c.

7, p.

1014.)] [Footnote 9: As the Logothete Alexander, and most of his civil and military colleagues, were either disgraced or despised, the ink of the Anecdotes (c.

4, 5, 18) is scarcely blacker than that of the Gothic History (l.iii.c.1, 3, 4, 9, 20, 21, &c.)] [Footnote 10: Procopius (l.iii.c.2, 8, &c.,) does ample and willing justice to the merit of Totila.

The Roman historians, from Sallust and Tacitus were happy to forget the vices of their countrymen in the contemplation of Barbaric virtue.] The return of Belisarius to save the country which he had subdued, was pressed with equal vehemence by his friends and enemies; and the Gothic war was imposed as a trust or an exile on the veteran commander.