[Footnote 85: Theophanes (p. 343) specifies those of Sicily
and Calabria, which yielded an annual rent of three talents
and a half of gold, (perhaps 7000l. sterling.) Liutprand
more pompously enumerates the patrimonies of the Roman
church in Greece, Judaea, Persia, Mesopotamia Babylonia,
Egypt, and Libya, which were detained by the injustice of
the Greek emperor, (Legat. ad Nicephorum, in Script. Rerum
Italica rum, tom. ii. pars i. p. 481.)]