Note 089
Villehardouin, No. 133 - 135. Instead of
400,000, there is a various reading of 500,000. The
Venetians had offered to take the whole booty, and to give
400 marks to each knight, 200 to each priest and horseman,
and 100 to each foot-soldier: they would have been great
losers, (Le Beau, Hist. du. Bas Empire tom. xx. p. 506. I
know not from whence.)]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 60