FOOTNOTES:

[37] A leading belief of Arian Christology.

[38] The Arians.

[39] The square brackets indicate where less significant sections of the text have been summarized.

[40] The Pyramids, apparently.

[41] Gregory’s geography is mixed.

[42] Psalms cxxxv. 13.

[43] Gregory’s purpose is not realized.

[44] Jerome’s Chronicle was the source for the history summarized here. It is clear that Gregory had not much sense of the historical perspective in spite of a list of names which might impress his audience. He passes directly from “Servius the sixth king of Rome” to Julius Caesar the founder of the empire.

[45] Gregory’s paternal grandmother was Leocadia, who traced her descent from Vectius Epagatus. See Historia Francorum ed. Arndt, Introd. p. 4, in Monumenta Germaniae Historica. The story related above was from Gregory’s family tradition.

[46] In Hungary.

HERE BEGIN THE CHAPTERS OF THE SECOND BOOK

1. The episcopate of Bricius.
2. The Vandals and the persecution of the Christians under them.
3. Cyrola the heretics’ bishop and the holy martyrs.
4. The persecution under Athanaric.
5. Bishop Aravatius and the Huns.
6. St. Stephen’s church in the city of Metz.
7. The wife of Ætius.
8. What the historians have written about Ætius.
9. What the same say of the Franks.
10. What the prophets of the Lord write about the images of the nations.
11. The emperor Avitus.
12. King Childeric and Egidius.
13. The episcopate of Venerandus and of Rusticus in Auvergne.
14. The episcopate of Eustochius at Tours and of Perpetuus; St. Martin’s church.
15. The church of St. Simphorianus.
16. Bishop Namatius and the church at Clermont.
17. His wife and St. Stephen’s church.
18. How Childeric went to Orleans and Odoacer to Angers.
19. War between the Saxons and Romans.
20. Duke Victor.
21. Bishop Eparchius.
22. Bishop Sidonius.
23. The holiness of bishop Sidonius and the visitation of the divine vengeance for the wrongs done to him.
24. The famine in Burgundy and Ecdicius.
25. The persecutor Euvarege.
26. Death of the holy Perpetuus and the episcopates of Volusianus and Virus.
27. Clovis becomes king.
28. Clovis marries Clotilda.
29. Death of their first son in his baptismal garments.
30. War with the Alamanni.
31. Clovis’s baptism.
32. War with Gundobad.
33. Killing of Godegisel.
34. How Gundobad wished to be converted.
35. Clovis and Alaric have an interview.
36. Bishop Quintian.
37. War with Alaric.
38. King Clovis is made patrician.
39. Bishop Licinius.
40. Killing of Sigibert the elder and his son.
41. Killing of Chararic and his son.
42. Killing of Ragnachar and his brothers.
43. Death of Clovis.

HERE END THE CHAPTERS