Note 063
After the mention of the three goddesses,
Luitprand very naturally adds, et quoniam non rex solus iis
abutebatur, earum nati ex incertis patribus originera
ducunt, (Hist. l. iv. c. 6: ) for the marriage of the
younger Bertha, see Hist. l. v. c. 5; for the incontinence
of the elder, dulcis exercipio Hymenaei, l. ii. c. 15; for
the virtues and vices of Hugo, l. iii. c. 5. Yet it must
not be forgot, that the bishop of Cremona was a lover of
scandal.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 53