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to jointly save the Romans who were left behind, the Latins having requested it from the commanders; but if the Latins should sail up and take control of the merchant ship, the Latins were to do the same for the Romans, which also happened at dawn. For since the imperial triremes were not yet all prepared, the Latins sailed up and towed away the half-burnt merchant ship. And those on the ship also saved the Romans according to the oaths. But when the imperial triremes were all prepared, and nothing was lacking anymore, they all put to sea from the dockyard, splendidly adorned, and inferior to none of the fleets the Romans had assembled for a long time in multitude of hoplites and in the brilliance and magnitude of their preparation. And not a few monoremes and lemboi and skiffs carrying hoplites also followed along, all campaigning eagerly out of hatred for the Latins. The Latins, astounded at the magnitude of the preparation, intended to do anything rather 3.76 than fight a naval battle against the imperial triremes, but having their own triremes fully manned, they were anchored in front of the fortress, giving the appearance that they would attack the approaching imperial ships, but they were so prepared as to haul up their triremes with cables if they perceived the imperial ships sailing against them, while they themselves would fight back from the walls. And they had the worst hopes of being saved even within the walls. So the imperial triremes, having put to sea from the dockyard, anchored somewhere nearby for the night, intending on the next day to unite with the three triremes with Phakeolatos and sail against the Galatians. And Phakeolatos himself, having armed the triremes, was prepared to set out on the next day, and the emperor was sending a cavalry force with his son the despot, both large and good, so that when the engagement of the triremes took place, they too might attack from the mainland. But when it was already day, the triremes from the dockyard, having put to sea, were already near the so-called Gate of Eugenios, and those with Phakeolatos the protostrator, having also set out from the river, were hastening to be in the same place with the others; but as God, who leads all things and weighs out all things justly, was punishing the Romans, as it seems, in atonement for many other sins and allowing them to be defeated by those much worse, a sudden, violent squall of wind struck, 3.77 and first capsized the three triremes on which the wooden towers were, and the others with their arms fell from the ships into the sea, sailors and hoplites alike, and in a single moment of time all were seen empty of marines. At the same time also, of those whom Phakeolatos commanded, they too fell from the decks into the sea, and there was a complete destruction of sailors and hoplites alike. Now the majority were saved, since the rout had happened near the land, but a little fewer than two hundred died in the waters, and from those serving under Tzamplakon the megas doux, Manuel Philanthropenos, commander of the flagship, a man brave in action and enjoying especially the emperor's favor. But the Latins in Galata, taking courage, put to sea and towed away the triremes, having tied them up, with no one hindering or resisting, and they had a bloodless victory. And the army from the mainland with the emperor's son wanted to get to work, thinking that the navy too would attack from the sea. But when they saw the Roman ships being towed away empty, they too withdrew. But the emperor, seeing so great a force lost for no apparent reason, lamented such a misfortune of the Romans, seeing what kind of evils offending God was the cause of, but he yielded nothing of his spirit, nor was he cast down by the defeat, but immediately ordered them to proceed to woodcutting, in order to build other triremes again, 3.78 and he appointed those who would supervise the work. But those in Galata, considering that day most fortunate, on which they got control of so many enemy ships, having themselves contributed nothing to the defeat, were celebrating not only victory celebrations,

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συνδιασώζειν τοὺς ἀπολειφθέντας Ῥωμαίους τοὺς Λατίνους ἐξαιτησαμένους παρὰ τῶν ἀρχόντων· ἂν δ' οἱ Λατῖνοι ἐπιπλέωσι καὶ κυριεύωσι τῆς ὁλκάδος, τὰ ἴσα Λατίνους ποιεῖν πρὸς τοὺς Ῥωμαίους, ὃ καὶ ἐγένετο ἅμα ἕῳ. ἐπεὶ γὰρ οὔπω πᾶσαι παρεσκευασμέναι ἦσαν αἱ βασιλικαὶ τριήρεις, οἱ Λατῖνοι ἐπιπλεύσαντες, ἡμιφλεγῆ ἀνεῖλκον τὴν ὁλκάδα. διέσωζον δὲ καὶ τοὺς Ῥωμαίους κατὰ τοὺς ὅρκους οἱ ἐν τῇ νηΐ. αἱ βασιλικαὶ δὲ τριήρεις ἐπεὶ πᾶσαι παρεσκευασμέναι ἦσαν, καὶ οὐδὲν ἐνέδει ἔτι, ἀνήγοντο ἐκ τοῦ νεωρίου πᾶσαι διαπρεπῶς κεκοσμημέναι, καὶ πλήθει ὁπλιτῶν καὶ λαμπρότητι καὶ μεγέθει παρασκευῆς οὐδενὶ τῶν ἐκ πολλοῦ γεγενημένων Ῥωμαίοις στόλων ἐλασσούμεναι. παρείποντο δὲ καὶ μονήρεις οὐκ ὀλίγαι καὶ λέμβοι καὶ ἀκάτια ὁπλίτας ἄγοντα, ἔχθει τῶν Λατίνων προθύμως ἁπάντων συστρατευομένων. οἵ τε Λατῖνοι πρὸς τὸ μέγεθος τῆς παρασκευῆς ἐκπεπληγμένοι, πάντα μᾶλ 3.76 λον ἢ πρὸς τὰς βασιλικὰς τριήρεις διαναυμαχεῖν διενοοῦντο, ἀλλὰ τὰς σφετέρας τριήρεις πεπληρωμένας ἔχοντες, ὡρμίζοντο πρὸ τοῦ φρουρίου, δόκησιν μὲν παρέχοντες, ὡς ἐμβαλοῦντες ἐπιοῦσι τοῖς βασιλικοῖς, οὕτω δὲ ἦσαν παρεσκευασμένοι, ὡς τὰς μὲν τριήρεις καλωδίοις ἀνελκύσοντες, ἂν αἴσθωνται τὰς βασιλικὰς ἐπιπλεούσας, αὐτοὶ δ' ἀμυνούμενοι ἀπὸ τῶν τειχῶν. ἦσαν δὲ φαυλοτάτας ἔχοντες τὰς ἐλπίδας τοῦ καὶ ἐν τοῖς τείχεσι διασωθήσεσθαι. αἱ μὲν οὖν βασιλικαὶ τριήρεις ἀναχθεῖσαι ἐκ τοῦ νεωρίου, αὐτοῦ που πλησίον ηὐλίσαντο τὴν νύκτα, διανοούμενοι, ὡς ἐς τὴν ὑστεραίαν ταῖς μετὰ τοῦ Φακεωλάτου τρισὶ τριήρεσιν εἰς ἓν γενόμενοι, Γαλατίοις ἐπιπλεύσωσι. Φακεωλάτος δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς τὰς τριήρεις ἐφοπλίσας, παρεσκευασμένος ἦν ὡς ἐς τὴν ὑστεραίαν ἐξορμήσων, καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς ἱππικὴν ἔπεμπε στρατιὰν ἅμα δεσπότῃ τῷ υἱῷ πολλήν τε καὶ ἀγαθὴν, ὡς, τῆς συμβολῆς γενομένης τῶν τριηρέων, καὶ αὐτοὶ προσβάλοιεν ἐκ τῆς ἠπείρου. ἐπεὶ δὲ ἡμέρα ἤδη ἦν, αἱ μὲν ἐκ τοῦ νεωρίου τριήρεις ἀναχθεῖσαι πρὸς τῇ Εὐγενίου καλουμένῃ πύλῃ ἤδη ἦσαν, αἱ δὲ μετὰ Φακεωλάτου τοῦ πρωτοστράτορος καὶ αὐταὶ τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἐξορμηθεῖσαι, ἠπείγοντο ταῖς ἄλλαις ἐν ταὐτῷ γενέσθαι· τοῦ δὲ πάντα ἄγοντος θεοῦ καὶ πᾶσι ταλαντεύοντος δικαίως Ῥωμαίους, ὡς ἔοικεν, εἰς πολλῶν ἄλλων ἔκτισιν ἁμαρτημάτων τιμωρουμένου καὶ τοῖς πολλῷ χείροσιν ἡττᾶσθαι παραχωροῦντος, ἀθρόον πνεύματος ἀκρίτου προσπεσόντος, 3.77 καὶ πρώτας ἀνατρέψαντος τὰς τρεῖς τριήρεις, ἐφ' αἷς οἱ ξύλινοι πύργοι ἦσαν, καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι αὐτοῖς ὅπλοις κατέπιπτον ἀπὸ τῶν νεῶν ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ ναῦται ὁμοίως καὶ ὁπλῖται, καὶ ἐν μιᾷ ῥοπῇ χρόνου πᾶσαι ἑωρῶντο κεναὶ ἐπιβατῶν. τῷ αὐτῷ δὲ χρόνῳ καὶ ὧν ὁ Φακεωλάτος ἐστρατήγει, τῶν καταστρωμάτων καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν κατέπιπτον, καὶ ὄλεθρος ἦν παντοῖος ναυτῶν ὁμοῦ καὶ ὁπλιτῶν. οἱ μὲν οὖν πολλοὶ διεσώθησαν, ἐγγὺς τῆς γῆς γεγενημένης τῆς τροπῆς, ἀπέθανον δὲ ἐν τοῖς ὕδασιν ὀλίγῳ ἐλάσσους διακοσίων, καὶ ἐκ τῶν μετὰ τοῦ Τζαμπλάκωνος τεταγμένων τοῦ μεγάλου δουκὸς ὁ Φιλανθρωπηνὸς Μανουὴλ, τῆς ναυαρχίδος ἄρχων, ἀνὴρ κατὰ χεῖρα γενναῖος καὶ τῆς παρὰ βασιλέως εὐμενείας ἀπολαύων μάλιστα. οἱ ἐν Γαλατᾷ δὲ Λατῖνοι ἀναθαρσήσαντες, ἀναχθέντες ἀνεῖλκον τὰς τριήρεις ἀναψάμενοι, κωλύοντος οὐδενὸς, οὐδὲ ἀμυνομένου, καὶ ἀναιμωτὶ τὴν νίκην εἶχον. ἡ δὲ ἐκ τῆς ἠπείρου στρατιὰ μετὰ βασιλέως τοῦ υἱοῦ ἔργου μὲν ἔχεσθαι ἐβούλοντο, οἰόμενοι καὶ τὸ ναυτικὸν ἐκ τῆς θαλάττης ἐμβαλεῖν. ἐπεὶ δὲ ἑώρων τὰς Ῥωμαίων ναῦς κενὰς ἀνελκομένας, ἀνεχώρουν καὶ αὐτοί. βασιλεὺς δὲ τὴν τοσαύτην δύναμιν ἐκ προφάσεως οὐδεμιᾶς ὁρῶν ἀπολωλυῖαν, ἐστέναξε μὲν τὴν τοιαύτην κακοπραγίαν τῶν Ῥωμαίων, οἵων αἴτιον κακῶν τὸ θεῷ προσκρούειν συνορῶν, οὐδὲν δὲ ὑφῆκε τοῦ φρονήματος, οὐδὲ κατέπεσε πρὸς τὴν ἧτταν, ἀλλ' εὐθὺς ἐπὶ ξυλισμὸν ἐκέλευε χωρεῖν, ὡς τριήρεις ἑτέρας κατασκευά 3.78 σων αὖθις, καὶ ἐφίστη τοὺς ἐπιμελησομένους πρὸς τὰ ἔργα. οἱ ἐν Γαλατᾷ δὲ εὐτυχεστάτην νομίσαντες ἐκείνην τὴν ἡμέραν, ἐν ᾗ τοσούτων νεῶν ἐκράτησαν πολεμίων, οὐδὲν αὐτοὶ εἰσενεγκόντες πρὸς τὴν ἧτταν, ἑώρταζον οὐκ ἐπινίκια μόνον,