n race. See l. iv. c. 39.]

[Footnote 41: Compare No. 3 and 177 of the Laws of Rotharis.]

[Footnote 42: Paul, l. ii. c. 31, 32, l. iii. c. 16. The Laws of

Rotharis, promulgated A.D. 643, do not contain the smallest

vestige of this payment of thirds; but they preserve many curious

circumstances of the state of Italy and the manners of the

Lombards.]

[Footnote 43: The studs of Dionysius of Syracuse, and his

frequent victories in the…

dustry by the labor of the slaves and natives. But the

occupations of a pastoral life were more pleasing to the idleness

of the Barbarian. In the rich meadows of Venetia, they restored

and improved the breed of horses, for which that province had

once been illustrious; ^43 and the Italians beheld with

astonishment a foreign race of oxen or buffaloes. ^44 The

depopulation of Lombardy, and the increase of forests, afforded

an ample range for the…

the

same option could not be granted to the dukes of Brescia or

Bergamo, ot Pavia or Turin, of Spoleto or Beneventum; but each of

these, and each of their colleagues, settled in his appointed

district with a band of followers who resorted to his standard in

war and his tribunal in peace. Their attachment was free and

honorable: resigning the gifts and benefits which they had

accepted, they might emigrate with their families into…

language will afford the most

probably inference. According to this standard, it will appear,

that the Lombards of Italy, and the Visigoths of Spain, were less

numerous than the Franks or Burgundians; and the conquerors of

Gaul must yield, in their turn, to the multitude of Saxons and

Angles who almost eradicated the idioms of Britain. The modern

Italian has been insensibly formed by the mixture of nations: the

awkwardness of the Barbarians in…