[356] Procopius, De Bel. Pers., ii, 3.
[357] Procopius, Anecd., 24.
[358] Ibid., 20.
[359] Procopius, Anecd., 25.
[360] Ibid.
[361] Ibid. The rise in price was so great (nearly forty to one) as to be almost incomprehensible, but the manuscript was corrupt, and has been emended on conjecture by Alemannus. It appears, however, that the value of ordinary silk returned to what it was under Aurelian (see p. 133, its weight in gold), while the Imperial purple (holovera; cf. Cod. Theod., X, xxi; Cod., XI, ix) was rated at four times that amount.
[362] Procopius, Anecd., 26. The panis gradilis (see p. 81) was now abolished at Alexandria.
[363] See p. 147.
[364] Procopius, Anecd., 26.
[365] Ibid.