The crowd might naturally believe, that extreme grief had deprived Gelimer of his senses: but in this mournful state, unseasonable mirth insinuated to more intelligent observers, that the vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

[31] [Footnote 28: Mount Papua is placed by D'Anville (tom.iii.p.92, and Tabul.Imp.Rom.

Occident.) near Hippo Regius and the sea; yet this situation ill agrees with the long pursuit beyond Hippo, and the words of Procopius, (l.

ii.c.4,).

* Note: Compare Lord Mahon, 120.