[Footnote 28: Of the xiii books of Pachymer, the first six
(as the ivth and vth of Nicephorus Gregoras) contain the
reign of Michael, at the time of whose death he was forty
years of age. Instead of breaking, like his editor the Pere
Poussin, his history into two parts, I follow Ducange and
Cousin, who number the xiii. books in one series.]