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5,) an Italian, could easily reject the German vanity of Giphanius and Velserus, who wished to claim the hero; but his Germania, a metropolis of Thrace, I cannot find in any civil or ecclesiastical lists of the provinces and cities.

Note *: M.von Hammer (in a review of Lord Mahon's Life of Belisarius in the Vienna Jahrbucher) shows that the name of Belisarius is a Sclavonic word, Beli-tzar, the White Prince, and that the place of his birth was a village of Illvria, which still bears the name of Germany .-- M.] [Footnote 6: The two first Persian campaigns of Belisarius are fairly and copiously related by his secretary, (Persic.l.i.c.

12--18.)] [Footnote 611: The battle was fought on Easter Sunday, April 19, not at the end of the summer.

The date is supplied from John Malala by Lord Mabon p.