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537 [329] U.C.Varr.<br />

1290. IIpost<br />

consultatum Belisarii<br />

M.S.Anon. apud<br />

Marcellin. Justiniani<br />

Novellæ: see col.<br />

2.3.<br />

Anypata (on the<br />

consulship) B.<br />

Paulino II et<br />

Bilisario III O.<br />

Post cons. Belisarii<br />

anno III V.<br />

Belisarius the<br />

second solo Chron.<br />

Pasch.<br />

538 1291. Fl. Joannes<br />

Cappadox solus.<br />

V.M.Anon. apud<br />

Marcellin. Chron.<br />

Pasch. Justiniani<br />

Novellæ: see col 3.<br />

the beatitude pope of the respected Rome, which on the one hand was written to Flavius<br />

the bishop of the reigning city [dat. Id. Juniis A.D. 449], and on the other hand includes<br />

the minutes of the Synod of Carthage-[conf. Acta Concil. tom.4 p. 1214-1227] and he hid<br />

well his bad-faith deep inside his mind-he rushed to bring us back to our previous<br />

confusion and to cause a commotion to the holy and catholic churches everywhere-we<br />

on the other hand examined carefully according to the laws (by-laws)-everything that<br />

has happened during Anthimus service-we agree with the well-versed (well-written) by<br />

the holy and of blessed memory (always remembered) Agapetus, and by the appointed by<br />

the holiest patriarch of the reigning city Menas, and by the holiest syno, which was<br />

summoned by him, and following the penalties imposed by them according to the divine<br />

and royal laws, we approve the imposed deposition of Anthimus etc. see col. 4<br />

Justiniani 11 from kal. April.<br />

Belisarius is besieged in Rome by Witiges: Procop. Goth. I. 16 p.353 A. with 150,000<br />

men: p.352 B he with all his army he advanced against Rome and Belisarius, leading an<br />

army consisted of cavalry and infantry, not less than 150,000. In March: p.372 C the<br />

siege took place during March. Then follows p. 393 A the winter was ending and the<br />

second year was completing fo this war of which Procopius wrote about. March A.D.<br />

537. The second was was conumerary with the tenth of Justinian because the first was<br />

conumerary with the ninth: conf.a.535, which established the reading tenth for eleventh in<br />

Procop. Goth. I p.348 B.<br />

The siege of Rome lasted a year: Procop. Goth. I.24 p. 372 C the siege was going to<br />

finish a year later. Conf. II.10 p.411 C III.16 p.502 D. A truce is made at the winter<br />

solstice-because already the year was about the winter solstice p.404 C. for three months:<br />

II.t p.404 D to the truce-during which no attack will take place at each other for three<br />

months. Conf. p. 405 C when Belisarius saw that there were many solders in Rome, he<br />

ordered Joannes with eight hundred cavalry to spent the winter around the city of Alba.<br />

Jornandes Get. c. 60 Witigis-omnen Gothorumexercitum congrerat Ravennaque egressus<br />

Romanas arcesobsidione longa fatigat, sed frustrate ejus audacia, post XIV menses ab<br />

obsidione Romanæ urbis augfugit. Idem regn. p. 717 Per anni spatium. Paulus Diac.<br />

XVII p. 570 Cum per annum continuum Gptthi Romam obsedissent. Conf. Anonymum<br />

apud Marcellinum hoc anno.<br />

Justiniamni Novella 47 =authent. Const. 48 Ut præponatur nomen imperatoris documentis,<br />

et ut Latinis literis apertius tempra inscribantur. Joanni pf.p.II-sancimus eos quicunque<br />

gestis ministrant-hoc modo incipere in documentis: “Imperii illius sacratissimi Augusti<br />

imperatoris anno toto”[leg. Quoto. Græca habent at that year] et post illa inferred consulis<br />

appellationem qui in illo anno ets, et tertio loco indictionem mensem et diem.-Et inchoetur<br />

mox auctore Deo a præcedente prima indictione [Sept. 1 A.D. 537. male igitur<br />

præcedente. Rectius Græca habent they commenced immediately from the previous first<br />

indiction] ita quodammoda eis scribentibus: “Imperii Justiniani sacratissimi Aug. et imp. anno XI<br />

post consultatum Fl.Belisarii CI.V.II, die ante tot et tot et tot Kalendas”&c. Palam namque est quia<br />

nunc quidemannum XI nostril scribunt imperii,, inchoante vero Aprili mense et prima die (inqua<br />

nos Deus Rommanorum superposuit rebus) XII annum scribent, et ita de cetero donec nostrum<br />

Deus imprium extenserit, &c. datum prid. Kal. Sept. CP. imperante Justiniano perp. Aug. anno XI<br />

post consultatum Belisarii V.C. anno secundo.<br />

Justiniani 12 from Kal. April.<br />

Witiges retires from Rome a year and nine days after the siege began: Procop.Goth. II.10<br />

p.411 C When the Goths were informed about the Ariminum and because all their<br />

necessary supplies were exhausted and since the time of the three months had already<br />

completed, they departed.-that year was around the spring solstice, and<br />

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