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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LX: The Fourth Crusade
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26.] [Footnote 69: As they played at dice, the Latins took off his diadem, and clapped on his head a woollen or hairy cap, to megaloprepeV kai pagkleiston katerrupainen onoma, (Nicetas, p.

358.) If these merry companions were Venetians, it was the insolence of trade and a commonwealth.] [Footnote 70: Villehardouin, No.101.Dandolo, p.322.The doge affirms, that the Venetians were paid more slowly than the French; but he owns, that the histories of the two nations differed on that subject.

Had he read Villehardouin?
The Greeks complained, however, good totius Graeciae opes transtulisset, (Gunther, Hist.


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