FOOTNOTES:
[71] Probably either the Biferno or the Sangro.
[72] sic Procopius. The customary form "Beneventum" shews less clearly the derivation from "ventus" which Procopius favours. Other possible explanations are "bene" + "venio" or "bene" + (suff.) "entum."
[73] Cf. Pliny III. xi. 16, § 105, who says that the name was originally "Maleventum," on account of its unwholesome air.
[74] The Forum of Constantine was a short distance west of the Hippodrome. One of its principle monuments, a huge porphyry column, still stands and is known as the "Burnt Column."
[75] i.e. the Adriatic Sea; see note 4.
[77] By the "Adriatic" is meant the part of the Mediterranean which lies between Africa on the south, Sicily and Italy on the west, and Greece and Epirus on the east; Procopius' "Ionian Gulf" is therefore our Adriatic Sea.
[78] Now the Gulf of Saros, north and west of the Gallipoli peninsula.
[79] i.e. to the north-west. Procopius means that the Adriatic should incline at its upper end more toward the left (the west) in order to form the isthmus which he is surprised to find lacking.
[80] Hydruntum; cf. Book III. i. 9, note.
[81] Modern Croatia.
[82] Modern Belgrade.
[83] Procopius seems to have erred: Liguria, as well as Aemilia (below), was south of the Po. Cf. chap. [xii. 4], where Liguria is represented as extending to the Alps.
[84] Whose capital was Placentia (Piacenzo).