Psellos compared the painted image of Konstantinos, nephew of Keroularios with the reality and with a word-picture, carefully (but obscurely) defining the terms of the comparison. In another letter he praised Konstantinos as impartial - but why should Symeon, notarios of the eidikon, defeat his brother, just because of his name and office? Why should an innocent man, Psellos' kinsman, perish with the guilty, with Konstantinos' agreement? Symeon must be stopped and justice done