The Greeks long remembered with terror the Catalan domination. A Greek girl, in a mediæval ballad, prays that her seducer may “fall into the hands of the Catalans”; even a generation ago the name of Catalan was used as a term of reproach in Attica and in Eubœa, in Akarnania, Messenia, Lakonia, and at Tripolitsa. Yet, as we have seen, the Greeks did not raise a finger to assist a French restoration when they had the chance, while there are several instances of Greeks rendering valuable aid to the Catalans against the men of Navarre. Harsher they may have been than the French, but they probably gained their bad name before they settled down in Attica, and became more staid and more tolerant as they became respectable. In our own time they have found admirers and apologists among their own countrymen, who are justly proud of the fact that the most famous city in the world was for two generations governed by the sons of Cataluña. And in the history of Athens, where nothing can lack interest, they, too, are entitled to a place. AUTHORITIES 1. _I Libri Commemoriali._ Vols. I-VI. Ed. by R. Predelli. Venice: Reale Deputazione Veneta di Storia Patria, 1876-1903. 2. _Libro de las Fechos et Conquistas del Principado de la Morea._ Ed. by A. Morel-Fatio. Geneva, 1885. 3. _La Espedición y Dominación de los Catalanes en Oriente; Los Navarros en Grecia._ By D. Antonio Rubió y Lluch. Barcelona, 1887. 4. _Sul Dominio dei Ducati di Atene e Neopatria dei Re di Sicilia._ By F. Guardione. Palermo, 1895. 5. _Chronik des Edlen En Ramon Muntaner._ Ed. Karl Lanz. Stuttgart, 1844. 6. Οἱ Καταλάνοι ἐν τῇ Ἄνατολῇ (_The Catalans in the East_). By E. I. Stamatiades. Athens, 1869. 7. _Diplomatarium Veneto-Levantinum._ Ed. G. M. Thomas and R. Predelli. Venice, 1880-1899. 8. _De Historiæ Ducatus Atheniensis Fontibus._ By K. Hopf. 1852. 9. _Catalunya a Grecia._ By D. Antonio Rubió y Lluch. Barcelona, 1906. 10. Ἔγγραφα ἀναφερόμενα εἰς τὴν μεσαιωνικὴν Ἱστορία τῶν Ἀθηνῶν (_Documents relating to the Mediæval History of Athens_). Ed. Sp. P. Lampros. Athens, 1906. And other works. APPENDIX THE FRANKISH INSCRIPTION AT KARDITZA