211,) and that Terracina was usurped by the Greeks.] [Footnote 43: On the extent, population, &c., of the Roman kingdom, the reader may peruse, with pleasure, the Discours Preliminaire to the Republique Romaine of M.de Beaufort, (tom.

i.,) who will not be accused of too much credulity for the early ages of Rome.] [Footnote 44: Quos (Romanos) nos, Longobardi scilicet, Saxones, Franci, Locharingi, Bajoarii, Suevi, Burgundiones, tanto dedignamur ut inimicos nostros commoti, nil aliud contumeliarum nisi Romane, dicamus: hoc solo, id est Romanorum nomine, quicquid ignobilitatis, quicquid timiditatis, quicquid avaritiae, quicquid luxuriae, quicquid mendacii, immo quicquid vitiorum est comprehendentes, (Liutprand, in Legat Script.Ital.

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481.) For the sins of Cato or Tully Minos might have imposed as a fit penance the daily perusal of this barbarous passage.] [Footnote 441: Yet this contumelious sentence, quoted by Robertson (Charles V note 2) as well as Gibbon, was applied by the angry bishop to the Byzantine Romans, whom, indeed, he admits to be the genuine descendants of Romulus .-- M.] [Footnote 45: Pipino regi Francorum, omnis senatus, atque universa populi generalitas a Deo servatae Romanae urbis.