Note 043
At the end of the Latin version of Phranzes, we read a long Greek epistle or declamation of George of Trebizond, who advises the emperor to prefer Eugenius and Italy. He treats with contempt the schismatic assembly of Basil, the Barbarians of Gaul and Germany, who had conspired to transport the chair of St. Peter beyond the Alps:
(says he) 
Was Constantinople unprovided with a map?
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 66