[DP] P. 163, l. 29. To take Riguntha as bride of the king of Spain.
[DQ] P. 164, l. 29. This should be regarded as a tax rather than as a free-will offering. Brunner, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, vol. II, p. 70.
[DR] P. 166, l. 3. See note on p. [133].
[DS] P. 169, l. 30. Nimia excesus abstinentia. The translation of these words is difficult. Excesus may be taken as excisus (ex, caedere). Caedere is frequently used in Gregory’s writings in the sense of flog. The compound however does not appear to be found elsewhere in Gregory, and Bonnet, p. 422, note 1, suggests for excesus, exesus (devoured, consumed), which however does not give a plausible meaning.
[DT] P. 170, l. 1. Eoglogias (eulogiae). Blessed or consecrated bread, not the eucharist. Bingham, Christian Antiquities, vol. V, 186 f.
[DU] P. 171, l. 32. Sallust, Catilina, c. 3.
[DV] P. 173, l. 12 f. See pp. [119], [145].
[DW] P. 175, l. 13. Duke Desiderius had been in the service of Chilperic; he now joined the pretender Gundovald.
[DX] P. 175, l. 30. The occasion is described on pp. [158-160].
[DY] P. 175, c. 14. This chapter furnishes a good example of the way in which their “sacred character” protected legates. The outward symbol of this “character” was a “consecrated wand.” Hist. Franc. VII, 32.