[176] Nirschl, iii. 534.
[177] Third letter of Pelagius II.; Mansi ix., p. 889: Nefandissima gens.
[178] Attested by St. Gregory of Tours, who heard it from a deacon of his church then at Rome.
[179] Ep. i. 25, p. 514.
[180] Homily xviii. on Ezechiel, tom. i. 1374.
[181] Nahum ii, 11.
[182] Micheas i. 16.
[183] End of the Homilies on Ezechiel, tom. i. 1430.
[184] Quoted by Reumont, ii. 90.
[185] Ep. v. 42, p. 769.