coratus, inter numerosa obsequia primus
ante pedes regis incederet (Variar. vii. 5.) But this great officer,
(unknown,) exercising no function, was cast down by the modern Greeks to
the xvth rank, (Codin. c. 5, p. 65.)]

[Footnote 42: Nicetas (in Manuel, l. vii. c. 1) defines him. Yet the
epithet was added by the elder Andronicus, (Ducange, tom. i. p. 822,
823.)]

[Footnote 43: From Leo I. (A.D. 470) the Imperial ink, which is still
visible on some original acts, was a mixture of vermilion and cinnabar,
or purple. The emperor's guardians, who shared in this prerogative,
always marked in green ink the indiction and the month. See the
Dictionnaire Diplomatique, (tom. i. p. 511-513) a valuable abridgment.]

[Footnote 44: The sultan sent to Alexius, (Anna Comnena, l. vi. p. 170.
Ducange ad loc.;) and Pachymer often speaks, (l. vii. c. 1, l. xii.
c. 30, l. xiii. c. 22.) The Chiaoush basha is now at the head of 700
officers, (Rycaut's Ottoman Empire, p. 349, octavo edition.)]

[Footnote 45: Tagerman is the Arabic name of an interpreter,
(D'Herbelot, p. 854, 855;), says Codinus, (c. v. No. 70, p. 67.)
See Villehardouin, (No. 96,) Bus, (Epist. iv. p. 338,) and Ducange,
(Observations sur Villehardouin, and Gloss. Graec. et Latin)]

[Footnote 46: A corruption from the Latin Comes stabuli, or the French
Connetable. In a military sense, it was used by the Greeks in the
eleventh century, at least as early as in France.]

[Footnote 47: It was directly borrowed from the Normans. In the
xiith century, Giannone reckons the admiral of Sicily among the great
officers.]

[Footnote 48: This sketch of honors and offices is drawn from George
Cordinus Curopalata, who survived the taking of Constantinople by the
Turks: his elaborate, though trifling, work (de Officiis Ecclesiae et
Aulae C. P.) has been illustrated by the notes of Goar, and the three
books of Gretser, a learned Jesuit.]

Chapter LIII: Fate Of The Eastern Empire.--Part III.

The most lofty titles, and the most humble postures, which devotion has
applied to the Supreme Being, have been prostituted by flattery and fear
to creatures of the same nature with ourselves. The mode of adoration,
[49] of falling prostrate on the ground, and kissing the feet of the
emperor, was borrowed by Diocletian from Persian servitude; but it
was continued and aggravated till the last age of the Greek monarchy.
Excepting only on Sundays, when it was waived, from a motive of
religious p