[Footnote 19: Some flowers of rhetoric. By Damascenus is
styled , (Opera, tom. i. p. 623.) Spanheim's Apology for the
Synod of Constantinople (p. 171, &c.) is worked up with
truth and ingenuity, from such materials as he could find in
the Nicene Acts, (p. 1046, &c.) The witty John of Damascus
converts it into slaves of their belly, &c. Opera, tom. i.
p. 806]