leg.16.The date of this law A.D.406.

May 18 satisfies me, as it had done Godefroy, (tom.
ii.p.

387,) of the true year of the invasion of Radagaisus.

Tillemont, Pagi, and Muratori, prefer the preceding year; but they are bound, by certain obligations of civility and respect, to St.Paulinus of Nola.] [Footnote 73: Soon after Rome had been taken by the Gauls, the senate, on a sudden emergency, armed ten legions, 3000 horse, and 42,000 foot; a force which the city could not have sent forth under Augustus, (Livy, xi.

25.) This declaration may puzzle an antiquary, but it is clearly explained by Montesquieu.] [Footnote 74: Machiavel has explained, at least as a philosopher, the origin of Florence, which insensibly descended, for the benefit of trade, from the rock of Faesulae to the banks of the Arno, (Istoria Fiorentina, tom.i.p.36.Londra, 1747.) The triumvirs sent a colony to Florence, which, under Tiberius, (Tacit.Annal.i.