Note (return) — Chapter XI
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The coalition of Eastern Emperor and Frankish King boded no good to Italy. Perhaps could the eye of Anastasius have pierced through the mists of seven future centuries, could he have foreseen the insults, the extortions, the cruelties which a Roman Emperor at Constantinople was to endure at the hands of "Frankish" invaders, 111 he would not have been so eager in his worship of the new sun which was rising over Gaul from out of the marshes of the Scheldt.