Note 033
The most constitutional form is a diploma of Otho III., (A.D. 998),

Consulibus senatûs populique Romani;

but the act is probably spurious. At the coronation of Henry I., A.D. 1014, the historian Dithmar (apud Muratori, Dissert. xxiii.) describes him,

a senatoribus duodecem vallatum, quorum sex rasi barbâ, alii prolixâ, mystice incedebant cum baculis.

The senate is mentioned in the panegyric of Berengarius, (p. 406.)

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