[446] The Johannis, in eight books, but the latter part is lost. It contains much information respecting the Moors and their mode of fighting, but exactitude is generally sacrificed to the necessary vaguity of poetical description. Important works by Cagnat (Paris, 1892) and Pallu de Lessert (Paris, 1896) on Roman Africa terminate at the Vandal conquest.
[447] Procopius, De Bel. Vand., ii, 5.
[448] Isidore of Seville, Hist. Goth. (Mommsen, Chron. Minora, 1877, p. 284; Mon. Hist. German, xi, 1894).
[449] Venantius Fortunatus, VI, i, 124.
[450] Isidore Sev., loc. cit., pp. 286, 475. "Through A. the Roman soldier set his foot in Spain."
[451] Jordanes, De Reb. Get., 58.
[452] Procopius, De Bel. Goth., iii, 40, etc.
[453] Isidore Sev., loc. cit.
[454] Ibid. A gloss says that "A. was secretly a Catholic," but the storm and stress of fanaticism was past and, after a few flickers breathed by the irreconcilables, the Visigothic Kingdom became wholly Catholic in 587, just twenty years after the death of A. A. was the father of that Brunechilda who, by her marriage with Sighebert, King of Austrasia (N.E. France and Belgium etc.), afterwards played a prominent part in Frankish affairs. She became the rival of the infamous and successful Fredegonda (harlot first and always, ultimately queen) and, after many vicissitudes, ultimately perished, lashed, like an early Mazeppa, to a wild horse (614). She, however, outlived her female antagonist by nearly a score of years.
[455] Isidore Sev., loc. cit.