[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
CHAPTER LXII: Greek Emperors Of Nice And Constantinople
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and Shakspeare, have borrowed their Theseus _duke_ of Athens.
An ignorant age transfers its own language and manners to the most distant times.] [Footnote 54: The same Constantine gave to Sicily a king, to Russia the _magnus dapifer_ of the empire, to Thebes the _primicerius_; and these absurd fables are properly lashed by Ducange, (ad Nicephor.Greg.
l.
vii.c.
5.) By the Latins, the lord of Thebes was styled, by corruption, the Megas Kurios, or Grand Sire!] [Footnote 55: _Quodam miraculo_, says Alberic.
He was probably received by Michael Choniates, the archbishop who had defended Athens against the tyrant Leo Sgurus, (Nicetas urbs capta, p.
805, ed.
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