Note 111 — BOOK XI.

Nicetas gives a sufficiently long description of this statue of Pallas.—See the History of Isaac Angelus, chap. iii. This statue was thirty feet high; its eyes, says the Greek historian, were turned towards the south, so that those who were ignorant of the science of angles considered she was looking towards the West, and that she invited the nations from the north of Europe to come to the shores of the Bosphorus.