A friend of Psellos asked him to support the letter-carrier, unjustly accused before the krites of Opsikion. Psellos did so (despite a vow not to ask favours of the krites), to smooth the man's entry to the court (fairness) and success there. If the man won his case, all would be well; but if his evidence was inadequate, the krites should find him a means of survival, as it was a judge's duty that those in his court should not be reduced to abject poverty by losing their case