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that he himself would arrive there for the matters at hand. But he said that he was sick and was unable for the time being to get up from his bed. But when the emperor was vexed and thought the illness was an excuse, and was compelling him to come to Nicomedia, as he had promised, he insisted with oaths that he was truly sick and that it was no excuse, nor pretense in the matter; and he begged to be granted pardon, and promised again that within a stated number of days, having recovered, he would fulfill what he had promised. Therefore, the emperor returned from there again to Byzantium without success. 39. But the patriarch Philotheos, knowing what opinion he had concerning the emperors, both his son-in-law and his son, begged him to go to Tenedos as an ambassador to the young emperor, so as to end the war between them, persuading the young emperor to choose what the emperor his father-in-law advised. But it seemed better to the emperor, 3.282 since the triremes were prepared and for this reason required no expense, that he himself should go to the island and resolve the dispute with the emperor his son-in-law. For he thought that if only he could persuade him by coming near, he would immediately run to him and ask for forgiveness for the offenses he had committed; and since he himself was also prepared for the reconciliation, he would very easily restore the affairs of the Romans to peace again. With such an intention he sailed out from Byzantium, having also Matthew the emperor his son in the triremes along with the empress his wife, so that they might disembark at Ainos, in order to go from there to Didymoteichon and Adrianople, while he himself would turn to the reconciliation of his son-in-law. And as he was sailing down not for battle, but rather for the sake of peace, he did not put in at Tenedos immediately, but at a certain uninhabited islet near Tenedos, called Mauria, and he spent the rest of the day and the following night there. But on the next day, setting sail from there, he anchored at another islet, called Saint Andrew, hoping that an embassy would arrive from the emperor his son-in-law concerning peace. But when nothing turned out according to his hopes—for some of the admirals with him, being ill-disposed, sent to the young emperor and advised him not to accept the peace, but to choose war instead, since they would accomplish everything with him—not even so did he come to the city on the island where the emperor was staying, 3.283 but to another part towards the river locally named Borion, as if the crews of the triremes were to get water from there. But the hoplites and cavalry with the new emperor, as the triremes were landing, came to the river and shot from the land and tried to prevent the disembarkation. But they forced their way and disembarked and drew water from there. But the emperor, seeing that perseverance would be of no avail—for he neither chose to make war on his son-in-law and harm the island, nor was there any hope left concerning peace, since the young emperor not only had not sent an embassy, as he had hoped, but was also being openly led to war—very quickly departed from there to Ainos, where Matthew the new emperor disembarked with his wife, and from there departed for Didymoteichon and Adrianople; but the emperor Kantakouzenos, having spent four days at Ainos, returned to Byzantium. But the emperor Palaiologos remained again on Tenedos, and whatever it was possible to do on behalf of his rule, he neglected nothing; and he said later in times of peace that, when the emperor his father-in-law was sailing against him, the admirals had secretly conferred with him not to accept the peace, nor to send any embassy to him. He, however, had not refrained from peace for this reason—for he knew they were not advising what was better and commonly advantageous—but because Matthew his son was with him, he was extremely vexed and displeased, if he should seem to be in need of him and to come of his own accord 3.284 to accept a co-emperor, as if he had given up on the war and been defeated in his resolve. And around the same time, Suleyman the son of Orhan also marched against the Galatians with a large army under

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