[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.