Psellos bore witness that an inhabitant of Optimaton had been badly slandered, having himself saved him from catastrophe; the man escaped home and approached the krites of Optimaton, who could save him. Psellos urged the krites to do so, for he promised a life above slander. He also spoke of his acquaintance Basileios Melissenos, a fine man with barely enough income to survive, who had later suffered an unbearable tax audit (?). Nothing was impossible for the krites: Basileios should be released from the burden