Had he not fallen a victim to the most cruel maltreatment, he might still adorn his humble station.

Then followed struggles for administrative superiority between the popes and the exarchs, culminating in the shameful maltreatment and banishment of Martin I by the emperor Constansan event which the See of Rome could never forget.

"In Pope's terrific maltreatment of the latter simile, it is neither true to mind or eye.

The horrible maltreatment of women in India, which it would be an unpardonable euphuism to call simply ungallant, will be dwelt on in a later chapter.