18/38 Paris, 1648, in folio,) who both lived in the beginning of the ixth century, (see Hanckius de Scriptor.Byzant.p. 200-246.) Their contemporary, Photius, does not seem to be more opulent. After praising the style of Nicephorus, he adds, and only complains of his extreme brevity, (Phot. 100.) Some additions may be gleaned from the more recent histories of Cedrenus and Zonaras of the xiith century.] [Footnote 11: Tabari, or Al Tabari, a native of Taborestan, a famous Imam of Bagdad, and the Livy of the Arabians, finished his general history in the year of the Hegira 302, (A.D. 914.) At the request of his friends, he reduced a work of 30,000 sheets to a more reasonable size. |