the infidels of the East opened a more splendid field of
glory and conquest. [96]

[Footnote 88: The royalty of Robert, either promised or bestowed by the
pope, (Anna, l. i. p. 32,) is sufficiently confirmed by the Apulian, (l.
iv. p. 270.) --Romani regni sibi promisisse coronam Papa ferebatur.
Nor can I understand why Gretser, and the other papal advocates, should
be displeased with this new instance of apostolic jurisdiction.]

[Footnote 89: See Homer, Iliad, B. (I hate this pedantic mode of
quotation by letters of the Greek alphabet) 87, &c. His bees are the
image of a disorderly crowd: their discipline and public works seem to
be the ideas of a later age, (Virgil. Aeneid. l. i.)]

[Footnote 90: Gulielm. Appulus, l. v. p. 276.) The admirable port of
Brundusium was double; the outward harbor was a gulf covered by an
island, and narrowing by degrees, till it communicated by a small gullet
with the inner harbor, which embraced the city on both sides. Caesar and
nature have labored for its ruin; and against such agents what are the
feeble efforts of the Neapolitan government? (Swinburne's Travels in the
Two Sicilies, vol. i. p. 384-390.]

[Footnote 91: William of Apulia (l. v. p. 276) describes the victory of
the Normans, and forgets the two previous defeats, which are diligently
recorded by Anna Comnena, (l. vi. p. 159, 160, 161.) In her turn, she
invents or magnifies a fourth action, to give the Venetians revenge and
rewards. Their own feelings were far different, since they deposed their
doge, propter excidium stoli, (Dandulus in Chron in Muratori, Script.
Rerum Italicarum, tom. xii. p. 249.)]

[Footnote 92: The most authentic writers, William of Apulia. (l.
v. 277,) Jeffrey Malaterra, (l. iii. c. 41, p. 589,) and Romuald of
Salerno, (Chron. in Muratori, Script. Rerum Ital. tom. vii.,) are
ignorant of this crime, so apparent to our countrymen William of
Malmsbury (l. iii. p. 107) and Roger de Hoveden, (p. 710, in Script.
post Bedam) and the latter can tell, how the just Alexius married,
crowned, and burnt alive, his female accomplice. The English historian
is indeed so blind, that he ranks Robert Guiscard, or Wiscard, among the
knights of Henry I, who ascended the throne fifteen years after the duke
of Apulia's death.]

[Footnote 93: The joyful Anna Comnena scatters some flowers over the
grave of an enemy, (Alexiad, l. v. p. 162-166;) and his best praise
is the esteem and envy of William the Conqueror, the sove