158. Regio longe lateque diffusa, milite, magis quam
credibile sit, referta. Partibus equidem in illis miles unus
quinquaginta generat, sortitus more barbaro denas aut
amplius uxores. This reproach of William of Poitiers (in the
Historians of France, tom. xi. p. 88) is disclaimed by the
Benedictine editors.