Excerpt from Belisarius

Writers, however, are still extant, by whom the au thority of Suidas has been doubted 3 and there are not wanting those who have roundly denied it. Of this number was Eichelius, in the notes and preface to the edition he has given us. He sets out with proving, that it-is neither true nor probable that Procopius Was the author {and he adds, though he were, that a declamation so extravagant, so shame less and absurd, would be entitled to no sort of credit.

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