"No one was without a share in the grief. In the alleys, in the streets, in the temples, complaints, weeping, lamentations, grief, the groaning of men, the shrieks of women, wounds, rape, captivity, the separation of those most closely united. Nobles wandered about ignominiously, those of venerable age in tears, the rich in poverty. Thus it was in the streets, on the corners, in the temple, in the dens, for no place remained unassailed or defended the suppliants. All places everywhere were filled full of all kinds of crime. Oh, immortal God, how great the afflictions of the men, how great the distress!"
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Alexii Ducae Imperium, chs. 3–4. Account of the Sack of Constantinople, April 1204 — Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History, Vol. III, No. 1: The Fourth Crusade (U of Pennsylvania P, 1896) p. 16; from the Greek text in Recueil des historiens des Croisades, hist. grec. (Paris, 1875) Vol. I, p. 397
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Niketas Choniates
1155 – 1217
Niketas Choniates (Medieval Greek: Νικήτας Χωνιάτης; c. 1150 or 1155 – 1217), whose actual surname was Akominatos (Ἀκομινάτος), was a Byzantine Greek historian and politician. He accompanied his brother Michael to Constantinople from their birthplace Chonae (whence his nickname, Choniates, i.e. "person from Chonae"). Nicetas wrote a history of the Eastern Roman Empire from 1118 to 1207.
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