The English Village Community / Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

by Frederic Seebohm

[401.] See Codex Theodosianus, vii. tit. xx. s. 9, A.D. 366.

[402.] In Cod. Theod. vii. xx. s. 10, A.D. 369, 'læti' are mentioned; and in s. 12, A.D. 400, 'lætus Alamannus Sarmata, vagus, vel filius veterani,' are mentioned together.

[403.] Compare the Welsh aillt, or alltud (Saxon althud, foreigner), and the Aldiones of the Lombardic laws, with the Læti.

[404.] B. iv. c. iii. s. 4.

[405.] Germania, 28.

[406.] The importance of the Limes or Pfahlgraben as marking the extent of Roman rule to the east of the Rhine, has recently been fully realised. See Wilhelm Arnold's Deutsche Urzeit, c. iii. 'Der Pfahlgraben und seine Bedeutung.' See also 'Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen' (Berlin, 1882), Abth. 48, c. viii. And Mr. Hodgkin's interesting paper on 'The Pfahlgraben' in Archæologia Æliana, pt. 25, vol. ix. new series. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1882.

[407.] Gibbon, c. ix., quoting Dion. Cas., lxxi. and lxxii.

[408.] Zosimus, i. p. 68. Excerpta, Mon. Brit. lxxv.

[409.] Wietersheim's Geschichte der Völkerwanderung (Dahn), i. 245. Guerard's Polypt. d'Irminon, i. p. 252.

[410.] 'Tuo, Maximiane Auguste, nutu, Nerviorum et Treverorum arva jacentia Lætus postliminio restitutus et receptus in leges Francus excoluit.' Eumen. Panegyr. Constantio Cæs., c. 21. Guerard, i. 250.