Note 028
The introduction of the Paulicians into Italy
and France is amply discussed by Muratori (Antiquitat.
Italiae Medii Aevi, tom. v. dissert. lx. p. 81 - 152) and
Mosheim, (p. 379 - 382, 419 - 422.) Yet both have overlooked
a curious passage of William the Apulian, who clearly
describes them in a battle between the Greeks and Normans,
A.D. 1040, (in Muratori, Script. Rerum Ital. tom. v. p. 256:
)
Cum Graecis aderant quidam, quos pessimus error,
Fecerat amentes, et ab ipso nomen habebant.
But he is so ignorant of their doctrine as to make them a
kind of Sabellians or Patripassians.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 54