The view of the military establishment of the Goths in Italy is collected from the Epistles of Cassiodorus (Var. i.24, 40; iii. 3, 24, 48; iv. 13, 14; v. 26, 27; viii. 3, 4, 25.)They are illustrated by the learned Mascou, (Hist. of the Germans, l. xi. 40 - 44, Annotation xiv.)