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to engage courageously.” 11.4.7 All agreed with Bohemond's opinion. He immediately set to work and forthwith built a little counter-wall, crosswise, dividing the acropolis from the rest of Antioch, a very strong bulwark, sufficient for war. And so he became a sleepless guard of this wall, always fighting most nobly against those within, whenever opportunity offered. The other counts took great care of their own sectors, guarding the city always, and keeping watch on the battlements and the parapets of the walls, lest the barbarians from outside should climb up by ladders at night and seize the city, and lest one of those within should get to the top of the wall unnoticed and, having thus spoken with the barbarians about betrayal, should betray the city.

11.5.1 But this was the situation in Antioch; the emperor, for his part, had a great desire to go himself to the aid of the Celts, but the plundering and complete devastation of the cities and lands along the coast prevented him, although he was chafing with impatience. For Tzachas held Smyrna as if it were his own portion, and the one called Tangripermes held a certain city of the Ephesians near the sea, in which long ago a sanctuary had been established in the name of John the apostle, the theologian. And other satraps held other fortresses, treating the Christians as slaves bought with money and plundering everything; but they also seized the very islands of Chios and Rhodes and all the rest, having built pirate ships from there. For these reasons, he considered it necessary first to take thought for the coastal regions and for Tzachas, and to leave behind sufficient forces by land and an adequate fleet, and then through them to check the attacks of the barbarians and to oppose them, and then with the rest of his army to take the road leading to Antioch, fighting as best he could with the barbarians in between. 11.5.2 Therefore, summoning John Doukas, his brother-in-law, he handed over forces gathered from various regions and a sufficient fleet for the siege of the coastal cities, and also Tzachas's own daughter who had been captured with all the others who happened to be inside Nicaea at that time, instructing him to proclaim everywhere the fall of Nicaea, and if this was not believed, to show Tzachas's daughter herself to the satraps of the Turks and to the barbarians who occupied the coastal regions, so that those holding the cities already mentioned, seeing her and being assured of the fall of Nicaea, might despair and surrender the cities without a fight. Having thus provided John sufficiently with all manner of things, he sent him out. How many trophies this man set up against Tzachas and how he drove him from there, the account will declare as it proceeds. 11.5.3 So the duke, my maternal uncle, having taken leave of the emperor, went out of the great city and, after crossing over to Abydos, he summoned the man called Kaspax, and entrusted to him the command of the fleet and the entire management of the voyage, promising that if he fought well, when it came to pass that Smyrna was captured, he would make him governor of Smyrna itself and of all its neighboring territories. Therefore he sent him forth across the sea as admiral of the fleet, as has been said; but the mainland had him as its commander. Therefore, when the people inside Smyrna saw both Kaspax approaching with the fleet and John Doukas by land, and saw Doukas pitching his camp near the walls at some distance, and Kaspax bringing his ships to anchor in the harbor, since the fall of Nicaea had also become known to them, they had no desire at all to resist them, but chose to enter into talks and peaceful treaties, promising, if they had sworn an oath

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καρτερῶς συμπλέκε σθαι.» 11.4.7 Συντίθενται ἅπαντες τῇ τοῦ Βαϊμούντου γνώμῃ. Ὁ δ' εὐθὺς ἔργου ἥψατο καὶ παραχρῆμα τειχίον ἀντίθετον ἐγκάρσιον ἀποδιαιροῦν τῆς ὅλης Ἀντιοχείας τὴν ἀκρόπολιν ἐδείματο, ἔρυμα καρτερώτατον πολέμου ἀπο χρῶντος. Κᾷθ' οὕτως ἀνύστακτος φύλαξ τοῦ τοιούτου τείχους καθίστατο διὰ παντὸς ἀπομαχόμενος, ὁπηνίκα καιρὸς ἐδίδου, πρὸς τοὺς ἐντὸς γενναιότατα. Οἱ δ' ἄλλοι κόμητες πολλὴν τοῦ λάχους αὐτῶν ἐπεποίηντο τὴν φρον τίδα, φρουροῦντες μὲν τὴν πόλιν διὰ παντός, κατασκο ποῦντες δὲ τὰς ἐπάλξεις καὶ τὰ κρήδεμνα τῶν τειχῶν, μή πως οἱ βάρβαροι ἔξωθεν νυκτὸς διὰ κλιμάκων ἀνελθόντες τὴν πόλιν κατάσχωσι, μὴ λάθοι τις τῶν ἐντὸς ἄνωθεν τοῦ τείχους γενέσθαι κᾷθ' οὕτως ὁμιλήσας τοῖς βαρβάροις προ δοσίας πέρι προδῷ τὴν πόλιν.

11.5.1 Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν τὰ κατὰ τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν [ἔτι]· ὁ δέ γε αὐτοκράτωρ πολλὴν μὲν εἶχε τὴν προθυμίαν αὐτὸς εἰς ἀρωγὴν τῶν Κελτῶν παραγενέσθαι, ἀπεῖργε δ' αὐτὸν καίπερ σφαδάζοντα ἡ τῶν κατὰ θάλατταν διακειμένων πόλεών τε καὶ χωρῶν λεηλασία καὶ παντελὴς ἐρείπωσις. Ὁ μὲν γὰρ Τζαχᾶς τὴν Σμύρνην ὥσπερ ἴδιόν τι λάχος κατεῖχεν, ὁ δέ γε Ταγγριπερμῆς καλούμενος πόλιν τινὰ Ἐφεσίων ἀγχοῦ τῆς θαλάττης διακειμένην, ἐν ᾗ πάλαι τέμενος ἐπ' ὀνόματι Ἰωάννου ἀποστόλου τοῦ θεολόγου ἵδρυτο. Καὶ ἄλλος ἄλλα φρούρια τῶν σατραπῶν κατέχοντες ὡς ἀργυρωνήτοις τοῖς Χριστιανοῖς ἐκέχρηντο ἅπαντα λῃζόμενοι· ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὰς δὴ τὰς νήσους Χίον τε καὶ Ῥόδον καὶ τὰς ἐπιλοίπους πάσας κατέσχον λῃστρικὰς ἐκεῖθεν κατασκευάσαντες ναῦς. ∆ιά τοι ταῦτα δεῖν ἐλογίσατο πρότερον τῶν κατὰ θάλατταν καὶ τὸν Τζαχᾶν πρόνοιαν ποιήσασθαι, καὶ δυνάμεις διὰ ξηρᾶς ἀρκούσας καὶ στόλον ἱκανὸν καταλιπεῖν, εἶτα δι' αὐτῶν τὰς τῶν βαρβάρων ἀναχαιτίζειν ὁρμὰς καὶ ἀντι καθίστασθαι αὐτοῖς, κᾆθ' οὕτως μετὰ τοῦ λοιποῦ στρα τεύματος τῆς πρὸς Ἀντιόχειαν φερούσης ἅψασθαι μετὰ τῶν ἀναμεταξὺ βαρβάρων ὡς ἐνὸν μαχόμενος. 11.5.2 Μετα πεμψάμενος τοίνυν Ἰωάννην τὸν ∆ούκαν καὶ γυναι κάδελφον αὐτοῦ, παραδίδωσι δυνάμεις ἐκ διαφόρων συνειλεγμένας χωρῶν καὶ στόλον ἀποχρῶντα πρὸς τὴν τῶν παραλίων πόλεων πολιορκίαν, καὶ αὐτὴν δὲ τὴν τοῦ Τζαχᾶ θυγατέρα κατασχεθεῖσαν μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων ὁπόσοι ἐντὸς τῆς Νικαίας τότε ἔτυχον, ἐπισκήψας διακηρυκεύειν μὲν πανταχοῦ τὴν τῆς Νικαίας ἅλωσιν, εἰ δὲ μὴ πιστεύοιτο, αὐτὴν τὴν τοῦ Τζαχᾶ θυγατέρα ὑποδεικνύναι τοῖς σατρά παις τῶν Τούρκων καὶ τοῖς τὰ παρὰ θάλατταν νεμομένοις βαρβάροις, ὡς ἂν οἱ τὰς ἤδη ῥηθείσας πόλεις κατέχοντες, ὁρῶντες ταύτην καὶ βεβαιούμενοι τὴν τῆς Νικαίας ἅλωσιν, ἀπογνόντες ἀμαχητὶ παραδοῖεν τὰς πόλεις. Ἐφοδιάσας οὖν ἱκανῶς διὰ παντοίων τὸν Ἰωάννην ἐκπέμπει. Ὁπόσα δὲ κατὰ τοῦ Τζαχᾶ τρόπαια οὗτος ἐστήσατο καὶ ὅπως τοῦτον ἐκεῖθεν ἀπήλασε, προϊὼν ὁ λόγος δηλώσειεν. 11.5.3 Ὁ μὲν οὖν δοὺξ καὶ θεῖος οὑμὸς πρὸς μητρὸς τῷ βασιλεῖ συνταξάμενος, τῆς μεγαλοπόλεως ἔξεισι καί, διαπεράσας τὴν Ἄβυδον, μεταπεμψάμενος τὸν καλούμενον Κάσπακα, τήν τε τοῦ στόλου ἐξουσίαν καὶ τὴν τοῦ πλοὸς ἅπασαν οἰκονομίαν αὐτῷ ἀνέθετο ὑποσχόμενος ὡς, εἰ καλῶς ἀγωνίσοιτο, ὁπηνίκα τὴν Σμύρνην συμβαίη ἁλῶναι, ἡγε μόνα τοῦτον αὐτῆς τε τῆς Σμύρνης καὶ τῶν ὁμορούντων πάντων αὐτῇ καταστῆσαι. Ἐκπέμπει τοίνυν αὐτὸν δια πόντιον θαλασσοκράτορα τοῦ στόλου, ὡς εἴρηται· ἐκεῖνον δὲ ταγματάρχην εἶχεν ἡ ἤπειρος. Ἅμα τοίνυν τόν τε Κάσπακα διὰ τοῦ στόλου καὶ τὸν ∆ούκαν Ἰωάννην διὰ τῆς ἠπείρου οἱ ἐντὸς τῇ Σμύρνῃ ἄμφω προσπελάσαντας θεα σάμενοι, καὶ τὸν μὲν ∆ούκαν ἀγχοῦ τῶν τειχῶν ἐκ δια στήματός τινος τὸν χάρακα πηξάμενον, τὸν δέ γε Κάσπακα τῷ λιμένι προσοκείλαντα, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἡ τῆς Νικαίας ἅλωσις ἤδη ἐγνώσθη αὐτοῖς, οὐδ' ὅλως ἀντικαταστῆναι τούτοις ἠθέλησαν, ἀλλ' εἰς λόγους καὶ σπονδὰς εἰρηνικὰς ἐλθεῖν ᾑρετίσαντο ὑποσχόμενοι, εἴπερ ὀμωμοκέναι