238.) His fief of Messinople, the gift of Boniface, was the ancient Maximianopolis, which flourished in the time of Ammianus Marcellinus, among the cities of Thrace, (No.

141.)] [Footnote 321: There was no battle.

On the advance of the Latins, John suddenly broke up his camp and retreated.

The Latins considered this unexpected deliverance almost a miracle.

Le Beau suggests the probability that the detection of the Comans, who usually quitted the camp during the heats of summer, may have caused the flight of the Bulgarians.