Note 036 Pachymer, l. vii. c. 1 - ii. 17. The speech of Andronicus the Elder (lib. xii. c. 2) is a curious record, which proves that if the Greeks were the slaves of the emperor, the emperor was not less the slave of superstition and the clergy.]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 62