See Ducange, C.P.

l.i.p.24, 25.] [Footnote 28: See Plutarch in Romul.tom.i.p.49, edit.Bryan.

Among other ceremonies, a large hole, which had been dug for that purpose, was filled up with handfuls of earth, which each of the settlers brought from the place of his birth, and thus adopted his new country.] [Footnote 29: Philostorgius, l.ii.c.9.This incident, though borrowed from a suspected writer, is characteristic and probable.] [Footnote 30: See in the Memoires de l'Academie, tom.

xxxv p.

747-758, a dissertation of M.d'Anville on the extent of Constantinople.