[Footnote 36: Theophylact, l. vii. c. 3. On the evidence of
this fact, which had not occurred to my memory, the candid
reader will correct and excuse a note in Chapter XXXIV.,
note 86 of this History, which hastens the decay of Asimus,
or Azimuntium; another century of patriotism and valor is
cheaply purchased by such a confession.]