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Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque

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90 GUALTERT MAPES [Distinc. II,<br />

lis in arundineto per medium miserorum irrumpit, vicum reliiiquens.<br />

Quocunque graditur cedunt igitur et ceeduntur inclusi, et quia nee<br />

spes est victis nee timor victoribusj dedignantur persequi. regemque<br />

revocat Gado, vocantur ad pacem qui bellum attulerant, et ac-<br />

ceptis a rege navibus mortuos suos Romam secum sepeliendos re-<br />

vehunt.<br />

<strong>De</strong> Androneo imjjeratore Constmitinopolitano. xviii.<br />

Regnantibus Lodovico grosso * in Gallia, Henrico primo in<br />

Anglia, imperabat Constantinopolitanis Andronius, duobus filiis<br />

praeclarus, Andronio et Manuele.f Misso autem a patre suo in<br />

expeditionem Andronio et ibi commorante, concessit in fata pater.<br />

Occupavit ergo Manuel imperium illicite, quia junior, reversumque<br />

reppulit Andronium, qui per provincias et civitates querelara tantse<br />

deferens injuriee contra Manuelem fere dimidium armavit orbem,<br />

obtinuissetque adversus eum, sed Manuel thesauri prodigus et<br />

avarus honoris, sciens Grtecos molles et foemineos, loquaces et<br />

dolosos, nulliusque contra hostes fidei vel virtutis, pro tempore<br />

sibi utiliter usus est, eis efFusis copiis et simulatis promissis, in-<br />

duxitque viritim quasi ad ipsorum tutelam et personarum salutem<br />

cismontanos, pro ipsis scilicet periculis objiciendos, et, cum<br />

nullatenus parceretur pecuniae, famelici per turmas advolantes replebant<br />

terram, et pedetentim ingressi toto se cursu in gentem<br />

magnam perficiunt. Victor igitur eorum opera Manuel et ope,<br />

* Louis VI., who ascended the throne of Manuel, was made Emperor in 1180,<br />

of France in the year 1108. and it was to him that Agnes, daughter of<br />

t <strong>Mapes</strong> appears to have been ill in- Louis le Jeune of France, was affianced in<br />

formed concerning the affairs of the East- that year, and sent to Constantinople,<br />

ern Empire, and he has fallen into much Andronicus, the cousin of the Emperor<br />

confusion in the present chapter. Alexis, Manuel, was associated with him in the<br />

the first of the family of the Comneni, was empire in 1183, and, having caused him<br />

succeeded on the throne of Constantinople to be murdered the same year, succeeded<br />

by his eldest son John in 1118, whose as sole emperor, and married the French<br />

second son Manuel succeeded on his death princess Agnes,<br />

in 1 143. The second Alexis, the only son

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