But the virtue or treachery of an Avar betrayed the secret enmity and ambitious designs of their countrymen; and they loudly complained of the timid, though jealous policy, of detaining their ambassadors, and denying the arms which they had been allowed to purchase in the capital of the empire.

[34] [Footnote 3011: The Ogors or Varchonites, from Var.

a river, (obviously connected with the name Avar,) must not be confounded with the Uigours, the eastern Turks, (v.

Hammer, Osmanische Geschichte, vol.i.p.

3,) who speak a language the parent of the more modern Turkish dialects.