A poor man's progress via favours might stop as life became volatile; Psellos asked a krites for one more favour to secure the future
Unit appears in:
KONSTANTINOS X (1059-1067)
1060
Summary:
Psellos asked many favours for a poor man and freed him from severe burdens. But he needed another favour for him not to slip backwards as life became volatile. The krites as Herakles must cauterise the remaining misfortune, to stop it regrowing
Dates:
1060 (Uncertain)
poor man helped by Michael Psellos (
Anonymus 2329
)
There was a danger that progress owed to previous favours would disappear as his life became volatile;
Michael 61
asked for one more favour, that
Anonymus 2330
as Herakles cauterise the remaining misfortune, to stop it regrowing (:)
Psellos Letters (Sathas) 201.494-495
krites, correspondent of Michael Psellos (
Anonymus 2330
)
He was asked yet another favour by
Michael 61
for
Anonymus 2329
, so that recent improvements should not disappear as his life became volatile; the krites as Herakles must cauterise the remaining misfortune, to stop it regrowing (:)
Psellos Letters (Sathas) 201.494-495
Michael Psellos (named Konstantinos till tonsure in 1054) (
Michael 61
)
He asked
Anonymus 2330
for another favour for
Anonymus 2329
Psellos Letters (Sathas) 201.494-495
He asked many favours for
Anonymus 2329
, freeing him from severe burdens; he needed another favour for him not to deteriorate, as life became volatile;
Anonymus 2330
as Herakles must cauterise the remaining misfortune, to stop it regrowing (:)
Psellos Letters (Sathas) 201.494-495