Certainty: 1 Psellos received the first beautiful letters of Aimilianos, patriarch of Antioch Certainty: 1
1066
Certainty: 1 Aimilianos, patriarch of Antioch, praised Psellos' letter, apart from its excessive praise; Psellos denied it was excessive Certainty: 1
1073
Certainty: 1 Psellos took up the case of the monk Nikolaos, exiled from Antioch by the patriarch Aimilianos Certainty: 1
Certainty: 1 The patriarch Aimilianos had cowed the monks of the Thaumatourgos monastery; Psellos would help monks visiting the capital Certainty: 1
Certainty: 1 An Antiochene whom Amilianos & Psellos had helped, once told Psellos about Antioch; now he only had Aimilianos stories Certainty: 1
Certainty: 1 Psellos had worked hard with the emperors on behalf of Aimilianos of Antioch, & urged him to write
If Psellos was being cheered on by Aimilianos, he would try harder to help. But if Aimilianos' words implied he was slacking, he denied it. News of his strong support of all Aimilianos' issues before the emperors must have reached Antioch. Psellos used Christian language to churchmen, leaving them no handicap in correspondence: so Aimilianos should write, confident in his general superiority. Psellos' letters were priceless, but could all be bought for one holy sermon
Certainty: 1 Psellos tried to maintain correspondence with Aimilainos of Antioch, glad of news from anywhere, as Aimilainos rarely wrote Certainty: 1
1074
Certainty: 1 Expulsion of patriarch Aimilianos from Antioch by doux Isaakios Komnenos Certainty: 1
1078
Certainty: 3 The people in Hagia Sophia proclaimed Nikephoros Botaneiates (still at Lampe) emperor Certainty: 3
Certainty: 2 Nicaea sided with rebel Nikephoros Botaneiates, & proclaimed him emperor Certainty: 2