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.