Note 057
Non cessit nobis nudum imperium, virtute sua amictum venit, ornamenta sua secum traxit. Penes nos sunt consules tui, &c.
Cicero or Livy would not have rejected these images, the eloquence of a Barbarian born and educated in the Hercynian forest.
The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 69