Note 020 Anna Comnena has partly drawn aside the curtain. Ancient Greek

(Alexiad. l. xiii. p. 383.) Elsewhere (l. xi. p. 336) she mentions the property of burning, Ancient Greek

Leo, in the xix^th chapter of his Tactics, (Opera Meursii, tom. vi. p. 843, edit. Lami, Florent. 1745,) speaks of the new invention of Ancient Greek

These are genuine and Imperial testimonies.

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