28--33,) Acropolita, (c.

88,) Nicephorus Gregoras, (l.iv.

7,) and for the treatment of the subject Latins, Ducange, (l.v.c.30, 31.)] The recovery of Constantinople was celebrated as the aera of a new empire: the conqueror, alone, and by the right of the sword, renewed his coronation in the church of St.Sophia; and the name and honors of John Lascaris, his pupil and lawful sovereign, were insensibly abolished.

But his claims still lived in the minds of the people; and the royal youth must speedily attain the years of manhood and ambition.

By fear or conscience, Palaeologus was restrained from dipping his hands in innocent and royal blood; but the anxiety of a usurper and a parent urged him to secure his throne by one of those imperfect crimes so familiar to the modern Greeks.