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Zorzo Dolfin translates the account which Leonard gives of the
ships’ passage across the hills, as follows: “Et per coangustar, et
circumuallar piu la terra, commando, fusse spianato le uie, et sopra
i colli messi in terra i uasi a forza de brazze ... per 70 stadia
che sono circa miglia ... introdusse le fuste nel mandrachio, le
qual per ... miglia con fatica se tiranno in suxo” (Dethier, _Siège
de Constantinople_, No. xxii. p. 997). If the number of miles had
been given, or had not disappeared, how much discussion would have
been spared!
Footnote 739:
Pusculus, iv. 192; Dolfin, s. 55.
Footnote 740:
Ducas, p. 282.
Footnote 741:
Anonymus, ii. p. 39; _Acta Patriarchatus CP._, ii. p. 461;
_Itinéraires Russes en Orient_, pp. 104, 105.
Footnote 742:
According to Dr. Paspates (pp. 381-383), respectively, Pour Kouyou
Mesdjidi, and Sheik Mourad Mesdjidi.
Footnote 743:
Ducas, _ut supra_.
Footnote 744:
Mordtmann, pp. 7, 8, 45; Du Cange, iv. ad St. Acacium. See above, p.
32.
Footnote 745:
_Notitia, ad Reg. X._
Footnote 746:
Socrates, ii. c. xx.; Theophanes, p. 70.
Footnote 747:
Du Cange, _ut supra_.
Footnote 748:
_Ibid._, vi. c. xxi.
Footnote 749:
_Miklosich et Muller_, iii. p. 88.
Footnote 750:
_Ibid._, _ut supra_.
Footnote 751:
According to Du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis, _ad
vocem_, from Drungus, “company of soldiers.” The word is connected
with the German “Gedrung” and the English “throng.”
Footnote 752:
Anna Comn., vi. p. 286; cf. Luitprandus, as quoted by Du Cange, in
_Anna Comn._, vol. ii. p. 544.
Footnote 753:
_Tafel und Thomas_, ii. pp. 27, 28: “Via quæ dicitur De Longaria,
extra murum civitatis CP.”
Footnote 754:
_Ibid._, pp. 11, 60: “Scala de Drongario.”
Footnote 755:
Theophanes, p. 281.
Footnote 756:
Gerlach, p. 454; Smith, _Epistolæ Quatuor_, p. 88.
Footnote 757:
Mordtmann, p. 46.
Footnote 758:
_Pand. Hist. Turc._, s. 200.
Footnote 759:
Paspates, p. 166.
Footnote 760:
Heyd, _Histoire du Commerce du Levant_, vol. i. p. 251.
Footnote 761:
_Ibid._, p. 251.
Footnote 762:
Theophanes, p. 353; cf. Procopius, _De Æd._, i. c. vii.
Footnote 763:
_Notitia, ad Reg. VI._
Footnote 764:
_Novella LIX._, c. v.
Footnote 765:
_Paschal Chron._, p. 618.
Footnote 766:
_Notitia_, _ut supra_.
Footnote 767:
_Ptochoprodromus_, line 113; cf. Paspates, pp. 164, 165.
Footnote 768:
VII. p. 286.
Footnote 769:
_Tafel und Thomas_, i. p. 50.
Footnote 770:
_Tafel und Thomas_, i. pp. 55-63.
Footnote 771:
_Ibid._, ii. p. 4; iii. pp. 133-149.
Footnote 772:
Gyllius, _De Top. CP._, iii. c. i.; Leunclavius, _Pand. Hist. Turc._,
s. 200.
Footnote 773: