209:, but that he would demand a recompense by Grigor. The latter offered to pay an annual tribute in form of copper wares and clothes worth ten pounds, but after three or four years he ceased, and his annual payment from the Byzantines ceased. At some point after 923, Grigor also exchanged the "House of Barbaros", possibly due to its costly upkeep, with the "estate of Gregoras" in the district of
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