FASTI ROMANI ROME AND CONSTANTINOPLE

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142 to Marthanes. Dat. XV Kal. Dec. CP.D.N.
Justiniano PP. Aug. Mention is made of
duodecimæ indcitionis of the already past cycle,
which would describe A.D. 533/4. all these Basilio
V.C.consule. Nov. 113 to Theodotus.-dat. X kal.
Dec. CP. imp. &c. anno XV Belisario [lege Basilio]
V.C. cons. Nov. 153 to Menas, the most glorious
consul of Illyria. Dat.prid. Id. Dec. CP.
D.N.Justiniano PP. Aug. Basilio V.C.cons.
Justiniani Novella 115 Theodotus, consul of the
sacred east Pretoria. Dat. JKal. Feb. CP. imp. D.N.
Justiniani PP. Aug. ann. XV, post Basilii V.C.cons.
Nov. 122 indiction. [sc. Ed.6.] Dat. II Kal. Apr. CP.
imp. &c. anno XV, post Basilii V.C. cons. Nov.
116=Authent. Const. 109 Theodoto. Dat. Id. Apr.
CP. imp. D.N. Justiniani PP. Aug. anno XVI, post
Basilii V.C.cons. Nov. 121 Arselius, archon of
Tarsus. Dat. XVII Kal. Maii CP. post Basilii V.C.
cons. Nov. 117=Authent. Const. 113 Theodoto, Dat.
III Id. Dec. CP. imp. &c. anno XVI, post Basilii
V.C.cons.
Avagrius H.E.IV.29 describes himself at this period. He was
still at school at Antioch when the plague began (see col. 2),
and wrote in the 52 nd year after its commencement: I will tell
you about the broken in disease, which lasted for 52 years
(not previously reported) and plagued all the land. – And
these many times were happening at the periods of the socalled
indictions, in the cities and other places; in particular,
total destruction fell on the people at the fifty second year
cycle; even I myself suffered by the disease-it happened at
the beginning of that plague while I was studying at the
kindergarten, I saw many dying from the disease; in
addition, many of the deceased were from my immediately
family and their spouses and from the slaves and many
peasants [conf. VI.23].-When I was writing these, being 58 th
years old, within these two years (already Antioch had
suffered four times by the plague since the fourth cycle had
already gone) I had lost a daughter and her child. P.404 D
therefore, (as it has told me) it (the plague) remained for 52
years before its end. The fourth fiftieth (54 th ) was current.
The plague began in the 5 th year of the first, or indict. 5
A.D.542. The author wrote in the 12 th year of the fourth or
indict. 12 A.D. 593, the 52nd