The inscription in the church of Saints Sergios and Bacchos in Constantnoplee commissioned by Justnian and Theodora .
Ἄλλοι μὲν βα]σιλῆες ἐτιμήσαντο θανόντας
ἀνέρας, ὧν ἀνόνητος ἔην πόνος· ἡμέτερος δὲ
εὐσεβίην σκηπτοῦχος Ἰουστινιανὸς ἀέξων
Σέργιον αἰγλήεντι δόμῳ θεράποντα γεραίρει
Χριστοῦ παγγενέταο· τὸν οὐ πυρὸς ἀτμὸς ἀνάπτων,
οὐ ξίφος, οὐχ ἑτέρη βασάνων ἐτάραξεν ἀνάγκη,
ἀλλὰ θεοῦ τέτληκεν ὑπὲρ Χριστοῖο δαμῆναι
αἵματι κερδαίνων δόμον οὐρανόν. ἀλλ᾽ ἐνὶ πᾶσιν
κοιρανίην βασιλῆος ἀκοιμήτοιο φυλάξοι
καὶ κράτος αὐξήσειε θεοστεφέος Θεοδώρης,
ἧς νόος εὐσεβίῃ φαιδρύνεται, ἧς πόνος ἀεὶ
ἀκτεάνων θρεπτῆρες ἀφειδέες εἰσὶν ἀγῶνες.
See;
- http://www.livius.org/pictures/turkey/istanbul/constantinople-ss-sergius-and-bacchus/sergius-and-bacchus-greek-inscription-1/
- David Hendrix, The Byzantine Legacy, 2016 - https://www.thebyzantinelegacy.com/sergius-bacchus
- Paweł Nowakowski, Anicia Juliana and her involvement in the cult of saints in Constantinople, ANAMED Summer Programme in Byzantine Epigraphy (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, 3-9 September 2018)
- Brian Croke: “Justinian, Theodora, and the Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vol. 60, 2006, pp. 25–63. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25046210. Accessed 8 Jan. 2021.
