Footnotes
[25]
While Gaul was under the dominion of the Romans they formed
particular bodies; these were generally freedmen, or the descendants of
freedmen.
[26]
See Gregory of Tours, Book ii, chap. 27. Aimoin, book i, chap. 12.
[27]
See the "Lives of the Saints," footnote 7, below.
[28]
Gregory of Tours, book iii.
[29]
Ibid., book vi, chap. 31.
[30]
Cassiodorus, lib. iii, letter 43.
[32]
See the annals of Fuld, in the year 739, Paulus Diaconus, De
gestis Longobardorum, lib. iii, chap. 30, lib. iv, chap. 1, and the "Lives of the Saints" in the
next footnote.
[33]
See the lives of St. Epiphanius, St. Eptadius, St. Cæsarius, St.
Fidolus, St. Porcian, St. Treverius, St. Eusichius, and of St. Leger;
the miracles of St. Julian, &c.
[34]
Ovid, "Met.," lib. i, 293.
[35]
Even the husbandmen themselves were not all slaves; see the Leg.
18, 23, "Cod. de Agricolis, et Censitis, et Colonis," and Leg. 20 of the
same title.
