[62] In Albanian speech the sun is feminine.
[63] Marinus Barletius, a Latin monk of the time, has given us in his chronicles, the most extended account of Scanderbeg.
[64] Filioque; "and the Son." The Latin Church holds that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. The Greeks deny the latter part of the proposition.
[65] A modern Greek talent weighs 125 English pounds.
[66] The present art of "slow approach" was an invention of the Turks.
[67] A face of Christ was wrought in mosaic in the wall above the chancel of St. Sophia. The Turks still have a traditional saying that the Christian shall not again possess Constantinople until the face of Jesus appears visibly in St. Sophia. At the time of its capture by the Moslems this picture of Christ was painted over. It is now again dimly discerned through the fading and scaling paint.
[68] The "Azymites" were those who used unleavened bread in the sacrament, and at the time of which we are writing the word was used among the Greeks as a term of reproach to the Latinizers, that is, those who favored union with the Latin Church.
[69] A suburb of Constantinople, occupied by the Genoese.
[70] Brothers of the infidels.
[71] One of the sultanas of Amurath II. and daughter of George Brankovitch, Despot of Servia.