Note 014

Phranza does justice to his master's sense and courage.
Calliditatem hominis non ignorans Imperator prior arma movere constituit
,and stigmatizes the folly of the
cum sacri tum profani proceres
, which he had heard,
amentes spe vanâ pasci.
Ducas was not a privy-counsellor.
The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 68