One correspondent, interested in Chaldaean theology, received from Michael Italikos a long and undatable statement of Chaldaean beliefs, described as monstrous. A schoolmaster, requesting verses of Empedocles, received lines on various subjects in a letter, and was told to have his pupils declaim them in a tragic way. A third correspondent asked for information on astrology, particularly with regard to marriage. Michael stressed that he had no faith in astrology, but provided much of the requested detail in any case. He promised more