Ioannes II left Constantinople for Attaleia

Summary:
Some four years after his previous departure from Cilicia and Antioch, he gathered a large army and set out again for that area, having received frequent requests for his presence from Raymond of Poitiers. He left as soon as spring began to smile, and said farewell to his daughters, who wept mythological tears. He went across Phrygia to Attaleia, where he intended to spend some time 
Dates:
1142 early spring 
daughters of Ioannes II (Anonymae 25001)
  • They said farewell to their father Ioannes 2, weeping like a group of mythological goddesses, as he left the capital on the way to Attaleia (:) ὅσα καὶ Ἡλιάδας Niketas Choniates, Historia 37.80-82
Emperor Ioannes II Komnenos (Ioannes 2)
  • He left Constantinople as soon as spring began to smile, farewelled with many tears by Anonymae 25001, like mythological creatures; he crossed Phrygia and reached Attaleia, where he intended to spend some time arranging nearby affairs (when spring was beginning to smile slightly: ὑπομειδιᾶν δ᾽ ἀρχομένου τοῦ ἔαρος) ὅσα καὶ Ἡλιάδας Niketas Choniates, Historia 37.79-84
  • Some four years after his previous departure from Cilicia and Antioch, he gathered a large army and set out again for that area, having received frequent requests for his presence from [presumably for defence against Zengi 101]; he crossed Asia Minor to Attaleia (:) William of Tyre bk. 15, 19.1-11