[BH] P. 86, l. 33. “Alas!” is a weak translation of the ejaculation, Wa!
[BI] P. 87, l. 7. “In the kingdom of Burgundy we find the title patricius as that of an official who governed the part of Provence which was attached to Burgundy and also appears to have held the chief military command in that kingdom,” Pfister in Cambridge Medieval History, II, p. 137.
[BJ] P. 91, l. 10. Gaganus (Khan), not a proper name.
[BK] P. 93, l. 34. Cf. Gregory’s own experience to illustrate this, Introd., pp. [xi-xii], [xx].
[BL] P. 95, c. 40. This chapter, summarized because outside of the main interest of the narrative, has been examined as a test of Gregory’s information as to the Eastern empire. The information is found valuable though not exact. A. Carrière in Annuaire de l’école pratique des hautes études, 1898.
[BM] P. 95, c. 41. The Lombards entered Italy from the northeast in 568. Their first invasion of Gaul from Italy and the defeat of the patrician Amatus took place in 569. The most complete account of these events is given by Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum, Lib. II, edition by Bethmann und Waitz (Mon. Germ. Hist.), 1878.
[BN] P. 96, l. 31. The Saxons had accompanied the Lombards in their original invasion of Italy. They were now proposing to return to their former homes by another route.
[BO] P. 98, l. 6. Ex hoc quasi honoratus habitus. “Being regarded in consequence of this as in a sense honoratus.” Honoratus here seems to be used in a general meaning rather than in the technical one of a man who holds or has held high office. Cf. Du Cange, Art., Honorati.
[BP] P. 98, l. 14. Verg. Aen. III, 56, 57.
[BQ] P. 98, l. 17. Judex loci. The vicarius or subordinate of the Count.