[761] Jn. Malala, p. 431; Theophanes, an. 6020.
[762] Procopius, De Bel. Goth., iv, 3.
[763] John Ephes., Hist. (Com.), p. 249. In 543 he brought a party of grammarians, advocates, ship-masters, and monks from Alexandria, and held séances in which he argued to convert them from the Egyptian Monophysitism; "for," says the historian, "he thought none of the bishops or others equal to him in the art of argument."
[764] Procopius, De Bel. Goth., iii, 32.
[765] See p. 622.
[766] Cedrenus, i, p. 660 et seq.
[767] Chron. Paschal., an. 552.
[768] Three considerable monographs treat of religion in the sixth century: Duchesne, Vigile et Pelage (Rev. d. quest. hist., 1884); Knecht, Die Relig. Polit. Kais. Justin., Würz., 1896; and Hutton, The Church in the Sixth Cent., Lond., 1897. Gasquet's De l'autor. impér. en mat. relig. à Byzance, Paris, 1879, also contains matter germane to the subject.