[398] Siculus Flaccus, Lachmann, p. 152. 'Præterea et in multis regionibus comperimus quosdam possessores non continuas habere terras, sed particulas quasdam in diversis locis, intervenientibus complurium possessionibus: propter quod etiam complures vicinales viæ sint, ut unusquisque possit ad particulas suas jure pervenire. Sed et de viarum conditionibus locuti sumus. Quorundam agri servitutem possessoribus ad particulas suas eundi redeundique præstant. Quorundam etiam vicinorum aliquas silvas quasi publicas, immo proprias quasi vicinorum, esse comperimus, nec quemquam in eis cedendi pascendique jus habere nisi vicinos quorum sint: ad quas itinera sæpe, ut supra diximus, per alienos agros dantur.' [399] Teams of six and of eight oxen in the plough are mentioned in the Vedas. '_Altindisches Leben_,' H. Zimmer. Berlin, 1879, p. 237. [400] Hyginus, Lachmann and Rudorff, i. 113. [401] See _Codex Theodosianus_, vii. tit. xx. s. 9, A.D. 366. [402] In _Cod. Theod._ vii. xx. s. 10, A.D. 369, 'læti' are mentioned; and in s. 12, A.D. 400, 'lætus Alamannus Sarmata, vagus, vel filius veterani,' are mentioned together. [403] Compare the Welsh _aillt_, or _alltud_ (Saxon _althud_, foreigner), and the _Aldiones_ of the Lombardic laws, with the _Læti_. [404] B. iv. c. iii. s. 4. [405] _Germania_, 28. [406] The importance of the _Limes_ or _Pfahlgraben_ as marking the extent of Roman rule to the east of the Rhine, has recently been fully realised. See Wilhelm Arnold's _Deutsche Urzeit_, c. iii. '_Der Pfahlgraben und seine Bedeutung._' See also '_Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen_' (Berlin, 1882), Abth. 48, c. viii. And Mr. Hodgkin's interesting paper on 'The _Pfahlgraben_' in _Archæologia Æliana_, pt. 25, vol. ix. new series. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1882. [407] Gibbon, c. ix., quoting _Dion. Cas._, lxxi. and lxxii. [408] Zosimus, i. p. 68. Excerpta, _Mon. Brit._ lxxv. [409] Wietersheim's _Geschichte der Völkerwanderung_ (Dahn), i. 245. Guerard's _Polypt. d'Irminon_, i. p. 252. [410] 'Tuo, Maximiane Auguste, nutu, Nerviorum et Treverorum arva jacentia Lætus postliminio restitutus et receptus in leges Francus excoluit.' _Eumen. Panegyr. Constantio Cæs._, c. 21. Guerard, i. 250. [411] _Eumen. Paneg. Constantio_, 9. Guerard, i. 252. [412] Zeuss, _Die Deutschen und die Nachbarstämme_, pp. 582–4, quoting the will of _St. Widrad_, Abbot of Flavigny in the eighth century: 'In pago _Commavorum_,' 'in pago '_Ammaviorum_.' In the _Notitia Occidentis_, cxl., there is mention of _Læti_ from this district--_Præfectus Lætorum Lingonensium_. Boeking, p. 120. [413] _Kaiser Diocletian und seine Zeit_, von Theodor Preuss, Leipzig, 1869 (pp. 54–5). [414] 'Quo [Constantio] mortuo, cunctis qui aderunt adnitentibus, sed præcipue Eroco Alamannorum rege, auxilii gratia Constantium comitato, imperium capit.' _Mon. Brit._ Excerpta. Ex Sexti Aurelii Victoris _Epitome_ (p. lxxii.). [415] Ammianus Marcellinus, bk. xvii. c. i. 7.