APPENDIX, NO II. 42i 
dictionis aemulatione, in salebras saep^ incidit, et 
duris, ne ineptis dicam, utitur metophoris ; in 
prooemio praesertim, ubi cumprimis disertus videri 
cupit : quod si totam historiam simili oratione invol- 
vissef, in lalomias ire, qiuim molestiis conversionis 
conjliclari maluissem.' Now what IVolfius has 
said of the prooemium, is very true of the Jragment 
I have translated, and of whose existence JVolfius 
was ignorant. By the way, both Harris and Gibbon 
are mistaken in supposing that this narrative 
of Nicetas, which is extant in a MS. copy in the 
Bodleian Library^ was first pubHshed by Fabri- 
cius, in the sixth volume of his Bibliotheca Grceca, 
anno 1714; since it first appeared in Banduri's 
Antiquities, anno 171I) together with a Latiii 
translation, and some notes. Bauduri mentions 
that the fragment exists also in a MS. in the Library 
of the Vatican.''' 
TRANSLATION OF A FRAGMENT 
OF 
NICETAS THE CHONIATE, 
The Piev. G. A. BROU'XE, M.J. Fellow of Trin/li/ College, Ca.ubrid-e- 
" FROM the very commencement', they [the Latin.);] 
displayed their national covetousuebs ; and struck out a new 
(2) Iq the original, T^utt/ivy or the line which marked the barrier or 
starting-place in the Hippodrome. 
