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which I also wish to keep forever, and I swear by God and all His saints, since with these as witnesses the agreements are both written and spoken, a faithful man of your empire and of your most desired son and emperor, the lord John Porphyrogenitus. And I will arm my right hand against everyone who resists your power, whether he who raises his hands is of the Christian race or is a foreigner to our court, whom we call pagans; so that, as was contained in the aforementioned agreement and pleased both parties, both your majesties and me, with the others having been annulled, this alone I draw from there and affirm and hold fast to: to be a servant of the empire and of both, and a liege man, as if renewing what was dissolved. And not even if something should happen, will I come to the annulment of this; nor will there be any cause or means, manifest or hidden, by which I shall appear a transgressor of the treaties and of the things now agreed upon. 13.12.3 But since I now receive the land to be explicitly declared herein in the parts of the east by a chrysobull of your majesty, in which your authority is also signified by a red-ink signature, which chrysobull, having also been made reciprocal, was delivered to me, I receive the given lands as having been gifted from your majesties and having the power of the gift from the chrysobull document, as a return gift for so many lands and cities I give my own faith to your majesties, both of you, the great emperor lord Alexios Komnenos, and of your thrice-desired son the emperor lord John Porphyrogenitus, which I promise to keep immovable and unshaken like a safe anchor. 13.12.4 And so that I may repeat the statement more clearly and preserve the peculiarity of those agreeing in writing, behold I, Bohemond son of Robert Guiscard, agree with your majesties, and I establish the unbreakable agreement to be kept towards your majesties, that is, both you, the emperor of the Romans lord Alexios, and the emperor and your son, the Porphyrogenitus, and a liege man unadulterated and unfeigned, as long as I breathe and am counted among the living. And I would arm my hand against your enemies appearing from hence and of your empire of the ever-august august emperors of the Roman hegemony. 13.12.5 And wherever I might be commanded by you, with all the army around me I will serve without excuse according to the present need. And if there might be any who are hostile to your power, unless perhaps they are equal to the immortal angels and are invulnerable to our spears or are clothed in some adamantine bodies, against all these I would fight on behalf of your majesties. And if I am sound of body and free from any barbarian and Turkish war, I myself in my own body will fight the war on your behalf with the accompanying army. But if I am shackled by a severe illness, as many human things are, or an impending war draws me to itself, then indeed then I promise to send out possible aid through my noble men around me, so that they may make up for my deficiency. For the true faith, which today I give to your majesties, is this: to preserve the terms of the agreement unmutilated, whether through myself or through others, as has been said. 13.12.6 And I swear to keep true faith both in general and in particular for your power and for your life, this one, I mean, the below and earthly one. For on behalf of such a life of yours I would become some iron statue, hammer-wrought with my arms. But even up to the honor of the

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ἣν καὶ φυλάττειν ἐς ἀεὶ βού λομαι, καὶ ἐπόμνυμι Θεόν τε καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἁγίους αὐτοῦ, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἐπὶ μάρτυσι τούτοις τὰ συμπεφωνημένα [καὶ] γράφεταί τε καὶ λέγεται, ἄνθρωπος πιστὸς τῆς σῆς βασιλείας καὶ τοῦ περιποθήτου σου υἱοῦ καὶ βασιλέως κυρίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ πορφυρογεννήτου. Καὶ ὁπλίσομαι τὴν δεξιὰν κατὰ παντὸς ἀνθισταμένου τῷ κράτει σου, εἴτε τοῦ χριστιανικοῦ γένους ἐστὶν ὁ χεῖρας ἀνταράμενος εἴτε καὶ ἀλλότριός ἐστι τῆς ἡμετέρας αὐλῆς, οὓς παγάνους ἡμεῖς ὀνομάζομεν· ὥστε, ὅπερ καὶ τῷ προμνημονευθέντι συμφώνῳ περιείχετο καὶ ἀμφοῖν τοῖν μεροῖν συνήρεσε, τῇ τε βασιλείᾳ ὑμῶν καὶ ἐμοί, τῶν ἄλλων ἀνῃρημένων τοῦτο μόνον ἐκεῖθεν ἕλκω καὶ ἰσχυρίζομαι καὶ ἀπρὶξ ἔχομαι τὸ δοῦλον τῆς βασι λείας καὶ ἀμφοτέρων εἶναι καὶ λίζιον ἄνθρωπον, ὥσπερ καταλυθὲν ἀνανεούμενος. Καὶ οὐδ' ἂν εἴ τι γένοιτο, εἰς ἀθέτησιν τούτου ἐλεύσομαι· οὐδέ τις αἰτία ἔσται ἢ τρόπος, φανερός τε καὶ ἀφανής, καθ' ὃν ἐγὼ παραβάτης τῶν συνθηκῶν καὶ τῶν νῦν συμπεφωνημένων φανήσομαι. 13.12.3 Ἀλλ' ἐπειδὴ λαμβάνω τὰ νῦν τὴν ῥητῶς ἐνταυθοῖ δηλωθησο μένην χώραν ἐν τοῖς μέρεσι τῆς ἀνατολῆς διὰ χρυσοβούλλου λόγου τῆς βασιλείας σου, ἐν ᾧ καὶ τὸ κράτος τὸ σὸν ὑποση μαίνεται δι' ἐρυθροβαφοῦς ὑπογραφῆς, ὃς δὴ χρυσόβουλλος λόγος καὶ ἀμοιβαῖος γεγονὼς ἐπεδόθη μοι, δέχομαι μὲν τὰς δοθείσας χώρας ὡς ἀπὸ τῆς βασιλείας ὑμῶν δεδωρημένας καὶ τὸ ἐνδύναμον ἔχων τῆς δωρεᾶς ἐκ τῆς χρυσοβούλλου γραφῆς, ἀντίδοσιν τῶν τοσούτων χωρῶν καὶ πόλεων δίδωμι τὴν πίστιν τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ πρὸς τὴν ὑμῶν βασιλείαν, σοῦ τε, τοῦ μεγάλου αὐτοκράτορος κυρίου Ἀλεξίου τοῦ Κομνηνοῦ, καὶ τοῦ τριποθήτου υἱοῦ σου τοῦ βασιλέως κυρίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ πορφυρογεννήτου, ἣν ἀμετακίνητον καὶ ἀσάλευτον καθέξειν ὑπισχνοῦμαι καθάπερ ἄγκυραν ἀσφαλῆ. 13.12.4 Καὶ ἵνα ἐπαναλάβω τὸν λόγον σαφέστερον καὶ τὴν ἰδιότητα φυλάξαιμι τῶν ἐγγράφως συμφωνούντων, ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ Βαϊ μοῦντος υἱὸς Ῥομπέρτου Γισκάρδου συμφωνῶ μετὰ τοῦ κράτους ὑμῶν, καὶ τὴν συμφωνίαν ἀρραγῆ τίθημι φυλάττειν πρὸς τὴν βασιλείαν ὑμῶν, τοῦτ' ἔστι σέ τε, τὸν αὐτοκράτορα Ῥωμαίων κύριον Ἀλέξιον, καὶ τὸν βασιλέα καὶ υἱόν σου τὸν πορφυρογέννητον, καὶ τὸ λίζιον ἄνθρωπον ἀνόθευτόν τε καὶ ἀπαραποίητον, ἕως ἂν ἐμπνέω καὶ μετὰ τῶν ζώντων συναριθμῶμαι. Καὶ ἐξοπλισαίμην τὴν χεῖρα κατὰ τῶν ἐντεῦθεν ἀναφανησομένων ἐχθρῶν ὑμῶν καὶ τῆς βασιλείας τῆς ὑμετέρας τῶν ἀεισεβάστων σεβαστῶν βασιλέων τῆς τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίας. 13.12.5 Καὶ ἔνθα ἂν καὶ προσταχθείην ὑφ' ὑμῶν, μετὰ πάσης τῆς περὶ ἐμὲ στρατιᾶς ἀπροφασίσ τως ἐκδουλεύσω κατὰ τὴν παρισταμένην χρείαν. Καὶ εἴ τινες ἂν καὶ εἶεν δυσμενῶς ἔχοντες πρὸς τὸ ὑμέτερον κρά τος, εἰ μή που τοῖς ἀθανάτοις ἀγγέλοις ἰσάζοιντ' ἂν καί εἰσι τοῖς ἡμετέροις δόρασιν ἄτρωτοι ἢ ἀδαμάντινά τινα περίκεινται σώματα, κατὰ τούτων πάντων ὑπεραγωνισαίμην τῆς βασιλείας ὑμῶν. Καὶ εἰ μὲν ὑγιῶς ἔχω τοῦ σώματος καὶ ἐλευθεριάζω πολέμου τινὸς βαρβαρικοῦ τε καὶ τουρκι κοῦ, αὐτὸς ἐγὼ τῷ ἐμῷ σώματι ἀγωνιοῦμαι τὸν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν πόλεμον μετὰ τοῦ ξυνεπομένου στρατεύματος. Εἰ δὲ ἢ νόσῳ βαρείᾳ πεδοῦμαι, οἷα πολλὰ τὰ ἀνθρώπινα, ἢ πόλεμος ἐπι κείμενος πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ἕλκει με, τότε δὴ τότε ὑπισχνοῦμαι διὰ τῶν περὶ ἐμὲ γενναίων ἀνθρώπων μου τὴν δυνατὴν ἐξα ποστέλλειν βοήθειαν ὡς ἐπανασῳζόντων ἐκείνων τὸ ἐμὸν ἔλλειμμα. Ἡ γὰρ ὀρθὴ πίστις, ἣν σήμερον πρὸς τὴν βασι λείαν ὑμῶν δίδωμι, τοῦτο ἔστι τὸ ἢ δι' ἐμαυτοῦ ἢ δι' ἑτέ ρων, καθάπερ εἴρηται, ἀνακρωτηρίαστα διατηρεῖν τὰ τῆς συμφωνίας. 13.12.6 Ὀρθήν τε πίστιν φυλάττειν διόμνυμι καὶ καθόλου καὶ κατὰ μέρος ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὑμετέρου κράτους καὶ τῆς ὑμετέρας ζωῆς, ταυτησὶ λέγω τῆς κάτω τε καὶ γηΐνης. Ὑπὲρ γὰρ τῆς τοιαύτης ὑμῶν ζωῆς σιδηροῦς τις ἀνδριὰς καὶ σφυρήλατος γενοίμην τοῖς ὅπλοις. Ἀλλὰ μέχρι καὶ τῆς τιμῆς τῆς