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When Belisarius eventually returned to Italy, Procopius relates that " during a space of five years he did not succeed once in setting foot on any part of the land ... except where some fortress was, but during this whole period he kept sailing about visiting one port after another.
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For this reason it seems he sent a force of 30, 000 soldiers under Procopius and Sebastianus further eastward to devastate Media in conjunction with Armenian forces.
On route he creates a diversion and sends a force of 30, 000 soldiers under his cousin Procopius to Armenia.
XL, 30, 31 ; Eugipp., 44, 4 ) and the Greek transcription – Nόβας given by Procopius ( De aed.
Notwithstanding its enormous costs, in the Eastern Roman Empire the service was still fully functioning in the first half of the sixth century, when the historian Procopius charges Emperor Justinian with the dismantlement of most of its sections, with the exception of the route leading to the Persian border ( Secret History 30. 1 – 11 ).
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It started in Egypt, and reached Constantinople the following spring, killing ( according to the Byzantine chronicler Procopius ) 10, 000 a day at its height, and perhaps 40 % of the city's inhabitants.
The Byzantine garrison ( 1, 000 men ) surrenders and is spared, but the inhabitants are massacred, ( according to Procopius 300, 000 people are murdered ) and the city itself is destroyed.
Some 50, 000 Czech immigrants were served by the three Czech parishes of Chicago — 16, 000 to 20, 000 of them by St. Procopius.
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.
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Dengizich is believed to have been king ( khan ) of the Kutrigur Bulgars, and Ernakh king ( khan ) of the Utigur Bulgars, whilst Procopius claimed that Kutrigurs and Utigurs were named after, and led by two of the sons of Ernakh.
Similarly, the 6th century Slavs were presented as Hun groups by Procopius.
Procopius recorded a few of the extreme weather events of 535-536, although these were presented as a backdrop to Byzantine military activities, such as a mutiny, in and near Carthage.
Even after he steadied his resolve to fight, Valens's efforts to forestall Procopius were hampered by the fact that most of his troops had already crossed the Cilician gates into Syria when he learned of the revolt.
The Gothic people in the northern region had supported Procopius in his revolt against Valens, and Valens had learned the Goths were planning an uprising of their own.
According to Procopius, the Heruli were a polytheistic society known to practice human sacrifice.
Ludmila, Wenceslas, Procopius, Cyril and Methodius, and Adalbert ), although numerous legends about Bohemian saints were also written by foreign authors.
The Danes were first documented in written sources around 500 AD, including in the writings of Jordanes and Procopius.
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.
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 ".
Not long afterwards Theodoric had Boethius ' father-in-law Symmachus put to death, according to Procopius, on the grounds that he and Boethius together were planning a revolution, and confiscated their property.
During the Iberian and Lazic wars initiated in the Caucasus by Justinian I, it was noted by Procopius that Persian cataphract archers were adept at firing their arrows in very quick succession and saturating enemy positions but with little hitting power, resulting in mostly non-incapacitating limb wounds for the enemy.
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.
Procopius, John Malalas, the Chronicon Paschale, and Zacharias called him " John the Cappadocian " for disambiguation reasons, as the name John ( Ioannes in Greek and Johannes in Latin ) were widely used by his time.
His contemporary historians were biased against him, particularly Procopius and Lydus, and their accounts are often coloured by their prejudices.
The urns and ashes were scattered by Visigoth looters during Alaric's sacking of Rome in 410, and the original decorative bronze and stone statuary were thrown down upon the attacking Goths when they besieged Rome in 537, as recounted by Procopius.
Procopius claims that the White Huns lived in a prosperous territory, and that they were the only Huns with fair complexions.
The Benedictines threatened to close the boys ' school, but were dissuaded by Abbot Daniel W. Kucera, who had graduated from St. Procopius in 1941.
On the other hand, authors such as Ammianus Marcellinus ( 4th century ) or Procopius of Caesarea ( 6th century ) were able to keep the tradition of classical historiography alive.
Outside of mythology, the probable ancestors of the Ubykh were mentioned in book IV of Procopius ' De Bello Gothico ( The Gothic War ), under the name βροῦχοι ( Bruchi ), a corruption of the native term tʷaχ.
For instance, in the third book of the History of the Wars Procopius details: " There were many Gothic nations in earlier times, just as also at the present, but the greatest and most important of all are the Goths, Vandals, Visigoths, and Gepaedes.
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* April – May – Emperor Valens defeats the troops of Procopius in the Battle of Thyatira, bringing an end to his revolt ; Serenianus and Marcellus are killed.
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.
However Cassiodorus, Marcellinus Comes and Procopius report that Anthemius was killed by Ricimer himself.
After much fighting, Kaleb's soldiers eventually routed Yusuf's forces and killed the king, allowing Kaleb to appoint Sumuafa ' Ashawa ', a native Christian ( named Esimphaios by Procopius ), as his viceroy of Himyar.
Procopius and Hippodrome
Procopius witnessed the Nika riots of January, 532, which Belisarius and his fellow general Mundo repressed with a massacre in the Hippodrome.
Procopius and .
The letters of Cassiodorus, chief minister and literary adviser of Amalasuntha, and the histories of Procopius and Jordanes, give us our chief information as to the character of Amalasuntha.
* Procopius, De Aedific.
Bede's account of the early migrations of the Angles and Saxons to England omits any mention of a movement of those peoples across the channel from Britain to Brittany described by Procopius, who was writing in the sixth century.
Ossetic bættən " bind ", bast " bound ") and Iranian * arna-" offspring ", equating it with the δουλόσποροι " slave Sporoi " mentioned by Nonnus and Cosmas, where Sporoi is the people Procopius mentions as the ancestors of the Slavs.
The Historian Procopius, in his Secret History, claims that the emperor Justinian attempted to interfere with the Jewish calendar in the 6th century, and a modern writer has suggested that this measure may have been directed against the protopaschites.
Procopius records that after about five years, Abraha deposed the viceroy and made himself king ( Histories 1. 20 ).
Gothic has no direct testimony of * albs, plural * albeis, but Procopius has the personal name Albila.
Procopius, The Vandalic War ( III. 2. 25 – 26 )
Major sources for Gothic history include Ammianus Marcellinus ' Res gestae, which mentions Gothic involvement in the civil war between emperors Procopius and Valens of 365 and recounts the Gothic refugee crisis and revolt of 376 – 82, and Procopius ' de bello gothico, which describes the Gothic war of 535 – 52.
Procopius interpreted the name Visigoth as " western Goths " and the name Ostrogoth as " eastern Goth ", reflecting the geographic distribution of the Gothic realms at that time.
Procopius provides the primary source for the history of Justinian's reign.
Another contemporary chronicler, Procopius, compares Justinian's appearance to that of tyrannical Emperor Domitian, although this is probably slander.
Justinian was a prolific builder ; the historian Procopius bears witness to his activities in this area.
In Justinian's era, and partly under his patronage, Byzantine culture produced noteworthy historians, including Procopius and Agathias, and poets such as Paul the Silentiary and Romanus the Melodist flourished during his reign.
* Procopius.
* Procopius, The Secret History, translated by G. A.
* The Anekdota (" Secret history ") of Procopius in English translation.
* The Buildings of Procopius in English translation.
Other writers, e. g. Procopius, wrote works which are extant on the later history of the Goths.
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