Dimly I seem to recollect that during my period of office some attack was made upon the prison by those who would have put the prince to death, but that I discovered the plot through the jailer who had introduced the poisoned figs, and defeated it with ease, thereby gaining much credit with Irene and her ministers.

If so, of this plot history says nothing.

All it tells of these princes is that afterwards a mob haled them to the Cathedral of St.Sophia and there proclaimed Nicephorus emperor.

But they were taken again, and at last shipped to Athens, where they vanished from the sight of men.
God rest their tortured souls, for they were more sinned against than sinning..