235-238) is happy to compare the Draco of Leo with the dragoons (Dracones) of Louis XIV.; and highly solaces himself with the controversial pun.] [Footnote 25: (Damascen.Op.tom.i.p.

625.) This oath and subscription I do not remember to have seen in any modern compilation] The patient East abjured, with reluctance, her sacred images; they were fondly cherished, and vigorously defended, by the independent zeal of the Italians.

In ecclesiastical rank and jurisdiction, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope of Rome were nearly equal.

But the Greek prelate was a domestic slave under the eye of his master, at whose nod he alternately passed from the convent to the throne, and from the throne to the convent.

A distant and dangerous station, amidst the Barbarians of the West, excited the spirit and freedom of the Latin bishops.
Their popular election endeared them to the Romans: the public and private indigence was relieved by their ample revenue; and the weakness or neglect of the emperors compelled them to consult, both in peace and war, the temporal safety of the city.