[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