Tzetzes asked Nikephoros Serblias for improvement in his housing

Summary:
Tzetzes wrote to the mystikos Nikephoros Serblias, asking for improvement in his housing conditions. He lived on the second of three floors, with a hay-barn below and a priest with many children and pigs above; he risked fire from below, and rivers of rain mixed with urine from above; he told Nikephoros that a tile and a little cement would at least fix the latter 
Dates:
1140 
priest living above Ioannes Tzetzes (Anonymus 752)
  • He had innumerable children and many pigs in his appartment, which added plenty of urine to the rain flowing down to Ioannes 459's quarters, putting him in danger of flooding (:) Tzetzes, Letters 33.2-16
Ioannes Tzetzes, man of letters (Ioannes 459)
  • He lived on the second of three floors, with a hay-barn below and Anonymus 752 with many children and pigs above; he risked fire from below, and rivers of rain and mixed urine from above; he told Nikephoros 20159 that a tile and a little cement would at least fix the latter (:) ἐν μεταιχμίῳ γὰρ ἡμεῖς πυρὸς φοβήτρων καὶ ὑδατώδους κατακλυσμοῦ καθεστήκαμεν Tzetzes, Letters 31.15-34.12
Nikephoros Serblias, krites and mystikos (Nikephoros 20159)
  • He was asked by Ioannes 459 for better housing: he needed protection from fire in the hay-loft below, and from flood resulting from rain and mixed urine from the huge family with pigs above; a tile and some cement would at least fix the latter (:) Tzetzes, Letters 31.15-34.12