Chronicon sive Maius (additions of Macarius Melissenus, various readings)

272.20 but nevertheless he also thus granted to him all that is at the foothills toward the setting sun of the exceedingly great mountain of Taygetus as far as Pylos, which is called Oitylos. And from the outer ridge the castle of Zarnatas and Gastitza, the unshaken Mele, Dirachion, Polianous, Gardikia and the areas around them, and further granting the entire trusteeship and administration to the great protostrator Nikephoros Melissenos, also surnamed Melissourgos. This great protostrator Nikephoros was descended from the family of the in all ways most excellent Sallustius Caesar, the grandson of the patrician Eugenius Vespous Loutatios, one of the twelve magnates who settled from Rome in this queen of cities by the command and summons of Constantine the Great of pious memory, who founded this great city and transferred the empire here. That patrician Eugenius, according to the chronicle of Eunapius of Sardis and as the epic poems about him say, which I myself have often read, traced his lineage to Androclus, son of Codrus, son of Melanthus, son of Neleus. And tracing the genealogy to the aforementioned Nikephoros and great protostrator, he is descended from the aforementioned Sallustius. The son of Sallustius was Rufinus the magister; his son was Nikephoros the Caesar; his sons were Procopius and Cyrus the most wise. The sons of Procopius were Olybrius and Pelagius the patrician, whose work they say are the so-called Homerocentra. The sons of Olybrius were Secundus the consul and Tzitas the count of Armenia; the sons of Secundus were Rufinus and Narses the cubicularius, the son of Rufinus was John the consul, and his sons were Priscus the strategos of Europe and Germanus the patrician, the sons of Priscus were Bonossus and Theodore; the sons of Bonossus were Theodosius and Andronicus, the son of Theodosius was Michael the magister, the sons of Michael were Theophylact and Theodotos. And Theophylact begat Michael Rangabe, and Theodotos begat Michael Kasideres. And Rangabe, having been driven from the throne by Leo the Armenian and exiled to the island of Prote, ended his life having become a monk, and they deprived his sons of their generative organs, and thus the line of Rangabe came to an end; The patrician 274 Kasideres had two sons: Demetrius the magister and Theodotos. And the one guided the church of the Lord, as those who have written histories about him write, while Demetrius begat Theodotos; he begat Niketas, also called Oryphas, and he begat Romanos the patrician, and he begat John the domestikos, called Kourkouas, Theophanes the patrician and Theophilos, the grandfather of John Tzimiskes. And the son of John the domestikos was Romanos, and his sons were John and Christopher and Andronicus; the sons of Christopher were Romanos and Theophilos, the son of Romanos was Nikephoros, and his sons were Theoleptos and Leo the magister; the sons of Leo were Theodosios and Nikephoros, the son of Nikephoros was Theodore, his son was Leosthenes, his son was Nikephoros Caesar, his son by Maria Komnene, daughter of John, was John Komnenos, and his sons were Alexios and Nikephoros; the son of Alexios by Eudokia, daughter of Alexios Michael Aspietes, was Michael, his sons were Theophylact and Alexios, the son of Theophylact was Theodosios, his sons were Michael and the Caesar Alexios, who liberated this great city from the Italians and Franks. And the son of Caesar Alexios was Gregory the despotes, who made the great judgment concerning the property of the aforementioned Michael, his paternal uncle, with Andronikos of pious memory, son of Michael, in the year 6801. And the sons of Gregory were Michael and Nikephoros and Theophilos, and the son of Nikephoros was Leo, and his son was the patriarch Kyr Gregorios. And the son of Michael was Nikephoros, his son was Andronikos, his son was Theodosios, and his son was Leo.

Chronicon sive Maius (additamenta Macarii Melisseni lectiones variae)

272.20 ἀλλ' οὖν καὶ οὕτως ἐνδέδωκε πρὸς αὐτὸν ὅσα ἐν τοῖς ποσὶ τοῖς πρὸς δυσμὰς ἡλίου εἰσὶ τοῦ ὑπερμεγέθους ὄρους τοῦ Ταϋγέτου ἄχρι καὶ τοῦ Πύλου τοῦ λεγομένου Ὑϊτύλου. Ἐκ δὲ τοῦ ἔξω ζυγὸν τὸ κάστρον Ζαρνάδας καὶ Γαστίτζα, τὸ ἀδιάσεστον Μελέ, ∆ιράχιον, Πολιανούς, Γαρδίκια καὶ τὰ περὶ αὐτά, ἔτι δὲ χορηγήσας καὶ τὴν πᾶσαν ἐπιτροπικὴν καὶ διοίκησιν τοῦ μεγά λου πρωτοστράτορος Νικηφόρου τοῦ Μελισσηνοῦ τοῦ καὶ Μελισσουργοῦ ἐπονομα ζομένου. Ὁ δὲ μέγας οὗτος πρωτοστράτωρ Νικηφόρος ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς ἦν κα ταγόμενος τοῦ κατὰ πάντα ἀρίστου Σαλλουστίου καίσαρος τοῦ ἐγγόνου πατρι κίου Εὐγενίου Βέσπου τοῦ Λουτατίου, ἑνὸς τῶν δύο τε καὶ δέκα μεγιστάνων τῶν ἐπῳκικότων ἐκ Ῥώμης ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ βασιλευούσῃ τῶν πόλεων διὰ προσταγῆς καὶ κλήσεως τοῦ ἐν εὐσεβεῖ τῇ λήξει Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ Μεγάλου τοῦ τὴν μεγαλόπολιν ταύτην κτίσαντος καὶ τὴν βασιλείαν ἐνταῦθα διαβιβάσαντος. Ὁ δὲ πατρίκιος Εὐγένιος ἐκεῖνος κατὰ Σαρδιανοῦ Εὐναπίου χρονογραφίαν καὶ ὡς τὰ ἔπη τοῦτον φάσκουσι, ἅτινα καὶ ἐγὼ πολλάκις ἀνέγνωκα, εἰς Ἄνδροκλον τοῦ Κόδρου τοῦ Μελάνθου τοῦ Νηλέως ἀνέφερνε τὸ γένος. Εἰς δὲ τὸν ῥηθέντα Νικηφόρον καὶ μεγαπρωτοστράτορα γενεαλο γούμενος, ἐκ τοῦ ῥηθέντος Σαλλουστίου οὗτος κατάγεται. Σαλλουστίου δὲ υἱὸς ἦν Ῥου φῖνος ὁ μάγιστρος, τοῦ δὲ Νικηφόρος ὁ καῖσαρ, τοῦ δὲ Προκόπιος καὶ Κῦρος ὁ σο φώτατος· Προκοπίου δὲ Ὀλύβριος καὶ Πελάγιος ὁ πατρίκιος, οὗ πόνημα λέγουσιν εἶ ναι καὶ τὰ καλούμενα Ὁρμηρόκεντρα· Ὀλυβρίου δὲ Σεκοῦνδος ὁ ὕπατος καὶ Τζίτας ὁ κόμης Ἀρμενίας· Σεκούνδου δὲ Ῥουφῖνους καὶ Ναρσῆς ὁ κουβικουλάριος, Ῥουφίνου δὲ Ἰωάννης ὁ ὕπατος, τοῦ δὲ Πρῖσκος ὁ στρατηγὸς Εὐρώπης καὶ Γερμανὸς ὁ πατρί κιος, Πρίσκου δὲ Βόνοσσος καὶ Θεόδωρος· Βονόσσου δὲ Θεοδόσιος καὶ Ἀνδρόνικος, Θεοδοσίου δὲ Μιχαὴλ ὁ μάγιστρος, Μιχαὴλ δὲ Θεοφύλακτος καὶ Θεόδοτος. Καὶ ὁ μὲν Θεοφύλακτος γεννᾷ Μιχαὴλ τὸν Ῥαγκαβέλ, ὁ δὲ Θεόδοτος Μιχαὴλ τὸν Κασιδέρην. Καὶ ὁ μὲν Ῥαγκαβὲλ τῆς βασιλείας ὑπὸ Λέοντος τοῦ Ἀρμενίου ἐξωσθεὶς καὶ ἐν τῇ νήσῳ Πρώτῃ ἐξορισθείς, μοναχὸς γενόμενος τὸν βίον κατέλιπε, τοὺς δὲ υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ τῶν παι δογόνων μορίων στερήσαντες, καὶ οὕτως τὰ τοῦ Ῥαγκαβὲλ πέρας ἔλαβον· Ὁ δὲ πατρί 274 κιος Κασιδέρης υἱοὺς εἶχε δύο· ∆ημήτριον τὸν μάγιστρον καὶ Θεόδοτον. Καὶ ὁ μὲν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν Κυρίου ἴθυνεν, ὥσπερ οἱ περὶ αὐτοῦ ἱστορήσαντες γράφουσι, ὁ δὲ ∆η μήτριος γεννᾷ Θεόδοτον· ὁ δὲ Νικήταν τὸν καὶ Ὀρυφᾶν καλούμενον, ὁ δὲ Ῥωμανὸν τὸν πατρίκιον, ὁ δὲ Ἰωάννην τὸν δομέστικον τὸν καλούμενον Κουρκούαν, Θεοφάνην τὸν πατρίκιον καὶ Θεόφιλον, τὸν πάππον Ἰωάννου τοῦ Τζιμισκῆ. Ἰωάννου δὲ τοῦ δο-μεστίκου γίνεται Ῥωμανός, τοῦ δὲ Ἰωάννης καὶ Χριστοφόρος καὶ Ἀνδρόνικος· Χριστοφόρου δὲ Ῥωμανὸς καὶ Θεόφιλος, Ῥωμανοῦ δὲ Νικηφόρος, τοῦ δὲ Θεόληπτος καὶ Λέων ὁ μάγιστρος· Λέοντος δὲ Θεοδόσιος καὶ Νικηφόρος, Νικηφόρου δὲ Θεόδωρος, τοῦ δὲ Λεωσθένης, τοῦ δὲ ὁ Νικηφόρος καῖσαρ τοῦ δὲ ἐκ Μαρίας Κομνενῆς τῆς Ἰωάν νου, Ἰωάννης ὁ Κομνηνός, τοῦ δὲ Ἀλέξιος καὶ Νικηφόρος· Ἀλεξίου δὲ ἐκ τῆς Εὐδοκίας Ἀλεξίου τοῦ Μιχαὴλ Ἀσπιέτη Μιχαὴλ, τοῦ δὲ Θεοφύλακτος καὶ Ἀλέξιος, Θεοφυλάκτου δὲ Θεοδόσιος, τοῦ δὲ Μιχαὴλ καὶ ὁ καῖσαρ Ἀλέξιος, ὁ ἐκ τῶν Ἰταλῶν τε καὶ Φράγκων ἐλευθερώσας ταύτην τὴν μεγαλόπολιν. Καίσαρος δὲ Ἀλεξίου γί νεται Γρηγόριος ὁ δεσπότης, ὁ τὴν κρίσιν τὴν μεγάλην ποιήσας περὶ τῆς περιουσίας τοῦ ῥηθέντος Μιχαὴλ τοῦ πατραδέλφου αὐτοῦ, μετὰ τοῦ ἐν εὐσεβεῖ τῇ λήξει κυροῦ Ἀνδρονίκου τοῦ κὺρ Μιχαὴλ, ἐπὶ τῷ ʹωα-ῳ ἔτει. Τοῦ δὲ Γρηγορίου γίνεται Μιχαὴλ καὶ Νικηφόρος καὶ Θεόφιλος καὶ τοῦ Νικηφόρου γίνεται Λέων, τοῦ δὲ ὁ πατριάρχης κὺρ Γρηγόριος. Τοῦ δὲ Μιχαὴλ γίνεται Νικηφόρος, τοῦ δὲ Ἀνδρόνικος, τοῦ δὲ Θεο δόσιος, τοῦ δὲ Λέων.