[Footnote 56:Yet Procopius discredits his own evidence
(Anecdot. c. 16), by confessing that in his public history
he had not spoken the truth. See the Epistles from queen
Gundelina to the empress Theodora (Var. x. 20, 21, 23, and
observe a suspicious word, de illa persona, etc.), with the
elaborate Commentary of Buat (tom. x. p. 177-185).]