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he sends against Marianus, but as he was protecting his head with his shield, striking the shield he split it into four pieces and shattered the helmet. And Marianus, confused by the stone's throw and having lost his senses, lay speechless for a considerable time, just as that famous Hector, struck by the stone of Ajax, was at the point of death. Having with difficulty recovered and collected himself, he struck the one who had hit him three times, letting fly missiles against him. But that warlord, rather than a priest, never sated with battle, since he had sent all the stones from his hands and was simply empty of both stones and missiles, not having anything to do nor the means by which to defend himself against his opponent, he was convulsed there and inflamed and raged like a wild beast turning on itself. So he immediately made use of whatever was at hand. Therefore, having found a sack full of barley-cakes, from there out of the sack he threw the barley-cakes like stones, as if officiating as a priest and performing some rite and making the war a sacred ceremony. So taking up one barley-cake and having pressed it with his whole hand, he lets it fly against Marianus's face and strikes him on the cheek. 10.8.10 So much then for that priest and the ship and its passengers; but the count of Prebentzas, having entrusted himself with his ship and his men eagerly to Marianus, followed him thereafter. When they had reached the shore and were disembarking from the ship, that priest sought Marianus many and many a time, not knowing his name, but calling him by the color of his garments. And coming up to him he threw his arms around him and kissed him, boasting at the same time, "If you had met me on land, many of you would have been slain by my hands." And taking it out, he gives to him a silver Thericlean cup worth one hundred and thirty staters. And as he said and gave these things, he breathed his last.

10.9.1 But also Count Godfrey, having crossed over at that time with other counts and an army of ten thousand horsemen and seventy thousand foot soldiers, and having reached the great city, encamps his army in the regions of the Propontis, extending from the bridge situated nearest to Cosmidion as far as the Church of Saint Phocas itself. And when the emperor urged him to cross the strait of the Propontis, he put it off from day to day, and stringing excuse to excuse, he delayed. The whole reason was that he was awaiting the arrival of Bohemond and the other counts. For Peter from the very beginning undertook such a journey for the purpose of venerating the holy sepulchre, but the other counts, and especially Bohemond, nursing an old grudge against the emperor and seeking an opportunity to exact retribution from him for that brilliant victory which he had won against him, when he joined battle with him near Larissa, having come to one mind and dreaming of seizing the great city itself, they had come to the same opinion (and we have mentioned this many times above), in appearance making the journey to Jerusalem, but in reality wishing to depose the emperor from his rule and to seize the great city. 10.9.2 But the emperor, having long known their villainy, ordered the foreign forces with their leaders by letter to be stationed in troops from Athyras as far as Philea itself (this is a coastal place of the Pontus) and to lie in wait, if anyone from Godfrey should be sent to Bohemond and the counts coming behind, or again from them to him, <and> to block their passage. 10.9.3 In the meantime, something of this sort happens. For when the emperor had summoned some of the counts with Godfrey in order to advise them to suggest

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πέμπει κατὰ τοῦ Μαριανοῦ, τοῦ δὲ τὴν κεφαλὴν διὰ τῆς ἀσπίδος περιφράττοντος πλήξας τὴν ἀσπίδα διεῖλε τετραχῇ καὶ τὴν κόρυθα κατέθραυσεν. Ὁ δὲ Μαριανὸς τῇ τοῦ λίθου βολῇ συγχυθεὶς ἀπολωλεκὼς τὸ φρονοῦν τῆς ψυχῆς ἄναυ δος παραχρῆμα ἐφ' ἱκανὸν ἔκειτο, ὥσπερ ὁ Ἕκτωρ ἐκεῖ νος ὑπὸ τῆς τοῦ λίθου βολῆς τοῦ Αἴαντος μικροῦ δεῖν ἐψυχορράγει. Μόλις δ' ἀνενεγκὼν καὶ ἑαυτὸν συναγαγὼν τρισσάκις τὸν παίσαντα ἔπληξε βέλεμνα κατ' αὐτοῦ ἐπα φείς. Ὁ δὲ πολέμαρχος ἐκεῖνος μᾶλλον ἢ ἱερεὺς μηδέποτε μάχης κορεννύμενος, ἐπεὶ καὶ τοὺς λίθους ἅπαντας ἀπε πέμψατο τῶν χειρῶν καὶ ἁπλῶς ἦν καὶ λίθων κενὸς καὶ βελῶν, οὐκ ἔχων ὅ τι καὶ δράσειεν οὐδὲ δι' ὧν ἀμυνεῖται τὸν ἀντίπαλον, ἐσφάδᾳζε μὲν ἐνταῦθα καὶ ἐξεφλέγετο καὶ ἐμεμήνει καθάπερ θηρίον εἰς ἑαυτὸν συστρεφόμενος. Τοῖς γοῦν παρατυχοῦσιν αὐτίκα καὶ ἀποχρώμενος ἦν. Σάκκον οὖν μάζης μεστὸν ἐφευράμενος ἐκεῖθεν ἀπὸ τοῦ σάκκου καθάπερ χερμάδας τὰς μάζας ἔβαλλεν, ὥσπερ ἱερατεύων καὶ τελετήν τινα ποιούμενος καὶ ἱεροτελεστίαν τὸν πόλε μον. Μᾶζαν γοῦν τινα μίαν ἀναλαβόμενος καὶ ὅλῃ χειρὶ πιθήσας ἐπαφίησι ταύτην κατὰ τῆς τοῦ Μαριανοῦ ὄψεως καὶ πλήττει τοῦτον κατὰ τῆς παρειᾶς. 10.8.10 Ταῦτα μὲν οὖν τὰ κατὰ τὸν ἱερέα ἐκεῖνον καὶ τὴν ναῦν καὶ τοὺς ἐπιβάτας· ὁ δὲ κόμης Πρεβέντζας πιστεύσας ἑαυτὸν σὺν αὐτῇ τῇ νηῒ καὶ τοῖς ὑπ' αὐτὸν προθύμως τῷ Μαριανῷ εἵπετο τοῦ λοιποῦ. Ἐπεὶ δὲ κατὰ τὴν χέρσον γενόμενοι ἀπέβαινον τῆς νηός, πολλὰ καὶ πολλάκις ὁ ἱερεὺς ἐκεῖνος ἐζήτει τὸν Μαριανὸν τὴν κλῆσιν μὲν αὐτοῦ μὴ γινώσκων, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ χρώματος τῶν ἀμφίων τοῦτον ἀνακαλούμενος. Προσελθὼν δὲ τούτῳ περιχυθεὶς κατησπάζετο ἐγκαυχώ μενος ἅμα ὡς «Εἴ μοι κατὰ τὴν χέρσον ἐντετυχήκατε, πολλοὶ ἂν ταῖς ἐμαῖς χερσὶν ἀνῃρέθητε». Ἐκβαλὼν δ' ἐπι δίδωσι τούτῳ ἀργυροῦν θηρίκλειον τιμῆς στατήρων ἑκατὸν πρὸς τοῖς τριάκοντα. Ταῦτα δὲ ὁμιλῶν καὶ διδοὺς ἐξεπεπ νεύκει.

10.9.1 Ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ κόμης Γοντοφρὲ τῷ τότε καιροῦ διαπε ράσας μεθ' ἑτέρων κομήτων καὶ στρατεύματος ἱππέων μὲν χιλιάδων δέκα, πεζῶν δὲ χιλιάδων ἑβδομήκοντα, καὶ κατα λαβὼν τὴν μεγαλόπολιν περὶ τὰ μέρη τῆς Προποντίδος κατατίθησιν αὐτοῦ τὸ στράτευμα, διῆκον ἀπὸ τῆς ἔγγιστα τοῦ Κοσμιδίου διακειμένης γεφύρας μέχρι καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἁγίου Φωκᾶ. Παρακελευομένου δὲ αὐτῷ τοῦ βασιλέως τὸν τῆς Προποντίδος διαπερᾶσαι πορθμὸν ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας ὑπερτιθέμενος καὶ αἰτίαν αἰτίᾳ συνείρων ἀνεβάλλετο. Τὸ δὲ πᾶν, τὴν τοῦ Βαϊμούντου καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν κομήτων ἀνέ μενεν ἄφιξιν. Καὶ γὰρ ὁ μὲν Πέτρος ἐξ αὐτῆς ἀρχῆς εἰς προσκύνησιν τοῦ ἁγίου τάφου τὴν τοσαύτην ὁδοιπορίαν ἀνεδέξατο, οἱ δέ γε λοιποὶ κόμητες καὶ τούτων μᾶλλον ὁ Βαϊμοῦντος παλαιὰν μῆνιν κατὰ τοῦ αὐτοκράτορος τρέ φοντες καὶ εὐκαιρίαν ζητοῦντες ἀντίποινα τούτῳ παρα σχεῖν τῆς λαμπρᾶς ἐκείνης νίκης, ἣν ἤρατο κατ' αὐτοῦ, ὁπότε κατὰ τὴν Λάρισσαν τὸν μετ' αὐτοῦ συνῆψε πόλεμον, ὁμογνωμονήσαντες καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν μεγαλόπολιν κατασχεῖν ὀνειρώττοντες εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν ἐληλύθεισαν γνώμην (καὶ τού του πολλάκις ἐμνημονεύσαμεν ἄνωθεν), τῷ μὲν φαινομένῳ τὴν πρὸς τὰ Ἱεροσόλυμα ὁδοιπορίαν ποιούμενοι, τῇ δ' ἀλη θείᾳ τὸν αὐτοκράτορα τῆς ἀρχῆς παραλῦσαι καὶ τὴν μεγα λόπολιν κατασχεῖν ἐθέλοντες. 10.9.2 Ἀλλ' ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸ πανοῦργον αὐτῶν πάλαι γινώσκων τὰς τῶν ἐθνικῶν δυνά μεις σὺν αὐτοῖς ἡγεμόσι διὰ γραφῶν παρεκελεύσατο ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀθύρα μέχρις αὐτοῦ Φιλέα ἰλαδὸν καταστῆναι (τόπος δὲ παράλιος οὗτος τοῦ Πόντου) καὶ ἐφεδρεύειν, εἴ πού τις τοῦ Γοντοφρὲ πρὸς τὸν Βαϊμοῦντον καὶ τοὺς ὄπισθεν ἐρχο μένους κόμητας ἀποστέλλοιτο ἢ ἐξ ἐκείνων αὖθις πρὸς αὐτόν, <καὶ> ἀπείργειν αὐτῶν τὴν δίοδον. 10.9.3 Ἐν τῷ μεταξὺ δὲ γίνεταί τι τοιοῦτον. Μεταπεμψαμένου γὰρ τοῦ βασιλέως τινὰς τῶν μετὰ τοῦ Γοντοφρὲ κομήτων ἐφ' ᾧ τούτοις συμ βουλεύσασθαι ὑποθέσθαι