[Footnote 93: Leonis Tactica, c. 18, p. 805. The emperor
Leo died A.D. 911: an historical poem, which ends in 916,
and appears to have been composed in 910, by a native of
Venetia, discriminates in these verses the manners of Italy
and France:
- Quid inertia bello Pectora (Ubertus ait) duris
praetenditis armis, O Itali? Potius vobis sacra pocula
cordi; Saepius et stomachum nitidis laxare saginis Elatasque
domos rutilo fulcire metallo. Non eadem Gallos similis vel
cura remordet: Vicinas quibus est studium devincere terras,
Depressumque larem spoliis hinc inde coactis Sustentare -
(Anonym. Carmen Panegyricum de Laudibus Berengarii Augusti,
l. n. in Muratori Script. Rerum Italic. tom. ii. pars i. p.
393.)]