[Footnote 91: The assurance of Anastasius (tom. iii. pars i.
p. 197, 198) is supported by the credulity of some French
annalists; but Eginhard, and other writers of the same age,
are more natural and sincere. "Unus ei oculus paullulum est
laesus," says John the deacon of Naples, (Vit. Episcop.
Napol. in Scriptores Muratori, tom. i. pars ii. p. 312.)
Theodolphus, a contemporary bishop of Orleans, observes with
prudence (l. iii. carm. 3.) Reddita sunt? mirum est: mirum
est auferre nequtsse. Est tamen in dubio, hinc mirer an inde
magis.]