* Note: Compare Schlosser, Geschichte der Bilder-sturmender Kaiser, Frankfurt am-Main 1812 a book of research and impartiality--M.] [Footnote 19: Some flowers of rhetoric.

By Damascenus is styled (Opera, tom.i.p.

623.) Spanheim's Apology for the Synod of Constantinople (p.
171, &c.) is worked up with truth and ingenuity, from such materials as he could find in the Nicene Acts, (p.

1046, &c.) The witty John of Damascus converts it into slaves of their belly, &c.

Opera, tom.i.