At first it might be supposed that we have here the name of the officer who superintended the repair of the fortifications in the reign of that emperor. But, according to Leonard of Scio,[427] Manuel Iagari, along with a certain monk, Neophytus of Rhodes, had charge of such work immediately before the final siege, while Constantine Dragoses, the last of the Byzantine emperors, was making pathetic efforts to avert inevitable doom. Leonard accuses Manuel and Neophytus of having, even at that crisis, when the fate of the city hung in the balance, embezzled a large part of the funds devoted to the restoration of the walls, thereby leaving the fortifications in a state which made a successful defence impossible: “Idcirco urbs prædonum incuria, in tanta tempesta periit.” It is said that after the capture of the city the Turks discovered a considerable portion of the stolen money concealed in a jar. Footnote 392: Codinus, _De Officiis_, p. 41; Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, p. 589. Footnote 393: Theophanes, p. 616. Footnote 394: Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, p. 6. _Ibid._, p. 295, speaks of the τοῦ τειχεώτου. Footnote 395: _Paschal Chron._, 595. Footnote 396: Theophanes, p. 195. Footnote 397: _Ibid._, pp. 345, 355. Footnote 398: _Ibid._, pp. 357, 358. Footnote 399: Codinus, p. 86. Footnote 400: _John of Ephesus_: translation by R. Payne Smith. Footnote 401: See illustration facing p. 96, for copy of the inscription with its errors in orthography. Footnote 402: Theophanes, p. 589. Footnote 403: _Ibid._, pp. 634, 635. The tax was called “dikeraton,” because it was equal to two keratia (1_s._ ½_d._), or one-twelfth of a nomisma (12_s._ 6_d._). Cf. Finlay, _History of the Byzantine Empire_, i. pp. 37, 38. Footnote 404: The date of her death is not known. Muralt is mistaken in saying that she died in 750. The Maria who died in that year was the second wife of Constantine Copronymus; not the widow, as Muralt has it, of Leo III. Cf. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Consple., p. 73. Footnote 405: _Proceedings of the Greek Literary Syllogos of Consple._, vol. xvi., 1885: _Archæological Supplement_, pp. 34, 35. Footnote 406: _Proceedings of the Greek Literary Syllogos of Consple._, vol. xvi., 1885: _Archæological Supplement_, p. 30. Footnote 407: Leo Diaconus, pp. 175, 176. Footnote 408: Paspates, pp. 46, 47. Footnote 409: Cedrenus, vol. ii. pp. 500, 503, 504. Footnote 410: Cinnamus, p. 274. Footnote 411: Nicetas Chon., pp. 414, 415. Footnote 412: Pachymeres, vol. i. pp. 186, 187. Footnote 413: Nicephorus Greg., vii. p. 275. Footnote 414: See below, p. 126. Footnote 415: Nicephorus Greg., xiv. pp. 694-696. Footnote 416: Nicephorus Greg., xiv. p. 711. Footnote 417: See above, pp. 70, 71. Footnote 418: Paspates, p. 59. Footnote 419: Paspates, p. 45. Footnote 420: Compare Paspates, pp. 54, 55, with Mordtmann, p. 14. Footnote 421: