Hydatius: Chronicon

Alexandriae XXI habetur episcopus Theophilus vir eruditissimus, insignis qui a primo consulatu Theodosii augusti Laterculum per centum annos digestum de paschae observatione conscripsit.

At Alexandria the 21st bishop, Theophilus, is counted, a most erudite man, distinguished, who from the first consulship of Theodosius Augustus compiled a Laterculum, arranged for one hundred years, on the observation of Pascha (Easter).

III. (Olymp. CCXC.) Athanaricus, rex Gothorum, apud Constantinopolim decimo quinto die ex quo a Theodosio fuerat susceptus, interiit.

3. (Olymp. 290.) Athanaric, king of the Goths, at Constantinople, on the fifteenth day after he had been received by Theodosius, died.

IV. (Aer. Hisp. CDXC.) Gothi infida Romanis pace se tradunt.

4. (Span. Era 490.) The Goths surrender themselves to the Romans under a perfidious peace.

Ambrosius in Italia Mediolani episcopus, Martinus in Galliis Turonis episcopus, et vitae meritis et patratis miraculis virtutum habentur insignes.

Ambrose in Italy, bishop of Milan, and Martin in the Gauls, bishop of Tours, are held distinguished both by the merits of life and by accomplished miracles of virtues.

V. Theodosius Arcadium filium suum augustum appellans, regni facit sibi esse consortem.

5. Theodosius, calling his son Arcadius “Augustus,” makes him his consort in the kingdom.

VI. (Eus. MMCD.) Honorius nascitur filius Theodosii.

6. (Eus. 2400.) Honorius, the son of Theodosius, is born.

Legati Persarum ad Theodosium Constantinopolim veniunt.

The legates of the Persians come to Theodosius at Constantinople.

VII. (Olymp. CCXCI.) Greothingorum gens a Theodosio superatur.

7. (Olymp. 291.) The nation of the Greothingi is overcome by Theodosius.

Priscillianus declinans in haeresim Gnosticorum, per episcopos quos sibi in eadem pravitate collegerat, Abulae episcopus ordinatur: qui aliquot episcoporum conciliis auditus, Italiam petit et Romam. Ubi ne ad conspectum quidem sanctorum episcoporum Damasi et Ambrosii receptus, cum his cum quibus iverat, redit ad Gallias. Inibi similiter a sancto Martino episcopo, et ab aliis episcopis haereticus judicatus, appellat ad Caesarem quia in Galliis his [Ms. hisdem] diebus potestatem tyrannus Maximus obtinebat imperii.

Priscillian, turning aside into the heresy of the Gnostics, by means of the bishops whom he had gathered to himself in the same depravity, is ordained bishop of Ávila; and, having been heard by several councils of bishops, he makes for Italy and Rome. There, not admitted even to the presence of the holy bishops Damasus and Ambrose, he returns with those with whom he had gone, to Gaul. There likewise, judged a heretic by Saint Martin the bishop and by other bishops, he appeals to Caesar, because in Gaul in those [Ms. hisdem] days the tyrant Maximus was holding the power of the imperium.

VIII. Arcadii quinquennalia celebrantur.

8. Arcadius’s quinquennial celebrations are held.

Romanae Ecclesiae XXXVI habetur episcopus SIRICIUS.

Of the Roman Church, SIRICIUS is held to be the 36th bishop.

IX. Priscillianus propter supra dictam haeresem ab episcopatu depulsus, et cum ipso Latronianus laicus, aliquantique sectatores ejus apud Trevirim sub tyranno Maximo caeduntur. Exin in Gallaeciam Priscillianistarum haeresis invasit.

9. Priscillian, on account of the above-said heresy, was driven from the bishopric, and along with him Latronianus, a layman; and several followers of his were slain at Trier under the tyrant Maximus. Thereupon the heresy of the Priscillianists invaded Gallaecia.

X. Maximus tyrannus occiditur per Theodosium tertio lapide ab Aquileia quinto kalendas Augustas: et eodem tempore vel ipso anno in Galliis per Arbogastem [Ms. Arvagastem] comitem filius Maximi nomine Victor exstinctus est.

10. Maximus the tyrant is slain by Theodosius at the third milestone from Aquileia on the fifth day before the Kalends of August; and at the same time, or in that very year, in Gaul, by the count Arbogast [Ms. Arvagastem], Maximus’s son named Victor was extinguished.

Cynegius Theodosii praefectus habetur illustris, qui factis insignibus praeditus et usque ad Aegyptum penetrans gentium simulacra subvertit.

Cynegius, Theodosius’s prefect, is held illustrious, who, endowed with notable deeds and penetrating even to Egypt, subverted the simulacra of the nations.

XI. (Olymp. CCXCII.) Theodosius cum Honorio filio suo Romam ingressus est.

11. (Olymp. 292.) Theodosius, with his son Honorius, entered Rome.

XIV. Valentianus junior apud Viennam scelere comitis Arbogasti [Ms. Arvagasti] occiditur, et Eugenius tyrannus efficitur.

14. Valentinian junior is slain at Vienne by the crime of Count Arbogastes [Ms. Arvagasti], and Eugenius is made tyrant.

XV. (Olymp. CCXCIII. Aer.

15. (Olymp. 293. Aer.

Hisp. CDXXX.)

Hispanic Era 430.)

XVI. (Eus. MMCDX.) Eugenius a Theodosio augusto superatus occiditur.

16. (Eus. 2410.) Eugenius, overcome by Theodosius Augustus, is slain.

XVII. Theodosius invaletudine hydropis apud Mediolanum defunctus est anno regni sui XVII. Et iste annus, qui Theodosii XVII ipse Arcadii et Honorii in initio regni eorum primus est: quod ideo indicatur ne olympiadem quinque annorum turbet adjectio, in hoc loco tantum propter regnantum inserta [a] principium.

17. Theodosius, by an infirmity of dropsy, died at Milan in the 17th year of his reign. And this year, which is Theodosius’s 17th, is itself the first of Arcadius and Honorius at the beginning of their reign: which is indicated for this reason, lest the addition disturb the Olympiad of five years, inserted [a] in this place only on account of the beginning of the reigns.

Romanorum XL, ARCADIUS et HONORIUS Theodosii filii defuncto patre regnant annis XXX.

Of the Romans 40, ARCADIUS and HONORIUS, sons of Theodosius, with their father deceased, reign for 30 years.

II. (Olymp. CCXCIV.)

2. (Olympiad 294.)

III. [Romanae Ecclesiae XXXVII habetur episcopus ANASTASIUS.]

3. [In the Roman Church, ANASTASIUS is held to be the 37th bishop.]

IV.

V. In provincia Carthaginiensi in civitate Toleto synodus episcoporum contrahitur, in qua quod gestis continetur, Symphosius et Dictinius, et alii cum his Gallaeciae provinciae episcopi, Priscilliani sectatores haeresem ejus blasphemissimam cum assertore eodem professionis suae subscriptione condemnant. Statuuntur quaedam etiam observanda de Ecclesiae disciplina, communicante in eodem concilio Ortigio episcopo qui Caelenis fuerat ordinatus, sed agentibus Priscillianistis pro fide catholica pulsus factionibus exsulabat.

5. In the Carthaginian province, in the city Toledo, a synod of bishops is convened, in which, as is contained in the Acts, Symphosius and Dictinius, and others with them, bishops of the province of Gallaecia, sectators of Priscillian, by the subscription of their profession condemn his most blasphemous heresy together with the same asserter. Certain things also are established to be observed concerning the discipline of the Church, with Bishop Ortigius communicating in the same council, who had been ordained at Caelenis; but, the Priscillianists maneuvering, he, driven by factions for the catholic faith, was in exile.

VI. (Olymp. CCXCV.)

6. (Olympiad 295.)

VII.

VIII. Solis facta defectio tertio idus Novembris feria secunda.

8. A solar eclipse occurred on the third day before the Ides of November, on Monday.

Romanae Ecclesiae XXXVIII [Ms. XXXVII] habetur episcopus INNOCENTIUS.

In the Roman Church the 38th [Ms. 37] bishop is reckoned to be INNOCENT.

IX. (Eus. MMCCCCXX.) Theodosius Arcadii filius nascitur.

9. (Eus. 2420.) Theodosius, son of Arcadius, is born.

X. (Olymp. CCXCVI.) Constantinopoli Joannes episcopus praedicatur insignis, qui ob fidem catholicam Eudoxiam Arcadii uxorem infestissimam patitur Arianam.

10. (Olymp. 296.) At Constantinople Bishop John is proclaimed eminent, who, on account of the catholic faith, suffers Eudoxia, the wife of Arcadius, as a most hostile Arian.

XI.

11.

XII. Hierosolymis Joannes, Caesarea Eulogius, Cypro Epiphanius, Alexandria Theophilus qui supra, episcopi habentur insignes.

12. In Jerusalem John, in Caesarea Eulogius, in Cyprus Epiphanius, in Alexandria Theophilus who was mentioned above, are held as distinguished bishops.

Hieronymus presbyterio praeditus, in Bethleem Judae vicina consistens, praecipuus habetur in cunctis.

Jerome, endowed with the presbyterate, residing in Bethlehem, neighboring Judaea, is held preeminent among all.

XIII. Post supra scriptos sane Arianos, qui Hierosolymis ante Joannem episcopi fuerint, Idatius qui haec scribit, scire non potuit. Hunc vero sanctum cum sanctis Eulogio, Theophilo et Hieronymo vidit, et infantulus et pupillus.

13. After the above-written Arians, who had been bishops at Jerusalem before John, Hydatius, who writes these things, could not know. But he indeed saw this holy man together with the holy Eulogius, Theophilus, and Jerome, both when he was a little infant and a ward (orphan).

XIV. (Olymp. CCXCVII.)

14. (Olympiad 297.)

XV. Alani, et Wandali, et Suevi Hispanias ingressi aera CCCCXLVII, alii quarto kalendas, alii tertio idus Octobris memorant die, tertia feria, Honorio VIII et Theodosio Arcadii filio III consulibus.

15. The Alans, and the Vandals, and the Sueves, having entered the Spains in the Era 447, some record the day as the fourth before the Kalends, others as the third day before the Ides of October, on the third feria (Tuesday), in the consulship of Honorius 8 and of Theodosius, son of Arcadius, 3.

Alaricus, rex Gothorum, Romam ingressus, cum intra et extra urbem caedes agerentur, omnibus indultum est qui ad sanctorum limina confugerunt.

Alaric, king of the Goths, having entered Rome, while massacres were being carried on inside and outside the city, an indult was granted to all who fled to the thresholds of the saints.

Placidia Theodosii filia, Honorii imperatoris soror, a Gothis in urbe capta.

Placidia, daughter of Theodosius, sister of the emperor Honorius, was captured by the Goths in the city.

Alaricus moritur, cui Ataulfus succedit in regno.

Alaric dies, and Ataulf succeeds him in the kingdom.

Barbari qui in Hispanias ingressi fuerant, caede depraedantur hostili. Pestilentia suas partes non segnius operatur.

The barbarians who had entered into the Spains depredate with hostile slaughter. Pestilence performs its part no less actively.

XVI. Debacchantibus per Hispanias barbaris, et saeviente nihilominus pestilentiae malo, opes et conditam in urbibus substantiam tyrannicus exactor diripit, et miles exhaurit [Ms. milites]: fames dira grassatur, adeo ut humanae carnes ab humano genere vi famis fuerint devoratae: matres quoque necatis vel coctis per se natorum suorum sint pastae corporibus. Bestiae occisorum gladio, fame, pestilentia, cadaveribus assuetae, quosque hominum fortiores interimunt, eorumque carnibus pastae passim in humani generis efferantur interitum.

16. While the barbarians were raging through Spain, and the evil of pestilence was likewise raging, a tyrannical exactor plunders the wealth and the substance stored up in the cities, and the soldier drains it [Ms. milites]: a dire famine stalks, to such a degree that human flesh was devoured by the human race under the force of hunger: mothers too, their own offspring slain or cooked by themselves, were fed on their bodies. Beasts, accustomed to the corpses of those slain by sword, famine, and pestilence, even kill the stronger among men; and, having fed on their flesh, they are everywhere made savage for the destruction of the human race.

Et ita quatuor plagis ferri, famis, pestilentiae, bestiarum, ubique in toto orbe saevientibus, praedictae a Domino per prophetas suos annuntiationes implentur.

And so, with the four plagues—of iron, of famine, of pestilence, of beasts—raging everywhere in the whole orb, the annunciations foretold by the Lord through his prophets are fulfilled.

XVII. Subversis memorata plagarum grassatione Hispaniae provinciis, barbari ad pacem ineundam, Domino miserante conversi, sorte ad inhabitandum sibi provinciarum dividunt regiones. Gallaeciam Wandali occupant et Suevi, sitam in extremitate Oceani maris occidua.

17. With the provinces of Spain overthrown by the rampage of the aforementioned plagues, the barbarians—converted, the Lord taking pity, to enter into peace—divide by lot among themselves the regions of the provinces to inhabit. Gallaecia, situated at the western extremity of the Ocean-sea, the Vandals and the Suevi occupy.

Alani Lusitaniam et Carthaginiensem provincias, et Wandali cognomine Silingi Baeticam sortiuntur. Hispani per civitates et castella residui a plagis, barbarorum per provincias dominantium se subjiciunt servituti.

The Alans draw by lot Lusitania and the Carthaginensian province, and the Vandals, surnamed the Silingi, Baetica. The Spaniards, through the cities and castles, survivors from the scourges, subject themselves to servitude under the barbarians dominating throughout the provinces.

Constantinus post triennium invasae tyrannidis ab Honorio duce Constantio intra Gallias occiditur.

Constantine, after three years of the usurped tyranny, is killed within Gaul by Constantius, the general of Honorius.

XVIII. (Olymp. CCXC III.) Jovinus et Sebastianus fratres intra Galliam, et in Africa Heraclianus pari tyrannidis inflantur insania.

18. (Olymp. 293.) Jovinus and Sebastianus, brothers, within Gaul, and in Africa Heraclianus, are inflated with an equal insanity of tyranny.

Augustinus Hipponeregiensis episcopus habetur insignis, inter cujus studia magnifica, Donatistas ab eo Dei adjutorio superatos, probata fides demonstrat auctorum.

Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius, is held distinguished, among whose magnificent studies, that the Donatists were overcome by him with the aid of God, the proven credence of the authorities demonstrates.

XIX. (Eus. MMCCCCXXX.) Jovinus et Sebastianus oppressi ab Honorii ducibus Narbona interfecti sunt.

19. (Eus. 2430.) Jovinus and Sebastianus, overpowered by Honorius’s generals, were killed at Narbo.

Gothi Narbonam ingressi vindemiae tempore.

The Goths entered Narbonne at the time of the vintage.

Heraclianus movens exercitum de Africa adversus Honorium, Utriculo in Italia in conflictu superatus effugit in Africam, caesis in loco supra dicto L millibus armatorum. Ipse post Carthagine in aede Memoriae per Honorium percussoribus missis occiditur.

Heraclianus, moving an army from Africa against Honorius, at Utriculum in Italy, overcome in a conflict, fled into Africa, with 50 thousand armed men cut down in the aforesaid place. He himself afterward at Carthage, in the shrine of Memory, is slain by assassins sent by Honorius.

XX. Ataulfus apud Narbonam Placidiam duxit uxorem, in quo prophetia Danielis putatur impleta, qui ait filiam regis Austri sociandam regi Aquilonis, nullo tamen ejus ex ea semine subsistente.

20. Ataulf at Narbonne took Placidia to wife, in which the prophecy of Daniel is thought to have been fulfilled, who says that the daughter of the king of the South is to be joined to the king of the North, yet with none of his seed by her surviving.

XXI. Hierosolymis Joanne quo supra episcopo praesidente, sanctus et primus [Ms., praesidente sancto et primus] post Christum Dominum martyr Stephanus revelatur.

21. In Jerusalem, with John the bishop mentioned above presiding, Saint and first [Ms., with the saint presiding and the first] martyr after the Lord Christ, Stephen, is revealed.

Hieronymus, qui supra praecipuus in omnibus, elementorum quoque peritissimus Hebraeorum, in lege Domini, quod scriptum est, diurna nocturnaque meditatione continuus, studia operis sui reliquit innumera. Ad ultimum Pelagianorum [Ms., Pelagiani] sectam eum ejusdem auctore adamantino veritatis malleo contrivit. Adversum hos et adversum alios haereticos exstant ejus probatissima monimenta.

Jerome, who above was preeminent in all things, and most skilled also in the elements of the Hebrews, in the law of the Lord—as it is written—continuous in day-and-night meditation, left behind innumerable studies of his work. At the last he crushed the sect of the Pelagians [Ms., Pelagiani], and its very author, with the adamantine hammer of truth. Against these and against other heretics there exist his most well-proved monuments.

XXII. (Olymp. CCXCIX.) Ataulfus a patricio Constantio pulsatus, ut relicta Narbona Hispanias peteret, per quemdam Gothum apud Barcinonam [Ms. Barcelonam] inter familiares fabulas jugulatur.

22. (Olymp. 299.) Ataulfus, having been driven back by the patrician Constantius, so that, with Narbonne left behind, he might make for Spain, is throttled/slain by a certain Goth at Barcelona [Ms. Barcelonam] amid familiar conversations.

Cui succedens Wallia in regno, cum patricio Constantio pace mox facta, Alanis et Wandalis Silingis, in Lusitania et Baetica sedentibus adversatur.

Succeeding him in the kingship, Wallia, with peace soon made with the patrician Constantius, opposes the Alans and the Siling Vandals, settled in Lusitania and Baetica.

Alexandrinae Ecclesiae post Theophilum quis praesederit, ignoravi haec scribens.

Who presided over the Alexandrian Church after Theophilus, I did not know as I was writing these things.

Constantius Placidiam accepit uxorem.

Constantius accepted Placidia as his wife.

(Fredibalum, regem gentis Wandalorum, sine ullo certamine ingeniose captum ad imperatorem Honorium destinat.)

(Fredibalus, king of the nation of the Vandals, cleverly captured without any contest, he dispatches to Emperor Honorius.)

XXIII. Wallia, rex Gothorum, Romani nominis causa intra Hispanias caedes magnas efficit barbarorum.

23. Wallia, king of the Goths, for the sake of the Roman name, within the Spains brings about great slaughters of the barbarians.

XXIV. Solis facta defectio die decimo quarto kal. Augusti, qui fuit quinta feria.

24. An eclipse of the sun occurred on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of August, which was a Thursday.

Romanae Ecclesiae XXXIX praesidet episcopus ZOSIMUS [Ms., Eulalius].

Over the Roman Church the 39th bishop ZOSIMUS presides [Ms., Eulalius].

Durante episcopo quo supra, gravissimo terraemotu sancta in Hierosolymis loca quassantur et caetera, de quibus in gestis ejusdem episcopi scripta declarant.

During the bishop mentioned above, the holy places in Jerusalem are shaken by a most grievous earthquake, and other things, about which the writings in the acts of that same bishop declare.

Wandali Silingi in Baetica per Walliam regem omnes exstincti.

The Siling Vandals in Baetica were all extinguished by King Wallia.

Alani qui Wandalis et Suevis potentabantur, adeo caesi sunt a Gothis, ut exstincto Atace [Addace] rege ipsorum, pauci qui superfuerant, abolito regni nomine, Gunderici, regis Wandalorum, qui in Gallaecia resederat, se patrocinio subjugarent.

The Alans, who were dominating the Vandals and the Sueves, were so cut down by the Goths that, their king Ataces [Addace] having been slain, the few who had survived, with the name of the kingdom abolished, subjected themselves to the patronage of Gunderic, king of the Vandals, who had settled in Gallaecia.

Gothi intermisso certamine quod agebant, per Constantium ad Gallias revocati, sedes in Aquitanica a Tolosa usque ad Oceanum acceperunt.

The Goths, with the contest they were waging intermitted, being recalled to the Gauls through Constantius, received settlements in Aquitanica from Tolosa as far as the Ocean.

Wallia eorum rege defuncto, Theodoricus succedit in regno.

Wallia, their king, having died, Theodoric succeeded in the kingdom.

XXV. Inter Gundericum Vandalorum, et Hermericum Suevorum reges certamine orto, Suevi in Nervasi [Ms., Nerbasis] montibus obsidentur a Wandalis.

25. A conflict having arisen between Gunderic, king of the Vandals, and Hermeric, king of the Suevi, the Suevi are besieged by the Vandals in the Nervasian [Ms., Nerbasis] mountains.

Valentinianus Constantii et Placidiae filius nascitur.

Valentinian, the son of Constantius and Placidia, is born.

In Gallicana regione, in civitate Biterris, multa signa effecta terrifica, Paulini episcopi ejusdem civitatis epistola enarrat ubique directa.

In the Gallican region, in the city of Biterris, many terrifying signs were wrought, as an epistle of Paulinus, bishop of the same city, sent everywhere, recounts.

XXVI. (Olymp. CCC.) Wandali Suevorum obsidione dimissa, instante Asterio Hispaniarum comite, sub vicario Maurocello, aliquantis Bracarae in exitu suo occisis, relicta Gallaecia ad Baeticam transierunt.

26. (Olympiad 300.) The Vandals, the siege by the Suebi being lifted, with Asterius, Count of the Spains, pressing, under the vicarius Maurocello, with several having been killed at Bracara during their exit, leaving Gallaecia crossed over to Baetica.

[Romanae Ecclesiae XL praesidet episcopus BONIFACIUS.]

[The 40th bishop, BONIFACE, presides over the Roman Church.]

Honorius apud Ravennam Constantium consortem sibi facit in regno.

Honorius at Ravenna makes Constantius his consort in the reign.

XXVII. Constantius, imperator Ravennae, moritur in suo tertio consulatu.

27. Constantius, emperor at Ravenna, dies in his third consulship.

XXVIII. Castinus magister militum cum magna manu et auxiliis Gothorum, bellum in Baetica Wandalis infert: quos cum ad inopiam vi obsidionis arctaret, adeo ut se tradere jam pararent, inconsulte publico certamine confligens, auxiliorum fraude deceptus ad Tarraconam [Ms., Terraconam] victus effugit.

28. Castinus, Master of Soldiers, with a great band and with Gothic auxiliaries, brings war upon the Vandals in Baetica: and when by the force of a siege he was pressing them into want, to such a degree that they were already preparing to surrender, rashly engaging in a pitched battle, deceived by the treachery of the auxiliaries, defeated, he fled to Tarraco [Ms., Terraconam].

Bonifacius palatium deserens Africam invadit.

Boniface, deserting the palace, invades Africa.

XXIX. (Eus. MMCCCCXI.)

29. (Eus. 2411.)

XXX. (Olymp. CCCI.) Honorius actis tricennalibus suis Ravennae obiit.

30. (Olymp. 301.) Honorius, his tricennalia having been celebrated, died at Ravenna.

Paulinus nobilissimus et eloquentissimus, dudum conversione ad Deum nobilior factus, vir apostolicus, Nola Campaniae episcopus habetur insignis: cui Therasia de conjuge facta soror, testimonio vitae beatae aequatur et merito. Exstant operis ipsius egregii studia praedicanda.

Paulinus, most noble and most eloquent, long since made more noble by conversion to God, an apostolic man, is held distinguished as bishop of Nola in Campania: to whom Therasia, from spouse made sister, is equaled by the testimony of a blessed life and by merit. The pursuits of his own excellent work stand forth as to be proclaimed.

Romanorum XLI, THEODOSIUS Arcadii filius, ante aliquot annos regnans in partibus Orientis defuncto patre, post obitum Honorii patrui, monarchiam tenet imperii, cum esset annorum viginti sex.

Of the Romans 41, THEODOSIUS, son of Arcadius, having for several years previously reigned in the parts of the East after his father’s death, after the decease of his uncle Honorius, holds the monarchy of the empire, when he was twenty-six years old.

Joannes arripit tyrannidem.

John seizes the tyranny.

I. Theodosius Valentinianum, amitae suae Placidiae filium, Constantinopoli Caesarem facit, et contra Joannem mittit: sub quo a ducibus qui cum eo per Theodosium missi fuerant, apud Ravennam primo anno invasae tyrannidis occiditur, et Felix patricius ordinatur ex magistro militum [Ms., et magister militum].

1. Theodosius makes Valentinian, the son of his aunt Placidia, Caesar at Constantinople, and sends him against John: under whom, by the leaders who had been sent with him by Theodosius, at Ravenna, in the first year of the usurped tyranny, he is slain, and Felix the patrician is appointed from the master of soldiers [Ms., et magister militum].

Valentinianus qui erat Caesar, Romae Augustus appellatur.

Valentinianus, who was Caesar, at Rome is called Augustus.

Wandali Balearicas insulas depraedantur: deinde Carthagine Spartaria, et Hispali eversa et Hispaniis depraedatis, Mauritaniam invadunt.

The Vandals depredate the Balearic islands: then, with Carthago Spartaria and Hispalis overthrown and the Spains depredated, they invade Mauretania.

II. Romanae Ecclesiae XLI [Ms. XL] praesidet episcopus COELESTINUS.

2. Over the Roman Church the 41st [Ms. 40th] bishop, CELESTINE, presides.

III.

IV. (Olymp. CCCII.) Gundericus, rex Wandalorum, capta Hispali, cum impie elatus manus in ecclesiam civitatis ipsius extendisset, mox Dei judicio daemone correptus interiit. Cui Gaisericus frater succedit in regno.

4. (Olymp. 302.) Gunderic, king of the Vandals, after Seville had been captured, when, impiously puffed up, he had laid hands upon the church of that city, soon by God’s judgment seized by a demon, perished. His brother Gaiseric succeeds him in the kingdom.

Qui ut aliquorum relatio habet, effectus apostata de fide catholica in Arianam dictus est transisse perfidiam.

Who, as the relation of some has it, having become an apostate from the Catholic faith, was said to have passed over into Arian perfidy.

V. Gaisericus, rex de Baeticae provinciae littore, cum Wandalis omnibus, eorumque familiis, mense Maio ad Mauritaniam, et Africam relictis transit Hispaniis. Qui prius quam pertransiret, admonitus Hermigarium Suevum vicinas in transitu suo provincias depraedari, recursu cum aliquantis suis facto, praedantem in Lusitania consequitur. Qui haud procul de Emerita, quam cum sanctae martyris Eulaliae injuria spreverat multis per Gaisericum caesis, ex his quos secum habebat, arrepto, ut putavit, Euro velocius fugae subsidio, in flumine Ana divino brachio praecipitatus interiit.

5. Gaiseric, king, from the shore of the province of Baetica, with all the Vandals and their families, in the month of May crosses over to Mauretania and Africa, the Spains left behind. Who, before he would pass through, having been informed that Hermigarius the Sueve was plundering the neighboring provinces along his route, with a return made with some of his own,
overtakes the marauder in Lusitania. Who, not far from Emerita—which he had spurned with an affront to Saint Eulalia the martyr—many, from those whom he had with him, having been cut down by Gaiseric, seizing, as he supposed, the Eurus as a swifter aid for flight, in the river Ana, hurled headlong by the divine arm, perished.

Quo ita exstincto, mox quo coeperat Gaisericus enavigavit.

With him thus extinguished, Gaiseric soon sailed away to the place he had begun to make for.

IV. Suevi sub Hermerico rege medias partes Gallaeciae depraedantes, per plebem quae castella tutiora retinebat, acta suorum partim caede, partim captivitate, pacem quam ruperant, familiarum quae tenebantur, redhibitione restaurant.

4. The Suevi, under King Hermeric, depredating the middle parts of Gallaecia, through the agency of the populace who were retaining the safer strongholds, their people—partly by slaughter, partly by captivity—having been dealt with, restore the peace which they had broken by the restitution of the families who were being held.

Per Aetium comitem haud procul de Arelate quaedam Gothorum manus exstinguitur, Anaolfo optimate eorum capto. Juthungi per eum similiter debellantur et Nori.

Through Count Aetius, not far from Arles, a certain band of Goths is extinguished, with Anaolf, their optimate, captured. The Juthungi are similarly vanquished by him, and the Nori.

Felix qui dicebatur Patricius Ravennae tumultu occiditur militari.

Felix, who was called Patricius, is slain at Ravenna in a military tumult.

VII. Aetius, dux utriusque militiae, Noros edomat rebellantes. Rursum Suevi initam cum Gallaecis pacem libata sibi occasione conturbant.

7. Aetius, general of both services, subdues the Nori in rebellion. Again the Suevi, having tasted an occasion for themselves, disturb the peace initiated with the Gallaecians.

Ob quorum depraedationem Idatius episcopus ad Aetium ducem qui expeditionem agebat in Galliis, suscipit legationem. Vetto, qui de Gothis dolose ad Gallaeciam venerat, sine aliquo effectu redit ad Gothos.

On account of whose depredation, Idatius the bishop undertakes a legation to Aetius the commander, who was conducting an expedition in the Gauls. Vetto, who from the Goths had deceitfully come to Gallaecia, returns to the Goths without any effect.

VIII. (Olymp. CCCIII.) Superatis per Aetium in certamine Francis et in pace susceptis, Censorius comes legatus mittitur ad Suevos, supra dicto secum Idatio redeunte.

8. (Olymp. 303.) With the Franks overcome in combat by Aetius and received into peace, Censorius, count, is sent as legate to the Sueves, the above-said Idatius returning with him.

Bonifacius in aemulationem Aetii de Africa per Placidiam evocatus in Italiam ad palatium redit. Qui depulso Aetio in locum ejus succedens, paucis post mensibus, inito adversum Aetium conflictu, de vulnere quo fuerat percussus interiit. Cui Sebastianus gener substitutus per Aetium de palatio superatus expellitur,

Boniface, in emulation of Aetius, summoned from Africa by Placidia, returned to Italy to the palace. He, Aetius having been driven off and succeeding into his place, a few months later, a conflict having been entered against Aetius, perished from the wound by which he had been struck. In his place Sebastian, his son-in-law, having been substituted, by Aetius is overcome and expelled from the palace,

IX. (Eus. MMCCCCL.) Regresso Censorio ad palatium, Hermericus pacem cum Gallaecis quos praedabatur assidue, sub interventu episcopali datis sibi reformat obsidibus.

CHAPTER 9. (Eus. 2450.) With Censorius returned to the palace, Hermeric, under episcopal intervention and with hostages given to him, restores peace with the Gallaeci, whom he had been continually preying upon.

Symphosius episcopus per eum ad comitatum legatus missus, rebus in cassum frustratur arreptis.

Bishop Symphosius, sent as a legate to the court through him, is frustrated, the undertakings having been taken up in vain.

In conventu Lucensi contra voluntatem Agrestii, Lucensis episcopi, Pastor et Syagrius episcopi ordinantur.

In the Lucensian council, against the will of Agrestius, the Lucensian bishop, Pastor and Syagrius are ordained bishops.

Aetius, dux utriusque militiae, Patricius appellatur.

Aetius, leader of both militias, is called Patrician.

X. Sebastianus exsul et profugus effectus, navigat ad palatium Orientis.

10. Sebastian, made an exile and a fugitive, sails to the palace of the Orient.

Romanae Ecclesiae XLII [Ms. XLI] habetur episcopus XYSTUS.

The 42nd [Ms. 41st] bishop of the Roman Church is held to be Sixtus.

XI. Hierosolymis Juvenalem episcopum praesidere, Germani presbyteri Arabicae regionis exinde ad Gallaeciam venientis, et aliorum Graecorum relatione comperimus, adjicientibus Constantinopolim eum cum aliis, et Palaestinae provinciae et Orientis episcopis evocatum, sub praesentia Theodosii augusti, contracto episcoporum interfuisse concilio ad destruendam Hebionitarum haeresim, quam Nestorius [Ms., Atticus] ejusdem urbis episcopus pravo stultissimae sectae resuscitabat ingenio.

11. At Jerusalem Juvenal was presiding as bishop, as we learned from the report of Germanus, a presbyter of the Arabic region coming thence to Gallaecia, and of other Greeks; adding that he had been summoned to Constantinople with others, both bishops of the province of Palestine and of the East, and that, in the presence of Theodosius Augustus, he had taken part in a council of bishops convened to destroy the heresy of the Ebionites, which Nestorius [Ms., Atticus], bishop of the same city, was reviving by the depraved ingenuity of a most foolish sect.

Quo vero tempore sancti Joannes, Hieronymus et alii quos supra diximus, obierint, vel quis Joanni ante Juvenalem successerit, sicut et fecisse cognitum est in brevi seniorem quemdam, referentum sermo non edidit.

But at what time the saints John, Jerome, and the others whom we mentioned above, died, or who succeeded John before Juvenal—although it is also known that for a short time a certain senior did—the discourse of the relators has not set forth.

XII. (Olymp. CCCIV.) Narbona obsideri coepta per Gothos.

12. (Olymp. 304.) Narbonne began to be besieged by the Goths.

Burgundiones qui rebellaverant, a Romanis duce Aetio debellantur.

The Burgundians, who had rebelled, are defeated in war by the Romans under the general Aetius.

Uno eodemque tempore Alexandriae Cyrillum episcopum praesidere, et Constantinopoli Nestorium haereticum Hebionaeum, Cyrilli ipsius ad eumdem epistola, et haeresim destruentis et regulam fidei exponentis ostendit. Haec cum aliis habentur allata.

At one and the same time in Alexandria Cyril is presiding as bishop, and in Constantinople Nestorius, an Ebionaean heretic; the epistle of Cyril himself to that same man both destroys the heresy and expounds the rule of faith. These things are found brought along with others.

XIII. Narbona obsidione liberatur Aetio duce et magistro militum. Burgundionum caesa viginti millia.

13. Narbonne is freed from siege by Aetius, general and master of soldiers. Twenty thousand of the Burgundians were slain.

Rursus Censorius et Fretimundus legati mittuntur ad Suevos.

Again Censorius and Fretimundus, legates, are sent to the Suevi.

XIV. Gothorum caesa octo millia sub Aetio duce.

14. Eight thousand Goths were slain under Aetius as commander.

Suevi cum parte plebis Gallaeciae cui adversabantur, pacis jura confirmant.

The Suevi, together with the part of the plebs of Gallaecia to whom they had been opposed, confirm the rights of peace.

Hermericus rex morbo oppressus Rechilam filium suum substituit in regnum: qui Andevotum cum sua quam habebat manu ad Singillionem Baeticae fluvium aperto marte prostravit, magnis ejus auri et argenti opibus occupatis.

Hermericus the king, oppressed by disease, appointed his son Rechila in his stead to the kingship: who, with his own band which he had, laid low Andevotus in open battle at the Singillon, a river of Baetica, his great opulence of gold and silver being occupied.

XV. Carthagine fraude decepta die decimo quarto kalen. Novembris omnem Africam rex Gaisericus invadit.

15. With Carthage deceived by treachery, on the 14th day before the Kalends of November, King Gaiseric invaded all Africa.

Bello Gothico sub Theodorico rege apud Tolosam, Litorius Romanus dux inconsultius cum auxiliari Hunorum manu irruens, caesis his, ipse vulneratus capitur, et post dies paucos occiditur.

In the Gothic War under King Theodoric at Toulouse, Litorius, a Roman dux, acting too incautiously, rushing in with an auxiliary force of Huns, when these were cut down, he himself, wounded, is captured, and after a few days is killed.

Inter Romanos et Gothos pax efficitur:

Between the Romans and the Goths a peace is effected:

Gaisericus elatus impie, episcopum clerumque Carthaginis depellit ex ea, et juxta prophetiam Danielis, demutatis ministeriis sanctorum, ecclesias catholicas tradit [Ms., tradidit] Arianis.

Gaiseric, puffed up impiously, drives the bishop and the clergy of Carthage out of it, and, according to the prophecy of Daniel, with the ministries of the saints altered, hands over the catholic churches [Ms., tradidit] to the Arians.

Rechila, rex Suevorum, Emeritam ingreditur.

Rechila, king of the Suevi, enters Emerita.

XVI. (Olymp. CCCV.) Gaisericus, Siciliam depraedatus, Panormum diu obsedit: qui damnati a catholicis episcopis Maximini, apud Siciliam Arianorum ducis, adversum catholicos praecipitatur instinctu, ut eos quoquo pacto in impietatem cogeret Arianam: nonnullis declinantibus, aliquanti durantes in catholica fide consummavere martyrium.

16. (Olymp. 305.) Gaiseric, having plundered Sicily, besieged Panormus for a long time: he, at the instigation of Maximinus—leader of the Arians in Sicily—who had been condemned by the catholic bishops, is hurled against the catholics, so that he might by any means drive them into Arian impiety: with some turning aside, some, persevering in the catholic faith, consummated martyrdom.

Censorius comes qui legatus missus fuerat ad Suevos, residens Mirtyli [Martyli], obsessus a Rechila in pace se tradidit.

Censorius the Count, who had been sent as a legate to the Suevi, while residing at Mirtyli [Martyli], besieged by Rechila, surrendered himself on terms of peace.

XVII. Rex Suevorum, diuturno per annos septem morbo afflictus, moritur Hermericus.

17. Hermeric, king of the Suevi, afflicted by a long-lasting illness for seven years, died.

Rex Rechila Hispali obtenta, Baeticam et Carthaginiensem provincias in suam redigit potestatem.

King Rechila, Seville having been taken, reduced the provinces of Baetica and Carthaginensis into his own power.

[Romanae Ecclesiae XLIII praesidet episcopus LEO.]

[Bishop LEO, the 43rd, presides over the Roman Church.]

Sabino episcopo de Hispali factione depulso, in locum ejus Epiphanius ordinatur fraude, non jure.

With Sabinus, bishop of Hispalis, driven out by a faction, Epiphanius is ordained into his place by fraud, not by right.

Asturius, dux utriusque militiae, ad Hispanias missus, Tarraconensium caedit multitudinem Bacaudarum.

Asturius, Master of Both Militias, sent to the Spains, cuts down the multitude of the Bacaudae of the Tarraconensians.

XVIII. Cometae sidus apparere incipit mense Decembri; quod per menses aliquot visum, subsequentis in pestilentia plagae quae fere in toto orbe diffusa est, praemisit ostentum.

18. the comet-star begins to appear in the month of December; which, seen for several months, sent ahead a portent of the subsequent pestilential blow, which was diffused almost throughout the whole world.

Constantinopolitanae ecclesiae depulso Nestorio praesidet episcopus Flavianus.

Bishop Flavian presides over the Constantinopolitan church, Nestorius having been expelled.

XIX. (Eus. MMCCCCLX.) Asturio magistro utriusque militiae, gener ipsius successor ipsi mittitur Merobaudis, natu nobilis et eloquentiae merito, vel maxime in poematis studio veteribus comparandus, testimonio etiam provehitur statuarum.

19. (Eus. 2460.) With Asturius as master of both military services, his son-in-law Merobaudes is sent as his successor, noble by birth and by the merit of eloquence, and most of all to be compared with the ancients in the study of poems, and he is advanced also by the testimony of statues.

Brevi tempore potestatis suae Aracellitanorum frangit insolentiam Bacaudarum. Mox nonnullorum invidia perurgente, ad urbem Romam sacra praeceptione revocatur.

In a brief time of his authority, he breaks the insolence of the Bagaudae of the Aracellitani. Soon, with the envy of some pressing hard, he is recalled to the city of Rome by sacred precept.

XX. (Olymp. CCCVI.) Sebastianus illic quo confugerat, deprehensus sibi adversa moliri, e Constantinopoli fugit admonitus, et ad Theodorem regem Gothorum veniens, conquaesitam sibi, qua potuit, Barcinonam hostis factus ingreditur.

20. (Olymp. 306.) Sebastianus, there whither he had taken refuge, having been discovered to be contriving things adverse to him, when warned fled from Constantinople, and, coming to Theodorus, king of the Goths, enters Barcelona—procured for himself as he could—having been made an enemy.

XXI. In Asturicensi urbe Gallaeciae, quidam ante aliquot annos latentes Manichaei gestis episcopalibus deteguntur; quae ab Idatio et Turibio episcopis qui eos audierant; ad Antoninum Emeritensem episcopum directa sunt.

21. In the city of Asturica in Gallaecia, certain Manichaeans, hiding for some years, are uncovered by episcopal acts; which, by the bishops Hydatius and Turibius, who had heard them, were directed to Antoninus, bishop of Emerita.

Wandali navibus Turonio in littore Gallaeciae repente advecti, familias capiunt plurimorum.

The Vandals, suddenly conveyed by ships to Turonium on the shore of Gallaecia, seize the families of very many.

Sebastianus de Barcilone fugatus migrat ad Wandalos.

Sebastian, driven out from Barcelona, migrates to the Vandals.

Per episcopum Romae tunc praesidentem gesta de Manichaeis per provincias diriguntur.

Through the bishop of Rome then presiding, the acts concerning the Manichaeans are directed through the provinces.

XXII. Vitus magister utriusque militiae factus, ad Hispanias missus, non exiguae manus fultus auxilio, cum Carthaginienses vexaret et Baeticos, succedentibus cum rege suo illic Suevis, superatis etiam in congressione qui ei ad depraedandum in adjutorium venerant, Gothis, territus miserabili timore diffugit. Suevi exin illas provincias magna depraedatione subvertunt.

22. Vitus, made master of both military services, sent to the Spains, supported by the aid of no small band, while he was harassing the people of Carthaginiensis and of Baetica, as the Suevi came up there with their king, the Goths too—who had come to his aid for depredation—being overcome in an engagement, terrified with miserable fear he fled. Thereafter the Suevi overthrew those provinces with great depredation.

XXIII. Romanae Ecclesiae XLIII [Ms. XLII] praesidet episcopus Leo: hujus scripta per episcopi Turibii diaconem Pervincum contra Priscillianistas ad Hispanienses episcopos deferuntur. Inter quae ad episcopum Turibium de observatione catholicae fidei et de haeresum blasphemiis disputatio plena dirigitur, quae ab aliquibus Gallaecis subdolo probatur arbitrio.

23. The Roman Church is presided over by the bishop Leo, the 43rd [Ms. 42nd]: his writings, through Bishop Turibius’s deacon Pervincus, are conveyed to the Spanish bishops against the Priscillianists. Among these, a full disputation is directed to Bishop Turibius concerning the observance of the catholic faith and the blasphemies of heresies, which is approved by the underhand judgment of some Galicians.

Solis facta defectio die nono kal. Januarias, qui fui tertia feria.

A solar eclipse took place on the ninth day before the Kalends of January, which was Tuesday.

XXIV. (Olymp. CCCVII.) Rechila, rex Suevorum, Emeritae gentilis moritur mense Augusto: cui mox filius suus catholicus Rechiarius succedit in regnum, nonnullis quidem sibi de gente sua aemulis, sed latenter: obtento tamen regno, sine mora ulteriores regiones invadit ad praedam.

24. (Olymp. 307.) Rechila, king of the Suevi, a pagan of Emerita, dies in the month of August: to whom soon his catholic son Rechiarius succeeds to the kingdom, indeed with some rivals to himself from his own people, but covertly: the kingdom, however, having been secured, without delay he invades the farther regions for plunder.

Pascentium quemdam urbis Romae qui de Asturica diffugerat, Manichaeum Antoninus episcopus Emeritae comprehendit, auditumque etiam de provincia Lusitania facit expelli.

Antoninus, bishop of Emerita, apprehends a certain Pascentius of the city of Rome, who had fled from Asturica, a Manichaean, and, after a hearing, also causes him to be expelled from the province of Lusitania.

Per Agiulfum Hispali Censorius jugulatur.

Censorius is slain by Agiulfus at Hispalis.

XXV. Rechiarius accepta in conjugium Theodoris regis filia, auspicatus initium regni, Vasconias depraedatur mense Februario.

25. Rechiarius, having taken in marriage the daughter of King Theodoric, having auspicated the beginning of his reign, depredates the Vasconias in the month of February.

Basilius ob testimonium egregii ausus sui congregatis Bacaudis in ecclesia Tyriassone foederatos occidit: ubi et Leo ejusdem ecclesiae episcopus, ab eisdem qui cum Basilio aderant, in eo loco obiit vulneratus.

Basil, as a testimony of his outstanding audacity, with the Bagaudae gathered in the church at Tyriasson, killed the federates: where also Leo, bishop of the same church, by those same men who were with Basil, in that place died of his wounds.

Rechiarius mense Julio ad Theodorem socerum profectus, Caesaraugustanam regionem cum Basilio in reditu depraedatur. Irrupta per dolum Ilerdensi urbe, acta est non parva captivitas.

Rechiarius, in the month of July, having set out to Theodore his father-in-law, depredates the Caesaraugustan region with Basilius on the return. With the Ilerdan city broken into by guile,
no small captivity was effected.

XXVI. Asturius vir illustris ad honorem provehitur consulatus.

26. Asturius, an illustrious man, is promoted to the honor of the consulship.

Sebastianus exsul factus ad perniciosam sibi, sicut post exitus docuit, Gaiserici confugit potestatem: parvo post tempore quam venerat per eum jubetur occidi.

Sebastianus, made an exile, fled to the power of Gaiseric, pernicious to himself, as the outcome later taught: a little time after he had come, he is ordered by him to be killed.

De Galliis epistolae deferuntur Flaviani episcopi ad Leonem episcopum missae, cum scriptis Cyrilli episcopi Alexandrini ad Nestorium Constantinopolitanum de Eutychete Hebionita haeretico, et Leonis episcopi ad eumdem responsa, quae cum aliorum episcoporum et gestis et scriptis per ecclesias diriguntur.

From Gaul there are delivered epistles of Bishop Flavian sent to Bishop Leo, together with the writings of Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, to Nestorius the Constantinopolitan concerning Eutyches the Ebionite heretic, and the responses of Bishop Leo to the same, which, along with the acts and writings of other bishops, are directed through the churches.

XXVII. Theodosius imperator moritur Constantinopoli anno aetatis suae quadragesimo octavo.

27. Emperor Theodosius dies at Constantinople in the forty-eighth year of his age.

Post quem XLIII statim apud Constantinopolim MARCIANUS a militibus et ab exercitu, instante sorore Theodosii Pulcheria regina, efficitur imperator. Qua sibi in conjugium assumpta, regnat in partibus Orientis.

After him, the 43rd, immediately at Constantinople, MARCIAN is made emperor by the soldiers and by the army, with Theodosius’s sister, Queen Pulcheria, urging. With her taken to himself in marriage, he reigns in the parts of the East.

XXVIII. (Olymp. CCCVIII.) Valentiniani imperatoris mater Placidia moritur apud Romam.

28. (Olymp. 308.) The emperor Valentinian’s mother, Placidia, dies at Rome.

In Gallaecia terraemotus assidui, signa in coelo plurima ostenduntur. Nam pridie nonas Aprilis tertia feria, post solis occasum, ab Aquilonis plaga coelum rubens sicut ignis aut sanguis efficitur, intermixtis per igneum ruborem lineis clarioribus in speciem hastarum rutilantium deformatis: a die clauso usque in horam noctis fere tertiam signi durat ostensio, quae mox ingenti exitu perdocetur.

In Gallaecia, earthquakes are continual; very many signs are shown in the heaven. For on Tuesday, the day before the Nones of April (April 4), after sunset, from the quarter of the North the heaven becomes red like fire or blood, with brighter lines intermingled through the fiery redness, shaped into the appearance of glittering spears; from the closing of the day until almost the third hour of the night the display of the sign endures, which soon is fully made clear by a huge outcome.

Gens Hunnorum pace rupta depraedatur provincias Galliarum: plurimae civitates effractae, in campis Catalaunicis, haud longe de civitate quam effregerant, Mertis, Aetio duci et regi Theodori, quibus erat in pace societas, aperto marte confligens, divino caesa superatur auxilio: bellum nox intempesta diremit. Rex illic Theodores prostratus occubuit: CCC ferme millia hominum in eo certamine cecidisse memorantur.

The nation of the Huns, the peace having been broken, depredates the provinces of the Gauls: very many cities were broken open; on the Catalaunian plains, not far from the city which they had broken, Metz, contending in open battle against the leader Aetius and King Theodoric, with whom there was an alliance in peace, it is overcome, cut down by divine aid: the untimely night broke off the war. There the king Theodoric, laid low, died: about 300 thousand men are reported to have fallen in that engagement.

Multa anno signa procedunt. Quinto kal. Octobris a parte Orientis luna fuscatur.

Many signs proceed in the year. On the fifth day before the Kalends of October, from the quarter of the East, the moon is darkened.

In diebus sequentis paschae visa quaedam in coelo regionibus Galliarum, epistola de his Eufronii Augustodunensis episcopi ad Agrippinum comitem facta evidenter ostendit. Stella cometes a decimo quarto kal. Julias apparere incipit, quae III kal.

In the days of the following Pasch, certain things were seen in heaven in the regions of Gaul; a letter about these, composed by Eufronius, bishop of Augustodunum, to Count Agrippinus, plainly shows. A comet-star begins to appear from the fourteenth day before the Kalends of July, which on the 3rd day before the Kalends

diluculo ab Oriente visa, post occasum solis ab occidua parte mox cernitur. Kalendis Augusti a parte occidentis apparet.

seen at daybreak from the Orient, after the setting of the sun it is soon discerned from the occidental side. On the Kalends of August it appears from the western part.

Occiso Theodore Thorismo filius ejus succedit in regno.

With Theodore having been slain, Thorismo, his son, succeeds in the kingdom.

Hunni cum rege suo Attila, relictis Galliis post certamen, Italiam petunt.

The Huns, with their king Attila, Gaul left behind after the contest, make for Italy.

XXIX. (Eus. MMCCCCLXI.) Secundo regni anno principis Marciani, Hunni qui Italiam praedabantur, aliquantis etiam civitatibus irruptis, divinitus partim fame, partim morbo quodam plagis coelestibus feriuntur: missis etiam per Marcianum principem Aetio duce caeduntur auxiliis; pariterque in sedibus suis et coelestibus plagis, et per Marciani subiguntur exercitum: et ita subacti, pace facta cum Romanis proprias universi repetunt sedes, ad quas rex eorum Attila mox reversus interiit.

29. (Eus. 2461.) In the second year of the reign of the prince Marcian, the Huns who were preying upon Italy, having irrupted into several cities as well, are smitten divinely, partly by famine, partly by a certain disease, with celestial plagues: with auxiliaries too sent by the prince Marcian under the leadership of Aetius, they are cut down; and alike both in their own seats by celestial strokes, and by Marcian’s army, they are subdued: and thus subjugated, peace having been made with the Romans, they all seek back their own seats, to which their king Attila, having soon returned, perished.

Ad Suevos Mansuetus comes Hispaniarum, et Fronto similiter comes, legati pro pace mittuntur et obtinent conditiones injunctas.

To the Suevi, Mansuetus, count of the Spains, and Fronto, likewise a count, are sent as legates for peace, and they obtain the enjoined conditions.

Thorismo, rex Gothorum, spirans hostilia a Theudorico et Frederico fratribus jugulatur: cui Theodericus succedit in regno.

Thorismo, king of the Goths, breathing hostilities, is slain by his brothers Theodoric and Frederic: to whom Theoderic succeeds in the kingdom.

XXX. Tertio regni anno principis Marciani regina moritur Pulcheria mense Julio.

30. In the third year of the reign of the princeps Marcian, the queen Pulcheria dies in the month of July.

Per Fredericum Theudorici regis fratrem Bacaudae Tarraconenses caeduntur ex auctoritate Romana.

Through Frederick, brother of King Theoderic, the Tarraconensian Bacaudae are cut down by Roman authority.

In Gallaecia terraemotus, et in sole signum in ortu, quasi altero secum concertante monstratur.

In Gallaecia, an earthquake, and in the sun a sign at its rising is shown, as though another were contending with it.

Aetius dux et patricius fraudulenter singularis accitus intra palatium manu ipsius Valentiniani imperatoris occiditur. Et cum ipso per spatarium ejus aliqui singulariter intromissi jugulantur honorati.

Aetius, duke and patrician, treacherously summoned alone, is slain within the palace by the hand of Valentinian the emperor himself. And along with him, some men of rank, admitted singly by his spatharius, are slaughtered.

His gestis legatos Valentinianus mittit ad gentes, ex quibus ad Suevos venit Justinianus.

With these things done Valentinian sends legates to the nations, of whom Justinian came to the Suevi.

XXXI. Quarto regni anno principis Marciani per duos barbaros Aetii familiares Valentinianus Romae imperator occiditur in campo, exercitu circumstante, anno aetatis suae XXXVI, et regni XXXI. Post quem mox Maximus ex consulibus XLIII Romae Augustus appellatur: qui cum imperator factus relictam Valentiniani sibi duxisset uxorem, et filio suo ex priore conjuge Palladio quem Caesarem fecerat, Valentiniani filiam in conjugium tradidisset, magnorum motuum quos verebatur, perturbatione distortus, et quia in occisorum per Valentinianum, et in ipsius interitum Valentiniani, ambitu regni consilia scelesta patrata contulerat, cum imperium deserere vellet et Romam, vix quatuor regni sui mensibus expletis, in ipsa urbe umultu populi et seditione occiditur militari.

31. In the fourth year of the reign of the prince Marcian, Valentinian, emperor at Rome, is slain in the Field by two barbarians, intimates of Aetius, with the army standing around, in the 36th year of his age and the 31st of his reign. After him, soon Maximus, from among the consuls, the 43rd, is called Augustus at Rome: who, when made emperor, took to himself as wife the widow of Valentinian, and to his son by a prior spouse, Palladius, whom he had made Caesar, he gave in marriage Valentinian’s daughter; distorted by the perturbation of great commotions which he feared, and because in the slayings done by Valentinian, and in Valentinian’s own destruction, he had contributed, out of ambition for the kingship, to the carrying out of wicked counsels, when he wished to desert the imperial power and Rome, with scarcely 4 months of his reign completed, in the city itself he is slain by the tumult of the people and a military sedition.

Ipso anno in Galliis Avitus Gallus civis ab exercitu Gallicano et ab honoratis, primum Tolosae, dehinc apud Arelatum Augustus appellatus, Romam pergit et suscipitur.

In the same year in Gaul, Avitus, a Gallic citizen, by the Gallic army and by the honorati, first at Toulouse, then at Arles, is hailed as Augustus; he proceeds to Rome and is received.

Usque ad Valentinianum Theodosii generatio tenuit principatum.

Up to Valentinian, the line of Theodosius held the principate.

Romanorum XLIII, MARCIANUS quarto jam regni sui anno obtinet monarchiam.

The 43rd of the Romans, MARCIANUS already in the fourth year of his reign holds the monarchy.

I. (Olymp. CCCIX.) Per Avitum, qui a Romanis et evocatus et susceptus fuerat imperator, legati ad Marcianum pro unanimitate mittuntur imperii.

1. (Olymp. 309.) Through Avitus, who had been by the Romans both summoned and received as emperor, legates are sent to Marcian for the unanimity of the empire.

Gaisericus sollicitatus a relicta Valentiniani, ut malum fama dispergit, prius quam Avitus augustus fieret, Romam ingreditur, direptisque opibus Romanorum Carthaginem redit, relictam Valentiniani et filias duas, et Aetii filium Gaudentium nomine, secum ducens.

Gaiseric, having been solicited by Valentinian’s widow, as evil rumor spreads, before Avitus became Augustus, enters Rome; and, the wealth of the Romans plundered, he returns to Carthage, leading with him Valentinian’s widow and his two daughters, and Aetius’s son by name Gaudentius.

Suevi Carthaginienses regiones quas Romanis reddiderant, depraedantur.

The Suebi and the Carthaginians depredate the regions which they had restored to the Romans.

Marcianus et Avitus concordes principatu Romani utuntur imperii.

Marcian and Avitus, concordant, exercise the principate of the Roman empire.

Per augustum Avitum Fronto comes legatus mittitur ad Suevos. Similiter et a rege Gothorum Theudorico; quia fidus Romano esset imperio, legati ad eosdem mittuntur, ut tam secum quam cum Romano imperio, quia uno essent pacis foedere copulati, jurati foederis promissa servarent. Remissis legatis utriusque partis atque omni juris ratione violata, Suevi Tarraconensem provinciam quae Romano imperio deserviebat, invadunt.

Through Augustus Avitus, Fronto, a count, is sent as legate to the Suevi. Likewise also by Theodoric, king of the Goths; because he was faithful to the Roman empire, envoys are sent to those same men, that both with himself and with the Roman empire, since they had been coupled by one treaty of peace, they might keep the promises of the sworn foedus. The envoys of each party having been sent back, and every principle of law violated, the Suevi invade the Tarraconensian province, which was serving the Roman empire.

De Erulorum gente septem navibus in Lucensi littore aliquanti advecti, viri ferme CCCC expediti, superventu multitudinis congregatae duobus tantum ex suo numero effugantur occisis, qui ad sedes proprias redeuntes, Cantabriarum et Vardulliarum loca maritima crudelissime depraedati sunt.

Of the race of the Heruli, some having been carried in seven ships to the Lucensian shore, men nearly 400, light-armed, by the arrival of a congregated multitude only two from their number escaped, the rest having been slain; who, returning to their own seats, most cruelly depredated the maritime places of the Cantabrians and of the Varduli.

Legati Gothorum rursum veniunt ad Suevos: post quorum adventum rex Suevorum Rechiarius cum magna suorum multitudine regiones provinciae Tarraconensis invadit, acta illic depraedatione, et grandi ad Gallaeciam captivitate deducta.

Envoys of the Goths come again to the Suevi: after whose arrival the king of the Suevi, Rechiarius, with a great multitude of his own, invades the regions of the Tarraconensis province, a depredation having been carried out there, and with a great captivity led away to Gallaecia.

Mox Hispanias rex Gothorum Theudoricus cum ingenti exercitu suo, et cum voluntate et ordinatione Aviti imperatoris ingreditur. Cui cum multitudine Suevorum rex Rechiarius occurrens duodecimo de Asturicensi urbe milliario, ad fluvium nomine Urbicum, tertio nonas Octobris die, sexta feria inito mox certamine superatur: caesis suorum agminibus, aliquantis captis, plurimisque fugatis, ipse ad extremas sedes Gallaeciae plagatus vix evadit ac profugus.

Soon Theodoric, king of the Goths, enters the Spains with his immense army, and with the will and ordination of the emperor Avitus. Him king Rechiarius, meeting with a multitude of Suevi, at the twelfth milestone from the city of Asturica, at a river by the name Urbicus, on October 5, Friday, with combat straightway joined, is overcome: his ranks cut down, some taken captive, and very many put to flight; he himself, wounded, scarcely escapes as a fugitive to the farthest seats of Gallaecia.

Theudorico rege cum exercitu ad Bracaram extremam civitatem Gallaeciae pertendente, quinto kal. Novemb. die dominico, etsi incruenta, fit tamen satis moesta et lacrymabilis ejusdem direptio civitatis.

With King Theodoric, with his army, making for Braga, the farthest city of Gallaecia, on the 5th day before the Kalends of November, on the Lord’s day, although bloodless, nevertheless the sack of that same city proved quite mournful and lamentable.

Romanorum magna agitur captivitas captivorum, sanctorum basilicae effractae, altaria sublata atque confracta, virgines Dei exin quidem adductae, sed integritate servata, clerus usque ad nuditatem pudoris exutus, promiscui sexus cum parvulis, de locis refugii sanctis populus omnis abstractus, jumentorum, pecorum, camelorumque horrore locus sacer impletus, scripta super Jerusalem ex parte coelestis irae revocavit exempla.

A great captivity of the Romans is carried out, a captivity of captives, the basilicas of the saints broken open, the altars removed and shattered, the virgins of God thereafter indeed led away, but with integrity preserved, the clergy stripped even to the nakedness of modesty, of both sexes together with the little ones, the whole people dragged from the holy places of refuge, the sacred place filled with the horror of pack-animals, flocks, and camels, it recalled the written examples concerning Jerusalem, in part, of celestial ire.

II. Rechiarius ad locum qui Portucale appellatur, profugus regi Theudorico captivus adducitur: quo in custodiam redacto, caeteris qui de priore certamine superfuerant, tradentibus se Suevis, aliquantis nihilominus interfectis, regnum destructum et finitum est Suevorum.

2. Rechiarius, a fugitive, is led as a captive to King Theodoric, to the place which is called Portucale: and when he had been consigned to custody, the other Suevi who had survived the earlier combat, surrendering themselves, with some nevertheless slain, the kingdom of the Suevi was destroyed and brought to an end.

Hisdem diebus Rechimeris comitis circumventione, magna multitudo Wandalorum, quae se de Carthagine cum LX navibus ad Gallias vel ad Italiam moverat, regi Theudorico nuntiatur occisa per Avitum.

In those same days, by the circumvention of the count Rechimer, a great multitude of Vandals, who had moved themselves from Carthage with 60 ships toward Gaul or toward Italy, is reported to King Theodoric as slain by Avitus.

Hesychius tribunus legatus ad Theudoricum cum sacris muneribus missus ad Gallaeciam venit, nuntians ei id quod supra, in Corsica caesam multitudinem Wandalorum, et Avitum de Italia ad Gallias Arelate successisse. Orientalium naves Hispalim venientes per Marciani exercitum caesas nuntiat.

Hesychius, tribune and legate, sent with sacred gifts, came to Gallaecia, announcing to Theodoric that which is above: that in Corsica a multitude of Vandals had been cut down, and that Avitus had passed from Italy to the Gauls, at Arelate (Arles). He reports that the ships of the Orientals, coming to Hispalis (Seville), were cut down by the army of Marcian.

Occiso Rechiario mense Decembri, rex Theudoricus de Gallaecia ad Lusitaniam succedit.

With Rechiarius slain in the month of December, King Theodoric advances from Gallaecia to Lusitania.

In conventus parte Bracarensis latrocinantum depraedatio perpetratur.

In the Bracarensian part of the conventus, the depredation by bandits is perpetrated.

Aiulfus deserens Gothos in Gallaecia residet.

Aiulfus, deserting the Goths, resides in Gallaecia.

Suevi qui remanserant in extrema parte Gallaeciae, Massiliae filium nomine Maldram sibi regem constituunt.

The Suevi who had remained in the extreme part of Gallaecia appoint for themselves as king the son of Massilia, by name Maldram.

Theudoricus Emeritam depraedari volens, beatae Eulaliae martyris terretur ostentis.

Theodoric, wishing to depredate Emerita, is terrified by the portents of the blessed martyr Eulalia.

III. Avitus tertio anno postea quam a Gallis et a Gothis factus fuerat imperator, caret imperio, Gothorum promisso destitutus auxilio, caret et vita.

3. Avitus, in the third year after he had been made emperor by the Gauls and the Goths, is without the empire, deserted of the Goths’ promised aid, and is without life as well.

In Orientis partibus septimo anno imperii sui moritur Marcianus.

In the parts of the East, in the seventh year of his reign, Marcian dies.

Romanorum XLIV, MAJORIANUS in Italia, et Constantinopoli LEO augusti appellantur.

Of the Romans 44, MAJORIANUS in Italy, and at Constantinople LEO are called Augusti.

I. Theudoricus adversis sibi nuntiis territus, mox post dies paschae, quod fuit quinto kal. Aprilis, de Emerita egreditur, et Gallias repetens partem ex ea quam habebat multitudine variae nationis, cum ducibus suis ad campos Gallaeciae dirigit: qui dolis et perjuriis instructi, sicut eis fuerat imperatum, Asturicam quam jam praedones ipsius sub specie Romanae ordinationis intraverant, mentientes ad Suevos qui remanserant, jussam sibi expeditionem, ingrediuntur pace fucata solitae arte perfidiae. Nec mora promiscui generis reperta illic caeditur multitudo, sanctae effringuntur ecclesiae, altaribus direptis et demolitis, sacer omnibus ornatus et usus aufertur.

1. Theodoric, frightened by adverse reports to himself, soon after the days of Easter, which was on the fifth day before the Kalends of April (March 28), sets out from Emerita, and, returning to the Gauls, directs part of that multitude of various nations which he had, with his dukes, to the plains of Gallaecia: who, equipped with deceits and perjuries, just as had been commanded to them, enter Asturica—which already his marauders had entered under the guise of Roman administration—lying to the Suevi who had remained that an expedition had been ordered for them; they enter with a painted peace, by the customary art of perfidy. Without delay a multitude of mixed sort found there is slaughtered, the holy churches are broken open, the altars plundered and demolished, and all sacred ornament and use is carried off.

Duo illic episcopi inventi cum omni clero abducuntur in captivitatem: invalidior promiscui sexus agitur miseranda captivitas; residuis et vacuis civitatis domibus datis incendio, camporum loca vastantur. Palentina civitas simili quo Asturica, per Gothos perit exitio. Unum Coviacense castrum tricesimo de Asturica milliario a Gothis diutino certamine fatigatum, auxilio Dei, hostibus et obsistit et praevalet: quam plurimis ex eorum manu interfectis, reliqui revertuntur ad Gallias.

Two bishops found there, with all the clergy, are led away into captivity: the weaker portion of mixed sex is driven off in pitiable captivity; the remaining and empty houses of the city being given to fire, the tracts of the fields are laid waste. The Palentine city perishes by a destruction like that of Asturica, through the Goths. A single Coviacensian stronghold, at the thirtieth milestone from Asturica, wearied by a long struggle, by the help of God both withstands the enemies and prevails: after very many of them had been slain by those within, the rest return to Gaul.

Aiulfus dum regnum Suevorum spirat, Portucale moritur mense Junio.

Aiulf, while he aspires to the kingdom of the Suevi, dies at Portucale in the month of June.

Suevi in partes divisi pacem ambiunt Gallaeciarum: e quibus pars Frantanem, pars Meldram regem appellat. Solito more perfidiae Lusitaniam depraedatur pars Suevorum Maldram sequens: acta illic Romanorum caede, praedisque contractis, civitas Ulyxippona sub specie pacis intratur.

The Sueves, divided into factions, solicit the peace of the Gallaecias: of whom one faction proclaims Frantanem as king, another Meldram as king. By the customary manner of perfidy, the faction of the Sueves following Maldram depredates Lusitania: with a slaughter of Romans carried out there, and the spoils collected, the city Ulyxippona is entered under the semblance of peace.

Frantanes moritur per Pascha et Pentecosten. Jubente Maldra Suevi in solitam perfidiam versi, regionem Gallaeciae adhaerentem flumini Durio depraedantur. Quinto idus Junias die, quarta feria, ab hora quarta in horam sextam, ad speciem lunae quintae vel sextae, sol de lumine orbis sui minoratus apparuit.

Frantanes dies during Pascha and Pentecost. By Maldra’s order, the Suevi, turned to their accustomed perfidy, plunder the region of Gallaecia adjoining the river Durius. On the fifth day before the Ides of June, on the fourth weekday, from the fourth hour into the sixth hour, at the appearance of a fifth- or sixth-day moon, the sun appeared diminished in the light of its own orb.

II. (Olymp. CCCX.) Gothicus exercitus duce suo Cyrila a Theudorico rege ad Hispanias missus mense Julio succedit ad Baeticam. Legati Gothorum et Wandalorum pariter ad Suevos veniunt, et revertuntur.

2. (Olymp. 310.) The Gothic army, with its own leader Cyrila, sent by King Theodoric to the Spains, in the month of July advances to Baetica. Legates of the Goths and of the Vandals together come to the Suevi, and return.

III. Theudoricus cum duce suo Sunierico exercitus sui aliquantam ad Baeticam dirigit manum: Cyrila revocatur ad Gallias. Suevi nihilominus Lusitaniae partes cum Maldra, alii cum Rechimundo Gallaeciam depraedantur.

3. Theudoricus, with his duke Suniericus, directs a considerable detachment of his army toward Baetica: Cyrila is recalled to Gaul. The Suevi nonetheless depredate parts of Lusitania with Maldra; others, with Rechimund, Gallaecia.

Eruli maritima conventus Lucensis loca nonnulla crudelissime invadunt ad Baeticam pertendentes.

The Heruli most cruelly invade several maritime places of the Lucensian conventus, pressing on toward Baetica.

Maldras germanum suum fratrem interficit, et Portucale castrum idem hostis invadit.

Maldras kills his own full brother, and the same enemy invades the fortress Portucale.

Inter Suevos et Gallaecos interfectis aliquantis honestis natu, malum hostile miscetur.

Between the Suevi and the Gallaeci, with several honorable by birth slain, a hostile evil is stirred up.

Legati a Nepotiano magistro militiae, et a Sunierico comite missi veniunt ad Gallaecios, nuntiantes Majorianum augustum et Theudoricum regem firmissima inter se pacis jura sanxisse, Gothis in quodam certamine superatis.

Legates sent by Nepotianus, master of the militia, and by Suniericus, count, come to the Gallaecians, announcing that Majorianus, Augustus, and Theodoric, king, have sanctioned between themselves the most firm rights of peace, the Goths having been overcome in a certain engagement.

IV. (Eus. MMCCCCLXXX.) Maldras in fine mensis Februarii jugulatus merito perit interitu.

4. (Eus. 2480.) Maldras, at the end of the month of February, having been jugulated, perished by a merited death.

Per Suevos Luco habitantes, in diebus paschae, Romani aliquanti cum rectore suo honesto natu repentino securi de reverentia dierum occiduntur incursu.

By the Suevi dwelling at Lugo, in the days of Pascha (Easter), several Romans, together with their rector, a man honorable in years, are slain by a sudden incursion, being secure because of the reverence for the days.

Mense Maio Majorianus Hispanias ingreditur imperator: quo Carthaginiensem provinciam pertendente, aliquantas naves quas sibi ad transitum adversum Wandalos praeparabat, de littore Carthaginiensi commoniti Wandali per proditores abripiunt. Majorianus ita sua ordinatione frustratus ad Italiam revertitur.

In the month of May Emperor Majorianus enters the Spains: as he was making for the Carthaginian province, the Vandals, having been warned, seize from the Carthaginian shore, through traitors, several ships which he was preparing for himself for a crossing against the Vandals. Majorianus, thus frustrated in his own plan, returns to Italy.

Pars Gothici exercitus a Sunierico et Nepotiano comitibus ad Gallaeciam directa, Suevos apud Lucum depraedantur: quae Dictinio [Ms. Suevos apud Lucum depraedatur habitantes, quae Dictinio], Spinione et Ascanio delatoribus, spargentibusque ad terrorem propriae venena perfidiae, indicata recurrit ad suos: ac mox iisdem delatoribus quibus supra, Frumarius cum manu Suevorum quam habebat impulsus, capto Idatio episcopo septimo kalend. Augusti in Aquaeflaviensi ecclesia, eumdem conventum grandi evertit excidio.

A part of the Gothic army, by the counts Sunieric and Nepotian directed to Gallaecia, plunder the Suevi at Lucus: which, Dictinius [Ms. He plunders the Suevi dwelling near Lucus, which to Dictinius], with Spinion and Ascanius as delators, and as they were scattering, for terror, the poisons of their own perfidy, having been indicated, returns to its own: and soon, by the same delators as above, Frumarius, impelled, with the band of Suevi which he had, having seized Bishop Hydatius on July 26 in the church of Aquae Flaviae, overthrew that same assembly with great destruction.

Rechimundus vicina sibi pariter Auregensium loca, et Lucensis conventus maritima populatur.

Rechimund lays waste the places of the Auregenses that are neighboring to him as well, and the maritime parts of the Lucensian conventus.

Inter Frumarium et Rechimundum oritur de regni potestate dissensio.

Between Frumarius and Rechimundus a dissension arises concerning the power of the kingdom.

Gallaeciorum et Suevorum pacis quaedam umbra conseritur.

A certain shadow of peace is stitched together between the Gallaecians and the Suevi.

A Theudorico legati ad Suevos veniunt et recurrunt.

From Theodoric, legates come to the Suevi and return.

Suniericus Scallabim cui adversabatur, obtinet civitatem.

Sunieric obtains the city Scallabis, to which he was adverse.

Idatius qui supra, tribus mensibus captivitatis impletis, mense Novembri, miserantis Dei gratia, contra votum et ordinationem supra dictorum delatorum redit ad Flavias.

Idatius, the above-mentioned, with three months of captivity completed, in the month of November, by the grace of a compassionate God, contrary to the wish and ordinance of the aforesaid informers, returns to Flavias.

De rege Theudorico legati gentis perfidae revertuntur.

From King Theodoric, legates of the perfidious nation return.

Gaisericus rex a Majoriano imperatore per legatos postulat pacem.

King Gaiseric requests peace from Emperor Majorian through legates.

V. Majorianum de Galliis Romam redeuntem, et Romano imperio vel nomini res necessarias ordinantem, Rechimer livore percitus et invidorum consilio fultus, fraude interficit circumventum.

5. As Majorian, returning from Gaul to Rome and arranging things necessary for the Roman empire or name, Ricimer, stung by envy and supported by the counsel of the envious, kills him by fraud, having entrapped him.

Romanorum XLV, SEVERUS a senatu Romae augustus appellatur anno imperii Leonis quinto.

The Romans’ 45th, SEVERUS, is called Augustus by the senate at Rome, in the 5th year of the reign of Leo.

VI. I. (Olymp. CCCXI.) Suniericus redit ad Gallias. Nepotianus Theudorico ordinante Arborium accipit successorem.

6. 1. (Olymp. 311.) Suniericus returns to Gaul. Nepotianus, with Theodoric directing, receives Arborius as successor.

In provincia Gallaecia prodigiorum videntur signa diversa. Aera D, VI nonas Martias pullorum cantu, ab occasu solis luna in sanguinem plena convertitur. Idem dies sexta feria fuit.

In the province Gallaecia, diverse signs of prodigies are seen. In Era 500, on the 6th day before the Nones of March, at the crowing of the chicks, from the setting of the sun the full moon is converted into blood. The same day was Friday.

Antiochia major Isauriae [Forte, majoris Syriae] inobediens monitis salutaribus, terra dehiscente demergitur, tantum ipsius civitatis aliquantis qui eum obaudientes timori Domini sunt secuti, de interitu liberatis, turrium etiam solis cacuminibus exstantibus super terram.

Antioch the Greater of Isauria [Perhaps, of Greater Syria], disobedient to salutary monitions, is submerged as the earth yawns open, only some few of that city’s people—who, obeying Him, followed the fear of the Lord—being freed from destruction, with even only the summits of the towers standing out above the ground.

Gaisericus Valentiniani relictam Constantinopolim remittit. Filiae ipsius, una Gentoni Gaiserici filio, alia Olybrio senatori urbis Romae jure matrimonii copulantur.

Gaiseric sends the widow of Valentinian back to Constantinople. His daughters, one to Gento, son of Gaiseric, the other to Olybrius, a senator of the city of Rome, are joined by the law of matrimony.

Agrippinus Gallus et comes et civis, Aegidio comiti viro insigni inimicus, ut Gothorum mereretur auxilia, Narbonam tradidit Theudorico.

Agrippinus the Gaul, both count and citizen, an enemy to Aegidius the count, a distinguished man, so that he might merit the auxiliaries of the Goths, delivered up Narbonne to Theodoric.

Adversus Aegidium comitem utriusque militiae, virum, ut fama commendat, Deo bonis operibus complacentem, in Armoricana provincia Fretiricus frater Theuderici regis insurgens, cum his cum quibus fuerat, superatus occiditur.

Against Aegidius, count of both militias—a man, as report commends, pleasing to God by good works—in the Armorican province Fretiricus, brother of King Theuderic, rising up, together with those with whom he had been, being overcome is slain.

Cum Palegorio viro nobili Gallaeciae, qui ad supra dictum fuerat regem Cyrila legatus, ad Gallaeciam veniens, euntes ad eumdem regem legatos obviat Rechimundi: qui regressi in celeri, revertentem Cyrilam in Lucensi urbe suscipiunt. Post cujus mox egressum de Gallaecia, Suevi promissionum suarum ut semper fallaces et perfidi, diversa loca infelicis Gallaeciae solito depraedantur.

Coming to Gallaecia with Palegorius, a noble man of Gallaecia, who had been Cyrila’s legate to the above-said king, Cyrila meets the envoys of Rechimund going to that same king: who, having returned in haste, welcome the returning Cyrila in the Lucensian city. Soon after his departure from Gallaecia, the Suevi, as ever deceitful and perfidious in their promises, plunder various places of unhappy Gallaecia as usual.

Per Theudoricum ad Suevos Remismundus et Cyrila cum aliquantis Gothis qui prius venerant, remittuntur. Cyrila in Gallaecia remanente, Remismundo mox recurrente ad regem, inter Gallaecos et Suevos indisciplinata perturbatio dominatur.

Through Theodoric, Remismund and Cyrila, with some Goths who had previously come, are sent back to the Suevi. With Cyrila remaining in Gallaecia, and Remismund soon returning to the king, an undisciplined turmoil prevails between the Gallaecians and the Suevi.

Romanae Ecclesiae XLIV [Ms. XLIII] praesidet episcopus HILARUS.

The bishop HILARUS presides over the Roman Church, 44 [Ms. 43].

VII. II. Nepotianus recedit e corpore.

7. 2. Nepotianus departs from the body.

Frumario mortuo, Rechimundus omnibus Suevis in suam ditionem regali jure revocatis, pacem reformat elapsam.

Frumarius having died, Rechimund, with all the Suevi recalled into his dominion by royal right, restores the lapsed peace.

Mense Maio supra dicti viri Aegidii legati per Oceanum ad Vandalos transeunt, qui eodem cursu Septembri mense revertuntur ad suos.

In the month of May the legates of the aforesaid man Aegidius pass across the Ocean to the Vandals, who by the same course return to their own in the month of September.

Decimo tertio kalend. Augusti die, secunda feria, in speciem lunae quintae sol de lumine suo ab hora tertia in horam sextam cernitur minoratus.

On the thirteenth day before the Kalends of August, on Monday, in the aspect of a fifth-day moon, the sun was seen diminished of its light from the 3rd hour until the 6th hour.

Legatos Remismundus mittit ad Theudoricum; qui similiter suos ad Remismundum remittit, cum armorum adjectione vel munerum, directa et conjuge quam haberet.

Remismund sends legates to Theudoric; who likewise sends his own back to Remismund, with an addition of arms or of gifts, and dispatched also a spouse
for him to have.

Vandali per Marcellinum in Sicilia caesi effugantur ex ea.

The Vandals, cut down in Sicily by Marcellinus, are put to flight from it.

Aegidius moritur, alii dicunt insidiis, alii veneno deceptus. Quo desistente, mox Gothi regiones invadunt quas Romano nomini tuebatur.

Aegidius dies; some say by treachery, others that he was deceived by poison. With him gone, soon the Goths invade the regions which he was protecting for the Roman name.

Suevi Conimbricam dolose ingressi, familiam nobilem Cantabri spoliant, et captivam abducunt matrem cum filiis.

The Suevi, having entered Conimbrica treacherously, despoil the noble household of Cantaber, and carry off captive the mother with her sons.

Legati eodem anno duabus vicibus a rege Suevorum mittuntur ad regem Theudoricum, ad quem et Arborius proficiscitur evocatus.

Legates in the same year are sent on two occasions by the king of the Suevi to King Theodoric, to whom also Arborius sets out, having been summoned.

[VIII. III.] Reversi legati Suevorum obiisse nuntiant Severum imperii sui anno quarto, qui supra remittuntur ad Conimbricam.

[8. 3.] The returning envoys of the Suevi announce that Severus has died in the fourth year of his rule; and these, mentioned above, are sent back to Conimbriga.

Ajax natione Galata, effectus apostata et senior Arianus, inter Suevos regis sui auxilio hostis catholicae fidei et divinae Trinitatis emergit. Ad Gallicanam Gothorum habitationem hoc pestiferum inimici hominis virus advectum.

Ajax, by nation a Galatian, having become an apostate and an Arian elder, among the Suevi, with the aid of his king, emerges as an enemy of the catholic faith and of the divine Trinity. To the Gallican
habitation of the Goths this pestiferous virus of the Enemy of Man was brought.

Suevi adversum Aunonensem saeviunt plebem: qua de causa legati a Theuderico ad Remismundum mittuntur incassum, spretique ab eo mox redeunt.

The Suevi rage against the Aunonensian plebs: for which cause envoys from Theoderic are sent to Remismund in vain, and, spurned by him, they soon return.

De Constantinopoli a Leone augusto Anthemius frater Procopii cum Marcellino, aliisque comitibus viris electis, et cum ingenti multitudine exercitus copiosi, ad Italiam Deo ordinante directus ascendit.

From Constantinople, Anthemius, brother of Procopius, by Leo Augustus directed, with Marcellinus and other companions, chosen men, and with an immense multitude of a copious army, to Italy, God ordaining, embarked.

Romanorum XLVI, ANTHEMIUS octavo milliario de Roma Augustus appellatur, anno Leonis imperii octavo, mense Augusto.

The 46th of the Romans, ANTHEMIUS, is hailed Augustus at the eighth milestone from Rome, in the eighth year of Leo’s imperium, in the month of August.

IX. I. Expeditio ad Africam adversus Wandalos ordinata metabularum commutatione et navigationis inopportunitate revocatur.

9. 1. The expedition to Africa against the Vandals, having been arranged, is recalled by a commutation of the way-stations and by the inopportuneness of navigation.

Per Theudericum Salla legatus mittitur ad Remismundum regem Suevorum, qui reversus ad Gallias eum a fratre suo Eurico [In ms. Euverico] reperit interfectum.

By Theuderic, Salla the legate is sent to Remismund, king of the Suevi, who, on returning to Gaul, found him slain by his brother Euric [In the manuscript, Euverico].

Euricus pari scelere quo frater, succedit in regnum: qui honore provectus et crimine, legatos ad regem dirigit Suevorum, quibus sine mora a Remismundo remissis, ejusdem regis legati ad imperatorem, alii ad Wandalos, alii diriguntur ad Gothos.

Euric, with a crime equal to that of his brother, succeeds to the kingdom; who, advanced in honor and in crime, dispatches legates to the king of the Suevi; these, being without delay sent back by Remismund, the same king’s legates are sent to the emperor, others to the Vandals, others are directed to the Goths.

De Aunonensi plebe cui Suevorum adversabatur hostilitas, Opilio cum viris secum a rege profectis, et cum aliquantis qui cum ipso missi fuerant, revertitur.

About the Aunonensian plebeians, against whom the hostility of the Suevi was directed, Opilio returns with the men who had set out with him from the king, and with several who had been sent with him.

Gothi qui ad Wandalos missi fuerant, supra dictae expeditionis rumore perterriti revertuntur in celeri: pariter et Suevi, qui post legatos, more solito per diversa loca in praedam dispersi fuerant, revocantur: sed paucis post mensibus ipse rex Suevorum ad Lusitaniam transit.

The Goths who had been sent to the Vandals, terrified by the rumor of the above-said expedition, return in haste; likewise the Suevi, who, after the legates, in the usual manner had been dispersed through diverse places for plunder, are recalled; but a few months later the king of the Suevi himself crosses over into Lusitania.

II. (Olymp. CCCXII.) Conimbrica in pace decepta diripitur: domus destruuntur cum aliqua parte murorum, habitatoribusque captis atque dispersis, et regio desolatur et civitas.

2. (Olympiad 312.) Conimbrica, deceived in peace, is plundered: houses are destroyed with some part of the walls, and with the inhabitants captured and scattered, both the region and the city are desolated.

Legati de Gothico reversi portenta, in Galliis visa aliquanta, in conspectu. . . . . similem ipsi de continuo paruisse solem alium visum. . . . . solis occasu.

Envoys returned from the Gothic campaign reported portents, some seen in Gaul, in sight . . . . that, like to it, straightway there appeared another sun seen . . . . at the setting of the sun.

Congregatis etiam quodam die concilii sui Gothis, tela quae habebant in manibus a parte ferri vel acie, alia viridi, alia roseo, alia croceo, alia nigro colore naturalem ferri speciem aliquamdiu non habuisse mutata. Medio Tolosae civitatis hisdem diebus e terra sanguinem erupisse, totoque diei fluxisse curriculo.

With the Goths of his council also having been assembled on a certain day, the weapons which they had in their hands, in the iron part or at the edge, having been altered, for some time did not have the natural appearance of iron—some green, some rosy, some saffron, some black in color. In the middle of the city of Toulouse, on the same days, blood erupted from the earth and flowed for the whole course of the day.

III. Legatorum Suevorum reditum aliquanta Gothorum manus insequens Emeritam petit.

3. A considerable band of Goths, following the return of the legates of the Suevi, makes for Emerita.

Ulyxippona a Suevis occupatur, cive suo qui illic praeerat, tradente Lusidio. Hac re cognita Gothi qui venerant, invadunt et Suevos depraedantur, pariter et Romanos ipsis in Lusitaniae regionibus servientes.

Ulyxippona is occupied by the Suevi, with their own citizen who was in command there, Lusidius, handing it over. With this matter known, the Goths who had come invade and plunder the Suevi, and equally the Romans serving them in the regions of Lusitania.

Legati qui ad imperatorem missi fuerant, redeunt, nuntiantes sub praesentia sui magnum valde exercitum cum tribus ducibus lectis adversum Wandalos a Leone imperatore descendisse, directo Marcellino pariter cum manu magna eidem per imperatorem Anthemium sociata. Rechimerum generum Anthemii imperatoris, et patricium factum: Asparem degradatum ad privatam vitam, filium ejus occisum, adversum Romanum imperium, sicut detectique sunt, Wandalis consulentes.

The legates who had been sent to the emperor return, announcing that, in their presence, a very great army with three chosen dukes had descended against the Vandals by Emperor Leo, Marcellinus likewise being dispatched with a great force, joined to the same by Emperor Anthemius. That Ricimer, son-in-law of Emperor Anthemius, had also been made patrician; that Aspar had been degraded to private life, and his son slain, for, as they were detected, counseling the Vandals against the Roman Empire.

Hilario defuncto sex sacerdotii sui annis expletis, XLV Romanae Ecclesiae SIMPLICIUS episcopus ordinatur.

With Hilary deceased, with six years of his priesthood completed, SIMPLICIUS, the 45th bishop of the Roman Church, is ordained.

Aunonenses pacem cum rege faciunt Suevorum, qui et Lusitaniae et conventus Asturicensis quaedam loca praedantes invadunt.

The Aunonenses make peace with the king of the Suevi, who also, plundering, invade certain places of Lusitania and of the Asturican conventus.

Gothi circa eumdem conventum pari hostilitate desaeviunt, partes etiam Lusitaniae depraedantur.

The Goths rage with equal hostility around that same conventus, and they also depredate parts of Lusitania.

Lusidius per Remismundum cum suis hominibus Suevis ad imperatorem in legatione dirigitur.

Lusidius is dispatched by Remismund, with his own Suevic men, on a legation to the emperor.

Durissimus extra solitum hoc eodem tempore annus hiberni, veris, aestatis, autumni in aeris, et omnium fructuum permutatione diffunditur.

At this same time, a most harsh year beyond the customary is diffused, by an alteration of the air and of all fruits, in winter, spring, summer, and autumn.

Signa etiam aliquanta et prodigia in locis Gallaeciae pervidentur. In flumine Minio, de municipio Lais milliaro ferme quinto, capiuntur pisces quatuor novi visu et specie, sicut retulere qui coeperant Christiani et religiosi, Hebraeis et Graecis litteris, Latinis autem aerarum numeris insigniti, ita CCCLXV anni circulum continentes, pari mensium intervallo. Haud procul de supra dicto municipio in speciem lenticulae viridissimorum ut herba quaedam forma granorum plena amaritudine defluxit e coelo, et multa alia ostenta quae memorare prolixum est.

Some signs also and portents were clearly seen in places of Gallaecia. In the river Minio, at about the fifth milestone from the municipium Lais, four fish were caught, novel in sight and in species, as the Christians and religious men who had taken them reported, marked with Hebrew and Greek letters, but with Latin era-numbers, thus containing the circuit of the year 365, with an equal interval of the months. Not far from the aforesaid municipium, there flowed down from heaven, in the appearance of a lentil, as if some very green herb, in the form of grains full of bitterness, and many other portents which it is long to recount.