[Footnote 47: There is some difficulty in connecting the
35th chapter of the fourth book of the Gothic war of
Procopius with the first book of the history of Agathias.
We must now relinquish the statesman and soldier, to attend
the footsteps of a poet and rhetorician, (l. i. p. 11, l.
ii. p. 51, edit. Lonvre.)]