Bleda and Attila ravage Illyricum and Thrace
The Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes records under the consulship of Eudoxius and Dioscorus (AD 442) that the brothers Bleda and Attila, kings of many peoples, laid waste Illyricum and Thrace.
What this does and does not establish
The OCR interleaves the Greek comparison column with Latin text. The three cited Latin portions form one sentence; de- and populati belong to one word. The Greek column is not counted as a second witness.
- 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
- Indiction/consul heading (OCR line 6648): '442 X. EYDOXII ET DiOSCORL'
- How we use it
- Placed in the consular year under which Marcellinus enters it (as numbered by the editor). Consular years run from 1 January; entries are not dated within the year, and the chronicle can misplace events.
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
Consular year to AD 442 per the heading index marcellinus-headings.json (one indiction/consul heading per year in order, indiction expected 10, read 10), matching the AD years Mommsen prints in the margin.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon (Latin), ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH Auctores antiquissimi 11 (Chronica minora II), 1894
Marcellinus Comes (6th-century, Constantinople); critical edition by Theodor Mommsen (1894)
Quoted text (Latin)
Bleda et Attila fratres multarumqueAI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
The brothers Bleda and Attila, and of many
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon, ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH AA 11 (1894), Internet Archive OCR text. English renderings are AI working translations from the Latin.
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e805805fe7b68265bd53e46c3152420178fa7275b1ed420804dfd243bfc628c9Source 2 · Supports the statement
Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon (Latin), ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH Auctores antiquissimi 11 (Chronica minora II), 1894
Marcellinus Comes (6th-century, Constantinople); critical edition by Theodor Mommsen (1894)
Quoted text (Latin)
gentium reges Illyricuin Thraciamque de-AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
peoples the kings, [de-] Illyricum and Thrace
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon, ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH AA 11 (1894), Internet Archive OCR text. English renderings are AI working translations from the Latin.
Exact source version
e805805fe7b68265bd53e46c3152420178fa7275b1ed420804dfd243bfc628c9Source 3 · Supports the statement
Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon (Latin), ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH Auctores antiquissimi 11 (Chronica minora II), 1894
Marcellinus Comes (6th-century, Constantinople); critical edition by Theodor Mommsen (1894)
Quoted text (Latin)
populati sunt.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
…laid waste [completes depopulati sunt].
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon, ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH AA 11 (1894), Internet Archive OCR text. English renderings are AI working translations from the Latin.
Exact source version
e805805fe7b68265bd53e46c3152420178fa7275b1ed420804dfd243bfc628c9Checks and changes
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
This is a corrected version of this record. During research, before this release, an earlier version was withdrawn after independent review and replaced by this one.
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