Konstantinos 42 was known as Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ κατὰ τὸν Τριφύλιον (Theoph. Cont.); Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ Τριφύλλιος (Ps.-Symeon); it was foretold during the reign of the emperor Theophilos 5 (by an Arab woman "pythoness"; see Anonyma 6) that he and his sons would be tonsured and would become clerics during the reign of the emperor Basil I (Basilios 7); the prophecy came true: Theoph. Cont. III 27 (p. 122), Ps.-Symeon 635. A man of high rank and dignity (ὁ τῆν κλῆσιν ἐπευμοιρῶν καὶ ταῖς ἐκ βασιλέως κατὰ πρεσβείαν τιμαῖς ἁβρυνόμενος) under Theophilos 5, he asked an Arab prophetess (Anonyma 6) what was the future for himself and his children, and was told that he and his children would be tonsured and would enter the priesthood during the reign of the emperor Basilios 7 (αὐτὸς σὺ καὶ τὰ σὰ τέκνα ἀποκαρήσεσθε ἱερωθησόμενοι κληρικῶν καταστήματι ἐπὶ αὐτοκράτορος Βασιλείου); this came true for him at the end of his life, when the emperor was angry with him; his sons were Niketas 157 and Georgios 230: Genesius III 15. See Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, pp. 152, 157, 185.

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