Note 094

Urbs Venusina nitet tantis decorata sepulchris,

is one of the last lines of the Apulian's poems, (l. v. p. 278.) William of Malmsbury (l. iii. p. 107) inserts an epitaph on Guiscard, which is not worth transcribing.

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