Note 035
In aureo triclinio quae praestantior est pars
potentissimus (the usurper Romanus) degens caeteras partes
(filiis) distribuerat, (Liutprand. Hist. l. v. c. 9, p.
469.) For this last signification of Triclinium ( aedificium tria vel plura
scilicet
complectens),see Ducange (Gloss. Graec. et Observations sur Joinville, p. 240) and
Reiske, (ad Constantinum de Ceremoniis, p. 7.)
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 53