Note 437 — Chapter IX · THE MUTUAL GUARANTEE. MÆGBURH. TITHING. HUNDRED.
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What had struck Tacitus with astonishment and admiration in the first century (Germ. xviii. xix.), seemed equally remarkable to the thinkers of the Roman world in the fourth and fifth. Innumerable passages confirmatory of the averments in the text might be cited from Augustine, Orosius, Salvianus, or even Procopius,—testimonies all the more valuable because supplied by hostile witnesses, by the conquered of the conqueror, the orthodox of the Arian.