Note 003
Pachymer, in seven books, 377 folio pages,
describes the first twenty-six years of Andronicus the
Elder; and marks the date of his composition by the current
news or lie of the day, (A.D. 1308.) Either death or disgust
prevented him from resuming the pen.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 63