26. Priscus in relating the contest does not name the two
brothers; the second of whom he had seen at Rome, a
beardless youth, with long flowing hair (Historians of
France, tom. i. p. 607, 608 [p. 152, ed. Bonn]). The
Benedictine Editors are inclined to believe that they were
the sons of some unknown king of the Franks who reigned on
the banks of the Neckar; but the arguments of M. de
Foncemagne (Mem. de l'Academie, tom. viii. p. 464) seem to
prove that the succession of Clodion was disputed by his two
sons, and that the younger was Meroveus, the father of
Childeric.