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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LX: The Fourth Crusade
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Consult likewise the proper chapters of the C.P.Christiana of the same author.

The inhabitants of Galata were so vain and ignorant, that they applied to themselves St.Paul's Epistle to the Galatians.] [Footnote 63: The vessel that broke the chain was named the Eagle, _Aquila_, (Dandolo, Chronicon, p.

322,) which Blondus (de Gestis Venet.) has changed into _Aquilo_, the north wind.

Ducange (Observations, No.
83) maintains the latter reading; but he had not seen the respectable text of Dandolo, nor did he enough consider the topography of the harbor.

The south-east would have been a more effectual wind.


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