Psellos wrote to list the doux of Dyrrachion's virtues, knowing that when asked a favour for a local citizen, he had done and would do (for Psellos) everything owed a friend; Psellos also heard from the recipient, who made the doux and Psellos his co-saviours. As saviours they should deserve the name, freeing the man completely from tax problems. Psellos would have acted in Dyrrachion, but as his arms did not reach that far, he made the request with a Stentorian epistle