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[221] For the protovestiarius, see Pachym. i. pp. 205, 469; ii. pp.

68, 72, 210; for the protostrator, see Pachym. ii. pp. 12, 445. The former died in 1284, the latter about 1315. Cf. Siderides, _ut supra_.

See on this subject the article of A. E. Martini in _Atti della R.

Academia di archeologia, lettere e belle arti_, vol. xx., Napoli, 1900.

[222] _Carmina Philae_, vol. i. Codex Florent. ode 95, lines 280-82.

[223] See _Carmina Philae_, edited by E. Miller, odes 54, 57, 59, 92, 164, 165, 219, 237, for references to the protostrator, or to his wife, or to the Pammakaristos.

[224] Hans Jacob Breuning, _Orientalische Reyss_, chap. xvii. p. 66.

He visited Constantinople 1579-80. The portraits stood 'Im Eingang auff der rechten Seiten,' or, as another authority has it, 'in patriarchica porta exteriore, in pariete dextero ab ingredientibus conspiciuntur,' _Turcograecia_, p. 75.

[225] Gerlach refers to these portraits, but without mentioning the names of the persons they represented. The legends were communicated to M. Crusius (_Turcograecia_, p. 75) by Theodosius Zygomalas, the protonotarius of the patriarch in the time of Gerlach.

[226] Pachym. ii. pp. 182-89. When Cosmas was appointed patriarch a curious incident occurred. A monk of the monastery of the Pantepoptes protested against the nomination, because it had been revealed to him that the person who should fill the vacant office would bear the name John. Such was the impression made by this prediction that matters were so arranged that somehow Cosmas was able to claim that name also.

Whereupon the monk went on to predict how many years Cosmas would hold office, and that he would lose that position before his death.

[227] Pachym. ii. pp. 271-77.

[228] _Ibid._ pp. 278-84.

[229] Pachym. ii. pp. 292-98.

[230] Pachym. ii. pp. 298-300.

[231] _Ibid._ ii. p. 303.

[232] _Ibid._ pp. 341-43.

[233] _Ibid._ 347-85.

[234] Cantacuzene, ii. pp. 442-48; Niceph. Greg. pp. 701, 710, 726.

[235] Ducas, pp. 117-21, 134, 139-42, 148-52, 176.

[236] _Historia politica_, p. 16.

[237] Phrantzes, p. 307.

[238] See Gerlach's description in _Turcograecia_, pp. 189-90.

[239] Breuning, _Orientalische Reyss_, p. 68, 'zur rechten an der Mauren Imp. Alexii Comneni monumentum von Steinwerck auffs einfaltigste and schlechteste.'

[240] Salomon Schweigger, _Ein newe Reyssbeschreibung auss Deutschland nach Constantinopel_ pp. 119-20, Chaplain for more than three years in Constantinople, at the Legation of the Holy Roman Empire, 1581. He gives the inscription on the sarcophagus: [Greek: Alexios autokrator ton Rhomaion]. There is an eagle to the right of the legend.

[241] P. 12, [Greek: eis hen ekeinos edeimato Christo to philanthropo monen].

[242] _Turcograecia_, p. 46, where the tomb is further described; 'est id lapideum, non insistens 4 basibus, sed integro lapide a terra surgens, altius quam mensa, ad parietem templi.'

[243] _Turcograecia_, p. 189.