This Longinus[1] and Konon [were] brothers of the emperor Zeno. They shared his power lawlessly by setting boundary lines for others’ properties in all the cities; indeed, they directed their support to those who falsified the boundaries for a price. And Longinus was also full of all sorts of wantonness, always spending his time with drunkards and keeping plenty of pimps around. Indeed, some of them promised that they would bring him the wives of the highest state officials, while others brought him prostitutes and deceived him by dressing them in stupendous outfits and placing them on fancy couches, as if they were presenting him with the real thing. And this Longinus also undid a community of ascetic women in the following way. After dinner[2] while he was staying at the celebrated springs[3], his procurers reported that the women were very pretty. And he sent them beans and dry bread as well as short dresses and some other things, as if he were being friendly to them in contrast to their fears (for women-hawks[4] are clever at discovering pretty occasions for catching the female sex). And going into the sanctuary he seduced many of the women by compulsion disguised as persuasion,[5] for he was so lecherous that he assaulted free women and wives of state officials and young girls before their time, in short he acted completely without restraint. And in a public procession he threw out bracelets and silver balls.[6] And this Longinus was also responsible for many other bad things.