Romanos IV sent a Roman garrison into Mantzikert and returned to the camp accompanied by singing and acclamations. Discipline was harsh: he sentenced a soldier accused of stealing a donkey from the Turks to have his nose slit, showing an apparent concern for justice. He was left unmoved by the soldier's appeal to the icon of the Blachernitissa, carried as usual on campaign as an invincible weapon. Attaleiates intensely disapproved. But the next day, while arranging the city's defence, he received news of a Turkish attack on his foraging troops