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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LX: The Fourth Crusade
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After this defiance, the first that had ever wounded an Imperial ear, they departed without betraying any symptoms of fear; but their escape from a servile palace and a furious city astonished the ambassadors themselves; and their return to the camp was the signal of mutual hostility.
[Footnote 72: When Nicetas reproaches Alexius for his impious league, he bestows the harshest names on the pope's new religion, meizon kai atopwtaton...

parektrophn pistewV...

tvn tou Papa pronomiwn kainismon,...

metaqesin te kai metapoihsin tvn palaivn 'RwmaioiV ?eqvn, (p.

348.) Such was the sincere language of every Greek to the last gasp of the empire.] [Footnote 73: Nicetas (p.


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