Constantinople, and the palace of the Caesars, no longer appeared impregnable or remote; and his aspiring fancy already covered Asia Minor with the troops, and the Black Sea with the navies, of Persia.
[Footnote 62: The invasion of Syria, the ruin of Antioch, &c., are related in a full and regular series by Procopius, (Persic.l.ii.

c.
5--14.) Small collateral aid can be drawn from the Orientals: yet not they, but D'Herbelot himself, (p.

680,) should blush when he blames them for making Justinian and Nushirvan contemporaries.

On the geography of the seat of war, D'Anville (l'Euphrate et le Tigre) is sufficient and satisfactory.] [Footnote 6211: It is Sura in Procopius.

Is it a misprint in Gibbon ?--M.] [Footnote 6212: Joannes Lydus attributes the easy capture of Antioch to the want of fortifications which had not been restored since the earthquake, l.iii.c.54.p.