[109] [Footnote 102: In the fanciful eloquence of Cassiodorus, the variety of sea and river fish are an evidence of extensive dominion; and those of the Rhine, of Sicily, and of the Danube, were served on the table of Theodoric, (Var.xii.

14.) The monstrous turbot of Domitian (Juvenal Satir.iii.

39) had been caught on the shores of the Adriatic.] [Footnote 103: Procopius, Goth.l.i.c.1.

But he might have informed us, whether he had received this curious anecdote from common report or from the mouth of the royal physician.] [Footnote 104: Procopius, Goth.l.i.c.1, 2, 12, 13.

This partition had been directed by Theodoric, though it was not executed till after his death, Regni hereditatem superstes reliquit, (Isidor.Chron.p.