Note 116 — Chapter II · LOMBARD INVASION TO LIUTPRAND’S DEATH [568-744 A.D.]
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[The distaff story is told by Paulusp Diaconus, who wrote two centuries later and quoted a work a century earlier. Isidore of Seville,v however, who wrote only half a century after Narses’ recall, accuses him of calling in the Lombards. The story is none the less somewhat dubious.]