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FASTI ROMANI THE CIVIL AND LITERARY CHRONOLOGY OF ROME AND CONSTANTINOPLE FROM THE DEATH OF AUGUSTUS TO THE DEATH OF JUSTIN II. BY HENRY FYNES CLINTON, Esq. M. A. LATE STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH VOL. I TABLES Burt Franklin: Research and Source Works series #120 [Translated from the Greek] 684 FASTI A.D. 1 CONSULS 2 EVENTS they went to them. Zeno saved those libations (treaties), and Anastasius, who after him obtained the reign. And the remained to emperor Justin as well. Flight pf Zeno: Marcellin. Hoc cos. Zeno imp. Verinæ socrus suæ et Basilisci fratris ejus insidiis circumventus cum Ariadne uxore sua profugus in Isaurim tendit. Regnum Zenonis Basiliscus tyrannus invasit. Victor Tun. P.C. Leonis junioris Aug.-Basiliscus cum filio Marco imperium-sumit. Zenon Aug.is Isauriam unde exortus fuerat figit et cum. Ariadne Augusta sub hiemis discrimine navali itinere subsecuta. Jornandes de regn. p.709 Zeno- dum Chalcedone degeret, subito Verina Aug. socrus sua fratrem Basiliscum in imperium indicens Augustum in urbe appelavit.qiod comperiens Zenon Chalcedone sine aliqua reip. læsione is Isauriam recessit, maleus se solum sum Ariadne Aug. exsulare quam sua caussa reip. aliquid ex bellis civilibus incommodum provenire. Quod Basiliscus cognoscens- Marcum filium sum Cæsarem ordinavit. Theodorus Lect. P.555 D 556 A basiliscus-who was living in Heraclia of Thrace was planning against Zeno, having at the same time the collaboration of Verini.-and (as soon as) Zeno was informed took Ariadne and as much money as he could and departed for Isauria. Basiliscus was crowned in the valley, and he makes Caesar Mark his son and Augusta Zenonida his wife. Conf. Procopium Vand. I.7 p.195 A Agathiam IV p. 139 C Evagrium III.3 Anonymum Valesii p.617 § 41 Malalam XV p.87 Chron. Pasch. P.325 A B Theophanem p. 103 D 104 A Cedrenum p.251 B. s In the four last at a wrong date; at the 1st of Zeno in Theoph. and cedrenus; in Malalas after 2 years and ten months of his reign , or Nov. A.D.476; at A.D.477 in Chron. Pasch. For Candidus see col.3; for Malchus, conf.a.473.3. Zeno was still at CP. 11 Oct. 474: Cod. Just. confirming the accounts that he fled towards the close of the year, in the winter. 476 1229. Fl. Basiliscus Zenonis 3 from V Id. Feb. Aug. II et Armatus End of the Western Empire: Marius: His coss. Levatus est Odovacer rex. Incert. Chron. Basilisco II et Basilisco II et Armato conss. s Levatus est Odoacer rex X Kal. Sept. Eo etiam anno Armato Incert. occisus est Orestes patricius Placentiæ V Kal. Sept. Item eo anno occisus est Paulus frater Cassiod. ejus in Ravenna prid. sNon. Sept. Conf. Anon. Valesii p.616 § 37.38. Marcellin. His coss. Basilisco et Odoacer rex Gothorum Romam obtinuit. Orestem Odoacer ilico trucidavit. Augustulum Armato O. V. M. filium Orestis Odoacer in Lucullano Companiæ castello exilii pæna damnavit. Hesperium Marcellin. Malalas Romanæ gentis imperium quod 709o urbis conditaæ anno primusAugustorum Octavianus XV p.87 Chron. Aug. tenere capit cum hoc Augustulo periit anno decessorum regni imperatorum Pasch. 522o,Gothorum dehinc regibus Romam tenentibus. Cassiod. His coss. Ab Odovacre Oresta et frater ejus Paulus exstincti sunt nomenqus Regis Odovacer adsumpsit, cum tamen nec Basilius Augustus purpura nec ragalibus iteretur insignibus. Jornandes Get.c.46 gives the same numbers: sole and Armatus Odovacer Turcilingorum rex habeus secum Scyros Herulos dicersarumque gentium sole B. auxiliarios Italiam occupavit et Oreste interfecto Augustulum-exilii pæna damanvit ect. And in regn p.709 Odocaver genere Rogus Thorcilingorum Scirorum Herulorumqueturbis Baslisco Aug. cos. munitus Italiam invacit etc. Paulus Diac. XVI p.557.558 Ingresso Italiam Odoacre statim Simplicius apud ei apud Liguriæ terminus Orestes accurrit &C.-captus demum Orestes ab hostibus Acta Concil. tom. 5 Placentiam usque perducitur ibi que gladio detruncatur.-Orestes itaque-statim regiam p.99. arripuit potestatem. Augustuslus-sponte miserabilis pupruram abjiciens cum vix XI mensibus remp. Obtinuisset imperialem deposuit majestatem. S Ita Romanorum apud Romam imperium –cum hoc Augustulo perit anno urbis conditæ 1229o a C. terro vero Cvssaro-anno 517o ab incarnatione vero Domini anno 475o. Procop. Goth.I.1 p.308 and it was someone-called Odoacre serving in the kings guars, and then he confessed them what he was planning to do to be appointed in the authority. So after he obtained the kingly power he did not act against the king anymore but he was let to live as a private ROMANI 685 3 SECULAR AUTHORS ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORS becoming archbishop of the holy and catholic church of the glorious metropolitan church og Cyzicus, and it fell into-my father, a worth of it elder, of the same holiest church.- And after some time someone arrived here (from the prefecture of Bithynia) by the grace of God and after a lot of commotion and a lot of discussion took place, having provoked [f.much discussion had taken place] by the mutiny of the sacrilegious Basiliscus against the apostolic and catholic church of God etc. –and in particular, he incited and urged the kingdoms of the gang of the thinking alike the heretic Eutychus, and them being presented to us slyly (I mean in Nicaea) as preserving the faith of our fathers. Who, have been checked for lying to us as being their enemies. He mentions his authorities p.121 it has been referred by some educated men about some Joannes, a respectful old man who is referred as a very prolific one in very old notebooks, but not everything; and by some other various authors, Eysebius from Pamphylia, bishop of Caesarea and Rufinus bishop of Rome, and all who participated in that holy synod and by many others. But the extant history does not correspond in all respects to the abstract of Photius. The same of the last emperor appears upon coins apud Of 19 epistles of Simplicius of Rome preserved apud Eckhel. Tom. 8p. 203. D. N. Romulus Augustus P. F. Acta Concil. tom. 4 p.94-116 some belong to this Aug.+dalus reipublicæ, or Victoria Aigg. Or “sine year: Ep.4 p.98 Basilisco Augusto [Basilisco Pagius epigraphe crux intra lauream.” Within Oct. 31 ex Codice. Conf. pagium tom.2 p.394] Simplicius A.D.475-Aug. 22 A.D.476. episcopus. Data IV Id. Jan. [V. Id. Jun. Pagius.] Basilisco Augusto consule. Ep.5 p.99 Simplicius papa Coins of Basiliscus: Eckhel. Tom. 8 p.204. D.N. Acacio episcopo CP. Data V Id. Id. Jan. [1.Jun.] Basiliscus P.F. Aug. or P. Aug. or PP. Aug. or D.N. Ep.7 p.101 Simplicius episcopus ad presbyteros et Basiliscus et Marc. P. Aug.+salus reipublicæ conob. archimandritas CP.tunos Data III Id. Jan. [1. Jun] Or viictoria Augg. Or Victoria Augg. Or Augustorum. consule suprascripto. Of Zenonis the wife of Basiliscus: Exkhel. Tom. 8 p.204. Ael. Zenonis Aug. +Victoria Aiggg. All thwese issued within Nov. 475-July 477. 686 FASTI A.D. 1 CONSULS 2 EVENTS as a private for the rest of his life. And after he gave the barbarian the third of the farmland, he managed to hold himself into power like this way for the next 10 years. Conf. Candidum lib. II apud Phot. Cod. 79 p.176 Evagrium II.16. Theophanes p.102 D the end of the reign-seized after so many years. Odoacer well, of Gothic descent but having grown in Italy, after he conquered the power with barbaric force,-he reigned for 10 years; he lived in the prosperous and good Ravenna of Italy, located by the sea. Evagrius and Theophanes erroneously place Augustulus 1303 years after the foundation of Rome: after 1303 years from Romulus. Zeno besieged in July: Suidas p.1581 D (ex Malcho: conf. Vales. Ad Malcum legat. P.91B) Zeno the king after he was informed about the defeat of his own (army) he is hiding in a fortress located on a hill, which the locals (living nearby) were calling Constantinople; he let know about it the companions by sighing “It is God’s game” he said “therefore the human-because the augurs were foretelling me that I will be in CP in July by necessity; and I thought that I will go to CP, but now I came alone and as a refugee on a hill, and I found, me, the coward homonymous appellation.” Zeno was not yet expelled in July 475; he returned in July 477 (conf.a.). Wherefore this occurrence is fixed to July 476. 477 [314] U.C.Varr. 130. Zenonis 4 from V Id. Feb. Post consulatum Incert. Chron. P.C.basilisci et Armati. Occisus est Bravila a rege Odoacre V Id. Basilisci II et Armati. Julius Ravennæ. Marcellin. hoc. anno. : Bracilam comitem Odoacer rex apud Cassiod. Cod. Justin. Ravennam occidit. Jornandes Get. c. 46 Initio regni sui Brachilam-occidit. I.23,7. VIII. 4,9. Return of Zeno twenty months after his expulsion: Procop. Vand.I.7 p.195 B and P.C.Basilisci et Armati Basiliscus having the kingly power for a year and eight months [of the 20 months V.M.Incert. Theophanes p.103 B] and the others as all say and the soldiers of the court they Cons.Basiliscus and were coming for the magnitude of the love of money. And Zeno understanding these Armatus Chron. Pasch. he raised an army he went against him. And Basiliscus countered Zeno by sending Lege with cons. Bas. an army under general Armatus, and as soon the camped nearby, Zeno was and Arm. surrendered to Armatus his army; at this point Basiliscus made his own son child- Zenone III O.