11/45 ad Hist.Goth.p.28, &c.,) the Swedish Ambassador.] [Footnote 9: Two facts in the narrative of Paul Diaconus (l.i.c. 20) are expressive of national manners: 1. Dum ad tabulam luderet--while he played at draughts.2.Camporum viridantia lina. The cultivation of flax supposes property, commerce, agriculture, and manufactures] [Footnote 10: I have used, without undertaking to reconcile, the facts in Procopius, (Goth.l.ii.c.14, l.iii.c.33, 34, l.iv.c.18, 25,) Paul Diaconus, (de Gestis Langobard, l.i.c. 1-23, in Muratori, Script. |