A significant amount of this expenditure was pure financial loss to the Empire, like the subsidies poured into Italy and the crusader states, and the sums spent on the failed expeditions of 1155–1156, 1169, and 1176.
这些数目巨大的开支纯粹是对帝国财政上的损失，就像那些涌入到意大利和十字军诸国的特别津贴一样，以及对1155-1156、1169以及1176年那些失败的远征事务上投入。