FOOTNOTES:
[1] Book III. ii. 7 ff., iv. 29 ff.
[2] Odoacer was defeated and shut up in Ravenna by Theoderic in 489, surrendered to him in 493, and was put to death in the same year. His independent rule (τυραννσ) therefore lasted thirteen years.
[3] Meaning the whole Adriatic; cf. chap. [xv. 16], note.
[4] Modern Cesena.
[5] He means that an estuary (πορθμὁς) is formed by the rising tide in the morning, and the water flows out again as the tide falls in the evening.
[6] From the first until the third quarter.
[7] See note in Bury's edition of Gibbon, Vol. IV. p. 180, for an interesting account of this event.
[8] This is a general observation; the title "rex" was current among the barbarians to indicate a position inferior to that of a βασιλεὑς or "imperator"; cf. [VI. xiv. 38].
[9] Probably a reminiscence of the "princeps senatus" of classical times.