Note 058
In the severe censure of the flight of
Justiniani, Phranza expresses his own feelings and those of
the public. For some private reasons, he is treated with
more lenity and respect by Ducas; but the words of Leonardus
Chiensis express his strong and recent indignation,
gloriae
salutis suique oblitus.
In the whole series of their
Eastern policy, his countrymen, the Genoese, were always
suspected, and often guilty.
Extra note by the Rev. H. H. Milman
1782 (Written), 1845 (Revised)
M. Brosset has given some extracts from the Georgian
account of the siege of Constantinople, in which
Justiniani's wound in the left foot is represented as more
serious. With charitable ambiguity the chronicler adds that
his soldiers carried him away with them in their vessel.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 68