Psellos wrote to Ioannes Xiphilinos, promising to use no excuses to avoid following him to Olympos

Summary:
Psellos wrote to Ioannes Xiphilinos about following him to Olympos. He felt both present with and absent from his friend in epistolary terms. He would soon follow him to the monastery, at the third (not eleventh) hour by the parable of the vineyard, using neither his wife nor newly-purchased estate as an excuse. He authorised the monk bringing the letter to take over (Megala) Kellia, a monastery just given to Psellos 
Dates:
1053 (Uncertain) 
wife of Michael Psellos (Anonyma 2119)
  • She was not used as an excuse to keep Michael 61 from following Ioannes 18 to Olympos (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 273, 318.2-3 (Sathas 36.270)
monk, associate of Michael Psellos (Anonymus 2165)
  • He took a letter to Ioannes 18 which authorised him (the monk) to take over (Megala) Kellia, a monastery just given to Psellos (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 273, 318.2-3 (Sathas 36.270)
Ioannes VIII Xiphilinos, patriarch of Constantinople (Ioannes 18)
  • He received a letter from Michael 61, who felt both close and distant from him; he would soon follow Xiphilinos to Olympos, reaching the vineyard at the third (not eleventh) hour, using neither wife nor newly-purchased estate as an excuse (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 273, 317.7-318.3 (Sathas 36.270)
Michael Psellos (named Konstantinos till tonsure in 1054) (Michael 61)
  • He wrote to Ioannes 18, feeling both epistolary presence and absence; he would soon follow Xiphilinos to Olympos, at the third (not eleventh) hour by the parable of the vineyard, using neither wife nor newly-purchased estate as an excuse (:) τὸν ἀγρὸν τὸν νεώνητον Psellos Letters (K - D) 273, 317.7-318.3 (Sathas 36.270)
  • He wrote to Ioannes 18 about following him to Olympos Psellos Letters (K - D) 273, 317.7-318.3 (Sathas 36.270)
  • He authorised the monk bringing the letter to Ioannes 18 to take over (Megala) Kellia, a monastery just given to Psellos (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 273, 318.2-3 (Sathas 36.270)