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Tochars, making alliances, and towards the Ethiopians. 4. Concerning the giraffe, what it is like. 5. How the Ethiopians, having grown in power, perpetrated evils in the region of Syria and against Noga. 6. How the three queens were joined to husbands and to which ones. 7. The affairs concerning the Despoina, the German Anna. 8. The affairs concerning the brother of the Despoina Anna, Manfred, and Charles. 11 9. How the walls of the city by the sea were raised with wooden planks and 11 why, and concerning the preparation of the emperor. 10. How the emperor, removing John from the way, blinded him. 11. The affairs concerning Manuel Holobolos and the suspicion of the rest on account of John. 12. The affairs concerning the Zygenoi, how they revolted from the emperor on account of John. 13. An apology of the Zygenoi to one another concerning him whom they had received as John. 14. How the patriarch was disposed upon learning what happened to John and how he excommunicated the emperor. 15. How the people of the fleet of Romaïs performed bravely with the triremes. 16. How the brothers of the emperor were entrusted with the administrations of the western parts. 17. The affairs concerning the parakoimomenos John Makrenos. 18. How the emperor had arranged the affairs concerning the Haemus, himself giving orders to the generals of the forces while sitting at home. 19. How the emperor, circumventing the patriarch, sought the lifting of the excommunication. 20. How the despots John and Michael of the West came together in the same place according to an agreement. 21. How the despot John, freed from the western affairs, attacks the enemies in the east and a partial praise of him. 22. How the affairs concerning the Maryandeni, the Bucellaria, and Paphlagonia were grievously afflicted, being destroyed. 23. Concerning the comet that appeared from the north during the summer months, and the expedition of the emperor to the west, and concerning the patriarch Arsenios. 24. Concerning Bekkos and Xiphilinos, the rulers of the church. 25. Concerning the Sultan Azatines and concerning the Tochars. 26. How the patriarch received the emperor when he came, and with how much reproof and zeal. 27. A marriage alliance between the daughter of Eulogia, Anna, and Nikephoros the despot, son of the despot Michael. 28. Concerning the rumored falsehood about an invasion of the Tochars against Nicaea. 13

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An address of the emperor to the bishops concerning his own affairs. 2. How the

ruler sent Joseph of Galesios to the patriarch, seeking the lifting of the excommunication. 3. How a bill of indictment against the patriarch was given to the emperor. 4. How and where the case against the patriarch Arsenios was investigated. 5. How the patriarch came to the emperor and how he was almost deceived. 6. How, when the bishops were assembled, the final message and thereupon the decision was made. 7. How three bishops, going as envoys of the others, announced the terms of the deposition to the patriarch. 8. How the emperor, sending men, removes the patriarch from the patriarchate and the events that then occurred. 9. How the patriarchs of the East, both of Alexandria and of Antioch, were disposed concerning the deposition of the patriarch. 10. How the patriarch, while still in office, wished to recall as bishop Andronikos of Sardis. 11. An address of the emperor concerning the schismatics. 12. How Germanos of Adrianople is elected to the patriarchate and what sort of man he was. 13. How Germanos is elevated to the patriarchate and what is done. 14. How the patriarch, having transferred Holobolos to the church of God, honored him with the office of rhetor and appointed him teacher. 15. How some from the palace, having been accused of sacrilege, also implicated the patriarch Arsenios. 16. How the author is sent to him together with the bishops and concerning what happened to them. 17.

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Τοχάρους, κήδη ποιῶν, καὶ πρὸς τοὺς Αἰθίοπας. δʹ. Περὶ καμηλοπαρδάλιος, ὁποῖόν ἐστιν. εʹ. Ὅπως αὐξηθέντες Αἰθίοπες τὰ κατὰ Συρίαν κακὰ διεπράξαντο καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸν Νογᾶν. ʹ. Ὅπως αἱ τρεῖς βασιλίδες ἀνδράσιν ἡρμόσθησαν καὶ ὁποίοις. ζʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τὴν δέσποιναν Ἀλαμάναν Ἄνναν. ηʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἄννης τῆς δεσποίνης Μαφρὲ καὶ τὸν Κάρουλον. 11 θʹ. Ὅπως σανίσιν ἀνυψοῦντο τὰ πρὸς τῇ θαλάσσῃ τείχη τῆς πόλεως καὶ 11 διὰ τί καὶ περὶ ἑτοιμασίας τοῦ βασιλέως. ιʹ. Ὅπως τὸν Ἰωάννην ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐκποδὼν ποιῶν ἐξετύφλου. ιαʹ. Τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ὁλοβώλου Μανουὴλ καὶ τῆς τῶν λοιπῶν ὑποβλέψεως διὰ τὸν Ἰωάννην. ιβʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τοὺς Ζυγηνούς, ὅπως ἀπεστάτησαν βασιλέως διὰ τὸν Ἰωάννην. ιγʹ. Ἀπολογία τῶν Ζυγηνῶν πρὸς ἀλλήλους ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὃν ὡς Ἰωάννην ὑπεδέξαντο. ιδʹ. Ὅπως διετέθη ὁ πατριάρχης μαθὼν τὰ συμβάντα Ἰωάννῃ καὶ ὅπως τὸν βασιλέα ἀφώρισεν. ιεʹ. Ὅπως διὰ τῶν τριήρεων ἠνδραγάθουν ὁ τοῦ στόλου τῆς Ῥωμαΐδος λαός. ιʹ. Ὅπως οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τοῦ βασιλέως τὰς τῶν δυτικῶν ἐνεχειρίσθησαν διοικήσεις. ιζʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τὸν παρακοιμώμενον Μακρηνὸν Ἰωάννην. ιηʹ. Ὅπως ὁ βασιλεὺς τὰ περὶ τὸν Αἷμον διατεθείκει, αὐτὸς ἐπιτάττων τοῖς στρατηγοῖς τῶν δυνάμεων, οἴκοι καθήμενος. ιθʹ. Ὅπως, ὑπερχόμενος τὸν πατριάρχην, ὁ βασιλεὺς τὴν τοῦ ἀφορισμοῦ λύσιν ἐζήτει. κʹ. Ὅπως συνῆλθον ἐν ταὐτῷ κατὰ συνθεσίας οἱ δεσπόται Ἰωάννης τε καὶ Μιχαὴλ ὁ τῆς δύσεως. καʹ. Ὅπως ὁ δεσπότης Ἰωάννης, ἀπαλλαγεὶς τῶν δυτικῶν, τοῖς κατ' ἀνατολὴν ἐχθροῖς προσβάλλει καὶ μερικὸς ἔπαινος τούτου. κβʹ. Ὅπως δεινῶς ἐνόσει ἀπολλύμενα τὰ κατὰ Μαρυανδηνούς, τὰ Βουκελλάριά τε καὶ ἡ Παφλαγονία. κγʹ. Τὰ περὶ τοῦ φανέντος κομήτου ἐκ βορρᾶ ἐπὶ μησὶ τοῖς τοῦ θέρους καὶ τῆς ἐπὶ δύσιν ἐκστρατείας τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ περὶ τοῦ πατριάρχου Ἀρσενίου. κδʹ. Τὰ περί τε Βέκκου καὶ Ξιφιλίνου τῶν τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἀρχόντων. κεʹ. Τὰ περὶ τοῦ σουλτὰν Ἀζατίνου καὶ τὰ περὶ τῶν Τοχάρων. κʹ. Ὅπως ὑπεδέξατο ὁ πατριάρχης ἐλθόντα τὸν βασιλέα καὶ μεθ' ὅσου ἐλέγχου καὶ ζήλου. κζʹ. Κῆδος ἐπί τε τῇ θυγατρὶ Εὐλογίας Ἄννῃ καὶ Νικηφόρῳ δεσπότῃ, υἱῷ τοῦ δεσπότου Μιχαήλ. κηʹ. Περὶ τοῦ φημισθέντος ψεύδους διὰ Τοχάρων ἐπιδρομὴν κατὰ Νίκαιαν. 13

{ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΥ ΛΟΓΟΥ}.

∆ημηγορία βασιλέως πρὸς τοὺς ἀρχιερεῖς περὶ τῶν καθ' αὑτόν. βʹ. Ὅπως τὸν

τοῦ Γαλησίου Ἰωσὴφ πρὸς τὸν πατριάρχην ἀπέστελλεν ὁ κρατῶν, ζητῶν λύσιν τοῦ ἀφορισμοῦ. γʹ. Ὅπως λίβελλος κατηγορίας κατὰ τοῦ πατριάρχου ἐδόθη τῷ βασιλεῖ. δʹ. Ὅπως καὶ ὅπου ἐζητοῦντο τὰ κατὰ τὸν πατριάρχην Ἀρσένιον. εʹ. Ὅπως ὁ πατριάρχης πρὸς βασιλέα ἀφίκοιτο καὶ ὅπως παρὰ μικρὸν παραλογισθείη. ʹ. Ὅπως, συναχθέντων τῶν ἀρχιερέων, τὸ τέλειον μήνυμα καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἡ ἀπόφασις γέγονεν. ζʹ. Ὅπως ἀπελθόντες τρεῖς ἀρχιερεῖς ἐξ ἀποστολῆς τῶν ἄλλων τῷ πατριάρχῃ τὰ τῆς καθαιρέσεως παρεδήλωσαν. ηʹ. Ὅπως πέμψας ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐξάγει τοῦ πατριαρχείου τὸν πατριάρχην καὶ τὰ τότε συμβάντα. θʹ. Ὅπως οἱ τῆς ἀνατολῆς πατριάρχαι, ὅ τε Ἀλεξανδρείας καὶ ὁ Ἀντιοχείας, περὶ τὴν καθαίρεσιν τοῦ πατριάρχου διετέθησαν. ιʹ. Ὅπως ἤθελεν ὁ πατριάρχης, ἐπὶ τῆς τιμῆς ὤν, ἀνακαλεῖσθαι ὡς ἀρχιερέα τὸν Σάρδεων Ἀνδρόνικον. ιαʹ. ∆ημηγορία τοῦ βασιλέως περὶ τῶν σχιζομένων. ιβʹ. Ὅπως ψηφίζεται ὁ τῆς Ἀδριανοῦ Γερμανὸς εἰς τὸ πατριαρχεῖον καὶ ὁποῖος οὗτος. ιγʹ. Ὅπως ἀνάγεται Γερμανὸς εἰς τὸ πατριαρχεῖον καὶ τί διαπράττεται. ιδʹ. Ὅπως τὸν Ὁλόβωλον μεταγαγὼν ὁ πατριαρχεύων εἰς τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐκκλησίαν ὀφφικίῳ ῥήτορος ἐτίμα καὶ διδάσκαλον καθίστα. ιεʹ. Ὅπως ἐγκληθέντες τινὲς τῶν τοῦ παλατίου καθοσιώσεως καὶ τὸν πατριάρχην εἰσῆγον Ἀρσένιον. ιʹ. Ὅπως ὁ συγγραφεὺς συνάμα ἀρχιερεῦσιν εἰς ἐκεῖνον πέμπεται καὶ περὶ ὧν αὐτοῖς συνέβη. ιζʹ.