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the emperor’s cheerfulness to anger and, adding nothing to "not celebrated" but to say "we have celebrated," to proceed to the palace.

25. How the emperor, unable to bear the annoyance from the patriarch, appointed the third day. At this the emperor, respecting the man, desired for some pretext to be devised so that the man's fearlessness might be humbled, but for the time being, making excuses to those around him as to how he often objects and is not persuaded when he mediates, he blamed the constant attendance for the disobedience and said that, being constantly annoyed, he suffers the same thing as those who are easily sated when many foods are set before them; for they, if someone does not clear away the things set out, become angry, and he himself, with many cases being poured upon him each day, and these not by messages, but in person, at which time there is an opportunity for contradiction on each matter because of his high rank, becomes indignant and is disinclined toward assent, with many other things flowing in from other places and each one pulling the royal mind toward himself. And to learn and seek a specific time for audiences, one day out of the seven having been chosen for this purpose; and the third day was chosen, so that this alone out of the whole week would be the time for the patriarch's audience with the emperor on behalf of the people, and a special secretary, Michael Xiphilinos, was appointed, on condition that he receive and write down the resolutions of the petitions. Thus the third day was set apart to God for mercy and supplication. And so that the day might not be deprived of its privilege, when the ruler was necessarily occupied with other 523 matters, the monastery of Chora was appointed as a place of rest for the patriarch and his entourage, to which he sometimes returned, if he had not accomplished something in the morning because of some necessary business that had befallen the emperor, the late afternoon until even late at night would make up for what was left undone. And people enjoyed many good things from the patriarch's zeal in these matters. But so much for these things, which indeed the account, anticipating them in sequence, has recalled.

20. How ambassadors were again sent to the pope. The emperor, however, prepared and sent ambassadors to the pope, both to announce the accomplishment of the deed, and also to learn the situation concerning Charles, whether he had abated that impulse and had inclined to a more humble position. And when they arrived, having announced the terms of peace, they were received; but they found Charles there, breathing utter fury and clinging insistently to the pope and beseeching him to permit him the attack on the city. So they saw him every day rolling before the pope's feet and so possessed by his furies that he even chewed with his teeth out of madness the scepter in his hands, which it is customary for the magnates of the Italians to hold, since, while supplicating and putting forward the expedition for its completion and proposing his own rights, he could not persuade the pope to release him at all, but was speaking to a deaf man. For the pope also brought forward the rights on behalf of the Greeks, that the great city belonged to them and had again become theirs, and that this is the law for men, both the spoils of war and cities and possessions, but the greater point was that they too were sons of the church and Christians; but to permit Christians against Christians, we should not do, lest we also act to the provocation of the divine. 525

27. How Ikarios, having gone over to the emperor, was appointed over the fleet. With Charles thus being checked, the emperor, released from his worries about him, turned more strongly to the matters at hand. And he received Ikarios who had come over to him, a man with much experience in battles, and ruler of a very great island, which those there are accustomed to call Anemopylae, but who had fled from there by a stroke of fortune. So he confirmed the island to the emperor and was himself enrolled among the emperor's retainers. But the emperor, having lost a short while ago a sebastokrator, and having also lost a despot, his own brothers, and even before them another sebastokrator and

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βασιλέα τὸ ἱλαρὸν εἰς ὀργὴν καί, μηδὲν προσθέντα τοῦ «ἀνέορτα» εἰπεῖν «ἑορτάσαμεν», χωρῆσαι πρὸς τὸ παλάτιον.

κεʹ. Ὅπως μὴ φέρων ὁ βασιλεὺς τὴν παρὰ τοῦ πατριάρχου ἐνόχλησιν τὴν τρίτην ἔταττεν. Ἐπὶ τούτοις ὁ βασιλεύς, αἰδεσθεὶς τὸν ἄνδρα, ὠρέγετο μὲν ἔκποθεν αἰτίαν σχεδιασθῆναι τοῦ ὅπως ταπεινωθείη τὸ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀκατάπληκτον, τῷ δέ γε τέως, τοῖς περὶ αὐτὸν ἀπολογούμενος ὅπως πολλάκις ἀντιβαίνει καὶ οὐ πείθεται μεσιτεύοντος, τὴν συνεχῆ προσεδρείαν ᾐτιᾶτο τῆς ἀπειθείας καὶ ὡς, συνεχῶς ἐνοχλούμενος, ταὐτόν τι πάσχει τοῖς ἁψικόροις, πολλῶν παρα τιθεμένων βρωμάτων· ἐκείνους γάρ, ἢν μή τις ἀποσκευάζηται τὰ τεθέντα, ὀργίζεσθαι, καὶ αὐτόν, πολλῶν καθ' ἑκάστην ἐπαντλουμένων τῶν ὑποθέσεων, καὶ ταῦτ' οὐκ ἐκ μηνυμάτων, ἀλλ' αὐτοπροσώπως, ὁπότε καὶ ἡ ἀντιλογία καιρὸν ἔχει πρὸς ἕκαστον διὰ τὸ ἀξίωμα, ἀγανακτεῖν καὶ δυσκολαίνειν πρὸς τὴν κατάνευσιν, πολλῶν ἐπεισρεόντων ἄλλοθεν ἄλλων καὶ μεθελκόντων ἑκάστου πρὸς ἑαυτὸ τὸν νοῦν τὸν βασίλειον. Καὶ τὸν μαθεῖν καὶ ζητῆσαι καιρὸν ἐντυχίας ἴδιον, μιᾶς ἡμέρας εἰς τοῦτο τῶν ἑπτὰ ἐκλεγείσης· καὶ ἐκλεγῆναι τὴν τρίτην, ὡς εἶναι μόνην ταύτην τῆς ἑβδομάδος ἁπάσης καιρὸν ἐντυχίας ὑπὲρ ἀνθρώπων τοῦ πατριάρχου πρὸς βασιλέα, ταχθῆναί τε καὶ γραμματικὸν ἴδιον τὸν Ξιφιλῖνον Μιχαήλ, ἐφ' ᾧ τὰς λύσεις τῶν ἀναφορῶν ἀναδεχόμενον γράφειν. Οὕτως ἦν ἡ τρίτη ἀφωρισμένη Θεῷ ἐλέους καὶ παρα κλήσεως. Ὡς ἂν δὲ μὴ ἀφαιροῖτο ἡ ἡμέρα τοῦ προνομίου, ἀσχοληθέντος ἐπ' 523 ἄλλοις κατ' ἀνάγκην τοῦ ἄνακτος, τόπος ἀναπαύσεως τοῖς περὶ τὸν πατρι άρχην ἡ τῆς Χώρας ἐτάχθη μονή, εἰς ἣν καὶ ὑποστρέφων ἐνίοτε, ἤν τι πρωΐαθεν μὴ ἀνύσειεν, ἐξ ἀναγκαίας ἀσχολίας ἐπεισπεσούσης τῷ βασιλεῖ, ἡ δείλη ὀψία μέχρι καὶ ἐς ὀψὲ τῶν νυκτῶν ἀνεπλήρου τὸ ἐλλειφθέν. Καὶ πολλῶν καλῶν ἐκ τῆς περὶ ταῦτα τοῦ πατριάρχου σπουδῆς ἀπώναντο ἄνθρωποι. Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ἐς τοσοῦτον, ἃ δὴ καί, καθ' εἱρμὸν προλαβών, ὁ λόγος ὑπέμνησεν.

κʹ. Ὅπως καὶ αὖθις πρὸς τὸν πάπαν πρέσβεις ἐστέλλοντο. Ὁ μέντοι γε βασιλεὺς πρέσβεις εὐτρεπίσας ἀποστέλλει πρὸς πάπαν, ἅμα μὲν δηλώσοντας τὸν τῆς πράξεως ἐπιτελεσμόν, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸν Κάρουλον μαθησείοντας, εἰ καθυφῆκε τῆς ὁρμῆς ἐκείνης καὶ πρὸς τὸ ταπεινότερον ὑπεκλίθη. Οἱ δὲ παραγενόμενοι, τὰ μὲν τῆς εἰρήνης δηλώσαντες, ἀπεδέχθησαν, καταλαμβάνουσι δ' ἐκεῖσε τὸν Κάρουλον, ὅλον θυμοῦ πνέοντα καὶ λιπαρῶς τῷ πάπᾳ προσκείμενον καὶ προσλιπαροῦντα ἐφεῖναι τούτῳ τὴν ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐπέλευσιν. Ἑώρων οὖν ἐκεῖνον ὁσημέραι τῶν ποδῶν τοῦ πάπα προκυλινδούμενον καὶ ἐς τοσοῦτον ταῖς μανίαις συνισχημένον ὥστε καὶ τὸ ἀνὰ χεῖρας σκῆπτρον, ὃ σύνηθες κρατεῖν τοῖς τῶν Ἰταλῶν μεγιστᾶσιν, ὀδοῦσιν ἐκ μανίας καταφαγεῖν, ἐπειδή, λιτανεύων καὶ τὴν πρὸς ἀπαρτισμὸν ἔξοδον προβαλλόμενος καὶ προτείνων τὰ αὐτοῦ δίκαια, οὐδ' ὅλως τὸν πάπαν ἔπειθεν ἀπολύειν, ἀλλ' ἦν παρὰ κωφῷ λέγων. Ἀντεπῆγε γὰρ καὶ ὁ πάπας τὰ ὑπὲρ τῶν Γραικῶν δίκαια, ὡς ἐκείνων οὖσα ἡ μεγαλόπολις ἐκείνοις πάλιν καὶ προσεγένετο καὶ ὅτι νόμος ἀνθρώποις ταῦτα, καὶ δῶρα πολέμου καὶ πόλεις καὶ χρήματα, τὸ δὲ μεῖζον ὅτι κἀκεῖνοι τῆς ἐκκλησίας υἱοὶ καὶ χριστιανοί· χριστιανοῖς δὲ κατὰ χριστιανῶν ἐφεῖναι, μὴ καὶ εἰς παροργισμὸν τοῦ θείου πράττοιμεν. 525

κζʹ. Ὅπως Ἰκάριος, προσχωρήσας τῷ βασιλεῖ, καθίσταται ἐπὶ τοῦ στόλου. Οὕτως ἀναχαιτιζομένου τοῦ Καρούλου, ὁ βασιλεύς, τῶν ἐξ ἐκείνου φροντίδων ἀπολυθείς, ἐπεβάλλετο τοῖς ἐγγὺς κραταιότερον. Καὶ Ἰκάριον προσχωρήσαντα δέχεται, ἄνδρα πολλὴν μὲν τὴν ἐς μάχας πεῖραν ἔχοντα, κατάρχοντα δὲ καὶ νήσου μεγίστης, ἣν Ἀνεμοπύλας ἔθος τοῖς ἐκεῖ λέγειν, συμβάματι δὲ τύχης ἐκεῖθεν φυγόντα. Τὴν γοῦν νῆσον προσκυροῖ βασιλεῖ καὶ αὐτὸς τοῖς τοῦ βασιλέως οἰκείοις ἐγγράφεται. Βασιλεὺς δ' ἀποβαλὼν πρὸ ὀλίγου μὲν σεβαστοκράτορα, ἀποβαλὼν δὲ καὶ δεσπότην, τοὺς αὐτα δέλφους, ἔτι δὲ πρὸ τούτων καὶ ἄλλον σεβαστοκράτορα καὶ