Procopius (Gothic. l. i. c. i.) approves himself an impartial sceptic;
Cassiodorus (in Chron.) and Ennodius (p. 1604)
are loyal and credulous, and the testimony of the Valesian
Fragment (p. 718) may justify their belief. Marcellinus spits
the venom of a Greek subject -
perjuriis illectus, interfectusque est, (in Chron.)