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Updated: July 22, 2026

But a contrary effect must have been produced by a new edition of the lives of the saints, which the great logothete, or chancellor of the empire, was directed to prepare; and the dark fund of superstition was enriched by the fabulous and florid legends of Simon the Metaphrast.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5