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to the same aforementioned golden bull sealed with cinnabar, as is the custom, by the imperial right hand.

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14.1.1 When, therefore, the things decided by the emperor had reached their conclusion, Bohemond, having confirmed under oath the written agreement set out above with the holy gospels set before him and the lance with which the lawless ones pierced the side of our Savior, asked for his return to the land that bore him, entrusting all those under him to the authority and will of the emperor, asking at the same time for them to winter within the Roman dominion, with necessities being lavishly supplied to them, and when the winter passed and they had recovered from their many labors, to be allowed to depart wherever they wished. Having asked these things, he immediately had the emperor agreeing to his requests. Having been honored then with the dignity of sebastos and having received sufficient money, he returned to his own army. And Constantine Euphorbenos, surnamed Catacalon, went along with him, so that nothing terrible should happen to him on the way from any of the soldiers of our regiments, but rather that he should take care of his camp, seeing that it encamped in a suitable and safe place, and that he might grant them acceptable requests. Having reached his own camp then, and having handed over the army to those sent for this very purpose by the emperor, boarding a monoreme, he reached Lombardy. But having survived not more than six months, he paid the common debt. 14.1.2 But the emperor still concerned himself with the Celts; and having arranged matters concerning them well, he took the road leading to Byzantium. And having returned, he did not at all incline towards ease and rest, but considering again how the barbarians had completely ruined the coastal region of Smyrna and as far as Attaleia itself, he considered it a terrible thing if he did not restore the cities again to their former state and give back their former adornment and bring back to them the inhabitants who had been scattered everywhere. Moreover, he was not without concern for Attaleia, but took great care over it. 14.1.3 Eumathios Philokales, therefore (this man was most capable and distinguished among the eminent not only in birth, but also surpassed the many in intelligence, liberal in both judgment and hand, faithful to God and his friends, and well-disposed towards his masters if any other, yet totally uninitiated in military training; for he knew neither how to draw a bow and string to his breast nor to protect himself with a shield; but in other respects he was most clever, both at setting ambushes and at defeating enemies through all sorts of stratagems) this man, approaching the emperor, earnestly asked for the garrison of Attaleia. The emperor, therefore, knowing the variety of his thoughts and enterprises, and the good fortune that accompanied him, whatever it is and is called (for having undertaken any action whatever he never missed his mark), for these reasons was persuaded, and gives him sufficient forces, suggesting many things and commanding him to undertake his enterprises with good sense in all things. 14.1.4 And he, having reached Abydos, immediately sailing across the strait between, reaches Atramyttion. It was formerly a most populous city; but when Tzachas was plundering the region of Smyrna, he utterly ruined and destroyed it too.

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πρὸς αὐτὸν τὸν εἰρημένον ἄνωθεν χρυσόβουλλον λόγον ἐνσεσημασμένον διὰ κινναβάρεως, ὡς ἔθος, διὰ βασιλικῆς δεξιᾶς.

14.t.1 ΑΛΕΞΙΑΣ Ι∆ʹ

14.1.1 Τῶν οὖν δεδογμένων τῷ αὐτοκράτορι πέρας ἐσχη κότων, τὴν ἐκτεθεῖσαν ἀνωτέρω ἔγγραφον συμφωνίαν ἐνόρ κως ὁ Βαϊμοῦντος βεβαιωσάμενος τῶν ἱερῶν εὐαγγελίων προτεθέντων καὶ τῆς λόγχης δι' ἧς τὴν τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν πλευρὰν οἱ ἄνομοι ἐξεκέντησαν, τὴν πρὸς τὴν ἐνεγκα μένην ἐπάνοδον ᾐτεῖτο ἀναθέμενος πάντας τοὺς ὑπ' αὐτὸν τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ καὶ γνώμῃ τοῦ αὐτοκράτορος, ἀξιῶν ἅμα ἐντὸς τῆς τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἐπικρατείας παραχειμάσαι τούτους τῶν χρειωδῶν δαψιλῶς ἐπιχορηγουμένων αὐτοῖς, ἐπὰν δὲ ὁ χειμὼν παρέλθοι καὶ τῶν πολλῶν κόπων ἑαυτοὺς ἀνακτή σαιντο, ὅπου βουλητὸν αὐτοῖς, συγχωρηθῆναι ἀπελεύ σεσθαι. Ταῦτ' αἰτησάμενος καὶ τὸν αὐτοκράτορα συγκα τατιθέμενον ταῖς τούτου αἰτήσεσιν εἶχεν εὐθύς. Τιμηθεὶς οὖν τηνικαῦτα τῷ τῶν σεβαστῶν ἀξιώματι καὶ χρήματα λαβὼν ἱκανὰ πρὸς τὸ οἰκεῖον ἐπανέτρεχε στράτευμα. Συναπῄει δὲ τούτῳ καὶ Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ Εὐφορβηνὸς ὁ τὴν προσηγορίαν Κατακαλών, ὡς μή τι κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν δεινὸν παρά τινων στρατιωτῶν τῶν ἡμετέρων ταγμάτων αὐτῷ συμβαίη, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον πρόνοιαν τοῦ στρατοπέδου αὐτοῦ ποιήσαιτο ἔν τε προσήκοντι τόπῳ καὶ ἀκινδύνῳ στρατοπε δεύοντος καὶ ἐνδεχομένας τὰς αἰτήσεις παρέχοι αὐτοῖς. Καταλαβὼν οὖν τὴν ἰδίαν παρεμβολὴν καὶ παραδοὺς τὸ στράτευμα τοῖς ἐπ' αὐτῷ τούτῳ ἀπεσταλμένοις παρὰ τοῦ αὐτοκράτορος, εἰς μονῆρες εἰσελθὼν τὴν Λογγιβαρδίαν κατέλαθεν. Οὐ πλείω δὲ τῶν ἓξ μηνῶν ἐπιβιοὺς τὸ κοινὸν ἀπεδεδώκει χρέος. 14.1.2 Ὁ δὲ αὐτοκράτωρ τῆς τῶν Κελτῶν ἔτι φροντίδος εἴχετο· καὶ τὰ κατ' αὐτοὺς εὖ διαθέμενος τῆς πρὸς τὸ Βυζάντιον φερούσης ἥψατο. Ἐπανελθὼν δὲ οὐ πρὸς ἀνέσεις καὶ ἀναπαύλας ἀνέκλινεν ὅλως, ἀλλὰ λογι ζόμενος αὖθις ὅπως τὰ κατὰ τὴν παραλίαν τῆς Σμύρνης καὶ μέχρις αὐτῆς Ἀτταλείας οἱ βάρβαροι τελείως ἠρίπω σαν, ἐν δεινῷ ἐποιεῖτο εἰ μὴ καὶ τὰς πόλεις αὖθις ἐς τὴν προτέραν ἐπαναγάγοι κατάστασιν καὶ τὸν πρῴην ἀποδοίη κόσμον καὶ τοὺς ἁπανταχῆ σκεδασθέντας ἐποίκους αὐταῖς ἐπανασώσοιτο. Οὐ μὴν ἀλλ' οὐδὲ περὶ τῆς τοῦ Ἀττάλου ἀμεριμνίαν εἶχεν, ἀλλὰ πολλὴν ἐποιεῖτο τὴν περὶ αὐτῆς φροντίδα. 14.1.3 Ὁ Φιλοκάλης οὖν Εὐμάθιος (ἀνὴρ δὲ οὗτος ἐπηβολώτατος καὶ τῶν ἐπιφανῶν οὐ γένει μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ φρονήσει τῶν πολλῶν διαφέρων, ἐλευθέριος καὶ γνώμην καὶ χεῖρα, πιστὸς μὲν πρὸς Θεὸν καὶ τοὺς φίλους, πρὸς δὲ τοὺς δεσπότας εὔνους εἴπερ τις ἄλλος, τῆς μέντοι στρα τιωτικῆς παιδείας πάμπαν ἀμύητος· οὔτε γὰρ τόξον καὶ νευρὰν ἐπὶ μαζὸν ἕλκειν ᾔδει οὔτε θυρεῷ σκέπεσθαι· τἆλλα δὲ δεινότατος, λόχους τε ἐφιστᾶν καὶ διὰ παντοίων μη χανημάτων τοὺς πολεμίους ἡττᾶν) οὗτος προσελθὼν τῷ αὐτοκράτορι τὴν τῆς Ἀτταλείας φρουρὰν ἐπιμελῶς ᾐτεῖτο. Γινώσκων οὖν τὸ ποικίλον τῶν αὐτοῦ νοημάτων τε καὶ ἐγχειρήσεων ὁ αὐτοκράτωρ καὶ τὴν συμπαρομαρτοῦσαν αὐτῷ εὐτυχίαν, ἥτις ποτέ ἐστί τε καὶ λέγεται, οὐδὲ γὰρ οἱᾳδήτινι ἐπιβαλών ποτε πράξει διημάρτηκε τοῦ σκοποῦ, πείθεται διὰ ταῦτα καὶ δυνάμεις ἀποχρώσας αὐτῷ δίδωσι, πολλὰ ὑποθέμενος καὶ ἐντειλάμενος ἐν πᾶσι νουνεχεῖς τὰς ἐπιχειρήσεις ποιεῖσθαι. 14.1.4 Ὁ δὲ καταλαβὼν τὴν Ἄβυδον αὐτίκα τὸν ἀναμεταξὺ διαπλῳσόμενος πορθμὸν καταλαμ βάνει τὸ Ἀτραμύτιον. Πόλις δὲ πρῴην μὲν ἦν πολυανθρω ποτάτη· ὁπηνίκα δὲ ὁ Τζαχᾶς τὰ κατὰ τὴν Σμύρνην ἐλῄζετο, καὶ αὐτὴν παντελῶς ἐριπώσας ἠφάνισε.