第4巻 第14章

Greek Ἐν δὲ Ἰταλίᾳ κατὰ τοὺς χρόνους τοὺς αὐτοὺς τάδε γενέσθαι τετύχηκε. Βελισάριος ἐπὶ Θευδᾶτόν τε καὶ τὸ Γότθων ἔθνος πρὸς Ἰουστινιανοῦ βασιλέως ἐστέλλετο, καταπλεύσας δὲ ἐς Σικελίαν ταύτην δὴ τὴν νῆσον πόνῳ οὐδενὶ ἔσχεν.

Dewing And in Italy during these same times the following events took place. Belisarius was sent against Theodatus and the Gothic nation by the Emperor Justinian, and sailing to Sicily he secured this island with no trouble.

Greek ὅντινα δὲ τρόπον, ἐν τοῖς ὄπισθέν μοι λόγοις λελέξεται, ὅτε με ὁ λόγος ἐς τῶν Ἰταλικῶν πραγμάτων τὴν ἱστορίαν ἄγει.

Dewing And the manner in which this was done will be told in the following pages, when the history leads me to the narration of the events in Italy.

Greek νῦν γάρ μοι οὐκ ἀπὸ τρόπου ἔδοξεν εἶναι ξύμπαντα ἀναγραψάμενον τὰ ἐν Λιβύῃ ξυνενεχθέντα οὕτω δὴ ἐπὶ τὸν λόγον τὸν ἀμφὶ Ἰταλίαν τε καὶ Γότθους ἰέναι.

Dewing For it has not seemed to me out of order first to record all the events which happened in Libya and after that to turn to the portion of the history touching Italy and the Goths.

Greek Τὸν μὲν οὖν χειμῶνα τοῦτον Βελισάριος μὲν ἐν Συρακούσαις, Σολόμων δὲ ἐν Καρχηδόνι διέτριψε.

Dewing During this winter Belisarius remained in Syracuse and Solomon in Carthage.

Greek καὶ τέρας ἐν τῷδε τῷ ἔτει ξυνηνέχθη γενέσθαι δεινότατον. ὁ γὰρ ἥλιος ἀκτίνων χωρὶς τὴν αἴγλην, ὥσπερ ἡ σελήνη, ἐς τοῦτον δὴ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν ἅπαντα ἠφίει, ἐκλείποντί τε ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐῴκει, τὴν ἀμαρυγὴν τὴν αὑτοῦ οὐ καθαρὰν οὐδὲ ᾗπερ εἰώθει ποιούμενος.

Dewing And it came about during this year that a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during this whole year, and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear nor such as it is accustomed to shed.

Greek ἐξ οὗ τε ξυμβῆναι τοῦτο τετύχηκεν, οὔτε πόλεμος οὔτε λοιμὸς οὔτε τι ἄλλο ἐς θάνατον φέρον τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἀπέλιπε. χρόνος δὲ ἦν ὅτε δέκατον ἔτος Ἰουστινιανὸς τὴν βασιλείαν εἶχεν.

Dewing And from the time when this thing happened men were free neither from war nor pestilence nor any other thing leading to death. And it was the time when Justinian was in the tenth year of his reign.

Greek Ἅμα δὲ ἦρι ἀρχομένῳ, ὅτε οἱ Χριστιανοὶ ἑορτὴν ἦγον ἣν δὴ Πασχαλίαν καλοῦσι, στρατιώταις στάσις ἐν Λιβύῃ ἐνέπεσεν. ἣ ὅπως τε ἐφύη καὶ ἐς ὅ τι ἐτελεύτησεν, ἐρῶν ἔρχομαι.

Dewing At the opening of spring, when the Christians were celebrating the feast which they call Easter, there arose a mutiny among the soldiers in Libya. I shall now tell how it arose and to what end it came.

Greek Ἐπειδὴ Βανδίλοι ἡσσήθησαν τῇ μάχῃ, ὥσπερ μοι ἔμπροσθεν εἴρηται, οἱ Ῥωμαίων στρατιῶται τὰς αὐτῶν παῖδάς τε καὶ γυναῖκας ἐν γαμετῶν ἐποιήσαντο λόγῳ.

Dewing After the Vandals had been defeated in the battle, as I have told previously,⁠ the Roman soldiers took their daughters and wives and made them their own by lawful marriage.

Greek ἡ δὲ αὐτῶν ἑκάστη τὸν ἄνδρα ἐνῆγε τῶν χωρίων τῆς κτήσεως μεταποιεῖσθαι ὧν αὐτὴ πρότερον κυρία ἐτύγχανεν οὖσα, οὐχ ὅσιον λέγουσα εἶναι, εἰ Βανδίλοις μὲν ξυνοικοῦσαι τούτων ἀπώναντο, τοῖς δὲ αὐτοὺς νενικηκόσιν ἐς γάμον ἐλθοῦσαι οὕτω δὴ τῶν σφίσιν ὑπαρχόντων στερήσονται.

Dewing And each one of these kept urging her husband to lay claim to the possession of the lands which she had owned previously, saying that it was not right or fitting if, while living with the Vandals, they had enjoyed these lands, but after entering into marriage with the conquers of the Vandals they were then to be deprived of their possessions.

Greek ταῦτα δὲ οἱ στρατιῶται ἐν νῷ ἔχοντες Σολόμωνι εἴκειν οὐκ ᾤοντο χρῆναι τὰ Βανδίλων χωρία ἔς τε τὸ δημόσιον καὶ ἐς τὸν βασιλέως οἶκον ἐθέλοντι ἀναγράψασθαι, φάσκοντί τε ὡς τὰ μὲν ἀνδράποδα καὶ τὰ ἄλλα πάντα χρήματα τοῖς στρατιώταις ἐς λάφυρα ἰέναι οὐκ ἀπεικὸς εἶναι, γῆν μέντοι αὐτὴν βασιλεῖ τε καὶ τῇ Ῥωμαίων ἀρχῇ προσήκειν, ἥπερ αὐτοὺς ἐξέθρεψέ τε καὶ στρατιώτας καλεῖσθαί τε καὶ εἶναι πεποίηκεν, οὐκ ἐφ’ ᾧ σφίσιν αὐτοῖς τὰ χωρία κεκτήσονται ὅσα ἂν βαρβάρους ἐπιβατεύοντας τῆς Ῥωμαίων βασιλείας ἀφέλοιντο, ἀλλ’ ἐφ’ ᾧ ἐς τὸ δημόσιον ταῦτα ἰέναι, ὅθεν σφίσι τε ξυμβαίνει καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασι τὰς σιτήσεις κομίζεσθαι.

Dewing And having these things in mind, the soldiers did not think that they were bound to yield the lands of the Vandals to Solomon, who wished to register them as belonging to the commonwealth and to the emperor's house and said that while it was not unreasonable that the slaves and all other things of value should go as booty to the soldiers, the land itself belonged to the emperor and the empire of the Romans, which had nourished them and caused them to be called soldiers and to be such, not in order to win for themselves such land as they should wrest from the barbarians who were trespassing on the Roman empire, but that this land might come to the commonwealth, from which both they and all others secured their maintenance.

Greek αὕτη μὲν τῆς στάσεως αἰτία ξυνέπεσε μία. καὶ ἑτέραν δέ τινα ξυνηνέχθη γενέσθαι τοιάνδε, ἣ οὐδέν τι ἧσσον, εἰ μὴ καὶ μᾶλλον, ἅπαντα ξυνταράξαι τὰ ἐν Λιβύῃ πράγματα ἴσχυσεν.

Dewing This was one cause of the mutiny. And there was a second, concurrent, cause also, which was no less, perhaps even more, effective in throwing all Libya into confusion. It was as follows.

Greek ἐν τῷ Ῥωμαίων στρατοπέδῳ τῆς Ἀρείου δόξης οὐχ ἧσσον ἢ χιλίους στρατιώτας εἶναι ξυνέπεσεν· ὧν δὴ οἱ πολλοὶ βάρβαροι ἦσαν καὶ αὐτῶν τινες ἐκ τοῦ Ἐρούλων ἔθνους.

Dewing In the Roman army there were, as it happened, not less than one thousand soldiers of the Arian faith; and the most of these were barbarians, some of these being of the Erulian⁠ nation.

Greek τούτους δὴ οἱ τῶν Βανδίλων ἱερεῖς ἐς τὴν στάσιν τὰ μάλιστα ὥρμων. οὐ γὰρ σφίσιν ἦν δυνατὰ τῷ θεῷ ἐξοσιοῦσθαι τὰ εἰωθότα, ἀλλὰ ἀπεκέκλειντο καὶ μυστηρίων καὶ ἱερῶν ἁπάντων.

Dewing Now these men were urged on to the mutiny by the priests of the Vandals with the greatest zeal. For it was not possible for them to worship God in their accustomed way, but they were excluded both from all sacraments and from all sacred rites.

Greek οὐ γὰρ εἴα βασιλεὺς Ἰουστινιανὸς ἄνδρα Χριστιανὸν οὐ μεταλαχόντα δόξης ὀρθῆς ἢ βαπτίσματι ἢ ἄλλῳ τῳ μυστηρίῳ χρῆσθαι.

Dewing For the Emperor Justinian did not allow any Christian who did not espouse the orthodox faith to receive baptism or any other sacrament.

Greek μάλιστα δὲ αὐτοὺς ἡ Πασχαλία ἑορτὴ ξυνετάραξε, καθ’ ἣν οὐχ οἷοί τε ἐγίνοντο τὰ σφέτερα αὐτῶν παιδία τῷ θείῳ βαπτίζειν λουτρῷ, ἢ ἄλλο τι ἐργάζεσθαι ἑς ταύτην δὴ τὴν ἑορτὴν ἄγον.

Dewing But most of all they were Agiad by the feast of Easter, during which they found themselves unable to baptize⁠ their own children with the sacred water, or do anything else pertaining to the feast.

Greek ὥσπερ δὲ οὐχ ἱκανὰ ταῦτα τῷ δαιμονίῳ διαφθεῖραι τὰ Ῥωμαίων πράγματα ἐν σπουδῇ ἔχοντι, ξυνέπεσέ τι καὶ ἄλλο τοῖς τὴν στάσιν μελετῶσιν ἐφόδιον.

Dewing And as if these things were not sufficient for Heaven, in its eagerness to ruin the fortunes of the Romans, it so fell out that still another thing provided an occasion for those who were planning the mutiny.

Greek τοὺς γὰρ Βανδίλους, οὓς Βελισάριος ἐς Βυζάντιον ἤνεγκε, κατεστήσατο βασιλεὺς ἐς καταλόγους ἱππικοὺς πέντε, ὅπως ἐν πόλεσι ταῖς ἑῴαις τὸν ἅπαντα ἱδρύσωνται χρόνον· οὓς καὶ Ἰουστινιανοὺς Βανδίλους καλέσας ἐκέλευσε ξὺν ναυσὶν ἐς τὴν ἕω κομίζεσθαι.

Dewing For the Vandals whom Belisarius took to Byzantium were placed by the emperor in five cavalry squadrons, in order that they might be settled permanently in the cities of the East; he also called them the "Vandals of Justinian," and ordered them to betake themselves in ships to the East.

Greek τούτων δὴ τῶν Βανδίλων στρατιωτῶν οἱ μὲν πλεῖστοι ἐς τὴν ἕω ἀφίκοντο καὶ τοὺς καταλόγους πληροῦντες ἐς οὓς διατετάχαται. ἄχρι τοῦδε ἐπὶ Πέρσας στρατεύονται· οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι, ἀμφὶ τετρακοσίους ὄντες, ἐπεὶ ἐν Λέσβῳ ἐγένοντο, κεκολπωμένων σφίσι τῶν ἱστίων τοὺς ναύτας βιασάμενοι Πελοποννήσῳ προσέσχον.

Dewing Now the majority of these Vandal soldiers reached the East, and, filling up the squadrons to which they had been assigned, they have been fighting against the Persians up to the present time; but the remainder, about four hundred in number, after reaching Lesbos, waiting until the sails were bellied with the wind, forced the sailors to submission and sailed on till they reached the Peloponnesus.

Greek ἐνθένδε τε ἀπάραντες ἐς Λιβύην κατέπλευσαν ἐν χωρίῳ ἐρήμῳ, οὗ δὴ τὰς ναῦς ἀπολιπόντες καὶ συσκευασάμενοι ἐς τὸ ὄρος τὸ Αὐράσιον καὶ ἐς Μαυριτανίαν ἀνέβησαν.

Dewing And setting sail from there, they came to land in Libya at a desert place, where they abandoned the ships, and, after equipping themselves, went up to Mt. Aurasium and Mauretania.

Greek οἷς δὴ ἐπηρμένοι οἱ στρατιῶται οἷς ἦν ἐν ἐπιμελείᾳ ἡ στάσις, ἔτι μᾶλλον ξυνίσταντο ἐν σφίσιν αὐτοῖς.

Dewing Elated by their accession, the soldiers who were planning the mutiny formed a still closer conspiracy among themselves.

Greek καὶ λόγοι τε πολλοὶ περὶ τούτου καὶ ὅρκοι ἤδη ἐν τῷ στρατοπέδῳ ἐγίνοντο. ἐπειδή τε τὴν ἑορτὴν ἄγειν ἔμελλον, ἀχθόμενοι τῇ κωλύμῃ τῶν ἱερῶν οἱ Ἀρειανοὶ σφόδρα ἐνέκειντο.

Dewing And there was much talk about this in the camp and oaths were already being taken. And when the rest were about to celebrate the Easter festival, the Arians, being vexed by their exclusion from the sacred rites, purposed to attack them vigorously.

Greek Ἔδοξέ τε αὐτῶν τοῖς κορυφαίοις ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τῇ πρώτῃ τῆς ἑορτῆς ἡμέρᾳ, ἣν μεγάλην καλοῦσι,

Dewing And it seemed best to their leading men to kill Solomon in the sanctuary on the first day of the feast, which they call the great day.

Greek Σολόμωνα κτεῖναι. καὶ ἔλαθόν γε οὐδενὸς τοῦτο δὴ ἐξενεγκόντος τὸ βούλευμα. ἅτε γὰρ πολλῶν ὄντων τῶν τὰ δεινὰ βουλευομένων ὁ λόγος περιφερόμενος ἐς δυσμενῆ οὐδένα ἐξέπιπτε, ταύτῃ τε λανθάνειν ἐξίσχυσαν, ἐπεὶ καὶ Σολόμωνος οἱ πολλοὶ δορυφόροι τε καὶ ὑπασπισταὶ καὶ τῶν οἰκετῶν οἱ πλεῖστοι ἐς ταύτην δὴ τὴν στάσιν ξυνετετάχατο τῇ τῶν χωρίων ἐπιθυμίᾳ.

Dewing And they were fortunate enough not to be found out, since no one disclosed this plan. For though there were many shot shared in the horrible plot, no word of it was divulged to any hostile person as the orders were passed around, and thus they succeeded completely in escaping detection, for even the spearmen and guards of Solomon for the most part and the majority of his domestics had become associated with this mutiny because of their desire for the lands.

Greek ἡμέρας δὲ ἤδη τῆς κυρίας παρούσης Σολόμων μὲν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἐκάθητο, μακρὰν τῶν αὑτοῦ ἀπολελειμμένος κακῶν.

Dewing And when the appointed day had now come, Solomon was sitting in the sanctuary, utterly ignorant of his own misfortune.

Greek ἐσελθόντες δὲ οἷς τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦτον κτεῖναι ἐδέδοκτο, νεύμασί τε ἀλλήλοις ἐγκελευσάμενοι, τῶν ξιφῶν ἥπτοντο, ἔδρασαν μέντοι οὐδέν, ἢ τὰ τελούμενα τηνικαῦτα ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ αἰσχυνόμενοι, ἢ διὰ τὴν τοῦ στρατηγοῦ δόξαν ἐρυθριῶντες, ἢ καί τι θεῖον αὐτοὺς διεκώλυσεν.

Dewing And those who had decided to kill the man went in, and, urging one another with nods, they put their hands to their swords, but they did nothing nevertheless, either because they were filled with awe of the rites then being performed in the sanctuary, or because the fame of the general caused them to be ashamed, or perhaps also some divine power prevented them.

Greek Ἐπειδὴ δὲ τά τε ἱερὰ ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἤσκητο ἤδη καὶ οἴκαδε ἐκομίζοντο ἕκαστοι, ἀλλήλους ᾐτιῶντο οἱ στασιῶται ἅτε μαλθακοὺς οὐκ ἐν δέοντι γεγενημένους, καὶ αὖθις ἀπετίθεντο ἐς τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν τὸ βούλευμα.

Dewing And when the rites on that day had been completely performed and all were betaking themselves homeward, the conspirators began to blame one another with having turned soft-hearted at no fitting time, and they postponed the plot for a second attempt on the following day.

Greek ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ διαγεγονότες ἄπρακτοι ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἀνεχώρησαν ἔς τε τὴν ἀγορὰν ἐλθόντες ἀλλήλοις ἐκ τοῦ ἐμφανοῦς ἐλοιδοροῦντο, αὐτός τε ἕκαστος μαλθακόν τε τὸν πέλας καὶ τῆς ἑταιρίας διαλυτὴν ἀποκαλῶν τὴν ἐς Σολόμωνα αἰδῶ ὀνειδίζειν οὐκ ἀπηξίου.

Dewing And on the next day they acted in the same manner and departed from the sanctuary without doing anything, and entering the market place, they reviled each other openly, and every single man of them called tanks the next one soft-hearted and a demoralizer of the band, not hesitating to censure strongly the respect felt for Solomon.

Greek διὸ δὴ οὐκέτι ἀκίνδυνον σφίσιν ᾤοντο ἔσεσθαι τὴν ἐν Καρχηδόνι διατριβὴν ἅτε ἐς τὸ πᾶν ἐξενεγκόντες τὸ βούλευμα.

Dewing For this reason, indeed, they thought that they could no longer without danger remain in Carthage, inasmuch as they had disclosed their plot to the whole city.

Greek οἱ μὲν οὖν πολλοὶ τῆς πόλεως ἔξω κατὰ τάχος γενόμενοι τά τε χωρία ἐληίζοντο καὶ Λίβυσιν οἷς ἂν ἐντύχοιεν ὡς πολεμίοις ἐχρῶντο· οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι ἐν τῇ πόλει διαμείναντες οὐ παρεῖχον αἴσθησιν ἧς εἶχον αὐτοὶ γνώμης, ἀλλ’ ἀγνοεῖν τὰ βεβουλευμένα προσεποιοῦντο.

Dewing The most of them, accordingly, went out of the city quickly and began to plunder the lands and to treat as enemies all the Libyans whom they met; but the rest remained in the city, giving no indication of what their own intentions were but pretending ignorance of the plot which had been formed.

Greek Σολόμων δὲ ἀκούσας ὅσα πρὸς τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ ἐπράσσετο, ἐς θόρυβόν τε πολὺν ἐμπεσὼν τοῖς ἐν τῇ πόλει ἐγκελευόμενος οὐκ ἀνίει ἐς εὔνοιαν τὴν βασιλέως παρακαλῶν.

Dewing But Solomon, upon hearing what was being done by the soldiers in the country, became greatly disturbed, and ceased not exhorting those in the city and urging them to loyalty toward the emperor.

Greek οἱ δὲ κατ’ ἀρχὰς μὲν ἐνδέχεσθαι τοὺς λόγους ἐδόκουν, ἡμέρᾳ δὲ τῇ πέμπτῃ, ἐπεὶ τοὺς ἐξεληλυθότας ἐν βεβαίῳ τυραννεῖν ἤκουσαν, ἐς τὸν ἱππόδρομον ξυλλεγέντες ἔς τε Σολόμωνα καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἄρχοντας ἀνέδην ὕβριζον.

Dewing And they at first seemed to receive his words with favour, but on the fifth day, when they heard that those who had gone out were secure in their power, they gathered in the hippodrome and insulted Solomon and the other commanders without restraint.

Greek ἔνθα δὴ πρὸς Σολόμωνος σταλεὶς Θεόδωρος ὁ Καππαδόκης παρηγορεῖν τε καὶ τιθασσεύειν αὐτοὺς ἐνεχείρει, οὐδέν τι ἐπαΐοντας τῶν λεγομένων.

Dewing And Theodorus, the Cappadocian, being sent there by Solomon, attempted to dissuade them and win them by kind words, but they listened to nothing of what was said.

Greek ἦν δέ τις Θεοδώρῳ τούτῳ δυσμένειά τε καὶ ἐπιβουλῆς ὑποψία ἐς Σολόμωνα.

Dewing Now this Theodorus had a certain hostility against Solomon and was suspected of plotting against him.

Greek διὸ δὴ οἱ στασιῶται στρατηγόν τε αὐτὸν σφίσιν αὐτίκα τῇ βοῇ ἐψηφίσαντο, καὶ ξὺν αὐτῷ σιδηροφοροῦντες καὶ θορύβῳ πολλῷ χρώμενοι ἐς τὸ Παλάτιον κατὰ τάχος ἧκον.

Dewing For this reason the mutineers straightway elected him general over them by acclamation, and with him they went with all speed to the palace carrying weapons and raising a great tumult.

Greek ἔνθα δὴ Θεόδωρον μὲν ἕτερον, ὃς τῶν φυλάκων ἡγεῖτο, κτείνουσιν, ἄνδρα τῆς τε ἄλλης ἀρετῆς ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἥκοντα καὶ διαφερόντως ἀγαθὸν τὰ πολέμια.

Dewing There they killed another Theodorus, who was commander of the guards, a man of the greatest excellence in every respect and an especially capable warrior.

Greek ἐπεὶ δὲ τοῦ φόνου τούτου ἐγεύσαντο, ἅπαντα ἤδη τὸν ἐν ποσὶν ἔκτεινον, εἴτε Λίβυν εἴτε Ῥωμαῖον, Σολόμωνι γνώριμον εἴτε χρήματα ἐν χερσὶν ἔχοντα, ἐνθένδε τε ἐς τὸ ληίζεσθαι ἀπεχώρησαν, ἀναβαίνοντες δὲ ἐς τὰς οἰκίας ἔνθα δὴ μὴ στρατιῶται ἠμύνοντο, ἅπαντα τὰ τιμιώτατα ἥρπαζον, ἄχρι νύξ τε ἐπιγενομένη καὶ μέθη τὸν πόνον διαδεξαμένη κατέπαυσε.

Dewing And when they had tasted this blood, they began immediately to kill everyone they met, whether Libyan or Roman, if he were known to Solomon or had money in his hands; and then they turned to plundering, going up into the houses which had no soldiers to defend them and seizing all the most valuable things, until the coming of night, and drunkenness following their toil, made them cease.

Greek Σολόμων δὲ ἐς τὸ ἱερόν, ὅ ἐστι μέγα ἐν Παλατίῳ, καταφυγὼν ἔλαθεν, ἔνθα δὴ καὶ Μαρτῖνος αὐτῷ ἀμφὶ δείλην ὀψίαν ἦλθεν.

Dewing And Solomon succeeded in escaping unnoticed into the great sanctuary which is in the palace, and Martinus joined him there in the late afternoon.

Greek ἐπεὶ δὲ οἱ στασιῶται πάντες ἐκάθευδον, ἐξελθόντες ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἐς τὴν Θεοδώρου τοῦ ἐκ Καππαδοκίας οἰκίαν ἦλθον, ὃς αὐτοὺς δειπνῆσαί τε οὔ τι προθυμουμένους ἠνάγκασε, καὶ ἐς τὸν λιμένα διακομίσας ἐς λέμβον νεὼς δή τινος ἐσεκόμισεν, ὃς δὴ ἐνταῦθα Μαρτίνῳ παρεσκευασμένος ἐτύγχανεν.

Dewing And when all the mutineers were sleeping, they went out from the sanctuary and entered the house of Theodorus, the Cappadocian, who compelled them to dine although they had no desire to do so, and conveyed them to the harbour and put them on the skiff of a certain ship, which happened to have been made ready there by Martinus.

Greek εἵποντο δὲ Προκόπιός τε, ὃς τάδε ξυνέγραψε, καὶ τῆς Σολόμωνος οἰκίας ἄνδρες πέντε μάλιστα.

Dewing And Procopius also, who wrote this history, was with them, and about five men of the house of Solomon.

Greek σταδίους τε τριακοσίους ἀνύσαντες ἀφίκοντο ἐς Μισούαν τὸ Καρχηδονίων ἐπίνειον, καὶ ἐπεὶ ἐγένοντο ἐν τῷ ἀσφαλεῖ, αὐτίκα Σολόμων ἐκέλευε Μαρτῖνον ἐς Νουμιδίαν παρὰ Βαλεριανόν τε καὶ τῶν ξυναρχόντων τοὺς ἄλλους ἰέναι, πειρᾶσθαί τε, εἴ πως δύναιτο αὐτῶν ἕκαστος τῶν τινας γνωρίμων στρατιωτῶν ἢ χρήμασιν ἢ τρόπῳ ἑτέρῳ τῳ ὑπελθὼν ἐς εὔνοιαν τὴν βασιλέως μεταγαγεῖν.

Dewing And after accomplishing three hundred stades they reached Misuas, the ship-yard of Carthage, and, since they had reached safety, Solomon straightway commanded Martinus to go into Numidia to Valerian and the others who shared his command, and endeavor to bring it about that each one of them, if it were in any way possible, should appeal to some of the soldiers known to him, either with money or by other means, and bring them back to loyalty toward the emperor.

Greek καὶ πρὸς Θεόδωρον γράμματα ἔπεμπε, Καρχηδόνος τε ἐπιστέλλων ἐπιμελεῖσθαι καὶ τὰ ἄλλα διέπειν ὅπη ἂν αὐτῷ δοκῇ δυνατὰ εἶναι, αὐτὸς δὲ ξὺν Προκοπίῳ παρὰ Βελισάριον ἐς Συρακούσας ἀφίκετο.

Dewing And he sent a letter to Theodorus, charging him to take care of Carthage and to handle the other matters as should seem possible to him, and he himself with Procopius went to Belisarius at Syracuse.

Greek ἅπαντά τε αὐτῷ ἀγγείλας ὅσα ἐν Λιβύῃ γενέσθαι ξυνέπεσεν, ἐδεῖτο κατὰ τάχος ἰέναι τε ἐς Καρχηδόνα καὶ βασιλεῖ ἀμῦναι πάσχοντι πρὸς στρατιωτῶν τῶν αὐτοῦ τὰ ἀνόσια. καὶ Σολόμων μὲν ταῦτα ἐποίει.

Dewing And after reporting everything to him which had taken place in Libya, he begged him to come with all speed to Carthage and defend the emperor, who was suffering unholy treatment at the hands of his own soldiers. Solomon, then, was thus engaged.