He wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from Antiquity ( the last was written by Procopius ).

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.

In his History of the Wars, Procopius mentions a story ( which Gibbon disbelieved ) where, on hearing the news that Rome had " perished ", Honorius was initially shocked ; thinking the news was in reference to a favorite chicken he had named " Roma ".

An alternate name for Greek fire was " Median fire " (), and the 6th-century historian Procopius, records that crude oil, which was called naphtha ( in Greek νάφθα, naphtha, from Middle Persian نفت ( naft )) by the Persians, was known to the Greeks as " Median oil " ().

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 ".

Justinian was a prolific builder ; the historian Procopius bears witness to his activities in this area.

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

Procopius adds that the object was later sent back to Jerusalem where there is no record of it, although it could have been destroyed when Jerusalem was pillaged by the Persians in 614.

Moreover Procopius says that the earlier name of Scandinavia was Thule and that it was the home of the Goths.

Procopius of Caesarea ( Latin: Procopius Caesarensis, ; c. AD 500 – c. AD 565 ) was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palaestina Prima.

When Belisarius was sent back to Italy in 544 to cope with a renewal of the war with the Goths, now led by the able king Totila, Procopius appears to have no longer been on Belisarius ' staff.

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.

Procopius was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought by Justinian I, a panegyric on Justinian's public works throughout the empire, and a book known as the Secret History ( Greek: Anekdota ) that claims to report the scandals that Procopius could not include in his published history.

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.

Procopius had been charged with overseeing a northern division of Julian's army during the Persian expedition and had not been present with the imperial elections when Julian's successor was named.

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.

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.

Procopius witnessed the Nika riots of January, 532, which Belisarius and his fellow general Mundo repressed with a massacre in the Hippodrome.

Only in the spring of 366 had Valens assembled enough troops to deal with Procopius effectively.

* Belisarius stands trial for corruption in Constantinople, possibly with Procopius acting as urban prefect.

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

Critics of Procopius ( whose work reveals a man seriously disillusioned with his rulers ) have dismissed his work as a severely biased source, being vitriolic and pornographic, but without other sources, critics have been unable to discredit some of the assertions in the publication.

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.

Edward Gibbon contrasts Agathias as " a poet and rhetorician " with Procopius, " a statesman and soldier.

Procopius praised him as " both gentle and well-endowed with sagacity and thoroughly capable of valorous deeds.

In the 6th century, the Byzantine historian Procopius ( d. after 562 ) saw Attila and the Huns as the nation locked out by Alexander, and a little later other Christian writers identified them with the Saracens.

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.

The Byzantine historian Procopius recorded of 536, in his report on the wars with the Vandals, " during this year a most dread portent took place.

Evagrius is much less critical of the Emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora, in comparison with Procopius, who described the two as physically manifest demons.

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.

Procopius claims that the White Huns lived in a prosperous territory, and that they were the only Huns with fair complexions.

Due to rising costs and waning enrollment, Sacred Heart merged with St. Procopius Academy in 1967 to form Benet Academy on the St. Procopius campus.

On the flagship Belisarius is accompanied by his military secretary Procopius and his wife Antonina.

* June – In Rome, famine brings the city to despair, Belisarius sends his secretary Procopius to Naples for more reinforcements and supplies.

Procopius, on the other hand, states that Belisarius appointed Vigilius shortly after Silverius was deposed.

Most of the historical evidence for Totila consists of chronicles by the Byzantine historian Procopius, who accompanied the Byzantine General Belisarius during the Gothic War.

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.

It is a noteworthy curiosity that the opening of the Janus was perhaps the last act connected to the ancient religion in Rome: Procopius writes that in 536 CE, during the Gothic War, while general Belisarius was under siege in Rome, at night somebody opened the Janus Geminus stealthily, which had long stayed closed since 390, year on which Theodosius I's edict banned the ancient cults.

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

The modest Roman town of Urvinum Mataurense (" the little city on the river Mataurus ") became an important strategic stronghold in the Gothic Wars of the 6th century, captured in 538 from the Ostrogoths by the Byzantine general Belisarius, and frequently mentioned by the historian Procopius.

Justinian rebuilt his birthplace in Illyricum, as Justiniana Prima, more in a gesture of imperium than out of an urbanistic necessity ; another " city ", was reputed to have been founded, according to Procopius ' panegyric on Justinian's buildings, precisely at the spot where the general Belisarius touched shore in North Africa: the miraculous spring that gushed forth to give them water and the rural population that straightway abandoned their ploughshares for civilised life within the new walls, lend a certain taste of unreality to the project.

Belisarius ' fleet during the Vandalic War, as described by Procopius of Caesarea, was apparently at least partly fitted with lateen sails, making it probable that by the time the lateen had become the standard rig for the dromon, with the traditional square sail gradually falling from use in medieval navigation.

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.