Historiae p.4 from the east, this man also rebels against him and, having prevailed, seizes the imperial power, giving an evil reward to the one who h
Completely senseless of what is good, who, having set a goal among themselves to destroy komnenos and thus also destroy the porphyrogennetos, the brot
He had claimed the inheritance, at the same time also securing his own safety, so that he might not suffer any of the terrible things such as the many
Another born in the purple who had departed this life, had a greater right to rule? it is clear, therefore, that the famed alexios among emperors, hav
After he had exercised tyrannical power for many years and had overthrown almost all the east, he was appointed ambassador, having tried to join toget
Dull and slow to punish. there are many other proofs of the man's virtue, and not least his renunciation of the empire how, the narrative as it proce
Had been demonstrated, doukas led him with every honor, calling him lord and emperor and deeming him worthy of precedence whenever he came to him and
Of europe, since the descendants of hagar, having risen in sedition against one another, divided the greatest dominion into many parts, one ruling one
While encouraging his people, when his horse slipped, he was thrown to the ground with it and, breaking his neck, was killed. and when this happened,
Fitting, they were attacking the towns of armeniakon to plunder them, he took up his forces and proceeded against the turks and, encountering them sca
To leave her unconsoled in the greatness of her suffering, adding suffering to suffering, adding your long absence to his death.” thus the emperor. an
Being present and arranging the matters of war well. for wishing to draw the emperor forward and get him within his nets, he sent out skirmishers, who
Alyates, a cappadocian man and an associate of the emperor, commanded the right wing, bryennius himself the left, and the emperor held the center of t
To make a disposition of the whole. thus it seemed also to the emperor michael and he agreed with the purpose of his uncle but those who wished to re
He seizes. but having learned this, those around the emperor and the caesar were considering whom they might set up as an opponent to him. it seemed b
The truth shone forth like a torch hidden under soot. but those who nourished the divine fear in their hearts and were in labor with a spirit of salva
Entered thickets and were saved, but of the rest some fell, and others were taken captive. and so the phalanx of diogenes was thus dissolved and scatt
Having handled the matters of his elevation with skill, he was both cast down himself and brought down the affairs of the romans with him how the one
Therefore, having encamped, they were considering how they might drive away the attacking turks who were sacking the towns. 2.4 but so much for them.
One different from the others, theodotos by name, said that what was happening was not a good omen for when the night comes on, they will flee at on
He hastened to the queen of cities in order to take up the gold and ransom his brother. therefore, having collected this in a few days, he went away t
He began to speak: 2.10 to me, men, to make no attempt at all against the enemy, but instead to betray ourselves into slavery and obvious danger, see
They were trying to help isaacius and the glorious alexius, he himself by name called upon the glorious alexius and implored him to help but he, imme
Was deliberating, but seeing time was still being wasted, he was enraged for he wished to be rid of the fear from that man and thus to revel fearless
But he, choosing to face extreme danger for his father's own safety, turned back and thrust himself into the midst of the enemy and having struck down
The children's cots lay there. and when they saw the cot of the one who had escaped was empty, immediately each one, just as he was, beat the pedagogu
By many, and be destroyed, they selected a narrow plain, putting forward the river flowing down from sophon as a rampart. but artouch, having crossed
But when he was checking their assaults, he no longer waited for their incursions, but advancing on the forts held by the enemy, he set ambushes and s
To receive and, having dined with him, he finally arrests him and, having made him a prisoner, sends him to the stratopedarches, having taken hostages
A crowd is brought out and he is seen by all as if he were blind this act completely silenced the uproar. the commander of the army, then, having rec
As he was passing through the narrow straits and going down beside the sea towards heracleia, maurex met him, a man not of noble birth, but otherwise
He pretended to be friendly to the patriarch and behaved in a friendly manner towards him, but he was cultivating the magistrates. therefore the doux,
3.τ book 3 3.1 the preceding account makes clear, therefore, all that happened in the east after the deposition of the emperor diogenes, and how many
Were arranged and the nation of the franks, having mastered italy and sicily, were plotting terrible things against the romans, michael planned for th
A guard had been entrusted, was going about in odrysae towards the city formerly called orestias, but now adrianople, who, having stopped at a certain
He died with good hopes, leaving behind his most beloved child, but again the evil men seemed to be winning and the marriage was not taking place, as
Impulse, but something that happened persuaded him on the following day, even unwillingly, to yield to their will. 3.9 for having encamped at trajanop
Having offered thanksgiving sacrifices, he returned home and was deliberating about what to do next, and he called all the generals and commanders to
Bryennius, seeing that the time of the siege was being wasted in vain, so that the army might not suffer further hardship, wanted to lift the siege, b
They tried to hinder his march with their arrows. but those around him, being brave, although few, nevertheless sallied out against the turks and chec
He was pleased for since it was already a late hour, it seemed that some uproar and disturbance would happen in the city, if some were to be captured
I remained with the one in power until the end and, while all were turning to your rule, i myself have kept faith with him even until now, having sent
He hastened for the scepters of the kingdom, as much as possible, to win the goodwill of the citizens, especially when he learned about the affairs of
A man being both good in appearance and very skilled in conversation. when the ambassadors had approached and made the customary address for ambassado
He exercised and trained the soldiers through him. and whenever they were already able to ride safely and seemed to be adequately and skilfully traine
For on the evening before this, letters had been sent to him from the emperor ordering him not to fight, but to await the arrival of the allies recent
To wander, at a loss how, while they were fleeing, he both showed the horse and the broadswords and clearly proclaimed the death of bryennios, and the
Now, the pursuers were not a great multitude, so their retreat was easy. but when many ran together and his horse was worn out and useless for running
Therefore, having taken him, he himself departed as if for constantinople but the scarlet-dyed sandals, which that man used to wear when playing the
Sleeping in his tent, without any delay he ordered everyone to arm themselves and immediately all were under arms. and when the sun was towards the we
Recognizing basilakes, he strikes him with his sword upon the helmet but with the sword having been broken near his hand and having fallen, komnenos
Counsel conquers many hands, which at that time received confirmation through his own deeds. for one man and one mind in a short time brought down th
He ordered the protovestiarios this was the eunuch john, who had long served him before his reign he was ambitious, if anyone ever was, and possesse
That campaign, being most experienced, and already seeing the imminent danger before his eyes, advised him to turn back. but he, receiving his words a
Servants with another one of his servants, he went where they said kontostephanos would be and seeing him calling out from afar, covering his head, he
As he was passing through the narrow straits and going down beside the sea towards Heracleia, Maurex met him, a man not of noble birth, but otherwise energetic and possessing the greatest possible experience in maritime affairs; for which reason he seemed indispensable to the emperors of the Romans and enjoyed many gifts from them, so as to acquire very great wealth and a multitude of slaves and of other servants for military matters, and to build a splendid house. This man, upon meeting him, asked him to be his guest, and he agreed. When they were near Heracleia, the stratopedarch first went to the church of the Mother of God not made by hands, in which he had offered thanksgivings to the Savior of all and to his mother; then he was entertained as a guest by Maurex. 2.27 While the things for his departure were being prepared for him, it was reported that Turks were coming down to plunder; the news immediately stirred him to arms more than, as they say, the piping of Timotheus long ago stirred Alexander. So, having armed himself and mounted his horse, he went out with those around him; and the men of Maurex also followed with him, experienced in war and brave, whose leader was Michael Boutoumites, a man small in stature, as Homer says, but a fighter. But the Turks, seeing them from afar and unable to withstand the flashing of their weapons and the good order of their formation and the irresistibility of their charge, fled uncontrollably. And they, having driven them far from those borders and having struck some down, returned. The stratopedarch was pleased with the incidental victory on his way and wished to remain in the territories of Heracleia, in case he might be able to encounter Turks who had come down to plunder; for he wished to increase his trophies and thus enter the great city as a crowned pentathlete. But a letter sent from the emperor and a single-banked ship with rowers prevented him from this impulse; for the letter ordered him to board the ship with Urselius and to reach the capital quickly, as the Turks were lying in ambush around the passes. He therefore did what was commanded and hastened by ship towards the Propontis; but when a strong north-northwesterly wind suddenly blew, he almost ran the risk of being shipwrecked, had not the Mother of God manifestly rescued him; for at the same time he called upon her aid and immediately the sea was calmed, and so it happened that he escaped this surge. 2.28 When he reached the capital, the emperor received him kindly and greeted him gladly and, to use his own words, said, "Welcome, our right hand after God." But this was the first reward he had from the emperor for his labors, he himself first receiving the emperor's thanks; and after this, honors and distinctions. He also had Urselius held securely in prison, whom the good Alexios deemed worthy of all kinds of care, supplying him with many necessities from his own home and calming the emperor's anger towards him. So things were thus regarding the renowned Alexios. But the Emperor Michael appointed Isaacius doux of Antioch, since the doux of Antioch, the protoproedros Joseph Tarchaneiotes, had just paid the common debt, and the affairs there had fallen into sedition, so that the uprisings that had sprung up could barely be calmed by his son, the magistros Katakalon, especially as the tyranny of Philaretos was already beginning to grow. And since he thought the patriarch Aemilianus was the cause of the seditions, he ordered that he be sent away to Constantinople with the greatest haste. The logothete, who had long been hostile to the patriarch, also promised that he would receive rewards from the emperor, if only he would drive the patriarch from the city. So Komnenos, on reaching Antioch, was received with the greatest honor both by those in authority and by the very one who directed the patriarchal throne; but having entered the city, he pretended to court the patriarch and behaved in a friendly manner towards him, fearing the goodwill of the populace towards that man; for the city was divided in two, and one part to the
∆ιελθόντι δὲ τοὺς στενωποὺς καὶ παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν κατιόντι πρὸς τὴν Ἡράκλειαν ὁ Μαύρηξ ἀπήντα, ἀνὴρ οὐ τῶν εὖ γεγονότων, ἐντρεχὴς
δὲ ἄλλως καὶ πεῖραν τῶν κατὰ θάλατταν ἔχων ὅτι πλείστην· διὸ δὴ καὶ βασιλεῦσι Ῥωμαίων ἀναγκαῖος ἐδόκει καὶ πολλῶν ἀπήλαυε
τῶν ἐξ αὐτῶν δωρημάτων, ὡς καὶ πλοῦτον κτήσασθαι πλεῖστον καὶ δούλων πλῆθος καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὑπηρετούντων περὶ τὰ στρατιωτικὰ
καὶ οἰκίαν ἀνεγεῖραι λαμπράν. Ἀπαντήσας δ' οὗτος ἠξίου ἐπιξενωθῆναί οἱ, ὁ δ' ἐπείθετο. Ἐπεὶ δὲ περὶ τὴν Ἡράκλειαν ἐγένοντο,
ἐπῄει πρότερον ὁ στρατοπεδάρχης ἐπὶ τὸν ἀχειροποίητον τῆς Θεομήτορος ναόν, ἐν ᾧ τὰ χαριστήρια ἐτεθύκει τῷ πάντων Σωτῆρι καὶ
τούτου μητέρι· εἶτ' ἐπεξενίσθη τῷ Μαύρηκι. 2.27 Ἐν ὅσῳ δὲ αὐτῷ τὰ πρὸς τὴν ἔξοδον ἑτοιμάζετο, ἀπήγγελτο Τούρκους κατιέναι
εἰς προνομήν· τὸν δ' εὐθὺς ὁ λόγος πρὸς τὰ ὅπλα ἐκίνησε μᾶλλον ἢ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον, ὥς φασι, πάλαι ἡ Τιμοθέου αὔλησις. Ὁπλισάμενος
οὖν καὶ τοῦ ἵππου ἐπιβάς, ἐξῄει σὺν τοῖς περὶ αὐτόν· ξυνείποντο δέ οἱ καὶ οἱ τοῦ Μαύρηκος ἄνδρες ἐμπειροπόλεμοι καὶ γενναῖοι,
ὧν κατάρχων ἦν ὁ Βουτουμίτης Μιχαήλ, ἀνὴρ μικρὸς μέν, ὥς φησιν Ὅμηρος, δέμας, ἀλλὰ μαχήτης. Ἀλλ' οἱ Τοῦρκοι πόρρωθεν τούτους
ἰδόντες καὶ τὴν ἀστραπὴν τῶν ὅπλων καὶ τὸ τῆς τάξεως εὔρυθμον καὶ τὸ τῆς ὁρμῆς ἀνυπόστατον μὴ ὑπενεγκόντες ἔφευγον ἀκρατῶς.
Οἱ δὲ πόρρω τούτους τῶν ὁρίων ἐκείνων ἀπελάσαντες καὶ καταβαλόντες ἐνίους ἐπανῄεσαν. Ἥσθη τῷ παρέργῳ τῆς κατὰ πάροδον νίκης
ὁ στρατοπεδάρχης καὶ ἐβούλετο καρτερεῖν ἐν τοῖς τῆς Ἡρακλείας ὁρίοις, εἴ που ἐντυχεῖν δυνηθείη Τούρκοις εἰς προνομὴν κατελθοῦσιν·
ἐβούλετο γὰρ αὐξῆσαι τὰ τρόπαια καὶ οὕτως εἰς τὴν μεγαλόπολιν πένταθλος εἰσελθεῖν στεφανίτης. Ἀλλ' ἐκ βασιλέως πεμφθέντα γράμματα
καὶ ναῦς σὺν ἐρέταις μονήρης ἐκώλυσαν αὐτὸν τῆς ὁρμῆς· ἐκέλευον γὰρ τὰ γράμματα εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν ναῦν σὺν τῷ Οὐρσελίῳ καὶ
ταχέως τὴν βασιλίδα καταλαβεῖν, ὡς ἐνεδρευόντων περὶ τὰς διόδους τῶν Τούρκων. Ὁ μὲν οὖν ἐποίει τὸ κελευσθὲν καὶ διὰ τῆς νηὸς
ἠπείγετο πρὸς τὴν Προποντίδα· θρασκίου δὲ πνεύσαντος ἐξαίφνης σφοδροῦ, μικροῦ ἂν ἐκινδύνευε ναυαγίῳ περιπεσεῖν, εἰ μὴ προφανῶς
τοῦτον ἡ Θεομήτωρ ἐρρύσατο· ἅμα τε γὰρ ἐπεκαλέσατο τὴν ταύτης βοήθειαν καὶ εὐθὺς ἡ θάλασσα κατηυνάζετο καὶ οὕτω γέγονε διαδρᾶναι
τοῦτον τὸν κλύδωνα. 2.28 Καταλαβόντα δὲ τοῦτον τὴν βασιλίδα φιλοφρόνως ὁ βασιλεὺς ὑπεδέχετο ἠσπάζετό τε ἡδέως καί, ἵνα τοῖς
ἐκείνου χρήσωμαι ῥήμασι, "καλῶς, ἔφησεν, ἧκεν ἡ μετὰ Θεὸν δεξιὰ ἡμῶν χείρ". Ἀλλὰ ταύτην μὲν πρώτην ἔσχεν ἐκ βασιλέως ἀμοιβὴν
τῶν πόνων, τὴν βασιλέως εὐχαριστίαν πρώτως αὐτὸς ἐντυχών· μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο ἐτίμα καὶ σύμβολα. Εἶχε δὲ καὶ τὸν Οὐρσέλιον εἱρκτὴ
φρουρούμενον ἀσφαλῶς, ὃν ὁ καλὸς τὰ πάντα Ἀλέξιος παντοίας ἐπιμελείας ἠξίου, πολλὰ τῶν ἀναγκαίων οἴκοθεν αὐτῷ χορηγῶν καὶ
τὴν βασιλέως αὐτῷ κατευνάζων ὀργήν. Τὰ μὲν οὖν κατὰ τὸν κλεινὸν Ἀλέξιον οὕτω. Ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Μιχαὴλ τὸν Ἰσαάκιον, ἄρτι τοῦ
δουκὸς Ἀντιοχείας τοῦ πρωτοπροέδρου Ἰωσὴφ τοῦ Ταρχανειώτου τὸ κοινὸν ἀποτίσαντος χρέος καὶ τῶν ἐκεῖσε στασιασθέντων πραγμάτων,
ὡς μόλις δυνηθῆναι κατευνασθῆναι τὰς ἀναφυείσας στάσεις παρὰ τοῦ ἐκείνου υἱέος τοῦ μαγίστρου Κατακαλών, ἅτε καὶ τῆς τοῦ Φιλαρέτου
τυραννίδος ἀρ ξαμένης ἤδη αὐξάνειν, δοῦκα Ἀντιοχείας προεχειρίσατο. Ἐπεὶ δὲ τῶν στάσεων αἴτιον ᾤετο εἶναι τὸν πατριάρχην Αἰμυλιανόν,
ἐκέλευε τοῦτον εἰς τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν ἐξαποστεῖλαι μετὰ σπουδῆς ὅτι πλείστης. Ὁ λογοθέτης δὲ πρὸς τὸν πατριάρχην πάλαι
δυσμενῶς ἔχων καὶ ἀμοιβὰς σχεῖν αὐτὸν ἐκ βασιλέως ὑπισχνεῖτο, μόνον εἰ τὸν πατριάρχην τῆς πόλεως ἐξελάσει. Ὁ γοῦν Κομνηνὸς
τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν καταλαβὼν μετὰ τιμῆς ὅτι πλείστης ὑπό τε τῶν ἐν τέλει καὶ αὐτοῦ δὴ τοῦ τὸν πατριαρχικὸν θρόνον ἰθύνοντος ὑπεδέχθη·
εἰσελθὼν δ' ἐν τῇ πόλει τὸν πατριάρχην θεραπεύειν προσεποιεῖτο καὶ φιλίως αὐτῷ προσενήνεκτο δεδιὼς τοῦ πλήθους τὴν πρὸς ἐκεῖνον
εὔνοιαν· διχῆ γὰρ ἡ πόλις μεμέριστο καὶ τὸ μὲν τῷ
