Marcellinus Comes, in his Chronicle, records that the heretic Eutyches was condemned at a council held in the church of *Euphemia (martyr of Chalcedon, S00017) at Chalcedon in 451 (i.e. the Council of Chalcedon). Written in Latin in Constantinople, 518/534.
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Marcellinus Comes, Chronicle
IIII. Marciani Augusti et Adelfi
Leone pontifice sedem beati Petri regente sexcentorum triginta patrum sancta et universalis synodus contra Eutychetem nefandissimorum praesulem monachorum apud Calchedonam in basilica sanctae Eufemiae firmata est: solus Dioscorus Alexandrinae ecclesiae episcopus dissensit statimque ab iisdem catholicis patribus sacerdotio abdicatus est.
'4th indiction, consulship of Marcian Augustus and Adelphius [= 451]
While Leo was ruling as pontiff in the see of Blessed Peter a holy and universal synod of six hundred and thirty fathers was declared in the basilica of Saint Euphemia in Chalcedon against Eutyches, leader of the most impious monks. Only Dioscorus, bishop of Alexandria, disagreed and he was immediately removed from his bishopric by these same catholic fathers.
Text: Mommsen 1894.
Translation: Croke 1995, modified.
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Source
Marcellinus (PLRE II, 'Marcellinus 9') was an imperial official at Constantinople under the emperors Anastasius, Justin, and Justinian. The epithet Comes ('Count') is his official rank. He came originally from the province of Dardania in the western Balkans, and wrote in Latin.Marcellinus' Chronicle was a continuation of the chronicle of Jerome, covering events from the 370s to 518. It was subsequently updated to 534 by Marcellinus himself, and to 548 by an anonymous continuator. Marcellinus dates events by indictions (the fifteen-year tax cycle used in the later Roman empire) and by the consuls of each year.
Bibliography
Edition:Mommsen, T., Marcellini v.c. comitis Chronicon, in: Chronica minora saec. IV V VI VII (II) (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores antiquissimi 11; Berlin, 1894), 60-108
English translation and commentary:
Croke, B., The Chronicle of Marcellinus: Text and Commentary (Byzantina Australiensia 7; Sydney, 1995).
Further reading:
Croke, B., Count Marcellinus and His Chronicle (Oxford, 2001).
David Lambert
16/07/2020
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00017 | Euphemia, martyr of Chalcedon | Eufemia | Certain |
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