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 back again. Mean time there had been two other emperors, both of whom he murdered. Finally he was murdered himself, with his son Tiberius. In him, therefore, the Heraclian dynasty expired. Philippicus, Anastasius II., and Theodosius III. rapidly followed. Their reigns were very brief, and ended with the year 717. The first established the Monothelite doctrines in the Church; the second re-established orthodoxy; and the third is only remarkable for having advanced the fortunes of Leo the Isaurian, and rendered it possible for him to be proclaimed emperor.