第2巻 第14章

Greek Ὁ δὲ Χοσρόης πόλιν ἐν Ἀσσυρίοις δειμάμενος ἐν χώρῳ Κτησιφῶντος πόλεως διέχοντι ἡμέρας ὁδῷ, Ἀντιόχειάν τε τὴν Χοσρόου αὐτὴν ἐπωνόμασε καὶ Ἀντιοχέων τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους ἐνταῦθα ξυνῴκισεν ἅπαντας, οἷς δὴ βαλανεῖόν τε καὶ ἱπποδρόμιον κατεσκεύαζε καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις τρυφαῖς ἀνεῖσθαι ἐποίει.

Dewing Now Chosroes built a city in Assyria in a place one day's journey distant from the city of Ctesiphon, and he named it the Antioch of Chosroes and settled there all the captives from Antioch, constructing for them a bath and a hippodrome and providing that they should have free enjoyment of their other luxuries besides.

Greek τούς τε γὰρ ἡνιόχους καὶ τοὺς τῶν μουσικῶν ἔργων τεχνίτας ἔκ τε Ἀντιοχείας καὶ τῶν ἄλλων Ῥωμαϊκῶν πόλεων ξὺν αὑτῷ ἦγεν.

Dewing For he brought with him charioteers and musicians both from Antioch and from the other Roman cities.

Greek ἔτι μέντοι καὶ δημοσίᾳ τοὺς Ἀντιοχέας τούτους ἐπιμελεστέρως ἢ κατὰ αἰχμαλώτους ἐσίτιζεν ἐς πάντα τὸν χρόνον, καὶ βασιλικοὺς καλεῖσθαι ἠξίου, ὥστε τῶν ἀρχόντων οὐδενὶ ὑποχειρίους εἶναι ἢ βασιλεῖ μόνῳ.

Dewing Besides this he always provisioned these citizens of Antioch at public expense more carefully than in the fashion of captives, and he required that they be called king's subjects, so as to be subordinate to no one of the magistrates, but to the king alone.

Greek εἰ δέ τις καὶ τῶν ἄλλων Ῥωμαίων δραπέτης γεγονὼς ἐς Ἀντιόχειαν τὴν Χοσρόου διαφυγεῖν ἴσχυσε, καί τις αὐτὸν ξυγγενῆ τῶν ταύτῃ ᾠκημένων ἐκάλεσεν, οὐκέτι ἐξῆν τῷ κεκτημένῳ τὸν αἰχμάλωτον τοῦτον ἀπάγειν, οὐδ’ ἤν τις τῶν λίαν ἐν Πέρσαις δοκίμων ὁ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐξανδραποδίσας τυγχάνοι.

Dewing And if any one else too who was a Roman in slavery ran away and succeeded in escaping to the Antioch of Chosroes, and if he was called a kinsman by any one of those who lived there, it was no longer possible for the owner of this captive to take him away, not even if he who had enslaved the man happened to be a person of especial note among the Persians.

Greek Ἀντιοχεῦσι μέντοι τὸ ξυμβὰν ἐπὶ Ἀναστασίου βασιλεύοντος τέρας ἐς τοῦτο ἀποβὰν ἐτελεύτησε. τότε γὰρ ἀνέμου σκληροῦ Δάφνῃ τῷ προαστείῳ ἐκ τοῦ αἰφνιδίου ἐπιπεσόντος, τῶν κυπαρίσσων αἳ ταύτῃ ὑψηλαὶ ἀτεχνῶς ἦσαν ἐκ ῥιζῶν τῶν ἐσχάτων ἀνατραπεῖσαι εἰς τὴν γῆν ἔπεσον, ἅσπερ ὁ νόμος ἐκτέμνεσθαι οὐδαμῆ εἴα.

Dewing Thus, then, the portent which had come to the citizens of Antioch in the reign of Anastasius reached this final fulfilment for them. For at that time a violent wind suddenly fell upon the suburb of Daphne, and some of the cypresses which were there of extraordinary height were overturned from the extremities of their roots and fell to the earth — trees which the law forbade absolutely to be cut down.

Greek ὀλίγῳ μὲν οὖν ὕστερον, ἡνίκα Ἰουστῖνος Ῥωμαίων ἦρχε, σεισμός τις ἐπιγενόμενος ἐξαίσιος λίαν τήν τε πόλιν κατέσεισε πᾶσαν καὶ τῶν οἰκοδομημάτων τά τε πλεῖστα καὶ κάλλιστα ἐς τὸ ἔδαφος εὐθὺς ἤνεγκε, καὶ λέγονται τότε τριάκοντα μυριάδες Ἀντιοχέων ἀπολωλέναι.

Dewing Accordingly, a little later, when Justinus was ruling over the Romans, the place was visited by an exceedingly violent earthquake, which shook down the whole city and straightway brought to the ground the most and the finest of the buildings, and it is said that at that time three hundred thousand of the population of Antioch perished.

Greek ἐν ταύτῃ δὲ τῇ ἁλώσει ξύμπασα ἡ πόλις, ὥσπερ μοι ἐρρήθη, διέφθαρται. τὸ μὲν οὖν Ἀντιοχέων πάθος τῇδε ἐχώρησε.

Dewing And finally in this capture the whole city, as has been said, was destroyed. Such, then, was the calamity which befell the men of Antioch.

Greek Βελισάριος δὲ βασιλεῖ ἐς Βυζάντιον ἐξ Ἰταλίας μετάπεμπτος ἦλθε, καὶ αὐτὸν διαχειμάσαντα ἐν Βυζαντίῳ στρατηγὸν ἐπί τε Χοσρόην καὶ Πέρσας ἅμα ἦρι ἀρχομένῳ βασιλεὺς ἔπεμψεν ἄρχοντάς τε τοὺς ἐξ Ἰταλίας ξὺν αὐτῷ ἥκοντας, ὧν δὴ ἕνα Βαλεριανὸν ἡγεῖσθαι τῶν ἐν Ἀρμενίοις καταλόγων ἐκέλευε.

Dewing And Belisarius came to Byzantium from Italy, summoned by the emperor; and after he had spent the winter in Byzantium, the emperor sent him as general against Chosroes and the Persians at the opening of spring, together with the officers who had come with him from Italy, one of whom, Valerianus, he commanded to lead the troops in Armenia.

Greek Μαρτῖνος γὰρ ἔτυχεν εὐθὺς εἰς τὴν ἑῴαν σταλείς, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο Χοσρόης αὐτόν,

Dewing For Martinus had been sent immediately to the East, and for this reason Chosroes found him at Daras, as has been stated above.

Greek ὡς προδεδήλωται, ἐς Δάρας εὗρε. τῶν δὲ Γότθων Οὐίττιγις μὲν ἐν Βυζαντίῳ ἔμεινεν, οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ ξύμπαντες ἐπὶ Χοσρόην σὺν Βελισαρίῳ ἐστράτευσαν.

Dewing And among the Goths, Vittigis remained in Byzantium, but all the rest marched with Belisarius against Chosroes.

Greek τότε τῶν Οὐιττίγιδος πρέσβεων ἅτερος μέν, ὅσπερ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου ὀνόματος ἐπεβάτευεν, ἐν τοῖς Περσῶν ἤθεσι θνήσκει, ὁ δὲ δὴ ἕτερος αὐτοῦ ἔμεινεν.

Dewing At that time one of the envoys of Vittigis, he who was assuming the name of bishop, died in the land of Persia, and the other one remained there.⁠

Greek ὅστις δὲ αὐτοῖς ἑρμηνεὺς εἵπετο ἀνεχώρησεν ἐς Ῥωμαίων τὴν γῆν, καὶ αὐτὸν Ἰωάννης, ὃς τῶν ἐν Μεσοποταμίᾳ στρατιωτῶν ἦρχεν, ἀμφὶ τὰ Κωνσταντίνης ὅρια ξυλλαβὼν ἔς τε τὴν πόλιν εἰσαγαγὼν ἐν δεσμωτηρίῳ καθεῖρξεν, ὅσπερ οἱ ἐνταῦθα ἅπαντα ἀναπυνθανομένῳ τὰ πεπραγμένα ἐξήνεγκε.

Dewing And the man who followed them as interpreter withdrew to the land of the Romans, and John, who was commanding the troops in Mesopotamia, arrested him near the boundaries of Constantina, and bringing him into the city confined him in a prison; there the man in answer to his enquiries related everything which had been done.

Greek ταῦτα μὲν οὖν τῇδε ἐχώρησε. Βελισάριος δὲ ξὺν τοῖς ἑπομένοις κατὰ τάχος ᾔει, προτερῆσαι ἐν σπουδῇ ἔχων πρίν τινα ὁ Χοσρόης ἐσβολὴν αὖθις ποιήσεται ἐς Ῥωμαίων τὴν γῆν.

Dewing Such, then, was the course of these events. And Belisarius and his followers went in haste, since he was eager to anticipate Chosroes' making any second invasion into the land of the Romans.