m, the latter with discretion; both with learning,
ingenuity, and truth. Note: Compare the admirable sketch of the
degeneracy of the Latin language and the formation of the Italian in
Hallam, Middle Ages, vol. iii. p. 317 329.--M.]

[Footnote 39: Paul, de Gest. Langobard. l. iii. c. 5, 6, 7.]

[Footnote 40: Paul, l. ii. c. 9. He calls these families or generations
by the Teutonic name of Faras, which is likewise used in the Lombard
laws. The humble deacon was not insensible of the nobility of his own
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 Olympic games, had diffused among the Greeks the fame
of the Venetian horses; but the breed was extinct in the time of Strabo,
(l. v. p. 325.) Gisulf obtained from his uncle generosarum equarum
greges. Paul, l. ii. c. 9. The Lombards afterwards introduced caballi
sylvatici--wild horses. Paul, l. iv. c. 11.]

[Footnote 44: Tunc (A.D. 596) primum, bubali in Italiam delati Italiae
populis miracula fuere, (Paul Warnefrid, l. iv. c. 11.) The buffaloes,
whose native climate appears to be Africa and India, are unknown
to Europe, except in Italy, where they are numerous and useful. The
ancients were ignorant of these animals, unless Aristotle (Hist. Anim.
l. ii. c. 1, p. 58, Paris, 1783) has described them as the wild oxen of
Arachosia. See Buffon, Hist. Naturelle, tom. xi. and Supplement, tom.
vi. Hist. Generale des Voyages, tom. i. p. 7, 481, ii. 105, iii. 291,
iv. 234, 461, v. 193, vi. 491, viii. 400, x. 666. Pennant's Quadrupedes,
p. 24. Dictionnaire d'Hist. Naturelle, par Valmont de Bomare, tom.
ii. p. 74. Yet I must not conceal the suspicion that Paul, by a vulgar
error, may have applied the name of bubalus to the aurochs, or wild
bull, of ancient Germany.]

[Footnote 45: Consult the xxist Dissertation of Muratori.]

[Footnote 46: Their ignorance is proved by the silence even of those
who professedly treat of the arts of hunting and the history of animals.
Aristotle, (Hist. Animal. l. ix. c. 36, tom. i. p. 586, and the Notes of
his last editor, M. Camus, tom. ii. p. 314,) Pliny, (Hist. Natur