Note 334 — Chapter XVI · THE CITY OF ROME IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
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A remarkable speech of expostulation made by Otto III to the Roman people (after one of their revolts) from the tower of his house on the Aventine has been preserved to us. It begins thus: 'Vosne estis mei Romani? Propter vos quidem meam patriam, propinquos quoque reliqui; amore vestro Saxones et cunctos Theotiscos, sanguinem meum, proieci; vos in remotas partes imperii nostri adduxi, quo patres vestri cum orbem ditione premerent numquam pedem posuerunt; scilicet ut nomen vestrum et gloriam ad fines usque dilatarem; vos filios adoptavi: vos cunctis prætuli.'—Vita S. Bernwardi; in Pertz, M. G. H., t. iv.
(It is from this form 'Theotiscus' that the Italian 'Tedesco' seems to have been derived.)