His anonymous historian (de Expedit. Asiat. Fred. I. in Canisii Lection. Antiq. tom. iii. pars ii. p. 511, edit. Basnage) mentions the sermons of the Greek patriarch,
quomodo Graecis injunxerat in remissionem peccatorum peregrinos occidere et delere de terra.
Tagino observes (in Scriptores Freher. tom. i. p. 409, edit. Struv.),
Graeci haereticos nos appellant: clerici et monachi dictis et factis persequuntur.
We may add the declaration of the emperor Baldwin fifteen years afterwards:
Haec est (gens) quae Latinos omnes non hominum nomine, sed canum dignabatur; quorum sanguinem effundere pene inter merita reputabant (Gesta Innocent. III., c. 92, in Muratori, Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. iii. pars i. p. 536).
There may be some exaggeration, but it was as effectual for the action and reaction of hatred.