i.,) and Theophanes, (p.

344,) who talks of Pharaoh's numbering the male children of Israel.

This mode of taxation was familiar to the Saracens; and, most unluckily for the historians, it was imposed a few years afterwards in France by his patron Louis XIV.] [Footnote 39: See the Liber Pontificalis of Agnellus, (in the Scriptores Rerum Italicarum of Muratori, tom.ii.pars i.,) whose deeper shade of barbarism marks the difference between Rome and Ravenna.

Yet we are indebted to him for some curious and domestic facts--the quarters and factions of Ravenna, (p.

154,) the revenge of Justinian II, (p.