[398]. Ibid., pp. 357, 358.
[399]. Codinus, p. 86.
[400]. John of Ephesus: translation by R. Payne Smith.
[401]. See [illustration] facing p. 96, for copy of the inscription with its errors in orthography.
[402]. Theophanes, p. 589.
[403]. Ibid., pp. 634, 635. The tax was called “dikeraton,” because it was equal to two keratia (1s. ½d.), or one-twelfth of a nomisma (12s. 6d.). Cf. Finlay, History of the Byzantine Empire, i. pp. 37, 38.
[404]. The date of her death is not known. Muralt is mistaken in saying that she died in 750. The Maria who died in that year was the second wife of Constantine Copronymus; not the widow, as Muralt has it, of Leo III. Cf. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Consple., p. 73.
[405]. Proceedings of the Greek Literary Syllogos of Consple., vol. xvi., 1885: Archæological Supplement, pp. 34, 35.
[406]. Proceedings of the Greek Literary Syllogos of Consple., vol. xvi., 1885: Archæological Supplement, p. 30.
[407]. Leo Diaconus, pp. 175, 176.