Note 070
From Chapter 53 of the Decline & Fall

Nec ipsa capiet eum (the emperor Otho) in qua ortus est pauper et pellicea Saxonia: pecunia qua pollemus omnes nationes super eum invitabimus: et quasi Keramicum confringemus (Liutprand in Legat. p. 487.).

The two books, de Administrando Imperio, perpetually inculcate the same policy.

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