»  Paul  has  here  misunderstood  the  language  of  Bede  from  whom
he  took  this  statement  and  who  said  that  Justinian  executed  Leo
(Leontius)  and  Tiberius  (Apsimar)  the  patricians  who  had  ex-
pelled him.     No  other  patricians  are  referred  to  (Jacobi,  50).
*  Justinian  II,  who  had  been  exiled  to  Cherson  (see  ch.  12,  note
supra),  was  rejected  by  the  citizens  of  that  place,  whereupon  he
roamed  through  the  southern  part  cf  Russia  and  took  refuge  with


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nus'  the  patriarch  of  Constantinople  and  sent  him  to
Rome  and  he  appointed  Cyrus  the  abbot  who  had  taken
care  of  him  when  he  was  an  exile  in  Pontus,  as  bishop
in  the  place  of  Gallicinus.  He  ordered  Pope  Constan-
tine  to  come  to  him,  and  received  him  and  sent  him
back  with  honor.  *  Falling  upon  the  earth  he  asked  the
Pope  to  intercede  for  his  sins  and  he  renewed  all  of  the
privileges  of  his  church.  3  When  he  sent  his  army  into
Pontus  to  seize  Filippicus,  whom  he  had  held  there  in
bondage,  this  same  venerable  Pope  earnestly  forbade
him  from  doing  this  but  he  could  not,  however,  pre-
vent it.
the  Cagan  of  the  Khazars,  a  Hunnish  tribe  settled  aroimd  the  sea
of  Azof,  and  the  Cagan  gave  him  in  marriage  his  sister  Theodora.
