The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire 11
The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire 11
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
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(89) Villehardouin, N** 133 — 135. Inftead 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, aoo to eachprieft and Digitized by VjOOQIC OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. aij fand pounds fterling ; nor can I better appre- ciate the value of that fum in the public and private tranfaftions of the age, than by defining it as feven times the annual revenue of the kingdom of England (90). In this great revolution we enjoy th...e Angular Mifcry of felicity of comparing the narratives of Villehar- ^^^ ^r^^«- douin and Nicetas, the oppofite feelings of the mar(hal pf Champagne and the Byzantine fena- tor (91). At the firft view it fhould feem that the wealth of Conftantinople was only trans- ferred from one nation to another ; and that the lofs and forrow of the Greeks is exaftly ba- lanced by the joy and advantage of the Latins. But in the miferable account of war, the gain is never equivalent to the lofs, the pleafure to the pain : the fmiles of the Latins were tran- fient and fallacious ; the Greeks for ever wept over the ruins of their country ; and their real calamities were aggravated by facrilege and mockery.
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