Footnotes
[38]
"Nihil neque publicæ neque privatæ rei nisi armati agunt." — Ibid.,
13.
[39]
"Si displicuit sententia, fremitu aspernantur; sin placuit,
frameas concutiunt." -- Ibid., 11.
[40]
"Sed arma sumere non ante cuiquam moris, quam civitas suffecturum
probaverit." -- Ibid., 13.
[41]
"Tum in ipso concilia vel principum aliquis, vel pater, vel
propinquus, scuto, frameaque juvenem ornant."
[42]
"Hæc apud illos toga, hic primus juventæ honos; ante hoc domni pars
videntur, mox reipublicæ."
[43]
Theodoric in "Cassiodorus," lib. i, ep. 38.
[44]
"He was scarcely five years old," says Gregory of Tours, lib. v, cap. 1,
when he succeeded to his father, in the year 575. Gontram declared him
of age in the year 585; he was, therefore, at that time no more than
fifteen.
[47]
There was no change in the time with regard to the common
people.
[48]
St. Louis was not of age till twenty-one; this was altered by an
edict of Charles V in the year 1374.
