[Footnote 6: Your master, says Nicephorus, has given aid and
protection prinminibus Capuano et Beneventano, servis meis,
quos oppugnare dispono .... Nova (potius nota) res est quod
eorum patres et avi nostro Imperio tributa dederunt,
(Liutprand, in Legat. p. 484.) Salerno is not mentioned, yet
the prince changed his party about the same time, and
Camillo Pellegrino (Script. Rer. Ital. tom. ii. pars i. p.
285) has nicely discerned this change in the style of the
anonymous Chronicle. On the rational ground of history and
language, Liutprand (p. 480) had asserted the Latin claim to
Apulia and Calabria.]