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joining battle against them from the wings, they won a complete victory. And they kill many, and many they also take captive; and the very few who were left, fleeing, fell into the eddies of the Maeander and were immediately drowned. This is a river near Phrygia, the most winding of all rivers and making continuous bends. And taking courage also from this second victory, they pursued the rest. But they gained nothing more, as the Turks had managed to get further away from them. Then thus they returned to Philadelphia. But Eumathios, having seen them and learned how zealously they had fought, eager that none should escape their hands, honored them lavishly and promised great favors for the future.

14.2.1 But after the death of Bohemond, since Tancred had taken possession of Antioch and considered it as belonging to him, completely estranging the emperor from it, the emperor, considering both the oaths concerning the city that were being violated by these barbarian Franks and that he himself had spent much money and had suffered many terrible things in transporting those innumerable armies from the West to Asia, although always encountering them as most stiff-necked and bitter men, and sending out many Roman armies with them against the Turks for two reasons—on the one hand, so that they might not become the prey of the Turkish sword (for he cared for them as Christians), and on the other, so that, supported by us, they might destroy <μὲν> the cities of the Ishmaelites, and give others under treaty to the emperors of the Romans and thereby extend the territories of the Romans—but since no benefit resulted for the Roman empire from so many toils and labors and gifts, but they held fast to the city of Antioch and gave us no share of the other towns, he could not bear it, nor did he tolerate at all not retaliating with the worst things and avenging himself on them for such inhumanity. 14.2.2 For the fact that from him came those untold gifts and the heaps of gold and the unsurpassed care for them and the multitudes of armies sent by him to cooperate with them, while the Roman empire should enjoy no benefit from this, and that the Franks should consider the victory their own, having broken the treaties and oaths with him and having considered them as nothing, tore his soul apart and he did not know how he could bear the insolence. 14.2.3 Therefore indeed he sends an embassy to the ruler of Antioch, Tancred, accusing him of the injustice and the violation of the oaths, and saying that he would not endure being despised to the end, but would take vengeance on him for his ingratitude towards the Romans. For it would be terrible and beyond terrible, if he had spent money, more than any number, and sent out forces, the most distinguished of the Roman regiments, for the sake of all Syria and of Antioch itself, hastening with all his might and mind to broaden the boundaries of the Roman empire, while Tancred should revel in his money and labors. 14.2.4 When the emperor had sent this embassy, that mad and god-stricken barbarian, not even enduring with the tips of his ears both the truth of the words and the frankness of the ambassadors, immediately acted in accordance with his race and, being puffed up with arrogance, boasted that he would place his throne above the stars and threatened to pierce the walls of Babylon with the point of his spear and he spoke expressly and exaggerated his power, saying that he was dauntless and unstoppable in his attack, and he strongly affirmed that he would not, whatever might happen, give up Antioch, even if those who were about to fight against him should carry fiery hands; and that he himself was Ninus the

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κεράτων τὸν κατ' αὐτῶν συγκροτήσαντες πόλεμον κατὰ κράτος ἐνίκησαν. Καὶ πολλοὺς μὲν κτείνουσι, πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ ζωγρίαν ἄγουσιν· οἱ δέ γε καταλειφθέντες ὀλίγοι πάνυ φεύγοντες ταῖς δίναις τοῦ Μαιάνδρου ἐμπεσόντες εὐθὺς ἀπεπνίγησαν. Ποταμὸς δὲ οὗτος περὶ Φρυγίαν, σκολιώτα τος ποταμῶν ἁπάντων καὶ καμπὰς συνεχεῖς ποιούμενος. Θαρρήσαντες δὲ κἀπὶ τῇ δευτέρᾳ νίκῃ τοὺς ἐπιλοίπους ἐδίωκον. Ἀλλ' οὐδὲν αὐτοῖς ἐγένετο πλέον τῶν Τούρκων φθασάντων πορρωτέρω γενέσθαι τούτων. Εἶθ' οὕτως ἐπανῆλθον πρὸς Φιλαδέλφειαν. Ὁ δέ γε Εὐμάθιος, τού τους θεασάμενος καὶ μεμαθηκὼς ὡς ἐκθύμως ἠγωνίσαντο σπεύδοντες μηδένα τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν ἐκφυγεῖν, δαψιλῶς αὐτοὺς φιλοτιμησάμενος μεγάλας καὶ ἐς τὸ ἔμπροσθεν ὑπισχνεῖτο τὰς χάριτας.

14.2.1 Μετὰ δὲ τὴν τοῦ Βαϊμούντου τελευτήν, ἐπειδὴ ὁ Ταγγρὲ τῆς Ἀντιοχείας περιεδράξατο καὶ ὡς διαφέρουσαν αὐτῷ ἐλογίζετο παντάπασι τὸν αὐτοκράτορα ταύτης ἀλλο τριῶν, ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐνταῦθα κατανοῶν καὶ τοὺς ἐπὶ τῇ πόλει παρασπονδουμένους ὅρκους τῶν βαρβάρων τουτωνὶ Φράγγων καὶ ὅτι αὐτὸς πολλὰ μὲν ἀνηλώκει χρήματα, πολλὰ δὲ πεπόνθει δεινὰ τά τε μυριοπληθῆ ἐκεῖνα στρατεύματα ἐκ τῆς ἑσπέρας εἰς τὴν Ἀσίαν διαβιβάζων, καίτοι δυστρα χηλοτάτοις αὐτοῖς ἐντυγχάνων ἀεὶ καὶ καταπίκροις ἀνδράσι, πολλὰ δὲ ῥωμαϊκὰ στρατεύματα τούτοις συνεκπέμ πων κατὰ τῶν Τούρκων, δυεῖν ἕνεκα, τοῦτο μὲν ἵνα μὴ τουρκικῆς μαχαίρας παρανάλωμα γένοιντο (ἐκήδετο γὰρ αὐτῶν ὡς Χριστιανῶν), τοῦτο δ' ὅπως καὶ ὑφ' ἡμῶν συγκροτούμενοι τὰς <μὲν> πόλεις τῶν Ἰσμαηλιτῶν ὀλοθρεύοιεν, τὰς δὲ καὶ ὑποσπόνδους τοῖς βασιλεῦσι Ῥωμαίων διδοῖεν κἀκ τούτου τὰ σχοινίσματα τῶν Ῥωμαίων πλατύ νοιντο, ἀπήντησε δὲ οὐδὲν ὄφελος ἀπὸ τῶν τοσούτων καμάτων καὶ πόνων καὶ δωρεῶν τῇ Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίᾳ, ἀλλὰ τῆς τε Ἀντιόχου πόλεως ἀπρὶξ εἴχοντο τῶν τε ἄλλων πολισμάτων ἡμῖν οὐ μετεδίδοσαν, φέρειν οὐκ εἶχεν οὐδ' ὅλως ἠνείχετο μὴ οὐχὶ ἀντιδρᾶσαι τὰ χείρω καὶ τῆς τοιαύτης ἀπανθρωπίας αὐτοὺς ἀμύνασθαι. 14.2.2 Τὸ γὰρ ἐκείνου μὲν εἶναι τὰς ἀμυθήτους ἐκείνας δωρεὰς καὶ τοῦ χρυσοῦ τοὺς θημῶνας καὶ τὴν ἀνυπέρβλητον ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν φροντίδα καὶ τῶν παρ' αὐτοῦ συνεργῶν αὐτοῖς πεμφθέντων στρατευμάτων τὰ πλήθη, τὴν δὲ βασιλείαν Ῥωμαίων μηδὲν ἐντεῦθεν ἀπόνασθαι, τοὺς δὲ Φράγγους λογίζεσθαι τὸ ἐκνίκημα ἴδιον τὰς πρὸς αὐτὸν συνθήκας καὶ τοὺς ὅρκους ἀθετήσαντας καὶ παρ' οὐδὲν λογισαμένους, διεσπάραττεν αὐτοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ οὐκ εἶχεν ὅπως ἐνέγκοι τὴν ὕβριν. 14.2.3 Ἔνθεν τοι καὶ διαπρεσβεύεται πρὸς τὸν Ἀντιοχείας ἄρχοντα Ταγγρέ, διεγκαλῶν αὐτῷ τὴν ἀδικίαν καὶ τὴν τῶν ὅρκων παράβασιν καὶ ὡς οὐκ ἂν ἀνάσχοιτο μέχρι τέλους καταφρονούμενος, ἀλλὰ μετελεύσεται τοῦτον καὶ τῆς εἰς Ῥωμαίους ἀχαριστίας. ∆εινὸν γὰρ ἂν εἴη καὶ πέρα δεινῶν, εἰ χρήματα μὲν ἀνηλώκει καὶ πλείω παντὸς ἀριθμοῦ, δυνάμεις δὲ συνεξαπέστειλε τὰς περιφανεστέρας τῶν ῥωμαϊκῶν συνταγμάτων ἕνεκα Συρίας ἁπάσης καὶ τῆς Ἀντιοχείας αὐτῆς, σπεύδων ὅλῃ χειρὶ καὶ γνώμῃ τὰ ὅρια πλατῦναι τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἀρχῆς, ὁ δὲ Ταγγρὲ κατατρυφῴη τῶν ἐκείνου καὶ χρημάτων καὶ πόνων. 14.2.4 Ταῦτα διαπρεσ βευσαμένου τοῦ αὐτοκράτορος, ὁ ἐμμανὴς ἐκεῖνος καὶ θεοπλὴξ βάρβαρος, οὐδ' ἄκροις ὠσὶν ἀνασχόμενος τῆς τε ἀληθείας τῶν λόγων καὶ τῆς παρρησίας τῶν πρέσβεων, εὐθὺς τὰ τοῦ γένους ἐποίει καὶ ὑπ' ἀλαζονείας ὀγκούμενος ὑπεράνω τῶν ἄστρων θήσειν τὸν θρόνον ἠλαζονεύετο καὶ τοῦ δόρατος τῇ ἀκμῇ διατετραίνειν ἠπείλει τὰ τείχη τὰ Βαβυλώνια ἔλεγέ τε διαρρήδην καὶ ἐξετραγῴδει τὴν δύνα μιν, ὡς ἀπτόητός ἐστι καὶ ἀκατάσχετος τὴν ὁρμήν, καὶ οὐ δ' ἄν, εἴ τι γένοιτο, μεθήσειν τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν διισχυρίζετο, κἂν ἐμπύρους φέροιεν χεῖρας οἱ μέλλοντες πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀντι μάχεσθαι· καὶ ἑαυτὸν μὲν εἶναι τὸν Νίνον τὸν