[Footnote 9: See Nicephorus Gregoras, l. viii. c. 6. The
younger Andronicus complained, that in four years and four
months a sum of 350,000 byzants of gold was due to him for
the expenses of his household, (Cantacuzen l. i. c. 48.) Yet
he would have remitted the debt, if he might have been
allowed to squeeze the farmers of the revenue]