Note 012
His anonymous historian (de Expedit. Asiat.
Fred. I. in Canisii Lection. Antiq. tom. iii. pars ii. p.
511, edit. Basnage) mentions the sermons of the Greek
patriarch, quomodo Graecis injunxerat in remissionem
peccatorum peregrinos occidere et delere de terra.
Tagino observes, (in Scriptores Freher. tom. i. p. 409, edit.
Struv.,)
Graeci haereticos nos appellant: clerici et monachi
dictis et factis persequuntur.
We may add the declaration of the emperor Baldwin fifteen years afterwards:
Haec est
(gens) quae Latinos omnes non hominum nomine, sed canum
dignabatur; quorum sanguinem effundere pene inter merita
reputabant,
(Gesta Innocent. III., c. 92, in Muratori,
Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. iii. pars i. p. 536.)
There may be some exaggeration, but it was as effectual for the
action and reaction of hatred.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 60