FOOTNOTES:
[44] Book III. i. 7.
[45] i.e. equatorial Africa.
[46] Cf. Book IV. xiii. 29.
[47] This vague statement is intended to describe the country west of the Rhine, at that time a land of forests and swamps.
[48] The people whom Procopius names Arborychi must be the Armorici. If so, they occupied the coast of what is now Belgium.
[49] Now south-eastern Germany.
[50] Now south-eastern France.
[51] Between the Germans and Burgundians.
[52] In modern Bavaria.
[53] i.e. west of the Rhone.
[54] i.e. the Visigoths.
[55] i.e. under a recognized imperial dynasty.
[56] In Gallia Narbonensis, modern Carcassone. Procopius has been misled. The battle here described was fought in the neighbourhood of Poitiers.
[57] Cf. Book III. ii. 14-24.
[58] At the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in 70 a.d. The treasures here mentioned were removed from Rome in 410 a.d. The remainder of the Jewish treasure formed part of the spoil of Gizeric, the Vandal. Cf. Book IV. ix. 5 and note.