On the list of acceptable candidates to fill the see of Corinth, Stephanos the repherendarios had been first, Georgios Tornikes second and a certain protekdikos third. However all had turned down the see. Tornikes' decision had been based on the opinion of Theodoros Pantechnes, who had advised against acceptance, presumably on financial grounds. Tornikes had accepted the advice, despite the fact that his mother lived near Corinth. He said little in his letter to the metropolitan about the latter's personal affairs, assuming that Elias, his brother, would already have informed him on this subject. Tornikes castigated a certain "Polyphemos" as a persistent critic of the metropolitan of Athens (probably meaning Soterichos Panteugenos). Turning to the problems of the Pleurites family, he asked the metropolitan to establish justice for Demetrios, who (he said) had been wronged by his brother, who was trying to sieze the whole of their paternal inheritance. The letter-carrier (who presumably wanted to live in Athens) was recommended to Georgios the metropolitan as a friend, intelligent and potentially grateful. Tornikes finally sent greetings to his brother, Leon, and his cousin Euthymios