[Footnote 146: Theophanes (in Chronograph. p. 293 (vol. i.
p. 539)) inserts the vague rumours that might reach
Constantinople of the Western conquests of the Arabs; and I
learn from Paul Warnefrid, deacon of Aquileia (de Gestis
Langobard. l. v. c 13), that at this time they sent a fleet
from Alexandria into the Sicilian and African seas.]