Complex sentence: This is reflected in later traditions, according to which Theophilos fell ill upon learning of the humiliating disaster, while his death three years later before the age of thirty was attributed by some Byzantine writers to his sorrow over the city's loss.
Split into simpler sentences: This is reflected in later traditions, according to which Theophilos'subsequent illness was caused by the impact of the humiliating disaster. Likewise, his death three years later, before the age of thirty, was attributed by some Byzantine historians to his sorrow over the city's loss.