27. The ancients, Jornandes, Priscus, etc., are ignorant of
this epithet. The modern Hungarians have imagined that it
was applied, by a hermit of Gaul, to Attila, who was pleased
to insert it among the titles of his royal dignity. Mascou,
ix. 23, and Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, tom. vi. p. 143.