[246]. Zosimus, p. 234.

[247]. See illustration facing p. [334].

[248]. Theophanes, p. 668.

[249]. Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., pp. 503, 504.

[250]. Ibid., p. 498.

[251]. Leo Diaconus, p. 158.

[252]. Cedrenus, vol. ii. p. 475.

[253]. Pachymeres, vol. i. p. 160.

[254]. Procopius, De Bello Vand., ii. c. 9; Theophanes, p. 309.

[255]. Theophanes, p. 388.