Note 122
From Chapter 36 of the Decline & Fall

Theophanes, who calls him a Goth, affirms that he was educated, nursed Ancient Greek in Italy (p. 102 [tom. i. p. 184, ed. Bonn]); and as this strong expression will not bear a literal interpretation, it must be explained by long service in the Imperial guards.

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