Instead of by weight.

[45]

Now Porto Lombardo.

[46]

Or Athalaric.

[47]

Now Gozzo and Malta.

[48]

Cf.  III. v. 8 ff.

[49]

i.e. couriers, from veredus, “post-horse.”

[50]

An adjutant, the general’s own “choice.”

[51]

Topsails.

[52]

i.e. Decimum miliarium, tenth milestone from Carthage.

[53]

Before 533 A.D.

[54]

Hermaeum, Lat.  Mercurii promontorium (Cape Bon).

[55]

“Auxiliaries”; see chap. xi. 3, 4.

[56]

The troops were billeted as at a peaceful occupation.

[57]

St. Cyprian (circa 200-257 A.D.), Bishop of Carthage.

[58]

Chap. xx. 13.

[59]

Compare the remarks of Gibbon, iv. p. 295.

[60]

In Arcana, 18, 5 ff., Procopius estimates the number of the Vandals in Africa, at the time of Belisarius, at 80,000 males, and intimates that practically all perished.

[61]

Chap. xi. 23.

[62]

Cagliari.

[63]

On this Theudis and his accession to the throne of the Visigoths in
Spain see V. xii. 50 ff.

[64]

The leader of a band of foederati.  Cf.  III. xi. 1, 6, xxiv. 19.

[65]

Also a dux foederatorum, and domesticus of Belisarius.  Cf.  III. xi. 5 ff.

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HISTORY OF THE WARS: 

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BOOK IV

THE VANDALIC WAR (Continued)

I

Gelimer, seeing all the Vandals gathered together, led his army against Carthage.  And when they came close to it, they tore down a portion of the aqueduct,—­a structure well worth seeing—­which conducted water into the city, and after encamping for a time they withdrew, since no one of the enemy came out against them.  And going about the country there they kept the roads under guard and thought that in this way they were besieging Carthage; however, they did not gather any booty, nor plunder the land, but took possession of it as their own.  And at the same time they kept hoping that there would be some treason on the part of the Carthaginians themselves and such of the Roman soldiers as followed the doctrine of Arius.  They also sent to the leaders of the Huns, and promising that they would have many good things from the Vandals, entreated them to become their friends and allies.  Now the Huns even before this had not been well-disposed toward the cause of the Romans, since they had not indeed come to them