Psellos asked a vestarches to govern an inexperienced dioiketes like a chariot-horse, offering just enough rein

Summary:
He wrote in the language of the hippodrome to ask a vestarches to govern an inexperienced dioiketes just as a charioteer drives a horse, for he was nervous and totally inexperienced. He must start immediately and give him neither too much rein nor too little 
Dates:
1060 (Uncertain) 
vestarches, correspondent of Michael Psellos (Anonymus 2217)
  • He was asked in the language of the hippodrome by Michael 61 to govern Anonymus 2218 as a charioteer drives a horse, for he was nervous and totally inexperienced; the vestarches must start at once and give him neither too much rein nor too little (:) Psellos Letters (Sathas) 100.343
inexperienced dioiketes (Anonymus 2218)
  • He was to be governed as a horse is driven by a charioteer, Michael 61 suggested to Anonymus 2217, for he was nervous and totally inexperienced; he must start immediately and give him neither too much rein nor too little (:) Psellos Letters (Sathas) 100.343
Michael Psellos (named Konstantinos till tonsure in 1054) (Michael 61)
  • He wrote in the language of the hippodrome to ask Anonymus 2217 to govern Anonymus 2218 as a charioteer drives a horse, for he was nervous and totally inexperienced; he must start immediately and give him neither too much rein nor too little (:) Psellos Letters (Sathas) 100.343
  • He used the vocabulary of the hippodrome asking Anonymus 2217 to govern Anonymus 2218 as a charioteer drives a horse Psellos Letters (Sathas) 100.343