[Footnote 99: In two passages of Nicetas (edit. Paris, p.
360. Fabric. p. 408) the Latins are branded with the lively
reproach and their avarice of brass is clearly expressed.
Yet the Venetians had the merit of removing four bronze
horses from Constantinople to the place of St. Mark,
(Sanuto, Vite del Dogi, in Muratori, Script. Rerum
Italicarum, tom. xxii. p. 534.)]