If Toumanoff ’ s identification of Procopius ’ Gurgenes with Vakhtang is true, the king might have ended his reign in 522 by taking refuge in Lazica, where he possibly died around the same time.

While the crowd was rioting in the streets, Justinian considered fleeing the capital, but he remained in the city on the stirring words of Theodora ( according to Procopius, she said " For an Emperor to become a fugitive is not a thing to be endured ... I hold with the old saying that the purple makes an excellent shroud ".

It is not known when Procopius himself died, and many historians ( James Howard-Johnson, Averil Cameron, Geoffrey Greatrex ) date his death to 554, but in 562 there was an urban prefect of Constantinople who happened to be called Procopius.

After Scupi was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 518 AD, Justinian, according to his historian Procopius in " De Aedificiis " ( On the Buildings ), built a new city near his birthplace Tauresium and Bederiana ( believed to be today's villages Taor and Bader ) at the fertile entry point of the River Lepenec into the Vardar, making Skopje the city of Justiniana Prima.

The difficulty has been raised, especially by geologists, that the promontory ceased to be an island well before Homer's time ; but Procopius remarked that the promontory has all the appearance of an island until one is actually upon it.

" After a successful siege of a resisting city, such as at Perugia, however, Totila could be merciless, as the Byzantine historian Procopius recounts.

On this occasion Totila exhibited a considerable humanity which was not to be expected, as the historian Procopius remarks, from an enemy or a barbarian.

This may be because both languages were East Germanic and closely related ; scholars have pointed out in this context that Procopius refers to the Goths, Vandals, Visigoths, and Gepaedes as " Gothic nations " and opines that they " are all of the Arian faith, and have one language called Gothic ".

He was the pupil of Procopius of Gaza, who must be distinguished from Procopius of Caesarea, the historian.

In later years, the Via Egnatia was revived as a key road of the Byzantine Empire ; Procopius records repairs made by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I during the 6th century, though even then the dilapidated road was said to be virtually unusable during wet weather.

The name " Kastoria " first appears in the middle of the 6th century ( 550 AD ), mentioned by Procopius as follows :" There was a certain city in Thessaly, Diocletianopolis by name, which had been prosperous in ancient times, but with the passage of time and the assaults of the barbarians it had been destroyed, and for a very long time it had been destitute of inhabitants ; and a certain lake chances to be close by which was named Castoria. There is an island in the middle of the lake, for the most part surrounded by water ; but there remains a single narrow approach to this island through the lake, not more than fifteen feet wide. And a very lofty mountain stands above the island, one half being covered by the lake while the remainder rests upon it.

This etymology was questioned by Russu: Axiopa, a name attested to only in Procopius ' De Aedificiis, may be a corrupt form of Axiopolis .< ref > See and.

In 1898, the orphanage moved to Lisle, about west of Chicago, to be joined by St. Procopius three years later.

Procopius recorded that, at its peak, the plague was killing 10, 000 people in Constantinople daily, but the accuracy of this figure is in question and the true number will probably never be known.

The first reported fool-for-Christ in Russia was St. Procopius ( Prokopiy ), who came from the lands of the Holy Roman Empire to Novgorod, then moved to Ustyug, pretending to be a fool and leading an ascetic way of life ( slept naked on church-porches, prayed throughout the whole night, received food only from poor people ).

* The brief Treatise on the Soul addressed to one Tatian, in favour of which may be cited the testimony of Nicholas of Methone ( probably from Procopius of Gaza ), is now claimed for Gregory.

Notwithstanding its semi-legendary epic character, the LVG provides many important details, which can be combined with the sources closer to the period in question, such as Lazarus of Parpi and Procopius.

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.

It is to be noted that Procopius, who tells us how barges were dragged up the river by teams of oxen moving along it, must be describing the towpath, and not either the Via Portuensis or even the Via Campana, which is in many places at quite a considerable distance from the winding course of the river.

The charge of treason levelled by Procopius against Harith seems to be further undermined by the fact that, unlike Belisarius, he was retained in command and was active in operations around Martyropolis later in the year.

Procopius, De Aedificiis and the poem of Paulus Silentiarius on the dedication of St. Sophia should be read in connexion with this subject.

Once again, Gaiseric was his major supporter, but once again his hopes were shattered, as the Eastern Emperor Leo I the Thracian chose the noble Procopius Anthemius.

Procopius Anthemius ( c. 420 – 11 July 472 ) was Western Roman Emperor from 467 to 472.

His first wife was probably Artemisia, having married secondly the dowager Empress Faustina, while the Roman general of the 5th century Procopius and his son, the Emperor Anthemius, were among his descendants, the first being the son of his son Procopius.

Caesar Procopius Anthemius P. F.

Aug ."; b. Procopius Anthemius ), 467 – 472

Flavius Procopius Anthemius ( floruit 469-515 ) was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire, son of Western Roman Emperor Anthemius.

Procopius was the son of Anthemius and of Marcia Euphemia, daughter of the Easter Roman Empire.

* Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, " Procopius Anthemius 9 ", Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4, p. 99.

* Procopius, magister militum, father of Emperor Procopius Anthemius

* Procopius Anthemius ( c. 420-472 ), a Western Roman Emperor ;

* Anthemiolus, son of Procopius Anthemius, Roman general ;

* Marcian, son of Procopius Anthemius, usurper ;

* Procopius Anthemius, son of Procopius Anthemius, Consul ;

* Romulus, son of Procopius Anthemius ;

* Alypia, daughter of Procopius Anthemius, wife of Ricimer.

However Cassiodorus, Marcellinus Comes and Procopius report that Anthemius was killed by Ricimer himself.

The date of his birth is unclear ; John Malalas claims that at his death he was 82 years old, hence born in 449, but Procopius mentions that he had barely entered puberty when his father Peroz was killed with his entire army during a campaign against the Hephthalites in 484 at the Battle of Herat.

His father was Procopius, magister militum per Orientem from 422 to 424, who was descended from the Procopius who had been a nephew of Emperor Constantine I and a usurper against the Eastern Emperor Valens ( 365 – 366 ).

The story told in the opera is quite different from the real one, despite the fact that Zeno claimed to use several historical sources ( Evagrius Scholasticus l. 2. c. 7, Procopius of Caesarea, Historia Vandalorum, l. 1, Paul the Deacon, vi ): Ricimer captures Rome, frees his sister Teodolinda and enslaves Placidia, daughter of Valentinian III ; a little later, Olybrius frees Rome and Placidia, and marries her.

He had left no sons and two daughters, the elder Ariadne, born before Leo was raised to the throne and married to the Isaurian general Zeno, and the younger Leontia, born when Leo was already emperor and married to Procopius ' brother, Marcian.

With the help of Procopius and Romulus, he gathered in Constantinople troops composed by both citizens and foreigners in the house of a Caesarius, south of the Forum of Theodosius, and from there they marched at the same time on the imperial palace and on the house of Illus an Isaurian general supporter of Zeno.

With the help of some monks, they tried to escape, but Marcian failed, while Procopius fled in Thrace to Theodoric Strabo ( who refused to handle him to Zeno ) and then at Rome.