Codex Carolin.
epist. 36, in Script.Ital.tom.iii.pars ii.p.160.The names of senatus and senator were never totally extinct, (Dissert.Chorograph.p.
216, 217;) but in the middle ages they signified little more than nobiles, optimates, &c., (Ducange, Gloss.
Latin.)] [Footnote 46: See Muratori, Antiquit.
Italiae Medii Aevi, tom.