The count was slain on the field; the emperor was made prisoner; and if the one disdained to fly, if the other refused to yield, their personal bravery made a poor atonement for their ignorance, or neglect, of the duties of a general.

[26] [Footnote 26: Nicetas, from ignorance or malice, imputes the defeat to the cowardice of Dandolo, (p.

383;) but Villehardouin shares his own glory with his venerable friend, qui viels home ere et gote ne veoit, mais mult ere sages et preus et vigueros, (No.

193.) * Note: Gibbon appears to me to have misapprehended the passage of Nicetas.

He says, "that principal and subtlest mischief.