The Age of Justinian and Theodora: A History of the Sixth Century A.D., Volume 2 (of 2)

by William Gordon Holmes

[671] Jn. Malala, p. 483, Theophanes, an. 6039.

[672] Facundus, Contr. Moc.; extracts in Concil., ix, 181.

[673] Victor Ton., ann. 549, 550. The African bishops excommunicated the Pope.

[674] Facundus, op. cit. Fulgentius Fer., Epist. 6 (Migne, S. L., lxvii) etc.

[675] Jn. Malala, p. 484; Theophanes, an. 6039.

[676] Chron. Paschal., an. 552 (also Concil., etc.).

[677] Vigilius is thought to have been a very strong man as he is said to have killed a deacon, who taunted him, with a blow of a book; Lib. Pontif.

[678] Epist. Legat. Franc., Concil., ix, 151 (Baronius and Migne, also); Theophanes, an. 6039, etc.

[679] Concil., ix, 50, etc.

[680] Concil., ix, 61 et seq. (also in Col. Avellana). According to Lib. Pontif. he was seized in St. Euphemia and dragged round CP. till evening, with a rope round his neck, by order of Theodora—four years after she was dead!