[Footnote 38: Since Scanderbeg died A.D. 1466, in the lxiiid
year of his age, (Marinus, l. xiii. p. 370,) he was born in
1403; since he was torn from his parents by the Turks, when
he was novennis, (Marinus, l. i. p. 1, 6,) that event must
have happened in 1412, nine years before the accession of
Amurath II., who must have inherited, not acquired the
Albanian slave. Spondanus has remarked this inconsistency,
A.D. 1431, No. 31, 1443, No. 14.]