[115] Mansi, viii. 795-99.

[116] This refers to the reunion of a great portion of the eastern Church, which had fallen a prey to the most manifold errors since the Council of Chalcedon.—Riffel, p. 543.

[117] Savigny, Geschichte des römischen Rechts im Mittelalter, 1834, i. 36. Quoted by Rump, ix. 72.

[118] Ep. xi. 2: Sedes illa toto orbe mirabilis licet generalis mundo sit prædita.

[119] Nov. cxxxi. c. 2: θεσπίζομεν τὸν ἁγιώτατον τῆς πρεσβυτέρας Ρώμης πάπαν πρῶτον εἶναι πάντων τῶν ἱερέων . . . . τῇ γνώμῃ καὶ ὀρθῇ κρίσει τοῦ ἐκείνου σεβασμίου θρόνου κατηργήθησαν. Nov. ix. init.: Pontificatus apicem apud eam (Romam anteriorem) esse nemo est qui dubitet.—Photius, p. 156.

[120] Translated from Photius, p. 156.

[121]

"Cesare fui e son Giustiniano,
Che, per voler del primo amor ch'io sento,
Dentro alle leggi trassi il troppo e il vano."
—Paradiso, vi. 10.

[122] This paragraph translated from Rump, ix. 70.

[123] Rump, viii. 487.