Theophylaktos of Ohrid wrote to Adrianos Komnenos, brother of Alexios Komnenos and megas domestikos, asking him for deliverance from serving the barbarous Slavs of Ohrid. Around the same time he wrote to the epi ton deeseon (probably another office of the hypatos of the philosophers Theodoros Smyrnaios), picturing himself as an eagle forced to live in the mud with frogs. A third, shorter letter to Niketas ho tou Serron, refers his correspondent to news sent in the other two letters. [These are conventional letters home of a Constantinopolitan in exile.] Theophylakt's brother, who carried the last two letters (at least), could also be consulted about Ohrid