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of the place. And on the way, the Latins sent three ambassadors to the emperor seeking peace. And the emperor made it, but for only one year, having constrained matters for them very tightly.

84 So, having crossed the Hellespont, the emperor occupied the parts of Pegai and spent his time there. And when the summer season passed, and indeed the autumn flowed by, departing from such places for the rest customary for emperors, ever since they were exiled from Constantinople, he reached Nymphaion, and he sent me out as an ambassador to the ruler of the Bulgarians, Constantine. So I went to him, and I spent some days with him; for then occurred the festive days of Christ, both that of the Nativity and that of the Baptism. For on such a day of the Baptism, the rulers of the Bulgarians are especially splendid, and the then ruler of the Bulgarians, Constantine, wished me to be with them and to be a spectator of the ceremonies. So, having fulfilled my orders, I departed from Trinovos, and went to the emperor, who was staying in Nymphaion. So the emperor wintered there, and when spring dawned he departed from Nymphaion, having first celebrated the brilliant day of the Lord's resurrection in Nymphaion. And having spent some days in Phlebioi, he went to a place somehow so named Klyzomene and pitched his tents. For it was there that the emperors, coming out from Nymphaion, were accustomed to spend time and pass the greater part of the spring season. For the whole place is a plain, covered with grass sufficient for many horses, and it happens to be well-watered, and near it are many villages and cities, from which provisions were plentiful. So while the emperor was there, the sebastokrator Tornikes also arrived from Nicaea, and he became a nuisance to the emperor on account of the former patriarch Arsenios. For the patriarchal throne was vacant, since the patriarch Nikephoros, who was transferred from Ephesus to the patriarchal throne, had departed from here and moved on to the eternal dwellings, having graced the patriarchal throne for not even a whole year. And this Arsenios had been advanced to the patriarchal throne by the emperor Theodore, a man* most inept in both speech and action. For he possessed no speech that adorned him, whether born of education or produced by nature, but also in character he was terrible and harsh in his ways, and quick to enmity, but slow to friendship, and bearing resentment like a shadow accompanying his body. This man, at the beginning of the emperor's reign, agreed with all that had been done, and was friendly disposed toward the emperor. But when he also performed the imperial coronation, he immediately changed to the opposite and became ill-disposed toward the emperor, having as his accomplices in this Andronikos of Sardis and* Manuel of Thessaloniki, also called Opsaras. But the bishop of Sardis, when the emperor encamped against Constantinople and made his quarters near it, then put on the monastic habit at the hands of Ioannikios of Philadelphia. For since he frequently annoyed the emperor to visit Paphlagonia—for he hailed from there—the emperor, knowing precisely the man's perversity, did not allow him to go to those parts; for his purpose was to throw all of Paphlagonia into confusion through his ill-will toward the emperor. And the emperor made a most just argument to him, saying, "You have been ordained metropolitan of Sardis, not of Paphlagonia, and you must be content with the parts of Sardis and stay there and shepherd your flock." Therefore, when he realized that the imperial will was unchangeable, having nothing he could do, the solitary

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τόπου. καθ' ὁδὸν δὲ τρεῖς πρέσβεις οἱ Λατῖνοι πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα πεπόμφασιν εἰρήνην ζητοῦντες. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς πεποίηκε ταύτην, εἰς ἐνιαυτὸν δὲ καὶ μόνον ἕνα, ἐν στενῷ κομιδῇ ἐπισφίγξας τούτοις τὰ πράγματα.

84 ∆ιαπεράσας γοῦν ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον, τὰ τῶν Πηγῶν κατέλαβε μέρη κἀκεῖσε τὰς διατριβὰς ἐποι εῖτο. ἐπεὶ δὲ ὁ τοῦ θέρους παρῄει καιρός, ἀλλά γε δὴ καὶ ὁ τῆς ὀπώρας ἐρρύη, τῶν τοιούτων ἀπάρας χώρων πρὸς τὴν ἐξ ἔθους τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν οὖσαν ἀνάπαυσιν, ἐξ ὅτου τῆς Κωνσταντίνου γεγόνασιν ὑπερόριοι, κατηντήκει τὸ Νύμφαιον, ἐμὲ δὲ πρὸς τὸν ἄρχοντα τῶν Βουλγάρων τὸν Κωνσταντῖνον πρέσβιν ἐκπέπομφεν. ἀπῄειν γοῦν πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ διεβίβασα μετ' αὐτοῦ ἡμέρας τινάς· ἔτυχον γὰρ τότε καὶ αἱ ἑορτάσιμοι τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἡμέραι, ἥ τε τῶν γε νεθλίων καὶ ἡ τοῦ βαπτίσματος. ἐν τῇ τοιαύτῃ καὶ γὰρ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ βαπτίσματος οἱ τῶν Βουλγάρων ἄρχοντες λαμ πρύνονται μάλιστα, καὶ ἐβούλετο ὁ τῶν Βουλγάρων ἄρχων τῷ τότε Κωνσταντῖνος σφίσιν αὐτοῖς συνεῖναι κἀμὲ καὶ θεατὴν γενέσθαι τῶν τελουμένων. τὰ προστεταγμένα μοι γοῦν πληρώσας τοῦ Τρινόβου ἐξῄειν, καὶ πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα ἀπῄειν ἐν τῷ Νυμφαίῳ διάγοντα. ἐκεῖσε γοῦν ὁ βασιλεὺς παρεχείμασε, καὶ ἐπιλάμψαντος ἔαρος τοῦ Νυμφαίου ἐξῄει, τὴν λαμπρὰν τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ κυρίου ἡμέραν προεορ τάσας ἐν τῷ Νυμφαίῳ. ἡμέρας δέ τινας ἐν τοῖς Φλεβίοις διαβιβάσας, περὶ τόπον οὕτω πως ἐπονομαζόμενον Κλυζο μενὴν ἀπελθὼν ἐπήξατο τὰς σκηνάς. ἐκεῖσε καὶ γὰρ εἰ ώθασιν οἱ βασιλεῖς τοῦ Νυμφαίου ἐξιόντες χρονοτριβεῖν καὶ τὸ πλέον τοῦ ἐαρινοῦ παραμείβειν καιροῦ. ὅ τε γὰρ τόπος ἅπας πεδιὰς καὶ χόρτον προβεβλημένη πολλοῖς ἀρ κοῦντα τοῖς ἵπποις, κατάρρυτος δὲ τυγχάνει καὶ ὕδασιν, ἐγγὺς δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ κώμας ἔχει πολλὰς καὶ πόλεις, ἐξ ὧν δαψιλῆ καθειστήκει τὰ ζωαρκῆ. Ἐκεῖσε γοῦν ὄντος τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ ὁ σεβαστοκράτωρ Τορνίκης ἐκ τῆς Νικαέων ἐπιδεδήμηκε, καὶ δι' ὄχλου τῷ βασιλεῖ γέγονε διὰ τὸν προπατριαρχεύσαντα Ἀρσένιον. ὁ γὰρ πατριαρχικὸς ἐχήρευε θρόνος, τοῦ πατριαρχεύσαντος Νικηφό ρου, ὃς ἀπὸ τῆς Ἐφέσου εἰς τὸν πατριαρχικὸν μετετέθη θρό νον, ἀπάραντος τῶν ἐνθένδε καὶ πρὸς τὰς αἰωνίους μεταστάν τος σκηνάς, μηδὲ εἰς ὅλον σχεδὸν ἐνιαυτὸν τὸν πατριαρχικὸν κοσμήσαντος θρόνον. ὁ δὲ Ἀρσένιος οὗτος ἦν προβεβλημέ νος εἰς τὸν πατριαρχικὸν θρόνον πρὸς τοῦ βασιλέως Θεοδώ ρου, ἀνὴρ* καὶ εἰς λόγον καὶ εἰς πρᾶξιν παναφυέστατος. οὔτε γὰρ λόγον εἶχε τὸν κοσμοῦντα τοῦτον, εἴτ' ἐκ παιδείας γεγενημένον, εἴτ' ἐκ φύσεώς πως προβαλλόμενον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἦθος ὑπῆρχε δεινὸς καὶ σκληρὸς τὸν τρόπον, καὶ ταχὺς μὲν εἰς ἔχθραν, εἰς δὲ φιλίαν βραδύς, καὶ τὴν μνησικα κίαν φέρων ὥσπερ τινὰ σκιὰν συνεφεπομένην τῷ σώματι. οὗτος κατ' ἀρχὰς μὲν τῆς αὐτοκρατορίας τοῦ βασιλέως εἰς τὰ πεπραγμένα τοῖς πᾶσι συνῄνει, καὶ ἦν προσφιλῶς τῷ βασιλεῖ διακείμενος. ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ τὴν αὐτοκρατορικὴν ἀπε πλήρου στεφηφορίαν, εὐθὺς μεταπεπτώκει πρὸς τοὐναντίον καὶ δύσνους ἐγεγόνει τῷ βασιλεῖ, ἔχων ἐν ταὐτῷ συνίστορας τὸν Σάρδεων Ἀνδρόνικον καὶ* τὸν Θεσσαλονίκης Μανουὴλ τὸν καὶ Ὀψαρᾶν λεγόμενον. ἀλλ' ὁ μὲν Σάρδεων, ὅτε ὁ βασιλεὺς κατὰ τῆς Κωνσταντίνου ἐστρατοπεδεύσατο καὶ ἐγγὺς ταύτης τὰς ἐπαύλεις ἐποιεῖτο, τότε τὰ τῶν μοναχῶν ἐνε δέδυτο ἄμφια ὑπὸ τοῦ Φιλαδελφείας Ἰωαννικίου. ὡς γὰρ συχνῶς διηνώχλει τὸν βασιλέα ἐπιδημῆσαι τῇ Παφλαγόνων -ἐκεῖθεν καὶ γὰρ ὥρμητο-τὸ στρεβλόνουν τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀκριβῶς εἰδὼς οὐκ εἴα τοῦτον περὶ τὰ ἐκεῖσε μέρη ἀφῖχθαι· σκοπὸς γὰρ ἦν αὐτῷ τὰ τῶν Παφλαγόνων πάντα διαταράξαι τῇ πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα δυσνοίᾳ. ὁ βασι λεὺς δὲ δικαιότατον πρὸς τοῦτον ἐποίει τὸν λόγον ὡς «μητρο πολίτης κεχειροτόνησαι Σάρδεων, οὐκέτι γε μὴν Παφλαγο νίας, καὶ δεῖ σε τοῖς τῶν Σάρδεων ἐμφιλοχωρεῖν μέρεσι κἀκεῖσε καὶ διατρίβειν καί σου ποιμαίνειν τὸ ποίμνιον.» ἐπεὶ οὖν ἐπεγνώκει ἀμετάπτωτον εἶναι τὸ βασιλικὸν βούλημα, μὴ ἔχων ὅ, τι καὶ δράσειε, τὸν μονήρη