Note 081
From Chapter 56 of the Decline & Fall

The epistle itself (Alexias, l. iii. p. 93, 94, 95) well deserves to be read. There is one expression,
which Ducange does not understand. I have endeavoured to grope out a tolerable meaning:
is a golden crown; is explained by Simon Portius (in Lexico Graeco-Barbar.), by a flash of lightning.