c.
5,) and those of his son Justin, in Agathias, (l.iv.p.130, 131.) Notwithstanding an ambiguous expression of Jornandes, fratri suo, Alemannus has proved that he was the son of the emperor's brother.] [Footnote 27: Conjuncta Aniciorum gens cum Amala stirpe spem adhuc utii usque generis promittit, (Jornandes, c.

60, p.

703.) He wrote at Ravenna before the death of Totila] [Footnote 2711: See note 31, p.

268 .-- M.] [Footnote 28: The third book of Procopius is terminated by the death of Germanus, (Add.l.iv.c.23, 24, 25, 26.)] After the loss of Germanus, the nations were provoked to smile, by the strange intelligence, that the command of the Roman armies was given to a eunuch.

But the eunuch Narses [29] is ranked among the few who have rescued that unhappy name from the contempt and hatred of mankind.