Note 041
Syropulus, p. 19. In this list, the Greeks
appear to have exceeded the real numbers of the clergy and
laity which afterwards attended the emperor and patriarch,
but which are not clearly specified by the great
ecclesiarch. The 75,000 florins which they asked in this
negotiation of the pope, (p. 9,) were more than they could
hope or want.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 66