4.2 For in the 22nd year, in March, he was saved in the harbor called Cenchreae. And on the 8th of the month of April he began to clear and rebuild the Hexamilion itself, the length of which is 3900 fathoms. And he erected 153 towers upon it. And an inscription was found on marble, saying thus: «Light from light, true God from true God, protect the Emperor Justinian and his faithful servant Victorinus and all those living in Greece who live from God.» 4.3 And in the 24th year, in the month of March, he returned to the City. In which month, after the arrival of the holy emperor himself, the patriarch Kyr Euthymios also died; and on the 21st of May of the same year Kyr Joseph of Ephesus became patriarch. 4.4 And in the 25th year the emperor Kyr Johnnes went to the Morea in the autumn season; at which time, passing through Thessalonica, he took that Mustafa, the false son of Bayezid, who was being pursued by his supposed brother Mehmed, and sent him to Lemnos, and afterwards to Mystras.

5.1 And in the winter of that same year, when a plague occurred in the Black Sea and a famine was found in one of the castles there, my brother-in-law Gregorios Palaiologos Mamonas was governor, an excellent man, son of the grand duke Maronas and once lord of Monemvasia and its environs; and also my sister and his wife and one female child of theirs, the child died first, and 7 days after the child its father, and seven days after the father its mother, and also six of their servants, both men and women, while only two of them were left. Coming to the City, they told these things with one voice to my wretched parents, who died strangely on hearing this, even if they did not die completely from this, but afterwards also from weakness; which was also the reason why my father did not go to the Morea with the Despot Kyr Thomas in the position of his tutor, and I with him to serve as his table-attendant and chamberlain, as we were appointed by the holy emperor, the father of the said Despot; and we were preparing, and because my first brother was in the Morea with the emperor. But another after me, when the death of our brother occurred, leaving father and mother and brothers, became a monk in the monastery called Charsianites, in which was also the true teacher Kyr Joseph. 5.2 And when the same plague occurred around spring and summer also in the City, in the month of August the Despoina Kyra Anna of Russia also died of a pestilential disease and was buried in the monastery of Lips. 6.1 And at the beginning of the 26th year the Despot Kyr Thomas was also sent to the Morea by the holy emperor his father; at which time the emperor Kyr Ioannes also returned to the City. And the emperor, the holy father of the latter, brought me to his chamber on March 17th, I being 10 years of age, and that holy man 69.

6.2 And in the 27th year in the month of November the Despoina Kyra Sophia, the daughter of the Marquess of Montferrat, came to the City. And on the 19th of January of the same year Kyr Ioannes blessed her and was crowned emperor in Hagia Sophia; at which coronation there was truly a feast of feasts and a festival of festivals.

7.1 And in the 28th year the emir, who was Kyritzes and Mehmed, came, so that he might cross from the City to the East; and having learned beforehand as a secret from his people, that he was going in order to set matters right in the East, and, when he should return, he has the intention and plan to come against the City, all those of the holy emperor who were entrusted with the secret, the rulers and the clergy, urged and

4.2 Τῷ κβ-ῳ ἔτει Μαρτίῳ γὰρ ἔσωσεν ἐν τῷ λιμένι τῶν Κεχρεῶν ὀνομαζομένῳ. Καὶ τῇ η-ῃ τοῦ Ἀπριλίου μηνὸς ἤρξατο ἀνακαθαίρειν καὶ ἀνοικοδομεῖν αὐτὸ δὴ τὸ Ἑξαμίλιον, ὅπερ ἔνι τὸ μῆκος οὐργιὲς #22γωʹ. Ἀνέστησε δὲ πύργους ἐπ' αὐτῷ ρνγʹ. Εὑρέθησαν καὶ γράμματα ἐν μαρ μάρῳ λέγοντα οὕτως· «Φῶς ἐκ φωτός, θεὸς ἀληθινὸς ἐκ θεοῦ ἀληθινοῦ, φυλάξῃ τὸν αὐτοκράτορα Ἰουστινιανὸν καὶ τὸν πιστὸν αὐτοῦ δοῦλον Βικτωρῖνον καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι οἰκοῦντας τοὺς ἐκ θεοῦ ζῶν-τας.» 4.3 Καὶ τῷ κδ-ῳ ἔτει μηνὶ Μαρτίῳ ἐπανέστρεψεν εἰς τὴν Πόλιν. Ἐν ᾧ μηνὶ μετὰ τὴν ἄφιξιν αὐτοῦ δὴ τοῦ ἁγίου βασιλέως καὶ ὁ πατριάρχης κὺρ Εὐθύμιος ἀπέθανε· καὶ τῇ κα-ῃ Μαΐου τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους ἐγεγόνει πα τριάρχης ὁ Ἐφέσου κὺρ Ἰωσήφ. 4.4 Καὶ τῷ κε-ῳ ἔτει ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὸν Μορέαν ὁ βασιλεὺς κὺρ Ἰωάν νης ἐν ᾥρᾳ τοῦ φθινοπώρου· ἐν ᾧ δὴ καιρῷ, εἰς τὴν Θεσσαλονίκην διερ χόμενος, τὸν πλαστὸν υἱὸν τοῦ Παϊαζήτου ἐκεῖνον τὸν Μουσταφᾶν ἀ πῆρε διωκόμενον παρὰ τοῦ τάχα ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ Μεχεμέτι καὶ εἰς τὴν Λῆμνον ἀπέστειλε, μετέπειτα δὲ εἰς τὸν Μυζηθρᾶν.

5.1 Ἐν δὲ τῷ χειμῶνι τοῦ αὐτοῦ δὴ ἔτους θανατικοῦ γενομένου ἐν τῇ Μαύρῃ Θαλάσσῃ καὶ φαμελικῶς εὑρισκομένων εἰς κάστρον ἓν τῶν ἐκεῖσε κεφαλατεύοντες ὁ γαμβρός μου Γρηγόριος ὁ Παλαιολόγος ὁ Μα μωνᾶς, ἀνὴρ ἄριστος υἱὸς μεγάλου δουκὸς τοῦ Μαρωνᾶ καὶ αὐθέντη ποτὲ τῆς Μονεμβασίας καὶ τῶν περὶ αὐτήν· ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἡ ἀδελφή μου καὶ γυ νὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ παιδὶ ἓν αὐτῶν θῆλυ, ἀπέθανε πρῶτον τὸ παιδὶ καὶ εἰς ζʹ ἡμέρας τοῦ παιδὸς ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰς ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας τοῦ πατρὸς ἡ μή τηρ αὐτοῦ, ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἓξ τῶν ὑποχειρίων αὐτῶν, ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν, ἐναπολειφθέντων δὲ δύο καὶ μόνον τῶν αὐτῶν. Ἐλθόντες ἐν τῇ Πόλει εἶπον ἐν μιᾷ φωνῇ ταῦτα τοὺς ἀθλίους μου γενέτας, οἳ καὶ ἀλλοτρόπως ἀπέθανον ἀκούσαντες τοῦτο, εἰ καὶ οὐκ ἀπέθανον ὡς τελέως ἀπὸ τούτου, μετέπειτα καὶ ἀσθενῶς· ὅπερ ἦν καὶ αἴτιον τοῦ μὴ ἐλθεῖν τὸν γενήσαντά με εἰς τὸν Μορέαν μετὰ τοῦ αὐθεντοπούλου κὺρ Θωμᾶ εἰς τάξιν τατᾶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐμοῦ μετ' αὐτοῦ εἰς ὑπηρεσίαν ἐπιτραπεζίου καὶ κελλιώτου αὐτοῦ, ὡς ὡρίσθημεν παρὰ τοῦ ἁγίου βασιλέως, τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ ῥηθέντος αὐθεντοπούλου· καὶ ἡτοιμαζόμεθα, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὅτι ὁ μὲν ἐμοῦ πρῶτος ἀδελφὸς ἦν εἰς τὸν Μορέαν μετὰ τοῦ βασιλέως. Ὁ δὲ μετ' ἐμὲ ἕτερος, ὡς ἐπῆλθεν ὁ θάνατος τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ, ἀφεὶς καὶ πατέρα καὶ μητέρα καὶ ἀδελφούς, εἰς τὴν τοῦ Χαρσιανίτου λεγομένην μονήν, ἐν ᾗ ἦν καὶ ὁ κατ' ἀλήθειαν διδάσκαλος κὺρ Ἰωσήφ, γέγονε καλόγερος. 5.2 Τοῦ δ' αὐτοῦ θανατικοῦ γενομένου περὶ τὸ ἔαρ καὶ τὸ θέρος καὶ εἰς τὴν Πόλιν, ἐν μηνὶ Αὐγούστῳ ἀπέθανε καὶ ἡ δέσποινα κυρὰ Ἄννα ἡ ἀπὸ τῆς Ῥωσσίας λοιμώθει νόσῳ καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν τῇ τοῦ Λιβὸς μονῇ. 6.1 Καὶ εἰς τὰς ἀρχὰς τοῦ κ-ου ἔτους ἐστάλη καὶ εἰς τὸν Μο ρέαν παρὰ τοῦ ἁγίου βασιλέως καὶ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁ αὐθεντόπουλος κὺρ Θωμᾶς· ἐν ᾧ δὴ χρόνῳ ἐπανέστρεψεν εἰς τὴν Πόλιν καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς κὺρ Ἰωάννης. Καὶ ἐμὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς ὁ ἅγιος καὶ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸ κελ λίον αὑτοῦ προσηγάγετο Μαρτίῳ ιζ-ῃ, ὑπάρχοντός μου χρόνων ιʹʹ, ἐκεί νου δὲ τοῦ ἁγίου ξθʹʹ.

6.2 Καὶ τῷ κζ-ῳ ἔτει ἐν μηνὶ Νοεμβρίῳ ἦλθεν εἰς τὴν Πόλιν καὶ ἡ δέσποινα κυρὰ Σοφία, ἡ τοῦ Μόντες Φεράντες μαρκεσίου θυγάτηρ. Καὶ τῇ ιθ-ῃ τοῦ Ἰαννουαρίου τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους εὐλογήθη αὐτὴν καὶ ἐστέφθη καὶ βασιλεὺς ὁ κὺρ Ἰωάννης ἐν τῇ ἁγίᾳ Σοφίᾳ· ἐν ᾗ δὲ στέψει ἐγεγό νει ὄντως ἑορτῶν ἑορτὴ καὶ πανήγυρις πανηγύρεων.

7.1 Καὶ τῷ κη-ῳ ἔτει ἦλθεν ὁ ἀμηρᾶς ὁ καὶ Κυρίτζης καὶ Με χεμέτης, ἵνα ἀπὸ τῆς Πόλεως περάσῃ εἰς τὴν Ἀνατολήν· καὶ προμαθόν τες ὡς ἐν μυστηρίῳ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκείνου, ὅτι ὑπάγει, ἵνα τὰ τῆς Ἀνατολῆς διορθώσῃ, καὶ, ὡσὰν ἐπιστρέψῃ, ἔχει σκοπὸν καὶ μελέτην ἐλθεῖν κατὰ τῆς Πόλεως, πάντες οἱ τοῦ βασιλέως τοῦ ἁγίου ἐμπιστευθέντες τὸ μυστήριον, ἄρχοντες καὶ τῶν ἱερωμένων παρώτρυνον καὶ