FOOTNOTES:

[59] Cf. chap. [xii. 24] ff.

[60] Procopius resumes his narrative, which was interrupted by the digression beginning in chap. xii.

[61] Cf. Book I. xxii. 4; III. vi. 2 and note.

[62] Cf. chap. [xi. 28].

[63] Cf. Thuc. i. 35, θἑσθαι το ραρὁν, "to deal with the actual situation"; Hor. Od. iii. 29, 32, "quod adest memento | Componere."