Note 031 In his genuine or fictitious letter to the count of Flanders, Alexius mingles with the danger of the church, and the relics of saints, the auri et argenti amor, and pulcherrimarum foeminarum voluptas, p. 476;) as if, says the indignant Guibert, the Greek women were handsomer than those of France.]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 58