Note 038
From Chapter 53 of the Decline & Fall

Carsamatium ( , Ducange, Gloss.) Graeci vocant, amputatis virilibus et virgâ, puerum eunuchum quos Verdunenses mercatores obinmensum lucrum facere solent et in Hispaniam ducere (Liutprand, l. vi. c. 3, p. 470).

The last abomination of the abominable slave-trade! Yet I am surprised to find, in the 10th century, such active speculations of commerce in Lorraine.