itles of Honor. It
seems, from the 1st book of Herodotus, to be of Persian origin.]

[Footnote 50: The two embassies of Liutprand to Constantinople, all that
he saw or suffered in the Greek capital, are pleasantly described
by himself (Hist. l. vi. c. 1-4, p. 469-471. Legatio ad Nicephorum
Phocam, p. 479-489.)]

[Footnote 51: Among the amusements of the feast, a boy balanced, on his
forehead, a pike, or pole, twenty-four feet long, with a cross bar of
two cubits a little below the top. Two boys, naked, though cinctured,
(campestrati,) together, and singly, climbed, stood, played, descended,
&c., ita me stupidum reddidit: utrum mirabilius nescio, (p. 470.) At
another repast a homily of Chrysostom on the Acts of the Apostles was
read elata voce non Latine, (p. 483.)]

[Footnote 52: Gala is not improbably derived from Cala, or Caloat, in
Arabic a robe of honor, (Reiske, Not. in Ceremon. p. 84.)]

[Footnote 53: It is explained, (Codin, c. 7. Ducange, Gloss. Graec. tom.
i. p. 1199.)]

[Footnote 54: (Ceremon. c. 75, p. 215.) The want of the Latin 'V'
obliged the Greeks to employ their 'beta'; nor do they regard quantity.
Till he recollected the true language, these strange sentences might
puzzle a professor.]

[Footnote 55: (Codin.p. 90.) I wish he had preserved the words, however
corrupt, of their English acclamation.]

[Footnote 56: For all these ceremonies, see the professed work of
Constantine Porphyrogenitus with the notes, or rather dissertations,
of his German editors, Leich and Reiske. For the rank of standing
courtiers, p. 80, not. 23, 62; for the adoration, except on Sundays,
p. 95, 240, not. 131; the processions, p. 2, &c., not. p. 3, &c.;
the acclamations passim not. 25 &c.; the factions and Hippodrome, p.
177-214, not. 9, 93, &c.; the Gothic games, p. 221, not. 111; vintage,
p. 217, not 109: much more information is scattered over the work.]

[Footnote 57: Et privato Othoni et nuper eadem dicenti nota adulatio,
(Tacit. Hist. 1,85.)]

The princes of the North, of the nations, says Constantine, without
faith or fame, were ambitious of mingling their blood with the blood of
the Caesars, by their marriage with a royal virgin, or by the nuptials
of their daughters with a Roman prince. [58] The aged monarch, in his
instructions to his son, reveals the secret maxims of policy and pride;
and suggests the most decent reasons for refusing these insolent and
unreasonable demands. Every animal, says the discreet e