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Zeno flees to Isauria; Basiliscus seizes power

The Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes records under the consulship of Zeno Augustus for the second time alone (AD 475) that the emperor Zeno, trapped by the plots of his mother-in-law Verina and her brother Basiliscus, fled with his wife Ariadne (OCR 'Ariagne') to Isauria, and that the usurper Basiliscus seized Zeno's realm.

Limits: A Latin chronicle written at Constantinople c. 518-534, used through Mommsen's 1894 edition (MGH AA 11) as Internet Archive OCR text (page images not checked); the English is an AI working translation. 'tetendit' (OCR 'teteudit') is Mommsen's emendation (the manuscripts read 'tendit'), and S reads 'mariagnae' for 'Ariagne'; the interleaved '10' is an OCR line number. Mommsen's foot note on the page cites Jordanes and Bede only for the second item of this year, not for this one; no Greek parallel column is printed. The retained passage does not explicitly establish the site of the relevant act. No occurrence region is assigned.

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Source: Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon (Latin), ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH Auctores antiquissimi 11 (Chronica minora II), 1894Read the source