His widow Mathasuenta, the wife and mother of the patricians, the elder and younger Germanus, united the streams of Anician and Amali blood, (Jornandes, c.

60, p.

221, in Muratori, tom.
i.)] [Footnote 111: Procopius, Goth.l.iii.c.1.

Aimoin, a French monk of the xith century, who had obtained, and has disfigured, some authentic information of Belisarius, mentions, in his name, 12,000, pueri or slaves--quos propriis alimus stipendiis--besides 18,000 soldiers, (Historians of France, tom.iii.De Gestis Franc.l.ii.c.6, p.

48.)] It was the custom of the Roman triumphs, that a slave should be placed behind the chariot to remind the conqueror of the instability of fortune, and the infirmities of human nature.