Note 113
The Latin, Otho, (de Gestis Frederici I. l.
ii. c. 30, p. 734,) attests the forgery; the Greek,
Cinnamus, (l. iv. c. 1, p. 78,) claims a promise of
restitution from Conrad and Frederic. An act of fraud is
always credible when it is told of the Greeks.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 56