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they too marched out in turn, with Nicholas commanding; but puffed up by their previous victory and having neglected the alliance of the Catalans, just as they had previously neglected that of the emperor, they were defeated in a naval battle by their opponents near Methone, and the men from Genoa took all the enemy's ships except a few, and their general as a prisoner, who also died in Genoa while living in a prison. After this blow, they and the men from Venice, being disheartened for the war, sent embassies to each other concerning peace and ended the war, which had become great from a small cause and had harmed both sides very greatly. Since there was peace and nothing dreadful was expected, the men in Genoa, thinking it unworthy of themselves to be ungrateful to their benefactors, first drove out of the city the general Pagani, who had been brilliant in both campaigns, condemning him to perpetual exile, and with him all the best men, though having nothing to charge them with; then they also revolted from the de 3.237 spot of Milan, and having appointed Simon Boccanegra again as ruler of their affairs, they drove out disgracefully the man appointed by him and in this way they repaid him for his great care for them. Thus the war of the Latins against each other and against the Romans ended here. But the emperor Palaiologos, especially at the urging of the empress his mother, came to Ainos, having left his mother in Thessaloniki, intending to arrive from there through Thrace at Byzantium to the emperor his father-in-law. But the rulers in Didymoteichon, both Arsenios Tzamblakon, the megas papias, and Tarchaneiotes, the protostrator, suspecting that the emperor Palaiologos would pass through Didymoteichon, and not being unaware of the agreements for an alliance made by the emperor with the Král in Thessaloniki, and how they had agreed together to start a war against the emperor Kantakouzenos, they feared that by admitting him into the city they might not be acting according to the will of the emperor Kantakouzenos and might provoke him to anger, seeming to be ungrateful to him and to be siding with those who acted against him, by defecting from him. And sending, they inquired how they should treat the young emperor; and the emperor commanded that, as is fitting for slaves to their masters, they should freely grant him every entrance, treating him as emperor, not only they, but all the other cities as well. Wherefore they also received him eagerly when he arrived from Ainos. But the emperor, 3.238 having spent a few days in Didymoteichon, departed from there 3.238 for Byzantium and spent no little time with the emperor his father-in-law, especially since the Latin war was then at its height. But the emperor Kantakouzenos, knowing that there were certain differences between his son Matthew and the emperor his son-in-law, decided it was necessary, having summoned him also, to resolve their differences, with them saying everything in his presence that they thought they had offended each other with. And he both summoned his son and detained the emperor his son-in-law, intending to make their reconciliation firm. The son, then, having recently taken over Adrianople and the towns around it, which the emperor his father had entrusted to him, and being occupied with their care, was late in coming to Byzantium according to the emperor's command, intending to arrive a little later. But since the young emperor was eager to go to the cities entrusted to him, the emperor permitted his departure, adding Didymoteichon to the former cities which he had allowed him to rule. And he permitted the empress Helena his wife to accompany him, having with her Manuel the younger of their sons. But he left the emperor Andronikos his son and Eirene his daughter with the empress their grandmother to be raised lavishly. As the young emperor was about to depart, the emperor his father-in-law advised him on other things and not to start any war against his wife's brother, nor, being persuaded by evil counsel 3.239 lors, to consider him an enemy who had done no wrong. For it would be better to wait for him, until he arrived, to resolve in his presence, if anything

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