27/36 Testis omnium gentium, praeterquam Romanorum, absentia mulierum, quae sanctorum apostolorum limina orandi gratia timent visere, cum nonnullas ante dies paucos, hunc audierint conjugatas, viduas, virgines vi oppressisse, (Liutprand, Hist.l.vi.c.6, p.471.See the whole affair of John XII., p. 471-476.)] [Footnote 134: A new example of the mischief of equivocation is the beneficium (Ducange, tom.i.p.617, &c.,) which the pope conferred on the emperor Frederic I., since the Latin word may signify either a legal fief, or a simple favor, an obligation, (we want the word bienfait.) (See Schmidt, Hist. |