Note 021
The noble race of the Cantacuzeni (illustrious
from the xith century in the Byzantine annals) was drawn
from the Paladins of France, the heroes of those romances
which, in the xiiith century, were translated and read by
the Greeks, (Ducange, Fam. Byzant. p. 258.)]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 63