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41 But Simonides was not yet discouraged. He soon came before the public with a more
startling discovery than any he had yet made. He said he possessed a MS. of the time of the
Franco-Venetian rule of Constantinople. In this MS. a monk, lie said, gave an account of many
valuable MSS. buried by the Comneni, in order to hide them from the Latins. The places where
they were buried were accurately defined along the Bosphorus; and he was ready to disinter a MS.
in a Monastery of the Prince Islands, containing the Acts of the first Apostolic Council of Antioch.
Simonides asked leave to dig from the Turkish Government, and from the Patriarch, Anthimos;
and when this was refused, he spread a story that, like the Chalif Omar, the Patriarch had said to
him: ‘The
Acts of the Council of Antioch are superfluous; they either confirm or contradict the
Canons of the Greek Church, and in either case it will be useless to dig.*