Note 015 Seventy lines of panegyric (505-575) which describe the importunity of Theodoric and of Gaul, struggling to overcome the modest reluctance of Avitus, are blown away by three words of an honest historian. Romanum ambisset Imperium (Greg. Turon. 1. ii. c. 11, in tom. ii. p. 168).

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