FOOTNOTES
[66] [This story of the feud between Boniface and Aëtius was the subject of a severe onslaught by Freeman, who calls it “the Procopian legend.” Hodgkin, however, thinks that it “has still a reasonable claim to be accepted as history.” Italy and her Invaders, Vol. I, pp. 889-898.]
[67] [See Procopius de Bell. Vandal. I. 1. c. 4, p. 186. Valentinian published several humane laws, to relieve the distress of his Numidian and Mauretanian subjects; he discharged them, in a great measure, from the payment of their debts, reduced their tribute to one-eighth, and gave them a right of appeal from the provincial magistrates to the prefect of Rome.]
[68] [The place which we now call Châlons was probably under the Romans named Duro-Catalaunum. It was the chief place of the Catalauni, a tribe who dwelt next to the Suessiones. In Roman miles (10 of which are about equal to 9 English), and by the Roman roads, Châlons was 170 miles distant from Metz, and 51 from Troyes.[c]]
Roman Terra-cotta Figures
