Note 020
From Chapter 53 of the Decline & Fall

See Constantine (in Vit. Basil. c. 74, 75, 76, p. 195, 197, in Script. post Theophanem), who allows himself to use many technical or barbarous words: barbarous, says he,
Ancient Greek
Ducange labours on some: but he was not a weaver.

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