319--326)] [Footnote 153: The life of Isidore was composed by Damascius, (apud Photium, sod.ccxlii.p.

1028--1076.) See the last age of the Pagan philosophers, in Brucker, (tom.ii.p.

341--351.)] [Footnote 154: The suppression of the schools of Athens is recorded by John Malala, (tom.ii.p.187, sub Decio Cos.

Sol.,) and an anonymous Chronicle in the Vatican library, (apud Aleman.p.

106.)] [Footnote 155: Agathias (l.ii.p.69, 70, 71) relates this curious story Chosroes ascended the throne in the year 531, and made his first peace with the Romans in the beginning of 533--a date most compatible with his young fame and the old age of Isidore, (Asseman.