Narrative Unit

Venetian shipowner at Constantinople (Anonymus 17075)

Sold to Byzantines at great cost the biggest ship ever seen there, remaining captain; plotted with other Venetians (who had left jail by standing surety for each other) to escape at night and sail home (:) Kinnamos 282.22-283.9
His ship was eagerly boarded by Venetians and escaped, but was overtaken by the Byzantines near the Hellespont and attacked with Greek fire; the sailors wrapped it in cloths soaked in vinegar, which repelled the fire, so it escaped (:) Kinnamos 283.9-19

A Venetian noble, in charge of of a huge ship, arranged for many fellow-citizens to escape