Note 010
From Chapter 64 of the Decline & Fall


Haithonus, or Aithonus, an Armenian prince, and afterwards a monk of Premontre (Fabric, Bibliot. Lat. Medii Aevi, tom. i. p. 34), dictated in the French language, his book de Tartaris, his old fellow-soldiers. It was immediately translated into Latin, and is inserted in the Novus Orbis of Simon Grynaeus (Basil, 1555, in folio.)

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