[Footnote 1: The complete series of the Vandal war is
related by Procopius in a regular and elegant narrative, (l.
i. c. 9 - 25, l. ii. c. 1 - 13,) and happy would be my lot,
could I always tread in the footsteps of such a guide. From
the entire and diligent perusal of the Greek text, I have a
right to pronounce that the Latin and French versions of
Grotius and Cousin may not be implicitly trusted; yet the
president Cousin has been often praised, and Hugo Grotius
was the first scholar of a learned age.]