[Footnote 52: For the reign and character of Amalasontha see
Procopius (Gothic. 1. i. C 2, 3, 4, and Anecdot. c. 16, with
the Notes of Alemannus), Cassiodorus (Var. viii ix x. and
xi. I), and Jornandes (de Rebus Geticis, c. 59, and De
Successione Regnorum, in Muratori, tom. i. p. 241).]