This mingled race are the Bulgarians bordering on the Byzantine empire.

Shafarik, ii 152, et seq .-- M.

1845] [Footnote 12: Procopius, (Goth.l.iv.c.

19.) His verbal message (he owns him self an illiterate Barbarian) is delivered as an epistle.

The style is savage, figurative, and original.] [Footnote 13: This sum is the result of a particular list, in a curious Ms.fragment of the year 550, found in the library of Milan.