[Footnote 66: For the poverty of the Greek bishops, see a
remarkable passage of Ducas, (c. 31.) One had possessed, for
his whole property, three old gowns, &c. By teaching
one-and-twenty years in his monastery, Bessarion himself had
collected forty gold florins; but of these, the archbishop
had expended twenty-eight in his voyage from Peloponnesus,
and the remainder at Constantinople, (Syropulus, p. 127.)]