[413] Procopius, loc. cit.; Marcellinus Com., Chron., an. 439, etc.
[414] Procopius, loc. cit., 7.
[415] Ibid., 6. He gives the cost of the expedition as 130,000 pounds of gold (£5,200,000).
[416] Ibid., 4, 5; cf. Jordanes, op. cit., 45. She was the daughter of Theodosius II and widow of Valentinian III, her cousin. She was incensed with Maximus, who assassinated her husband, usurped the purple, and paid her unwelcome attentions. Genseric married Eudocia, one of her daughters, to his son Huneric.
[417] A special ecclesiastical account of this by Victor, Bishop of Vita; De Persec. Vand.
[418] Procopius, loc. cit., 9.
[419] Salvian, op. cit., vii, 22.
[420] Procopius, op. cit., ii, 6.
[421] Ibid., i, 9.
[422] Procopius, loc. cit., 11.