[Footnote 34: The embassies and first conquests of the Avars
may be read in Menander, (Excerpt. Legat. p. 99, 100, 101,
154, 155,) Theophanes, (p. 196,) the Historia Miscella, (l.
xvi. p. 109,) and Gregory of Tours, (L iv. c. 23, 29, in the
Historians of France, tom. ii. p. 214, 217.)]