s brother. [39]

[Footnote 37: Regnum circa Rhodanum aut Ararim cum provincia Massiliensi
retinebant. Greg. Turon. l. ii. c. 32, in tom. ii. p. 178. The province
of Marseilles, as far as the Durance, was afterwards ceded to the
Ostrogoths; and the signatures of twenty-five bishops are supposed to
represent the kingdom of Burgundy, A.D. 519. (Concil. Epaon, in tom. iv.
p. 104, 105.) Yet I would except Vindonissa. The bishop, who lived under
the Pagan Alemanni, would naturally resort to the synods of the next
Christian kingdom. Mascou (in his four first annotations) has explained
many circumstances relative to the Burgundian monarchy.]

[Footnote 38: Mascou, (Hist. of the Germans, xi. 10,) who very
reasonably distracts the testimony of Gregory of Tours, has produced
a passage from Avitus (epist. v.) to prove that Gundobald affected to
deplore the tragic event, which his subjects affected to applaud.]

[Footnote 39: See the original conference, (in tom. iv. p. 99-102.)
Avitus, the principal actor, and probably the secretary of the meeting,
was bishop of Vienna. A short account of his person and works may be
fouud in Dupin, (Bibliotheque Ecclesiastique, tom. v. p. 5-10.)]

Chapter XXXVIII: Reign Of Clovis.--Part II.

The allegiance of his brother was already seduced; and the obedience of
Godegesil, who joined the royal standard with the troops of Geneva, more
effectually promoted the success of the conspiracy. While the Franks and
Burgundians contended with equal valor, his seasonable desertion decided
the event of the battle; and as Gundobald was faintly supported by
the disaffected Gauls, he yielded to the arms of Clovis, and hastily
retreated from the field, which appears to have been situate between
Langres and Dijon. He distrusted the strength of Dijon, a quadrangular
fortress, encompassed by two rivers, and by a wall thirty feet high,
and fifteen thick, with four gates, and thirty-three towers: [40] he
abandoned to the pursuit of Clovis the important cities of Lyons and
Vienna; and Gundobald still fled with precipitation, till he had reached
Avignon, at the distance of two hundred and fifty miles from the field
of battle.

A long siege and an artful negotiation, admonished the king of the
Franks of the danger and difficulty of his enterprise. He imposed a
tribute on the Burgundian prince, compelled him to pardon and reward his
brother's treachery, and proudly returned to his own dominions, with the
spoils