[Footnote 42: Theophylact and Theophanes seem ignorant of
the conspiracy and avarice of Maurice. These charges, so
unfavorable to the memory of that emperor, are first
mentioned by the author of the Paschal Chronicle, (p. 379,
280;) from whence Zonaras (tom. ii. l. xiv. p. 77, 78) has
transcribed them. Cedrenus (p. 399) has followed another
computation of the ransom.]