Rebuilding of a burned church
Marcellinus reports that the emperor soon began rebuilding a church burned during the uprising in Constantinople.
What this does and does not establish
Marcellinus's original chronicle, rather than its anonymous continuation. The preceding narrative locates the uprising in the imperial city, Constantinople, in Europe. This clause does not name the church. The apparatus reports that S omits the clause and that T and R have accusative constructions.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Culture and knowledge
- 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
- 532, indiction X, second postconsular year of Lampadius and Orestes
- 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 8753–8824. The explicit 532 heading at line 8773 names indiction X and repeats the postconsulate of Lampadius and Orestes, following their 530 consulship and the first postconsular entry for 531. This identifies Julian AD 532. The preceding narrative gives the Ides of January; the rebuilding clause supplies no separate month. Checked the apparatus at lines 8812–8820 and the contradictory placement of the uprising under 530 in Victor, lines 18684–18688; Marius independently places it under 532, lines 21293–21297.
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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)
ecclesia tunc incensa mox coepit ab eodem Augusto renovari.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
The church burned at that time soon began to be rebuilt by the same Augustus.
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
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