180.

M Brosset announces that a complete edition of this work, of which the original Greek of the first book only has been published by M.Buchon in preparation, to form part of the new series of the Byzantine historian .-- M.] [Footnote 20: The dynasties of Nice, Trebizond, and Epirus (of which Nicetas saw the origin without much pleasure or hope) are learnedly explored, and clearly represented, in the Familiae Byzantinae of Ducange.] [Footnote 201: This was a title, not a personal appellation.

Joinville speaks of the "Grant Comnenie, et sire de Traffezzontes." Fallmerayer, p.

82 .-- M.] [Footnote 21: Except some facts in Pachymer and Nicephorus Gregoras, which will hereafter be used, the Byzantine writers disdain to speak of the empire of Trebizond, or principality of the _Lazi_; and among the Latins, it is conspicuous only in the romancers of the xivth or xvth centuries.

Yet the indefatigable Ducange has dug out (Fam.Byz.p.