[Footnote 49: The Christian name of Sylvester is borrowed
from the Latin calendar. In modern Greek, as a diminutive,
is added to the end of words: nor can any reasoning of
Creyghton, the editor, excuse his changing into Sguropulus,
(Sguros, fuscus,) the Syropulus of his own manuscript, whose
name is subscribed with his own hand in the acts of the
council of Florence. Why might not the author be of Syrian
extraction?]