Psellos wrote a monody, stating that Lizix's death was the second and less shocking stage in his removal from his friends: the first had been the onset of his paralysis. In letters of Psellos to Nikolaos Xeros and Nikolaos Skleros, he pictures himself dealing with petitioners, continuing life as an old man whilst being unable to mourn properly one who had shared many of his interests who would now never grow old. The letter from Xeros to which he was replying had been delivered by the carrier it as he left, not as he arrived, thus not leaving enough time to read the whole letter and understand Nikolaos' issue before replying. Basileios Kekaumenos wrote another monody in verse