[Footnote 31: Hungarorum gens, cujus omnes fere nationes
expertae saevitium &c., is the preface of Liutprand, (l. i.
c. 2,) who frequently expatiated on the calamities of his
own times. See l. i. c. 5, l. ii. c. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7; l.
iii. c. 1, &c., l. v. c. 8, 15, in Legat. p. 485. His
colors are glaring but his chronology must be rectified by
Pagi and Muratori.]