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NOTES 265 method of citing authorities found in this chapter does not occur anywhere else in the History of the Franks. P. 31, 1. 23. In consolaribus legimus. Nothing further is known of this source. If the following sentences are also drawn from it, it is plain that its writer speaks as one living to the north of the Loire before the conquest of that country by the Franks. Monod, Sources de Vhistoire merovingienne, p. 85. P. 33, c. 14-16. For Merovingian church architecture see Enlart, Archeo- logie franqaise, vol. i, ch. 2. No trace of the churches mentioned by Gregory survives. P. 36, c. 22. Sidonius Apollinaris (d. 480), the leading literary man of his time in Gaul, was bishop of Clermont the last ten years of his life. Gregory's w^ork on the masses written by him is lost. Although Gregory was born more than fifty years after Sidonius' death, he speaks in this intimate way of the former bishop of the place of his birth. On Sidonius see Dill, Society in the Last Century of the Roman Empire, c. iv. Sidonius' Letters have just been translated by R. M. Dalton, Oxford, 191 5. P. 36, c. 27 f. For an acute analysis of the Hterary and oral origins of Gregory's account of Clovis, see Kurth, Les sources de Vhistoire de Clovis (Revue des quest, hist., 1888). P. 37, 1. 33. Campus Martius. The March-field, later changed to the May- field, campus Madius, the annual assembly of the Franks. P. 41, 1. 8. Sigamber, one of the Sigambri, a German tribe forming a sec- tion of the Prankish people. P. 41,1. 16. From the number Gregory reports as having been baptized, pos- sibly an exaggeration in itself, we can see that Clovis' army was relatively small. P. 44, 1. 8. The LexGundobada, still in existence (Mon. Germ. Hist., Legum, Sect. I, Legiun Nationum Germ, tomi II, pars i), is a codification of Burgun- dian custom. Gundobad also issued a code for his Roman subjects. The object of his legislation was largely to secure a better understanding between Romans and Burgundians. Cf. Lavisse, Histoire de France, II, p. 88 f. For bibhographical references see R. Schroeder, Lehrbuch der deutschen Rechls- geschichte (1902), p. 241. P. 45, 1. 4. See Introduction, pp. xviii and xxii. P. 46, 1. 35 f. The battle of Vouille was fought in 507. The people of Auvergne, led by Apollinaris, son of Sidonius Apollinaris (p. 36), fought on the side of the Visigoths. P. 47, 1. 29. Et ab ea die tanquam consul aut Augustus est vocitatus. The opinion is held that it was an honorary consulship to which Clovis was ap- pointed, Cf. Pfister, in Cambridge Mediaeval History, vol. II, p. 115. P. 49, 1. 29 f. Cf. p. 50, 1. 17 f. According to the description of Clovis he was entirely emancipated from the clan morahty which was so powerful among the Franks of his time. P. 53, 1. 36. The case of Gundobad is hardly to the point, since he enjoyed a long and prosperous reign and left his kingdom to his son Sigismund. See also note on p. 44.