men.  At any rate the marvel-mongers were always predicting to this John many such imaginary things, and especially that he was bound to be clothed in the garment of Augustus.  Now there was a certain priest in Byzantium, Augustus by name, who guarded the treasures of the temple of Sophia.  So when John had been shorn and declared worthy of the priestly dignity by force, inasmuch as he had no garment becoming a priest, he had been compelled by those who were in charge of this business to put on the cloak and the tunic of this Augustus who was near by, and in this, I suppose, his prophecy reached its fulfilment.

FOOTNOTES: 

[1]

That is, the Saracens subject to the Romans and those subject to the Persians.

[2]

Cf.  Book I. xxii. 4.

[3]

The Huns placed a part of their force in the rear of the defenders of the pass, which lies between the sea and the mountains, sending them around by the same path, probably, as that used by Xerxes when he destroyed Leonidas and his three hundred Spartans; see Herod. vii. 216-218.

[4]

“Secretary of secrets.”

[5]

Cf.  Book I. xxii. 4.

[6]

Cf.  Book II. i. 13; iii. 47.

[7]

Cf.  Book I. xxii. 4.

[8]

Cf.  Book II. xxi. 30-32.

[9]

This term was applied to the “Blue Faction” in Byzantium and elsewhere.

[10]

Cf.  Book I. xxii. 4.

[11]

Nine MS. lines are missing at this point.

[12]

Cf.  Book II. x. 24.

[13]

Cf.  Book I. xii. 4 ff.

[14]

Cf.  Book I. viii. 21-22.

[15]

Cf. chap. v. 31.

[16]

I.e. “groin.”

[17]

Modern Galata.

[18]

The official dress.

[19]

Vesta.

[20]

Cf. section 9 above.

[21]

Cf.  Book II. xii. 31-34.

[22]

Latin agger, “mound.”

[23]

“Three Towers.”

[24]

Cf.  Book I. xii. 5 ff.

[25]

Book II. xix. 23.

[26]

Procopius seems to have confused two separate and distinct rivers.

[27]

Cf.  Book II. xv. 11.

[28]

Latin clausura, “a narrow shut-in road.”

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INDEX

Abandanes, secretary of Chosroes, sent to Belisarius, II. xxi. 1 ff.; his report, II. xxi. 13, 14

Abasgi, their location, II. xxix. 15; friends of the Romans, ib.

Abochorabus, ruler of the Saracens of Arabia, presents the Palm Groves
    to Justinian, I. xix. 10 ff.

Aborrhas River, protects one side of Circesium, II. v. 2; near Theodosiopolis, II. xix. 29