[Footnote 51: The bells rung! Ockley, vol. i. p. 38.
Yet I much doubt whether this expression can be justified by
the text of Al Wakidi, or the practice of the times. Ad
Graecos, says the learned Ducange (Glossar. med. et infim.
Graecitat. tom. i. p. 774) campanarum usus serius transit et
etiamnum rarissimus est. The oldest example which he can
find in the Byzantine writers is of the year 1040; but the
Venetians pretend that they introduced bells at
Constantinople in the ninth century.]