Marcellinus Comes: CHRONICON Mommsen, Chronica Minora II, 1894 (Paris 1847)

Post mirandum opus quod a mundi fabrica usque in Constantinum principem Eusebius Caesariensis, huius saeculi originem tempora, annos, regna uirtutesque mortalium et uariarum artium repertores omniumque paene prouinciarum monumenta commemorans, Graeco edidit stilo, noster Hieronymus cuncta transtulit in Latinum et usque in Valentem Caesarem Romano adiecit eloquio. Igitur uterque huius operis auctor quinque milium et quingentorum septuaginta nouem annorum hunc mundum tunc fore miro computauit ingenio. Ego uero uir clarissimus Marcellinus comes simplici dumtaxat computatione, Orientale tantum secutus imperium, per indictiones perque consules infra scriptos centum quadraginta annos, a septima uidelicet indictione et a consulatu Ausonii et Olybrii, quibus etiam consulibus Theodosius Magnus creatus est imperator, enumerans et usque in consulatu Magni indictione undecima colligens, eorundem auctorum operi subrogaui.

After the wondrous work which Eusebius of Caesarea, from the fabric of the world up to Emperor Constantine, recounting the origin of this age, the times, the years, the kingdoms, and the virtues of mortals, and the discoverers of various arts, and the monuments of nearly all provinces, published in Greek style, our Jerome translated all into Latin and, in Roman eloquence, added as far as Valens Caesar. Therefore each author of this work computed with marvelous ingenuity that the world would then be of 5,579 years. But I, Marcellinus the Count, a most distinguished man, by a merely simple computation, following only the Eastern empire, through the indictions and through the consuls written below, for 140 years, namely from the 7th indiction and from the consulship of Ausonius and Olybrius, under which consuls Theodosius the Great was created emperor, numbering and gathering as far as the consulship of Magnus in the 11th indiction, have added to the work of the same authors.

Itemque alios sedecim annos, a consulatu Iustini Augusti primo usque in consulatum Iustiniani Augusti quartum suffeci, id sunt simul anni centum quinquaginta sex, et meum rusticum opus subposui.

Likewise I supplied another sixteen years, from the first consulship of Justin Augustus up to the fourth consulship of Justinian Augustus; that is in all one hundred fifty-six years, and I have appended my rustic work.

(379) VII indictione. Consulatu Ausonii et Olybrii
1 Theodosius Hispanus Italicae diui Traiani ciuitatis a Gratiano Augusto apud Sirmium tricensimus nonus post Valentis interitum imperator creatus est XIIII kalendas Februarias, Orientalem dumtaxat rem publicam recturus, uir admodum religiosus et catholicae ecclesiae propagator omnibusque Orientalibus principibus praeponendus, nisi quod Marcianum tertium post se principem imitatorem habuerit.
2 Halanos, Hunnos, Gothos, gentes Scythicas magnis multisque proeliis uicit.

(379) in the 7th indiction. In the consulship of Ausonius and Olybrius
1 Theodosius, a Spaniard, of Italica, the city of the deified Trajan, was created emperor by Gratian Augustus at Sirmium, the 39th, after the death of Valens, on the 14th day before the Kalends of February, about to govern only the Eastern commonwealth, a man exceedingly 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.
2 He defeated the Alans, the Huns, the Goths, Scythian peoples, in great and many battles.

(380) VIII. Gratiani Augusti V et Theodosii Augusti
Gregorius Nazianzenus facundissimus Christi sacerdos et Hieronymi nostri praeceptor ecclesia nostra apud Byzantium ab Arrianis capta plebem catholicam in beatae Anastasiae oratorio catholico cottidiana adlocutione continuit. Saepe namque prauorum conuiciis insectatus est ; sed gratia Christi praeditus usque ad id tempus, quo eadem ecclesia sui praesentia nostris est reddita, perfidiis obstitit Arrianis.

(380) 8. In the consulship of Gratian Augustus 5 and Theodosius Augustus
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, kept the Catholic people together in the Catholic oratory of blessed Anastasia by daily allocution. For he was often assailed by the insults of the depraved ; but, endowed with the grace of Christ, down to that time when that same church, by his presence, was restored to our people, he withstood Arian perfidies.

Nam his consulibus Theodosius Magnus postquam de Scythicis gentibus triumphauit, expulsis continuo de orthodoxorum ecclesia Arrianis, qui eam per quadraginta ferme annos sub Arrianis imperatoribus tenuerant, nostris catholicis orthodoxus restituit imperator mense Decembrio.

For, under these consuls, after Theodosius the Great had triumphed over the Scythic peoples, the Arians were straightway expelled from the church of the orthodox, which they had held for nearly forty years under Arian emperors; and the orthodox emperor restored it to our Catholics in the month of December.

(381) VIIII. Eucherii et Suagrii
1 Sanctis centum quinquaginta patribus urbe Augusta congregatis aduersus Macedonium in sanctum spiritum naufragantem ab iisdem episcopis sancta synodus confirmata est : Damaso uidelicet sedem beati Petri tenente, Constantinopoli uero per Timotheum Alexandrinum perque Meletium Antiochenum et Cyrillum Hierosolymitanum episcopos Nectario ex pagano protinus baptizato et in praefata synodo pontifice ordinato.
2 Athanaricus rex Gothorum, cum quo Theodosius imperator foedus pepigerat, Constantinopolim mense Ianuario uenit eodemque mense morbo periit.

(381) 9. Eucherius and Suagrius
1 With one hundred and fifty holy fathers gathered in the August City against Macedonius, shipwrecking with respect to the Holy Spirit, by these same bishops the holy synod was confirmed : Damasus, namely, holding the See of blessed Peter; and at Constantinople, through Timothy of Alexandria and through Meletius of Antioch and Cyril of Jerusalem, bishops, Nectarius, from a pagan, was straightway baptized and in the aforesaid synod ordained as pontiff.
2 Athanaric, king of the Goths, with whom the emperor Theodosius had struck a foedus, came to Constantinople in the month of January and in the same month perished of illness.

(382) X. Antonii et Syagrii
1 Diui Valentiniani magni cadauere Theodosius princeps ab Italia reportato apud comitatum regio in sepulchro recondidit.
2 Eodem anno uniuersa gens Gothorum Athanarico rege suo defuncto Romano sese imperio dedit mense Octobrio.
3 Damasus Romanae ecclesiae exceptis Liberio et Felice tricensimus quintus episcopus anno pontificatus sui octauo decimo in Domino requieuit.

(382) 10. Of Antonius and Syagrius
1 Theodosius the prince, the corpse of the divine Valentinian the Great having been brought back from Italy, interred it at the royal court in a sepulcher.
2 In the same year the entire gens of the Goths, their king Athanaric having died, gave themselves to the Roman imperium in the month of October.
3 Damasus of the Roman church, the thirty-fifth bishop (with Liberius and Felix excepted), in the eighteenth year of his pontificate rested in the Lord.

(383) XI. Merobaudis II et Saturnini
1 Romanae ecclesiae Siricius tricensimus sextus antistes factus, uixit annos quindecim.
2 Arcadius patri suo Theodosio Augusto consors imperii septimo ab urbe miliario coronatus est.
3 Gratianus imperator Maximi tyranni dolo apud Lugdunum occisus est VIII kal.

(383) 11. of Merobaudus 2 and of Saturninus
1 Siricius of the Roman Church, made the 36th bishop, lived 15 years.
2 Arcadius was crowned, as partner of the empire to his father Theodosius Augustus, at the 7th milestone from the City.
3 The emperor Gratian was slain at Lugdunum by the stratagem of the tyrant Maximus on 8 kal.

Septembris.

September.

(384) XII. Richomeris et Clearchi
1 Legati Persarum Constantinopolim aduenerunt pacem Theodosii principis postulantes.
2 Eodem tempore Honorius alter Theodosio natus est filius mense Septembrio.

(384) 12. Richomer and Clearchus
1 Envoys of the Persians arrived at Constantinople, requesting peace from Emperor Theodosius.
2 At the same time Honorius, another son, was born to Theodosius in the month of September.

(385) XIII. Arcadii et Bautonis
Theodosius imperator aliquantas eoas nationes per legatos suos suo utpote imperio subdidit.

(385) 13. Of Arcadius and Bauto
Theodosius the emperor, through his legates, subjected several Eoan nations to his own empire.

(386) XIIII. Honorii Caesaris et Euodii
1 Inuasam princeps Theodosius ab hostibus Thraciam uindicauit uictorque cum Arcadio filio suo urbem ingressus est.
2 Galla Theodosii regis altera uxor his consulibus Constantinopolim uenit.

(386) 14. Honorius Caesar and Evodius
1 Emperor Theodosius recovered Thrace, which had been invaded by enemies, and, a victor, entered the city with his son Arcadius.
2 Galla, the second wife of King Theodosius, came to Constantinople in the consulship of these men.

(387) XV. Valentiniani III et Eutropii
1 Arcadius Caesar cum patre suo Theodosio sua quinquennalia celebrauit.
2 Theodosius Magnus Italiam contra Maximum tyrannum pugnaturus accessit.

(387) 15. Valentinian III and Eutropius
1 Arcadius Caesar, with his father Theodosius, celebrated his quinquennalia.
2 Theodosius the Great approached Italy to fight against Maximus the tyrant.

(388) I. Theodosii Augusti II et Cynegii
1 Valentinianus Gratiani frater et Theodosius imperatores Maximum tyrannum et Victorem filium eius apud Aquileiam rebellantem uicerunt.
2 Andragathius comes morte Maximi cognita praecipitem sese e naui in undas dedit ac suffocatus est.

(388) 1. of Theodosius Augustus 2 and of Cynegius
1 Valentinian, brother of Gratian, and Theodosius, emperors, defeated Maximus the tyrant and Victor, his son, rebelling at Aquileia.
2 Andragathius the count, when the death of Maximus was known, hurled himself headlong from a ship into the waves and was drowned.

(389) II. Timasii et Promoti
1 Theodosius imperator cum Honorio filio suo Romam mense Iunio introiuit, congiarium Romano populo tribuit Vrbeque egressus est kal. Septembris.
2 Per idem tempus grando crepitans per biduum continuum pro pluuia cecidit, pecorum arborumque pernicies.

(389) 2. Of Timasius and Promotus
1 The emperor Theodosius, with his son Honorius, entered Rome in the month of June, granted a congiary to the Roman people, and departed from the City on the Kalends of September.
2 About the same time, rattling hail fell for two continuous days in place of rain, a destruction of herds and of trees.

3 Stella a septentrione gallicinio surgens et in modum luciferi ardens potius quam splendens apparuit, uicensimo sexto die esse desiit.
4 Templum Serapis apud Alexandriam Theodosii imperatoris edicto solutum est.

3 A star from the north, rising at cockcrow, and in the manner of Lucifer, burning rather than shining, appeared; on the 26th day it ceased to be.
4 The temple of Serapis at Alexandria was dismantled by an edict of the emperor Theodosius.

(390) III. Valentiniani Aug. IIII et Neoterii
1 Signum in caelo quasi columna pendens ardensque per dies triginta apparuit.

(390) 3. Valentinian Augustus, 4th, and Neoterius
1 A sign in the sky, like a column hanging and burning, appeared for thirty days.

2 Galla Theodosii uxor ab Arcadio priuigno suo eiecta est.
3 Oboliscum in circo positus est ; columna haut longe ab ecclesia constituta est, quae argenteam Theodosii Magni statuam ferens hactenus contemplatur.

2 Galla, wife of Theodosius, was cast out by Arcadius, her stepson.
3 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.

(391) IIII. Tatiani et Symmachi
1 Theodosius imperator Italia decedens Constantinopolim remeauit.
2 Valentinianus imperator apud Viennam dolo Arbogasti strangulatus interiit idibus Martiis.

(391) 4. of Tatianus and Symmachus
1 Emperor Theodosius, departing from Italy, returned to Constantinople.
2 Emperor Valentinian, at Vienne, by the treachery of Arbogastes, was strangled and perished on the Ides of March.

3 Eugenius Arbogasti fauore confisus imperium sibimet usurpauit.

3 Eugenius, relying on Arbogast’s favor, usurped the empire for himself.

(392) V. Arcadii II et Rufini
1 Arbogastes Valentiniano imperatore extincto et Eugenio Caesare facto innumeras inuictasque copias undique in Gallias contraxit, Occidentale sibi imperium utpote uindicaturus.
2 Hieronymus noster litteris Graecis ac Latinis adprime eruditus, presbyter quoque ibidem ordinatus est. Porro ad Bethleem oppidum iuuenis aduenit, ubi prudens animal ad praesepe domini se mox optulit permansurum.

(392) 5. Arcadius 2 and Rufinus
1 Arbogastes, with Emperor Valentinian slain and Eugenius made Caesar, assembled innumerable and invincible forces from every side into the Gauls, intending, as it were, to vindicate the Western imperium for himself.
2 Our Jerome, most highly erudite in Greek and Latin letters, was also ordained presbyter there. Furthermore, he arrived as a young man at the town of Bethlehem, where, as a prudent animal, he soon offered himself at the Lord’s manger to remain.

Inter cetera studiorum suorum opuscula usque ad hunc Theodosii quartum decimum imperii annum a beato Petro sumens exordium usque in semet ipsum de uiris inlustribus scribit. Innumeris praeterea libris apostolorum prophetarumque constructionibus editis immobilem catholicae turrem ecclesiae contra perfidorum iacula consummauit, litteris quoque Hebraicis atque Chaldaicis ita edoctus ut omnes ueteris testamenti libros ex Hebraeorum scilicet codicibus uerteret in Latinum, Danihelem quoque prophetam Chaldaico stilo locutum et Iob iustum Arabico in Romanam linguam utrumque auctorem perfecta interpretatione mutauerit. Matthaei nihilominus euangelium ex Hebraeo fecit esse Romanum.

Among the other opuscules of his studies, taking his beginning from blessed Peter up to himself, he writes On Illustrious Men down to this fourteenth year of the empire of Theodosius. Moreover, with innumerable books published on the constructions of the apostles and prophets, he consummated an immovable tower of the catholic church against the javelins of the perfidious; and, instructed in the Hebrew and Chaldaic letters to such a degree that he translated all the books of the Old Testament from the codices of the Hebrews, namely into Latin, he also transformed both the prophet Daniel, who spoke in Chaldaic style, and just Job in Arabic, each author into the Roman tongue by a perfect interpretation. Likewise he made the Gospel of Matthew, from Hebrew, to be Roman.

Namque mentis corporisque uirginitatem et delictorum paenitentiam praedicans atque custodiens solus omnium Romanorum omnes sedecim prophetarum commentatus est libros iunctis praeterea librorum suorum prologis. Ita se luculentissimum interpretem et immensa epistularum suarum uolumina neruosum catholicis exhibuit lectoribus, ut nec perfidis quandoque perpecisse nec inuidis cessisse uideatur. Nonagenarius ferme, ut perhibent, postea in domino quieuit.

For indeed, preaching and guarding the virginity of mind and body and the penitence of sins, he alone of all the Romans commented on all the sixteen prophets, with moreover the prologues of his books appended. Thus he presented himself to Catholic readers as a most luculent interpreter and, by the immense volumes of his letters, sinewy, so that he seems neither at times to have spared the perfidious nor to have yielded to the envious. Almost a nonagenarian, as they say, thereafter he rested in the Lord.

Quem Stridon oppidum genuit, Roma inclita erudiuit, Bethlem alma tenet.

Whom the town of Stridon bore, illustrious Rome instructed, nurturing Bethlehem holds.

(393) VI. Theodosii III et Abundantii
Honorium pater suus Theodosius in eodem loco quo fratrem eius Arcadium Caesarem fecit, id est septimo ab urbe regia miliario. Tunc quippe hora diei tertia tenebrae factae sunt.

(393) 6. Of Theodosius III and Abundantius
His father Theodosius made Honorius Caesar in the same place where he made his brother Arcadius Caesar, that is, at the seventh milestone from the royal city. Then indeed at the third hour of the day darkness came to be.

(394) VII. Arcadii III et Honorii II
1 Theodosius Augustus adsumpto Honorio Caesare eodemque filio contra Arbogasten, qui Eugenium tyrannum imperatorem facere ausus est, iterum properauit.
2 Bello commisso Eugenius uictus atque captus interfectus est.

(394) 7. Arcadius 3 and Honorius 2
1 Theodosius Augustus, having taken up Honorius as Caesar, his son as well, hastened again against Arbogastes, who dared to make Eugenius the tyrant emperor.
2 The battle having been joined, Eugenius, defeated and captured, was killed.

Arbogastes sua se manu perculit.
3 Terrae motu a mense Septembrio in Nouembrium continuo inminente aliquantae Europae regiones quassatae sunt.
4 Thermae Archadianae ex conditoris sui nomine nomen acceperunt.

Arbogastes struck himself down with his own hand.
3 By an earthquake, threatening continuously from the month of September into November, several regions of Europe were shaken.
4 The Archadian Baths received their name from the name of their founder.

(395) VIII. Olybrii et Probini
1 Theodosius Magnus apud Mediolanum uita decessit. Imperauit annos XVII.

(395) 8. Olybrius and Probinus
1 Theodosius the Great died at Milan. He ruled for 17 years.

2 Corpus eius eodem anno Constantinopolim adlatum atque sepultum.
3 Arcadius et Honorius germani utrumque imperium diuisis tantum sedibus tenere coeperunt.
4 Rufinus patricius Arcadio principi insidias tendens Alaricum Gothorum regem missis clam pecuniis infestum rei publicae fecit et in Graeciam misit.

2 His body in the same year was brought to Constantinople and buried.
3 Arcadius and Honorius, brothers, began to hold both empires, with only the seats divided.
4 Rufinus the patrician, laying snares for Prince Arcadius, by monies secretly sent made Alaric, king of the Goths, hostile to the commonwealth, and sent him into Greece.

5 Porro detectus dolo suo Rufinus ab Italicis militibus cum Gaina comite Arcadio missis ante portas urbis merito trucidatus est. Caput eius manusque dextra per totam Constantinopolim demonstrata.

5 Moreover, once his own deceit had been detected, Rufinus was deservedly butchered by Italian soldiers, who, together with Gainas the count, had been sent by Arcadius, before the gates of the city. His head and right hand were displayed throughout all Constantinople.

(396) VIIII Arcadii IIII et Honori III
1 Rufini uxor et filia exulata.
2 Eutropius sacri palatii cubicularius omnes opes abripuit auaritiamque transgressus est.
3 Terrae motus per dies plurimos fuit caelumque ardere uisum est.

(396) 9 Arcadius 4 and Honorius 3
1 Rufinus’s wife and daughter were exiled.
2 Eutropius, chamberlain of the sacred palace, carried off all wealth and surpassed all bounds of avarice.
3 There was an earthquake for very many days, and the sky was seen to burn.

(397) X. Caesari et Attici
His consulibus Flaccilla Arcadio nata est filia.

(397) 10. Caesar and Atticus
With these as consuls, Flaccilla, a daughter, was born to Arcadius.

(398) XI. Honorii IIII et Eutychiani
1 Romanae ecclesiae Anastasius tricensimus septimus episcopus ordinatus uixit annos quattuor.
2 Ambrosius Mediolanensis, uirtutum episcopus, arx fidei, orator catholicus, ad Christum dominum commigrauit.
3 Iohannes Antiochiae natus ibique a Meletio eiusdem ciuitatis episcopo eodemque confessore lector ecclesiae ordinatus per singulos officii gradus ascendit.

(398) 11. of Honorius 4 and Eutychianus
1 Anastasius, the thirty-seventh bishop of the Roman Church, having been ordained, lived four years.
2 Ambrose of Milan, a bishop of virtues, a citadel of faith, a catholic orator, migrated to Christ the Lord.
3 John, born at Antioch, and there by Meletius, bishop of the same city and himself a confessor, ordained lector of the church, ascended through each grade of office.

Vbi per quinquennium continuum diaconus multos diuinosque edidit libros ; presbyter quoque factus per duodecim annos pluriores confecit. Tanta dehinc opinione ubique merito propagatus Constantinopolim in locum Nectarii pontifex suffectus est ; ubi plurima dulciaque diuinarum scripturarum uolumina suo operi catholico addidit, hosque episcopos habuit inimicos : Theofilum Alexandrinum, Epiphanium Cyprium, Acacium Beroensem, Antiochum Ptolomensem, Seuerianum Gabaliensem et Seuerum Chalcedonensem.
4 Gildo comes idemque paganus, qui mortuo Theodosio principe Africae praeerat, dum Arcadio et Honorio adhuc pueris regnantibus inuidet Africamque nititur optinere, frater eius Mascezel cognita eius uesania relictisque duobus aput Africam filiis in Italiam remeat.

Where, for a continuous five-year period as a deacon, he published many and divine books ; and having also been made presbyter, for twelve years he produced more. Thereafter, propagated everywhere by such deserved reputation, at Constantinople in place of Nectarius he was appointed bishop ; where he added very many and sweet volumes of the divine Scriptures to his Catholic work, and he had these bishops as enemies : Theophilus the Alexandrian, Epiphanius the Cypriot, Acacius the Beroean, Antiochus the Ptolemaean, Severianus of Gabala, and Severus of Chalcedon.
4 Gildo, a comes and likewise a pagan, who, after the death of the emperor Theodosius, was in charge of Africa, while begrudging Arcadius and Honorius—still boys—reigning and striving to hold Africa, his brother Mascezel, his madness having been recognized and leaving behind two sons in Africa, returns to Italy.

Gildo utrumque fratris filium dolo trucidat. Mascezel fratris scelere cognito, cum quinque milibus suorum contra Gildonem cum sepuaginta milibus armatorum sibimet obuiantem infestus accedit Gildonemque parricidam ieiuniis et orationibus, immo beati Ambrosii in somnis ammonitu auxiliantibus fugauit. Gildo fugiens propria se manu strangulauit ; sicque Mascezel sine bello uictoriam meruit ac sine caede uindictam.

Gildo murders both of his brother’s sons by deceit. Mascezel, his brother’s crime known, with five thousand of his own men advances hostilely against Gildo, who, with seventy thousand armed men, was coming to meet him, and he routed Gildo the parricide by fasts and prayers—nay rather, with the admonition of blessed Ambrose in dreams aiding him. Fleeing, Gildo strangled himself with his own hand ; and so Mascezel earned victory without battle and vengeance without bloodshed.

(399) XII. Theodori et Eutropii eunuchi
1 Hic Eutropius omnium spadonum primus atque ultimus consul fuit, de quo Claudianus poeta ait : Omnia cesserunt eunucho consule monstra.
2 Pulcheria Arcadio altera filia nata est.

(399) XII. Theodore and Eutropius, eunuchs
1 Here Eutropius was the first and also the last consul of all eunuchs, about whom the poet Claudian says : All monsters yielded to the eunuch consul.
2 Pulcheria, a second daughter, was born to Arcadius.

3 Gaina comes apud Constantinopolim ad praeparandum ciuile bellum barbaros suos occulte ammonet ; ipse ualitudinem simulans urbe digreditur. Coepto aduersum Byzantios praelio plurimi hostium cadunt, ceteri fugientes ecclesiae nostrae succedunt ibique detecto ecclesiae culmine iactisque desuper lapidibus obruuntur.

3 Gaina, the count, at Constantinople secretly incites his barbarians to prepare a civil war ; he himself, feigning ill health, leaves the city. The battle having been joined against the Byzantines, very many of the enemy fall; the rest, fleeing, take refuge in our church, and there, with the roof of the church laid open and stones hurled from above, they are crushed.

(400) XIII. Stilichonis et Aureliani
Bellum nauale contra Gainam tyrannum inter Cherronesum et Hellespontum gestum est ; multa milia Gothorum caesa uel demersa sunt. Gaina comes de hoc bello fugiens euasit ; ipso tamen anno occisus est mense Februario.

(400) 13. Of Stilicho and Aurelianus
A naval war against Gaina the tyrant was waged between the Chersonese and the Hellespont ; many thousands of Goths were slain or sunk. Gaina the count escaped from this war by fleeing ; yet in that very year he was killed in the month of February.

(401) XIIII. Vincentii et Frauitae
1 Caput Gainae hastili praefixum Constantinopolim allatum est.
2 Maris Pontici superficies ita gelu frenata est, ut per triginta dies soluta tandem glacies instar montium per Propontidem superne portata decurreret.

(401) 14. Of Vincentius and Fravitta
1 The head of Gaina, fixed on a spear, was brought to Constantinople.
2 The surface of the Pontic Sea was so restrained by frost that, for thirty days, when at last it was loosened, the ice, borne down from above, ran through the Propontis like mountains.

3 Theodosius iunior patre Arcadio natus est IIII idus Apriles.

3 Theodosius the Younger, with Arcadius as his father, was born on the 4th day before the Ides of April.

(402) XV, Arcadii V et Honorii V
1 Romanae ecclesiae Innocentius tricensimus octauus creatus antistes uixit annis quindecim.
2 Theodosius iunior in loco quo pater patruusque suus Caesar creatus est.
3 Constantinopolim ingens terraemotus fuit.

(402) 15, Arcadius 5 and Honorius 5
1 Innocent, the thirty-eighth bishop of the Roman Church, was created and lived fifteen years.
2 Theodosius the Younger was created Caesar in the place where his father and his paternal uncle had been created.
3 In Constantinople there was a huge earthquake.

(403) I. Theodosii iunioris et Rumoridi
1 Marina patre Arcadio nata III idus Febr.
2 Eudoxiae Arcadii uxoris super porfyreticam columnam argentea statua iuxta ecclesiam posita hactenus sistit.
3 Iohannem Constantinopolitanae ciuitatis episcopum, cui supradicti sex antistites incassum aemuli fuere aliosque triginta sibimet episcopos consciuere, nolente Arcadio principe in Cuccusum Armeniae oppidum exulem miserunt eumque post annum unum in uillam, quae Comana in regione Pontica dicitur, de exilio in exilium relegarunt.

(403) 1. Of Theodosius the Younger and Rumoridus
1 Marina, born of her father Arcadius, on the 3rd day before the Ides of Feb.
2 The silver statue of Eudoxia, wife of Arcadius, set upon a porphyry column next to the church, stands to this day.
3 John, bishop of the city of Constantinople—against whom the aforesaid six prelates were rivals in vain and enlisted thirty other bishops as accomplices—though the emperor Arcadius was unwilling, they sent as an exile to the town of Cuccusum in Armenia; and after one year they relegated him, from exile to exile, to a village which is called Comana in the Pontic region.

Hunc ibidem mortuum religiosa orthodoxorum plebs in atrio Basilisci episcopi sancti idemque martyris ab eodem martyre in somnis ammonita in nouum moxque repertum sepulchrum recondidit.

This man, dead there, the religious populace of the orthodox, in the atrium of Basiliscus, a holy bishop and likewise martyr—admonished in dreams by the same martyr—laid to rest in a new sepulcher soon found.

(404) II. Honorii VI et Aristaenetis
1 Ecclesiam Constantinopolitanam flamma ignis, quae de beati Iohannis throno quondam episcopi nata fuit, subito conflagrauit uicinamque ecclesiae urbis faciem serpens nihilo minus exussit.
2 Eudoxia uxor Arcadii diem obiit.

(404) 2. Of Honorius 6 and Aristaenetus
1 The Constantinopolitan church, by a flame of fire which had once arisen from the throne of blessed John, formerly bishop, suddenly conflagrated, and, snaking along, it burned up no less the neighboring quarter of the city adjacent to the church.
2 Eudoxia, wife of Arcadius, died.

(405) III. Stilichonis II et Anthemii
Isauri per montem Tauri discursantes ingens dispendium rei publicae inportarunt ; quibus Narbazaicus legatus maius continuo rependit incommodum.

(405) 3. of Stilicho 2 and of Anthemius
The Isaurians, coursing about over Mount Taurus, brought in a huge loss to the republic ; against whom the legate Narbazaicus straightway paid back a greater setback.

(406) IIII. Arcadii VI et Probi
1 Theodosius iunior quinquennalia dedit.
2 Radagaisus paganus et Scytha cum ducentis milibus suorum totam Italiam inundauit.

(406) 4. Arcadius 6 and Probus
1 Theodosius the Younger gave the Quinquennalia.
2 Radagaisus, a pagan and a Scythian, with 200,000 of his men, inundated the whole of Italy.

3 Huldin et Sarus Hunnorum Gothorumque reges Radagaisum continuo deuicerunt, ipsius capite amputato, captiuos eius singulis aureis distrahentes.

3 Huldin and Sarus, kings of the Huns and the Goths, immediately defeated Radagaisus, his head having been cut off, selling off his captives for single aurei apiece.

(407) V. Honorii VII et Theodosii iun. II
Cisterna maxima iuxta porfyreticam Constantini imperatoris columnam in foro eius sub plateae transitum constructa est.

(407) 5. Honorius 7 and Theodosius the Younger 2
A very large cistern, next to the porphyry column of Emperor Constantine in his forum, was constructed beneath the passage of the street.

(408) VI. Bassi et Philippi
1 Stilico comes, cuius duae filiae Maria et Thermantia singulae uxores Honorii principis fuere, utraque tamen uirgo defuncta, spreto Honorio regnumque eius inhians, Halanorum, Sueuorum, Vandalorumque gentes donis pecuniisque inlectas contra regnum Honorii excitauit, Eucherium filium suum paganum et aduersus Christianos insidias molientem cupiens Caesarem ordinare ; qui cum eodem Eucherio dolo suo detecto occisus est.
2 Romae in foro Pacis per dies septem terra mugitum dedit.
3 Arcadius imperator uitae finem fecit ; regnauit post obitum patris sui Theodosii annos tredecim.

(408) 6. Of Bassus and Philippus
1 Stilicho the count, whose two daughters Maria and Thermantia were each wives of the emperor Honorius, yet each died a virgin, spurning Honorius and coveting his kingdom, stirred up the peoples of the Alans, Suevi, and Vandals, enticed by gifts and monies, against the kingdom of Honorius, wishing to appoint his son Eucherius, a pagan and contriving plots against Christians, as Caesar ; and he, together with that same Eucherius, was killed when his own deceit had been detected.
2 At Rome, in the Forum of Peace, the earth gave a bellowing for seven days.
3 The emperor Arcadius brought his life to an end ; he reigned for thirteen years after the death of his father Theodosius.

(409) VII. Honorii VIII et Theodosii iun. III
Aput Constantinopolim magna populi exarsit seditio, panis uidelicet penuria sibimet ingruente.

(409) 7. Honorius VIII and Theodosius the Younger III
At Constantinople a great sedition of the populace flared up, namely, with a penury of bread pressing upon them.

(410) VIII. Varanae solius
Halaricus trepidam urbem Romam inuasit partemque eius cremauit incendio, sextoque die quam ingressus fuerat depraedata Vrbe egressus est, Placidia Honorii principis sorore abducta, quam postea Athaulfo propinquo suo tradidit uxorem.

(410) 8. of Varanes alone
Halaricus invaded the trembling City of Rome and burned part of it with a conflagration, and on the sixth day after he had entered, the City plundered, he departed, carrying off Placidia, sister of the prince Honorius, whom afterwards he handed over as wife to Athaulf, his kinsman.

(411) VIIII. Honorii VIIII et Theodosii IIII
1 Theodosius iunior decennalia, Honorius Romae uicennalia dedit.
2 Constantinus apud Gallias inuasit imperium filiumque suum ex monacho Caesarem fecit.

(411) 9. of Honorius 9 and Theodosius 4
1 Theodosius the Younger celebrated the decennalia; Honorius at Rome the vicennalia.
2 Constantine in Gaul seized the empire and made his son, taken from being a monk, Caesar.

3 Ipse apud Arelatum ciuitatem occiditur, Constans filius apud Viennam capite plectitur.

3 He himself is killed at the city of Arles, his son Constans is beheaded at Vienne.

(412) X. Theodosii imp. V solius
1 Iouinus ac Sebastianus in Galliis tyrannidem molientes occisi sunt.
2 Attalus in mari captus atque Honorio exhibitus truncata manu uitae relictus est.

(412) 10. Of Theodosius the emperor alone 5
1 Jovinus and Sebastianus, contriving tyranny in Gaul, were killed.
2 Attalus, captured at sea and presented to Honorius, with his hand cut off, was left alive.

(413) XI. Lucii solius
Heraclianus Africae comes cum septingentis et tribus milibus nauium mox ad urbem Romam egressus est. Occursu Marini comitis territus et in fugam uersus adrepta naue solus Carthaginem rediit ibique ilico interfectus est.

(413) 11. of Lucius alone
Heraclianus, count of Africa, with three thousand seven hundred ships soon set out for the city Rome. Frightened by the encounter with Count Marinus and turned to flight, having seized a ship he alone returned to Carthage, and there he was immediately killed.

(414) XII. Constantii et Constantis
1 Pulcheria Theodosii soror Augusta appellata est.
2 Valia rex Gothorum facta cum Honorio principe pace Placidiam sororem eius eidem uiduam reddidit.

(414) 12. of Constantius and Constans
1 Pulcheria, sister of Theodosius, was called Augusta.
2 Valia, king of the Goths, with peace made with the prince Honorius, returned Placidia, his sister, to him as a widow.

(415) XIII. Honorii X et Theodosii VI
1 Ecclesia Constantinopolitana dudum igne cremata his consulibus restaurata dedicataque est Attico episcopo eandem regente ecclesiam.
2 Lucianus presbyter uir sanctus, cui reuelauit deus his consulibus locum sepulchri et reliquiarum corporis sancti Stephani primi martyris, scripsit ipsam relationem Graeco sermone ad omnium ecclesiarum personam.

(415) 13. of Honorius 10 and of Theodosius 6
1 The Constantinopolitan Church, long ago consumed by fire, under these consuls was restored and dedicated, Atticus the bishop governing the same church.
2 Lucianus, a presbyter, a holy man, to whom God under these consuls revealed the place of the sepulcher and of the relics of the body of Saint Stephen, the first martyr, wrote the relation itself in the Greek tongue, addressed to the person of all the churches.

(416) XIIII. Theodosii Aug. VII et Palladii
1 Orosius presbyter Hispani generis septem libros Historiarum descripsit.

(416) 14. The consulship of Theodosius Augustus, 7, and Palladius
1 Orosius, a presbyter of Spanish stock, wrote seven books of Histories.

Missus ab Augustino episcopo idem Orosius pro discenda animae ratione ad Hieronymum presbyterum reliquias beati Stephani tunc nuper inuentas rediens primus intulit Occidenti.
2 Atticus Constantinopolitanus episcopus scripsit ad reginas Arcadii imperatoris filias de fide et uirginitate librum ualde egregium, in quo praeueniens Nestorianum dogma inpugnat.

Sent by Augustine the bishop, that same Orosius, for the learning of the soul’s doctrine, to Jerome the presbyter, returning first brought to the Occident the relics of blessed Stephen, then recently discovered.
2 Atticus, bishop of Constantinople, wrote to the queens, the daughters of the emperor Arcadius, a very excellent book on faith and virginity, in which, anticipating the Nestorian dogma, he impugns it.

(417) XV. Honorio XI et Constantii II
1 Tenebrae in die factae sunt.
2 Cibyra Asiae ciuitas aliquantaque praedia terrae motu demersa.
3 Romanae ecclesiae Zosimus XXXVIIII episcopus ordinatus uixit annos tres.

(417) 15. Honorius 11 and Constantius 2
1 Darkness fell in the daytime.
2 Cibyra, a city of Asia, and several estates were swallowed up by an earthquake.
3 Zosimus, the 39th bishop of the Roman Church, having been ordained, lived three years.

(418) I. Honorii XII et Theodosii VIII
1 Plinta comes idemque rebellio aput Palaestinam prouinciam deletus est.
2 Solis defectio facta est.
3 Stella ab Oriente per septem menses surgens ardensque apparuit.

(418) 1. of Honorius 12 and Theodosius 8
1 Plinta, a count—and himself also a rebel—was destroyed in the province of Palestine.
2 An eclipse of the sun occurred.
3 A star from the East appeared, rising and blazing, for seven months.

(419) II. Monaxii et Plintae
1 Valentinianus iunior apud Rauennam patre Constantio et Placidia matre V nonas Iulias natus est.
2 Multae Palaestinae ciuitates uillaeque terrae motu conlapsae.
3 Dominus noster Iesus Christus semper ubique praesens et super montem oliueti Hierosolymae uicinum sese de nube manifestauit.

(419) 2. Of Monaxius and Plinta
1 Valentinian the Younger at Ravenna, with father Constantius and mother Placidia, was born on the 5th day before the Nones of July.
2 Many cities and villages of Palestine collapsed from an earthquake.
3 Our Lord Jesus Christ, always present everywhere, manifested himself from a cloud above the Mount of Olives, near Jerusalem.

Multae tunc utriusque sexus uicinarum gentium nationes tam uisu quam auditu perterritae atque credulae sacro Christi fonte ablutae sunt omniumque baptizatorum in tunicis crux saluatoris diuinitatis nutu extemplo inpressa refulsit.

Many then nations of the neighboring peoples, of both sexes, terrified as much by sight as by hearing and credulous, were washed in the sacred font of Christ; and on the tunics of all the baptized the Cross of the Savior, at once impressed by the nod of Divinity, shone forth.

(420) III. Theodosii VIIII et Constantii III
1 Romanae ecclesiae Bonifatius quadragensimus episcopus ordinatus uixit annos tres.
2 In Oriente tumultum milites excitarunt ductoremque suum Maximinum nomine exstinxerunt.

(420) 3. Theodosius 9 and Constantius 3
1 Boniface, the fortieth bishop of the Roman church, having been ordained, lived three years.
2 In the East the soldiers stirred up a tumult and killed their leader, by name Maximinus.

3 In Persida Christianis persecutio desaeuiit.

3 In Persia persecution raged against the Christians.

(421) IIII. Eustathii et Agricolae
1 Theodosius imperator Eudociam Achiuam duxit uxorem.
2 Patri suo Arcadio in foro eius; super inmanem columnam ingentem statuam idem Theodosius dedicauit.

(421) 4. Eustathius and Agricola
1 The Emperor Theodosius took Eudocia the Achaean as wife.
2 To his father Arcadius in his forum; upon an enormous column the same Theodosius dedicated a huge statue.

3 Cisterna Aetii constructa est.
4 Romani cum Persis conflixere.

3 The cistern of Aetius was constructed.
4 The Romans clashed with the Persians.

(422) V. Honorii XIII et Theodosii X
1 Theodosius imperator Eudoxiam filiam genuit.
2 In tricennalia Honorii Maximus tyrannus et Iouinus ferro uincti de Hispanias adducti atque interfecti sunt.
3 Hunni Thraciam uastauerunt.

(422) 5. Honorius 13 and Theodosius 10
1 Theodosius the emperor begot a daughter, Eudoxia.
2 At the tricennalia of Honorius, Maximus the tyrant and Jovinus, bound in iron, were brought from the Spains and put to death.
3 The Huns devastated Thrace.

4 Persae cum Romanis pacem pepigere.

4 The Persians made peace with the Romans.

(423) VI. Asclepiodoti et Mariniani
1 Caelestinus Romanae ecclesiae quadragensimus primus antistes creatus uixit annos nouem.
2 Euagrius scripsit altercationem Iudaei Simonis et Theofili Christiani, quae paene omnibus nota est.
3 Terrae motus multis in locis fuit et frugum inedia subsecuta.

(423) 6. Of Asclepiodotus and Marinianus
1 Celestine, the forty-first bishop of the Roman church, was appointed and lived nine years.
2 Evagrius wrote the altercation of Simon the Jew and Theophilus the Christian, which is known to almost all.
3 An earthquake occurred in many places, and a famine of the crops followed.

4 Philippus et Sallustius philosophi morbo perierunt.
5 Stella saepe ardente crinita Honorius imperator fatale munus impleuit.

4 Philip and Sallustius, philosophers, perished from disease.
5 With a comet often blazing, Emperor Honorius fulfilled his fatal office.

(424) VII. Victoris et Castini
1 Placidia mater Valentiniani Augusta nuncupata est.
2 Valentinianus Caesar creatus Theodosii imperatoris Eudoxiam filiam sibimet desponsauit.

(424) 7. Victor and Castinus
1 Placidia, the mother of Valentinian, was styled Augusta.
2 Valentinian, created Caesar, betrothed to himself Eudoxia, the daughter of Emperor Theodosius.

3 Iohannes regnum Occidentale Honorio defuncto inuasit.

3 John seized the Western kingdom upon the death of Honorius.

(425) VIII. Theodosii XI et Valentiniani Caesaris
1 Suprafatus Iohannes dolo potius Ardaburis et Asparis quam uirtute occiditur.
2 Valentinianus iunior apud Rauennam factus est imperator.

(425) 8. Of Theodosius 11 and of Caesar Valentinian
1 The aforesaid John is slain by the stratagem of Ardaburius and Aspar rather than by valor.
2 Valentinian the Younger was made emperor at Ravenna.

(426) VIIII. Theodosii XII et Valentiniani II
Sisinnius uir sanctae simplicitatis et simplicis sanctitatis, Constantinopolitanus episcopus factus est.

(426) 9. of Theodosius 12 and of Valentinian 2
Sisinnius, a man of holy simplicity and of simple sanctity, was made bishop of Constantinople.

(427) X. Hierii et Ardaburis
1 Pannoniae, quae per quinquaginta annos ab Hunnis retinebantur, a Romanis receptae sunt.
2 Thermae Theodosianae dedicatae.

(427) 10. Hierius and Ardaburius
1 The Pannonias, which for fifty years were held by the Huns, were recovered by the Romans.
2 The Theodosian Baths were dedicated.

(428) XI. Felicis et Tauri
1 Nestorius Antiochia natus, uir satis quidem eloquentiae, sapientiae uero parum, Constantinopolitanis ammodum adnitentibus ex presbytero episcopus ordinatus est.
2 Beatissimi Iohannis episcopi, dudum malorum episcoporum inuidia exsulati, apud comitatum coepit memoria celebrari mense Septembrio die XXVI.

(428) 11. of Felix and Taurus
1 Nestorius, born at Antioch, a man indeed of sufficient eloquence but of little wisdom, with the Constantinopolitans striving very earnestly, was ordained bishop from the presbyterate.
2 The commemoration of the most blessed John the bishop, long ago exiled by the envy of wicked bishops, began to be celebrated at the court in the month of September on the 26th day.

(429) XII. Florentini et Dionysii
1 Orthodoxi nostri Macedonianorum ecclesiam extra muros urbis positam abstulerunt, quoniam iidem Macedoniani Antoninum Germis catholicum episcopum interfecerunt.
2 Beatissimus Augustinus Hipponensis ecclesiae elegantissimus Christi sacerdos doctorque praecipuus placida morte quieuit.

(429) 12. Florentinus and Dionysius
1 Our Orthodox took away the church of the Macedonians, situated outside the city walls, because those same Macedonians killed Antoninus, the Catholic bishop of Germis.
2 The Most Blessed Augustine, of the church of Hippo, the most elegant priest of Christ and foremost doctor, rested in a peaceful death.

(430) XIII. Theodosii XIII et Valentiniani III
1 Theodosius imperator tricennalia gessit.
2 Felix apud Rauennam occiditur.

(430) 13. Of Theodosius 13 and of Valentinian 3
1 The emperor Theodosius celebrated the tricennalia.
2 Felix is killed at Ravenna.

3 Caelestinus Romanae arcis pontifex Nestorio prauitatis episcopo per epistulam suam datis eidem decem dierum indutiis uel paenitenti ueniam uel dissentienti damnationem denuntiat. Idem Nestorius ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae perfidus antistes, a quo et Nestoriana perfidia pullulauit, apud Ephesum ducentorum sanctorum patrum sententia in synodo condemnatus est, Caelestino Cyrillum Alexandriae ciuitatis episcopum pro tempore uicarium denuntiante. In locum Nestorii Maximianus episcopus subrogatus.

3 Celestine, pontiff of the Roman citadel, by his own letter, with a respite of ten days granted to the same Nestorius, a bishop of perversity, announces either pardon to the penitent or condemnation to the dissenting. The same Nestorius, the perfidious prelate of the Church of Constantinople, from whom also the Nestorian perfidy sprouted, was condemned at Ephesus in a synod by the sentence of two hundred holy fathers, Celestine declaring Cyril, bishop of the city of Alexandria, as vicar for the time. In the place of Nestorius, Bishop Maximianus was substituted.

(431) XIIII. Antiochi et Bassi
1 Flaccilla Theodosii Augusti filia extremum spiritum fudit.
2 Barbari urbe augusta enutriti ad ecclesiam nostram hostili ritu confluunt ; ignem in ecclesiam ad comburendum altare dum infesti iaciunt, inuicem sese resistente deo trucidant.

(431) 14. Antiochus and Bassus
1 Flaccilla, daughter of Theodosius Augustus, breathed her last.
2 Barbarians reared in the august city flock to our church in hostile rite ; while, being hostile, they cast fire into the church to burn the altar, they slaughter one another, with God resisting.

3 Hoc tempore dum ad horrea publica Theodosius processum celebrat, tritici in plebe ingruente penuria imperator ab esuriente populo lapidibus inpetitur.

3 At this time, while Theodosius is celebrating a procession to the public granaries, with a scarcity of wheat bearing down upon the plebs, the emperor is assailed with stones by the starving populace.

(432) XV. Valerii et Aetii
1 Romanae ecclesiae Xystus quadragensimus secundus episcopus ordinatus uixit annis octo.
2 Placidiae matris Valentiniani imperatoris instinctu ingens bellum inter Bonifatium et Aetium patricios gestum est.
3 Aetius longiore Bonifatii telo pridie sibimet praeparato Bonifatium congredientem uulnerauit inlaesus, tertioque mense Bonifatius uulnere quo sauciatus fuerat emoritur, Pelagiam uxorem suam ualde locupletem nulli alteri nisi Aetio nupturam fore exhortans.

(432) 15. Valerius and Aetius
1 Sixtus, the forty-second bishop of the Roman Church, having been ordained, lived for eight years.
2 At the instigation of Placidia, mother of the emperor Valentinian, a huge war was waged between the patricians Boniface and Aetius.
3 Aetius, unhurt, wounded Boniface as he engaged, with a longer weapon than Boniface’s, having prepared it for himself the day before; and in the third month Boniface dies of the wound by which he had been stricken, urging that his wife Pelagia, very wealthy, should be married to no other than Aetius.

(433) I. Theodosii Aug. XIIII et Maximi
Maxima urbis regiae pars septentrionalis per tres dies continuos incensa conlapsaque est mense Augusto.

(433) 1. Theodosius Augustus 14 and Maximus
The greatest part of the northern section of the royal city was set ablaze and collapsed for three continuous days in the month of August.

(434) II. Areobindi et Asparis
Honoria Valentiniani imperatoris soror ab Eugenio procuratore suo stuprata concepit, palatioque expulsa Theodosio principi de Italia transmissa Attilanem contra Occidentalem rem publicam concitabat.

(434) 2. Areobindus and Aspar
Honoria, sister of the emperor Valentinian, having been raped by her own procurator Eugenius, conceived; and, driven from the palace and sent over from Italy to Prince Theodosius, she was inciting Attila against the Western commonwealth.

(435) III. Theodosii XV et Valentiniano IIII
1 Forum Theodosii imperatoris in loco qui Heliane dicitur aedificatum est.
2 Sebastianus Bonifatii quondam patricii gener urbe augusta fugit atque in Africa interemptus est.

(435) 3. Theodosius 15 and Valentinian 4
1 The Forum of Emperor Theodosius was constructed in the place which is called Heliane.
2 Sebastian, the son-in-law of Boniface, once a patricius, fled the august city and was slain in Africa.

(436) IIII. Isidori et Senatoris
Theodosius imperator Cyzicum ciuitatem nauibus petit multaque eidem ciuitati munificentia praestita urbem augustam renauigauit.

(436) 4. Of Isidore and Senator
Theodosius the emperor made for the city of Cyzicus with ships, and, much munificence having been bestowed upon that same city, he sailed back to the august city.

(437) V. Aetii II et Sigisuuldi
Valentinianus imperator Roma digressus ad copulandam sibi in matrimonium Eudoxiam Theodosii principis filiam, quam dudum desponsauerat, Constantinopolim aduenit eaque sibi nupta aput Thessalonicam Italiam repetens hiemauit.

(437) 5. of Aetius 2 and of Sigisuuldus
Emperor Valentinian, having departed from Rome to couple to himself in matrimony Eudoxia, the daughter of Prince Theodosius, whom he had long before betrothed, arrived at Constantinople; and, she having been wed to him, while returning to Italy he wintered at Thessalonica.

(438) VI. Theodosii XVI et Fausti
1 Contradis praedo cum piratis suisque comitibus captus interfectusque est.
2 Reliquiae beatissimi Iohannis augustae urbis quondam episcopi eidem redditae ciuitati ibique sepultae mense Ianuario die uicensimo octauo.
3 Valentinianus imperator cum Eudoxia uxore Rauennam ingressus.

(438) 6. Theodosius 16 and Faustus
1 The brigand Contradis, captured together with the pirates and his own companions, was killed.
2 The relics of the most blessed John, once bishop of the august city, were returned to that same city and there buried on the 28th day of January.
3 The emperor Valentinian entered Ravenna with his wife Eudoxia.

(439) VII. Theodosii XVII et Festi
1 Theodosius imperator octaua quinquennalia edidit.
2 Eudoxia uxor Theodosii principis ab Hierosolymis urbem regiam remeauit, beatissimi Stephani primi martyris reliquias, quae in basilica sancti Laurentii positae uenerantur, secum deferens.

(439) 7. Theodosius 17 and Festus
1 The emperor Theodosius celebrated his eighth quinquennalia.
2 Eudoxia, wife of Theodosius the emperor, returned from Jerusalem to the royal city, carrying with her the relics of the most blessed Stephen, the first martyr, which, placed in the basilica of Saint Lawrence, are venerated.

3 Hoc tempore Ginsiricus rex Vandalorum Africae ciuitates Carthaginemque metropolim cum suis satellitibus occupauit X kalendas Nouembris.

3 At this time Gaiseric, king of the Vandals, seized the cities of Africa and Carthage the metropolis with his attendants, on the 10th day before the Kalends of November.

(440) VIII. Valentiniani V et Anatolii
1 Paulinus magister officiorum in Caesarea Cappadociae iubente Theodosio principe interemptus est.
2 Romanae ecclesiae Leo quadragensimus tertius papa creatus uixit annos uiginti unum.

(440) 8. of Valentinian 5 and of Anatolius
1 Paulinus, master of the offices, was slain in Caesarea of Cappadocia by order of the emperor Theodosius.
2 Leo, the 43rd pope of the Roman church, having been created, lived 21 years.

(441) VIIII. Cyri solius
1 Persae, Saraceni, Tzanni, Isauri, Hunni finibus suis egressi Romanorum sola uastarunt. Missi sunt contra hos Anatolius et Aspar magistri militiae pacemque cum his unius anni fecerunt.

(441) 9. of Cyrus alone
1 The Persians, Saracens, Tzans, Isaurians, and Huns, having gone out from their own borders, laid waste the soil of the Romans. Anatolius and Aspar, masters of the soldiers, were sent against them, and made with them a peace of one year.

2 Iohannes natione Vandalus magisterque militiae Arnigiscli fraude in Thracia interemptus est.
3 Hunnorum reges numerosis suorum cum milibus Illyricum irruerunt ; Naisum, Singidunum aliasque ciuitates oppidaque Illyrici plurima exciderunt.

2 John, by nation a Vandal and master of the militia, was slain in Thrace through the treachery of Arnigisclus.
3 The kings of the Huns, with numerous thousands of their men, rushed into Illyricum ; they razed Naissus, Singidunum, and very many other cities and towns of Illyricum.

(442) X. Eudoxii et Dioscori
1 Stella quae crinita dicitur per plurimum tempus ardens apparuit.
2 Bleda et Attila fratres multarumque gentium reges Illyricum Thraciamque depopulati sunt.

(442) 10. of Eudoxius and Dioscorus
1 A star which is called "hairy" (a comet), blazing, appeared for a very long time.
2 Bleda and Attila, brothers and kings of many nations, laid waste Illyricum and Thrace.

(443) XI. Maximi II et Paterii
1 His consulibus tanta nix cecidit, ut per sex menses uix liquesci potuerit ; multa hominum et animalium milia frigoris rigore confecta perierunt.
2 Theodosius imperator ex Asiana expeditione in urbem rediit.
3 Thermarum quae Achilleae dicuntur encaeniae factae.

(443) 11. Maximus II and Paterius
1 Under these consuls so great a snow fell that for six months it could scarcely melt ; many thousands of men and of animals, overcome by the rigor of the cold, perished.
2 Theodosius the emperor returned to the city from the Asian expedition.
3 The dedication of the baths which are called the Achillean was held.

(444) XII. Theodosii XVIII et Albini
1 Theodosius princeps nona quinquennalia dedit.
2 Arcadia soror Theodosii uiuendi finem fecit.

(444) 12. Theodosius 18 and Albinus
1 Theodosius the emperor gave the ninth quinquennalia.
2 Arcadia, sister of Theodosius, ended her life.

3 Aliquanta Bithyniae oppida atque praedia continuarum pluuiarum et fluuiorum inundatione crescentium sublabsa dissolutaque perierunt.
4 Seuerum presbyterum et Iohannem diaconum Eudociae reginae apud Aeliam urbem ministrantes missus ab imperatore Theodosio Saturninus comes domesticorum occidit. Eudocia nescio quo excita dolore Saturninum protinus obtruncauit, statimque mariti imperatoris nutu, regiis spoliata ministris, apud Aeliam ciuitatem moritura remansit.

3 A number of the towns and estates of Bithynia, by the inundation of continuous rains and of rivers increasing, having slid down and been dissolved, perished.
4 Severus the presbyter and John the deacon, serving Queen Eudocia in the city Aelia, were killed by Saturninus, count of the domestics, sent by Emperor Theodosius. Eudocia, stirred by I know not what grief, forthwith cut down Saturninus; and immediately, at the nod of her husband the emperor, stripped of her royal attendants, she remained in the city Aelia to die.

(445) XIII. Valentiniani VI et Nomi
1 Bleda rex Hunnorum Attilae fratris sui insidiis interimitur.
2 Aput Byzantium populari orta in circo seditione multi sese inuicem occiderunt multaque intrinsecus hominum pecudumque morbo corpora perierunt.

(445) 13. of Valentinian 6 and Nomus
1 Bleda, king of the Huns, is slain by the plots of Attila, his brother.
2 At Byzantium, when a popular sedition arose in the circus, many killed one another, and many bodies within, of humans and of cattle, perished from disease.

(446) XIIII. Valentiniani VII et Aetii III
1 His consulibus magna fames Constantinopolim inuasit, pestisque ilico subsecuta.
2 Templum regiae ciuitatis igne crematum.

(446) 14. Valentinian 7 and Aetius 3
1 Under these consuls a great famine invaded Constantinople, and a plague followed immediately.
2 The temple of the imperial city was burned by fire.

(447) XV. Ardaburis et Calepii
1 Ingenti terrae motu per loca uaria inminente plurimi urbis augustae muri recenti adhuc reaedificatione constructi cum quinquaginta septem turribus corruerunt. Saxa quoque ingentia in foro Tauri dudum super sese in aedificio posita statuaeque plurimae sine ullius uidelicet laesione collapsae sunt, plurimis nihilominus ciuitatibus conlapsis ; fames et aerum pestifer odor multa milia hominum iumentorumque deleuit.
2 Ingens bellum et priore maius per Attilam regem nostris inflictum paene totam Europam excisis inuasisque ciuitatibus atque castellis conrasit.

(447) 15. Ardaburius and Calepius
1 With a vast earthquake threatening across various places, very many walls of the august city, constructed in a still recent rebuilding, collapsed together with 57 towers. Huge stones as well in the Forum of Taurus, long ago set upon one another in a building, and very many statues, collapsed without, namely, anyone’s injury, nevertheless with very many cities collapsing ; famine and the pestiferous odor of the air destroyed many thousands of humans and of draft-animals.
2 A huge war, greater than the prior, inflicted upon our people by King Attila, devastated nearly all Europe, with cities and forts cut down and overrun.

3 Eodem anno urbis augustae muri olim terrae motu conlapsi intra tres menses Constantino praefecto praetorio operam dante reaedificati sunt.
4 Attila rex usque ad Thermopolim infestus aduenit.
5 Arnigisclus magister militiae in ripense Dacia iuxta Vtum amnem ab Attila rege uiriliter pugnans plurimis hostium interemptis occisus est.

3 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 effort.
4 Attila the king came, hostile, as far as Thermopolis.
5 Arnigisclus, Master of the Soldiers, in Dacia Ripensis near the river Utus, fighting manfully with very many of the enemies slain, was killed by King Attila.

(448) I. Zenonis et Postumiani
1 Prouincia India Theodosio principi tigrim domitam pro munere misit.
2 Vtramque porticum Troadensem turresque portarum utrasque ignis subitus exussit ; qua ruina continuo repurgata Antiochus praefectus praetorio in pristinam erexit speciem :
3 legatis Attilae a Theodosio depectas olim pecunias flagitantibus.

(448) 1. Of Zeno and Postumianus
1 The province India sent to the emperor Theodosius a tamed tigress as a gift.
2 A sudden fire burned up both the Troadensian portico and the towers of both gates ; this ruin having been immediately cleared away, Antiochus the praetorian prefect raised it to its former appearance :
3 with Attila’s legates demanding from Theodosius the monies once agreed upon.

(449) II. Protogenis et Asturii
1 Marina Theodosii regis soror fati munus impleuit.
2 Flauianus episcopus in secunda aput Ephesum synodo ui Dioscori Alexandriae episcopi et Saturnini spadonis in Epipam exulatus est.
3 Areobinda et Taurus patricii communi uita defuncti sunt.

(449) 2. Protogenes and Asturius
1 Marina, sister of King Theodosius, paid the debt of fate.
2 Flavian the bishop, at the second synod at Ephesus, by the violence of Dioscorus, bishop of Alexandria, and of Saturninus the eunuch, was exiled to Epipa.
3 Areobindus and Taurus, patricians, departed this common life.

(450) III. Valentiniani VII et Auieni
1 Theodosius imperator uiuendi finem fecit ; regnauit post mortem Arcadii patris sui annos XLII.
2 Loco eius Marcianus imperium adeptus est.

(450) 3. Of Valentinian for the 7th time and Auienus
1 Theodosius the emperor made an end of living ; he reigned, after the death of his father Arcadius, for 42 years.
2 In his place Marcian attained the empire.

3 Chrysafius eunuchus Pulcheriae Theodosii sororis nutu sua cum auaritia interemptus est.

3 Chrysaphius the eunuch, at the bidding of Pulcheria, sister of Theodosius, was slain, together with his own avarice.

(451) IIII. Marciani Augusti et Adelfii
Leone pontifice sedem beati Petri regente sexcentorum triginta patrum sancta et uniuersalis synodus contra Eutychetem nefandissimorum praesulem monachorum apud Chalcedonam in basilica sanctae Eufemiae firmata est ; solus Dioscorus Alexandrinae ecclesiae episcopus dissensit statimque ab iisdem catholicis patribus sacerdotio abdicatus est.

(451) 4. Marcian Augustus and Adelfius
With Leo the pontiff governing the See of blessed Peter, a holy and universal synod of six hundred and thirty fathers against Eutyches, the most abominable prelate of the monks, was confirmed at Chalcedon in the basilica of Saint Euphemia ; only Dioscorus, bishop of the Alexandrian church, dissented, and at once by those same catholic fathers he was deposed from the priesthood.

(452) V. Sporacii et Herculanii
1 Marcianus Augustus suis statuit decretis, ut hi qui consules fieri cupiebant nihil aeris in populum spargerent, sed statutam pecuniam ad reparandum urbis aquae ductum dependerent.
2 Hoc tempore tres magni lapides e caelo in Thracia ceciderunt.
3 Aquileia ciuitas ab Attila Hunnorum rege excisa est.

(452) 5. of Sporacius and Herculanius
1 Marcian Augustus established by his decrees that those who desired to become consuls should scatter no copper among the populace, but should disburse the appointed money for repairing the city's aqueduct.
2 At this time three great stones fell from the sky in Thrace.
3 The city of Aquileia was razed by Attila, king of the Huns.

(453) VI. Vincomali et Opilionis
1 Iohannes praecursor domini et baptista caput suum, quod olim Herodias impia nefandaque postulatione ab umeris amputatum et in disco positum accepit proculque a truncato eius corpore sepeliuit, duobus Orientalibus monachis ob adorandam apud Hierosolymam Christi domini resurrectionem introeuntibus reuelauit, ut ad Herodis quondam regis habitaculum accedentes ammoniti requirerent fideliterque humo extollerent. 2 Hoc ergo caput fide repertum suaque hispida in mantica conditum dum ad propria remeantes habitacula peruehunt, quidam Emetzenae figulus ciuitatis diutinam imminentemque sibi fugiens paupertatem sese his exhibuit comitem ; quique dum nescius peram sibi creditam cum sacro capite portat, ab eo cuius caput uehebat noctu ammonitus utrumque comitem fugiens dereliquit, statimque Emetzenam urbem cum sancto leuique onere introgressus est, ibique dum aduixit, praecursoris Christi ueneratus est caput moriensque sorori suae rerum nesciae signatum in uasculo tradidit recolendum. 3 Illa uero successori suo repositum signatumque ut erat dereliquit.

(453) 6. of Vincomalus and Opilio
1 John, the precursor of the Lord and Baptist, revealed his head—which once Herodias, by an impious and nefarious demand, received after it had been cut off from the shoulders and set on a dish, and buried far from his truncated body—to two Eastern monks entering Jerusalem to adore the resurrection of Christ the Lord, that, being admonished, they should go to the dwelling of Herod, once king, seek it out, and faithfully lift it up from the ground. 2 Therefore this head, found by faith and placed in their rough satchel, while they were conveying it as they returned to their own dwellings, a certain potter of the city of Emesa, fleeing long-standing and imminent poverty for himself, presented himself to them as a companion ; and he, while unwittingly carrying the bag entrusted to him with the sacred head, being admonished at night by him whose head he was carrying, fled and abandoned 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 Christ’s precursor, and, dying, he handed it over to his sister, ignorant of the matter, sealed in a little vessel, to be commemorated. 3 She, however, left it to her successor, laid away and sealed as it was.

Porro Eustochius quidam occultus Arrianae fidei presbyter talem tantumque thesaurum indignus optinuit gratiamque, quam Christus dominus per Iohannem Baptistam infirmo populo tribuebat, is eam ac si suam dumtaxat in uulgo disseminabat. Hinc prauitate sua detecta, Emetzena ciuitate expulsus est. 4 Hoc deinde antrum, in quo beatissimi Iohannis caput in urnam missum sub terraque reconditum erat, quidam monachi pro habitaculo habere coeperunt.

Moreover, a certain Eustochius, a presbyter covertly of the Arian faith, unworthy, obtained such and so great a treasure; and the grace which Christ the Lord was bestowing through John the Baptist upon the infirm people, he was disseminating among the populace as if it were his own, and his alone. Hence, his depravity having been detected, he was expelled from the city of Emetzena. 4 Thereafter, this cave, in which the head of the most blessed John, having been placed into an urn and rehidden beneath the earth, was, certain monks began to have for a habitation.

Marcellus demum presbyter totiusque monasterii praesul dum in eodem specu uita inreprehensibili habitat, idem beatus Iohannes Christi praecursor sese eidem suumque ostendit caput, ibidemque sepultum multis praefulgens uirtutibus patefecit. Hoc igitur uenerabile caput sub Vranio memoratae episcopo ciuitatis per Marcellum praefatum presbyterum constat inuentum Vincomalo et Opilione consulibus mense Februario die uicensimo quarto media ieiuniorum paschalium septimana, imperatoribus uero Valentiniano et Marciano regnantibus.
5 Pulcheria Augusta Marciani principis uxor beati Laurentii atrium inimitabili opere consummauit beatumque uiuendi finem fecit.

At last Marcellus the presbyter and prelate of the whole monastery, while he dwelt in the same cavern with an irreprehensible life, the same blessed John, the Forerunner of Christ, showed himself to him and showed his head, and in that very place, shining forth with many miracles, made it known to have been buried. Therefore this venerable head, under Uranio, bishop of the aforesaid city, is established to have been found through the aforesaid presbyter Marcellus, in the consulship of Vincomalus and Opilio, in the month of February on the twenty-fourth day, in the middle of the week of the paschal fasts, when the emperors Valentinian and Marcian were reigning.
5 Pulcheria Augusta, the wife of the emperor Marcian, consummated the atrium of blessed Lawrence with inimitable workmanship, and made a blessed end of living.

(454) VII. Aetii et Studii
1 Attila rex Hunnorum Europae orbator prouinciae noctu mulieris manu cultroque confoditur. Quidam uero sanguinis reiectione necatum perhibent.

(454) 7. Aetius and Studius
1 Attila, king of the Huns, despoiler of the province of Europe, by night is stabbed by a woman's hand and knife. Some, however, assert that he was killed by a reflux of blood.

2 Aetius magna Occidentalis rei publicae salus et regi Attilae terror a Valentiniano imperatore cum Boethio amico in palatio trucidatur, atque cum ipso Hesperium cecidit regnum nec hactenus ualuit releuari.

2 Aetius, the great salvation of the Western republic and a terror to King Attila, is butchered in the palace by the emperor Valentinian together with his friend Boethius, and with him the Hesperian kingdom fell, nor hitherto has it been able to be relieved.

(455) VIII. Valentiniani VIII et Anthemii
1 Valentinianus princeps dolo Maximi patricii, cuius etiam fraude Aetius perierat, in campo Martio per Optilam et Thraustilam Aetii satellites iam percusso Heraclio spadone truncatus est.
2 Idem Maximus inuasit imperium tertioque tyrannidis suae mense membratim Romae a Romanis discerptus est.

(455) 8. Valentinian’s 8th and Anthemius
1 The emperor Valentinian, by the deceit of the patricius Maximus—by whose fraud Aetius too had perished—was cut down in the Campus Martius by Optila and Thraustila, Aetius’s bodyguards, with the eunuch Heraclius already struck.
2 That same Maximus seized the empire, and in the third month of his tyranny he was torn to pieces limb from limb at Rome by the Romans.

3 Gizericus rex Vandalorum, ab Eudoxia Valentiniani uxore epistulis inuitatus ex Africa Romam ingressus est eaque urbe rebus omnibus spoliata eandem Eudoxiam cum duabus filiabus secum rediens abduxit.

3 Gizeric, king of the Vandals, invited by letters from Eudoxia, the wife of Valentinian, came from Africa and entered Rome; and when that city had been despoiled of all things, he, returning, led that same Eudoxia away with him along with her two daughters.

(456) VIIII. Varanae et Iohannis
1 His consulibus innumera lucustarum agmina fructum Phrygiae uastauerunt.
2 Eucherius Lugdunensis ecclesiae pontifex multa scripsit tam ecclesiasticis quam monasticis studiis necessaria.

(456) 9. of Varana and of John
1 In the consulship of these, innumerable swarms of locusts devastated the produce of Phrygia.
2 Eucherius, bishop of the church of Lyons, wrote many things necessary for both ecclesiastical and monastic studies.

(457) X. Constantini et Rufi
1 Marcianus imperator bonis principibus conparandus uitae spiritum amisit ; imperauit annos sex menses sex. Leo eidem defuncto successit.
2 Cuius uoluntate Maiorianus aput Rauennam Caesar est ordinatus.

(457) 10. Of Constantine and Rufus
1 Marcian, the emperor, to be compared with good princes, lost the breath of life ; he ruled six years and six months. Leo succeeded the same after his death.
2 By whose will Majorian at Ravenna was ordained Caesar.

(458) XI. Leonis Aug. et Maioriani
Leo imperator pro tomo Calchedonense per uniuersum orbem singulis orthodoxorum episcopis singulas consonantesque misit epistulas quo sibi quid de eodem tomo sentirent cuncti suis rescriptionibus indicarent. Horum omnium episcoporum ita conspirantes suscepit epistulas, ut eas putares uno tempore uniusque uiri eloquio fuisse dictatas.

(458) 11. Of Leo Augustus and Majorian
Emperor Leo, on behalf of the Chalcedonian Tome, sent throughout the whole world to each of the orthodox bishops individual letters, in identical form, so that all might indicate to him by their rescripts what they thought about that same tome. He received the letters of all these bishops agreeing together to such a degree that you would think they had been dictated at one time and in the eloquence of a single man.

(459) XII. Patricii et Ricimeris
Isaac Antiochenae ecclesiae presbyter scripsit Syro sermone multa praecipuaque aduersus Nestorianos et Eutychianos. Ruinam enim Antiochiae elego carmine planxit, quemammodum Ephrem diaconus Nicomediae lapsum.

(459) 12. Of Patricius and Ricimer
Isaac, presbyter of the Antiochene church, wrote in the Syriac tongue many and especially notable things against the Nestorians and the Eutychians. For he lamented the ruin of Antioch in an elegiac song, just as Ephrem the deacon [lamented] the fall of Nicomedia.

(460) XIII. Apollonii et Magni
Cyzicus ciuitas terrae motu concussa murorumque suorum ambitu interrupto sese suosque diu deplanxit.

(460) 13. Of Apollonius and Magnus
The city of Cyzicus, shaken by an earthquake and with the circuit of its walls broken, long bewailed itself and its own people.

(461) XIIII. Dagalaifi et Seuerini
1 Romanae ecclesiae Hilarus quadragensimus quartus pontifex factus uixit annos sex.
2 Maiorianus Caesar apud Dertonam iuxta fluuium qui Hira dicitur interemptus est.

(461) 14. of Dagalaifus and Severinus
1 Hilarus of the Roman Church, made the forty-fourth pontiff, lived for six years.
2 Majorian Caesar was slain at Dertona, beside the river which is called the Hira.

Locum eius Seuerus inuasit.

Severus seized his place.

(462) XV. Leonis Aug. II solius
Iacobus natione Achiuus, religione paganus, medicinae artis peritia tam ingenio quam litteratura perclaruit. Hic ob medendum Leonem Augustum febre defetigatum sacrum palatii cubiculum uocatus intrauit statimque in sella iuxta torum imperialem posita sine ullo Augusti nutu consedit, sicque medicas adhibuit manus.

(462) 15. Of Leo Augustus 2, sole
Jacob, by nation an Achaean, by religion a pagan, in the expertise of the medical art was very illustrious, as much by ingenuity as by literature. He, having been called for the purpose of treating Leo Augustus, worn out with fever, entered the sacred bedchamber of the palace, and immediately sat down in a chair placed next to the imperial couch without any nod from the Augustus, and thus applied his medical hands.

Porro meridie ad eundem sacrum puluinar reuersus sublatum sui propter solium, in quo matutinus resederat, protinus intellexit spondamque tori regiam intrepidus supersedit, ueterumque studii sui repertorum praeceptionibus monitum id sese gessisse, non temere praesumpsisse aegrotantem docuit principem.

Moreover, at midday, returning to the same sacred couch, he immediately realized that his chair set beside the throne, in which he had sat again in the morning, had been removed; and, intrepid, he sat upon the royal bed’s rail, and he taught the ailing emperor that he had done this, being admonished by the precepts of the discoveries of his own study of the ancients, and that he had not presumed rashly.

(463) I. Viuiani et Felicis
Prosper homo Aquitanicae regionis sermone scholasticus et adsertionibus neruosus multa composuisse dicitur. Epistulae quoque papae Leonis aduersus Eutychen de uera Christi incarnatione datae ab isto dictatae creduntur.

(463) 1. of Vivian and Felix
Prosper, a man of the Aquitanian region, scholastic in speech and nervous (i.e., sinewy/forceful) in assertions, is said to have composed many things. The letters also of Pope Leo, issued against Eutyches concerning the true incarnation of Christ, are believed to have been dictated by this man.

(464) II. Rustici et Olybrii
Beorgor rex Halanorum a Ricimere rege occiditur.

(464) 2. Of Rusticus and Olybrius
Beorgor, king of the Alans, is slain by King Ricimer.

(465) III. Basilisci et Armenarici
1 Constantinopolis magno inuasa incendio facieque foedata deplanxit.
2 Seuerus, qui Occidentis arripuit principatum, Romae interiit.

(465) III. of Basiliscus and Armenaricus
1 Constantinople, assailed by a great conflagration and with its face defiled, deplored it.
2 Severus, who seized the principate of the West, perished at Rome.

(466) IIII. Leonis Aug. III solius
Theodoritus episcopus Cyri ciuitatis scripsit de incarnatione domini aduersus Eutychem presbyterum et Dioscorum Alexandriae episcopum, qui humanam in Christo carnem fuisse denegant.

(466) 4. of Leo Aug. 3 alone
Theodoritus, bishop of the city of Cyrus, wrote concerning the incarnation of the Lord against Eutyches the presbyter and Dioscorus, bishop of Alexandria, who deny that there was human flesh in Christ.

(467) V. Pusaei et Iohannis
1 Leo imperator Anthemium patricium Romam misit imperatoremque constituit.
2 Romanae ecclesiae Simplicius quadragensimus quintus pontifex creatus uixit annos quindecim.
3 Rauennam ciuitatem terrae motus deterruit.

(467) 5. of Pusaeus and John
1 Leo the emperor sent Anthemius, a patrician, to Rome and appointed him emperor.
2 Of the Roman church, Simplicius, the 45th pontiff, having been created, lived 15 years.
3 An earthquake terrified the city of Ravenna.

(468) VI. Anthemii Aug. II solius
Marcellinus Occidentis patricius idemque paganus dum Romanis contra Vandalos apud Carthaginem pugnantibus opem auxiliumque fert, ab iisdem dolo confoditur, pro quibus palam uenerat pugnaturus.

(468) 6. Of Anthemius Augustus, 2 alone
Marcellinus, patrician of the West and likewise a pagan, while bringing help and aid to the Romans fighting against the Vandals at Carthage, is stabbed through by deceit by these same men, for whom he had openly come to fight.

(469) VII. Zenonis et Marciani
His consulibus caput Denzicis Hunnorum regis Attilae filii Constantinopolim adlatum est.

(469) 7. Zeno and Marcian
With these as consuls, the head of Denzic, son of Attila, king of the Huns, was brought to Constantinople.

(470) VIII. Iordanis et Seueri
Gennadius Constantinopolitanae ecclesiae pontifex Danihelem prophetam ex integro ad uerbum commentatus est et homilias multas composuit.

(470) 8. Jordanes and Severus
Gennadius, pontiff of the church of Constantinople, commented upon Daniel the prophet entirely, word for word, and composed many homilies.

(471) VIIII. Leonis Aug. IIII et Probiani
Aspar primus patriciorum cum Ardabure et Patriciolo filiis, illo quidem olim patricio, hoc autem Caesare generoque Leonis principis appellato, Arrianus cum Arriana prole spadonum ensibus in palatio uulneratus interiit.

(471) 9. of Leo Aug. 4 and Probianus
Aspar, first of the patricians, together with his sons Ardabur and Patriciolus—the former indeed once a patrician, the latter however called Caesar and son-in-law of Emperor Leo—an Arian, together with an Arian brood of eunuchs, having been wounded by swords in the palace, perished.

(472) X. Marciani et Festi
1 Vesuuius mons Campaniae torridus intestinis ignibus aestuans exusta euomuit uiscera nocturnisque in die tenebris incumbentibus omnem Europae faciem minuto contexit puluere. Huius metuendi memoriam cineris Byzantii annue celebrant VIII idus Nouemb.
2 Anthemius imperator Romae a Recimero genero suo occiditur.

(472) 10. of Marcianus and Festus
1 Mount Vesuvius of Campania, parched, seething with internal fires, spewed out its burned-up entrails, and, with nocturnal darkness pressing upon the day, covered the whole face of Europe with fine dust. The memory of this fearsome ash at Byzantium they celebrate annually on the 8th day before the Ides of November.
2 The emperor Anthemius at Rome is killed by his son-in-law Recimer.

Loco eius Olybrius substitutus septimo mense imperii sui uita defunctus est.
3 In Asia aliquantae ciuitates uel oppida terrae motu conlapsa sunt.

In his place Olybrius, substituted, died in the seventh month of his reign.
3 In Asia several cities or towns collapsed from an earthquake.

(473) XI. Leonis Aug. V solius
1 Glycerius apud Rauennam plus praesumptione quam electione Caesar factus est.
2 Constantinopoli seditione in circo orta multi Isaurorum a populo interempti sunt.

(473) 11. of Leo Augustus alone, the 5th time
1 Glycerius at Ravenna was made Caesar more by presumption than by election.
2 At Constantinople, with a sedition arising in the circus, many of the Isaurians were slain by the people.

(474) XII. Leonis iunioris solius
1 Leo senior imperator Leone iuniore a se iam Caesare constituto morbo periit, tam sui imperii annis quam huius Leonis regni mensibus computatis annis decem et septem mensibus sex. Zenonem Leo iunior idemque filius principem regni constituit.

(474) 12. of Leo the Younger alone
1 Leo the Elder, the emperor, with Leo the Younger—whom he himself had already appointed as Caesar—died of illness, and with the years of his own rule as well as the months of this Leo’s reign reckoned, it was 17 years and 6 months. Leo the Younger, who was likewise his son, appointed Zeno as chief of the realm.

2 Glycerius Caesar Romae imperium tenens a Nepote Marcellini quondam patricii sororis filio imperio expulsus in portu urbis Romae ex Caesare episcopus ordinatus est et obiit.

2 Glycerius, Caesar, holding the imperial power at Rome, was expelled from the imperium by Nepos, the sister’s son of Marcellinus, once a patrician; in the port of the city of Rome he was ordained bishop from being Caesar, and he died.

(475) XIII. Zenonis Aug. II solius
1 Zeno imp.

(475) 13. Of Zeno Augustus alone, 2
1 Zeno the emperor.

Verinae socrus suae et Basilisci fratris eius insidiis circumuentus cum Ariagne uxore sua profugus in Isauriam tendit. Regnum Zenoni Basiliscus tyrannus inuasit.
2 Nepos, qui Glycerium regno pepulerat, Romae eleuatus est imperator.

Surrounded by the plots of Verina, his mother-in-law, and of Basiliscus, her brother, he, a fugitive with his wife Ariagne, made for Isauria. Basiliscus the tyrant invaded Zeno’s kingship.
2 Nepos, who had driven Glycerius from the kingship, was elevated as emperor at Rome.

Nepote Orestes protinus effugato Augustulum filium suum in imperium conlocauit.

With Nepos immediately put to flight, Orestes installed his son Augustulus in imperial power.

(476) XIIII. Basilisci et Armati
1 Basiliscus tyrannus Marco filio suo Caesare facto, dum contra fidem catholicam Nestoriana perfidia intumescens conatur adsurgere, ante inflatus crepuit quam paenitens stare potuerit. Basiliscus cum filio suo et cum Zenonida uxore sua, iam Zenone pristinum ad imperium remeante, in exilium missus est atque in oppidulo, quod Limnis in prouincia Cappadociae dicitur, trusus famo extabuit.

(476) 14. Basiliscus and Armatus
1 Basiliscus the tyrant, with his son Marcus made Caesar, while, swelling with Nestorian perfidy against the catholic faith, tries to rise up, burst while inflated before he could stand in repentance. Basiliscus, with his son and with his wife Zenonida, now that Zeno was returning to his former imperial power, was sent into exile, and in a little town which is called Limnis in the province of Cappadocia, having been thrust in, he wasted away with famine.

2 Odoacar rex Gothorum Romam optinuit. Orestem Odoacer ilico trucidauit. Augustulum filium Orestis Odoacer in Lucullano Campaniae castello exilii poena damnauit.

2 Odoacer, king of the Goths, took possession of Rome. He immediately butchered Orestes. Odoacer condemned Augustulus, the son of Orestes, to the penalty of exile in the Lucullan castle in Campania.

Hesperium Romanae gentis imperium, quod septingentesimo nono Vrbis conditae anno primus Augustorum Octauianus Augustus tenere coepit, cum hoc Augustulo periit, anno decessorum regni imperatorum quingentesimo uigesimo secundo, Gothorum dehinc regibus Romam tenentibus.

The Western empire of the Roman nation, which in the 709th year from the founding of the City the first of the Augusti, Octavian Augustus, began to hold, perished with this Augustulus, in the 522nd year of the reigns of the preceding emperors, thereafter the kings of the Goths holding Rome.

(477) XV. Sine consulibus.
Bracilam comitem Odoacer rex apud Rauennam occidit.

(477) 15. Without consuls.
King Odoacer killed Bracila the count at Ravenna.

(478) I. Illi solius
Theodulus presbyter in Coelesyria multa conscripsit clarusque habetur.

(478) 1. Of that year alone
Theodulus, a presbyter in Coele‑Syria, wrote many things and is held as renowned.

(479) II. Zenonis Aug. III
1 Sabinianus Magnus Illyricianae utriusque militiae ductor creatus curiam fragilem, conlapsumque iustum rei publicae censum uel praepauentem fouit uel dependentem tutatus est. Disciplinae praeterea militaris ita optimus institutor coercitorque fuit, ut priscis Romanorum ductoribus comparetur.

(479) 2. Of Zeno Aug. 3
1 Sabinianus Magnus, created leader of both services in Illyricum, sustained the fragile curia, and safeguarded the just census of the commonwealth when it had collapsed—he fostered it when it was quailing, or protected it when it was tottering. Besides, he was so excellent an organizer and enforcer of military discipline that he is compared to the ancient leaders of the Romans.

2 Theodoricum idem Sabinianus regem aput Graeciam debacchantem ingenio magis quam uirtute deterruit.

2 The same Sabinianus deterred King Theodoric, rampaging in Greece, more by ingenuity than by valor.

(480) III. Basilii solius
1 Vrbs regia per quadraginta continuos dies adsiduo terrae motu quassata magnopere sese adflicta deplanxit. Ambae Troadenses porticus conruerunt ; aliquantae ecclesiae uel scissae sunt uel conlapsae ; statua Theodosii Magni in foro Tauri super cochlidem columnam posita conruit duobus fornicibus eiusdem conlapsis.

(480) 3. Of Basil alone
1 The royal city, shaken by assiduous movement of the earth for forty continuous days, greatly deplored itself as afflicted. Both Troadensian porticoes collapsed ; several churches were either rent or collapsed ; the statue of Theodosius the Great in the Forum of Taurus, set upon a spiral column, collapsed, with two of its arches of the same having collapsed.

Hunc formidolosum diem Byzantii celebrant VIII kal. Octobris.
2 His consulibus Nepos, quem dudum Orestes imperio abdicauerat, Viatoris et Ouidae comitum suorum insidiis haut longe a Salonis sua in uilla occisus est.

They celebrate this formidable day at Byzantium on the 8th day before the Kalends of October.
2 Under these consuls, Nepos, whom Orestes had long since deposed from power, was slain not far from Salona, in his own villa, by the ambush of his companions Viator and Ovida.

(481) IIII. Placidi solius
1 Theodoricus Triari filius rex Gothorum adscitis suis usque ad Anaplum quarto urbis miliario armatus aduenit ; nulli tamen Romanorum noxius continuo reuersus. Porro in Illyricum properans dum inter suorum mouentia plaustra progreditur, iacentis super carpentum teli acumine et pauescentis equi sui inpulsione fixus transuerberatusque interiit.

(481) 4. of Placidius alone
1 Theodoric, son of Triarius, king of the Goths, with his own men summoned, arrived in arms up to Anaplus at the fourth milestone from the city ; yet injurious to none of the Romans, he immediately turned back. Then, hastening into Illyricum, while he was advancing among the moving wagons of his men, by the point of a weapon lying upon a cart and by the impact of his frightened horse he was fixed, transfixed, and perished.

2 Sabinianum Magnum mors, quae huic peccanti mundo merito imminet, ante ademit quam integrum defetigatae rei publicae subsidium foret.

2 Death, which deservedly hangs over this sinning world, took Sabinianus Magnus away beforehand, before he could be an unimpaired support to the exhausted republic.

(482) V. Trocondi et Seuerini
Romanae ecclesiae Felix quadragensimus sextus episcopus ordinatus uixit annos duodecim.
Theodoricus cognomento Valamer utramque Macedoniam Thessaliamque depopulatus est, Larissam quoque metropolim depraedatus.

(482) 5. Of Trocondus and Severinus
Felix, the 46th bishop of the Roman church, having been ordained, lived for twelve years.
Theodoric, surnamed Valamer, laid waste both Macedonias and Thessaly, and also plundered Larissa, the metropolis.

(483) VI. Fausti solius
Idem Theodoricus rex Gothorum Zenonis Augusti munificentiis paene pacatus magisterque praesentis militiae factus, consul quoque designatus creditam sibi Ripensis Daciae partem Moesiaeque inferioris cum suis satellitibus pro tempore tenuit.

(483) 6. of Faustus alone
The same Theodoric, king of the Goths, almost pacified by the munificences of the Augustus Zeno and made master of the present soldiery, also designated consul, held for the time, with his satellites, the part of Dacia Ripensis and of Lower Moesia entrusted to him.

(484) VII. Theodorici et Venantii
1 Illus natione Isaurus, dignitate magister officiorum, amputata apud comitatum auricula Orientem Zenoni infestus inuasit. Porro cum Leontio tyrannidem arripuit.

(484) 7. Of Theodoric and Venantius
1 Illus, by nation an Isaurian, by rank Master of the Offices, having had his ear cut off at the court, hostile to Zeno, invaded the East. Moreover, together with Leontius he seized the tyranny.

2 Totam namque per Africam crudelis Hunerici Vandalorum regis in nostros catholicos persecutio inportata est. Nam exulatis diffugatisque plus quam trecentis triginta quattuor orthodoxorum episcopis ecclesiisque eorum clausis plebs fidelium uariis subacta suppliciis beatum consummauit agonem. 3 Nempe tunc idem rex Hunericus unius catholici adulescentis uitam a natiuitate sua sine ullo sermone ducentis linguam praecepit excidi, idemque mutus quod sine humano auditu Christo credens fidem didicerat, mox praecisa sibi lingua locutus est gloriamque deo in primo uocis suae exordio dedit.

2 For indeed throughout Africa a cruel persecution by Huneric, king of the Vandals, was brought in against our Catholics. For, with more than 334 bishops of the orthodox exiled and scattered, and their churches closed, the plebs of the faithful, subjected to various torments, consummated the blessed contest. 3 Indeed then that same king Huneric ordered the tongue to be cut out of a certain Catholic youth who had led his life from his birth without any speech; and that same mute—because, believing in Christ, he had learned the faith without human hearing—soon, his tongue having been cut off, spoke, and at the first outset of his voice he gave glory to God.

4 Denique ex hoc fidelium contubernio aliquantos ego religiosissimos uiros praecisis linguis manibus truncatis apud Byzantium integra uoce conspexi loquentes. Haec Arrianorum crudelitas in religiosos Christi cultores supra scriptis consulibus mense Februario coepit infligi.

4 Finally, from this fellowship of the faithful I myself beheld at Byzantium several most religious men, with tongues cut away and hands truncated, speaking with an unimpaired voice. This cruelty of the Arians against the religious worshipers of Christ began to be inflicted under the above-written consuls, in the month of February.

(485) VIII. Symmachi solius
Longinus Zenonis frater Augusti, post decennalem custodiam, quam eidem Illus apud Isauriam inflixerat, ad germanum suum Constantinopolim aduenit.

(485) 8. of Symmachus alone
Longinus, brother of Zeno the Augustus, after a ten-year custody, which Illus had inflicted upon him in Isauria, came to his brother at Constantinople.

(486) VIIII. Longini solius
Iohannes Antiochenae paroeciae ex grammatico presbyter scripsit aduersum eos qui in una tantum substantia adorandum asserunt Christum nec adquiescunt duas in Christo confitendas esse naturas.

(486) 9. of Longinus alone
John, a presbyter of the Antiochene diocese, formerly a grammarian, wrote against those who assert that Christ is to be adored in only one substance and do not acquiesce that two natures are to be confessed in Christ.

(487) X. Boethii solius
Theodoricus rex Gothorum Zenonis Augusti numquam beneficiis satiatus cum magna suorum manu usque ad regiam ciuitatem et Melentiadam oppidum infestus accessit plurimaque loca igne cremata ad Nouensem Moesiae ciuitatem, unde aduenerat, remeauit.

(487) 10. Boethius alone
Theodoric, king of the Goths, never sated by the favors of Zeno the Augustus, with a great band of his own men approached in hostile fashion as far as the imperial city and the town Melentiada, and, after many places had been burned with fire, returned to the city of Novae in Moesia, whence he had arrived.

(488) XI. Dynamii et Sifidii
1 Leontius interrex et Illus tyrannus in Papyrio Isauriae castello capti decollatique sunt. Capita eorum Constantinopolim adlata praefixa hastilibus tabuere.
2 Eodem anno Theodoricus rex omnium suorum multitudine adsumpta Gothorum in Italiam tetendit.

(488) 11. Of Dynamius and Sifidius
1 Leontius the interrex and Illus the tyrant were captured and beheaded at Papyrion, a fortress of Isauria. Their heads, brought to Constantinople, decayed while affixed to spear-shafts.
2 In the same year Theodoric the king, having taken up the whole multitude of his own Goths, made for Italy.

(489) XII. Eusebii et Probini
Idem Theodoricus rex Gothorum optatam occupauit Italiam. Odoacer itidem rex Gothorum metu Theodorici perterritus Rauennam ingressus est.

(489) 12. of Eusebius and Probinus
The same Theodoric, king of the Goths, occupied the desired Italy. Likewise Odoacer, king of the Goths, terrified by fear of Theodoric, entered Ravenna.

Porro ab eodem Theodorico periuriis inlectus interfectusque est.

Furthermore, by that same Theodoric, he was enticed by perjuries and slain.

(490) XIII. Longini II et Fausti
Zeno imperator Pelagii gulam in insula quae Panormum dicitur laqueo frangi praecepit.

(490) 13. of Longinus 2 and Faustus
Emperor Zeno ordered the throat of Pelagius to be broken by a noose on the island which is called Panormus.

(491) XIIII. Olybrii solius
1 Zeno Augustus uita decessit tam sui imperii annis quam Basilisci tyrannidis mensibus computatis anno XVII mense sexto. Anastasius ex silentiario imperator creatus est.

(491) 14. Olybrius alone
1 Zeno Augustus departed from life, with both the years of his own imperium and the months of Basiliscus’s tyranny computed, in year 17, month six. Anastasius, from the silentiary, was created emperor.

2 Bellum plebeium inter Byzantios ortum parsque urbis plurima atque circi igne combusta.

2 A plebeian war arose among the Byzantines, and a very great part of the city and of the circus was burned by fire.

(492) XV. Anastasii Aug. et Rufi
Dum bellum paratur Isauricum dumque Isauri imperium sibi uindicare nituntur, in Frygia iuxta Cottiaeum ciuitatem undique confluunt; ibique Lilingis, segnis quidem pede, sed eques in bello acerrimus, a Romanis primus in proelio trucidatur, omnesque simul Isauri fugae dediti per montana asperaque loca Isauriam repetunt. Hoc bellum Isauricum per sex annos tractum est.

(492) 15. of Anastasius Augustus and Rufus
While the Isaurian war was being prepared, and while the Isaurians strove to vindicate the imperium for themselves, they converged from all sides in Phrygia near the city of Cottiaeum; and there Lilingis, slow 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 Isaurians together, given over to flight, made back to Isauria through mountainous and rugged places. This Isaurian war was protracted for six years.

(493) I. Eusebii II et Albini
1 Bella ciuilia aduersus Anastasii regnum apud Constantinopolim gesta sunt ; statuae regis reginaeque funibus ligatae atque per urbem tractae.
2 Iulianus magister militiae nocturno proelio pugnans Scythico ferro in Thracia confossus interiit.

(493) 1. of Eusebius 2 and Albinus
1 Civil wars were waged against the reign of Anastasius at Constantinople ; the statues of the king and the queen were bound with ropes and dragged through the city.
2 Julian, Master of the Soldiers, fighting in a nocturnal battle, was run through by Scythian steel in Thrace and perished.

(494) II. Asterii et Praesidii
1 Anastasius imperator contra orthodoxorum fidei maiestatem intestina coepit proelia commouere : piaculi sui perfidiam prius in Eufemium urbis episcopum sibi pro orthodoxorum fide uiriliter resultantem profano manifestauit ingenio.
2 Laudicia, Hierapolis et Tripolis atque Agathicum uno tempore unoque terrae motu conlapsae sunt.
3 Romanae ecclesiae quadragensimus septimus Gelasius episcopus ordinatus uixit annos quattuor.

(494) 2. Asterius and Praesidius
1 Emperor Anastasius began to stir up internal wars against the majesty of the faith of the orthodox : he first revealed, with a profane disposition, the perfidy of his own sacrilege against Euphemius, the bishop of the city, who was manfully resisting him on behalf of the faith of the orthodox.
2 Laodicea, Hierapolis and Tripolis, and Agathicum collapsed at one time by one earthquake.
3 Gelasius, the forty-seventh bishop of the Roman Church, having been ordained, lived four years.

(495) III. Viatoris solius
Eufemius Augustae ciuitatis antistes, de quo superius fecimus mentionem, falso ab Anastasio principe accusatus atque damnatus in exsilium ductus est. Locum Eufemii Macedonius tenuit.

(495) 3. Of Viator alone
Euphemius, prelate of the August City, of whom we made mention above, falsely accused by Emperor Anastasius and condemned, was led into exile. Macedonius held the place of Euphemius.

(496) IIII. Pauli solius
1 Augustatico suo dudum Anastasius militibus praestito donatiuum quoque hoc fratre consule tribuit.
2 India Anastasio principi elephantum, quem Plautus poeta noster lucabum nomine dicit, duasque camelopardalas pro munere misit.

(496) 4. of Paul alone
1 After his Augustaticum having previously been provided by Anastasius to the soldiers, he also bestowed a donative on the occasion of this brother being consul.
2 India sent to the emperor Anastasius an elephant, which our poet Plautus calls by the name “lucabus,” and two camelopards as a gift.

(497) V. Anastasii Aug. II solius
1 Solis defectus apparuit.
2 Bellumque Isauricum hoc sexto anno sedatum.

(497) 5. of Anastasius Augustus 2, alone
1 A solar eclipse appeared.
2 And the Isaurian war was quelled in this sixth year.

3 Athenodorus Isaurorum primus in Isauria captus decollatusque est ; caput eius Tarsum ciuitatem adlatum pro portis hastili fixum extabuit.

3 Athenodorus, the foremost of the Isaurians, was captured in Isauria and beheaded ; his head, brought to the city of Tarsus, fixed on a spear-shaft before the gates, rotted away.

(498) VI. Iohannis Scythae et Paulini
1 Romanae ecclesiae quadragensimus octauus Anastasius pontifex ordinatus uixit annos II.
2 Longinus Isaurus cognomento Selinunteus apud Antiochiam Isauriae ciuitatem a comite Prisco captus Constantinopolim missus est catenatusque per agentem circumductus Anastasio principi et populo ingens spectaculum fuit, uariisque deinde cruciatibus apud Nicaeam Bithyniae ciuitatem expensus est.
3 Nummis, quos Romani Terentianos uocant, Graeci follares, Anastasius princeps suo nomine figuratis placibilem plebi commutationem distraxit.

(498) 6. John the Scythian and Paulinus
1 Anastasius, the 48th pontiff of the Roman Church, having been ordained, lived 2 years.
2 Longinus the Isaurian, surnamed Selinunteus, near Antioch, a city of Isauria, was captured by Count Priscus and sent to Constantinople; and, in chains, paraded through the Circus, he was a huge spectacle to the emperor Anastasius and to the people, and afterwards, by various tortures, at Nicaea, a city of Bithynia, he was executed.
3 With coins which the Romans call Terentiani, the Greeks follares, having been stamped with his own name, the emperor Anastasius offered to the plebs a pleasing exchange.

(499) VII. Ioannis Gibbi solius
1 Aristus Illyricianae ductor militae cum quindecim milibus armatorum et cum quingentis uiginti plaustris armis ad proeliandum necessariis oneratis contra Bulgares Thraciam deuastantes profectus est. Bellum iuxta Tzurtam fluuium consertum, ubi plus quam quattuor millia nostrorum aut in fuga aut in praecipitio ripae fluminis interempta sunt.

(499) 7. Of John the Hunchback alone
1 Aristus, commander of the Illyrician soldiery, with 15,000 armed men and with 520 wagons loaded with arms necessary for battle, set out against the Bulgars devastating Thrace. A battle was joined near the river Tzurta, where more than 4,000 of our men were slain, either in flight or by the precipice of the river’s bank.

Ibique Illyriciana uirtus militum periit, Nicostrato, Innocentio, Tanco et Aquilino comitibus interfectis.
2 Hoc anno ingens terrae motus Ponticam concussit prouinciam.

And there the Illyrian valor of the soldiers perished, with the counts Nicostratus, Innocentius, Tancus, and Aquilinus slain.
2 In this year a huge earthquake shook the Pontic province.

(500) VIII. Patricii et Hypatii
1 Romanae ecclesiae quadragensimus nonus Symmachus episcopus factus uixit annos quindecim.
2 Anastasius imperator donatiuum Illyriis militibus per Paulum tribunum notariorum misit.

(500) 8. Of Patricius and Hypatius
1 Symmachus, the forty-ninth bishop of the Roman Church, having been made bishop, lived fifteen years.
2 The emperor Anastasius sent a donative to the Illyrian soldiers through Paul, tribune of the notaries.

(501) VIIII. Pompeii et Auieni
1 Constantio praefecto urbis ludos theatrales meridiano tempore spectante pars in eodem spectaculo Cerealis parti aduersae caeruleae occultas praeparauit insidias. Nam enses saxaque in uasis inclusa fictilibus eademque arma diuersis pomis desuper cumulata sub theatri porticu ritu uendentium statuit.

(501) 9. Pompeius and Auienus
1 While Constantius, Prefect of the City, was watching the theatrical games at midday, a faction in that same spectacle, hostile to Cerealis of the opposing Blue party, prepared hidden ambushes. For it set swords and stones enclosed in earthenware vessels, and the same weapons heaped from above with assorted fruits, beneath the portico of the theater in the manner of vendors.

2 Dum residente Constantio ex more ciuium concrepant uoces, ante uisa quam audita arma excutiuntur saxaque in incautos ciues instar imbrium iaciuntur ensesque uibrantes in amicorum inque uicinorum sanguine obliti suis cum percussoribus debacchantur : nutat et congemescit theatri cauea et refugientium huc atque illuc suorum pedibus conculcata occisorumque foedata cruore deplangit. 3 Plus enim quam tria milia ciuium saxis gladiisque conpressionibus et aquis proscaenii amissos urbs augusta defleuit.

2 While Constantius was seated, the voices of the citizens, as is customary, clash together; weapons, seen before they are heard, are brandished, and stones are hurled upon the unsuspecting citizens like showers, and brandished swords, smeared with the blood of friends and neighbors, rage together with their own assailants : the cavea of the theater totters and groans, and, trampled under the feet of its people fleeing hither and thither and defiled with the gore of the slain, it laments. 3 For the august city bewailed more than three thousand citizens lost to stones and swords, crushings, and the waters of the proscenium.

(502) X. Probi et Auieni
1 Consueta gens Bulgarorum depraedatam saepe Thraciam, nullo Romanorum milite resistente, iterum deuastata est.
2 Amidam opulentissimam ciuitatem monachorum eius astu proditam Choadis rex Persarum, quinto mense quam expugnare eam coeperat, inrupit proditoresque eius monachos obtruncauit.

(502) 10. Probus and Avienus
1 Thrace, often plundered, was again devastated by the accustomed nation of the Bulgars, with no Roman soldier resisting.
2 Amida, a most opulent city, betrayed by the stratagem of its monks, was broken into by Choades, king of the Persians, in the fifth month from when he had begun to storm it, and he cut down its betrayers, the monks.

(503) XI. Dexicratis et Volusiani
Tres Romanorum ductores, Patricius, Hypatius et Areobindas, qui cum quindecim milibus armatorum olim in Persas missi fuerant pugnaturi, iuxta Syficum castellum cum iisdem Persis sine audacia conflixerunt, multis tunc militum ductoribus de proelio fugientibus caesis. Inmenso dehinc auri pondere hostibus dato captam rebusque uacuam Amidam ciuitatem iidem nostri redemere ductores, iam Celere magistro officiorum sibi cum duobus milibus bellatorum in subsidium destinato.

(503) 11. Of Dexicrates and Volusianus
Three Roman leaders, Patricius, Hypatius, and Areobindas, who, with fifteen thousand armed men, had once been sent against the Persians to fight, near the fort of Syficum clashed with those same Persians without audacity, many then of the leaders of the soldiers, fleeing from the battle, being cut down. Thereafter, an immense weight of gold having been given to the enemies, those same our leaders redeemed the city of Amida, captured and emptied of goods, Celer, the Master of the Offices, already having been assigned to them with two thousand warriors as reinforcement.

(504) XII. Cethegi solius
Interea Celer magister officiorum per Callinicum Mesopotamiae ciuitatem armatum ducens militem ad deuastanda Persarum rura discurrit, plurimos agrestes rusticis intentos laboribus more pecudum trucidat, pastores diuersorum pecorum cum numerosa iumenta abducit, castella latere lutoque constructa inuadit, usque ad Pontem Ferreum sic nomine dictum cuncta uastando 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.

(504) 12. of Cethegus alone
Meanwhile Celer, Master of the Offices, leading an armed soldiery through the city of Callinicum in Mesopotamia, hurried about to devastate the fields of the Persians; he butchered very many country folk, intent on rustic labors, like cattle; he carried off shepherds of various flocks along with numerous beasts of burden; he assaulted forts constructed of brick and mud; advancing, laying everything waste, as far as the Iron Bridge, so called by name; and, having gotten possession of all the plunder, he returned to the common camp, his soldiery enriched. Thereafter he deliberated somewhat about striking a treaty with the Persians, Harmonius, from the secretariat, having been sent to him for concluding the treaty.

(505) XIII. Sabiniani et Theodori
Idem Sabinianus Sabiniani Magni filius ductorque militiae delegatus contra Mundonem Getam arma construxit. Decem milia armatorum sibimet adscitorum plaustraque armis atque commeatibus secum trahens pugnaturus accessit.

(505) 13. Of Sabinianus and Theodore
The same Sabinianus, son of Sabinianus Magnus, appointed commander of the militia, marshaled arms against Mundo the Goth. With ten thousand armed men enrolled to himself, and hauling along wagons with arms and supplies, he approached to fight.

Commissoque ad Horreo Margo proelio multis suorum militibus in hoc conflictu perditis et in Margo flumine enecatis, amissis praeterea plaustris in castellum quod Nato dicitur cum paucis fugit. Tanta in hoc lamentabili bello spes militum cecidit, ut quantum apud mortales nequaquam potuerit reparari.

And when battle was joined at Horreum Margo, with many of his own soldiers lost in this conflict and slain in the river Margo, and with the wagons moreover lost, he fled with a few into the castellum which is called Nato. So great in this lamentable war was the fall of the soldiers’ hope, that, to the extent it fell, it could by no means be repaired among mortals.

(506) XIIII. Areobindae et Messalae
His consulibus Anastasii principis statua in eodem loco, quo dudum Theodosii magni steterat, super inmanem columnam in foro Tauri statuta est.

(506) 14. Areobindus and Messala
Under these consuls, the statue of Emperor Anastasius was set up in the same place where formerly that of the great Theodosius had stood, upon an immense column in the Forum of Taurus.

(507) XV. Anastasii Aug. III
1 Seditio popularis in circo facta est ; miles et armatus obstitit.
2 Gradus circi septentrionalis sua cum fornice incensi conlapsique sunt Anastasio Caesare in processibus commorante.

(507) 15. of Anastasius Augustus, 3
1 A popular sedition in the circus arose ; the soldiery, in arms, opposed it.
2 The tiers of the northern circus, together with their own arch, were set ablaze and collapsed, while Anastasius Caesar lingered during the processions.

(508) I. Celeris et Venantii
Romanus comes domesticorum et Rusticus comes scholariorum cum centum armatis nauibus totidemque dromonibus octo milia militum armatorum secum ferentibus ad deuastanda Italiae litora processerunt et usque ad Tarentum antiquissimam ciuitatem aggressi sunt, remensoque mari inhonestam uictoriam, quam piratico ausu Romani ex Romanis rapuerunt, Anastasio Caesari reportarunt.

(508) 1. Celer and Venantius
Romanus, count of the Domestics, and Rusticus, count of the Scholarians, with one hundred armed ships and just as many dromons carrying with them eight thousand armed soldiers, advanced to devastate the shores of Italy and attacked as far as Tarentum, a most ancient city; and after re-crossing the sea they reported to Emperor Anastasius a dishonorable victory, which, by piratical daring, Romans had snatched from Romans.

(509) II. Opportuni solius
1 Orto augusta urbe incendio utramque porticum a foro Constantini usque ad Perdiccae tenuissimam statuam ignis in puluerem redegit.
2 Portus Iuliani undis suis rotalibus machinis prius exhaustus caenoque effosso purgatus est.

(509) 2. Of Opportunus alone
1 When a conflagration arose in the august city, the fire reduced to dust both porticoes from the Forum of Constantine up to Perdiccas’s very slender statue.
2 The Port of Julian, its waters first drained by its own rotary machines and the mud dug out, was cleansed.

(510) III. Boethii solius
1 Simulacrum aeneum in foro Strategii super fornicem residens et cornu copiae Fortunae retinens incendio proflammatum est conbustumque amisit brachium, quod tamen statuarii continuo solidarunt.
2 Appius patricius exsulatus est.

(510) 3. Of Boethius alone
1 A bronze statue in the Forum of Strategius, seated above an arch and holding the cornucopia of Fortune, was set ablaze by a fire and, burned, lost an arm, which, however, the statuaries immediately soldered back on.
2 Appius the patrician was exiled.

3 Constantinus olim magister militiae episcopus Laodiciae ordinatus.

3 Constantine, formerly master of the militia, was ordained bishop of Laodicea.

(511) IIII. Secundini et Felicis
Macedonius augustae urbis episcopus, licet olim Anastasii imperatoris dolis fallaciisque circumuentus prauorumque testimoniis eidem Caesari accusatus, quoniam tomum sanctorum patrum apud Calchedonam sancta dudum subscriptione roboratum eidem principi dare distulit, ab eodem Euchaita in exilium deputatus est. Locum Macedonii Timotheus meridiano tempore ab Anastasio Caesare episcopus ordinatus inuasit.

(511) 4. Secundinus and Felix
Macedonius, bishop of the august city, although once circumvented by the wiles and deceptions of Emperor Anastasius and accused before that same Caesar by the testimonies of the wicked, because he deferred to give to that prince the Tome of the holy fathers at Chalcedon, long ago strengthened by sacred subscription, was by that same man deputed into exile at Euchaita. The place of Macedonius was invaded by Timothy, who at midday was ordained bishop by Caesar Anastasius.

(512) V. Pauli et Musciani
1 Saepe caelum a septentrionali plaga ardere uisum est.
2 Die dominicorum, dum iubente Anastasio Caesare per Marinum perque Platonem in ecclesiae pulpito consistentes in hymnum trinitatis deipassianorum quaternitas additur, multi orthodoxorum pristina uoce psallentes perfidosque praecones clamoribus obiurgantes in eiusdem ecclesiae gremio caesi sunt ductique in carceres perierunt. 3 Altera nihilominus die in atrio sancti Theodori maiore caede catholici pro fide unica perculsi sunt.

(512) 5. Paul and Muscianus
1 Often the sky was seen to burn from the septentrional region.
2 On the Lord’s Day, while—by order of the Emperor Anastasius—through Marinus and through Plato, as they stood on the church’s pulpit, to the hymn of the Trinity there was added the quaternity of the Deipassians, many of the orthodox, chanting with the pristine wording and rebuking the perfidious heralds with shouts, were cut down in the bosom of that same church, and, led off into prisons, perished. 3 On the next day nonetheless, in the atrium of Saint Theodore, the Catholics were struck down for the one faith with a greater slaughter.

Quapropter commota orthodoxorum agmina die sequenti, id est VIII idus Nouemb., in quo die memoria cineris dudum totam Europam tegentis apud Byzantios celebratur, in foro Constantini undique confluunt. 4 Quorum alii quidem, ceteris die noctuque hymnum trinitatis Christo deo psallentibus, totam peragrant ciuitatem et Anastasii Caesaris monastico habitu adsentatores ferro flammisque interimunt ; alii claues portarum omniumque signa militaria ad forum, quo religionis castra metati fuerant, deferunt ibique Anastasio Caesare in processibus degente Areobindam sibi imperatorem fieri clamitant. 5 Imaginibus deinde statuisque Anastasii in terram deiectis Celerem et Patricium senatores ad se supplicandi sibi uel satisfaciendi gratia missos iactis pluuiae instar lapidibus reppulerunt domibus Marini et Pompei succensis.

Wherefore the ranks of the orthodox, stirred on the following day, that is on the 8 day before the Ides of November, on which day the commemoration of the ash that once covered all Europe is celebrated among the Byzantines, converge from all sides into the Forum of Constantine. 4 Of whom some, while the rest sing day and night the hymn of the Trinity to Christ God, traverse the entire city and put to death with iron and flames the flatterers of Anastasius Caesar in monastic habit ; others carry the keys of the gates and all the military standards to the forum, where they had pitched the camp of religion, and there, with Anastasius Caesar spending his time in processions, they shout that Areobindus be made emperor for them. 5 Then, the images and statues of Anastasius having been hurled down to the ground, they drove back Celer and Patricius, senators sent to them for the sake of begging from them or making satisfaction, with stones cast like a rainstorm, and the houses of Marinus and Pompeius were set ablaze.

6 In circum ad Anastasium ante suum solium consistentes hymnum trinitatis iuxta morem catholicorum concinentes coruscansque euangelium crucemque Christi ferentes e foro plurimi conuenerunt, Marinum Platonemque prauitatis eius auctores feris subici conclamantes. 7 Hos ciues idem Anastasius Caesar solitis periuriis simulatisque uocibus, sese facturum cuncta promittens, tertio die quam in forum aduenerant sine ullo rerum effectu ad sua fecit habitacula repedare.
8 Porro redintegrata Anastasius prauitate infamem et inridendam synodum apud Sidonem ciuitatem, cuius de nomine in ridiculis nomina praeponuntur, octoginta ferme perfidorum episcopis congregatis aduersum orthodoxorum episcopos fieri imperauit.

6 In the circus, standing before Anastasius at his own throne, chanting the hymn of the Trinity according to the custom of the Catholics, and brandishing the gleaming Gospel and bearing the cross of Christ, very many gathered from the forum, shouting that Marinus and Plato, the authors of his depravity, be subjected to wild beasts. 7 These citizens the same Anastasius Caesar, with his habitual perjuries and feigned words, promising that he would accomplish everything, on the third day after they had come to the forum made to return to their dwellings without any effect of matters.
8 Moreover, his depravity having been renewed, Anastasius ordered an infamous and ridiculous synod to be held at the city of Sidon—which, from its very name, has epithets prefixed in ridicule—with almost eighty bishops of the faithless congregated, against the bishops of the orthodox.

9 Flauianus Antiochiae catholicus patriarcha et Iohannes Paltensium oppidi pontifex, quoniam hunc coetum sacrilegum refellerant, in castellum quod Petra dicitur exules missi sunt. Ibi Flauianus confessor Christi in domino requieuit, Iohannem Iustinus Augustus, mox imperator factus est, reuocauit.
10 His fere temporibus solis defectus contigit.

9 Flavian, catholic patriarch of Antioch, and John, pontiff of the town of Paltus, since they had refuted this sacrilegious assembly, were sent as exiles to the fortress that is called Petra. There Flavian, a confessor of Christ, rested in the Lord; John was recalled by Justin, who soon thereafter was made emperor.
10 At about these times an eclipse of the sun occurred.

11 Gens Herulorum in terras atque ciuitates Romanorum iussu Anastasii Caesaris introducta.

11 The nation of the Heruli was introduced into the lands and cities of the Romans by order of Anastasius Caesar.

(513) VI. Clementini et Probi
Seuerus Eutychetis perfidiae cultor Anastasio Caesare uolente sedem Flauiani antistitis ex monacho factus episcopus occupauit. Dorotheus Ancyrae ciuitatis uenerandus antistes Anastasio principi propter unicam orthodoxorum fidem iugiter aduersarius finem uiuendi, quem sibimet misso contra se a Caesare magistriano ipse praedixerat, in dicto tempore fecit.

(513) 6. of Clementinus and Probus
Severus, a cultivator of Eutyches’ perfidy, with Anastasius Caesar consenting, having been made a bishop from a monk, seized the see of Bishop Flavian. Dorotheus, the venerable prelate of the city of Ancyra, a continual adversary to the prince Anastasius on account of the single faith of the orthodox, met the end of life—which he himself had foretold for himself—when a magistrianus sent against him by the Caesar arrived, at the time stated.

(514) VII. Senatoris solius
1 Vitalianus Scytha, adsumpta Romanorum equitum peditumque plus quam sexaginta milia armatorum in triduo congregatorum, in locum qui Septimius dicitur aduenit 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 exulato Constantinopolim accessisse asserens. Porro Anastasii simulationibus atque periuriis per Theodorum internuntium inlectus atque inlusus octauo die quam urbem accesserat remeauit.

(514) 7. Of the Senator alone
1 Vitalianus the Scythian, having taken up of the Romans’ horse and foot more than sixty thousand armed men, assembled in three days, came to the place which is called Septimius and there pitched camp; and with his ranks drawn up from sea to sea, he himself advanced up to the gate which is called “Golden,” without any loss; asserting, namely, that he had come to Constantinople for the faith of the orthodox and for Macedonius, bishop of the city, exiled to no purpose by the emperor Anastasius. Moreover, enticed and deluded by the dissimulations and perjuries of Anastasius through Theodore the internuncio, on the eighth day after he had approached the city he returned.

2 Hinc Odyssum Moesiae ciuitatem Vitalianus pernoctans astu ingressus est.
3 Cyrillum lenocinantem magis quam strenuum militiae ductorem inter duas paelices Vitalianus repperit dormientem, eumque abstractum mox cultro Getico iugulauit hostemque se Anastasio Caesari palam aperteque exhibuit.

2 From there Vitalian, spending the night, entered the city of Odyssus in Moesia by stratagem.
3 He found Cyril—more a panderer than a strenuous leader of soldiery—sleeping between two concubines; and, dragging him away, he straightway cut his throat with a Getic knife, and he presented himself as an enemy to the Caesar Anastasius plainly and openly.

(515) VIII. Anthemii et Florentii
1 Romanae ecclesiae quinquagensimus Hormisda episcopus ordinatus uixit annos nouem.
2 Idem Vitalianus eidem Anastasio imperatori immanior factus est inimicus ; praemissis quippe suorum equitibus armatisque nauiculis sinistro sibi litore decurrentibus ipse peditum armis stipatus Systhenense praedium ingressus est totiusque loci palatium habuit mansionem.

(515) 8. Anthemius and Florentius
1 Hormisdas, the fiftieth bishop of the Roman Church, was ordained and lived 9 years.
2 That same Vitalian became a more savage enemy to that same Emperor Anastasius ; for, with his own cavalry sent ahead and armed little ships running down along the left shore for him, he himself, packed with infantry under arms, entered the Systhenian estate and had the palace of the whole place as his lodging.

3 Missi sunt ad Vitalianum a Caesare senatores, qui pacis cum eo leges componerent : nonginta pondo auri, exceptis regalibus muneribus, pro pretio tunc accepit Hypatii, iam mille centum auri libris cum Vranio captiuo sibi a suis in Sozopoli oblatis. 4 Magister militum Vitalianus per Thracias factus Hypatium, quem captiuum catenatumque apud Acres castellum tenebat, reuersus suo remisit auunculo.
5 Ea tempestate Hunni Armenia transmissa totam Cappadociam deuastantes usque Lycaoniam perrexerunt:
6 Ariagne Augusta sexaginta annis in palatio exactis uita decessit.

3 Senators were sent to Vitalianus by the Caesar, to compose with him the terms of peace : he then accepted ninety pounds of gold, besides the royal gifts, as the price of Hypatius—though already one thousand one hundred pounds of gold together with Vranio the captive had been offered to him by his own men at Sozopolis. 4 Vitalianus, made master of soldiers for the Thracias, having returned, sent Hypatius—whom he was holding captive and in chains at the fortress of Acres—back to his own uncle.
5 At that time the Huns, Armenia having been crossed, devastating all Cappadocia, advanced as far as Lycaonia:
6 Ariagne Augusta, after sixty years spent in the palace, departed life.

(516) VIIII. Petri solius
1 Mutata fide Anastasius imperator Vitaliano succedit eidemque Rufinum destinat successorem.
2 Helias Hierosolymitanae urbis episcopus in uilla quae Haila dicitur ab eodem principe relegatus emoritur.

(516) 9. Peter sole consul
1 With the allegiance changed, Emperor Anastasius yields to Vitalian and appoints Rufinus as his successor.
2 Elias, bishop of the city of Jerusalem, relegated by the same emperor, dies in the villa which is called Haila.

3 Laurentium praeterea Lychnidensem, Domnionem Serdicensem, Alcissum Nicopolitanum, Gaianum Naisitanum et Euangelum Pautaliensem, catholicos Illyrici sacerdotes, suis Anastasius praesentari iussit obtutibus. Alcissus et Gaianus episcopi apud Byzantium uita defuncti sunt unoque sepulchro reconditi. Domnione et Euangelo ad sedes proprias ob metum Illyriciani catholici militis extemplo remissis solus Laurentius Anastasium imperatorem in palatio pro fide catholica saepe conuincens apud comitatum ac si in exilio relegatus retentusque est, mobiliorque deinde corpore, quam Constantinopolim aduenerat, effectus.

3 Moreover, Anastasius ordered that Laurentius of Lychnidus, Domnion of Serdica, Alcissus of Nicopolis, Gaianus of Naissus, and Evangelus of Pautalia, Catholic bishops of Illyricum, be presented to his own gaze. The bishops Alcissus and Gaianus at Byzantium departed this life and were laid in a single sepulcher. With Domnion and Evangelus immediately sent back to their own sees for fear of the Illyrian Catholic soldier, Laurentius alone—often convicting Emperor Anastasius in the palace on behalf of the Catholic faith—was detained at the court as if relegated into exile and held fast, and afterwards he was made more mobile in body than when he had come to Constantinople.

Nam septimo infirmitatis suae anno idem Laurentius fide sua et Christi gratia in atrio Cosmae et Damiani sanatus est pedibusque sistere propriis gressibusque meruit confirmari suaeque dein patriae incolumis reddi, ubi maior octogenario requiescit.

For in the seventh year of his infirmity, that same Laurentius, by his own faith and the grace of Christ, was healed in the atrium of Cosmas and Damian, and he merited to stand on his feet and to have his steps strengthened, and thereafter to be restored safe and sound to his own fatherland, where he rests, more than eighty years old.

(517) X. Anastasii et Agapiti
Olla illa, quae in Hieremia uate ab aquilone aduersum nos nostraque delicta saepe succenditur, tela ignita fabricauit maximamque partem Illyrici iisdem iaculis uulnerauit. Duae tunc Macedoniae Thessaliaque uastatae et usque Thermopylas ueteremque Epirum Getae equites depraedati sunt. Mille tunc librarum auri denarios per Paulum Anastasius imperator pro redimendis Romanorum captiuis Iohanni praefecto Illyrici misit : deficiente pretio uel inclusi suis cum domunculis captiui Romani incensi sunt uel pro muris clausarum urbium trucidati.

(517) 10. Of Anastasius and Agapitus
That pot, which in the prophet Jeremiah is often set ablaze from the north against us and our transgressions, fabricated fiery missiles and wounded a very great part of Illyricum with those same javelins. Then the two Macedonias and Thessaly were laid waste, and the Getae horsemen plundered as far as Thermopylae and old Epirus. Then the emperor Anastasius, for the ransoming of Roman captives, sent through Paul to John, prefect of Illyricum, 1,000 pounds of gold in denarii : the price failing, the Roman captives were either shut in and burned with their own little houses, or slaughtered before the walls of the closed cities.

(518) XI. Magni solius
1 In prouincia Dardania adsiduo terrae motu uiginti quattuor castella uno momento conlapsa sunt. Quorum duo suis cum habitatoribus demersa, quattuor dimidia aedificiorum suorum hominumque amissa parte destructa, undecim tertia domorum totidemque populi clade deiecta, septem quarta tectorum suorum tantaque plebis parte depressa, uicina uero metu ruinarum despecta sunt. Scupus namque metropolis, licet sine ciuium suorum hostem fugientium clade, funditus tamen corruit.

(518) 11. Of Magnus alone
1 In the province of Dardania, by a continual earthquake, twenty-four forts collapsed in a single moment. Of these, two were submerged with their inhabitants; four were destroyed, with half of their buildings and of their people lost; eleven were thrown down, with a third of their houses and an equal portion of the populace ruined; seven were pressed down, with a fourth of their roofs and with so great a part of the common people. The neighboring places indeed were abandoned for fear of collapses. For Scupus, the metropolis, although without the disaster of its citizens fleeing an enemy, nevertheless fell utterly to the foundations.

Plurimi totius prouinciae montes hoc terrae motu scissi sunt saxaque suis euulsa conpagibus deuolutaque arborum crepido. Per triginta passuum milia patens et in duodecim pedum latitudinem dehiscens profundam aliquantis uoraginem ciuibus castellorum saxorumque ruinas uel adhuc hostium incursiones fugientibus iussa parauit. Vno in castello regionis Gauisae, quod Sarnonto dicitur, ruptis tunc terra uenis et ad instar torridae fornacis exaestuans diutinum altrinsecus feruentemque imbrem euomuit.

Very many mountains of the whole province were cloven by this earthquake, and rocks, torn from their own fastenings, were rolled down along the wooded brink. Stretching for thirty miles and yawning to a breadth of twelve feet, it prepared a deep abyss for quite a number of citizens—who, fleeing the ruins of the forts and of rocks, or even the incursions of enemies, were overtaken. In one stronghold of the region of Gauisa, which is called Sarnonto, the veins of the earth then burst, and, seething after the manner of a torrid furnace, it spewed forth a long-lasting and, from another side, boiling rain.

2 Anastasius imperator subita morte praeuentus maior octogenario periit ; regnauit annos uiginti septem menses duos dies uiginti nouem.
S : 3 Daras ciuitate huiuscemodi condita in Mesopotamia. Daras quaedam possessio LX ab Amida ciuitate miliario ad austrum sita et quindecim milibus a Nisibeno oppido ad occasum distans Amidensi ecclesiae reditum pensauit.

2 Anastasius, the emperor, overtaken by sudden death, died more than eighty years old ; he reigned for twenty-seven years, two months, and twenty-nine days.
S : 3 The city of Dara was founded in Mesopotamia in this manner. Dara, a certain estate situated at the 60th milestone to the south from the city of Amida and fifteen miles distant to the west from the town of Nisibis, paid revenue to the church of Amida.

Huius ergo humilis uillae casae Anastasius imperator ob condendam ibi ciuitatem dato pretio emit, missisque continuo praefabris construi praecepit ; Calliopium deinde Antiochenae urbis patricium huic operi praefecit. Nempe hic collem in planitiem desinentem mira sagacitate ob fundamenta locanda sulcum sarculo designauit, murisque firmissimis fascia tenus consummatis undique texit. Riuum quoque, qui ex praedii nomine, iuxta quod nascitur, Cordissus nominatur serpensque murmurat, quintoque miliario eundem collem nouamque diuidit ciuitatem, concesso utrique ostio prolabentem inclusit.

Therefore Anastasius the emperor bought, at a set price, the huts of this humble village in order to found a city there, and, foremen having been sent immediately, he ordered it to be built ; then he put Calliopius, a patrician of the city of Antioch, in charge of this work. Indeed he, with marvelous sagacity, marked out with a hoe a furrow for laying the foundations on a hill that descends into a plain, and, the very strong walls completed up to the string-course, he covered it on all sides. A brook also, which from the name of the estate beside which it springs is called Cordissus, and, winding, murmurs, at the fifth milestone divides that same hill and the new city; granting an outlet to each, he enclosed it as it flowed along.

Publicis praeterea moenibus decoratae ciuitati pristinum nomen uillae reliquit. Ingens huius frontispicium ciuitatis in editiori loco constructa murisque continuata turris Herculea sic nomine dicta suscipitur Nisibin quidem ad orientem, Amidae huius ad aquilonem respiciens.

Moreover, to the city adorned with public walls he left the former name of the villa. A huge frontispiece of this city—a Herculean tower so called by name—built on a higher spot and continued with the walls, is set up, looking toward Nisibis to the east, and toward this Amida to the north.

CONTINVATIO EDITIONIS SECVNDAE

CONTINUATION OF THE SECOND EDITION

(519) XII. Iustini Aug. et Eutharici
1 (T) Iustinus a senatu electus imperator continuo ordinatus est.

(519) 12. of Justin the Augustus and Eutharic
1 (T) Justin, elected emperor by the senate, was immediately installed.

(S) Iustinus imperator creatus.
2 (T) Amantius palatii praepositus, Andreas, Misahel et Ardabur cubicularii Manichaeorum fautores et Iustini Augusti deprehensi sunt proditores. Quorum duo Amantius et Andreas ferro trucidati sunt, Misahel et Ardabur Serdicam in exilium missi.

(S) Justin created emperor.
2 (T) Amantius, grand chamberlain of the palace, Andreas, Misahel, and Ardabur, chamberlains, supporters of the Manichaeans and traitors to Justin Augustus, were apprehended. Of these two, Amantius and Andreas, were slaughtered by the sword; Misahel and Ardabur were sent into exile to Serdica.

Theocritus Amantii satelles, quem idem Amantius praepositus ad regnandum clam praeparauerat, comprehensus et in carcere saxis contusus ingentibus periit salsoque in gurgite iacuit, sepultura quoque cum imperio, cui inhiarat, caruit.
(S) Amantius palatii praepositus et Andreas cubicularius uterque regni eius inimicus in insula decapitatus est.
3 (T) Vitalianus Scytha Iustini principis pietate ad rem publicam reuocatus Constantinopolim ingressus est septimoque receptionis suae die magister militiae ordinatus.

Theocritus, Amantius’s henchman, whom that same Amantius the praepositus had secretly prepared for ruling, was apprehended and, crushed in prison by huge stones, perished, and lay in the salty surge; he was deprived also of burial, as of the sovereignty which he had gaped after.
(S) Amantius, praepositus of the palace, and Andreas the chamberlain, each an enemy of his reign, were beheaded on an island.
3 (T) Vitalianus the Scythian, recalled to the commonwealth by the piety of Prince Justin, entered Constantinople, and on the seventh day of his reception he was appointed Master of the Soldiers.

(S) Vitalianus Scytha urbem data acceptaque fide accitus ingreditur statimque magister militum ordinatus.

(S) Vitalian the Scythian, summoned to the city with faith given and received, enters, and at once is appointed master of the soldiers.

(520). XIII. Vitaliani et Rustici
Vitalianus consul septimo mense consulatus sui sedecim uulneribus confossus, in palatio cum Celeriano et Paulo satellitibus suis interemptus est.

(520). 13. Of Vitalianus and Rusticus
Vitalianus, consul, in the seventh month of his consulship, pierced with sixteen wounds, was slain in the palace along with Celerianus and Paulus, his bodyguards.

(521) XIIII. Iustiniani et Valerii
Famosissimum hunc consulatum Iustinianus consul omnium Orientalium consulum profecto munificentior his liberalitatibus edidit. Nam ducenta octoginta octo milia solidorum in populum inque spectacula siue in spectaculorum machinam distributa, uiginti leones, triginta pardos exceptis aliis feris in amphitheatro simul exhibuit.

(521) 14. Justinian and Valerius
This most renowned consulship Justinian, the consul, assuredly more munificent than all the consuls of the East, produced with these largesses. For 288,000 solidi were distributed to the populace and for spectacles, or for the machinery of the spectacles; he exhibited at once in the amphitheater 20 lions, 30 leopards, not counting other wild beasts.

Numerosos praeterea faleratosque in circo caballos iam donatis quoque impertiuit aurigis, una dumtaxat ultimaque mappa insanienti populo denegata.

Moreover he bestowed in the Circus numerous horses, adorned with trappings, upon the charioteers, who had already been presented with gifts, with only the one final mappa denied to the frenzied populace.

(522) XV. Symmachi et Boethii

(522) 15. of Symmachus and Boethius

(523) I. Maximi solius
Plerique lapidatorum, percussorum urbisque depopulatorum sua ob scelera deprehensi ferro, igni suspendioque expensi sunt, gratum bonis ciuibus spectaculum exhibentes.

(523) 1. Maximus alone
Most of the stone‑throwers, the assailants, and the ravagers of the city, apprehended on account of their crimes, were punished by the sword, by fire, and by hanging, presenting a spectacle pleasing to good citizens.

(524) II. Iustini Augusti II et Opilionis
His cons. inopia olei magnam penuriam in populum inportauit.

(524) 2. of Justin Augustus 2 and of Opilio
In their consulship, a lack of oil brought great penury upon the people.

(525) III. Filoxeni et Probi
Iohannes Romanae ecclesiae papa LI anno Petri apostolorum pontificumque praesulis quadringentensimo octogensimo quinto sessionis eius, Theodorico rege sese <Š..> pro Arrianis suae caeremoniae reparandis, solus dumtaxat Romanorum sibimet decessorum Vrbe digressus Constantinopolim uenit. Miro honore susceptus est : Dexter dextrum ecclesiae insedit solium diemque domini nostri resurrectionis plena uoce Romanis precibus celebrauit.

(525) 3. Philoxenus and Probus
John, pope of the Roman Church, the 51st, in the 485th year of the session of Peter, prelate of the apostles and pontiffs, with Theodoric being king, he himself <Š..> on behalf of the Arians for restoring their ceremony, alone at any rate among the Romans, unlike his own predecessors, having departed the City came to Constantinople. He was received with wondrous honor: On the right he sat upon the church’s right-hand throne, and on the day of our Lord’s resurrection he celebrated with full voice with Roman prayers.

(526) IIII. Olybrii solius
Totam quidem Antiochiam Syriae ciuitatem repens inter prandendum terrae motus inuasit : alioquin occiduam urbis magnam eius partem sinistris mox uentis undique flantibus flammasque coquinarum pro tempore aestuantes ruentia in aedificia miscentibus duplex torridumque exitium inportauit. Eufrasium quoque totius urbis episcopum adempto eius capite combusto simul obruit sepulchro : obelisco circi inuerso et humi defosso.

(526) 4. Of Olybrius alone
Indeed, a sudden earthquake invaded the whole city of Antioch in Syria during the midday meal; moreover, upon the large western part of the city it brought a double and torrid destruction, with sinister winds soon blowing from every side and the flames of the kitchens, blazing at the time, mingling with the collapsing buildings. It also overwhelmed Euphrasius, bishop of the whole city—his head having been taken off and burned—and at the same time buried him in a sepulcher: the obelisk of the circus having been overturned and sunk into the ground.

(527) V. Mauortii solius
Anno regiae urbis conditae centesimo nonagensimo septimo Iustinus imperator Iustinianum ex sorore sua nepotem, iamdudum a se Nobilissimum designatum, participem quoque regni sui successoremque creauit kalendas Apriles. Ipse uero quarto ab hoc mense uita decessit, anno imperii nono mense secundo.

(527) 5. of Mauortius alone
In the one hundred and ninety-seventh year from the founding of the royal city, the emperor Justin created Justinian, his nephew from his sister—long before by him designated Nobilissimus—also a partner in his reign and his successor, on the Kalends of April. He himself departed life in the fourth month from this month, in the ninth year of his reign, in the second month.

(528) VI. Iustiniani Augusti solius
Anno regiae urbis conditae centesimo nonagensimo octauo regium uestibulum priscumque in eo solium ob aspicienda probandaque in circo certamina structum uictor Iustinianus princeps eminentiorem clarioremqueque quam fuerat et utramque senatorum ex more spectantium porticum solita magnanimitate redintegrauit, bonis quidem agitatoribus praemium, ignauis autem seueritatem innuens.

(528) 6. Of Justinian Augustus alone
In the one hundred and ninety-eighth year from the founding of the royal city, the victorious prince Justinian renewed the royal vestibule and the ancient throne in it, constructed for viewing and approving the contests in the circus, making them more eminent and more illustrious than they had been; and, with his accustomed magnanimity, he likewise restored both porticoes of the senators who by custom look on, indicating a reward for good charioteers, but severity for the slothful.

(529) VII. Decii solius
Parthis bella mouentibus arma Romanus parauit exercitus finesque suos rebellans tutatus est. Haec expeditio nostrorum paene per quinquennium tenuit, digressaque Oriente Africam petiit, contra Vandalos feliciter dimicatura.

(529) 7. of Decius alone
With the Parthians setting wars in motion, the Roman army prepared arms and, counter‑attacking, protected its borders. This expedition of our men lasted for nearly five years, and, departing from the Orient, made for Africa, about to fight successfully against the Vandals.

(530) VIII. Lampadii et Orestis
Mundo Illyricianae utriusque militiae ductor dudum Getis Illyricum discursantibus primus omnium Romanorum ducum incubuit eosque haut paucis ipsorum interemptis fugauit. His autem deinde consulibus idem dux audaciae suae secundus in Thraciam quoque aduolans praedantes eam Bulgares felicior pugnans cecidit, quingentis eorum in proelio trucidatis

(530) 8. Lampadius and Orestes
Mundo, commander of both branches of the Illyrican soldiery, when the Getae were long since coursing through Illyricum, was the first of all Roman commanders to fall upon them, and, with not a few of them slain, he routed them. But then, in the consulship of these men, the same leader, a man second only to his own audacity, flying also into Thrace against the Bulgars who were plundering it, fighting more fortunately fell, five hundred of them having been butchered in the battle.

(531) VIIII. post consulatum Lampadii et Orestis
His consulibus codex Iustinianus orbi promulgatus est.

(531) 9. after the consulship of Lampadius and Orestes
Under these consuls the Justinian Code was promulgated to the world.

(532) X. item post consulatum Lampadii et Orestis
Hypatius, Pompeius et Probus genere consobrini diuique Anastasii nepotes imperium, quod sibi singuli indigna ambitione exoptabant, idibus Ianuariis iam plerisque nobilium coniuratis omnique seditiosorum turba armis donisque ministratis inlecta dolis inuadere temptauerunt atque per quinque continuos dies urbem regiam rapinis, ferro igneque per sceleratos ciues sine certo interrege discursantes hostili impietate, ipsi se fideles rei publicae in palatio dissimulantes, depopulati sunt. Quinta uero huius nefandi facinoris die, dum de foro Hypatius sceleratorum comitum manibus torque redimitus aureo et Pompeius comes eius sua sub ueste loricatus, ad inuadendum conscendunt palatium, uterque eorum ante fores palatii captus est statimque piissimi principis nostri nutu catenatus trucidatusque poenas luit et ante imperium perdidit quam haberet, innumeris passim in circo populis trucidatis et tyrannorum sociis continuo proscriptis. Ecclesia tunc incensa mox coepit ab eodem Augusto renouari.

(532) 10. likewise after the consulship of Lampadius and Orestes
Hypatius, Pompeius, and Probus, cousins by blood and grandsons of the deified Anastasius, the imperium—which each of them with unworthy ambition was longing for himself—on the Ides of January, with very many of the nobles already having conspired and with the whole mob of seditious men, arms and gifts having been supplied, enticed by stratagems, they tried to seize; and for five continuous days they devastated the royal city with rapines, with iron and fire, racing about through criminal citizens, without any fixed interrex, with hostile impiety, while they themselves in the palace, dissembling that they were faithful to the commonwealth, laid it waste. But on the fifth day of this unspeakable crime, while from the forum Hypatius, wreathed with a golden torque by the hands of his criminal companions, and Pompeius, his companion, cuirassed beneath his own garment, mount up to seize the palace, each of them was captured before the doors of the palace, and immediately, at the nod of our most pious prince, they were chained and cut down, paid the penalty, and lost the empire before they had it, with countless people everywhere in the circus slaughtered and the associates of the tyrants at once proscribed. The Church, then burned, soon began to be renewed by the same Augustus.

(533) XI. Iustiniani Augusti III
Post diuturnum immanemque laborem contra Medos Romanis gestum sudoribus tandem per Rufinum patricium perque Hermogenem magistrum officiorum, utrumque legatum a principe nostro missum, pax cum Parthis depecta est sponsione percussi foederis ab utroque imperatore inuicem sibi muneraque deinde concordiae missa.

(533) 11. Justinian Augustus 3
After a long and immense labor carried on by the Romans with their sweats against the Medes, at length, through Rufinus the patrician and through Hermogenes the master of the offices, each envoy sent by our prince, peace with the Parthians was agreed, with a pledge and the striking of a treaty by each emperor in turn for the other, and thereafter gifts of concord were sent.

(534) XII. Iustiniani Augusti IIII et Paulini
Prouincia Africa, quae in diuisione orbis terrarum a plerisque in parte tertia posita est, uolente deo uindicata est. Carthago quoque ciuitas eius anno excidionis suae nonagensimo sexto pulsis deuictisque Vandalis et Gelimer rege eorum capto et Constantinopolim misso, quarto Iustiniani principis consulatu, ipsius moderatione recepta est, sua cum patria firmius, quam dudum fuerat, redintegrata.

(534) 12. Justinian Augustus 4 and Paulinus
The province Africa, which in the division of the orb of lands is by most placed in the third part, was vindicated with God willing. Carthage also, its city, in the 96th year of its destruction, the Vandals having been driven out and conquered and Gelimer, their king, captured and sent to Constantinople, in the 4th consulship of the prince Justinian, by his moderation was received back, reintegrated together with its fatherland more firmly than it had been before.

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Quo tempore Theodahadus rex Gothorum Amalasuentham reginam creatricem suam de regno pulsam in insula laci Vulsinensis occidit. Cuius mortem imperator Iustinianus ut doluit, sic est et ultus.

At that time Theodahad, king of the Goths, killed Amalasuntha, the queen, his creatress, driven from the kingdom, on an island of the lake of Vulsinii. The emperor Justinian, as he grieved her death, so also avenged it.

(535) XIII. Belisarii solius
1 Postquam Carthago Libyaque suo cum rege Gelimero per Belisarium est subiugata, de Roma Italiaque deliberat imperator : iterumque expeditio iterumque classis paratur idemque ductor qui consul eligitur, rectoque nauigio Siciliam properat, Catinam Syracusas sine mora, immo omnem peruadit Trinacriam. Ibique comperiens quod in Africa ciuile bellum exoritur et miles in proprio duce insurgit, cum paucis ad Africam tendit, Solomoni qui praeerat subuenit ; exercitum uero partim blandiendo, partim ulciscendo, inimicum tyrannum effugando, rei publicae consulit utilitati remensoque nauigio Trinacriam redit.

(535) 13. Of Belisarius alone
1 After Carthage and Libya, together with their king Gelimer, were subjugated by Belisarius, the emperor deliberates about Rome and Italy: again an expedition and again a fleet are prepared, and the same leader is chosen consul; with a straight course he hastens to Sicily, to Catana and Syracuse without delay—nay, he penetrates the whole of Trinacria. And there, learning that in Africa a civil war is arising and the soldiery is rising against their own commander, with a few he makes for Africa and comes to the aid of Solomon, who was in command; and by partly cajoling, partly avenging, by putting to flight the hostile tyrant, he provides for the advantage of the commonwealth, and, the voyage being re-crossed, he returns to Trinacria.

2 Agapitus quinquagesimus Romanae urbis episcopus a Theodato rege Gothorum in legatione directus Constantinopolim uenit.
3 Tzitta patricius in Mysia cum hoste Bulgarum congrediens ad latrum superior inuenitur.
4 Epifanius episcopus regiae urbis ante aduentum Romani praesulis moritur ; cuius episcopatum contra canones Anthimus Trapezuntena ecclesia relicta inuadit.

2 Agapitus, the fiftieth bishop of the city of Rome, sent on an embassy by Theodatus, king of the Goths, came to Constantinople.
3 Tzitta, a patrician, in Mysia, engaging with the enemy of the Bulgars, is found superior by ambush.
4 Epiphanius, bishop of the royal city, dies before the arrival of the Roman prelate; whose bishopric Anthimus, having left the church of Trapezus, usurps contrary to the canons.

(536) XIIII. post consulatum Belisarii
1 Ebremud Theodati genere relicto exercitu regio in Britios ad Belisarium in Siciliam conuolauit.
2 In Africa uero Solomone itidem cum exercitu dissidente Germanus succedit, Solomonem remittens ad principem.

(536) 14. after the consulate of Belisarius
1 Ebremud, of the lineage of Theodatus, leaving the royal army, flew into the Bruttii, to Belisarius in Sicily.
2 In Africa, however, with the army likewise dissenting, Germanus succeeds, sending Solomon back to the Emperor.

3 Belisarius Campaniam transiens Neapolim uastat.
4 Gothorum exercitus Theodahadum regem habens suspectum Vitigem in regnum asciscit ; qui mox in campos Barbaricos regnum peruasit.
5 Expeditione soluta Romam ingreditur, ubi iam Agapito Constantinopoli defuncto Theodahadus rex Siluerium episcopatui subrogarat ; ibique residens dirigit Rauennam.

3 Belisarius, passing through Campania, lays waste Naples.
4 The army of the Goths, holding King Theodahad suspect, enrolls Vitiges into the kingship; who soon at the Barbarian Plains seized the kingdom.
5 The expedition having been dissolved, he enters Rome, where, Agapitus having already died at Constantinople, King Theodahad had substituted Silverius to the episcopate; and, staying there, he directs his course to Ravenna.

6 Theodatum occidit in loco qui dicitur Quintus iuxta fluuium Santernum et ipse subsequitur per Tusciam omnes opes Theodati diripiens, quas in Insula uel in Vrbeuetus congregauerat.
7 Rauennamque ingressus Matesuentham nepotem Theodorici sibi sociam in regno plus ui copulat quam amore.
8 Belisarius fauente domino Romam ingreditur.

6 he killed Theodahad in the place which is called Quintus, near the river Santernus, and he himself follows on through Tuscany, plundering all the wealth of Theodahad which he had gathered on the Island or in Urbs Vetus.
7 and entering Ravenna he joins to himself Matesuentha, the granddaughter of Theodoric, as a partner in the kingdom, binding her more by force than by love.
8 Belisarius, the Lord favoring, enters Rome.

9 Germanus in Africa feliciter administrat.
10 Agapitus Constantinopolim, ut diximus, episcopus a Roma adueniens, Anthimum pellit, dicens eum iuxta ecclesiasticam regulam adulterum, qui sua dimissa ambierat alienam ; in cuius locum Mennam presbyterum episcopum ordinauit et ipse extremum diem obiit, in nullo tamen, sicut ei a principe imminebatur, sentiens contra fidem.
11 Ipso namque anno ob nimiam siccitatem pastura in Persida denegata circiter quindecim milia Saracenorum ab Alamundaro cum Chabo et Hezido fylarchis limitem Eufratesiae ingressa, ubi Batzas dux eos partim blanditiis, partim districtione pacifica fouit et inhiantes bellare repressit.

9 Germanus administers Africa successfully.
10 Agapitus, as we have said, the bishop, arriving at Constantinople from Rome, expels Anthimus, declaring him, according to the ecclesiastical rule, an adulterer, who, his own wife dismissed, had courted another; in whose place he ordained Menas, a presbyter, as bishop; and he himself met his last day, yet in no respect, as was threatened to him by the prince, suffering anything against the faith.
11 For in that same year, because of excessive drought, pasture being denied in Persia, about fifteen thousand Saracens, under Alamundarus with Chabo and Hezido, phylarchs, entered the frontier of Euphratesia, where the dux Batzas both in part with blandishments and in part with peaceful strictness fostered them and restrained them as they were eager to wage war.

(537) XV. iterum post consulatum Belisarii
1 Vitigis tyrannus exercitu aggregato Romam obsidet ; cui tunc fauentem papam Siluerium Belisarius ab episcopatu summouit et loco eius Vigilium diaconum ordinauit.
2 Temporeque longo Romam obsidente Vitigis Belisarius intus inedia uigiliisque laborans auxilium ab imperatore deposcit. Cui directi sunt Martinus et Valerianus uterque magister militiae ; nec sic tamen Vitigis obsidionem relinquit.

(537) 15. again after the consulship of Belisarius
1 Witigis the tyrant, with an army gathered, besieges Rome; and Belisarius removed Pope Silverius, who was then favoring him, from the episcopate, and in his place ordained Vigilius the deacon.
2 And with Witigis for a long time besieging Rome, Belisarius within, suffering from starvation and vigils, asked aid from the emperor. To him were sent Martinus and Valerianus, both Masters of Soldiers; yet not even so did Witigis abandon the siege.

3 In Africa Germanus rebelliones milites cum Stotza tyranno inter Maurorum deserta bellando effugat.
4 In Oriente quoque Iohannes Cottistis arripiens tyrannidem, antequam aduersi aliquid temptaret, Daras extinctus est.
5 Ecclesia maior Constantinopoli ab imperatore Iustiniano singulariter in mundo constructa dedicatur die VI kalendas Ianuarias.

3 In Africa, Germanus drives into flight the rebellious soldiers together with the tyrant Stotza, fighting among the deserts of the Moors.
4 In the East also, John Cottistis, seizing tyranny, before he attempted anything adverse, was extinguished at Dara.
5 The Greater Church at Constantinople, uniquely constructed in the world by Emperor Justinian, is dedicated on the day 6 before the Kalends of January.

(538) Indictione prima Iohannis solius
1 Adhuc Vitigis in obsidione Romae morante Iohannes magister militum cum Batza, Conone, Paulo Remaque inlustribus magnoque exercitu apparato ad Italiam properant castraque ad Portum Romanum conlocant, laboranti Romae subueniunt. Quorum aduentum Vitigis cernens trium mensium temporis cum Belisario pacta confirmat suosque legatos ad imperatorem transmittit.
2 In qua pace Belisarius Campaniam redit, annonae copiam Romae inlaturus, reuersusque Campania contrarium sibi de medio aufert Constantinum patricium.

(538) In the first Indiction, of John alone
1 While Vitigis was still lingering in the siege of Rome, John the master of soldiers, with Batza, Conon, Paul, and Rema, illustrious men, and with a great army made ready, hasten to Italy and pitch camp at the Roman Port; they come to the aid of Rome in distress. Seeing their arrival, Vitigis confirms terms with Belisarius for a period of three months and sends his envoys to the emperor.
2 In which truce Belisarius returns to Campania, to bring into Rome a supply of grain, and, having returned from Campania, he removes from the midst Constantine the patrician, who was opposed to him.

3 Iohannes uero in portu quae posuerat castra deserens Samnitum regionem ingressus est Aternoque oppido expugnato Tremonem Gothorum ducem cum suis prosternit. Ortonam quoque similiter inuadit, Picenum depraedans Ariminum occupat.
4 Quo audito Vitigis ab obsidione Vrbis, in qua adhuc post turbatam pacem consistebat, relicta Roma, per Clodiae aggerem et annonariam Tusciam transit Apenninum et in Rubiconis fluminis ripa castra metatus Ariminum obsidet.

3 John, however, abandoning the camp which he had placed at the port, entered the region of the Samnites; and, the town of Aternum having been taken by storm, he lays low Tremon, leader of the Goths, with his men. He likewise attacks Ortona, and, plundering Picenum, occupies Ariminum.
4 On hearing this, Vitigis, from the siege of the City, in which he still was lingering after the disturbed peace, with Rome left behind, passes by the embankment of the Clodian Way and the grain-supplying Tuscia, crosses the Apennine, and, having pitched camp on the bank of the river Rubicon, besieges Ariminum.

5 Vnde proturbatus a Narsete de Constantinopoli et a Belisario de Roma uenientibus fugit Rauennam.
6 Cuius nepos Oraio Mediolanum longa inedia deterit, Mundilam Paulumque duces ibi positos cum suo milite obsidens.
7 Narsete uero Arimino residente Belisarius accedens Romae ad exhiemandum in deditione suscipit Vrbinum et Vrbemuetus et insulam laci Vulsinensis.

5 Whence, driven off by Narses coming from Constantinople and by Belisarius coming from Rome, he fled to Ravenna.
6 Whose nephew Oraio wore down Mediolanum with long starvation, besieging Mundila and Paul, the dukes placed there, with their soldiery.
7 But Narses, remaining at Ariminum, as Belisarius approached Rome to winter, accepted in surrender Urbinum and Urbem Vetus and the island of Lake Vulsinensis.

(539) II. Appionis solius
1 Narses reuertitur Constantinopolim.
2 Belisarius obsidens Auximum septimo mense ingreditur, similiterque et Faesulam.
3 Gothi Mediolanum ingressi muros diruunt praedamque potiti omnes Romanos interficiunt, Mundilam Paulumque duces abducunt Rauennam.

(539) 2. Appion alone
1 Narses returns to Constantinople.
2 Belisarius, besieging Auximum, enters it in the seventh month, and likewise Faesula.
3 The Goths, having entered Milan, tear down the walls and, having seized the plunder, kill all the Romans; they carry off the leaders Mundila and Paul to Ravenna.

4 Theudibertus Francorum rex cum magno exercitu adueniens Liguriam totamque depraedat Aemiliam. Genuam oppidum in litus Tyrrheni maris situm euertit ac praedat. Exercitu dehinc suo morbo laboranti ut subueniat, paciscens cum Belisario ad Gallias reuertitur.

4 Theudebert, king of the Franks, arriving with a great army, plunders Liguria and all of Aemilia. He overturns and plunders the town of Genua, situated on the shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Then, to come to the aid of his army suffering from disease, after making terms with Belisarius he returns to Gaul.

5 Germanus de Africa Constantinopolim euocatur. Solomon ibi rursus dirigitur.
6 Calluc magister militum cum Gepidas primum feliciter dimicans secundo infeliciter ruit.

5 Germanus from Africa is called to Constantinople. Solomon is again dispatched there.
6 Calluc, master of soldiers, fighting the Gepids—at first successfully, the second time unsuccessfully—falls.

(540) III. Iustini iun. solius
1 Parthi in Syriam ingressi multas urbes subuertunt ; contra quos Germanus arma arripiens Iustinum filium, eundemque consulem in ipsis fascibus secum ducit.

(540) 3. Justin the Younger alone
1 The Parthians, having entered Syria, overturn many cities; against them Germanus, taking up arms, leads with him his son Justin—this same man, as consul, actually carrying the fasces.

2 Antiochia magna depraedata demolitur a Persis.
3 Belisarius Rauennam ingreditur, regem Vitigis et reginam cunctasque opes Gothosque nobiliores tollens secum ad imperatorem reuertitur euocante se Marcello comite.
4 Solomon in Africa feliciter dimicans rebelliones proturbat.

2 Antioch the Great, after being plundered, is demolished by the Persians.
3 Belisarius enters Ravenna, carrying off King Vitigis and the queen and all the wealth and the more noble Goths; he returns with them to the emperor at the summons of Count Marcellus.
4 Solomon, fighting successfully in Africa, puts down the rebellions.

5 Gothi trans Padum residentes Oraio Vitigis nepote et Heldebado ductantibus Vitigis regem cum regina opibusque palatii nec non et Gothos audientes sedibus propriis pulsos Orientemque per Belisarium abductos rebellare disponunt, regem sibi statuentes Heldebadum.
6 Contra quem debellaturus Bessa patricius Placentium a Rauenna conscendit, Constantino Rauennam de Dalmatiis, ut praeesset exercitui, ab imperatore directo.

5 The Goths, residing across the Po, with Oraio, the nephew of Vitigis, and Heldebadus leading, resolve to rebel—Vitigis the king, together with the queen and the riches of the palace, and likewise the Goths obedient to him, having been driven from their own seats and carried off to the East by Belisarius—setting up Heldebadus as king for themselves.
6 Against him, to finish the war, the patrician Bessas set out from Ravenna to Placentia, while Constantine was sent to Ravenna from Dalmatia by the emperor, to be in command of the army.

(541) IIII. Basili solius anno primo
1 Parthis persistentibus inimicis Belisarius Orientis suscepit expeditum Germano regresso ad urbem regiam.
2 Gothi Heldibado occiso Erarium sibi ordinant regem.

(541) 4. In the first year of Basil alone
1 With the Parthians persisting as enemies, Belisarius undertook the expedition of the East, Germanus having returned to the royal city.
2 The Goths, Heldibad having been slain, appoint Eraric as king for themselves.

3 Solomon in Africa interficitur, Sergius loco eius dux successit belli moderatorque prouinciae.

3 Solomon is slain in Africa; Sergius, in his place, succeeded as duke and director of the war and of the province.

(542) V. post consulatum Basilii anno secundo
1 Milites clam Veronam ingressi dum auaritia inhiante de praeda concertant, a Gothis egredientibus de latebris cum suo dedecore ciuitate pelluntur.
2 Gothi Erario rege occiso Totilam in regnum manciparunt. Qui malo Italiae mox Padum transit et ad Fauentiam Aemiliae ciuitatem Romanum exercitum superat, duces effugat, Caesenam et Vrbinum, Montem feretris et Petrapertusa occupat, huc illucque discurrens deuastat Italiam.

(542) 5. after the consulate of Basil, in the second year
1 Soldiers, having secretly entered Verona, while, avarice gaping, they contend over the plunder, are driven from the city, to their own dishonor, by the Goths emerging from their hiding-places.
2 The Goths, King Eraric having been slain, installed Totila in the kingship. He, to the harm of Italy, soon crosses the Po and at Faenza, a city of Aemilia, overcomes the Roman army, puts the commanders to flight, occupies Cesena and Urbino, Mons Feretris and Petrapertusa, and, running here and there, devastates Italy.

3 Rursus in annonaria Tuscia ad Mucellos per Ruderit et Viliarid Bledamque duces suos Romanum exercitum superat. Quo proelio Bessa patricius uulneratus euadit ; ceteri uero fugientes per quaqua saluati sunt.

3 Again in the annona-district of Tuscia at Mucelli, by Ruderit and Viliarid and Bleda, his commanders, he overcomes the Roman army. In which battle Bessa the patricius escaped wounded ; the rest, however, fleeing, were saved by whatever ways they could.

(543) VI. post consulatum Basilii anno III
1 Totila deuastat Campaniam urbesque muratas euertens per suos Tiburem obsidet.
2 Mortalitas magna Italiae solum deuastat, Orientem iam et Illyricum peraeque attritos.
3 In Oriente Persis adhuc tenentibus conflictum cum nostris Sergius in Africa inquietatur a rebellionibus cum Stotza et Mauris.

(543) 6. after the consulship of Basil, in the 3rd year
1 Totila devastates Campania, overturning walled cities, and through his men besieges Tibur.
2 A great mortality devastates the soil of Italy, the East and Illyricum already equally worn down.
3 In the East, with the Persians still holding conflict with our men, Sergius in Africa is disturbed by rebellions together with Stotzas and the Moors.

(A. C. 544.) VII. post consulatum Basilii anno IIII
1 Totila obsidet Firmum et Asculum inuasamque Neapolim desolat et Tibur.
2 Roma uero obsidetur a longe, in qua praeerat Iohannes magister militum.

(A. D. 544.) 7. after the consulship of Basilius, in the 4th year
1 Totila besieges Firmum and Asculum, and lays waste Naples—already seized—and Tibur.
2 But Rome is besieged from afar, in which John, master of the soldiers, was in command.

3 In Oriente Belisario constituto exsulatur Iohannes ex consule ordinario patricius atque praefectus praetorio et domus eius datur Belisario.

3 In the East, with Belisarius established, John—former ordinary consul, patrician, and praetorian prefect—is exiled, and his house is given to Belisarius.

(545) VIII. post consulatum Basili anno quinto
1 Totila Firmum et Asculum sub iuramento ingressus est ; milite Romano cum rebus suis dimisso crudelitatem suam in Romanos exercuit eosque omnes nudat et necat.
2 In Africa Iohannes inruens super tyrannum Stotiam interimit eum et ipse ab eius occiditur armigero.

(545) 8. after the consulship of Basil, in the fifth year
1 Totila entered Firmum and Asculum under oath ; the Roman soldiery, dismissed with their goods, he exercised his cruelty upon the Romans and strips them all and kills them.
2 In Africa John, rushing upon the tyrant Stotias, kills him, and he himself is killed by his arms-bearer.

In qua tyrannide Iohannes quidam electus Stotias iunior uocitatur.
3 Belisarius de Oriente euocatus in offensam periculumque incurrens graue et inuidiae subiacens rursus remittitur ad Italiam. Qui ueniens Romae dirigit Bessam, Iohannem mittit ad imperatorem.

In which tyranny, a certain John, chosen, is called Stotias the Younger.
3 Belisarius, summoned from the East, incurring grave offense and peril and lying subject to heavy envy, is again sent back to Italy. Coming, he posts Bessas at Rome, and sends John to the emperor.

4 Totila uastato Piceno pugnansque ad Auximum uincit. Indeque discurrens per Tusciam Spoletium destruit et Asisium Clusiumque oppida tenuit et obsidet Perusiam.

4 Totila, Picenum having been laid waste, and fighting at Auximum, is victorious. And from there, running about through Tuscany, he destroys Spoletium and held the towns Asisium and Clusium, and he besieges Perusia.

(546) VIIII. post consulatum Basili anno sexto
1 Vigilius papa LVIIII ab apostolo Petro euocatus ab imperatore Roma egreditur et Siciliam uenit.
2 Totila occupata Lucania et Britios Neapolim subuertit, Romam obsidet.

(546) 9. after the consulship of Basilius, in the sixth year
1 Pope Vigilius, the 59th, called by the apostle Peter, at the emperor’s summons leaves Rome and comes to Sicily.
2 Totila, with Lucania and the Bruttii occupied, subverts Naples, he besieges Rome.

3 De Africa Sergius euocatur et Ariouinda neptem imperatoris acceptam ibi iudex dirigitur.
4 In Oriente cum Parthis foedus initur per Constantianum magistrum militiae et exercitus reuertitur Constantinopolim.

3 From Africa Sergius is summoned, and, Ariouinda, the emperor’s niece, having been received there, a judge is dispatched.
4 In the East a treaty is entered into with the Parthians through Constantianus, Master of the Militia, and the army returns to Constantinople.

(547) X. post consulatum Basilii anno VII
1 Gothi legationem mittunt ad imperatorem per episcopum ciuitatis Asisinatium nomine Auentium.
2 Iohannes magister militum ad Italiam properat.
3 Belisarius a Rauenna egressus uenit Dyrracio indeque directo Iohanne Calabriam ipse per Siciliam Romam perrexit.

(547) 10. after the consulship of Basil, in the 7th year
1 The Goths send an embassy to the emperor through the bishop of the city of Assisi, named Aventius.
2 John, master of the soldiers, hastens to Italy.
3 Belisarius, having gone out from Ravenna, came to Dyrrachium, and from there, with John dispatched to Calabria, he himself proceeded through Sicily to Rome.

4 Papa Vigilius ingressus est Constantinopolim VIII kalendas Februarias.
5 Totila dolo Isaurorum ingreditur Roma die XVI kal. Ianuarias, muros euertit, domos aliquantas igni comburens ac omnium Romanorum res in praedam accepit ; hos ipsos Romanos in Campaniam captiuos abduxit.

4 Pope Vigilius entered Constantinople on the 8th day before the Kalends of February.
5 Totila, by the deceit of the Isaurians, enters Rome on the 16th day before the Kalends of January, he overthrew the walls, burning several houses with fire and took the property of all the Romans as booty ; these very Romans he led away captive into Campania.

Post quam deuastationem quadraginta aut amplius dies Roma ita fuit desolata ut nemo ibi hominum nisi bestiae morarentur. Sic ueniens Belisarius murorum partem restaurat uenienteque Totila ad pugnam resistit.
6 Eodem quoque anno de Africa neptis imp.

After that devastation, for forty or more days Rome was so desolated that no human beings dwelt there except beasts. Thus, coming, Belisarius restores a part of the walls and, Totila coming to battle, he resists.
6 In the same year also, from Africa, the emperor’s granddaughter.

reuertitur uidua occiso uiro eius Areouinda a Gunthario tyranno, qui cum Stotzia iuniore tractans eum occiderat. Sed Artabanes utrosque comprehensos Guntharium occidit, Iohannem idem Stotiam iuniorem uinctum transmittit ad principem. Post aliquantos dies mittitur in Africam Iohannes et Artabanis euocatus praesentale accipit magisterium.

the widow Areouinda returns, her husband having been slain, by the tyrant Guntharius, who, conspiring with Stotzas the Younger, had killed him. But Artabanes, having seized both, killed Guntharius; he sends John, that same Stotzas the Younger, bound, to the emperor. After some days John is sent into Africa, and Artabanes, having been recalled, receives the praesental mastership.

(548) XI. post consulatum Basilii anno VIII
1 Iohannes magister militum in Campania praedans Gothos nonnullas liberat senatrices. Qui postea patitur nocturnum Totilae superuentum Bulgarum suorum proditione.
2 Verus quoque magister militum et ipse in parte alia Calabriae infestum sustinuit Totilan et Valerianus ab imperatore in eorum solacia . . . . . . . .

(548) 11. after the consulship of Basilius, in year 8
1 John, magister militum, raiding in Campania against the Goths, frees several senatorial ladies. He afterwards suffers a nocturnal surprise-arrival of Totila through the treachery of his own Bulgars.
2 Verus also, magister militum, he too in another part of Calabria withstood hostile Totila, and Valerian, by the emperor, for their solace . . . . . . . .

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