1--59, p.

9--150) relates the civil war, and the eight last years of the elder Andronicus.

The ingenious comparison with Moses and Caesar is fancied by his French translator, the president Cousin.] [Footnote 5: Nicephorus Gregoras more briefly includes the entire life and reign of Andronicus the elder, (l.vi.c.1, p.

96--291.) This is the part of which Cantacuzene complains as a false and malicious representation of his conduct.] After the example of the first of the Palaeologi, the elder Andronicus associated his son Michael to the honors of the purple; and from the age of eighteen to his premature death, that prince was acknowledged, above twenty-five years, as the second emperor of the Greeks.

[6] At the head of an army, he excited neither the fears of the enemy, nor the jealousy of the court; his modesty and patience were never tempted to compute the years of his father; nor was that father compelled to repent of his liberality either by the virtues or vices of his son.