[Footnote 5: (Procop. Vandal. l. i. c. 11.) Aleman, (Not. ad
Anecdot. p. 5,) an Italian, could easily reject the German
vanity of Giphanius and Velserus, who wished to claim the
hero; but his Germania, a metropolis of Thrace, I cannot
find in any civil or ecclesiastical lists of the provinces
and cities.]