[Footnote 61: The caliph granted his privileges,
Amalphitanis viris amicis et utilium introductoribus, (Gesta
Dei, p. 934.) The trade of Venice to Egypt and Palestine
cannot produce so old a title, unless we adopt the laughable
translation of a Frenchman, who mistook the two factions of
the circus (Veneti et Prasini) for the Venetians and
Parisians.]