Add new post - Reading Notes of 'De Administrando Imperio'

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@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ On Relations with Pechenegs
 
 ### Keeping Peace with the Nation of the Pechenegs
 
+'Ψπολαμβάνω γάρ κατά πολύ συμφέρειν αεί τω βασιλεΐ 'Ρωμαίων ειρήνην έ&έλειν έχειν μετά τοΰ έ&νους τών Πατζινακιτών καί φιλικάς προς αύτούς ποιεΐσ&αι συνθήκας τε καί σπονδάς καί άποστέλλειν κα&* έκαστον χρόνον έντεΰ&εν προς αύτούς άποκρισιάριον μετά ξενίων άρμο-
+6νΡ ζόντων ] καί πρός τό έ&νος επιτηδείων καί άναλαμβάνεσ&αι έκεΐθεν 20 ομήρους, ήτοι δψιδας καί άποκρισιάριον, οΐτινες έν τη &εοφυλάκτω ταύτη πόλει μετά τοΰ καθ-υπουργοΰντος εις ταΰτα συνελεύσονται, καί βασιλικών εύεργεσιών καί φιλοτιμιών τών επαξίων πάντων τοΰ βασι λεύοντος άπολαύσουσιν.
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 - Send every year to them from our side a diplomatic agent with presents
 - Take from their side hostages and a diplomatic agent
 - A broken friendship with them may cause them invading [Cherson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherson_(theme))
@@ -42,3 +46,31 @@ Managing relationships among parties is about prioritizing the power & strength
 
 ### Of the Dispatch of Imperial Agents from Cherson to [Patzinacia (Pechenegs)](https://www.reddit.com/r/Map_Porn/comments/81ren9/comment/dv5u195/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
 
+- The imperial agent, on arriving at the Patzinacia, is supposed to costly deliver an overwhelmingly set of treasure and
+  gifts to the local authorities
+- Porphyrogenitus calls them "ravenous". But in order to
+  [keep a relationship between the two empires](#keeping-peace-with-the-nation-of-the-pechenegs), he accepts it as a
+  norm
+
+### Everything until 13.
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+This guy of Porphyrogenitus keeps talking about the geography around his empire (The 1715 map above)
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+### 13*
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+- Do not send out these 3 things by excuses of holy emperor Constantine and God to any other nations
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+  - imperial vesture
+  - diadems
+  - state robes
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+- Porphyrogenitus, who values the power of learning, advices his son to learn as much as he can about the surrounding or
+  nearby nations in terms of
+
+  - difference between them
+  - their origins
+  - customs
+  - manner of life
+  - the position and climate of the land they dwell in
+  - geographical description and measurement
+