ed the humiliating submission. Godfrey
shamed him into this sacrifice for the common good by offering to
surrender himself Wilken, vol. i. p. 104.--M.]

[Footnote 59: The Familiae Dalmaticae of Ducange are meagre and
imperfect; the national historians are recent and fabulous, the Greeks
remote and careless. In the year 1104 Coloman reduced the maritine
country as far as Trau and Saloma, (Katona, Hist. Crit. tom. iii. p.
195-207.)]

[Footnote 60: Scodras appears in Livy as the capital and fortress of
Gentius, king of the Illyrians, arx munitissima, afterwards a Roman
colony, (Cellarius, tom. i. p. 393, 394.) It is now called Iscodar, or
Scutari, (D'Anville, Geographie Ancienne, tom. i. p. 164.) The sanjiak
(now a pacha) of Scutari, or Schendeire, was the viiith under the
Beglerbeg of Romania, and furnished 600 soldiers on a revenue of 78,787
rix dollars, (Marsigli, Stato Militare del Imperio Ottomano, p. 128.)]

[Footnote 61: In Pelagonia castrum haereticum..... spoliatum cum suis
habi tatoribus igne combussere. Nec id eis injuria contigit: quia
illorum detestabilis sermo et cancer serpebat, jamque circumjacentes
regiones suo pravo dogmate foedaverat, (Robert. Mon. p. 36, 37.) After
cooly relating the fact, the Archbishop Baldric adds, as a praise, Omnes
siquidem illi viatores, Judeos, haereticos, Saracenos aequaliter habent
exosos; quos omnes appellant inimicos Dei, (p. 92.)]

[Footnote 62: (Alexiad. l. x. p. 288.)]

[Footnote 63: This Oriental pomp is extravagant in a count of
Vermandois; but the patriot Ducange repeats with much complacency (Not.
ad Alexiad. p. 352, 353. Dissert. xxvii. sur Joinville, p. 315) the
passages of Matthew Paris (A.D. 1254) and Froissard, (vol. iv. p. 201,)
which style the king of France rex regum, and chef de tous les rois
Chretiens.]

[Footnote 631: Hugh was taken at Durazzo, and sent by land to
Constantinople Wilken--M.]

In some oriental tale I have read the fable of a shepherd, who was
ruined by the accomplishment of his own wishes: he had prayed for water;
the Ganges was turned into his grounds, and his flock and cottage were
swept away by the inundation. Such was the fortune, or at least the
apprehension of the Greek emperor Alexius Comnenus, whose name has
already appeared in this history, and whose conduct is so differently
represented by his daughter Anne, [64] and by the Latin writers. [65]
In the council of Placentia, his ambassadors had solicited a moderate
succor, perh