Fallmerayer struggles in vain to mitigate this mark of the subjection of the Comneni to the sultan.

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116 .-- M.] [Footnote 22: The portrait of the French Latins is drawn in Nicetas by the hand of prejudice and resentment: ouden tvn allwn eqnvn eiV ''AreoV ?rga parasumbeblhsqai sjisin hneiconto all' oude tiV tvn caritwn h tvn ?mousvn para toiV barbaroiV toutoiV epexenizeto, kai para touto oimai thn jusin hsan anhmeroi, kai ton xolon eixon tou logou prstreconta.

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Bek.] [Footnote 23: I here begin to use, with freedom and confidence, the eight books of the Histoire de C.P.sous l'Empire des Francois, which Ducange has given as a supplement to Villehardouin; and which, in a barbarous style, deserves the praise of an original and classic work.] The Latin conquerors had been saluted with a solemn and early embassy from John, or Joannice, or Calo-John, the revolted chief of the Bulgarians and Walachians.