[6] In the subversion of the Byzantine empire, he arraigns the vices of man, and adores the providence of God; the conquerors will be absolved or condemned by their future conduct; the validity of their treaty depends on the judgment of St.Peter; but he inculcates their most sacred duty of establishing a just subordination of obedience and tribute, from the Greeks to the Latins, from the magistrate to the clergy, and from the clergy to the pope.
[Footnote 1: See the original treaty of partition, in the Venetian Chronicle of Andrew Dandolo, p.

326--330, and the subsequent election in Ville hardouin, No.

136--140, with Ducange in his Observations, and the book of his Histoire de Constantinople sous l'Empire des Francois.] [Footnote 2: After mentioning the nomination of the doge by a French elector his kinsman Andrew Dandolo approves his exclusion, quidam Venetorum fidelis et nobilis senex, usus oratione satis probabili, &c., which has been embroidered by modern writers from Blondus to Le Beau.] [Footnote 3: Nicetas, (p.

384,) with the vain ignorance of a Greek, describes the marquis of Montferrat as a _maritime_ power.

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