[Footnote 82: John Malala, Chron. tom. ii. p. 134 - 137
Theophanes, p. 144. Hist. Miscell. l. xv. p. 103. The fact
is authentic, but the date seems too recent. In speaking of
their Persian alliance, the Lazi contemporaries of Justinian
employ the most obsolete words, &c. Could they belong to a
connection which had not been dissolved above twenty years?]