Reported in Doukas, Historia Turco-Byzantina, ch. 37, sect. 10; Harry Magoulias, Decline and Fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1975) p. 210. The attribution is probably wrong; see Kenneth M. Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204–1571, Vol. 2: The Fifteenth Century (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1978) pp. 104–105, esp. note 91 — Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 6 (1782; ed. H. H. Milman, 1845) ch. 68: "The Latins were the mosthttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Loukas_Notaras