543.) He seems to write from good materials, which he did not understand.] [Footnote 88: See Zosimus, (l.vi.p.

373,) Orosius, (l.vii.c.40, p.
576,) and the Chronicles.

Gregory of Tours (l.ii.c.9, p.

165, in the second volume of the Historians of France) has preserved a valuable fragment of Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus, whose three names denote a Christian, a Roman subject, and a Semi-Barbarian.] While the peace of Germany was secured by the attachment of the Franks, and the neutrality of the Alemanni, the subjects of Rome, unconscious of their approaching calamities, enjoyed the state of quiet and prosperity, which had seldom blessed the frontiers of Gaul.

Their flocks and herds were permitted to graze in the pastures of the Barbarians; their huntsmen penetrated, without fear or danger, into the darkest recesses of the Hercynian wood.