i.e. Clypea. Not the place mentioned in IV. x. 24.
The region in the interior of Sardinia called Barbargia or Barbagia still preserves this name. But Procopius' explanation of the origin of the barbarian settlers there has not been generally accepted.
Book III. xviii. 7 ff.
IV. iv. 30 and note.
Baptism was administered only during the fifty days between Easter and Pentecost. Justinian had forbidden the baptism of Arians.