[Footnote 12: See Nicephorus Gregoras, (l. ix. 6, 7, 8, 10,
14, l. x. c. 1.) The historian had tasted of the prosperity,
and shared the retreat, of his benefactor; and that
friendship which "waits or to the scaffold or the cell,"
should not lightly be accused as "a hireling, a prostitute
to praise." ]