conceive Gibbon to be right

- M.]

[Footnote 29: Shaw (Travels, p. 220) most accurately represents

the manners of the Bedoweens and Kabyles, the last of whom, by

their language, are the remnant of the Moors; yet how changed -

how civilized are these modern savages! - provisions are plenty

among them and bread is common.]

[Footnote 30: By Procopius it is styled a lyre; perhaps harp

would have been more national. The instruments of music are thus

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by Venantius Fortunatus: -

Romanusque lyra tibi plaudat, Barbarus harpa.]

[Footnote 31: Herodotus elegantly describes the strange effects

of grief in another royal captive, Psammetichus of Egypt, who

wept at the lesser and was silent at the greatest of his

calamities, (l. iii. c. 14.) In the interview of Paulus Aemilius

and Perses, Belisarius might study his part; but it is probable

that he never read either Livy or Plutarch; and it is certain

that his generosity did not need a tutor.]

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