Note 095
Constantine Manasses reprobates this design in his barbarous verse:
and it is confirmed by Theophanes,
Zonaras, Cedrenus, and the Historia Miscella: voluit in
urbem Romam Imperium transferre, (l. xix. p. 157 in tom. i.
pars i. of the Scriptores Rer. Ital. of Muratori.)
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 53