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Other writers, e. g. Procopius, wrote works which are extant on the later history of the Goths.

As the only surviving work on Gothic origins, the Getica has been the object of much critical review.

Jordanes wrote in Late Latin rather than the classical Ciceronian Latin.

According to his own introduction, he only had three days to review what Cassiodorus had written, meaning that he must also have relied on his own knowledge.

Some of his statements are laconic.