[119] [His soldiers sang a song which Vopiscus[c] quotes:
“Mille Sarmatas, mille Francos, semel et semel occidimus
Mille mille mille mille mille Persas quærimus.”
This song which became a street song in Rome is perhaps the first appearance of the name in Roman history.]
[120] [He is also called Hlodowig and Chlodwig, and succeeded his father in 481.]
[121] [Also spelled Hlothehild and Clothildis.]
[122] [Clovis defeated the Alamanni in 496, but not, as is wrongly stated, at Tolbiacum or Zülpich.]
[123] [The absorption of the Burgundian kingdom by the Franks is vaguely reflected in the great German epic, the Nibelungenlied.]
[124] [Henri Martin[w] says that Luco-Fago appears to be the same as Latofao, where a great battle had already been fought in 596, and which is identified with the village of Lafaux between Laon and Soissons.]
[125] [According to Strabo[x] this town, called in Roman times Pompelo, derived its name from Pompey the Great, who rebuilt it in 68 B.C.]