[888] 'Vestros (?) veraciter pandit aspectus.'
[889] Joseph, Praetorian Praefect of Egypt under Pharaoh.
[890] Paulas was probably a Sajo.
[891] Now Cividale in Friuli. Notice the terminations of these names: 'ex Concordiense, Aquileiense, et Forojuliense civitatibus' ('e,' not 'i').
[892] The letter here alluded to does not appear to be preserved.
[893] Cassiodorus, like Procopius, spells this name with a 't.' Some of the ecclesiastical writers spell it with a 'c.'
[894] Pavia.
[895] Tortona.
[896] Twelve shillings for twenty pecks, or about nineteen shillings and twopence a quarter; not a very low price, one would think, for such a grain as millet.
Datius is ordered to sell tertiam portionem of this millet. Probably this expression has the same meaning as the 'tertia illatio' of [xi. 37].