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- Byzantine historian during the reign of Justinian I. He wrote histories of the Persian, Vandal, and Gothic wars and Anecdota, an attack on Justinian.
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Theodoric, and the professions of his successor, in Procopius,
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I have seen an ingenious model, contrived and executed by General Melville, which imitates or surpasses the art of antiquity.] 82 The description of this mausoleum, or mole, in Procopius, (l.i. c.
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Justinian, was the same through which the Mahometans penetrated into the empire.] 91 The expression of Procopius is remarkable.
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M.] 94 The chronology of Procopius is loose and obscure; but with the aid of Pagi I can discern that
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M.] 135 See the fate of Phirouz, or Perozes, and its consequences, in Procopius, (Persic.l. i. c.
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Few men have more exquisitely tasted of glory and disgrace; nor could Juvenal (Satir. x.) produce a more striking example of the vicissitudes of fortune, and the vanity of human wishes.] 3 This last epithet of Procopius is too nobly translated by pirates; naval thieves is the proper word; strippers of garments, either for injury or insult,
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The cultivation of flax supposes property, commerce, agriculture, and manufactures] 10 I have used, without undertaking to reconcile, the facts in Procopius, (Goth.l. ii. c.
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M.] 28 The third book of Procopius is terminated by the death of Germanus, (Add.l. iv. c.
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Bomare and Miller.] 15 For the name and nation, the situation and manners, of the Sclavonians, see the original evidence of the vith century, in Procopius, (Goth.l. ii.c. 26, l.
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Wisigothorum, 'with illustrative extracts from Isidore and Procopius, which is printed at the end of Nivellius' edition.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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