Bibliot.
Graec.tom.vi.p.

414.) This reproach, it is true, applies most strongly to their ignorance of Greek and of Homer.

In their own language, the Latins of the xiith and xiiith centuries were not destitute of literature.

See Harris's Philological Inquiries, p.iii.c.9, 10, 11.] [Footnote 94: Nicetas was of Chonae in Phrygia, (the old Colossae of St.
Paul:) he raised himself to the honors of senator, judge of the veil, and great logothete; beheld the fall of the empire, retired to Nice, and composed an elaborate history from the death of Alexius Comnenus to the reign of Henry.] [Footnote 95: A manuscript of Nicetas in the Bodleian library contains this curious fragment on the statues of Constantinople, which fraud, or shame, or rather carelessness, has dropped in the common editions.

It is published by Fabricius, (Bibliot.Graec.tom.vi.p.