[27] [Footnote 23: The expression of Procopius (de Edific.l.vi.c.

7.) Ceuta, which has been defaced by the Portuguese, flourished in nobles and palaces, in agriculture and manufactures, under the more prosperous reign of the Arabs, (l'Afrique de Marmai, tom.ii.p.

236.)] [Footnote 24: See the second and third preambles to the Digest, or Pandects, promulgated A.D.533, December 16.

To the titles of Vandalicus and Africanus, Justinian, or rather Belisarius, had acquired a just claim; Gothicus was premature, and Francicus false, and offensive to a great nation.] [Footnote 25: See the original acts in Baronius, (A.D.535, No.

21--54.) The emperor applauds his own clemency to the heretics, cum sufficiat eis vivere.] [Footnote 26: Dupin (Geograph.