Note 099
Jam inde temporibus priscis sobolem se esse Romanam
Burgundii sciunt: and the vague tradition gradually assumed
a more regular form (Oros. l. vii. c. 32). It is annihilated
by the decisive authority of Pliny, who composed the History
of Drusus, and served in Germany (Plin. Secund. Epist. iii.
5), within sixty years after the death of that hero.
Germanorum genera quinque; Vindili, quorum pars
Burgundiones, etc. (Hist. Natur. iv. 28).
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