

Valentinian (Placidus Valentinianus = Valentinian III, Augustus 425-455;

PLRE II 1138) 350, 356, 358, 360, 365.
Valentinian, emperor in Rome, relative of Valerian (2) 344.

Valerian (P. Licinius Valerians, Augustus 253-260) 295, 297.

Valerian (2), son of Mariana 341, 344.
Valeriana, mother of John (PLRE iI 1141) 404.
Valeriana (granddaughter of Nomos, wife of Zt.athios,

522;

PLRE

II

1141)

413.

Valerius (cos 432;

PLRE II 1145)
Vandal, Vandals 365, 372-3.

353, 355.

Varium; see Antioch, baths.

Varies (`?Curies Varius; Downey, 1961, 191, note 127) 244-5.
Varronianus (comes ao)Pesticorum, c.363; PLRE I 946) 334.
Varus (P. Alfenus Varus, cos. 2) 230.
Venetia, province in Italy 176.
Venetian 176.
Vergil (P. Vergilius Marc), 70-19 BC) 132, 162, 178, 216, 220, 285.
Verina (Aelia Verina, Augusta, wife of Leo I; PLRE II 1156) 372, 377-8,

380, 385-9,

Verona 492.
Veronica, from Paneas 237, 239.
Veronica; see also Beronike.
Venus; see Antommnus.

Vespasian (T. F.lavius Vespas.ianus, Augustus 69-79) 259-61.

Victor, (PVC, 528; PLRE III) 436.

Victor (cos 369: PLRE 1 957) 330.
Vigilius (bishop of Rome, 537-555) 483-5.
Vinclicius, Brutus' slave 181-3.
Vinicius (P. Vinicius, cos

2) 230.
Vita.lianus, cos 520; PLRE 11 1171-6) 402-6, 411-2, 441.
Vitellius, governor of Syria (
P. Quinctilius Varus, governor of Syria
6-4 BC; Downey, 1961, 167) 226.
Vitellius (A. Vitellius, Augustus 69) 229.

V.it.alian

(Fl.

Vitus, a money-dealer 494.

Witigis (king of the Ostrogoths, 536-542) 480, 481.

Xenar.ios,

architect at Antioch

200.

Xenophon (of Athens, 430/435-c.355 BC) 188.

Xerolophos; see Constantinople,
Xerxes, son of Koades 441.
Xystos; see Antioch.

Zaboulonite; see Eglom.

Zacharias (c(was
Zames,

t7.rient.,r;s, 527; PLRE

father of Tharras

Zarbos, Roman senator Os

15.

.I

1194) 424.

cent.) 267-8.

Zekike, mother of Alamoundaros (PLRE II 40) 445 app.

Zemarchos (PUC 565; PLRE III) 487 app, 490, 490a, 496a.
Zeno (Fl, Zenon, Augustus, 474-491; PLRE II 1200-2) 375-91, 453 app, 475
app; Zeno Koclisseos 375-66,
Zenohia (SPptimia Zenabia, queen of Palmyra, c.267-272; PLRE 1990-1)
297, 300.
2.enodot.os
secnetis, 562; PLRE 111) 490.

(a

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Index

Zenodotos; see Antioch, basilicas.

48-9; see also Antioch, statues.
Zethos, brother of Amphion 46,

88, 94, 171, 185, 199, 203,

Zeus 6 app, 31, 34, 41, 44, 49, 80-1,94;83,Bottios
200; Capitoline 234;
311; Ammon 189; Asterios
Olympian 90, 206, 283-4,
199,
207, 327; Keraunios 199, 212;
Kasios
0-1, 34-5, 41, 45,
28, 3Kronos
12-14,
16-17,
of
Kronos
son
307; Picus Zeus,
of
275;
son
Saviour
49, 55, 69, 82, 161, 171, 174;
286-7,

baths.
Zeuxippon, see Constantinople,
69.
Zeuxippos, ruler of the Sikyonians
statues.
see
Constantinople,
Zeuxippos;
518-c.522; PLRE II 1203) 414-5.
Zilgibi (king of the Huns,
444; PLRE II 1204) 360 app.
Zoilos (PPO
15.
Zoroaster, Persian astronomer
158.
Zorobabel, Israelite -leader
Zoupara, in Thrar..e 490a.
522-c.527; PLRE II 1207) 412, 414,
Ztathios (king of the In,
see
Theodosius.
Ztikkas;
Ztoummas; see Chrysaphios.

427.