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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LXII: Greek Emperors Of Nice And Constantinople
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22--46.) He quotes an Arragonese history, which I have read with pleasure, and which the Spaniards extol as a model of style and composition, (Expedicion de los Catalanes y Arragoneses contra Turcos y Griegos: Barcelona, 1623 in quarto: Madrid, 1777, in octavo.) Don Francisco de Moncada Conde de Ossona, may imitate Caesar or Sallust; he may transcribe the Greek or Italian contemporaries: but he never quotes his authorities, and I cannot discern any national records of the exploits of his countrymen.

* Note: Ramon de Montaner, one of the Catalans, who accompanied Roger de Flor, and who was governor of Gallipoli, has written, in Spanish, the history of this band of adventurers, to which he belonged, and from which he separated when it left the Thracian Chersonese to penetrate into Macedonia and Greece .-- G .-- --The autobiography of Ramon de Montaner has been published in French by M.
Buchon, in the great collection of Memoires relatifs a l'Histoire de France.

I quote this edition .-- M.] After some ages of oblivion, Greece was awakened to new misfortunes by the arms of the Latins.


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