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Appendix: Useful Literary References to Cypriote Earthquakes of the Fourth Century A.D.
by Eugene Lane
A. 332 A.D.- Destruction of Salamis 1. Theophanes- Chronographia, anno 5824. Constantini Magni 27. This passage is totally ungrammatical but the sense is that "a very strong earthquake which took place on Cyprus caused the city of Salamis to collapse and destroyed a large number of people." 2. George Cedrenus- anno Constantini 28 (I, 519, Bonn). This passage is also ungrammatical but says "an earthquake took place on Cyprus, the city of Salamis collapsed and a great number of people were killed."
B. 342 A.D.- the Second Earthquake at Salamis 1. Theophanes- Chronographia, anno 5834, Constantii II, 6. This passage asserts "when a great earthquake took place on Cyprus, most of the city of Salamis fell apart." 2. John Malalas- XII p.313 Bonn. This is a confused and unreliable source which Oberhummer places here. "In Constantius Chlorus" reign, the city of Salamis of Cyprus suffered from a disaster, being sunk by an earthquake."
C. The literary references found in Ambraseys (see footnote 7) are abundant but extremely confusing and inaccurate. One example will suffice to illustrate this. The paragraph which treats earthquakes
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