[Footnote 63: Between the exorbitant claims, and narrow
concessions, of interest and prejudice, from which even
Muratori (Antiquitat. tom. i. p. 63-68) is not exempt, I
have been guided, in the limits of the Exarchate and
Pentapolis, by the Dissertatio Chorographica Italiae Medii
Aevi, tom. x. p. 160-180.]