ty of the Attic models.

[Footnote 106: See Zonaras (l. xvi. p. 160, 161) and Cedrenus, (p. 549,
550.) Like Friar Bacon, the philosopher Leo has been transformed by
ignorance into a conjurer; yet not so undeservedly, if he be the author
of the oracles more commonly ascribed to the emperor of the same name.
The physics of Leo in Ms. are in the library of Vienna, (Fabricius,
Bibliot. Graec. tom. vi. p 366, tom. xii. p. 781.) Qui serant!]

[Footnote 107: The ecclesiastical and literary character of Photius is
copiously discussed by Hanckius (de Scriptoribus Byzant. p. 269, 396)
and Fabricius.]

[Footnote 108: It can only mean Bagdad, the seat of the caliphs and the
relation of his embassy might have been curious and instructive. But how
did he procure his books? A library so numerous could neither be found
at Bagdad, nor transported with his baggage, nor preserved in his
memory. Yet the last, however incredible, seems to be affirmed by
Photius himself. Camusat (Hist. Critique des Journaux, p. 87-94) gives
a good account of the Myriobiblon.]

[Footnote 109: Of these modern Greeks, see the respective articles in
the Bibliotheca Graeca of Fabricius--a laborious work, yet susceptible
of a better method and many improvements; of Eustathius, (tom. i. p.
289-292, 306-329,) of the Pselli, (a diatribe of Leo Allatius, ad
calcem tom. v., of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, tom. vi. p. 486-509)
of John Stobaeus, (tom. viii., 665-728,) of Suidas, (tom. ix. p.
620-827,) John Tzetzes, (tom. xii. p. 245-273.) Mr. Harris, in his
Philological Arrangements, opus senile, has given a sketch of this
Byzantine learning, (p. 287-300.)]

[Footnote 110: From the obscure and hearsay evidence, Gerard Vossius (de
Poetis Graecis, c. 6) and Le Clerc (Bibliotheque Choisie, tom. xix. p.
285) mention a commentary of Michael Psellus on twenty-four plays
of Menander, still extant in Ms. at Constantinople. Yet such classic
studies seem incompatible with the gravity or dulness of a schoolman,
who pored over the categories, (de Psellis, p. 42;) and Michael has
probably been confounded with Homerus Sellius, who wrote arguments to
the comedies of Menander. In the xth century, Suidas quotes fifty plays,
but he often transcribes the old scholiast of Aristophanes.]

[Footnote 111: Anna Comnena may boast of her Greek style, and Zonaras
her contemporary, but not her flatterer, may add with truth. The
princess was conversant with the artful dialogues of Plato; and h