[Footnote 4: Philelphus, by a Latin ode, requested and
obtained the liberty of his wife's mother and sisters from
the conqueror of Constantinople. It was delivered into the
sultan's hands by the envoys of the duke of Milan.
Philelphus himself was suspected of a design of retiring to
Constantinople; yet the orator often sounded the trumpet of
holy war, (see his Life by M. Lancelot, in the Memoires de
l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom. x. p. 718, 724, &c.)]