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remarks made by Gyllius, without an honourable 
acknowledgment of their author, those observations 
may possibly be due to the higher autliority of 
Gyllius himself. A convincing testimony of the 
disregard shewn tr» the Fine Arts by the Roman 
soldiers, in the conquest of a city, is afforded in 
the well-known history of the capture of . Corinth 
by the Consul Mummius ; but the ravages com- 
mitted in Constantinople by the Christian armies in 
the beginning of the thirteenth century have been 
studiously withheld from observation. Nicetas 
Choniates, who was present when the barbarians, 
under Baldwyn earl of Flanders, took the city by 
Uorm (a. d. 1205), left an enumeration of the 
noble statues they destroyed : but this part of his 
work is not to be found in any of the printed 
editions of that historian ; having been, perhaps, 
fraudulently suppressed ^ It is however preserved 
in a MS. Code of Nicetas, which was given to the 
Bodleian Library at Oxford by Sir Thomas Roe, 
Bart, upon his return from Constantinople in l62S, 
after being Ambassador from the King of Great 
Britain to the Ottoman Porte. The Rev. George 
Adam Browne, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, 
(3) " It was perhaps designedly omitted," (says Mr. Harris,) " through 
.fraud, or shame, or both." See Harrises Philological Enquiries, Part III, 
chap. 5. 2>' ^02. Lond.nbl. 
