The Medieval Elbe
Slavs and Germans on the Frontier

The Deeds of Wiprecht

Turbulent Rome!

And since high things come crashing down on themselves, for such is the limit of growth in human affairs ordained by heaven —turbulent Rome, which always either stood open to bad men or bore the attacks of the depraved, was not yet sorry that it had now brought the emperor's displeasure upon itself too.

Analysis

This brief remark is part commentary, part transition from the Lombardy section to the core text on the seige of Rome.  Perhaps, if a comment, it was originally a note in the margins. A citation from Lucan (Pharsalia I.81-2) comprises most of the sentence.