Cant. Long life to you, N., crowned of God.
℟. Long life to you.
Cant. Long life to you, Lords, and to the Augustae, and to the Princes born in the purple.
℟. Long life to you.
The cantors proceed; But the Creator and Lord of all things, (the people repeat) who hath crowned you with his own hand, (the people repeat) will multiply your years with the Augustae and the Princes born in the purple, (the people repeat) unto the perfect stabiliment of the Romans.
Both choirs then chant Many be the years of the Emperors, etc., and the Emperor descends, wearing the crown, into the Metatorion, and seated upon his throne, the nobles come and do homage, kissing his knees. After which the Praepositus says At your service, and they wish him Many and prosperous years.
The Liturgy now proceeds, and the Emperor makes his Communion.
The ceremonial at the coronation of an Empress[20] was much the same as that observed in the case of the Emperor. The coronation act, however, was performed not by the Patriarch but by the Emperor himself. If the Emperor was married after his accession, the whole ceremony of the crowning of his consort took place immediately after the wedding, and not publicly in the church of St Sophia, but as a private court function in the Augusteum.
The Euchologia, as has been mentioned above, give the text of the prayers used, which Constantine only indicates. They are as follows[21].
As the Emperor stands with bowed head with the Patriarch in the Ambo a deacon says the Ectene or Litany.