According to Procopius, Justinian stated at the completion of this edifice, " Solomon I have outdone thee " ( in reference to the 1st Jewish temple ).

According to Procopius, it was carried through the streets of Constantinople during Belisarius ' triumphal procession.

According to Procopius, they maintained close links with their kinsmen in Thule ( Scandinavia ).

According to Procopius, many Heruli migrated back to Scandinavia and settled beside the North Germanic Geats ( Gautoi ).

According to Procopius, the Heruli were a polytheistic society known to practice human sacrifice.

According to Procopius, when summoned to surrender Gelimer instead asked Pharas to send him a loaf of bread, a sponge, and a lyre, to make the winter months on Pappua more bearable.

According to Procopius, the Heruli, after having raided the European continent for several generations, returned to Scandinavia in 512 AD as a result of military defeats.

According to Procopius, his brother Reparatus was one of the senators taken hostage by Witigis, but managed to escape before the Ostrogothic king ordered their slaughter in 537.

According to Ammianus, Valentinian received news of both the Alamanni and Procopius ' revolt on 1 November while on his way to Paris.

According to the historian Procopius, Majorian, " who surpassed in every virtue all who have ever been emperors of the Romans ", wanted to know personally the military readiness of the Vandals and how the local populations would have reacted to the Roman invasion.

According to the Byzantine historian Procopius, " From the start, Yazdegerd was a sovereign whose nobility of character had won for him the greatest renown.

According to Ammianus Marcellinus, Procopius was a native and spent his youth in Cilicia, probably in Corycus.

According to Procopius, Theodora and Antonina, wife of Belisarius, allied against the Prefect.

According to Procopius, these Slavs worshipped a single deity, who crafted lightning and thunder.

According to Procopius ( Histories 1. 20 ), ' Abraha seized the control of Yemen from Esimiphaeus ( Sumuafa ' Ashawa '), the Christian Himyarite viceroy appointed by Kaléb, with the support of dissident elements within the Aksum occupation force who were eager to settle in the Yemen, then a rich and fertile land.

According to Procopius the Lombards were subject to the Heruli at this time and paid tribute.

According to the accounts of Priscus, Procopius, John Malalas, Theodorus Lector, Evagrius Scholasticus, Theophanes the Confessor, Joannes Zonaras and Cedrinus, Placidia can be estimated to have stayed a prisoner in Carthage for six to seven years.

According to Procopius, one-third of the walls were razed.

According to Procopius, during his governorship Theudis had married a Spanish woman who " belonged to the house of one of the wealthy inhabitants of that land, and not only possessed great wealth but also a great estate in Spain.

Sometimes he had to justify his European fame: ' According to the Union of Soviet Writers, some literature circles of the West see unusual importance of my work, not matching its modesty and low productivity …'"

According to the principal editor of the journal, Leonard Lewisohn: " Although a number of major Islamic poets easily rival the likes of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton in importance and output, they still enjoy only a marginal literary fame in the West because the works of Arabic and Persian thinkers, writers and poets are considered as negligible, frivolous, tawdry sideshows beside the grand narrative of the Western Canon.

Edmond Hoyle, of " According to Hoyle " fame, wrote an early popular and definitive textbook, A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist.

According to Byzantine chronicles, on his abdication he achieved some degree of anecdotal fame by crying out the verse from Ecclesiastes, ' Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ' during Justinian's triumph in Contstantinople .< ref > Edward Gibbon,

According to Professor Lynda Walsh of the University of Nevada, Reno, some hoaxes — such as the Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814, labeled as a hoax by contemporary commentators — are financial in nature, and successful hoaxers — such as P. T. Barnum, whose Fiji mermaid contributed to his wealth — often acquire monetary gain or fame through their fabrications, so the distinction between hoax and fraud is not necessarily clear.

According to one account, Bacchylides was banished for a time from his native Ceos and spent this period as an exile in Peloponnesus, where his genius ripened and he did the work which established his fame.

According to John Neal Phillips, Barrow's goal in life was not to gain fame or fortune from robbing banks, but to seek revenge against the Texas prison system for the abuses he suffered while serving time.

According to Josephus it was the conquering of Saba that brought great fame to a young Egyptian Prince, simultaneously exposing his personal background as a slave child named Moses.

According to the historian Pliny the Elder, the craftsmen decided to stay and finish the work after the death of their patron " considering that it was at once a memorial of his own fame and of the sculptor's art.

According to the legend, Semiramis had heard about the fame of the handsome Armenian king Ara, and she lusted after his image.

According to Anna Smith in her book " Johannesburg Street Names " ( Juta, 1971 ), Sturdee Avenue in Rosebank, Johannesburg ( South Africa ), is " believed that it commemorates Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee ( 1859 – 1925 ) of World Ward 1 fame.

According to critic Gill Gregory, Procter " does not overtly ponder the vexed question of the poet, particularly the woman poet and her accession to fame ", unlike many other women poets of the time, such as Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

According to the media, G. F. Watts allegedly stated that " Young Spare has already done enough to justify his fame ", while Augustus John was quoted as remarking that his draughtsmanship was " unsurpassed " and John Singer Sargent apparently thought that Spare was a " genius " who was the greatest draughtsman in England.

According to the minutes of the Provincial Council, dated December 21, 1683 the jury returned with a verdict of guilty for " having the common fame of a which, but not guilty in manner and forme as shee stands indicted.

The development of this “ star system ” made “ fame … something that could be fabricated purposely, by the masters of the new ‘ machinery of glory ’.” However, regardless of how “… strenuously the star and their media handlers and press agents may … try to ‘ monitor ’ and ‘ shape ’ it, the media and the public always play a substantial part in the image-making process .” According to Madow, “ fame is a ‘ relational ’ phenomenon, something that is conferred by others.

Madow goes on to point out “ fame is often conferred or withheld, just as love is, for reasons and on grounds other than ‘ merit ’.” According to Sofia Johansson the “ canonical texts on stardom ” include articles by Boorstin ( 1971 ), Alberoni ( 1972 ) and Dyer ( 1979 ) that examined the “ representations of stars and on aspects of the Hollywood star system ”.

According to a 1960 promotional EP designed and distributed by Liberty Records for Liberty shareholders, David Seville ( of Chipmunks fame ), a composer / producer on Liberty, told Julie London that the term " exotica " was coined by Simon " Si " Waronker, Liberty Records co-founder and, at the time, board chairman.

According to sixteenth century theologian Alexander Ales, Hamilton subsequently went to Leuven, attracted probably by the fame of Erasmus, who in 1521 had his headquarters there.

According to Vasari, " This casting, which is admirable, acquired very great fame and repute for him by reason of the proportion and grace that it shows in all its parts ; and whosoever observes this work well can see that the design is good, and that the craftsman was a man of judgment and of practised ability.

According to People, " Though Lisa Loeb rose to fame as a singer, she ’ s probably just as well known for her eyeglasses.

According to LaFontaine himself, his voice cracked at the age of 13 in the middle of a sentence, giving him the bass tones that would later bring him much fame and success.

According to Alizadeh, the act was not based on any political will, respect of law or interest in conflict resolution, but instead had only " cheap fame " to it.

According to Blumhofer, " The popularity of Fanny Crosby's lyrics as well as her winsome personality catapulted her to fame ".

According to a von Braun biography (" Dr. Space " by Bob Ward, published 2005 by the Naval Institute Press ), Low was jealous of von Braun's fame and helped force the German rocketman's unhappy departure from the space agency.