38.) Note: Procopius says distinctly that Milan was the second city of the West.

Which did Gibbon suppose could compete with it, Ravenna or Naples; the next page he calls it the second .-- M.] [Footnote 101: Besides Procopius, perhaps too Roman, see the Chronicles of Marius and Marcellinus, Jornandes, (in Success.Regn.in Muratori, tom.i.p.

241,) and Gregory of Tours, (l.iii.c.32, in tom.ii.

of the Historians of France.) Gregory supposes a defeat of Belisarius, who, in Aimoin, (de Gestis Franc.l.ii.c.23, in tom.iii.p.

59,) is slain by the Franks.] [Footnote 102: Agathias, l.i.p.14, 15.