Excerpt from The Syriac Chronicle: Known as That of Zachariah of Mitylene
Zachariah's work then forms the basis of our Syriac author's bks. 3 - 6. The author did not, however, incorporate Zachariah in full, but epitomated him, as is clear from the fact that Evagrius quotes as from Zachariah a statement which is not found in our text.1 On the other hand, the main narrative in these books is so homogeneous that in general we may assume that no other source was used. In 3. 1, however, occur three passages which are found in almost identical words in John of Ephesus,2 and must therefore have been interpolated either from John or from a common source, since the identity of language forbids us to postulate a common use of the Greek Zachariah. To another source also may be ascribed the list of Emperors and short secular chronicle with which bk. 3 concludes, the chronological summary at the end of the preface to bk. 4, for which the authority of a certain Xpovucév is cited,3 and the notice of Zeno's death and the secular events of his reign in 6. 6.
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