Their Greek is mingled with many strange and barbarous words, for which Ducange cannot always find a meaning or etymology.] [Footnote 51: See this church and monastery in Ducange, C.P.
Christiana, l.

iv p 182.] [Footnote 52: The history of the Nika sedition is extracted from Marcellinus, (in Chron.,) Procopius, (Persic.l.i.c.

26,) John Malala, (tom.ii.p.

213--218,) Chron.Paschal., (p.

336--340,) Theophanes, (Chronograph.p.