Psellos paid his second visit to Philadelphia as krites of Thrakesion. He was asked to solve a problem caused by the overturning of one of his own judgements as krites of Boukellarion. He had also visited Basilaon (in Galatia, probably as krites of Boukellarion?). In a difficult passage, he also seems to claim to a metropolitan of Amaseia to have been krites of Armeniakon