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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LX: The Fourth Crusade
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132,) that since the creation, ne fu tant gaaignie dans une ville; Baldwin, (Gesta, c.

92,) ut tantum tota non videatur possidere Latinitas.] [Footnote 89: Villehardouin, No.

133--135.

Instead of 400,000, there is a various reading of 500,000.

The Venetians had offered to take the whole booty, and to give 400 marks to each knight, 200 to each priest and horseman, and 100 to each foot-soldier: they would have been great losers, (Le Beau, Hist.du.Bas Empire tom.xx.p.506.I know not from whence.)] [Footnote 90: At the council of Lyons (A.D.


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