9) and palace, (vii.

5.) The admiration of strangers is represented as the most rational motive to justify these vain expenses, and to stimulate the diligence of the officers to whom these provinces were intrusted.] [Footnote 35: See the public and private alliances of the Gothic monarch, with the Burgundians, (Var.i.45, 46,) with the Franks, (ii.
40,) with the Thuringians, (iv.

1,) and with the Vandals, (v.

1;) each of these epistles affords some curious knowledge of the policy and manners of the Barbarians.] [Footnote 36: His political system may be observed in Cassiodorus, (Var.iv.l ix.

l,) Jornandes, (c.