Anonymus 274 was a messenger sent by the emperor Leo V (Leo 15) to Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite) and Nikolaos 26 in their exile at Bonita in the Anatolikon theme, with a book containing a letter written against the emperor; he demanded to know when, how and to whom it had been written; when they admitted authorship, he had Nikolaos 26 stripped naked and beaten almost to death and then left out in the cold; the date was 3 February; he then had Theodoros 15 also beaten; all his efforts to beat Nikolaos 26 into abandoning Theodoros 15 and rejecting his faith (in the veneration of icons) were ineffective and he finally departed: Vita Nic. Stud. 885A-888A. Theodoros 15 and Nikolaos 26 were in exile at Bonita for three years, probably 817 to 820. See also Anastasios 60 and Krateros 2.

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