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.)