Psellos wrote to his fellow-student Georgios, about the return of a writing-tablet & Georgios' new epistolary style

Summary:
Georgios asked Psellos to return his uncle's writing-tablet, with elaborate praise of his correspondent, once his fellow-student. Psellos replied, with no attempt to impress, that he had refused to send it as he had not got back his own. Now he sent the one, in order to receive the other. In another letter he praised the new style of Georgios' letters. Having been shy, Georgios had now become bold, fighting him in full epistolary combat with preliminary skirmishing leading to the use of a variety of weapons. Psellos praised his overwhelming force very strongly (not without irony?) 
Dates:
1036 (Uncertain) 
Georgios, correspondent of Michael Psellos (Georgios 2101)
  • He asked Michael 61 to return the tablet of Anonymus 2347, with praise of Psellos; Psellos replied with no attempt to impress: he had refused to send it as he had not got back his own: now he sent one, so as to receive the other (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 25, 31.24-33.6
  • Having been shy, he had now become bold, fighting Michael 61 in full epistolary combat with preliminary skirmishing leading to the use of all kinds of weapons; Psellos praised his overwhelming force very strongly [with some irony?] (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 26, 33.7-34.18
Michael Psellos (named Konstantinos till tonsure in 1054) (Michael 61)
  • Having been shy, Georgios 2101 had now become bold, fighting him in full epistolary combat with preliminary skirmishing leading to the use of all kinds of weapons; Psellos praised his overwhelming force very strongly (with some irony?) (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 26, 33.7-34.18
  • He would write to Georgios 2101 practically and simply; Georgios asked him to return the tablet of Anonymus 2347, with praise of Psellos; Psellos had refused to send it as he had not got back his own: now he sent one, so as to receive the other (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 25, 31.24-33.6