Chronicle of Edessa

1 In the year 795, Leontius rebelled against Emperor Zeno and ruled in Antioch for two years.
2 In the year 800, the School of the Persians was uprooted from Edessa.
3 In the year 809, in the month of Iyar May, gold was remitted from the farmers of the whole land.
4 In the month of Haziran June, on the sixth day, in the year 809, Cyrus, Bishop of Edessa, died, and Peter stood in his stead and entered Edessa on the twelfth of Elul September of that same year.
5 In the year 810, many locusts appeared. However, beforehand, they were not harmful. Yet, from the plants that were earlier, only a small amount flew away. A great earthquake was seen, and the baptismal font of the Iberians dried up for three days. And the city of Nicopolis was overturned, and it crushed and killed all its inhabitants except for the church, the bishop, and his two syncelli clerical assistants.
6 And Emperor Anastasius sent Euphemius, Patriarch of Constantinople, from his empire.

1 ...in the year 795, Leontius rebelled against Zeno and ruled in Antioch for two years.
2 LXXIII. In the year 800, the School of the Persians was excised from the city of Edessa.
3 LXXIV. In the year 809, in the month of May, gold was remitted to the artisans of the whole world.
4 LXXV. Moreover, in the month of June, on the sixth day, Cyrus, Bishop of Edessa, departed from this light; to whom Peter was substituted, and he entered Edessa on the twelfth of September of the same year.
5 LXXVI. In the year 810, many locusts were seen, which, however, caused little damage in that year, since the plants had germinated again. Furthermore, a huge earthquake occurred, and the Bath of the Iberians dried up for three days. Moreover, the city of Nicopolis collapsed, and it overwhelmed all its inhabitants except for the Church, the Bishop, and his two syncelli clerical assistants.
6 LXXVII. But Emperor Anastasius [removed] Euphemius, Bishop of Constantinople.

NOTES.

1 Leontius. Marcellinus in his Chronicle places the beginning of his tyranny in the same year, that is, the year of Christ 484, 7th Indiction, under the consuls Theodoric and Venantius, who however disagrees with our Chronicle, while he gives Leontius five years and asserts he was killed in the 11th Indiction, under the consuls Dinamius and Sifidius, in the year 488. See what we noted above on page 264.
2 School of the Persians. About which above, p. 204 and 351.
3 Gold. See page 268.
4 Peter. About whom above, page 269.
5 Year 810. We described the deeds of this year on page 269.
6 Euphemius. Marcellinus and Cedrenus report his deposition in the 3rd Indiction, under the consul Viator alone, in the year of Christ 495. However, Theophanes narrates that it was done in the following year: to whom our Author should be preferred, if it were certain that these things were transcribed by the scribe in their proper place, that is, in the year of the Greeks 810, the year of Christ 499. For Dionysius testifies that the ejection of Euphemius happened the year before in these words: "In the year 809, Euphemius, Bishop of Constantinople, was driven into exile, because he was found to labor under the Nestorian heresy; and Macedonius was subrogated to him." That Euphemius is accused of the Nestorian error by Dionysius is not a wonder, since Dionysius was a Monophysite; and Monophysites were accustomed to accuse the Catholics who were defenders of the Council of Chalcedon, such as Euphemius was, of Nestorianism. See Pagius at the year 519, from no. 3, where he vindicates him from both heresy and schism.