Note 096 The vision of Weltin, composed by a monk, eleven years after the death of Charlemagne, shows him in purgatory, with a vulture, who is perpetually gnawing the guilty member, while the rest of his body, the emblem of his virtues, is sound and perfect, (see Gaillard tom. ii. p. 317 - 360.)]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 49