Melissenos was the name of the family; formerly a strategos, Melissenos 2 advised the empress Theodora 2 to remain at home in safety on the day when Theoktistos 3 was murdered, telling her that assassins were abroad that day: Ps. -Symeon 657 (τῶν ἀποστρατήγων γάρ τις, ἐκ Μελισσηνῶν κατάγων τὸ γένος). One of the Melissenoi, he was one of the junior officers who helped Bardas 5 with the overthrow of Theoktistos 3 (τῶν ἀποστρατήγων γάρ τις, ἐκ Μελισσηνῶν κατάγων τὸ γένος) and told the empress Theodora 2 to go back home when she tried to save him: Genesius IV 9. The date was 856.

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