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for the war with the emperor, and he himself, coming to Phocaea with both an infantry and cavalry army, both did obeisance to and greeted the emperor, and stayed with him, besieging Phocaea. And he provided an abundant market for the emperor's army, by ordering the cities and lands under his command to bring provisions to Phocaea. So the fifth month was being completed of the Phocaeans and Mytileneans being besieged, and especially at Phocaea, frequent and fierce battles at the walls were taking place, and 1.481 siege engines were brought up and other machines invented for the capture of cities. But they were not able to take them by siege, both because of the strength of the walls and because the Latins defended themselves vigorously and did not give in. But as the siege was prolonged further, since their grain was already running short, and they suspected that the emperor would not quickly lift the siege before he had subdued them either by famine or by assault on the walls, devising a way to hold out for a longer time, they drove out all the Romans who lived in Phocaea with their entire households, and they themselves, gathering the grain and whatever other provisions there were, brought them into the acropolis, which they themselves were garrisoning, and using these they endured the siege. And while the emperor was staying at Phocaea, the sons of Aydin, who was satrap of Ionia, Cheter and Amur, whom we have previously mentioned as having sailed with a fleet to Thrace, and a third named Soulaimasas, approached him in friendship and did obeisance and promised to be well-disposed and friends to the emperor, and the emperor, rewarding them for their goodwill with gifts and benefits, sent them away home. And while these things were happening, it was reported to the emperor from Byzantium that sixteen triremes from Genoa on some other business had put in at Galata, and that some of the prominent men among the Romans, having spoken secretly to their admiral and trierarchs, persuaded them with gifts and many promises, having won over also the other six which 1.482 are local, and then taking the six at Mytilene, to attack him at Phocaea. And that the Romans had contrived these things not out of concern for the Genoese, but having become plotters and traitors to the emperor, and wishing to seize power, they acted from the means by which they thought they would be able to destroy him. 30. But when the emperor learned such things, he prepared his existing force as if he would have to fight a naval battle, and he procured another force from the barbarians in Ionia, as large as possible. And Saruchan provided twenty-four ships and a large army of both infantry and cavalry, which came and encamped near Phocaea; and Amur, the son of Aydin, at the persuasion of the grand domestic, assisted the emperor with thirty ships. For the grand domestic was previously on friendly terms with Amur and communicated with him by letters and showed his goodwill, and he had even met with him for a short time a little before, when he came to the emperor at Phocaea. But then, when necessity called, sending an embassy to him, he said that it was not right nor pleasant for him to converse by letters and messages again as before. For previously, the reason for such an encounter was their great distance from each other; but now that they were staying nearby, it was right, if indeed it was agreeable to him too, to meet in some designated place and to enjoy each other's company and to confirm 1.483 their existing friendship. So the grand domestic sent such a message; but Amur, when he heard, considered the message about such things second to no good fortune, but thinking he was being benefited in the greatest way, neglecting all other things, he went to Clazomenae and met with him, and when he disembarked from the ships, he feasted him lavishly and showed great friendliness. And for four days the grand domestic stayed with him, and he persuaded him to pay heed to the emperor as his master and to consider himself one of the prominent Romans serving under him, and he bound him to himself with unbreakable bonds of friendship. And he advised him to send the ships as quickly as possible to the emperor who was in need of an alliance,

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