Note 046
Consult the ivth book of the Histoire de
'Ordre de Malthe, par l'Abbe de Vertot. That pleasing
writer betrays his ignorance, in supposing that Othman, a
freebooter of the Bithynian hills, could besiege Rhodes by
sea and land.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 64