[Footnote 76: I interpret it, not as a proper, name, but an
office, standard-bearer, from bandum, (vexillum,) a Barbaric
word adopted by the Greeks and Romans, (Paul Diacon. l. i.
c. 20, p. 760. Grot. Nomina Hethica, p. 575. Ducange,
Gloss. Latin. tom. i. p. 539, 540.)]