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A play on words in the original — οδ υκ ηνείχετο του φρονήματος (high opinion of oneself and low opinion of others), καὶ μᾶλλον ἐίπεἷν τοῦ καταφρονήματος (positive disregard for others, contempt).

If we assume that George Acropolitan opened his school in the year 1262 after the capture of Constantinople, then Gregory must have been born around 1233.

This refers to the ecclesiastical turmoil that followed the proclamation of the Union of Lions in the East.

This was in 1283.

This refers to the Arsenites and others who were dissatisfied with the elevation of the author to the patriarchal throne and who made every effort to depose him and replace him with their own candidate. These efforts, as we know, were crowned with success. Gregory was indeed forced to abdicate the throne in 1290, and in the same year he died in one of the Constantinople monasteries.

Neither I nor my friends have been able to find this passage in the writings of Plato.

Gregory also finds these qualities in the literary works of Gregory: "with his rich talents and exemplary diligence, he (Gregory), one might say, brought to light and revived the noble musicality that distinguishes Greek compositions, and the Attic-sounding speech, which from time immemorial had been hidden in the depths of oblivion" (Roman History, in Russian translation, p. 155).

The word "writing" in Greek (h epistolh) is feminine.

This is not the place to explain this letter by the circumstances of the time of his time—yes, it must be confessed—and it is not easy to do so. A detailed account of the controversies about the descent of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of which we are speaking here, as well as the attempts to unite the Greek Church with the Latin, are to be found in Fleury (Historie eccles., t XII. Paris, 1781) or in Schreck (Christ. Kirchengeschkhte Fh. XXIX). The agitation of minds against Gregory, caused mainly in the lower clergy of his Τόμος, received both by the emperor Andronicus the elder and by the higher clergy, is told by Pachymerus II. I. John Veccus, who had been the Patriarch of Constantinople before Gregory, but in 1283 was exiled to Prusa, and from 1284 was kept under guard in the castle of St. Gregory, immediately wrote a sharp work against Τόμος–a (S. Fabric. Bibl Graeca XI, § 347 Harl) and this work, which was extremely widespread in Constantinople, caused a great stir among the public there (Pachym. II. 2). For the same purpose he wrote the encyclical referred to here, which, however, is quoted only from Fabricius, who borrowed it from the work of Nicolaus Comnenus Papodopolis, Praenotiones mystagogicae ex jure canonico n. s. w. Patav. 1696. It seems to me that this ἐγκύκλιος ἐπιστολη appeared in the autumn of 1288; it could have contributed not a little to the abdication of Gregory from the throne, which followed in 1289 (note - Mattie).

If the above Assumption regarding the appearance of gramata (Vecca) in the autumn of 1288 is correct; then Veccus, at least from 1284, was in a better economic position than it appears to be in Pachymer 1. 35 (note — Mattie).