[Footnote 31: They appeal to Paul Warnefrid, or Diaconus,
(de Gestis Langobard. l. vi. c. 49, p. 506, 507, in Script.
Ital. Muratori, tom. i. pars i.,) and the nominal
Anastasius, (de Vit. Pont. in Muratori, tom. iii. pars i.
Gregorius II. p. 154. Gregorius III. p. 158. Zacharias, p.
161. Stephanus III. p. 165. Paulus, p. 172. Stephanus IV.
p. 174. Hadrianus, p. 179. Leo III. p. 195.) Yet I may
remark, that the true Anastasius (Hist. Eccles. p. 134,
edit. Reg.) and the Historia Miscella, (l. xxi. p. 151, in
tom. i. Script. Ital.,) both of the ixth century, translate
and approve the Greek text of Theophanes.]