[Footnote 4: Paul. Diacon. de Gestis Langobard. l. v. c. 29,
p. 881, 882. The apparent difference between the Lombard
historian and the above- mentioned Greeks, is easily
reconciled by Camillo Pellegrino (de Ducatu Beneventano,
dissert. vii. in the Scriptores Rerum Ital. tom. v. p. 186,
187) and Beretti, (Chorograph. Italiae Medii Aevi, p. 273,
&c. This Bulgarian colony was planted in a vacant district
of Samnium, and learned the Latin, without forgetting their
native language.]