Note 007 See the Greek and Latin Glossaries of Ducange Ancient Greek

catapanus,) and his notes on the Alexias, (p. 275.) Against the contemporary notion, which derives it from Ancient Greek

juxta omne, he treats it as a corruption of the Latin capitaneus. Yet M. de St. Marc has accurately observed (Abrege Chronologique, tom. ii. p. 924) that in this age the capitanei were not captains, but only nobles of the first rank, the great valvassors of Italy.

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