Note 018
The two national authors, from whom I have
derived the mos assistance, are George Pray (Dissertationes
and Annales veterum Hun garorum, &c., Vindobonae, 1775, in
folio) and Stephen Katona, (Hist. Critica Ducum et Regum
Hungariae Stirpis Arpadianae, Paestini, 1778 - 1781, 5 vols.
in octavo.) The first embraces a large and often conjectural
space; the latter, by his learning, judgment, and
perspicuity, deserves the name of a critical historian..]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 55