Sabbaites (presumably a monk from St Saba in Jerusalem) circulated a four-line poem satirising Psellos' brief stay on Olympos, where (the poem said) he could not live without females. Psellos responded to this brief libel (and other writings now lost) with 321 lines, full of aggressive vocatives. The same situation also appears in a letter. Psellos claimed that Sabbaites' insults affected his son-in-law the krites of Armeniakon (especially), as well as the metropolitan of Amaseia, Isaakios I and God himself. Psellos had been first to respond to him in a way which would clip his wings. These blasphemies would now be stopped by Konstantinos Leichoudes, a splendid churchman whom Isaakios I had appointed as patriarch