t.
c. 83, with a good note of Casaubon, in Caligula, c. 57.)]

[Footnote 66: The Sergius (Vandal. l. ii. c. 21, 22, Anecdot. c. 5)
and Marcellus (Goth. l. iii. c. 32) are mentioned by Procopius. See
Theophanes, p. 197, 201. * Note: Some words, "the acts of," or "the
crimes cf," appear to have false from the text. The omission is in all
the editions I have consulted.--M.]

[Footnote 67: Alemannus, (p. quotes an old Byzantian Ms., which has been
printed in the Imperium Orientale of Banduri.)]

[Footnote 68: Of the disgrace and restoration of Belisarius, the genuine
original record is preserved in the Fragment of John Malala (tom. ii. p.
234--243) and the exact Chronicle of Theophanes, (p. 194--204.) Cedrenus
(Compend. p. 387, 388) and Zonaras (tom. ii. l. xiv. p. 69) seem to
hesitate between the obsolete truth and the growing falsehood.]

[Footnote 6811: Le Beau, following Allemannus, conceives that Belisarius
was confounded with John of Cappadocia, who was thus reduced to beggary,
(vol. ix. p. 58, 449.) Lord Mahon has, with considerable learning,
and on the authority of a yet unquoted writer of the eleventh century,
endeavored to reestablish the old tradition. I cannot acknowledge that
I have been convinced, and am inclined to subscribe to the theory of Le
Beau.--M.]

[Footnote 69: The source of this idle fable may be derived from a
miscellaneous work of the xiith century, the Chiliads of John Tzetzes,
a monk, (Basil. 1546, ad calcem Lycophront. Colon. Allobrog. 1614, in
Corp. Poet. Graec.) He relates the blindness and beggary of Belisarius
in ten vulgar or political verses, (Chiliad iii. No. 88, 339--348, in
Corp. Poet. Graec. tom. ii. p. 311.) This moral or romantic tale
was imported into Italy with the language and manuscripts of Greece;
repeated before the end of the xvth century by Crinitus, Pontanus, and
Volaterranus, attacked by Alciat, for the honor of the law; and defended
by Baronius, (A.D. 561, No. 2, &c.,) for the honor of the church. Yet
Tzetzes himself had read in other chronicles, that Belisarius did not
lose his sight, and that he recovered his fame and fortunes. * Note:
I know not where Gibbon found Tzetzes to be a monk; I suppose he
considered his bad verses a proof of his monachism. Compare to Gerbelius
in Kiesling's edition of Tzetzes.--M.]

[Footnote 70: The statue in the villa Borghese at Rome, in a sitting
posture, with an open hand, which is vulgarly given to Belisarius, may
be ascribed wit