Rhaetia, they were attacked and beaten by Burto Master of the horse to the Emperor Majoranus; and I hear nothing more of their invading Rhaetia. Clodovaeus King of France, in or about the year 496, conquered a kingdom of the Alemans, and slew their last King Ermeric.  But this kingdom was seated in Germany, and only bordered upon Rhaetia:  for its people fled from Clodovaeus into the neighbouring kingdom of the Ostrogoths under Theoderic, who received them as friends, and wrote a friendly letter to Clodovaeus in their behalf:  and by this means they became inhabitants of Rhaetia, as subjects under the dominion of the Ostrogoths.

When the Greek Emperor conquered the Ostrogoths, he succeeded them in the kingdom of Ravenna, not only by right of conquest but also by right of inheritance, the Roman Senate still going along with this kingdom.  Therefore we may reckon that this kingdom continued in the Exarchate of Ravenna and Senate of Rome:  for the remainder of the Western Empire went along with the Senate of Rome, by reason of the right which this Senate still retained, and at length exerted, of chusing a new Western Emperor.

I have now enumerated the ten kingdoms, into which the Western Empire became divided at its first breaking, that is, at the time of Rome’s being besieged and taken by the Goths.  Some of these kingdoms at length fell, and new ones arose:  but whatever was their number afterwards, they are still called the Ten Kings from their first number.

Notes to Chap.  VI.

[1] Apud Bucherum, l. 14. c. 9. n. 8.

[2] Rolevinc’s Antiqua Saxon. l. 1. c. 6.

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CHAP.  VII.

Of the eleventh horn of Daniel_’s fourth Beast._

[1]_Now Daniel, considered the horns, and behold there came up among them another horn, before whom there were three of the first horns pluckt up by the roots; and behold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things,_—­and [2] his look was more stout than his fellows,—­and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them:  and one who stood by, and made Daniel know the interpretation of these things, told him, that [3] the ten horns were ten kings that should arise, and another should arise after them, and be diverse from the first, and he should subdue three kings, [4] and speak great words against the most High, and wear out the saints, and think to change times and laws:  and that they should be given into his hands until a time and times and half a time.  Kings are put for kingdoms, as above; and therefore the little horn is a little kingdom.  It was a horn of the fourth Beast, and rooted up three of his first horns; and therefore