Michael Angold explains this as in part, a matter of his temperament: He was happier in the company of a cultivated circle of friends, some of whom had been his childhood companions (paidopoula).
Michael Angold menjelaskan ini sebagai bagian dari temperamennya: Dia lebih bahagia di tengah-tengah lingkaran sahabat-sahabat yang dibina, beberapa di antaranya adalah sahabat masa kecilnya (paidopoula).