an unknown people, who now appear in the text of Procopius [Bell. Goth. 1. i. c. 12], Hadrian de Valois has restored the proper name of the 
and this
easy correction has been almost universally approved. Yet an
unprejudiced reader would naturally suppose that Procopius
means to describe a tribe of Germans in the alliance of
Rome, and not a confederacy of Gallic cities which had
revolted from the empire.