dened to disgrace, that
their narratives are impartial enough.]

[Footnote 23: Lydia: consult Constantine de Thematibus, i. 3, 4, with
Delisle's map.]

[Footnote 24: Omnes conveniunt; et bis sex nobiliores,

Quos genus et gravitas morum decorabat et aetas,

Elegere duces. Provectis ad comitatum

His alii parent. Comitatus nomen honoris

Quo donantur erat. Hi totas undique terras

Divisere sibi, ni sors inimica repugnet;

Singula proponunt loca quae contingere sorte

Cuique duci debent, et quaeque tributa locorum.

And after speaking of Melphi, William Appulus adds,

Pro numero comitum bis sex statuere plateas,

Atque domus comitum totidem fabricantur in urbe. Leo Ostiensis (l.
ii. c. 67) enumerates the divisions of the Apulian cities, which it is
needless to repeat.]

[Footnote 25: Gulielm. Appulus, l. ii. c 12, according to the reference
of Giannone, (Istoria Civile di Napoli, tom. ii. p. 31,) which I cannot
verify in the original. The Apulian praises indeed his validas vires,
probitas animi, and vivida virtus; and declares that, had he lived, no
poet could have equalled his merits, (l. i. p. 258, l. ii. p. 259.)
He was bewailed by the Normans, quippe qui tanti consilii virum, (says
Malaterra, l. i. c. 12, p. 552,) tam armis strenuum, tam sibi munificum,
affabilem, morigeratum, ulterius se habere diffidebant.]

[Footnote 26: The gens astutissima, injuriarum ultrix.... adulari
sciens.... eloquentiis inserviens, of Malaterra, (l. i. c. 3, p. 550,)
are expressive of the popular and proverbial character of the Normans.]

[Footnote 27: The hunting and hawking more properly belong to the
descendants of the Norwegian sailors; though they might import from
Norway and Iceland the finest casts of falcons.]

[Footnote 28: We may compare this portrait with that of William of
Malmsbury, (de Gestis Anglorum, l. iii. p. 101, 102,) who appreciates,
like a philosophic historian, the vices and virtues of the Saxons and
Normans. England was assuredly a gainer by the conquest.]

Chapter LVI: The Saracens, The Franks And The Normans.--Part II.

The Normans of Apulia were seated on the verge of the two empires; and,
according to the policy of the hour, they accepted the investiture of
their lands, from the sovereigns of Germany or Constantinople. But
the firmest title of these adventurers was the right of conquest: they
neither loved nor trusted; they were nei