50. See Panegyr. Vet. ix. [viii.] 2. Omnibus fere tuis
Comitibus et Ducibus non solum tacite mussantibus, sed etiam
aperte timentibus; contra consilia hominum, contra
Haruspicum monita, ipse per temet liberandae urbis tempus
venisse sentires. The embassy of the Romans is mentioned
only by Zonaras (1. xiii. [c. 1.]), and by Cedrenus (in
Compend. Hist. p. 270 [ed. Paris; vol. i. p. 474, ed.
Bonn]); but those modern Greeks had the opportunity of
consulting many writers which have since been lost, among
which we may reckon the Life of Constantine by Praxagoras.
Photius (p. 63) has made a short extract from that
historical work.