Note 095
From Chapter 53 of the Decline & Fall

Constantine Manasses reprobates this design in his barbarous verse:

and it is confirmed by Theophanes, Zonaras, Cedrenus, and the Historia Miscella:

voluit in urbem Romam Imperium transferre (l. xix. p. 157 in tom. i. pars i. of the Scriptores Rer. Ital. of Muratori.)