Paulos 10 was patrikios and komes of the Opsikion; in 798 he was attacked by an Arab force (see Abdulmalik 2) with all his own troops and the Optimatoi as well (Παύλῳ, πατρικίῳ καὶ κόμητι τοῦ Ὀψικίου, σὺν ὅλῳ τῷ θέματι αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῖς οπτιμάτοις); he lost many men and the Arabs carried off his baggage train: Theoph. AM 6291. He is probably identical with Paulos patrikios who held command as strategos in the vicinity of Bithynia and who was miraculously cured by the hegoumenos of the monastery of Pelekete, Makarios 9; Paulos 10 was sick and unable to travel, and having despaired of the aid of doctors summoned Makarios 9 to help; Makarios 9 went to him and cured him: Acta S. Macarii 5, p. 148, esp. lines 5-9 (τις τῶν λίαν περιδόξων καὶ παρὰ βασιλεῦσι τὰ πρῶτα φερόντων Παῦλος τοὔνομα, οὗ πατρίκιον τὴν ἀξίαν οἱ Ῥωμαίων βασιλεῖς καλεῖν εἰώθασιν. Ὅστις πατρίκιος δι' ἐπιτηδειότητα καὶ περιφάνειαν στρατηγεῖν τὸ τηνικαῦτα πρὸς τοῦ κρατοῦντος τῆς παρακειμένης χώρας ἐτέτακτο). Shortly afterwards his wife (Anonyma 100) also fell gravely ill in Constantinople; as she could not travel, Makarios 9 visited Constantinople and cured her; this incident occurred at a time when Tarasios 1 was patriarch of Constantinople: Acta S. Macarii 6, pp. 148-149, and cf. p. 149, line 11 for Tarasios 1. Cf. also Theognostos 17.

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