[Footnote 33: The most constitutional form is a diploma of
Otho III., (A. D 998,) consulibus senatus populique Romani;
but the act is probably spurious. At the coronation of Henry
I., A.D. 1014, the historian Dithmar (apud Muratori,
Dissert. xxiii.) describes him, a senatoribus duodecem
vallatum, quorum sex rasi barba, alii prolixa, mystice
incedebant cum baculis. The senate is mentioned in the
panegyric of Berengarius, (p. 406.)]