[141] A faint remembrance of their ancestors still tormented the Romans; and they beheld with pious indignation the succession of Saxons, Franks, Swabians, and Bohemians, who usurped the purple and prerogatives of the Caesars.
[Footnote 135: For the history of the emperors in Rome and Italy, see Sigonius, de Regno Italiae, Opp.tom.ii., with the Notes of Saxius, and the Annals of Muratori, who might refer more distinctly to the authors of his great collection.] [Footnote 136: See the Dissertations of Le Blanc at the end of his treatise des Monnoyes de France, in which he produces some Roman coins of the French emperors.] [Footnote 137: Romanorum aliquando servi, scilicet Burgundiones, Romanis imperent ?....

Romanae urbis dignitas ad tantam est stultitiam ducta, ut meretricum etiam imperio pareat?
(Liutprand, l.iii.c.12, p.
450.) Sigonius (l.vi.p.

400) positively affirms the renovation of the consulship; but in the old writers Albericus is more frequently styled princeps Romanorum.] [Footnote 138: Ditmar, p.

354, apud Schmidt, tom.iii.p.

439.] [Footnote 139: This bloody feast is described in Leonine verse in the Pantheon of Godfrey of Viterbo, (Script.Ital.tom.vii.p.