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plundered also the 2.580 property of the locals, and they themselves, having waited until night, sent all the soldiers homeward and saved some of their friends; and they shut up Apokaukos and a little less than a hundred of the citizens in a prison near the acropolis and set a guard over them. And at dawn on the following day the army from Beroea was also present. But when they learned that those whom they had come to assist had been captured, running down they plundered a few things, and returned to their home. But around midday a rumor suddenly fell upon the city, that the prisoners, having again seized the acropolis, were admitting the army from Beroea. And it was said that some of the Zealots had fabricated such things in order to kill the prisoners, and the people, taking up arms again, advanced toward the acropolis, led by both anger and wine. But those at the acropolis, fearing the assault of the people, lest they get inside and plunder the property within, shut the gates; and having gone up on the walls they begged them not to destroy them, as they would do everything commanded. But they ordered them to bring the prisoners and hurl them down to them, and immediately the prisoners were brought out naked. And first Apokaukos was hurled down; and as it happened he landed upright and remained so for a long time, with no one daring to touch him. Then one of the Zealots, approaching and accusing the others of softness, himself cut off his head with a sword. Then also 2.581 the others standing around wounded his whole body. Then they also threw the others from the walls, as the Zealots demanded them by name, not in one place, but in several. And the people, standing around, bestially and inhumanly speared them; and of some they also cut off their heads, and thus they savagely killed them all, except for a very few, who were hidden by those inhabiting the acropolis. And Kokalas and Palaiologos were present while they were being slaughtered, and they seemed to be displeased at what was being done, yet they pretended to be unable to check the impulse of the people; then from there the people turned to the houses and killed some other citizens also; and coming also to the house of Kokalas, with the Zealots instigating, they demanded Pharmakes, who was hidden there by him; who was married to the sister of Kokalas' wife, and had been very powerful with the ruler Apokaukos and had done very great harm to the Zealots. But he, fearing that he might be destroyed by the people, handed over his kinsman, and he was immediately slain by the people. And it was said that some of the people at that time even tasted human fat. For as those who were killed were cut open, their entrails spilled out. One of them, out of extreme senselessness and callousness, gathered fat and took it home; his wife, not knowing where it was from and thinking it was from some other animal, added it as seasoning to the pot, and after eating she realized, when her husband said that it was human. Thus 2.582 Thessalonica willingly went over to the emperor, and was again turned to war by Palaiologos and Kokalas, and such deeds were dared, surpassing all savagery, and the ship of the emperor Kantakouzenos sank with all hands. But he, after the festival of his own coronation in Adrianople, left his son Matthew in Thrace with an army, both to besiege the cities that had revolted with Batatzes, and to oppose Hierax; for he had come from Byzantium as general over those cities with a few soldiers; whom the emperor's son engaged and defeated, while he barely escaped being captured; for of all those with him, some fell, and others were captured in the battle. Then he also subdued the cities and subjected them to his father by force of arms. 5. And the emperor, having come to Selymbria, conferred secretly with his friends in Byzantium; but since he accomplished nothing of what he wanted, he returned again to Adrianople. And around the same time also Martinus, with the patriarch of Constantinople, whom the Pope is accustomed to ordain after the division of the church, since the city was in the hands of the Latins

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διήρπαζον καὶ τὰ 2.580 τῶν ἐγχωρίων, αὐτοὶ δὲ περιμείναντες ἄχρι νυκτὸς, τοὺς μὲν στρατιώτας πάντας οἴκαδε ἀπέπεμπον καί τινας τῶν φίλων αὐτοὶ διέσωζον· Ἀπόκαυκον δὲ καὶ τῶν πολιτῶν ὀλίγῳ ἐλάσσους ἑκατὸν κατέκλεισαν ἐν δεσμωτηρίῳ πρὸς τῇ ἀκροπόλει καὶ φρουρὰν ἐπέστησαν αὐτοῖς. ἅμα δὲ ἕω εἰς τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν καὶ ἡ ἐκ Βεῤῥοίας στρατιὰ παρῆν. ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐπύθοντο, ὡς ἁλοῖεν οἷς ἧκον συμμαχεῖν, καταδραμόντες ἐληΐσαντό τινα ὀλίγα, καὶ ἀνέστρεφον εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν. περὶ μέσην δὲ ἡμέραν φήμη τις προσέπιπτεν ἀθρόον πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, ὡς οἱ δεσμῶται πάλιν τὴν ἄκραν κατασχόντες τὴν ἐκ Βεῤῥοίας στρατιὰν εἰσδέχονται. ἐλέγετο δὲ, ὡς τῶν Ζηλωτῶν τινες τὰ τοιαῦτα καταψεύσαιντο ἐπὶ τῷ ἀποκτείνειν τοὺς δεσμώτας, καὶ ὁ δῆμος αὖθις τὰ ὅπλα ἀναλαβόντες ἐχώρουν πρὸς τὴν ἄκραν ὑπό τε θυμοῦ καὶ οἴνου στρατηγούμενοι. οἱ πρὸς τῇ ἄκρᾳ δὲ δείσαντες τὴν ἔφοδον τοῦ δήμου, μὴ τὰ ὄντα ἔνδον διαρπάσωσι γενόμενοι, ἀπέκλεισαν τὰς πύλας· ἀναβάντες δὲ ἐπὶ τῶν τειχῶν ἐδέοντο μὴ διαφθείρειν σφᾶς, ὡς πᾶν ποιήσοντας τὸ κελευόμενον. οἱ δ' ἐκέλευον τοὺς δεσμώτας ἄγειν καὶ κατακρημνίζειν πρὸς αὐτοὺς, καὶ αὐτίκα οἱ δεσμῶται ἤγοντο γυμνοί. καὶ πρῶτον μὲν Ἀπόκαυκος κατεκρημνίσθη· οὕτω δὲ συμβὰν ὀρθὸς ἔστη καὶ ἔμεινεν ἐπιπολὺ, μηδενὸς προσάπτεσθαι τολμῶντος. ἔπειτά τις προσελθὼν τῶν Ζηλωτῶν, καὶ μαλακίαν τῶν ἄλλων κατηγορήσας, ἀπέτεμεν αὐτὸς τὴν κεφαλὴν μαχαίρᾳ. εἶτα καὶ 2.581 οἱ ἄλλοι περιστάντες κατέτρωσαν τὸ σῶμα ὅλον. ἔπειτα καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἐῤῥίπτουν ἀπὸ τῶν τειχῶν, ἀπαιτούντων ὀνομαστὶ τῶν Ζηλωτῶν, οὐκ ἐφ' ἕνα τόπον, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ πλείους. καὶ ὁ δῆμος θηριωδῶς καὶ ἀπανθρώπως κατηκόντιζον περιϊστάμενοι· ἐνίων δὲ ἀπέτεμνον καὶ κεφαλὰς, καὶ πάντας οὕτως ὠμῶς ἀπέκτειναν πλὴν ὀλίγων λίαν, οἳ ὑπὸ τῶν τὴν ἄκραν οἰκούντων κατεκρύπτοντο. παρῆσαν δὲ καὶ Κωκαλᾶς καὶ Παλαιολόγος ἀποσφαττομένων, καὶ ἐδόκουν μὲν πρὸς τὰ πραττόμενα δυσχεραίνειν, ἀνακόπτειν μέντοι τὴν ὁρμὴν τοῦ δήμου ὑπεκρίνοντο μὴ δύνασθαι· ἔπειτα ἐκεῖθεν ὁ δῆμος ἐτράπετο πρὸς τὰς οἰκίας καὶ ἀπέκτειναν καὶ ἄλλους τινὰς τῶν πολιτῶν· ἐλθόντες δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὴν οἰκίαν Κωκαλᾶ, τῶν Ζηλωτῶν ἐναγόντων, τὸν Φαρμάκην ᾔτουν ἐκεῖ κατακρυπτόμενον ὑπ' ἐκείνου· ὃς Κωκαλᾶ τῆς γυναικὸς ἀδελφῇ συνῴκει, μέγα δὲ ἐδυνήθη παρὰ Ἀποκαύκῳ ἄρχοντι καὶ πλεῖστα ἐκάκωσε τοὺς Ζηλωτάς. δείσας δὲ ἐκεῖνος, μὴ ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου διαφθαρῇ, παρέδωκε τὸν συγγενῆ, καὶ ἀνῃρέθη εὐθὺς ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου. ἐλέγετο δὲ καὶ στέατος ἀνθρωπίνου ἅψασθαί τινας τῶν τοῦ δήμου τότε. ἀνατεμνομένων γὰρ τῶν ἀποκτεινομένων, τὰ ἔγκατα ἐξεχεῖτο. ὧν τις ὑπ' ἄκρας ἀναισθησίας καὶ ἀναλγησίας στέαρ συναγαγὼν οἴκαδε ἀπήγαγε· τὴν γυναῖκα δὲ μὴ εἰδυῖαν ὅθεν εἴη, νομίσασάν τινος ἑτέρου εἶναι ζώου, ἥδυσμα τῇ χύτρᾳ προσεμβαλεῖν, μετὰ δὲ τὸ φαγεῖν αἰσθέσθαι, τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ὡς εἴη ἀνθρώπινα εἰπόντος. οὕτω μὲν 2.582 ἡ Θεσσαλονίκη προσεχώρησε βασιλεῖ ἑκοῦσα, καὶ πάλιν εἰς τὸν πόλεμον ἐξετράπη ὑπὸ Παλαιολόγου καὶ Κωκαλᾶ, καὶ τοιαῦτα ἐτολμήθη πᾶσαν ὑπερβαίνοντα ὠμότητα, καὶ τὸ Καντακουζηνοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως σκάφος αὔτανδρον κατέδυ. ἐκεῖνος δὲ μετὰ τὴν ἐν Ἀδριανουπόλει τῆς ἰδίας στεφηφορίας ἑορτὴν Ματθαῖον μὲν τὸν υἱὸν κατέλιπεν ἐπὶ τῆς Θρᾴκης ἔχοντα στρατιὰν, τάς τε πόλεις πολιορκήσοντα τὰς Βατάτζῃ συναποστάσας, καὶ Ἱέρακι ἀντιστησόμενον· ἧκε γὰρ ἐκ Βυζαντίου στρατιώτας ὀλίγους ἔχων ἐπ' ἐκείνας τὰς πόλεις στρατηγός· ᾧ καὶ συμβαλὼν ὁ τοῦ βασιλέως ἐνίκησεν υἱὸς μόλις διαδράντα τὸ ἁλῶναι· οἱ γὰρ συνόντες πάντες οἱ μὲν ἔπεσον, οἱ δ' ἑάλωσαν παρὰ τὴν μάχην. ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ τὰς πόλεις παρεστήσατο καὶ ὑπήγαγε τῷ πατρὶ βιασάμενος τοῖς ὅπλοις. εʹ. Βασιλεὺς δὲ εἰς Σηλυμβρίαν ἐλθὼν τοῖς ἐν Βυζαντίῳ φίλοις κρύφα διελέγετο· ἐπεὶ δὲ οὐδὲν ἤνυεν ὧν ἐβούλετο, αὖθις ἀνέστρεφεν εἰς τὴν Ἀδριανοῦ. ὑπὸ δὲ τοὺς αὐτοὺς χρόνους καὶ Μαρτῖνος μετὰ τοῦ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως πατριάρχου, ὃν ὁ Πάπας εἴωθε χειροτονεῖν μετὰ τὴν διαίρεσιν τῆς ἐκκλησίας, οἷα δὴ τῆς πόλεως Λατίνοις