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Headword: Michaêl
Adler number: mu,1140
Translated headword: Michael
Vetting Status: high
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:
Michaêl, basileus Rhômaiôn, ho meta ton Armenion Leonta basileusas: hos mikron ti tês prokataschousês kakias hupendous, hoson tous en heirktais kai ponois kai exoriais eleutherian te kai anesin oneirôdê phantazesthai, to tou proêgêsamenou dusônumou kai dussebous hupethalpe theostuges phronêma, kai homoiôs tôi autôi amphiblêstrôi peripareis tês deinês haireseôs ichthuos dikên tois tôn dogmatôn sathrois kai asebesin enapethanen ex akrotatês abeltêrias te kai alogias. amuêtos gar sphodra kai apaideutos etunchanen: amathian gar ek patrôias alogias kai apeirokalias hôsper hikanên ousian eklêrôsato.
Notes:
George the Monk, Chronicon 792.7-18.
[1] Michael 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.
[2] Leo 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.
[3] Probably 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.
[4] He was of humble origin and advanced through an army career, marrying Thecla (theta 102), daughter of the thematic commander.
Reference:
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; Christianity; chronology; dreams; ethics; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; religion; women; zoology
Translated by: Kiril Galev on 18 August 2003@06:30:26.
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David Whitehead (supplied headword and initial note; modified translation; x-ref; keywords; cosmetics) on 18 August 2003@08:28:02.
Catharine Roth (modified translation) on 18 August 2003@23:47:01.
Catharine Roth (continued to modify translation) on 19 August 2003@13:44:21.
Catharine Roth (continued modifying translation) on 19 August 2003@17:56:07.
Catharine Roth (modified translation) on 20 August 2003@13:50:27.
David Whitehead (modified note) on 22 August 2003@03:29:37.
Catharine Roth (added keyword) on 5 October 2005@01:38:42.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 16 November 2005@08:39:19.
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