[Footnote 15: By Cedrenus, Zonaras, Glycas, and Manasses,
the origin of the Aconoclcasts is imprinted to the caliph
Yezid and two Jews, who promised the empire to Leo; and the
reproaches of these hostile sectaries are turned into an
absurd conspiracy for restoring the purity of the Christian
worship, (see Spanheim, Hist. Imag. c. 2.)]