Note 035
From Chapter 25 of the Decline & Fall

Ammian. xxiii. 3, xxvi. 6. He mentions the report with much hesitation:

susurravit obscurior fama; nemo enim dicti auctor exstitit verus.

It serves, however, to mark that Procopius was a Pagan. Yet his religion does not appear to have promoted, or obstructed, his pretensions.

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