Note 055
The gradual losses of the Latins may be traced
in the third fourth, and fifth books of the compilation of
Ducange: but of the Greek conquests he has dropped many
circumstances, which may be recovered from the larger
history of George Acropolita, and the three first books of
Nicephorus, Gregoras, two writers of the Byzantine series,
who have had the good fortune to meet with learned editors
Leo Allatius at Rome, and John Boivin in the Academy of
Inscriptions of Paris.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 61