24/31 32-36, edition in 12mo.,) and the judicious reflections of Polybius (tom.i.l.iv.p. 466, edit Gronov.)] [Footnote 48: The speech of Gregory to the Lombard is finely composed by Sigonius, (de Regno Italiae, l.iii.Opera, tom.ii.p. 173,) who imitates the license and the spirit of Sallust or Livy.] [Footnote 49: The Venetian historians, John Sagorninus, (Chron. 13,) and the doge Andrew Dandolo, (Scriptores Rer.Ital.tom.xii. |