To expose the arms of a people of scribes and scholars, they affected to display a pen, an inkhorn, and a sheet of paper, without discerning that the instruments of science and valor were _alike_ feeble and useless in the hands of the modern Greeks.
[Footnote 91: The disorders of the sack of Constantinople, and his own adventures, are feelingly described by Nicetas, p.

367--369, and in the Status Urb.

C.P.p.

375--384.

His complaints, even of sacrilege, are justified by Innocent III., (Gesta, c.