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this to be vomited forth by animals. Having thus prepared these things, and summoning Tatikios who had recently arrived from Antioch, he handed over such ships to him and named him a most illustrious head; but to Lantulph he entrusted the entire fleet, and appointed him megas doux as one most skilled in naval warfare. 11.10.3 So, leaving the great city in the passing month of April with the Roman fleet, they reached Samos, and mooring the ships to the land, they went out onto the mainland in order to secure them more safely by means of the safe ground. But having learned of the passage of the Pisan fleet, they too loosed the stern-cables and sped after them toward Kos. While the Pisans arrived there in the morning, these men arrived in the evening. Not having encountered the Pisans, they departed for Knidos, which is situated on the eastern mainland. Having arrived there, as they were missing their quarry, finding a few of the Pisans who had been left behind somewhere there, they inquired where the Pisan fleet had set out for; and they said, "Towards Rhodes." And immediately loosing the stern-cables, they quickly overtook them between Patara and Rhodes. When the Pisans saw them, they immediately formed a battle array and whetted not only their swords but also their hearts for the fight. When the Roman fleet came upon them, a certain Peloponnesian count called Perichytes, who knew expertly how to lie in naval ambush, as he saw them, propelling his own single-banked ship with its oars as fast as it could go, rushed against them. And passing through their midst like fire, he returned again to the Roman fleet. 11.10.4 However, the Roman fleet did not engage in the battle with the Pisans in an orderly manner, but attacked them swiftly and without formation. And Lantulph himself, approaching the Pisan ships first, launched the fire amiss and accomplished nothing more than scattering the fire. But the count called Eleemon, shamelessly attacking a very large ship at the stern, became entangled in its rudders and, not being able to sail away from there easily, would have been captured if he had not swiftly looked to his device and, releasing fire against them, did not miss his target. Then, swiftly moving his ship to the other side, he immediately set fire to three other very large barbarian ships. And since at the same time a squall of wind suddenly fell upon and disturbed the sea, and was shattering the ships and all but threatening to sink them (for the waves were roaring, the yard-arms were creaking, and the sails were being torn apart), the barbarians were terrified, partly because of the fire being hurled at them (for they were not accustomed to such devices or to a fire whose natural course is upwards, but which is sent wherever the sender wishes, often downwards and to either side), and partly because their minds were confused by the surging of the sea, they took to flight. 11.10.5 So much for the barbarians; but the Roman fleet ran aground on a certain small island called Seutlos, in this way. At daybreak they departed from there and moored at Rhodes. So disembarking from the ships and bringing forth as many as they had managed to capture, including Bohemond's own nephew, they terrified them, as if they were about to sell them all for a price or to slaughter them. But when they saw that they were undaunted by this and held being sold for nothing, they immediately made them fodder for the sword. 11.10.6 But those who were left of the Pisan fleet turned their attention to plundering the nearby islands and Cyprus; where Eumathios Philokales happened upon them and rushed against them. But those around the ships, seized by cowardice, not even caring for the people who had gone out from their ships for the sake of plunder, but leaving the majority on the island, thus in disorder loosing their stern-cables, they sailed away to Laodicea

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ζῴων τοῦτο ἐξερεύγεσθαι. Οὕτω γοῦν ταῦτα κατασκευάσας, μετακαλεσάμενος τὸν Τατίκιον ἐξ Ἀντιοχείας νεωστὶ παραγενόμενον, αὐτῷ μὲν τὰ τοιαῦτα πλοῖα παραδεδωκὼς περιφανεστάτην κεφαλὴν ὠνόμασε· τῷ δέ γε Λαντούλφῳ τὸν ἅπαντα στόλον ἀναθέ μενος, μέγαν δοῦκα προὐβάλετο ὡς τῆς ναυμαχίας εἰδή μονα ἄριστον. 11.10.3 Ἐξελθόντες οὖν τῆς μεγαλοπόλεως μηνὸς παριππεύοντος Ἀπριλλίου μετὰ τοῦ ῥωμαϊκοῦ στό λου τὴν Σάμον κατέλαβον καὶ τὰ πλοῖα τῇ χέρσῳ προσορ μίσαντες ἐξῆλθον πρὸς τὴν ἤπειρον ἐπὶ τῷ διὰ τῆς ἀσφάλ του ἐπὶ πλέον ἀσφαλισαμένους κατοχυρῶσαι αὐτά. Μεμα θηκότες δὲ τὴν τοῦ πισσαϊκοῦ στόλου διέλευσιν τὰ πρυμνή σια λύσαντες καὶ αὐτοὶ ὄπισθεν αὐτῶν ἔθεον ὡς πρὸς τὴν Κῶ. Πρῴας δὲ τῶν Πισσαίων ἐκεῖσε καταλαβόντων ἑσπέ ρας οὗτοι ταύτην κατέλαβον. Μὴ ἐντετυχηκότες δὲ τοῖς Πισσαίοις ἀπῆλθον εἰς τὴν Κνίδον περὶ τὴν ἤπειρον τῆς ἀνατολῆς διακειμένην. Κεῖθι δὲ παραγενόμενοι, ὡς τῆς ἄγρας ἠστόχουν, ὀλίγους τινὰς ἐφευρηκότες τῶν Πισσαίων αὐτοῦ που καταλειφθέντας ἐπυνθάνοντο ὅπου ὁ πισσαϊκὸς ἐξώρμησε στόλος· οἱ δὲ πρὸς τὴν Ῥόδον ἔφασαν. Καὶ παρα χρῆμα λύσαντες τὰ πρυμνήσια θᾶττον τούτους κατέλαβον μεταξὺ Πατάρων καὶ Ῥόδου. Τούτους δ' οἱ Πισσαῖοι θεα σάμενοι μόθου παραυτίκα σχῆμα διατυπώσαντες πρὸς μάχην οὐ τὰ ξίφη μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς καρδίας ἔθηγον. Ἐπικατα λαβόντος δὲ τοῦ ῥωμαϊκοῦ στόλου κόμης τις πελοποννήσιος Περιχύτης καλούμενος ναυλοχεῖν ἄριστα ἐπιστάμενος, ὡς τούτους ἐθεάσατο, ταῖς κώπαις τὸ ἴδιον πτερώσας μονῆρες ὡς εἶχε κατ' αὐτῶν ἵεται. Καὶ διὰ μέσου τούτων ὡς πῦρ διελθὼν εἰς τὸν ῥωμαϊκὸν αὖθις ἐπανέστρεφε στόλον. 11.10.4 Ὁ μέντοι ῥωμαϊκὸς στόλος οὐκ εὐτάκτως τῆς μετὰ τῶν Πισσαίων μάχης ἀπεπειρᾶτο, ἀλλ' ὀξέως καὶ ἀσυντάκτως τούτοις προσέβαλε. Καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Λαντοῦλφος, πρῶτος προσπελάσας ταῖς πισσαϊκαῖς ναυσίν, ἄστοχα τὸ πῦρ ἔβαλε καὶ οὐδέν τι πλέον εἰργάσατο τοῦ πυρὸς σκεδασθέντος. Ὁ δὲ λεγόμενος Ἐλεήμων κόμης, ἀναισχύντως μεγίστῳ πλοίῳ κατὰ πρύμναν προσβαλών, τοῖς πηδαλίοις τούτου περι πεσὼν καὶ μὴ εὐχερῶς ἔχων ἐκεῖθεν διαπλῴσασθαι, κατε σχέθη ἂν εἰ μὴ γοργῶς πρὸς τὴν σκευὴν ἀπεῖδε καὶ πῦρ κατ' αὐτῶν ἀφεὶς οὐκ ἄστοχα ἔβαλεν. Εἶτα τὴν ναῦν ἐπὶ θάτερα γοργῶς μεταφέρων καὶ ἑτέρας παραχρῆμα τρεῖς μεγίστας ἐπυρπόλει τῶν βαρβάρων ναῦς. Ἐπεὶ δ' ἅμα καὶ συστροφὴ ἀνέμου τὴν θάλατταν ἀθρόον ἐπεισπεσοῦσα διε τάραττε τάς τε ναῦς συνέτριβε καὶ μονονοὺ βυθίζειν ἠπεί λει (ἐρρόχθει γὰρ τὸ κῦμα, ἐτετρίγεσαν αἱ κεραῖαι τά θ' ἱστία διερρήγνυντο), ἐκδειματωθέντες οἱ βάρβαροι τὸ μὲν διὰ τὸ πεμπόμενον πῦρ (οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐθάδες ἦσαν τοιούτων σκευῶν ἢ πυρὸς ἄνω μὲν φύσει τὴν φορὰν ἔχοντος, πεμ πομένου δ' ἐφ' ἃ βούλεται ὁ πέμπων κατά τε τὸ πρανὲς πολλάκις καὶ ἐφ' ἑκάτερα), τὸ δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ θαλαττίου κλύ δωνος συγχυθέντες τὸν νοῦν φυγαδείας ἥψαντο. 11.10.5 Οὕτω μὲν οὖν τὰ τῶν βαρβάρων· ὁ δέ τοι ῥωμαϊκὸς στόλος νησι δίῳ τινὶ προσώκειλεν οὑτωσί πως καλουμένῳ Σεύτλῳ. Αὐγαζούσης δὲ τῆς ἡμέρας ἐκεῖθεν ἀπάραντες τῇ Ῥόδῳ προσώρμισαν. Τῶν πλοίων οὖν ἀποβάντες καὶ ἐξαγαγόντες ὅσους ἔφθασαν κατασχεῖν καὶ αὐτὸν δὴ τὸν τοῦ Βαϊμούντου ἀδελφιδοῦν, ἐξεδειμάτουν αὐτοὺς ὡς μέλλοντες τιμῆς πάντας ἀπεμπολεῖν ἢ κατασφάττειν. Ὡς δὲ ἀκαταπλήκ τους πρὸς τοῦτο ἑώρων αὐτοὺς καὶ τὴν ἀπεμπόλησιν ἐν οὐδενὶ τιθεμένους, εὐθὺς ξίφους παρανάλωμα πεποιήκασιν. 11.10.6 Οἱ δέ γε περιλειφθέντες τοῦ πισσαϊκοῦ στόλου πρὸς τὸ τὰς παρατυχούσας νήσους καὶ τὴν Κύπρον λῄζεσθαι ἀπέ βλεψαν· ἔνθα τυχὼν ὁ Φιλοκάλης Εὐμάθιος κατ' αὐτῶν ἵεται. Οἱ δὲ περὶ τὰς ναῦς δειλίᾳ συσχεθέντες μηδὲ τοῦ ἐξιόντος προνομῆς χάριν ἀπὸ τῶν πλοίων αὐτῶν λαοῦ πε φροντικότες, ἀλλὰ τοὺς πλείονας περὶ τὴν νῆσον ἐάσαντες, ἀσυντάκτως οὕτω λύσαντες τὰ πρυμνήσια πρὸς τὴν Λαο δίκειαν ἀπέπλεον