Note 43 — INTRODUCTION
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Paul the deacon was one of the scholars who found encouragement at the court of Charles the Great. His work is an abridgement of that of Festus, not of Verrius himself. On Verrius and his epitomators, as well as on the other writers who used his glosses, see H. Nettleship’s valuable papers in Essays in Latin Literature, p. 201 foll.