[Footnote 62: In his chronology, imitated, in some degree,
from Thucydides, Procopius begins each spring the years of
Justinian and of the Gothic war; and his first aera
coincides with the first of April, 535, and not 536,
according to the Annals of Baronius, (Pagi, Crit. tom. ii.
p. 555, who is followed by Muratori and the editors of
Sigonius.) Yet, in some passages, we are at a loss to
reconcile the dates of Procopius with himself, and with the
Chronicle of Marcellinus.]