[Footnote 99: Abulpharagius assigns the viith Dynasty to the
Franks or Romans, the viiith to the Greeks, the ixth to the
Arabs. A tempore Augusti Caesaris donec imperaret Tiberius
Caesar spatio circiter annorum 600 fuerunt Imperatores C. P.
Patricii, et praecipua pars exercitus Romani: extra quod,
conciliarii, scribae et populus, omnes Graeci fuerunt:
deinde regnum etiam Graecanicum factum est, (p. 96, vers.
Pocock.) The Christian and ecclesiastical studies of
Abulpharagius gave him some advantage over the more ignorant
Moslems.]