conceive Gibbon to be right--M.] [Footnote 29: Shaw (Travels, p.

220) most accurately represents the manners of the Bedoweens and Kabyles, the last of whom, by their language, are the remnant of the Moors; yet how changed--how civilized are these modern savages!--provisions are plenty among them and bread is common.] [Footnote 30: By Procopius it is styled a lyre; perhaps harp would have been more national.

The instruments of music are thus distinguished by Venantius Fortunatus:-- Romanusque lyra tibi plaudat, Barbarus harpa.] [Footnote 31: Herodotus elegantly describes the strange effects of grief in another royal captive, Psammetichus of Egypt, who wept at the lesser and was silent at the greatest of his calamities, (l.iii.c.

14.) In the interview of Paulus Aemilius and Perses, Belisarius might study his part; but it is probable that he never read either Livy or Plutarch; and it is certain that his generosity did not need a tutor.] Their contempt was soon justified by a new example of a vulgar truth; that flattery adheres to power, and envy to superior merit.

The chiefs of the Roman army presumed to think themselves the rivals of a hero.
Their private despatches maliciously affirmed, that the conqueror of Africa, strong in his reputation and the public love, conspired to seat himself on the throne of the Vandals.