Note 042
In honor of his hero, Barletius (l. vi. p. 188
-192) kills the sultan by disease indeed, under the walls of
Croya. But this audacious fiction is disproved by the
Greeks and Turks, who agree in the time and manner of
Amurath's death at Adrianople.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 67