Note 061 Anna Comnena, somewhat too wantonly, praises and bewails that handsome boy, who, after the rupture of his barbaric nuptials, (l. i. p. 23,) was betrothed as her husband; he was Ancient Greek

&c. (p. 27.) Elsewhere she describes the red and white of his skin, his hawk's eyes, &c., l. iii. p. 71.

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