Note 256 — Chapter II · THE SOCIAL COMPOSITION OF THE PRIMITIVE POPULUS
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The most violent and oppressive Germanic invaders are supposed to have been the Vandals, and yet they doubtless retained for the administration of the government the trained Roman officials; Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders, ii. 263. The Ostrogoths were more liberal in their treatment of the Romans (ibid. iv. 250, 271, 282), and the Franks still more liberal; Brunner, Deutsche Rechtsgesch. ii. 202.