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and finally it came to such a pass; and so they were written down as they happened with all accuracy and truth, just as we promised from the beginning. They warred for seven years and one month, beginning from the year six thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine in the fourth Indiction, on the nineteenth of April, until the thirty-sixth year upon the 800 and #22ϛ in the eleventh Indiction on the nineteenth of May. 1.310 a. Such, then, are the things that were done between the emperors while they were at war with each other and in the intervals when they were reconciled; now it seems to me that what remains is to narrate also what was done by the younger An 1.311 dronicus on his own, once he had already made the entire rule of the Romans his own. For on the day after the capture of Byzantium, before he touched any other administration of affairs, he established the conditions under which the emperor and his grandfather should live. And he assigned the rule and the administration of affairs to himself, but he took away none of the other things from the emperor. But he commanded the Romans over whom he ruled to obey him as emperor and to render equal honor, and that whenever they wished to go to him to pay homage, they should be hindered by no one; and that the emperor's children and other relatives, entering the palace, might spend the day with him and be with him as much as they wished; and that his entire retinue should remain undisturbed as it was, and that it should be up to him to order them to do whatever he commanded. And for the expenses of both himself and his household, from the public revenues he provided the so-called local tax, which brought in twelve thousand gold pieces annually, and he ordered an equal amount of money to be supplied from the imperial treasury; and that this was to be at his disposal to use as he wished. And he yielded the palace to him; but he himself, whenever he was visiting in the city of Constantine, as long as his grandfather was alive, stayed in the house of the despot Demetrios. And coming frequently to the emperor, he both conversed with him genuinely and consulted about affairs and no less than before offered him the fitting reverence and honor 1.312 that was his due. But the other Romans, although it was commanded by the young emperor not in pretense but in truth that everyone who wished should go to the emperor and pay homage to him without hindrance, nevertheless did not approach, fearing lest for this reason he be suspected of plotting revolution. And the emperor ordered the grand logothete to go to Didymoteichon and to stay in one of the monasteries there. And he was there for a time; then he himself also obtained a pardon, and returning to Byzantium he stayed at home. And the emperor gave the command of Byzantium to the protostrator. And since, during the time the emperors were warring with each other, many of the possessions of the followers of each were plundered by the others, so that disputes might not arise between the two parties trying to recover their own property, the emperor, taking forethought, ordered concerning movable property that it be permitted for no one to bother anyone, but to allow those who had it to enjoy it; but that immovable property should be restored to its original owners. And he ordered the protostrator, the governor of Byzantium, to be in charge of this. After this he went to the patriarch, both to thank him and to converse with him intimately and amicably; for at their first meeting, since the time and circumstances did not permit, they had made their conversation only a matter of paying respects; and at the same time so that he might ask him to grant pardon to the bishops who, when he was being driven from the patriarchate and led away as if to prison, not only did not stand up for him at all, 1.313 but even worked together, as far as it depended on them, for his imprisonment. For the patriarch was very incensed against them and was demanding to exact justice from them for their betrayal of him. And though he pleaded with him much concerning them, he was not able to persuade him to grant them pardon, as he said that he had suffered the worst injustices from them, and that they ought to get their due for their treachery. But when the emperor returned to the palace, having summoned the metropolitan of Pherae and

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