FOOTNOTES:

[1] Italy and Her Invaders, ii., 246.

[2] Victor Vitensis, cited by Hodgkin, ii., 247.

[3] Italy, ii., 297, 298.

[4] For this form of the name I am following the authority of Hodgkin.

[5] Italy, ii., 319.

[6] Cited by Hodgkin, iv., 119, 120.

[7] Vita Probi, ii., cited by Hodgkin.

[8] The Letters of Cassiodorus. Translated, with an Introduction, by Thomas Hodgkin, London, 1884, p. 57.

[9] Letters of Cassiodorus, p. 59.