10/40 Schafarck considers them descendants of the Hirri. of which Heruli is a diminutive,--Slawische Alter thinner--M. 1845.] [Footnote 38: Variarum, iv.2.The spirit and forms of this martial institution are noticed by Cassiodorus; but he seems to have only translated the sentiments of the Gothic king into the language of Roman eloquence.] [Footnote 39: Cassiodorus, who quotes Tacitus to the Aestians, the unlettered savages of the Baltic, (Var.v. 2,) describes the amber for which their shores have ever been famous, as the gum of a tree, hardened by the sun, and purified and wafted by the waves. |