ptores Muratori, tom. i. pars ii.
p. 312.) Theodolphus, a contemporary bishop of Orleans, observes with
prudence (l. iii. carm. 3.)

Reddita sunt? mirum est: mirum est auferre nequtsse.
Est tamen in dubio, hinc mirer an inde magis.]

[Footnote 92: Twice, at the request of Hadrian and Leo, he appeared at
Rome,--longa tunica et chlamyde amictus, et calceamentis quoque
Romano more formatis. Eginhard (c. xxiii. p. 109-113) describes, like
Suetonius the simplicity of his dress, so popular in the nation,
that when Charles the Bald returned to France in a foreign habit, the
patriotic dogs barked at the apostate, (Gaillard, Vie de Charlemagne,
tom. iv. p. 109.)]

[Footnote 93: See Anastasius (p. 199) and Eginhard, (c.xxviii. p.
124-128.) The unction is mentioned by Theophanes, (p. 399,) the oath
by Sigonius, (from the Ordo Romanus,) and the Pope's adoration more
antiquorum principum, by the Annales Bertiniani, (Script. Murator. tom.
ii. pars ii. p. 505.)]

[Footnote 94: This great event of the translation or restoration of
the empire is related and discussed by Natalis Alexander, (secul. ix.
dissert. i. p. 390-397,) Pagi, (tom. iii. p. 418,) Muratori, (Annali
d'Italia, tom. vi. p. 339-352,) Sigonius, (de Regno Italiae, l. iv.
Opp. tom. ii. p. 247-251,) Spanheim, (de ficta Translatione Imperii,)
Giannone, (tom. i. p. 395-405,) St. Marc, (Abrege Chronologique, tom.
i. p. 438-450,) Gaillard, (Hist. de Charlemagne, tom. ii. p. 386-446.)
Almost all these moderns have some religious or national bias.]

The appellation of great has been often bestowed, and sometimes
deserved; but Charlemagne is the only prince in whose favor the title
has been indissolubly blended with the name. That name, with the
addition of saint, is inserted in the Roman calendar; and the saint,
by a rare felicity, is crowned with the praises of the historians and
philosophers of an enlightened age. [95] His real merit is doubtless
enhanced by the barbarism of the nation and the times from which he
emerged: but the apparent magnitude of an object is likewise enlarged by
an unequal comparison; and the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendor
from the nakedness of the surrounding desert. Without injustice to his
fame, I may discern some blemishes in the sanctity and greatness of the
restorer of the Western empire. Of his moral virtues, chastity is
not the most conspicuous: [96] but the public happiness could not
be materially injured by his nine wiv