Note 86 — BOOK II CONCERNING THE WARS AND MILITARY EXPLOITS OF CHARLES
A. J. (Arthur James) Grant translation
This story has a long history. It is first told of Thrasybulus, tyrant of Miletus; it was then adapted by Livy (1–54) to Tarquin, King of Rome, with slight alterations. The same story, which is here told somewhat clumsily, and applied to Charlemagne, is given by Ekkehard as belonging to the reign of Charles III.