[The letter a is reserved for Editorial Matter.]

Chapter I. Odoacer to the Triumph of Narses

[b] John B. Bury, A History of the Later Roman Empire.

[c] Thomas Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders.

[d] Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

[e] Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum gestarum, Libri XXXI.

[f] Malchus Philadelphus, Βυζανταικά.

[g] Evagrius of Epiphaneia, Ἱστορία ἐκκλησιάστικα.

[h] Jordanes (Jornandes), De Getarum origine et rebus gestis.

[i] Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, Libri XII De Rebus Gestis Gothorum.