438 APPENDIX, N" II. 
Romans ' ; — they have massacred and destroyed each other, 
by the favour of Christ towards us, who " scattereth the 
people that dehght in war ;" who has no pleasure in blood ; 
who causes the just man *^ to tread upon i\\Q. Basilisk and 
the Asp,'' and to " trample the lion and the dragon under 
his feet." 
(1) The Byzantine Historians were fond of giving to their country- 
men the appellation of Romans ; as Constantinople had long been the 
seat of Empire, and was considered as a New Rome. 
