The troops were billeted as at a peaceful occupation.

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St. Cyprian (circa 200-257 A.D.), Bishop of Carthage.

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Chap. xx. 13.

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Compare the remarks of Gibbon, iv. p. 295.

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In Arcana, 18, 5 ff., Procopius estimates the number of the Vandals in Africa, at the time of Belisarius, at 80,000 males, and intimates that practically all perished.

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