Psellos wrote a conventional monody on an ex-fellow-student who died on the way to visit him [beginning lost]

Summary:
He is decribed as having all the virtues regularly included in a monody: intelligence, personal charm, zeal for learning. [However the loss of text at the beginning of the work leaves all this even more conventional and less well-defined than usual] 
Dates:
1060 (Uncertain) 
patrikios, fellow-student of Michael Psellos (Anonymus 2610)
  • He is decribed as having all the virtues regularly included in a monody: intelligence, personal charm, zeal for learning; however the loss of text at the beginning of the work leaves all this even less well-defined than is often the case Psellos Monodies (Gautier) 135-140
Michael Psellos (named Konstantinos till tonsure in 1054) (Michael 61)
  • He wrote a monody on an anonymus patrikios, who had once been a fellow-student and had now become a close friend; he had died suddenly at a tragically early age Psellos Monodies (Gautier) 135-143