[431] Crit. lx.; also Leonard, 99.
[432] Cambini, p. 25.
[433] Phrantzes, 285.
[434] Crit. lx.
[435] Phrantzes, p. 285.
[436] ‘La prima sbara di barbacan,’ p. 54.
[437] Phrantzes, p. 285.
[438] Montaldo, xxiii.: ‘insigniis positis.’
[439] Montaldo (ch. xxiii.) incidentally confirms the version of Ducas. He states that the emperor determined on death only after he had learned that the enemy had entered the city and had occupied the palace and other places.
[440] Leonard, p. 99. In Dethier’s edition a note states that one of the MSS. reads eighty Latins ‘sine Graecis,’ p. 608.