Note 30 — AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
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Chiefly by marriage with princesses who were heirs to these kingdoms and principalities. It was thus that Hungary, Bohemia, and the Tyrol were acquired. Hence the lines—
"Bella gerant alii; tu, felix Austria, nube: Nam quæ Mars aliis, dat tibi regna Venus." You, Austria, wed as others wage their wars; And crowns to Venus owe, as they to Mars.
It was by marriage that the Saxon emperor, Otho the Great, acquired Lombardy for the German empire.