Note 020
From Chapter 52 of the Decline & Fall

Anna Comnena has partly drawn aside the curtain.

(Alexiad. l. xiii. p. 383).

Elsewhere (l. xi. p. 336) she mentions the property of burning, Leo, in the xix^th chapter of his Tactics (Opera Meursii, tom. vi. p. 843, edit. Lami, Florent. 1745), speaks of the new invention of These are genuine and Imperial testimonies.