[Footnote 27: Non audivit, indignum ducens, says the honest
Antoninus; but as the Roman court was afterwards grieved and
ashamed, we find the more courtly expression of Platina, in
animo fuisse pontifici juvare Graecos, and the positive
assertion of Aeneas Sylvius, structam classem &c. (Spond.
A.D. 1453, No. 3.)]