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opinion. And in guiding the ruler, and especially in supplications, when he would make a request, the ruler would not easily assent, and from this, as seemed best, he managed the petitioner's hope, so that he might not despair when sent away, hoping perhaps to succeed later, and even if, by speaking many times, he did not succeed, he acquired the suspicion of falsehood and was condemned. These charges, once they had settled in the souls of the many, kindled the hatred of the many, both that he was a rival to the patriarch, having taken his church, and that from the throne of the daughter to the throne of the mother—for so they called the churches—he had so freely and audaciously leapt in. And so, as he was held by two charges, there was no one who spoke well of him, some being attached to the patriarch, and others perhaps following their opinions. There were also some of the superfluous and those prone to slander who, reproaching him, called him Markoutzas, attaching a Persian name, for the reason that his recent lineage was Laz, but his ancient one was Gabras. For the time being, finding fault with his character, ostensibly, on the one hand as inconsiderate and rash, as one who did not know the honor he was not worthy of treading, and on the other hand, as being slandered for flattery 369 towards the emperor, they mocked his lineage, as being from where the Persian race was also acknowledged to be. Nevertheless, being an old man and having an ancient ecclesiastical training from the late Germanos, he restored many things of the church's order to a more ancient state, which had been taken away by both time and neglect.

14. How the presiding patriarch, having transferred Holobolos to the church of God, honored him with the office of rhetor and appointed him as teacher. And what is more, being a great lover of letters, he was also attached to Holobolos, who was indeed gifted and full of words, so that, considering it sufficient for the present, on the one hand for his consolation, having suffered what he had suffered, and on the other hand for the instruction of the ecclesiastics in rational education, he considered the task of getting him to leave the monastery of the Prodromos and attach himself to the church to be beyond all other business, to intercede with the emperor on this matter and to put forward the persuasive argument of the embassy, as follows: "Already Akropolites, the great logothete George, having toiled for a long time at your command, O emperor, in teaching the lessons, has now become weary, and there is a need for others to be brought up, and not least among others those of the church, inasmuch as it is necessary for them to advance in learning, so as to be most useful for the needs of the church. Assent, therefore, to us who ask, as we are interceding on behalf of the church, and be gracious to Holobolos, and I will receive him and honor him as is fitting and appoint him as a teacher for those who attend for rational education." And so that patriarch said these things, and as soon as he had spoken, the emperor assented and yielded to his request. For in truth he too was spurred on towards the ancient customs of Constantine's city, so as to establish clerical bodies, one at the renowned church of the Apostles, the other at the church of Blachernae, and to appoint the priests from the city as stipendiary hymn-writers for the clerical bodies, and also to establish a school of grammar near the church of the great Paul in the ancient orphanages, and to support both the teacher and the boys with annual salaries, so as to sometimes oversee the school and see how each one was and in what way he was progressing in his studies, and there were times to bestow fitting honors, 371 or else to give the boys a rest from their work according to some ancestral custom. At that time, then, having yielded to the hierarch's requests, he immediately felt compassion for the condemned man and ordered him to be released; whom he, having received him, was adorning with many good things, having in addition sealed him as rhetor, and under him as teacher he opened the school of learning to all.

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δόξαν. Τῷ δὲ κυβερνᾶν τὸν κρατοῦντα, καὶ μᾶλλον ἐφ' ἱκετείαις, ὅτε μὲν ἐκεῖνος προσαναφέρων ἠξίου, ὁ δὲ κρατῶν οὐ ῥᾳδίως κατένευε, κἀντεῦθεν κατὰ τὸ δοκοῦν ᾠκονόμει τῷ δεομένῳ τὸν ἐλπισμόν, ὡς μὴ ἀπογνοίη ἀποπεμφθείς, ἐλπίζων ἴσως ἀνύειν ἐσύστερον, κἂν λέγων πολλάκις οὐκ ἤνυε, τὴν τοῦ ψεύδους ὑποψίαν προσκτώμενος, κατεκρίνετο. Τὰ δὲ ἐγκλήματα ταῦτα, καθάπαξ ταῖς τῶν πολλῶν ψυχαῖς ἐνιζήσαντα, ἐξῆπτε τὸ ἀπὸ τῶν πολλῶν μῖσος, ὅτι τε ἀντίζηλος εἴη τῷ πατριάρχῃ, τὴν ἐκείνου κατασχὼν ἐκκλησίαν, καὶ ὅτι ἀπὸ θρόνου τῆς θυγατρὸς τῷ θρόνῳ τῷ τῆς μητρόςοὕτω γὰρ τὰς ἐκκλησίας ἐκάλουνἀνέδην οὕτω καὶ αὐθαδῶς εἰσπηδήσειεν. Ὅθεν καὶ δυσὶν ἐνισχομένου ἐγκλήμασιν, οὐκ ἦν ὅστις ἀγαθὸν ἐλάλει περὶ ἐκείνου, τῶν μὲν προσκειμένων τῷ πατριάρχῃ, τῶν δὲ καὶ ἑπομένων ἴσως ταῖς γνώμαις ἐκείνων. Ἦσαν δὲ καὶ τῶν περιττῶν καὶ εἰς κακηγορίας εὐκόλων οἳ καὶ προσονειδίζοντες Μαρκουτζᾶν προσωνόμαζον, προσάπτοντες ὄνομα Περσικόν, ἐξ αἰτίας τῆς ὅτι ἐκεῖνος τὸ σύνεγγυς γένος Λαζὸς ἦν, τὸ δ' ἀνέκαθεν καὶ Γαβρᾶς. Τέως τὸν τρόπον μεμφόμενοι τὸν ἐκείνου δῆθεν, τοῦτο μὲν ὡς ἀπερίσκεπτον καὶ θρασύν, μὴ εἰδότος ἧς οὐ μετὸν ἐπιβαίνει τιμῆς, τοῦτο δὲ καὶ ὡς ἐπὶ κολακείᾳ διαβαλλόμενον τῇ 369 πρὸς βασιλέα, προσεμωκῶντο τὸ γένος, ὡς ἐκεῖθεν ὂν ὁπόθεν καὶ τὸ Περσικὸν εἶναι διωμολόγητο. Ὅμως γέρων ὢν καὶ παίδευσιν ἀρχαίαν ἔχων ἐκκλη σιαστικὴν ἐκ Γερμανοῦ τοῦ μακαρίτου, πολλὰ τῶν τῆς τάξεως τῆς ἐκκλησίας καθίστα πρὸς τὸ ἀρχαιότερον, παρῃρημένα καὶ χρόνῳ καὶ ἀμελείαις.

ιδʹ. Ὅπως τὸν Ὁλόβωλον μεταγαγὼν ὁ πατριαρχεύων εἰς τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐκκλησίαν ὀφφικίῳ ῥήτορος ἐτίμα καὶ διδάσκαλον καθίστα. Τὸ δὲ μεῖζον ὅτι καὶ φιλολόγος ὢν ἐς τὰ μάλιστα, τῷ Ὁλοβώλῳ, εὐφυεῖ γε ὄντι καὶ πλήρει λόγων, καὶ προσετετήκει, ὥστ' ἀποχρῶν κατὰ τὸ παρεστὸς ἡγούμενος, τοῦτο μὲν εἰς τὴν ἐκείνου παραμυθίαν, παθόντος οἷα πεπόνθει, τοῦτο δὲ καὶ εἰς τῶν ἐκκλησιαστικῶν ἀγωγὴν εἰς παίδευσιν λογικήν, τὸ ἐκεῖνον ἐκ τῆς τοῦ Προδρόμου μονῆς ἐξελθεῖν καὶ προσοκεῖλαι τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ, ἔργον πάσης ἀσχολίας ἐπέκεινα τίθεται τὸ ὑπὲρ τούτου πρεσβεῦσαι τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ τὸ τῆς πρεσβείας ἐπαγωγὸν προβαλέσθαι, ὡς· «Ἤδη μὲν ὁ Ἀκροπολίτης καὶ μέγας λογοθέτης Γεώργιος, ἐφ' ἱκανὸν ἐκ προστάξεως σῆς, βασιλεῦ, ἐνιδρώσας παραδιδοὺς τὰ μαθήματα, ἤδη καὶ ἀποκεκαμήκει, καὶ χρεία ἐστὶν ἄλλους ἀνάγεσθαι, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων οὐχ ἧττον τοὺς τῆς ἐκκλησίας, παρ' ὅσον καὶ ἀνάγκη προβαίνειν τούτους τῷ λόγῳ, ταῖς ἐκκλησιαστικαῖς χρείαις ὡς μάλιστα χρησιμεύσοντας. Κατάνευε τοίνυν ἡμῖν ἀξιοῦσιν, ὡς ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐκκλησίας πρεσβεύουσι, καὶ ἐξευμενίζου τῷ Ὁλοβώλῳ, καὶ δέχομαι τοῦτον καὶ κατὰ τὸ εἰκὸς τιμῆσαι καὶ εἰς διδάσκαλον καταστῆσαι τοῖς προσφοιτῶσι τῆς λογικῆς παιδεύσεως.» Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν τὸν πατριάρχην ἐκεῖνον εἰπεῖν, καὶ εἰπόντος εὐθὺς κατανεῦσαι τὸν βασιλέα καὶ τῇ ἀξιώσει καθυποκλῖναι. Ἦν γὰρ ταῖς ἀληθείαις κἀκεῖνος πρὸς τὰ παλαιὰ τῆς Κωνσταντίνου παρακνιζόμενος, ὡς καταστῆσαι μὲν κλήρους, ἕνα μὲν ἐπὶ τῷ περιωνύμῳ τῶν Ἀποστόλων ναῷ, θάτερον δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ τῶν Βλαχερνῶν, καὶ ὑμνοπόλους ἐρρόγους τάξαι τοῖς κλήροις τοὺς ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἱερεῖς, συστήσασθαι δὲ καὶ κατὰ τὸν τοῦ μεγάλου Παύλου νεὼν ἐν τοῖς ἀρχαίοις ὀρφανοτροφείοις γραμματικευομένων σχολὴν καὶ ῥόγαις ἐτησίοις ἐπιρρωννύειν τόν τε διδάσκαλον καὶ τοὺς παῖδας, ὡς ἐφιστάνειν ἐνίοτε τῇ σχολῇ καὶ ὁποῖος ἕκαστος καὶ ὅπῃ λόγων προκόπτοι, ἔστι δ' οὗ καὶ τὰ εἰκότα φιλοτιμεῖσθαι, 371 εἰ δ' οὖν, ἀλλ' ἄνεσιν τοῖς παισὶ διδόναι τῆς ἀσχολίας κατά τι πάτριον σύνηθες. Τότε δ' οὖν ὑποκλιθέντα ταῖς τοῦ ἱεράρχου αἰτήσεσι, προσπαθῆσαί τε αὐτίκα τῷ καταδίκῳ καὶ ἐξελθεῖν κελεῦσαι· ὃν δὴ κἀκεῖνος δεξάμενος πολλοῖς ἦν ἀγάλλων τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς, προσεπισφραγίσας καὶ ῥήτορα, καὶ ὑπ' αὐτῷ διδάσκοντι πᾶσιν ἐξηνοίγνυ τὸ τῶν μαθημάτων διδασκαλεῖον.

ιεʹ. Ὅπως ἐγκληθέντες τινὲς τῶν τοῦ παλατίου καθοσιώσεως καὶ τὸν πατριάρχην εἰσῆγον Ἀρσένιον. Τοῦ ἔτους δ' ἐκείνου καὶ καθοσιώσεως ἔγκλημα τοῖς