Note 017
From Chapter 38 of the Decline & Fall

Campum sibi praeparari jussit.

M. Biet (p. 226-251) has diligently ascertained this field of battle at Nogent, a Benedictine abbey, about ten miles to the north of Soissons. The ground was marked by a circle of Pagan sepulchres; and Glovis bestowed the adjacent lands of Leuilly and Coucy on the church of Rheims.

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