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would use barbarians, saying he had nothing to say against such true and just advice, but even owed him much gratitude, because he was taking thought for him, for the sake of his not sinning, and that he accepted what was said as having been decreed by God; which he also later kept exactly, and 3.290 intended to transgress none of the things that had been promised. And in order that those around him might not be disturbed on his account, but hoping that he would do some of the things they wished, might remain quiet, until he himself could arrange his own affairs well and be freed from the disturbances of life, he feigned such things. But the young emperor, having waited in the new dockyard until day broke, since no one was coming against him and the whole populace had already turned to war against the emperor Kantakouzenos, and some were plundering the houses of his adherents, especially that of Phakeolatos and his kinsmen, as being most responsible for his having seized Byzantium by treachery during the time of the war, while others were looting the imperial armory in the dockyard and arming themselves and challenging the emperor to lead them against his father-in-law, he himself now took courage, proceeded to the palace, and coming to the house of the Porphyrogennetos, lodged there. 40. But on the next day the populace, again carried along by an irrational impulse, was demolishing the houses plundered the day before, and they tore down the woodwork. Then, coming to the palace, they sacked the so-called Castellion, finding it unguarded, and plundered the houses of the inhabitants; and going toward the palace, not all at once, but sporadically and in disarray, they skirmished at intervals throughout the whole 3.291 day. And some of them fell and were wounded, being shot by those inside. And the Catalans, coming out, drove back those who were fighting and set fire to the houses in front of the palace and burned some. When matters had come to this point of sedition and confusion, the patriarch Philotheos, fearing the assault of the populace, withdrew from the patriarchate and went into hiding. For he suspected that the young emperor was also displeased with him, as he had been brought in to replace the patriarch Kallistos who had been driven out, who seemed to do and endure all things on his behalf. But on the third day, the young emperor, having sent Angelos, the epi tou kanikleiou, as an ambassador to the emperor, being most suitable for an embassy on account of his intelligence and education and enjoying great goodwill from the emperor Kantakouzenos, negotiated about agreements, so that both would remain in power, having sworn oaths to each other of amnesty for their differences. And the emperor Kantakouzenos received the embassy eagerly. For this most of all was what he was striving for, that with the war of the Romans against each other having ceased, he might withdraw from affairs. And the oaths were made on these terms: that the emperor Kantakouzenos and John the young emperor would rule affairs, but the young emperor would concede the primacy in all things to the elder and would offer him all reverence and obedience, just as before. And of the money collected annually from the public taxes, 3.292 whatever they might need for the pay of the army and the outfitting of the triremes and the other necessary public administrations, this was to be spent by the chief magistrates, as was the custom; but whatever might be left over beyond what was needed, this the emperors were to divide equally between them for the expenses of their households. But the emperor Kantakouzenos did not demand the oaths because he needed these things, for he knew he would be withdrawing from affairs very quickly, but only for the sake of honor, so that he might not be thought to have obtained less than the young emperor. and that neither the emperor Kantakouzenos nor his son-in-law was to exact any penalty from those who had fought against them on behalf of each other, in revenge for their ingratitude towards them, neither while both emperors were living, nor if it should happen that one of them passed from among men, but to grant full amnesty for what had been dared and to deprive them neither of the revenues nor the honors which they held.

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χρήσεσθαι βαρβάροις, φάμενος οὐδὲν ἔχειν πρὸς οὕτως ἀληθῆ καὶ δικαίαν ἀντειπεῖν παραίνεσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πολλὴν αὐτῷ εἰδέναι χάριν, ὅτι τοῦ μὴ ἁμαρτάνειν ἕνεκα πρόνοιαν αὐτοῦ ποιοῖτο, καὶ ὡς καὶ παρὰ θεῷ ἐψηφισμένα δέχεσθαι τὰ εἰρημένα· ἃ καὶ ὕστερον ἐφύλαττεν ἀκριβῶς καὶ 3.290 οὐδὲν διενοεῖτο τῶν ἐπηγγελμένων παραβαίνειν. τοῦ δὲ μὴ τοὺς περὶ αὐτὸν ἕνεκα θορυβεῖσθαι, ἀλλ' ἐλπίζοντάς τι δράσειν, ὧν ἐβούλοντο, ἠρεμεῖν, ἄχρις ἂν αὐτὸς εὖ διάθηται τὰ κατ' αὐτὸν καὶ τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ βίου θορύβων ἀπαλλαγῇ, ἐπλάττετο τοιαῦτα. βασιλεὺς δὲ ὁ νέος ἐν τῷ νέῳ νεωρίῳ περιμείνας ἄχρις ἐπιγένηται ἡμέρα, ἐπεὶ μηδεὶς ἀντεπῄει καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἤδη ἅπας ἐπὶ τὸν πρὸς Καντακουζηνὸν τὸν βασιλέα πόλεμον ἐτράπετο, καὶ ὁ μὲν τὰς οἰκίας τῶν ἐκείνῳ προσεχόντων διεπόρθει, μάλιστα Φακεωλάτου καὶ τῶν κατὰ γένος προσηκόντων, οἷα δὴ αἰτιωτάτων γενομένων τοῦ Βυζάντιον ἐκεῖνον ἐν τῷ τοῦ πολέμου χρόνῳ προδοσίᾳ κατασχεῖν, τῶν ἄλλων δὲ τὴν ἐν τῷ νεωρίῳ βασιλικὴν διαρπασάντων ὁπλοθήκην καὶ ὁπλισαμένων καὶ προκαλουμένων βασιλέα ἐπάγειν σφᾶς ἐπὶ τὸν κηδεστὴν, ἀναθαρσήσας ἤδη καὶ αὐτὸς, ἐπὶ τὰ βασίλεια ἐχώρει, καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν Πορφυρογεννήτου οἰκίαν ἐλθὼν, ηὐλίσατο ἐκεῖ. μʹ. Εἰς τὴν ὑστεραίαν δὲ ὁ δῆμος αὖθις ἀλόγῳ φερόμενος ὁρμῇ τὰς διηρπασμένας τῇ προτεραίᾳ οἰκίας κατεστρέφετο, καὶ καθῄρουν τὰς ξυλώσεις. ἔπειτα εἰς τὰ βασίλεια ἐλθόντες, τὸ λεγόμενον Καστέλλιον διεπόρθησαν, ἀφύλακτον εὑρόντες, καὶ διήρπασαν τῶν ἐνοικούντων τὰς οἰκίας· καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ βασίλεια ἰόντες οὐχ ἅμα πάντες, ἀλλὰ σποράδην καὶ ἀσύντακτοι, ἠκροβολίζοντο ἐκ διαλειμμάτων διὰ πάσης τῆς 3.291 ἡμέρας. καὶ ἔπιπτόν τινες αὐτῶν παὶ ἐπιτρώσκοντο βαλλόμενοι ὑπὸ τῶν ἔνδον. οἵ τε Κατελάνοι ἐξελθόντες τούς τε μαχομένους ἀπεώσαντο καὶ πῦρ ἐνίεσαν ταῖς πρὸ τῶν βασιλείων οἰκίαις καὶ ἐνέπρησάν τινας. εἰς τοῦτο δὲ στάσεως καὶ ταραχῆς ἀφιγμένων τῶν πραγμάτων, καὶ ὁ πατριάρχης Φιλόθεος δείσας τὴν ἔφοδον τοῦ δήμου, ἀπεχώρει τοῦ πατριαρχείου καὶ κατεκρύπτετο. ὑπώπτευε γὰρ καὶ βασιλέα τὸν νέον ἀηδῶς ἔχειν πρὸς αὐτὸν, οἷα δὴ Καλλίστου τοῦ πατριάρχου ἐξωσθέντος ἀντεισαχθέντα, ὃς ἐδόκει πάντα πράττειν καὶ ὑφίστασθαι ὑπὲρ ἐκείνου. τρίτῃ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ βασιλεὺς ὁ νέος τὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ Κανικλείου Ἄγγελον πρὸς βασιλέα πέμψας πρεσβευτὴν, πρός τε πρεσβείας ὄντα ἐπιτηδειότατον διὰ σύνεσιν καὶ παιδείαν καὶ παρὰ βασιλεῖ τῷ Καντακουζηνῷ πολλῆς τῆς εὐμενείας ἀπολαύοντα, διελέγετο περὶ συμβάσεων, ὥστε ἀμφοτέρους μένειν ἐπὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς, ὅρκους θεμένους πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀμνηστίας τῶν διαφορῶν. Καντακουζηνός τε ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐδέχετο προθύμως τὴν πρεσβείαν. τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ μάλιστα πάντων ἐσπουδάζετο αὐτῷ, ὥστε τοῦ πρὸς ἀλλήλους τῶν Ῥωμαίων πολέμου παυσαμένου, τῶν πραγμάτων αὐτὸν ἀναχωρεῖν. καὶ ἐγένοντο οἱ ὅρκοι ἐπὶ τούτοις, ὥστε βασιλέα μὲν τὸν Καντακουζηνὸν καὶ Ἰωάννην τὸν νέον βασιλέα ἄρχειν τῶν πραγμάτων, παραχωρεῖν δὲ τὸν νέον τῶν πρωτείων ἐν πᾶσι τῷ πρεσβυτέρῳ καὶ πᾶσαν αἰδῶ καὶ εὐπείθειαν, ὥσπερ καὶ πρότερον, αὐτῷ παρέχεσθαι. τῶν δὲ ἐκ τῶν δημοσίων φόρων εἰσπραττομένων χρημάτων ἐτησίως, 3.292 ὅσων μὲν ἂν δέοιντο πρός τε τὸ μισθοφορικὸν τῆς στρατιᾶς καὶ τῶν τριηρέων παρασκευὴν καὶ τὰς δεούσας ἑτέρας δημοσίας διοικήσεις, ὑπὸ τῶν πρυτάνεων, ὥσπερ ἔθος, ταῦτα ἀναλίσκεσθαι· ἃ δ' ἂν ὑπολίποιτο ἐπέκεινα τῆς χρείας, ταῦτα συμμερίζεσθαι τοὺς βασιλέας τῶν πρὸς τὰς οἰκίας ἕνεκα ἀναλωμάτων ἐπίσης ἑκατέρους. τούτων δὲ οὐ δεόμενος βασιλεὺς ὁ Καντακουζηνὸς ἀπῄτει τοὺς ὅρκους, ᾔδει γὰρ ἀναχωρήσων τῶν πραγμάτων τάχιστα, τιμῆς δὲ μόνης ἕνεκα τοῦ μὴ νομίζεσθαι ἔλαττον τοῦ νέου βασιλέως ἐσχηκέναι. τοῖς τε πεπολεμηκόσι πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὑπὲρ ἀλλήλων μηδεμίαν εἰσπράττειν δίκην, μήτε Καντακουζηνὸν τὸν βασιλέα, μήτε τὸν γαμβρὸν, ἀμυνομένους τῆς εἰς αὐτοὺς ἀγνωμοσύνης, μήτε ζώντων ἀμφοτέρων βασιλέων, μήτ' εἰ συμβαίη τὸν ἕτερον γενέσθαι ἐξ ἀνθρώπων, ἀλλὰ πᾶσαν ἀμνηστίαν παρέχειν τῶν τετολμημένων καὶ μήτε προσόδων, μήτε τῶν τιμῶν ἀποστερεῖν, ἃς ἔχουσι.