Note 061
From Chapter 56 of the Decline & Fall

Anna Comnena, somewhat too wantonly, praises and bewails that handsome boy, who, after the rupture of his barbaric nuptials (l. i. p. 23), was betrothed as her husband; he was
Ancient Greek etc. (p. 27.)
Elsewhere she describes the red and white of his skin, his hawk's eyes, etc., l. iii. p. 71.

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