After the death of the co-emperor Alexios, Ioannes II sent his brother Andronikos to conduct his body by ship back to the capital. But after they had sailed, he too died, as if unwilling to be separated from his dead brother - and so a corpse was conducting a corpse. It seems that Isaakios too was on the ship [he was later in Constantinople, not with the army - perhaps an indication that Andronikos was at least unwell before the voyage began]. He delivered the two bodies in the capital