Note 037 See Cod. Theod. l. vi. tit. xxv. Sozomen, l. i. c. 2 [c. 4]. Theophan. Chronograph. p. 1 l. Theophanes lived towards the end of the eighth century, almost five hundred years after Constantine. The modern Greeks were not inclined to display in the field the standard of the empire and of Christianity; and though they depended on every super stitious hope of defence, the promise of victory would have appeared too bold a fiction.

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Note to Chapter 20 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon