[746]. Socrates, ii. c. xx.; Theophanes, p. 70.

[747]. Du Cange, ut supra.

[748]. Ibid., vi. c. xxi.

[749]. Miklosich et Muller, iii. p. 88.

[750]. Ibid., ut supra.

[751]. According to Du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis, ad vocem, from Drungus, “company of soldiers.” The word is connected with the German “Gedrung” and the English “throng.”

[752]. Anna Comn., vi. p. 286; cf. Luitprandus, as quoted by Du Cange, in Anna Comn., vol. ii. p. 544.

[753]. Tafel und Thomas, ii. pp. 27, 28: “Via quæ dicitur De Longaria, extra murum civitatis CP.”

[754]. Ibid., pp. 11, 60: “Scala de Drongario.”

[755]. Theophanes, p. 281.