Note 017 This German custom, which may be traced from Tacitus to Gregory of Tours, was at length adopted by the emperors of Constantinople. From a MS. of the tenth century, Montfaucon has delineated the representation of a similar ceremony, which the ignorance of the age had applied to king David. See Monumens de la Monarchie Francoise, tom. i. Discours Preliminaire.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 35