Psellos wrote two (ill-informed) letters to imperial notarioi accompanying Isaakios I on his Danube expedition

Summary:
Psellos wrote to a chorus leader (protonotarios) and chorus (notarioi), imagining their duties on a campaign which seems distant, mountainous and cold. Isaakios I was described with different, herioc images. May they all return safely! He wrote again to the same recipients, with no idea where they were. He imagined them each attending to a different branch of business, or the hunting of different animals. He congratulated them on their concord 
Dates:
1059 
imperial notarioi of Isaakios I Komnenos (Anonymi 2109)
  • They, with Anonymus 2196, received a letter from Michael 61, imagining their duties on a campaign which seems distant, mountainous and cold; Isaakios 1 was described with different, herioc images; may all return safely! (:) Psellos Letters (Sathas) 70.305-306
  • They, with Anonymus 2196, received a letter from Michael 61, who had no idea where they were; he imagined them each attending to a different branch of business, or the hunting of different animals; he congratulated them on their concord (:) Psellos Letters (Sathas) 191.485-486
imperial protonotarios of Isaakios I Komnenos (Anonymus 2196)
  • He, with Anonymi 2109, received a letter from Michael 61, imagining their duties on a campaign which seems distant, mountainous and cold; Isaakios 1 was described with different, herioc images; may all return safely! (:) Psellos Letters (Sathas) 70.305-306
  • He, with Anonymi 2109, received a letter from Michael 091, who had no idea where they were; he imagined them each attending to a different branch of business, or the hunting of different animals; he congratulated them on their concord (:) Psellos Letters (Sathas) 191.485-486
Emperor Isaakios I Komnenos (Isaakios 1)
  • In a letter from Michael 61 to Anonymus 2196 and Anonymi 2109 he appeared in a heroic light with powerful images (:) Τοῖ`῀ς ἐν τῷ ταξειδίῳ νοταρίοις τοῦ αὐτοῦ βασιλέως Psellos Letters (Sathas) 70.305-306
Michael Psellos (named Konstantinos till tonsure in 1054) (Michael 61)
  • He wrote to a chorus leader (Anonymus 2196) and chorus (Anonymi 2109), imagining their duties on a campaign which seems distant, mountainous and cold; Isaakios 101 was described with different, herioc images; may all return safely! (:) Τοῖς ἐν τῷ ταξειδίῳ νοταρίοις τοῦ αὐτοῦ βασιλέως Psellos Letters (Sathas) 70.305-306
  • He wrote to Anonymus 2196 and Anonymi 2109, with no idea where they were; he imagined them each attending to a different branch of business, or the hunting of different animals; he congratulated them on their concord (:) Psellos Letters (Sathas) 191.485-486
  • He wrote to Anonymus 2196 and Anonymi 2109, with no idea where they were Psellos Letters (Sathas) 191.485-486
  • He wrote to Anonymus 2196 and Anonymi 2109 on campaign with Isaakios 1 Τοῖς ἐν τῷ ταξειδίῳ νοταρίοις τοῦ αὐτοῦ βασιλέως Psellos Letters (Sathas) 70.305-306