[1] Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire, vol. i. p. 396.

[2] Greg. Tur., ii. 38 (Migne, Patr. Lat., p. 236).

[3] Bouquet, Recueil, tom. iv. p. 59, epist. 15: cf. Gasquet, L'Empire byzantin et la Monarchie franque, p. 165.

[4] Greg. Turon., Hist. Franc., x. 29 (Migne, p. 560): cf. also his Vitae Patrum, 17. Hontheim, Historia diplomatica, i. 47.

[5] Cf. Greg. Turon., v. 3, on the frightful cruelty of Rauching.

[6] Vol. v. p. 262.

[7] S. Greg., Epp. v. 58.

[8] F. H. Dudden, Gregory the Great, ii. 69.

[9] Cf. E. Lavisse, Hist. de France, tome ii. p. 219,

[10] M. Roger, L'Enseignement des lettres classiques d'Ausone à Alcuin, p. 100.