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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LX: The Fourth Crusade
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apud eum tantam Latinus populus repererat gratiam ut neglectis Graeculis suis tanquam viris mollibus et effminatis,....

solis Latinis grandia committeret negotia....

erga eos profusa liberalitate abundabat....

ex omni orbe ad eum tanquam ad benefactorem nobiles et ignobiles concurrebant.Willelm.Tyr.xxii.c.

10.] [Footnote 16: The suspicions of the Greeks would have been confirmed, if they had seen the political epistles of Manuel to Pope Alexander III., the enemy of his enemy Frederic I., in which the emperor declares his wish of uniting the Greeks and Latins as one flock under one shepherd, &c (See Fleury, Hist.Eccles.tom.xv.p.


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