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of a thousand brave men, Celts and Romans, on the condition that they would both accompany and obey him in all things, and at the same time to report to him whatever chanced to happen at the time by secret letters. He was eager to seize the entire country of Cilicia, so that from there he might more easily prepare matters concerning Antioch. 11.9.3 So Boutoumites set out with all his forces and, having arrived near Attaleia, since he saw that Bardas and the chief cupbearer Michael were not obeying his will, so that the armed force might not happen to mutiny and as a result Boutoumites' haste become futile and he be sent away from Cilicia having accomplished nothing, he immediately reported these matters to the emperor, declining to stay with them. And he, knowing the harm that usually arises from such things, swiftly urged both them and as many others as he held suspect by letters on another pretext, so that they might quickly reach Cyprus and, joining Constantine Euphorbenos, who had then undertaken the ducal command of the island of Cyprus, obey him in all things. And they, receiving the letters gladly, quickly sailed across to Cyprus; so after spending a short time with the doux of Cyprus, they behaved towards him too with their customary insolence. For this reason, he too looked askance at them. But the young men, mindful of the emperor's care for them, through letters to the emperor, made many accusations against the doux, calling for Constantine. But the emperor, having unrolled their writings, since he had also sent to Cyprus with them some men of higher fortune, as many as the emperor held suspect, becoming alarmed lest they too, perhaps out of grief, might be led astray with them, immediately instructed Cantacuzenus to take them with him. Who, arriving at Kyrenia and summoning them, took them with him. 11.9.4 But so much for these men, I mean Bardas and the chief cupbearer Michael; but Boutoumites, having reached Cilicia with Monastras and the select commanders left with him, when he found the Armenians had made a treaty with Tancred, bypassing them and seizing Marash, he took possession of it, and at the same time all the adjacent market-towns and small cities. And leaving sufficient forces for the garrison of the entire country and as commander the half-barbarian Monastras, whom the account has mentioned in many places, he returned to the reigning city.

11.10.1 And since the Franks, when setting out for Jerusalem for the seizure of the cities of Syria, had made considerable promises to the bishop of Pisa, if he would assist them toward their proposed goal, and he, having been persuaded by their words and having stirred up two others of those dwelling by the sea to this very purpose, did not delay, but having equipped biremes and triremes and dromons and other fast-sailing vessels amounting to about nine hundred, he set out as if going to them. And detaching a considerable number of these, he sent them to plunder Korypho, Leukas, Kephallenia, and Zakynthos. 11.10.2 Learning this, the emperor ordered ships to be built from all the lands under the rule of the Romans. And building a considerable number in the reigning city itself, he would at intervals board a monoreme and instruct the builders how they should make them. But knowing the Pisans to be skilled in naval warfare and fearing battle with them, on each prow of the ships he had heads of lions and other land animals made of bronze and iron with their mouths open, and having gilded them so that from their appearance alone they seemed terrifying, he prepared for the fire which was to be discharged against the enemy by means of tubes to pass through their mouths, so that it seemed the lions and other such creatures

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χιλίων ἀνδρῶν γενναίων Κελτῶν καὶ Ῥωμαίων ἐφ' ᾧ συμ παρομαρτεῖν τε αὐτῷ καὶ ὑπείκειν ἐν ἅπασιν, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τὸ τυχὸν τῶν καθ' ὥραν ξυμπιπτόντων δι' ἀπορρήτων γραμμάτων δηλοῦν αὐτῷ. Ἔσπευδε δὲ τὴν ἅπασαν χώραν τῆς Κιλικίας κατασχεῖν, ἵν' ἐντεῦθεν ῥᾷον τὰ κατὰ τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν ἐξαρτύῃ. 11.9.3 Ἀπάρας οὖν ὁ Βουτουμίτης σὺν ὅλαις δυνάμεσι καὶ περὶ τὴν Ἀττάλου ἐφθακώς, ἐπεὶ τὸν Βάρδαν καὶ τὸν ἀρχιοινοχόον Μιχαὴλ μὴ ὑπείκοντας ἑώρα τῷ τούτου θελήματι, ἵνα μὴ καὶ τὸ ὁπλιτικὸν συμ βαίη στασιάζειν κἀκ τούτου κενόσπουδος ἡ σπουδὴ τῷ Βουτουμίτῃ γένηται καὶ ἄπρακτος τῆς Κιλικίας ἀπο πεμφθείη, παραχρῆμα τὰ περὶ τούτων δηλοῖ τῷ αὐτοκράτορι τὴν μετ' αὐτῶν συνδιατριβὴν παραιτούμενος. Ὁ δέ, τὰς ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων εἰωθυίας γίνεσθαι βλάβας γινώσκων, γοργῶς ἐφ' ἑτέραν ὑπόθεσιν τούτους τε καὶ ὁπόσους ὑπό πτους εἶχε διὰ γραμμάτων προὐτρέπετο, ἵνα τὴν Κύπρον τάχιον καταλαβόντες τῷ Εὐφορβηνῷ Κωνσταντίνῳ, τὴν δουκικὴν ἀρχὴν τηνικαῦτα τῆς νήσου Κύπρου ἀναδεξα μένῳ, συνόντες ἐν πάσιν ὑπείκωσιν. Οἱ δὲ ἀσμένως τὰ γράμματα δεξάμενοι θᾶττον πρὸς τὴν Κύπρον διαπλῴζον ται· μικρὸν οὖν χρόνον μετὰ τοῦ δουκὸς Κύπρου ἐνδιατρί ψαντες τῇ συνήθει ἀναισχυντίᾳ καὶ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐκέχρηντο. Ἔνθεν τοι καὶ λοξὸν αὐτοὺς ὑπεβλέπετο. Οἱ δὲ νεανίαι, τῆς τοῦ βασιλέως περὶ αὐτοὺς κηδεμονίας μεμνημένοι, διὰ τῶν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα γραμμάτων τοῦ δουκὸς πολλὰ κατέ τρεχον τὴν Κωνσταντίνου ἀνακαλούμενοι. Ἀναπτύξας δὲ τὰς αὐτῶν γραφὰς ὁ αὐτοκράτωρ, ἐπεὶ καί τινας τῶν τῆς μείζονος τύχης, ὅσους ὑπόπτους ὁ αὐτοκράτωρ εἶχε, σὺν αὐτοῖς εἰς Κύπρον ἀπέστειλε, πτοηθεὶς μὴ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐκ λύπης ἴσως συναπαχθῶσιν ἐκείνοις, εὐθὺς τῷ Καντακουζηνῷ ἐπέσκηψεν ἀναλαβέσθαι τούτους μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ. Ὃς φθάσας εἰς Κυρήνειαν καὶ μετακαλεσάμενος τούτους μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ ἀνε λάβετο. 11.9.4 Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν τὰ περὶ τούτων, τοῦ Βάρδα φημὶ καὶ τοῦ ἀρχιοινοχόου Μιχαήλ· ὁ δέ γε Βουτουμίτης μετὰ τοῦ Μοναστρᾶ καὶ τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ καταλειφθέντων λογάδων ἡγεμόνων τὴν Κιλικίαν ἐφθακώς, ὡς τοὺς Ἀρμε νίους εὗρε σπεισαμένους μετὰ τοῦ Ταγγρέ, παραδραμὼν τούτους καὶ τὸ Μαράσιν καταλαβὼν κατέσχεν αὐτό, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τὰς παρακειμένας ἁπάσας κωμοπόλεις καὶ τὰ πολίχ νια. Καὶ ἀποχρώσας δυνάμεις εἰς φρουρὰν τῆς χώρας ἁπάσης καὶ ἡγεμόνα τὸν μιξοβάρβαρον καταλιπὼν Μονα στρᾶν, περὶ οὗ ἐν πολλοῖς ὁ λόγος ἐμέμνητο, πρὸς τὴν βασιλεύουσαν ἐπανέστρεψεν.

11.10.1 Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐξερχόμενοι οἱ Φράγγοι πρὸς τὰ Ἱεροσόλυμα πρὸς κατάσχεσιν τῶν πόλεων Συρίας ὑπέσχοντο τῷ ἐπισ κόπῳ Πίσσης ἱκανά, εἰ τούτοις συνάρηται πρὸς τὸν προ κείμενον αὐτοῖς σκοπόν, ὁ δὲ καταπειθὴς τοῖς λόγοις τού των γεγονὼς καὶ ἑτέρους δύο τῶν παρὰ θάλατταν οἰκούντων ἐς αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἐρεθίσας οὐκ ἀνεβάλλετο, ἀλλ' ἐξοπλίσας διήρεις τε καὶ τριήρεις καὶ δρόμωνας καὶ ἕτερα τῶν ταχυ δρόμων πλοίων εἰς ἐνακόσια περιιστάμενα ἔξεισιν ὡς πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἀπερχόμενος. Ἱκανὰ δὲ τούτων ἀποτεμόμενος εἰς προνομὴν τῆς Κορυφοῦς, τῆς Λευκάδος, τῆς Κεφαληνίας καὶ τῆς Ζακύνθου ἀπέστειλε. 11.10.2 Ταῦτα μανθάνων ὁ βασι λεὺς ἐξ ἁπασῶν τῶν ὑπὸ τὴν τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀρχὴν χωρῶν προσέταξε γενέσθαι πλοῖα. Καὶ εἰς αὐτὴν δὲ τὴν βασιλεύ ουσαν ἱκανὰ κατασκευάζων, ἐκ διαλειμμάτων εἰς μονῆρες εἰσερχόμενος ἐπέσκηπτε τοῖς κατασκευάζουσιν ὅπως χρὴ ταῦτα ποιεῖν. Γινώσκων δὲ τοὺς Πισσαίους τοῦ περὶ τὴν θάλατταν πολέμου ἐπιστήμονας καὶ δεδιὼς τὴν μετ' αὐτῶν μάχην, ἐν ἑκάστῃ πρώρᾳ τῶν πλοίων διὰ χαλκῶν καὶ σιδή ρων λεόντων καὶ ἀλλοίων χερσαίων ζῴων κεφαλὰς μετὰ στομάτων ἀνεῳγμένων κατασκευάσας, χρυσῷ τε περιστεί λας αὐτὰ ὡς ἐκ μόνης θέας φοβερὸν φαίνεσθαι, τὸ διὰ τῶν στρεπτῶν κατὰ τῶν πολεμίων μέλλον ἀφίεσθαι πῦρ διὰ τῶν στομάτων αὐτῶν παρεσκεύασε διιέναι, ὥστε δοκεῖν τοὺς λέοντας καὶ τἆλλα τῶν τοιούτων