1. The authentic materials for the history of Attila may be
found in Jornandes (de Rebus Geticis, c. 34-50, p. 660-688,
edit. Grot.) and Priscus (Excerpta de Legationibus, p.
33-76, Paris, 1648 [p.140-220, ed. Bonn]). I have not seen
the Lives of Attila, composed by Juvencus Caelius Calanus
Dalmatinus, in the twelfth century, or by Nicolas Olahus,
archbishop of Gran, in the sixteenth. See Mascou's History
of the Germans, ix. 23, and Maffei Osservazioni Litterarie,
tom. i. p. 88,89. Whatever the modern Hungarians have added
must be fabulous; and they do not seem to have excelled in
the art of fiction. They suppose that when Attila invaded
Gaul and Italy, married innumerable wives, etc., he was one
hundred and twenty years of age. Thevrocz Chron. p. i. c.
22, in Script. Hungar. tom. i. p. 76.