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I swear that against whomever your empire, which holds cities and countries that were once subject to the empire of Constantinople, wishes to raise its hands and wage war, this I too will do and I will arm myself against them. But against whom it is not your pleasure to move an army, neither would we ourselves campaign against them. For in all things we wish to serve your power and to make every action and every will dependent on your will. 13.12.16 Of the Saracens and those of Ishmael, as many as flock to your empire, having deserted and surrendering their cities, I will neither prevent nor eagerly attempt to make subject to myself, unless perhaps that party, having been compelled by my spear and pressed from all sides, has looked to your power, suspecting danger and contriving its own salvation by coming over to you. But all such men, and as many as, fearing the Frankish sword and shunning the impending death, call upon you, the august emperors, not for this reason will you lay claim to our captives, but clearly to those who come into your servitude without our toils and labors and of their own free will. 13.12.17 In addition to the other things, I also agree to this, that as many soldiers as may wish to cross the Adriatic with me from Lombardy, they themselves will also swear and agree to the service of your empire, with some man of your power, whom you yourselves shall send for this very purpose to the other side of the Adriatic, clearly administering the oath to all of them. But if they refuse the oath, not to allow them to cross otherwise, as men who refuse to think the same as we. 13.12.18 It is necessary also to set out in the present document the countries and cities granted to me by your God-appointed power through a chrysobull: the city of Antioch in Coele-Syria with its surrounding area and dominion, along with Suetium itself, which is situated by the sea; Doux with all its dominion, along with Cauca, what is called Loulon and <τὸ> of the Wondrous Mountain and Phersia with all the country under them; St. Elias the strategis with the towns under it; the strategis of Borze and the towns under it; all the country around the strategis of Sezer, which the Greeks call Larissa; and likewise Artach and Teluch, the strategides, with the surrounding area of each; with these, Germanikeia and the towns under it; the Black Mountain and all the castles ranked under it and the entire plain lying below it, without, clearly, the dominion of the Roupenians, Leon and Theodore the Armenians, who have become men of your power. 13.12.19 Along with those written above, the strategaton of Pagras, the strategaton of Palatza, the theme of Zume and all the castles and towns under them and the country belonging to each. For all these things are also contained there in the chrysobull of your empire as having been granted to me by the divine power until the end of my life, as they are obliged after my departure from here to return to the empire of the new Rome and queen of cities, Constantinople, on condition that I keep the most unadulterated faith <καὶ> pure goodwill through you, the ever-venerable august emperors, to its empire and be a servant and liege subject of its throne and of the royal scepter. 13.12.20 And I agree and swear by the God venerated in the church of Antioch that the patriarch of Antioch shall not be from our race, but whomever your empire shall put forward, being one of the nurslings of the great church in Constantinople. For such a one may both ascend the throne in Antioch and

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ἐπόμνυμι ὡς ἄρα καθ' ὧν μὲν ἂν βούληται ἡ βασιλεία ὑμῶν τῶν κατεχόντων πόλεις καὶ χώρας, αἵ ποτε ὑπέκειντο τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῆς Κωνσταντι νουπόλεως, ἀντάρασθαι χεῖρας καὶ ξυγκροτήσειν πόλεμον, τοῦτο ποιήσω κἀγὼ καὶ ὁπλοποιήσομαι κατ' αὐτῶν. Καθ' ὧν δὲ οὐκ ἔστι σοι θυμῆρες στρατὸν κινῆσαι, οὐδὲ αὐτοὶ κατ' ἐκείνων στρατεύσαιμεν. ∆ιὰ πάντων γὰρ βουλόμεθα θεραπεύειν τὸ ὑμέτερον κράτος καὶ πᾶσαν πρᾶξιν καὶ πᾶσαν βούλησιν τῆς σῆς βουλήσεως ἐξαρτᾶν. 13.12.16 Τῶν τε Σαρακηνῶν καὶ τῶν ἐκ τοῦ Ἰσμαὴλ ὁπόσοι συρ ρέουσιν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν σου ηὐτομοληκότες καὶ τὰς πόλεις αὐτῶν παραδιδόντες, οὔτε ἀποκωλύσω οὔτε διὰ σπουδῆς θείην ὑποποιήσασθαι ἐμαυτῷ, εἰ μή που ἄρα διὰ τοῦ ἐμοῦ δόρατος καταναγκασθὲν τὸ μέρος ἐκεῖνο καὶ παν ταχόθεν στενοχωρηθὲν πρὸς τὸ κράτος τὸ σὸν ἀπέβλεψε κίνδυνον ὑφορώμενον καὶ τὴν σωτηρίαν ἑαυτῷ ἐκ τοῦ προσ έρχεσθαί σοι πραγματευόμενον. Ἀλλὰ τοὺς τοιούτους τε πάντας καὶ ὅσοι τὸ φραγγικὸν πεφοβημένοι ξίφος καὶ τὸν ἐπηρτημένον θάνατον ἀποκλίναντες τοὺς σεβαστοὺς βασι λέας ἐπικαλοῦνται ὑμᾶς οὐ διὰ τοῦτο ἀνθέξεσθε τῶν ἡμε τέρων δορυαλώτων, ἀλλὰ δηλονότι τῶν ἄνευ πόνων καὶ κόπων ἡμετέρων καὶ ἐθελουσίως εἰς τὴν ὑμετέραν δούλωσιν ἐρχομένων. 13.12.17 Πρὸς ταῖς ἄλλοις καὶ ταυτὶ συμφωνῶ, ὅτι τοι ὅσοι ἂν ἐθέλωσι διαπερᾶσαι μετ' ἐμοῦ τὸν Ἀδρίαν ἀπὸ Λογγιβαρδίας ἄνδρες στρατιῶται, ὀμοῦνται καὶ αὐτοὶ καὶ συμφωνήσουσι τῇ δουλείᾳ τῆς βασιλείας σου, ὁρκίζον τος δηλονότι τούτους ξύμπαντας ἀνθρώπου τινὸς τοῦ ὑμε τέρου κράτους, ὃν ἂν αὐτοὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ αὐτῷ ἀποστείλητε κατὰ τὸ πέραν Ἀδρίου. Εἰ δ' ἀποπηδῶσι τὸν ὅρκον, μὴ ἄλλως ἐᾶσαι διαπερᾶν ὡς τὰ αὐτὰ φρονεῖν ἡμῖν ἀπαναινο μένους. 13.12.18 ∆εῖ δὲ καὶ τὰς διὰ χρυσοβούλλου λόγου δωρη θείσας μοι παρὰ τοῦ θεοπροβλήτου κράτους ὑμῶν χώρας καὶ πόλεις ἐκθεῖναι ἐν τῷ παρόντι συγγράμματι· ἡ κατὰ τὴν Κοίλην Συρίαν Ἀντιόχου πόλις μετὰ τῆς περιοχῆς αὐτῆς καὶ τῆς διακρατήσεως σὺν αὐτῷ Σουετίῳ, ὃ παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν ἥδρασται· τὸ ∆οὺξ μετὰ τῆς διακρατήσεως αὐτοῦ πάσης σὺν τῷ τοῦ Καυκᾶ τό τε τοῦ Λουλοῦ λεγόμενον καὶ <τὸ> τοῦ Θαυμαστοῦ Ὄρους καὶ τὰ Φέρσια μετὰ τῆς ὑπ' αὐτὰ πάσης χώρας· ὁ Ἅγιος Ἠλίας ἡ στρατηγὶς μετὰ τῶν ὑπ' αὐτὴν πολιχνίων· ἡ στρατηγὶς τὸ Βορζὲ καὶ τὰ ὑπὸ ταύτην πολίχνια· ἡ περὶ τὴν στρατηγίδα τὸ Σέζερ ἅπασα χώρα, ἥντινα Λάρισσαν Ἕλληνες ὀνομάζουσιν· ὣς δὲ καὶ τὸ Ἀρτὰχ καὶ τὸ Τελοὺχ αἱ στρατηγίδες μετὰ τῆς ἑκάστης περιοχῆς· σὺν τούτοις ἡ Γερμανίκεια καὶ τὰ ὑπὸ ταύτην πολίχνια· τὸ Μαῦρον Ὄρος καὶ πάντα τὰ ὑπ' ἐκεῖνο τατ τόμενα κάστρα καὶ ἡ ὑποκειμένη τούτῳ σύμπασα πεδιὰς ἄνευ δηλονότι τῆς τῶν Ῥουπενίων διακρατήσεως Λέοντός τε καὶ Θεοδώρου τῶν Ἀρμενίων γεγονότων ἀνθρώπων τοῦ κράτους ὑμῶν. 13.12.19 Μετὰ τῶν ἀναγεγραμμένων τὸ στρατη γάτον Παγρᾶς, τὸ στρατηγάτον Παλατζά, τὸ θέμα τοῦ Ζοῦμε καὶ τὰ ὑπὸ ταῦτα πάντα κάστρα τε καὶ πολίχνια καὶ ἡ ἑκάστῳ προσήκουσα χώρα. Ταῦτα γὰρ πάντα κἀκεῖ περιέχεται ἐν τῷ χρυσοβούλλῳ λόγῳ τῆς βασιλείας ὑμῶν ὡς δεδωρημένα μοι παρὰ τοῦ θείου κράτους μέχρι πέρατος τῆς ἐμῆς βιοτῆς, ὡς ὀφειλόντων μετὰ τὴν ἐνθένδε μου μετά στασιν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν ἐπανακάμπτειν τῆς νέας Ῥώμης καὶ βασιλίδος τῶν πόλεων Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, ἐφ' ᾧ φυλάττειν πίστιν ἀκραιφνεστάτην <καὶ> εὔνοιαν καθαρὰν δι' ὑμῶν τῶν ἀεισεβάστων σεβαστῶν βασιλέων εἰς τὴν βασι λείαν αὐτῆς καὶ τοῦ θρόνου ταύτης καὶ τῆς βασιλικῆς ῥάβδου δοῦλον εἶναι καὶ λίζιον ὑποχείριον. 13.12.20 Συμφωνῶ δὲ καὶ ὄμνυμι τὸν ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ Ἀντιοχείας πρεσβευόμε νον Θεὸν ὡς οὐκ ἐκ τοῦ ἡμετέρου γένους πατριάρχης ἔσται Ἀντιοχείας, ἀλλ' ὃν ἂν προβαλεῖται ἡ βασιλεία ὑμῶν ἐκ τῶν θρεμμάτων τυγχάνοντα τῆς κατὰ τὴν Κωνσταντι νούπολιν μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας. Ὁ τοιοῦτος γὰρ καὶ τοῦ θρό νου τοῦ κατὰ τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν ἐπιβαίη καὶ