It is scarcely possible that the powers of the mind and body should support themselves till such a period of life.] [Footnote 41: The modern Venetians (Laugier, tom.ii.p.

119) accuse the emperor Manuel; but the calumny is refuted by Villehardouin and the older writers, who suppose that Dandolo lost his eyes by a wound, (No.
31, and Ducange.) * Note: The accounts differ, both as to the extent and the cause of his blindness According to Villehardouin and others, the sight was totally lost; according to the Chronicle of Andrew Dandolo.
(Murat.tom.xii.p.

322,) he was vise debilis.

See Wilken, vol.v.

p.
143 .-- M.] [Footnote 42: See the original treaty in the Chronicle of Andrew Dandolo, p.