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of those appointed as rulers of the church, the rest rejected his communion. However, some willingly, and others unwillingly, except for a few, submitted, but being shaken in their opinions, they strengthened by their action those who did not obey. But the multitude of the laity, utterly shunning the new shepherd, sought the legitimate one. 169 So with affairs thus in turmoil, since he learned that the emperor was about to join a very great battle against the fortress of Galata, so as to take it, even if he should suffer something—for from there he also hoped for the capture of the great city, after staying a short time in Nicaea, setting out immediately and having arrived at the gate, shaking the dust from his shoes as if for a testimony, so to speak, he went out; and through the sea-strait near Helenopolis he hurried to him, at the same time to delight there in the consolation from the emperor, and at the same time he also hoped for great things, seeing the battle being joined against the city, that as soon as it was captured he would mount the throne of the church, having been freed from Nicaea and the things there. And while he was completing the journey in between, the emperor was still in Selymbria, when it happened that Andronicus of Sardis was also present there; for of the two who were in schism, himself and Manuel of Thessalonica, the former gave himself up to exile and was exiled.

18. How the bishop of Sardis was tonsured as a monk at Selymbria. 19. How many of the ecclesiastical rulers die in a short time. 20. Concerning the emperor's attack on the fortress of Galata. 9 21. Concerning the corpse of the emperor Basil the Bulgar-Slayer. 22. How Nicephorus, then patriarch, together with the emperor takes Nymphaeum and concerning what he did and his death. 23. How the emperor was at ease, having gotten rid of the young John. 24. The affairs concerning the caliph and the Persians, how they were subjected to the Tochars, and how the sultan Azatines flees to the emperor. 25. How the former emperors felt about the Tochars when they were heard of. 20. Concerning the affairs in the west and how Caesar attacked the city in passing. 27. How the city was taken. 28. Concerning the protasecretis Kakos Senachereim, what he did, hearing that the city was taken by the Romans. 29. How the capture of the city was heard by the emperor. 30. The emperor's public address on the capture of the city. 31. How the emperor, having come with his whole household, is brought into the city together with the rulers around him. 32. How the emperor behaved towards the Latin tribes, having entered the city. 33. How the affairs of the city were arranged by the emperor. 34. What the counsels of the high priests were concerning the patriarch Arsenius. 35. How the emperor did away with the young John and how he settled the families of the Italians in the city. 30. The affairs concerning the emperor's ambassadors to the pope and the Italians. {CHAPTERS OF THE THIRD BOOK}.

How the emperor considered the matters concerning the patriarch Arsenius. 2. How the patriarch Arsenius, having been summoned, is brought into the city and the events of the second coronation of the emperor. 3. How the emperor sent embassies to both the Tochars, making marriage alliances, and to the Aethiopians. 4. Concerning the giraffe, what sort of thing it is. 5. How the Aethiopians, having grown in power, perpetrated evils in Syria and the affairs concerning Nogas. 6. How the three princesses were joined to husbands and to what sort. 7. The affairs concerning the despina, the German Anna. 8. The affairs concerning the brother of the despina Anna, Mafre, and Charles. 11 9. How the walls by the sea were raised with planks

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τῶν εἰς ἄρχοντας τεταγμένων τῆς ἐκκλησίας, οἱ λοιποὶ τὴν ἐκείνου κοινωνίαν ἀπέστεργον. Ὅμως οἱ μὲν ἑκόντως, οἱ δὲ καὶ ἀκόντως, πλὴν ὀλίγων, καθυπεκλίνοντο, διασεσεισμένοι δ' ὄντες τὰς γνώμας, πράξει τοὺς μὴ πειθομένους ὠχύρουν. Τὸ δὲ λαϊκὸν πλῆθος, τὸν νέον ποιμένα καὶ λίαν ἀποπροσποιούμενοι, ἐζήτουν τὸν γνήσιον. 169 Οὕτω γοῦν τεταραγμένων τῶν πραγμάτων, ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸν κρατοῦντα ἐμάνθανε μάχην μέλλειν συγκροτεῖν μεγίστην κατὰ φρουρίου τοῦ Γαλατᾶ, ὥσθ' αἱρήσειν, κἂν εἴ τι καὶ πάθοιἐκεῖθεν γὰρ καὶ τὴν τῆς μεγαλοπόλεως ἤλπιζεν ἅλωσιν, ὀλίγον κατὰ Νίκαιαν διαμείνας, ὁρμήσας αὐτίκα καὶ κατὰ τὴν πύλην γεγονώς, τὸν κονιορτὸν τῶν βλαυτῶν ἀποτιναξάμενος ὡς εἰς μαρτύ ριον δῆθεν, ἐξῄει· καὶ διὰ τοῦ κατὰ τὴν Ἑλενόπολιν τῆς θαλάσσης πορθμοῦ πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ἠπείγετο, ἅμα μὲν ἐνασμενίσων ἐκεῖθεν τῇ ἐκ βασιλέως παρα μυθίᾳ, ἅμα δὲ καὶ μεγάλα ἤλπιζε, συγκροτουμένην μάχην βλέπων κατὰ τῆς πόλεως, ὡς ἁλούσης αὐτίκα τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐπιβησόμενος, ἀπαλλαγεὶς Νικαίας καὶ τῶν ἐκεῖ. Ἐν ὅσῳ δὲ τὴν μεταξὺ πορείαν διήνυεν, ἐν Σηλυβρίᾳ καὶ ἔτι ἦν ὁ κρατῶν, ὅτε συνέβη καὶ Ἀνδρόνικον τὸν Σάρδεων ἐκεῖσε παρεῖ ναι· δυοῖν γὰρ σχιζομένοιν, αὐτοῦ τε καὶ τοῦ Θεσσαλονίκης Μανουήλ, ἐκεῖνος μὲν ἑαυτὸν εἰς ἐξορίαν ἐδίδου καὶ ἐξωρίζετο.

ιηʹ. Ὅπως ὁ Σάρδεων κατὰ Σηλυβρίαν μοναχικῶς ἀπεκείρατο. ιθʹ. Ὅπως πολλοὶ τῶν ἐκκλησιαστικῶν ἀρχόντων θνῄσκουσι δι' ὀλίγου καιροῦ. κʹ. Περὶ τῆς κατὰ τοῦ Γαλατᾶ φρουρίου τοῦ βασιλέως προσβολῆς. 9 καʹ. Περὶ τοῦ νεκροῦ τοῦ βασιλέως Βασιλείου τοῦ Βουλγαροκτόνου. κβʹ. Ὅπως ὁ πατριαρχεύων τότε Νικηφόρος συνάμα βασιλεῖ καταλαμβάνει τὸ Νύμφαιον καὶ περὶ ὧν ἔπραξε καὶ τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ. κγʹ. Ὅπως ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐν ἀνέσει ἦν, τὸν νέον Ἰωάννην ἀποσκευασάμενος. κδʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τὸν χαλυφᾶν καὶ τοὺς Πέρσας, ὅπως ὑπετάγησαν Τοχάροις, καὶ ὡς ὁ σουλτὰν Ἀζατίνης εἰς βασιλέα καταφεύγει. κεʹ. Ὅπως εἶχον οἱ πρὶν βασιλεῖς περὶ Τοχάρους ἀκουομένους. κʹ. Περὶ τῶν κατὰ δύσιν καὶ ὅπως καῖσαρ προσέβαλεν ἐκ παρόδου τῇ πόλει. κζʹ. Ὅπως ἡ πόλις ἑάλω. κηʹ. Περὶ τοῦ πρωτασηκρῆτις Κακοῦ Σεναχηρείμ, τί ἔπραξεν, ἀκούσας ὅτι τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις ἑάλω ἡ πόλις. κθʹ. Ὅπως ἤκουσται τῷ βασιλεῖ ἡ τῆς πόλεως ἅλωσις. λʹ. ∆ημηγορία βασιλέως ἐπὶ τῇ ἁλώσει τῆς πόλεως. λαʹ. Ὅπως ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐλθὼν πανοικὶ εἰς τὴν πόλιν εἰσάγεται συνάμα τοῖς περὶ αὐτὸν ἄρχουσιν. λβʹ. Ὅπως προσηνέγκατο βασιλεὺς ταῖς τῶν Λατίνων φυλαῖς, εἰσελθὼν τὴν πόλιν. λγʹ. Ὅπως ἐτάχθησαν τὰ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως. λδʹ. Ὁποῖαι ἦσαν αἱ περὶ τοῦ πατριάρχου Ἀρσενίου τῶν ἀρχιερέων βουλαί. λεʹ. Ὅπως ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐκποδὼν τὸν νέον Ἰωάννην ἐποίει καὶ ὅπως τὰ γένη τῶν Ἰταλῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει κατῴκισεν. λʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τοὺς εἰς τὸν πάπαν καὶ τοὺς Ἰταλοὺς πρέσβεις τοῦ βασιλέως. {ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΤΡΙΤΟΥ ΛΟΓΟΥ}.

Ὅπως ἐσκόπει ὁ βασιλεὺς τὰ κατὰ τὸν πατριάρχην Ἀρσένιον. βʹ. Ὅπως μετακληθεὶς ὁ πατριάρχης Ἀρσένιος εἰς τὴν πόλιν εἰσάγεται καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν δευτέραν στεφηφορίαν τοῦ βασιλέως. γʹ. Ὅπως ὁ βασιλεὺς διεπρεσβεύετο πρός τε 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