[Footnote 30: Ducange (Gloss. Latinitatis Mediae et Infimae
Aetatis, Decarchones, tom. ii. p. 726) gives me a quotation
from Blondus, (Decad. ii. l. ii.:) Duo consules ex
nobilitate quotannis fiebant, qui ad vetustum consulum
exemplar summaererum praeessent. And in Sigonius (de Regno
Italiae, l. v. Opp. tom. ii. p. 400) I read of the consuls
and tribunes of the xth century. Both Blondus, and even
Sigonius, too freely copied the classic method of supplying
from reason or fancy the deficiency of records.]