[Footnote 4: After an interval of twelve years, from the
conclusion of Pachymer, Cantacuzenus takes up the pen; and
his first book (c. 1 - 59, p. 9 - 150) relates the civil
war, and the eight last years of the elder Andronicus. The
ingenious comparison with Moses and Caesar is fancied by his
French translator, the president Cousin.]