[81] [Footnote 79: Pepper was a favorite ingredient of the most expensive Roman cookery, and the best sort commonly sold for fifteen denarii, or ten shillings, the pound.

See Pliny, Hist.Natur.xii.14.It was brought from India; and the same country, the coast of Malabar, still affords the greatest plenty: but the improvement of trade and navigation has multiplied the quantity and reduced the price.

See Histoire Politique et Philosophique, &c., tom.i.p.

457.] [Footnote 80: This Gothic chieftain is called by Jornandes and Isidore, Athaulphus; by Zosimus and Orosius, Ataulphus; and by Olympiodorus, Adaoulphus.

I have used the celebrated name of Adolphus, which seems to be authorized by the practice of the Swedes, the sons or brothers of the ancient Goths.] [Footnote 81: The treaty between Alaric and the Romans, &c., is taken from Zosimus, l.v.p.354, 355, 358, 359, 362, 363.