Note BM — Fourth Book
Ernest Brehaut translation
P. 95, c. 41. The Lombards entered Italy from the northeast in 568. Their first invasion of Gaul from Italy and the defeat of the patrician Amatus took place in 569. The most complete account of these events is given by Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum, Lib. II, edition by Bethmann und Waitz (Mon. Germ. Hist.), 1878.