1) with the 10,000 of Nicephorus Gregoras, (l.
ix.c.

2;) the one of whom wished to soften, the other to magnify, the hardships of the old emperor.] [Footnote 12: See Nicephorus Gregoras, (l.ix.6, 7, 8, 10, 14, l.x.

c.
1.) The historian had tasted of the prosperity, and shared the retreat, of his benefactor; and that friendship which "waits or to the scaffold or the cell," should not lightly be accused as "a hireling, a prostitute to praise." * Note: But it may be accused of unparalleled absurdity.

He compares the extinction of the feeble old man to that of the sun: his coffin is to be floated like Noah's ark by a deluge of tears .-- M.] [Footnote 121: Prodigies (according to Nic.

Gregoras, p.