[218] Carmina Philae, vol. i. ode 237, lines 21-23. Codex Paris, p. 241.
[219] M. Crusius, Turcograecia, p. 189.
[220] It should read, Βράναινα. See Siderides, in the Proceedings of the Greek Syllogos of C.P. vol. xxix. p. 267.
[221] For the protovestiarius, see Pachym. i. pp. 205, 469; ii. pp. 68, 72, 210; for the protostrator, see Pachym. ii. pp. 12, 445. The former died in 1284, the latter about 1315. Cf. Siderides, ut supra. See on this subject the article of A. E. Martini in Atti della R. Academia di archeologia, lettere e belle arti, vol. xx., Napoli, 1900.
[222] Carmina Philae, vol. i. Codex Florent. ode 95, lines 280-82.
[223] See Carmina Philae, edited by E. Miller, odes 54, 57, 59, 92, 164, 165, 219, 237, for references to the protostrator, or to his wife, or to the Pammakaristos.
[224] Hans Jacob Breüning, Orientalische Reyss, chap. xvii. p. 66. He visited Constantinople 1579-80. The portraits stood 'Im Eingang auff der rechten Seiten,' or, as another authority has it, 'in patriarchica porta exteriore, in pariete dextero ab ingredientibus conspiciuntur,' Turcograecia, p. 75.
[225] Gerlach refers to these portraits, but without mentioning the names of the persons they represented. The legends were communicated to M. Crusius (Turcograecia, p. 75) by Theodosius Zygomalas, the protonotarius of the patriarch in the time of Gerlach.
[226] Pachym. ii. pp. 182-89. When Cosmas was appointed patriarch a curious incident occurred. A monk of the monastery of the Pantepoptes protested against the nomination, because it had been revealed to him that the person who should fill the vacant office would bear the name John. Such was the impression made by this prediction that matters were so arranged that somehow Cosmas was able to claim that name also. Whereupon the monk went on to predict how many years Cosmas would hold office, and that he would lose that position before his death.
[227] Pachym. ii. pp. 271-77.