Μιχαήλ
Michael
Translated by Kiril Galev18 Aug 2003Vetting: high13 revisions
Translation
Emperor of [the] Romans,1 who reigned after Leo the Armenian.2 After relieving the prevailing evil a little, to the extent that those in prisons and in sufferings and in exile started imagining freedom and dream-like remission, he reheated the God-hated policy of his impious and ill-named predecessor,3 and similarly being entangled like a fish in the same casting-net of dread heresy died of the utmost fatuity and disorder in the unsoundness and impiety of his doctrines. For he was excessively profane and uneducated: for what he inherited, as if adequate property, from his father's stupidity and vulgarity was ignorance.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μιχαήλ, βασιλεὺς Ῥωμαίων, ὁ μετὰ τὸν Ἀρμένιον Λέοντα βασιλεύσας· ὃς μικρόν τι τῆς προκατασχούσης κακίας ὑπενδούς, ὅσον τοὺς ἐν εἱρκταῖς καὶ πόνοις καὶ ἐξορίαις ἐλευθερίαν τε καὶ ἄνεσιν ὀνειρώδη φαντάζεσθαι, τὸ τοῦ προηγησαμένου δυσωνύμου καὶ δυσσεβοῦς ὑπέθαλπε θεοστυγὲς φρόνημα, καὶ ὁμοίως τῷ αὐτῷ ἀμφιβλήστρῳ περιπαρεὶς τῆς δεινῆς αἱρέσεως ἰχθύος δίκην τοῖς τῶν δογμάτων σαθροῖς καὶ ἀσεβέσιν ἐναπέθανεν ἐξ ἀκροτάτης ἀβελτηρίας τε καὶ ἀλογίας. ἀμύητος γὰρ σφόδρα καὶ ἀπαίδευτος ἐτύγχανεν· ἀμαθίαν γὰρ ἐκ πατρῴας ἀλογίας καὶ ἀπειροκαλίας ὥσπερ ἱκανὴν οὐσίαν ἐκληρώσατο.
Betacode
*mixah/l, basileu\s *(rwmai/wn, o( meta\ to\n *)arme/nion *le/onta basileu/sas: o(\s mikro/n ti th=s prokatasxou/shs kaki/as u(pendou/s, o(/son tou\s e)n ei(rktai=s kai\ po/nois kai\ e)cori/ais e)leuqeri/an te kai\ a)/nesin o)neirw/dh fanta/zesqai, to\ tou= prohghsame/nou duswnu/mou kai\ dussebou=s u(pe/qalpe qeostuge\s fro/nhma, kai\ o(moi/ws tw=| au)tw=| a)mfiblh/strw| periparei\s th=s deinh=s ai(re/sews i)xqu/os di/khn toi=s tw=n dogma/twn saqroi=s kai\ a)sebe/sin e)nape/qanen e)c a)krota/ths a)belthri/as te kai\ a)logi/as. a)mu/htos ga\r sfo/dra kai\ a)pai/deutos e)tu/gxanen: a)maqi/an ga\r e)k patrw/|as a)logi/as kai\ a)peirokali/as w(/sper i(kanh\n ou)si/an e)klhrw/sato.
Notes (4)
- George the Monk, Chronicon 792.7-18.
- 1Michael II, born 770, emperor 820-829; founder of the Amorian dynasty. In 803 he served under Bardanes Tourkos, but deserted to Nikephoros I, who appointed him komes tes kortes. Leo V (see next note) made him domestikos of the exkoubitoi, but Michael revolted against him. See Wikipedia entry at web address 1. ↩
- 2Leo V the Armenian, emperor 813-820. Served under Bardanes Tourkos but deserted him for Nikephoros I, who named him commander of the foederati and later exiled him. Michael I named him strategos of Armeniakon theme. He restored Iconoclasm. ↩
- 3Probably because his supporters killed Leo V the Armenian in church on Christmas Day, 820. Also his marriage to Euphrosyne, the daughter of Constantine VI and then a nun, was denounced as uncanonical by Theodore the Studite. ↩
- 4He was of humble origin and advanced through an army career, marrying Thecla (theta 102), daughter of the thematic commander. ↩
References
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
External resources
- Web address 1 en.wikipedia.org
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