[Footnote 93: Nicetas uses very harsh expressions,
(Fragment, apud Fabric. Bibliot. Graec. tom. vi. p. 414.)
This reproach, it is true, applies most strongly to their
ignorance of Greek and of Homer. In their own language, the
Latins of the xiith and xiiith centuries were not destitute
of literature. See Harris's Philological Inquiries, p. iii.
c. 9, 10, 11.]