Such female pretensions would have astonished the slaves of the first Caesars.] [Footnote 7: Vol.iii.p.

504--508.] [Footnote 8: Suidas, tom.i.p.332, 333, edit.

Kuster.] [Footnote 811: Joannes Lydus accuses Zeno of timidity, or, rather, of cowardice; he purchased an ignominious peace from the enemies of the empire, whom he dared not meet in battle; and employed his whole time at home in confiscations and executions.

Lydus, de Magist.iii.45, p.
230 .-- M.] [Footnote 812: Named Illus .-- M.] [Footnote 9: The contemporary histories of Malchus and Candidus are lost; but some extracts or fragments have been saved by Photius, (lxxviii.lxxix.p.

100--102,) Constantine Porphyrogenitus, (Excerpt.
Leg.p.