The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona (Medieval Texts in Translation)

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“Then listen: the empty-headed and bungling pope is ignorant of the fact that holy Constantine translated the imperial symbols here, and brought the entire senate and the whole Roman knighthood, and left at Rome only lowly dependents, that is, fishers, food-peddlers, bird-hunters, bastards, plebeians, and slaves.”