The plebeian Muratori crouches under their oppression.] [Footnote 27: Procopius, Goth.l.iii.c.421.

Ennodius describes (p.
1612, 1613) the military arts and increasing numbers of the Goths.] [Footnote 28: When Theodoric gave his sister to the king of the Vandals she sailed for Africa with a guard of 1000 noble Goths, each of whom was attended by five armed followers, (Procop.Vandal.l.i.c.

8.) The Gothic nobility must have been as numerous as brave.] [Footnote 2811: Manso (p.

100) quotes two passages from Cassiodorus to show that the Goths were not exempt from the fiscal claims .-- Cassiodor, i.

19, iv.