Note 069
From Chapter 71 of the Decline & Fall

The same writer affirms, that

Virgil captus a Romanis invisibiliter exiit, ivitque Neapolim.

A Roman magician, in the 11th century, is introduced by William of Malmsbury (de Gestis Regum Anglorum, l. ii. p. 86); and in the time of Flaminius Vacca (No. 81, 103) it was the vulgar belief that the strangers (the Goths) invoked the daemons for the discovery of hidden treasures.

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