776)] [Footnote 39: (Procop.Goth.lib.iv.p.

33.) In the year 536 by Belisarius, in 546 by Totila, in 547 by Belisarius, in 549 by Totila, and in 552 by Narses.

Maltretus had inadvertently translated sextum; a mistake which he afterwards retracts; out the mischief was done; and Cousin, with a train of French and Latin readers, have fallen into the snare.] [Footnote 40: Compare two passages of Procopius, (l.iii.c.26, l.
iv.c.

24,) which, with some collateral hints from Marcellinus and Jornandes, illustrate the state of the expiring senate.] [Footnote 41: See, in the example of Prusias, as it is delivered in the fragments of Polybius, (Excerpt.Legat.xcvii.p.927, 928,) a curious picture of a royal slave.] The Gothic war was yet alive.

The bravest of the nation retired beyond the Po; and Teias was unanimously chosen to succeed and revenge their departed hero.