[Footnote 63: In the public history of Procopius, (Persic.
l. ii. c. 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28;) and, with
some slight exceptions, we may reasonably shut our ears
against the malevolent whisper of the Anecdotes, (c. 2, 3,
with the Notes, as usual, of Alemannus.)]