Note 093 Nicetas uses very harsh expressions,
(Fragment, apud Fabric. Bibliot. Graec. tom. vi. p. 414.) This reproach, it is true, applies most strongly to their ignorance of Greek and of Homer. In their own language, the Latins of the xii^th and xiii^th centuries were not destitute of literature. See Harris's Philological Inquiries, p. iii. c. 9, 10, 11.

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 60