Yet the knight despises those who thought of flight, and the monk praises his countrymen who were resolved on death.] [Footnote 81: Baldwin, and all the writers, honor the names of these two galleys, felici auspicio.] [Footnote 811: Pietro Alberti, a Venetian noble and Andrew d'Amboise a French knight .-- M.] [Footnote 82: With an allusion to Homer, Nicetas calls him enneorguioV, nine orgyae, or eighteen yards high, a stature which would, indeed, have excused the terror of the Greek.

On this occasion, the historian seems fonder of the marvellous than of his country, or perhaps of truth.
Baldwin exclaims in the words of the psalmist, persequitur unus ex nobis centum alienos.] [Footnote 83: Villehardouin (No.

130) is again ignorant of the authors of _this_ more legitimate fire, which is ascribed by Gunther to a quidam comes Teutonicus, (c.

14.) They seem ashamed, the incendiaries!] [Footnote 84: For the second siege and conquest of Constantinople, see Villehardouin (No.

113--132,) Baldwin's iid Epistle to Innocent III., (Gesta c.