[89] Malala calls him the eldest son, but in Procopius Caoses is the name given to the eldest; loc. cit., 11; see p. 314.
[90] Hunnish Foederati. According to Ammianus (xxxi, 2) they almost lived on horseback, often not dismounting even to sleep.
[91] See Oman (op. cit., 28) for a plan of the battle with remarks. It does not quite accord with the phraseology of Procopius, but I find it impossible to understand him in any other way.
[92] Procopius, loc. cit., 14.
[93] The enemy, says Procopius, kept the Romans standing in line all the forenoon to prevent their having their midday meal; they themselves did not eat till sundown.
[94] Bury (op. cit.) makes him only twenty-five, but later, in 562, represents him as being near seventy. His age can only be guessed at from Procopius, De Bel. Pers., i, 12.
[95] If we adopt Oman's interpretation of the tactics of Belisarius (which requires the interchange of "ἀριστερᾷ" and "δεξιᾷ" the subsequent evolutions of the battle become quite clear. Following the text as it stands it seems to me that they would have been impossible. But in the first case "left" is due to an evidently stupid emendation of Maltretus ("δεξιᾷ"" now restored by Haury).
[96] Gold mines worked by the Persians were at Pharangium, and the place was betrayed by the commandant in order that he might embezzle the stock of ore which he happened to have in hand; Procopius, loc. cit., 15. Jn. Malala (p. 455) seems to be partly in conflict with the above. He says the output was formerly divided between both nations, but in the time of Anastasius was wholly ceded to the Romans.
[97] Procopius, loc. cit., 15.
[98] Jn. Malala, xviii, p. 430: "He became engaged to her at the house of Antiochus, near the Hippodrome." This was probably an Imperial appanage or the house of some noble to whose guardianship the sisters had been confided on the elevation of Theodora.