Marcellinus Comes: CHRONICON Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 51
Marcellinus Comes•CHRONICON Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 51
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Post mirandum opus quod a mundi fabrica usque in Constantinum principem Eusebius Caesariensis, hujus saeculi originem, tempora, annos, regna, virtutesque mortalium, et variarum artium repertores, omniumque pene provinciarum monumenta commemorans, Graeco edidit stylo, noster Hieronymus cuncta transtulit in Latinum, et usque in Valentem Caesarem Romano adjecit eloquio. Igitur uterque hujus operis auctor MMMMM et DLXXIX annorum hunc mundum tunc fore miro computavit ingenio. Ego vero, simplici dumtaxat computatione Orientale tantum secutus imperium, per indictiones perque consules infra scriptos, centum et XL annos, a septima videlicet indictione et a consulatu Ausonii et Olybrii (quibus etiam consulibus Theodosius Magnus creatus est imperator) enumerans, et usque in consulatum Magni indictionis undecimae colligens, eorumdem auctorum operi subrogavi: itemque alios XVI annos, a consulatu Justini Augusti primo usque in consulatum Justiniani Augusti IV suffeci: id sunt simul anni CLVI, et meum rusticum opus supposui.
After the wondrous work which Eusebius of Caesarea, recounting from the world’s founding up to the emperor Constantine the origin of this age, the times, the years, the kingdoms, and the virtues of mortals, and the discoverers of the various arts, and the records of almost all provinces, brought out in Greek style, our Jerome translated all into Latin, and added up to the emperor Valens in Roman eloquence. Accordingly, both authors of this work by marvelous ingenuity computed that this world would then be of 5579 years. But I, by a merely simple reckoning, following only the Eastern empire, through the indictions and through the consuls written below, numbering 140 years, namely from the 7th indiction and from the consulship of Ausonius and Olybrius (in which consuls Theodosius the Great was also created emperor), and, gathering up to the consulship of Magnus of the 11th indiction, subjoined to the work of those same authors: likewise I supplied another 16 years, from the first consulship of Justin Augustus up to the 4th consulship of Justinian Augustus: that is in all 156 years, and I have set my rustic work below.
(A. C. 379.) Indictione VII, Ausonio et Olybrio coss. Theodosius Hispanus Italicae divi Trajani civitatis, a Gratiano Augusto apud Sirmium XXXIX post Valentis interitum imperator creatus est, XIV kalendas Februarias, Orientalem dumtaxat rempublicam recturus, vir admodum religiosus et catholicae Ecclesiae propagator, omnibusque Orientalibus principibus praeponendus, nisi quod Marcianum, tertium post se principem, imitatorem habuerit. Alanos, Hunos, Gothos, gentes Scythicas magnis multisque praeliis vicit.
(A.D. 379.) In Indiction 7, with Ausonius and Olybrius consuls. Theodosius, a Spaniard, of Italica, the city of the deified Trajan, was created emperor by the Augustus Gratian at Sirmium, 39 days after the death of Valens, on January 19, to govern only the Eastern commonwealth, a man very religious and a propagator of the catholic Church, and to be preferred to all Eastern princes, except that he had Marcian, the third prince after himself, as an imitator. He conquered the Alans, Huns, Goths, Scythian peoples in great and many battles.
Gregory of Nazianzus, the most eloquent priest of Christ, and the preceptor of our Jerome, when our church at Byzantium had been seized by the Arians, sustained the Catholic populace in the oratory of blessed Anastasia by a daily Catholic allocution. For often he was assailed by the revilings of the depraved; but, endowed with the grace of Christ, he stood opposed to the perfidious Arians until the time when that same church, by his presence, was restored to our own.
For in the consulship of these men, Theodosius the Great, after he had triumphed over the Scythian peoples, with the Arians immediately expelled from the church of the orthodox—who had held it for almost 40 years under Arian emperors—the emperor, being orthodox, restored it to our Catholics in the month of December.
(A. C. 381.) Ind. IX, Eucherio et Evagrio [Forte Syagrio] coss. Sanctis CL Patribus urbe Augusta congregatis adversus Macedonium in Spiritum sanctum naufragantem, ab iisdem episcopis sancta synodus confirmata est: Damaso videlicet sedem beati Petri tenente, Constantinopoli vero per Timotheum Alexandrinum, perque Meletium Antiochenum et Cyrillum Hierosolymitanum episcopos, Nectario ex pagano protinus baptizato, et in praefata synodo pontifice ordinato.
(A.D. 381.) Indiction 9, Eucherius and Evagrius [Perhaps Syagrius] consuls. With 150 holy Fathers assembled in the city Augusta against Macedonius, foundering regarding the Holy Spirit, by these same bishops the holy synod was confirmed: namely, with Damasus holding the see of blessed Peter, and at Constantinople, indeed, through Timothy the Alexandrian, and through Meletius of Antioch and Cyril of Jerusalem, bishops, with Nectarius, straightway baptized from being a pagan, and in the aforesaid synod ordained as pontiff.
A sign in the sky, as if a hanging and burning column, appeared for 30 days. Galla, the wife of Theodosius, was cast out by her stepson Arcadius. An obelisk was set up in the circus; a column was established not far from the church, which, bearing a silver statue of Theodosius the Great, is to this day beheld.
with Valentinian extinguished, and Eugenius made Caesar, he contracted countless and unconquered forces from every side into the Gauls, intending, as it were, to vindicate to himself the Western empire—a barbarian man, excessive in spirit, counsel, action, daring, and power. Moreover, he drew together from everywhere innumerable forces, either by the garrisons of the Romans or by the auxiliaries of the Barbarians, relying in one place on power, in another on consanguinity. Up to this 19th year of the reign of Theodosius, blessed Jerome, after the ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ, beginning from the apostle Peter and ending with himself, wrote out the ecclesiastical volumes of 135 illustrious men, dwelling in the town of Bethlehem; where he also founded a monastery for himself, and, instructed in Hebrew letters as well, wrote many other ecclesiastical works, and, a very old man, made an end of his life, and there he was buried; for Catholics indeed an inexpugnable tower of the Church, but for all heretics an indefatigable enemy, contending both by the purpose of his life and by the assertions of the books published by himself.
(A. C. 394.) Ind. VII, Archadio III et Honorio II coss. Theodosius Augustus assumpto Honorio Caesare, eodemque filio, contra Arbogastem qui Eugenium tyrannum imperatorem facere ausus est, iterum properavit: bello commisso Eugenius victus atque captus interfectus est; Arbogastes sua se manu perculit.
(A. C. 394.) Indiction 7, with Arcadius for the 3rd time and Honorius for the 2nd, consuls. Theodosius Augustus, after taking up Honorius as Caesar, his son as well, hastened again against Arbogast, who had dared to make the tyrant Eugenius emperor: when battle was joined, Eugenius, defeated and captured, was slain; Arbogast struck himself down with his own hand.
Rufinus the patrician, laying plots against the prince Arcadius, made Alaric, king of the Goths, by moneys secretly sent to him, hostile to the republic, and sent him into Greece. Moreover, his trickery having been detected, Rufinus—by Italian soldiers, once [Al. deest olim] sent with Count Gainas to Arcadius—was deservedly butchered before the gates of the city. His head and right hand were displayed through all Constantinople.
Ambrose of Milan, a bishop of virtues, a citadel of faith, a Catholic orator, migrated to Christ the Lord. John, born at Antioch, and there by Meletius, bishop of the same city and likewise a confessor, having been ordained reader of the church, ascended through each grade of office. There, for five continuous years as a deacon, he issued many and divine books; and, having become a presbyter as well, for 12 years he composed more.
Then, having been everywhere deservedly propagated in such great repute, he was appointed pontiff at Constantinople in place of Nectarius: where he added very many and sweet volumes of the divine Scriptures to his catholic work [Al. to his catholics], and he had these bishops as enemies: Theophilus the Alexandrian, Epiphanius the Cyprian, Acacius of Beroea, Antiochus of Ptolemais, Severianus of Gabala, and Severus of Chalcedon. Gildo, a count and likewise a pagan, who, Theodosius the prince having died, presided over Africa, while he envied during the reign of Arcadius and Honorius, still boys, and strove to seize Africa, his brother Mascezel, learning of his madness, and leaving behind two sons in Africa, returned to Italy: Gildo treacherously butchered both sons of his brother. Mascezel, having learned his brother’s crime, with five thousand of his own advanced in hostile array against Gildo, who was coming to meet him with 70 thousand armed men, and he put the parricide Gildo to flight by his fasts and prayers [Al. “suis” lacking], nay rather with the admonition of blessed Ambrose in dreams lending aid.
Pulcheria, a second daughter, was born to Arcadius. Gaina, the comes, at Constantinople, to prepare a civil war, secretly admonishes his barbarians; he himself, feigning ill-health, departs from the city: with the battle begun against the Byzantines, very many of the enemy fall, the rest, fleeing, take refuge in our church, and there, the roof of the church uncovered [Al. detecto] and stones hurled down from above, they are overwhelmed.
Gaïna’s head, fixed upon a spear-shaft, was brought to Constantinople. The surface of the Pontic Sea was so reined by frost that, for thirty days, when at last loosened, the ice, like mountains, borne from above, ran down through the Propontis. Theodosius the Younger, son of Arcadius, was born on the 3 [Al. 4] Ides of April.
A silver statue of Eudoxia, wife of Arcadius, set upon a porphyry column beside the church, stands to this day. John, bishop of the city of Constantinople—toward whom the six prelates mentioned above were jealous to no avail—they, having convened thirty other bishops to themselves, sent into exile, against the will of Prince Arcadius, to the town of Cucusus in Armenia; and after one year they relegated him, from exile to exile, to the town which is called Comana in the Pontic region. Him, dead there, the devout populace of the orthodox, in the atrium of Basiliscus, a holy bishop and likewise a martyr—having been admonished in dreams by that same martyr—laid to rest in a new tomb just then discovered.
(A. C. 408.) Ind. VI, Basso et Philippo coss. Stilicho comes, cujus duae filiae Maria et Thermantia singulae uxores Honorii principis fuere, utraque tamen virgo defuncta, spreto Honorio, regnumque ejus inhians, Alanorum, Suevorum, Wandalorumque gentes donis pecuniisque illectas contra regnum Honorii excitavit, Eucherium filium suum paganum et adversum Christianos insidias molientem cupiens Caesarem ordinare.
(A. D. 408.) Indiction 6, Bassus and Philippus consuls. Count Stilicho, whose two daughters Maria and Thermantia were each wives of Prince Honorius, yet each died a virgin, having spurned Honorius and coveting his realm, stirred up the nations of the Alans, Suevi, and Vandals—enticed by gifts and money—against the realm of Honorius, desiring to appoint his son Eucherius, a pagan and contriving plots against Christians, as Caesar.
(A. C. 410.) Ind. VIII, Varane solo cos. Alaricus trepidam urbem Romam invasit, partemque ejus cremavit incendio, sextoque die quam ingressus fuerat, depraedata urbe egressus est, Placidia Honorii principis sorore abducta, quam postea Ataulfo propinquo suo tradidit uxorem.
(A. D. 410.) Ind. 8, with Varanes sole consul. Alaric invaded the trembling city Rome, and burned part of it with a conflagration; and on the sixth day after he had entered, after plundering the city he departed, carrying off Placidia, sister of the emperor Honorius, whom afterwards he gave as wife to his kinsman Ataulf.
it was restored and dedicated, with Atticus the bishop governing that same church. Lucianus the presbyter, a holy man, to whom God, in the year of these consuls, revealed the place of the sepulchre and the relics of the body of Saint Stephen, the first martyr, wrote the revelation itself in the Greek language to the persons of all the Churches.
Sent by Bishop Augustine, that same Orosius went to Jerome the presbyter for the learning of the doctrine of the soul; returning, he was the first to bring into the West the relics of blessed Stephen, then newly discovered. Atticus, the Constantinopolitan bishop, wrote to the queens, daughters of Arcadius the emperor, a very excellent book On Faith and Virginity, in which, anticipating the Nestorian dogma, he impugns it.
Many cities and villages of Palestine collapsed in an earthquake. Our Lord Jesus Christ, always and everywhere present [Alt. “entire”], also manifested himself from a cloud above the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. Then many peoples of neighboring nations, of both sexes, terrified both by sight and by hearing and believing, were washed in the sacred font of Christ; and on the tunics of all the baptized, the cross of Christ the Savior, by the nod of divinity, imprinted at once, shone forth.
The same Nestorius, perfidious prelate of the Church of Constantinople, from whom also Nestorian perfidy pullulated, at Ephesus was condemned by the sentence in synod of two hundred holy Fathers, Celestine declaring Cyril, bishop of the city of Alexandria, vicar for the time being; in the place of Nestorius, Maximian was substituted as bishop.
Barbarians, reared in the august city, flock to our church in hostile fashion; while, in their hostility, they hurl fire into the church to burn the altar, they, with God resisting, slaughter one another. At this time, while Theodosius celebrates a procession to the public granaries, with a scarcity of wheat pressing upon the plebs, the emperor is assailed with stones by the starving populace.
At the instigation of Placidia, mother of the emperor Valentinian, a vast war was waged between Boniface and Aetius, patricians. Aetius, with a longer spear prepared for himself the day before, wounded Boniface as he engaged, himself unhurt; and in the third month Boniface dies of the wound by which he had been stricken, exhorting his wife Pelagia, very wealthy, to marry no other than Aetius.
He exhibited the eighth quinquennial games. Eudoxia, the wife of the princeps Theodosius, returned to the royal city from Jerusalem, carrying with her the relics of the most blessed Stephen, the first martyr, which, placed in the basilica of Saint Lawrence, are venerated. At this time Genseric, king of the Vandals, occupied the cities of Africa, and Carthage the metropolis, with his satellites, on the 10 Kalends.
Arcadia, sister of Theodosius, made an end of living. A number of towns and estates of Bithynia, by the force of long-continued rains and by the inundation of rivers as they swelled, slipped down, were dissolved, and perished. Severus the presbyter and John the deacon, ministering to Queen Eudoxia at the city of Aelia, were sent by the emperor.
Huge stones also in the Forum of Taurus, long ago set up aloft in a building, and very many statues, collapsed without, namely, anyone’s injury, though nonetheless very many cities collapsed: famine and the pestiferous odor of the airs destroyed many thousands of men and of beasts of burden. A huge war, greater than the former, inflicted upon our people by King Attila, harrowed almost all Europe, with cities and forts cut down and invaded. In the same year, the walls of the august city, once collapsed by an earthquake, were rebuilt within three months, with Constantine the Praetorian Prefect giving his diligence.
A sudden fire consumed both the Troadense porticoes, and the towers of both gates; the ruins of which, having been straightway cleared out, Antiochus, Praetorian Prefect, raised to their former appearance, while the envoys of Attila were clamoring for monies once despised by Theodosius [Al. agreed upon].
While Leo the Pontiff was ruling the seat of blessed Peter, the holy and universal synod of 630 Fathers against Eutyches, the most nefarious prelate of the monks, was established at Chalcedon in the basilica of Saint Euphemia: only Dioscorus, bishop of the Alexandrian Church, dissented, and immediately by those same catholic Fathers was deposed from the priesthood.
by his own decrees he established that those who desired to become consuls should scatter no coin among the people, but should pay the appointed money for the repair of the City’s aqueduct. At this time three great stones fell from the sky in Thrace. The city of Aquileia was razed by Attila, king of the Huns.
(A. C. 453.) Ind. VI, Vincomalo et Opilione coss. Joannes praecursor Domini et baptista, caput suum quod olim Herodias impia nefandaque postulatione ab humeris amputatum et in disco positum accepit, proculque a truncato ejus corpore sepelivit, duobus Orientalibus monachis ob adorandam apud Hierosolymam Christi Domini resurrectionem introeuntibus revelavit, ut ad Herodis quondam regis habitaculum accedentes admoniti requirerent, fideliterque humo extollerent.
(A.D. 453.) Indiction 6, Vincomalus and Opilio, consuls. John, the Forerunner of the Lord and Baptist, his head—which once Herodias, by an impious and nefarious request, having been cut off from his shoulders and set upon a dish, received, and buried far away from his truncated body—revealed itself to two Eastern monks entering to adore at Jerusalem the resurrection of Christ the Lord, so that, being admonished to approach the dwelling of Herod, once king, they might seek it and faithfully lift it up from the soil.
Therefore this head, found by faith [Chiffl. fidei], and laid in a rough knapsack, while they, returning to their own habitations, were conveying it home, a certain potter of the city of Emesa, fleeing a long-standing and impending poverty for himself, offered himself to them as a companion; and he, while unwittingly carrying the bag entrusted to him with the sacred head, having been admonished at night by him whose head he was bearing, fled and left both companions, and immediately entered the city of Emesa with the holy and light burden. And there, as long as he lived, he venerated the head of the forerunner of Christ, and dying he handed it over to his sister, unaware of the matter, sealed in a little vessel, to be honored in remembrance [Fort.
to be venerated]. She, however, left it to her successor, laid away and sealed as it was. Furthermore Eustochius, a certain presbyter secretly of Arian perfidy, unworthy obtained such and so great a treasure, and the grace which Christ the Lord was granting to the infirm people through John the Baptist, he disseminated it among the common crowd as if it were his own merely. Hence, his depravity having been detected, he was expelled from the city of Emesa.
Next, a certain number of monks began to have as a dwelling that cavern in which the head of the most blessed John, having been cast into an urn and hidden beneath the earth, had been laid. Marcellus at length, a presbyter and prelate of the whole monastery, while he dwells in the same cave with an irreprehensible life, the same Blessed John, the precursor of Christ, showed himself to him and his head, and, there buried, shining forth with many virtues, he made it known. This venerable head, therefore, under Uranios, bishop of the aforementioned city, is agreed to have been found by the aforesaid presbyter Marcellus, in the consulship of Vincomalus and Opilio.
in the month of February, on the 24th day, in the middle week of the paschal fasts, while the emperors Valentinian and Marcian were reigning. Pulcheria Augusta, the wife of the princeps Marcian, consummated the atrium of blessed Lawrence with inimitable workmanship, and made a blessed end of living.
Some, however, assert that he was slain by a discharge of blood. Aetius the patrician, the great salvation of the Western commonwealth, and the terror of King Attila, is butchered by the emperor Valentinian, together with his friend Boethius, in the palace: and with him the Hesperian realm fell, nor to this day has it been able to be raised up again.
[Ostilam] and Traustila, Aetius’s satellites (bodyguards), with Heraclius the eunuch already struck down, cut him to pieces. The same Maximus invaded the empire, and in the third month of his tyranny he was dragged and torn limb from limb at Rome by the Romans [Alt.: was torn apart]. Genseric, king of the Vandals, invited by epistles from Eudoxia, the wife of Valentinian, entered Rome from Africa, and, that city having been despoiled of all its goods, as he returned he carried off that same Eudoxia with her two daughters with him.
wearied by fever, he was called and entered the sacred bedchamber of the palace, and immediately, in a chair placed next to the imperial couch, he sat down without any nod from the Augustus, and thus applied his medical hands. Moreover, at midday returning to that same sacred couch, he at once understood that the seat for him had been removed from beside the throne on which he had sat again in the morning, and, intrepid, he sat down upon the royal bed’s sponda; and he taught the ailing emperor that he had done this, being admonished by the precepts of the ancients’ findings in his discipline, and had not presumed rashly.
(A. C. 474.) Ind. XII, Leone juniore solo cos. Leo senior imp., Leone juniore a se jam Caesare constituto, morbo periit, tam sui imperii annis quam hujus Leonis regni mensibus computatis, anno XVII, mense VI. Zenonem Leo junior, idemque filius imperator principem regni constituit.
(A.D. 474.) Ind. 12, Leo the younger, sole consul. Leo the elder, emperor, with Leo the younger already by himself constituted as Caesar, died of disease, the years of his own empire as well as the months of this Leo’s rule being reckoned, in year 17, month 6. Leo the younger, likewise the emperor’s son, constituted Zeno chief of the realm.
Basiliscus, with his son and his wife Zenonis, now that Zeno was returning to his former imperial power, was sent into exile, and, thrust into a little town which in the province of Cappadocia is called Leminis, wasted away with hunger. Odoacer, king of the Goths, seized Rome; Odoacer forthwith butchered Orestes; Odoacer condemned Augustulus, the son of Orestes, to the penalty of exile in the Lucullan castle in Campania. The western empire of the Roman nation, which in the seven hundred and ninth [Chiffl.
Sabinianus, created great commander of both Illyrician services, fostered the fragile Curia and the lawful assessment of the commonwealth, collapsed as it was—either he cherished it when panic-stricken, or he protected it when hanging in suspense. Moreover, he was such an excellent establisher and enforcer of military discipline that he is compared to the ancient leaders of the Romans. The same Sabinianus deterred Theodoric the king, raging in Greece, more by ingenuity than by valor.
The royal city, for 40 continuous days, shaken by an incessant earthquake, bewailed itself as greatly afflicted. Both Troadensian porticoes collapsed; quite a number of churches were either rent or fell in. The statue of Theodosius the Great in the Forum of the Bull, set upon a spiral (cochleate) column, fell, with two of its arches likewise collapsing.
Furthermore, hastening into Illyricum, while he was proceeding amid the moving wagons of his own, by the point of a weapon lying upon the carriage and by the impulsion of his shying horse, he was fixed and transfixed and perished. Death, which deservedly impends over this sinning world, took away Sabinianus Magnus before he could be a full support to the fatigued commonwealth.
333] orthodox bishops; and, their churches closed, the plebs of the faithful, subjected to various torments, consummated the blessed agony. Indeed then that same king Huneric ordered the tongue to be cut out of a certain catholic adolescent, who from his birth had conducted his life without any speech; and the same mute, what he had learned by faith—believing in Christ without human hearing—straightway, his tongue cut off, spoke, and in the first outset of his voice he gave glory to God. Finally, from this companionship of the faithful I myself saw at Byzantium several most religious men, with tongues cut off and hands truncated, speaking with an entire voice.
(A. C. 487.) Ind. X, Boetio solo cos. Theodoricus rex Gothorum Zenonis Augusti numquam, beneficiis satiatus magna suorum manu usque ad regiam civitatem et Melentiadam oppidum infestus accessit, plurimisque locis igne crematis, ad Novensem Moesiae civitatem, unde advenerat, remeavit.
(A. D. 487.) Indiction 10, Boethius sole consul. Theodoric, king of the Goths, never satisfied by the favors of Zeno Augustus, with a great band of his own men approached in hostile fashion up to the royal city and the town Melentiada, and, with very many places burned by fire, he returned to the Novense city of Moesia, whence he had come.
While the Isaurian war was being prepared, and while the Isauri strove to claim the imperium for themselves, they converged from every side in Phrygia near the city of Cotiaeum; and there Lilingis—sluggish indeed on foot, but as a horseman most keen in war—was the first to be slaughtered in battle by the Romans, and all the Isauri at once, given over to flight, made back through mountainous and rugged places to Isauria. This Isaurian war was drawn out for six years.
against the majesty of the faith of the orthodox he began to stir up internal battles: he first manifested the perfidy of his own sacrilege against Euphemius, bishop of the city, who was manfully resisting on behalf of the faith of the orthodox, with a profane disposition. Laodicea, Hierapolis and Tripolis, and Agathicum, at one time and by one earthquake, collapsed. Gelasius, the 47th bishop of the Roman Church, having been ordained, lived 4 years [Chiffl.
(A. C. 498.) Ind. VI, Joanne Scytha et Paulino coss. Romanae Ecclesiae XLVIII Anastasius pontifex ordinatus, vixit annos II. Longinus Isaurus cognomento Selinunteus, apud Antiochiam Isauriae civitatem a Prisco comite captus, Constantinopolim missus est, catenatusque per agentem circumductus Anastasio principi, et populo ingens spectaculum fuit: variisque deinde cruciatibus apud Nicaeam Bithyniae civitatem expensus est.
(A.D. 498.) Ind. 6, with John the Scythian and Paulinus as consuls. Anastasius, the 48th bishop of the Roman Church, was ordained; he lived 2 years. Longinus the Isaurian, by cognomen Selinunteus, captured at Antiochia, a city of Isauria, by Count Priscus, was sent to Constantinople, and, in chains, being paraded by an imperial agent, was to Emperor Anastasius and to the people an immense spectacle: and then, with various torments, he was put to death at Nicaea, a city of Bithynia.
A battle was joined near the river Zurta, where more than 4 thousand of our men were slain, either in flight or by plunging from the riverbank’s precipice. And there the Illyrian valor of the soldiers perished, with the counts Nicostratus, Innocentius, and Aquilinus killed. In this year a huge earthquake shook the Pontic province.
wrongly, different from the party of Cerealis] the Blue prepared hidden ambushes. For they set swords and stones enclosed in earthen vessels, and the same arms heaped above with various fruits, beneath the portico of the theater in the manner of vendors. While Constantius was seated and, as usual, the voices of the citizens resounded in concert, the weapons—seen before they were heard—are shaken out, and stones are hurled upon the unwary and the citizens like showers; and the brandished swords, smeared with the blood of friends and neighbors, rage along with their own strikers: the theater’s cavea sways and groans, and, trampled under the feet of its people fleeing this way and that, and defiled with the gore of the slain, it laments.
(A. C. 503.) Ind. XI, Dexicrate et Volusiano coss. Tres Romanorum ductores, Patricius, Hypatius et Areobinda, qui cum XV millibus armatorum olim in Persas missi fuerant pugnaturi, juxta Syficum castellum cum iisdem Persis sine audacia conflixerunt, multis tunc militum ductoribus de praelio fugientibus caesis.
(A. C. 503.) Ind. 11, Dexicrate et Volusiano consuls. Three leaders of the Romans, Patricius, Hypatius, and Areobinda, who had formerly been sent with 15 thousand armed men against the Persians to fight, engaged near the Syficum castle with those same Persians without boldness, many then of the commanders of the soldiers, fleeing from the battle, being cut down.
(A. C. 504.) Ind. XII, Cethego solo cos. Interea Celer magister officiorum per Callinicum Mesopotamiae civitatem armatum ducens militem, ad devastanda Persarum rura discurrit, plurimos agrestes rusticis intentos laboribus more pecudum trucidat, pastores diversorum pecorum cum numerosis jumentis abducit, castella latere lutoque constructa invadit, usque ad Pontem Ferreum sic nomine dictum, cuncta vastando progreditur, omnique praeda potitus ad communia castra ditato milite remeat, aliquanta dehinc ob percutiendum foedus cum Persis deliberat, misso ad se pro pepigendo foedere Armonio a secretis.
(A. D. 504.) Ind. 12, with Cethegus sole consul. Meanwhile Celer, magister of the offices, leading armed soldiery through Callinicum, a city of Mesopotamia, runs about to devastate the fields of the Persians; he massacres very many countryfolk, intent on rustic labors, in the manner of cattle; he carries off the shepherds of diverse flocks with numerous beasts of burden; he assaults little forts built of brick and mud; he advances, laying everything waste, up to the Iron Bridge so called by name; and, having gotten all the booty, he returns to the common camp, the soldiery enriched. Thereafter he deliberates somewhat about striking a treaty with the Persians, Harmonius, the privy secretary, having been sent to him for concluding the treaty.
(A. C. 505.) Ind. XIII, Sabiniano et Theodoro coss. Idem Sabinianus Sabiniani Magni filius, ductorque militiae, delegatus contra Mundonem Getam arma construxit, X millia armatorum sibimet ascitorum plaustraque armis atque commeatibus onerata secum trahens, pugnaturus accessit: commissoque ad Horreo Margo [Fort.
(A. C. 505.) Ind. 13, Sabinianus and Theodorus consuls. The same Sabinianus, son of Sabinianus Magnus, and leader of the army, having been delegated against Mundo the Getan, marshaled his arms, bringing with him 10 thousand armed men recruited to himself and dragging along wagons laden with arms and provisions; he approached intending to fight: and with battle joined at Horreum Margi [Fort.
after the battle at Horrea Margi, with many of his own soldiers lost in this conflict and killed in the river Margo, and the wagons besides lost, he fled with a few into a castle called Nato: so greatly in this lamentable war did the soldiers’ hope fall, that it could by no means be repaired among mortals.
(A. C. 508.) Ind. I, Celere et Venantio coss. Romanus comes domesticorum et Rusticus comes scholariorum, cum centum armatis navibus, totidemque dromonibus, octo millia militum armatorum secum ferentibus, ad devastanda Italiae littora processerunt, et usque ad Tarentum antiquissimam civitatem aggressi sunt, remensoque mari inhonestam victoriam quam piratico ausu Romani ex Romanis rapuerunt, Anastasio Caesari reportarunt.
(A.D. 508.) Indiction 1, Celere and Venantius, consuls. Romanus, count of the domestici, and Rusticus, count of the scholarii, with 100 armed ships and just as many dromons, carrying with them eight thousand armed soldiers, advanced to devastate the shores of Italy, and, having attacked as far as Tarentum, a most ancient city, and having recrossed the sea, they brought back to Emperor Anastasius the dishonorable victory which, by piratical daring, Romans had snatched from Romans.
(A. C. 511.) Ind. IV, Secundino et Felice coss. Macedonius Augustae urbis episcopus, licet olim Anastasii imperatoris dolis fallaciisque circumventus, pravorumque testimoniis eidem Caesari accusatus, quoniam tomum sanctorum Patrum apud Calchedonam sancta dudum subscriptione roboratum eidem principi dare distulit, ab eodem Euchaita in exsilium deputatus est.
(A. D. 511.) Ind. 4, Secundinus and Felix, consuls. Macedonius, bishop of the Augusta city, although once circumvented by the deceits and fallacies of Emperor Anastasius, and accused to the same Caesar by the testimonies of the depraved, because he deferred to give to the same prince the Tome of the holy Fathers at Chalcedon, long since strengthened by sacred subscription, was by that same man assigned into exile at Euchaita.
On the Lord’s Day, while, by the order of Anastasius Caesar, through Marinus and through Plato, as they stood on the pulpit of the church, there was added to the hymn of the Trinity the quaternity of the Deipassians, many of the orthodox, chanting with the original wording and rebuking the faithless heralds with shouts, were cut down in the bosom of the same church, and, led into prisons, perished: on the following day nonetheless, in the atrium of Saint Theodore [Chiffl. Theodosii], the Catholics were struck down with a greater slaughter for the single faith. Wherefore, the ranks of the orthodox being stirred on the day following, that is, on the 8th day before the Ides of November.
(on which day the memorial of the ash that once covered all Europe is celebrated among the Byzantines) they flow together from every side into the Forum of Constantine: of whom some indeed, while the others sing day and night the hymn of the Trinity to Christ God, traverse the whole city, and slay with sword and flames the adherents of Caesar Anastasius in monastic habit; others bring the keys of the gates and all the military standards to the forum where they had pitched the camp of religion; and there, while Anastasius Caesar was spending time in the processions, they keep shouting that Areobindus be made emperor for them. Then, the images and statues of Anastasius having been cast to the ground, they drove back Celer and Patricius, senators, sent to them for the sake of supplicating them or of giving satisfaction, with stones hurled like a shower. The houses of Marinus and Pompeius having been set on fire, coming into the circus to Anastasius, and standing before his throne, chanting the hymn of the Trinity according to the custom of the Catholics, and bearing the gleaming Gospel-book and the cross of Christ, very many gathered from the forum, shouting together that Marinus and Plato, authors of his depravity, be thrown to wild beasts.
These citizens the same Anastasius Caesar, with his accustomed perjuries and simulated utterances, promising he would do all things, on the third day after they had come into the forum, made to trudge back to their own habitations without any result. Furthermore, with his depravity reinstated, Anastasius ordered an infamous and derisible synod to be held at the city of Sidon—whose very name is prefixed to mockeries—nearly 80 treacherous bishops having been gathered, against the bishop [Al. bishops] of the orthodox. Flavian of Antioch, the catholic patriarch, and John, pontiff of the town of the Paltenses, since they had refuted this sacrilegious assembly, were sent into exile to a fortress which is called Petra.
(A. C. 514.) Ind. VII, Senatore solo cos. Vitalianus Scytha, assumptis Romanorum equitum peditumque plusquam LX millibus armatorum in triduo congregatorum, in locum qui Septimius dicitur, advenit, ibique castra metatus est; dispositisque a mari in mare suorum ordinibus, ipse ad usque portam quae Aurea dicitur, sine ullius accessit dispendio; scilicet pro orthodoxorum se fide, proque Macedonio urbis episcopo, incassum ab Anastasio principe exsulato, Constantinopolim accessisse asserens.
(A.D. 514.) Indiction 7, with Senator sole consul. Vitalian the Scythian, having taken up more than 60 thousand armed Roman cavalry and infantry, gathered within three days, came to a place called Septimius, and there pitched camp; and, his ranks disposed from sea to sea, he himself advanced up to the gate called the Golden, without any loss to anyone; asserting that he had approached Constantinople on behalf of the faith of the orthodox, and of Macedonius, bishop of the city, exiled to no purpose by Prince Anastasius.
Moreover, having been enticed and deluded by Anastasius’s simulations and perjuries, through Theodore the internuncio, on the eighth day after he had approached the city, he returned. Thence Vitalianus, spending the night, entered by craft Odessus, a city of Moesia. Cyril, a pander rather than a strenuous leader of soldiery, Vitalianus found sleeping between two concubines, and having dragged him away, he straightway slit his throat with a Getic knife, and he exhibited himself as an enemy to Anastasius Caesar plainly and openly.
the enemy became more savage: for with his own equites sent on ahead, and armed little ships running down along the left shore on his side, he himself, hedged about with the arms of the infantry, entered the Systhenian estate, and made the palace of the whole place his lodging. Senators were sent to Vitalianus by the Caesar, to settle with him the leges of peace: he then accepted, as the price for Hypatius, ninety pounds of gold, the royal gifts excepted—Hypatius, together with the captive Uranion, having already been offered to him by his own men at Sozopolis for one thousand one hundred pounds of gold. Vitalianus, made magister militum over Thrace, on his return sent Hypatius—whom he was holding captive and chained at the fortress of Acres—back to his uncle.
He succeeds Vitalian, and for the same he designates Rufinus as successor. Helias, bishop of the city of Jerusalem, dies in the villa which is called Haila, having been banished by the same prince. Furthermore, Anastasius ordered that Laurentius of Lychnidus, Domnion of Serdica, Alcissus of Nicopolis, Gaianus of Naissus, and Evangelus of Pautalia, Catholic priests of Illyricum, be presented before his own eyes.
Bishops Alcissus and Gaianus died at Byzantium and were laid in a single sepulcher. Domnion and Evangelus, on account of fear of the Illyrian Catholic soldier, were forthwith sent back to their own sees; but Laurentius alone, often confuting Anastasius the emperor in the palace on behalf of the catholic faith, was detained at the court as if relegated into exile, and afterward became more mobile in body than when he had come to Constantinople.
For in the seventh year of his infirmity, that same Laurence, by his faith, but [Onuphr. et] by the grace of Christ, in the atrium of Cosmas and Damian was healed, and he merited to be set upon his own feet and to be strengthened in his steps, and then to be restored unharmed to his native country, where, beyond octogenarian age, he rests.
The two Macedonias then, and Thessaly, were laid waste, and the Getae horsemen plundered as far as Thermopylae and ancient Epirus. Then Anastasius the emperor, for the ransoming of Roman captives, sent through Paul a thousand pounds of gold denarii to John, prefect of Illyricum: when the price proved insufficient, either the Roman captives were held confined along with their own little houses, or they were butchered before the walls of the shut-in cities.
In the province of Dardania, by continual earth-tremor, 24 forts collapsed in a single moment. Of these, two were submerged with their inhabitants; four were wrecked, with half of their buildings and of their people lost; eleven were cast down, with a third of their houses and likewise of the populace ruined; seven, with a fourth of their roofs—and a portion of the common people of that size—were overwhelmed; but the neighboring places, indeed, were shunned for fear of collapses [Onuphr. by fear of the neighboring (ruins)].
For the metropolis Scupus, although without the slaughter of its citizens fleeing the enemy, nevertheless collapsed to the foundations. In one castle of the region of Canisa, which is called Sarnunto, the veins of the earth then being ruptured, and boiling up in the likeness of a torrid furnace, it vomited forth a long-continued and, on the other side, seething shower. Very many mountains of the whole province were cleft by this earthquake, and rocks torn from their joints; and the tree-lined escarpment, having rolled down, lay open for 30 miles, and, gaping to a breadth of 12 feet, it prepared, as if by decree, a deep abyss for some citizens, the ruins of strongholds and rocks, and, for those still fleeing the incursions of enemies, the same fates.
Justin, chosen emperor by the senate, was immediately installed. Amantius, prefect of the palace, and Andrew, Misael, and Ardabur, chamberlains, supporters of the Manichaeans, were apprehended as traitors to Justin Augustus. Of these, two, Amantius and Andrew, were cut down by the sword; Misael and Ardabur were sent into exile to Serdica.
Theocritus, Amantius’s henchman, whom that same Amantius, the praepositus, had secretly prepared for ruling, was apprehended, and in prison, crushed by huge stones, he perished, and he lay in the briny whirlpool, being deprived of burial as also of the imperium which he had coveted. Vitalian the Scythian, recalled to the commonwealth by the piety of Prince Justin, entered Constantinople, and on the seventh day of his reception was appointed magister militiae.
For he distributed 288 thousand solidi to the populace, and to the spectacles or to the machinery of the spectacles, and at the same time in the amphitheatre he exhibited 20 lions and 30 panthers, besides other wild beasts. Moreover, he bestowed in the circus upon the charioteers—already gifted as well—numerous and caparisoned horses, with only the one, and final, mappa (starting-cloth) denied to the frenzied people.
(A. C. 525.) Ind. III, Filoxeno et Probo coss. Joannes Romanae Ecclesiae papa LI anno a Petro apostolorum pontificumque praesule CCCCLXXV sessionis ejus, Theodorico rege pro Arianorum suorum caeremoniis reparandis laborante, solus dumtaxat Romanorum sibimet decessorum, urbe digressus Constantinopolim venit, miro honore susceptus est.
(A. D. 525.) Indiction 3, Philoxenus and Probus consuls. John, pope of the Roman Church, the 51st, in the 475th year from the session of Peter, the presiding prelate of the apostles and of the pontiffs, while King Theodoric was laboring for the repairing of the ceremonies of his Arians, he alone, at least among the Romans, of his own predecessors, having departed from the city came to Constantinople, and was received with wondrous honor.
(A. C. 526.) Ind. IV, Olybrio solo cos. Totam quidem Antiochiam Syriae civitatem repens inter prandendum terrae motus invasit: alioquin occiduam urbis magnam ejus partem, sinistris mox ventis undique flantibus, flammasque coquinarum pro tempore aestuantes ruentia in aedificia miscentibus, duplex torridumque exitium importavit.
(A.D. 526.) Indiction 4, with Olybrius sole consul. The whole city of Antioch of Syria was indeed invaded by a sudden earthquake during the midday meal: moreover it brought upon the great western part of the city, as sinister winds soon were blowing from every side and, with the flames of the kitchens blazing at the time being mingled with the buildings as they collapsed, a double and searing destruction.
In the year 198 from the founding of the royal City, the royal vestibule, and the ancient throne in it, built for viewing and approving the contests in the circus, the victorious Princeps Justinian restored, more eminent and more illustrious than it had been, and with his wonted magnanimity he renewed both porticoes of the senators watching according to custom, indicating reward for good charioteers, but severity for the slothful.
(A. C. 532.) Ind. X, item post consulatum Lampadii et Orestis. Hypatius, Pompeius et Probus genere consobrini, divique Anastasii nepotes, imperium quod sibi singuli indigna ambitione exoptabant, idibus Januariis, jam plerisque nobilium conjuratis, omnique seditiosorum turba armis donisque ministratis illecta, dolis invadere tentaverunt, atque per quinque continuos dies urbem regiam rapinis, ferro igneque per sceleratos cives, sine certo interrege discursantes, hostili impietate, ipsi se fideles reipublicae in palatio dissimulantes, depopulati sunt.
(A. C. 532.) Ind. 10, likewise after the consulship of Lampadius and Orestes. Hypatius, Pompeius, and Probus, cousins by lineage and grandsons of the deified Anastasius, the imperial power which each of them with unworthy ambition desired for himself, on the Ides of January, with very many of the nobles already in conspiracy, and the whole mob of seditious men enticed by arms and gifts that had been supplied, tried to seize by wiles; and for five continuous days they laid waste the royal city with plunder, with steel and fire through criminal citizens, running to and fro without any definite interrex, with hostile impiety, while they themselves in the palace were pretending to be loyal to the commonwealth.
But on the fifth day of this unspeakable crime, while from the forum Hypatius, wreathed with a golden torque by the hands of criminal companions, and Pompeius, his companion, cuirassed beneath his garment, were mounting to storm the palace, each of them was seized before the palace doors; and immediately, at the nod of our most pious prince, he was chained and cut down, paying the penalty, and he lost the imperium before he had it, countless people being slaughtered everywhere in the circus, and the associates of the tyrants forthwith proscribed. The Church, then set on fire, soon began to be renewed by that same Augustus.
After a long and immense labor waged by the Romans in sweat against the Medes, at length, through Ruffinus the patrician and through Hermogenes, master of the offices—both dispatched as envoys by our emperor—peace with the Parthians was agreed. Gifts, sent by each emperor to the other in concord, followed the pledge of the treaty that had been struck.
The province Africa, which in the division of the world many place in the third part, was recovered by God’s will. Carthage too, its city, in the 96th year of its destruction, the Vandals having been driven out and defeated, with their king Galimer captured and sent to Constantinople, in the fourth consulship of the prince Justinian, under his administration, was received back, reintegrated with its own country more firmly than it had been before. At which time Theodahad, king of the Goths, killed Amalasuntha, the queen who had created him, driven from the kingdom, on an island of Lake Bolsena.
(A. C. 535.) Ind. XIII, Belisario solo cos. Postquam Carthago Libyaque suo cum rege Selimero per Belisarium est subjugata, de Roma Italiaque deliberat imperator: iterumque expeditio, iterumque classis paratur, idemque ductor qui consul eligitur, rectoque navigio Siciliam properat, Catanam et Syracusas sine mora, immo omnem pervadit Trinacriam.
(A.D. 535.) Ind. 13, Belisarius sole consul. After Carthage and Libya, together with their king Selimer, were subjugated by Belisarius, the emperor deliberates concerning Rome and Italy: again an expedition, again a fleet is prepared, and the same leader, who is chosen consul, with a straight course hastens to Sicily, to Catania and Syracuse without delay, nay rather he pervades the whole Trinacria.
And there learning that in Africa a civil war is arising, and that the soldiery rises against its own commander, with a few he heads to Africa, he succors Solomon who was in command: the army indeed, partly by coaxing, partly by avenging, by putting the hostile tyrant to flight, he looks to the utility of the commonwealth, and, the voyage retraced, he returns to Trinacria. Agapitus, bishop of the Roman city, sent on an embassy by Theodatus, king of the Goths, came to Constantinople. Tzitta, a patrician, in Mysia, engaging with the Bulgarian enemy, is found superior on the flank.
In Africa, however, with Solomon likewise dissenting with the army, Germanus succeeds, sending Solomon back to the emperor. Belisarius, crossing Campania, devastates Naples. The army of the Goths, holding King Theodahad suspect, admits Vitiges to the kingship; who soon seized the kingdom on the barbarian plain.
With the expedition dissolved he enters Rome, where, Agapitus now having died at Constantinople, King Theodahad had subrogated Silverius to the episcopate; and, residing there, he makes for Ravenna, kills Theodahad at a place called Quintus, near the river Santernus; and he himself follows after through Tuscany, plundering all the wealth of Theodahad which he had gathered in Insula or in Urbevetus. And, having entered Ravenna, he couples to himself Matasuentha, Theodoric’s granddaughter, as a partner in the kingdom, more by force than by love. Belisarius, the Lord favoring, enters.
Germanus administers successfully in Africa. Agapitus, to Constantinople, as we have said, the bishop coming from Rome, at once expels Anthimus from the Church, declaring him, according to the ecclesiastical rule, an adulterer, who, his own Church left, had courted another: in whose place he ordained Menna, a presbyter, as bishop: and he himself passed his last day in the Lord; yet in no respect, as was being alleged against him by the emperor, did he hold anything against the faith. For in that same year, because of excessive drought, pasture in Persia being denied, about 15,000 Saracens, under Alamundarus with Chabo and Hezido, phylarchs, entered the borders of Euphratesia.
And with Vitiges for a long time besieging Rome, Belisarius inside, laboring under hunger and vigils, demands assistance from the emperor. To him Martinus and Valerianus were sent, each a master of the soldiery; yet not even so did Vitiges abandon the siege. In Africa Germanus put to flight the rebellious soldiers together with Stotzas the tyrant, fighting among the deserts of the Moors.
(A. C. 538.) Ind. I, Joanne solo [Vel Volusiano et Joanne] cos. Adhuc Vitige in obsidione Romae morante, Joannes magister militum cum Batza, Conone, Paulo Remaque illustribus, magnoque exercitu apparato, ad Italiam properant, castraque ad portum Romanum collocant, laboranti Romae subveniunt.
(A.D. 538.) Indiction 1, with John alone [Or Volusianus and John] as consuls. While Vitiges was still lingering in the siege of Rome, John, master of the soldiers, with Batza, Conon, Paul, and Rema, illustrious men, and with a great army prepared, hasten to Italy, and pitch camp at the Roman harbor, and bring aid to Rome in distress.
Seeing their arrival, Vitiges confirms a pact with Belisarius for a period of three months, and sends his legates to the emperor. During this truce Belisarius returns to Campania, intending to bring an abundance of grain into Rome; and, on his return from Campania, he removes out of the way Constantinus the patrician, an opponent to himself. John, however, abandoning the camp which he had set at the port, entered the Samnite region; and, after the town of Aternum was stormed, he laid low Tremon, leader of the Goths, with his men.
He likewise invades Ortona; depredating Picenum, he occupies Ariminum. Hearing this, Vitiges, from the siege of the City in which he was still lingering after the peace had been disturbed, leaving Rome, crosses the Apennine by the Clodian agger and through grain-supplying Tuscia, and, having pitched camp on the bank of the river Rubicon, besieges Ariminum. Whence, driven off by Narses coming from Constantinople and by Belisarius coming from Rome, he flees to Ravenna.
Parthians, having entered Syria, overthrow many cities: against whom Germanus, taking up arms, leads with him Justinus his son—the same being consul—actually bearing the fasces. Antioch the Great, plundered, is demolished by the Persians. Belisarius enters Ravenna, and, carrying off with him King Vitiges and the queen, and all the wealth and the more noble Goths, returns to the emperor, at the summons of Count Marcellus.
Solomon in Africa, fighting successfully, drives out the rebellions. The Goths residing across the Po, with Oraio, nephew of Vitiges, and Heldebad leading, dispose to rebel—since Vitiges the king with the queen and the resources of the palace, and also the compliant Goths, having been driven from their own seats, were led off to the East by Belisarius—setting up Heldebad as king for themselves: against whom, to finish the war, Bessa the patrician embarked from Ravenna for Piacenza, while Constantine, from Dalmatia to Ravenna, in order to preside over the army, was dispatched by the emperor.
The Goths, with King Eraric slain, delivered Totila into the kingship. He, to the harm of Italy, soon crossed the Padus, and at Faventia, a city of Aemilia, overcomes the Roman army, puts the leaders to flight, occupies Caesena and Urbinum, Mount Feretrum and Petra Pertusa, and, running here and there, devastates Italy. Again, in the grain-supplying Tuscia, at Mucellum, through Ruderit and Viliarid and Bleda, his own generals, he defeats the Roman army.
(A. C. 545.) Ind. VIII, post consulatum Basilii anno IV. Totila Firmum et Asculum sub juramento ingressus est: milite Romano cum rebus suis dimisso, crudelitatem suam in Romanos exercuit, eosque omnes nudat et necat. In Africa Joannes irruens super tyrannum Stotzam, interimit eum, et ipse ab ejus occiditur armigero.
(A.D. 545.) Indiction 8, in the 4th year after the consulship of Basilius. Totila entered Firmum and Asculum under oath: the Roman soldiery, with their goods, having been dismissed, he exercised his cruelty upon the Romans, and he strips them all and kills them. In Africa John, rushing upon the tyrant Stotzas, kills him, and he himself is killed by that man’s armor-bearer.
Totila, by the deceit of the Isaurians, enters Rome on the 16th day before the Kalends of January, and overturns the walls, burning several houses with fire, and he took all the property of the Romans as booty; these Romans themselves he led away captive into Campania. After this devastation, for 40 or more days Rome was so desolated that no human beings dwelt there, except beasts.
Coming from there, Belisarius restores a part of the walls, and, with Totila coming for battle, he resists. And in the same year, from Africa the emperor’s granddaughter returns a widow, Areobindus having been slain by Guntharius the tyrant, who, dealing with Stotzas the Younger, had killed him. But Artabanes, both having been apprehended, kills Guntharius, and sends John—this same Stotzas the Younger—bound to the emperor.
(A. C. 552.) Ind. XV, post consulatum Basilii XI. Hoc tempore Justinianus Augustus Narsem eunuchum chartularium et cubicularium suum principem militiae fecit, et in Italiam misit. Qui commissa pugna Dei gratia victor Totilam occidit, et gentem Gothorum, auxiliantibus etiam Longobardis, in Italia exterminavit.
(A.D. 552.) Indiction 15, after the consulship of Basil 11. At this time the Emperor Justinian made Narses, a eunuch—his chartulary and chamberlain—commander of the army, and sent him into Italy. He, the battle having been joined, by the grace of God as victor, slew Totila, and, with the Lombards also lending assistance, exterminated the nation of the Goths in Italy.
In these times, when Buccelinus the count, with his associates, having long since been sent by Theodebert, king of the Franks, for several years was harrying Italy and Sicily and was often overcoming the Roman army, at length his army, worn down by a flux of the belly, was by Narses in battle defeated and routed, and the leader himself was slain. And not much later his associate Omnirugus, a leader, together with the remnant of the Goths to whom he had joined himself, was done away with.
(A. C. 554.) Ind. II, post consulatum Basilii v. c. XIII. Vigilius papa, tandem ab imperatoribus Romanis et a Narse de exsilio relaxatus, cum Romam redire coepisset, in Sicilia morbo calculi tactus decessit: moxque Romam perlatus, apud S. Marcellum in via Salaria sepultus est.
(A. D. 554.) Ind. 2, after the consulship of Basilius, most distinguished man, 13. Pope Vigilius, at length released from exile by the Roman emperors and by Narses, when he had begun to return to Rome, died in Sicily, stricken by the disease of the stone: and soon carried to Rome, he was buried at St. Marcellus on the Via Salaria.
In his place Pelagius, Pope 62 [Perhaps 61], having been ordained, sat for 11 years, 10 months. Who, accused by the Roman people of a faction against Vigilius, the litanies having been celebrated together with Narses, at St. Peter, having ascended the ambo, and with the Gospel placed upon his head, by oath purged himself of the charge.
(A. C. 556.) Ind. IV, post consulatum Basilii v. c. XV. His diebus Hramnus patri suo Hlotario, annuente patruo Hildeberto rebellans, regnum Francorum seditione perturbat. Saxones factione Hildeberti in Francia praedas egerunt.
(A.D. 556.) Indiction 4, 15 years after the consulship of Basilius, a most distinguished man. In these days Hramnus, rebelling against his father Chlothar, with his uncle Childebert assenting, disturbed the kingdom of the Franks with sedition. The Saxons, under Childebert’s faction, drove raids in Francia.
(A. C. 558.) Ind. VI, post consulatum Basilii v. c. XVII Hramous patrem Hlotarium quem multis malis offenderat, hoc tempore in Britanniam fugiens, insequente eo ibidem cum Gonoboro rege pugna victus et captus, cum uxore et filiabus vivus incensus est. Quo etiam tempore Turonis basilica S. Martini, rebellibus ad eam fugientibus, igne crematur.
(A. D. 558.) Indiction 6, after the consulship of Basilius, a most distinguished man, 17
Hramous, who had offended his father Chlothar with many evils, fleeing at this time into Britain, and with him in pursuit, was there, in a battle with King Gonoborus, defeated and captured, and, together with his wife and daughters, was burned alive. At that same time at Tours the basilica of St. Martin, rebels fleeing to it, is consumed by fire.