Note 052 Nicetas (in Alexio Comneno, l. iii. c. 9) accuses the doge and Venetians as the first authors of the war against Constantinople, and considers only as a Ancient Greek

the arrival and shameful offers of the royal exile.

Extra note by the Rev. H. H. Milman 1782 (Written), 1845 (Revised):
He admits, however, that the Angeli had committed depredations on the Venetian trade, and the emperor himself had refused the payment of part of the stipulated compensation for the seizure of the Venetian merchandise by the emperor Manuel. Nicetas, in loc.

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