Anna Komnene (c. 1083-1153)
“That is the way of all the barbarians: their mouths gape wide for gifts and money, but they have no intention whatever of doing the things for which the money is offered.”
- The Alexiad (Book XIV, section 2) by Anna Komnene, translated by E.R.A. Sewter, (Penguin Classics, 2009).
