Belisarius restores Sicily to Roman rule
Marius reports that Belisarius entered Sicily and restored it to Roman rule during his consulship.
What this does and does not establish
Marius of Avenches's chronicle, not the anonymous continuation of Marcellinus. Sicily explicitly establishes the European location. The supplied OCR's 'oam iniperio' is retained and translated as eam imperio. The anonymous continuation independently describes the expedition to Sicily under 535 but combines it with a subsequent African intervention; that broader sequence is not adopted here.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 535, consulship of Belisarius, indiction XIII
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Read chronicaminorasa11momm.txt, lines 21298–21336. The explicit a. 535 heading at line 21310 names Belisarius and indiction XIII. The sentence additionally specifies that the action occurred in the year in which he held the consulship, confirming Julian AD 535 rather than relying on a marginal numeral. Checked the apparatus at line 21336 and the anonymous continuation's 535 heading and Sicily narrative at lines 8841–8851, with its apparatus at lines 8883–8893. No month is supplied.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Chronica of Marius of Avenches
Marius of Avenches
Quoted text (Latin)
Siciliam ingressus oam iniperio
Romano restituit.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Having entered Sicily, he restored it to Roman rule.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Chronica of Marius of Avenches, Mommsen 1894, MGH AA 11, Internet Archive OCR; project working translation.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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