[537]. Page 31.

[538]. Ancient and Modern Consple., pp. 11, 45. The patriarch supposed that the Palace of Blachernæ stood within the enclosure formed by the Wall of Heraclius and the Wall of Leo. Ibid., p. 44.

[539]. Pand. Hist. Turc., s. 206.

[540]. See his Epistle to Pope Nicholas V.

[541]. Dolfin, s. 64, “Hieronymo Italiano, Leonardo da Languasto Genoexe, cum molti compagni, la porta Chsilo et le Torre Anemande, le qual el cardinal a sue spese hauea reparato, diffensaua.”

[542]. See below, p. [173].

[543]. Anna Comn., xii. pp. 161, 162.

[544]. See Schlumberger, Un Empereur Byzantin au Dixième Siècle, chap. ii., for a brilliant account of the conquest of Crete by Nicephoras Phocas in 962; cf. Leo Diaconus, Historia, lib. i. et ii.

[545]. Anna Comn., xii. pp. 153-161.

[546]. Ibid., pp. 161-164.