Note 054
At the time of the synod, Phranzes was in Peloponnesus: but he received from the despot Demetrius a faithful account of the honorable reception of the emperor and patriarch both at Venice and Ferrara, (Dux . . . . sedentem Imperatorem adorat) which are more slightly mentioned by the Latins, (l. ii. c. 14, 15, 16.)]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 66