PROLEGOMENA.

Theophylact = Histories of Theophylact Simocatta, ed. C. de Boor. Leipzig, 1887.

Victor of Tonnena = Chronicle of Victor of Tonnena in: Minor Chronicles, Vol. II, 178–206.

Victor Vitensis, History of the Persecution in the African Province, from the edition of M. Petschenig. Vienna, 1881.

Vit. = G. Vitelli, Journal of Philology, 1895, pp. 404–408.

Zacharias = The So-called Church History of Zacharias Rhetor, published in German translation by Ahrens and Krüger. Leipzig, 1899.

Zonaras = Epitome of Histories by John Zonaras, ed. L. Dindorf. Vol. III. Leipzig, 1870.

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On the Sources of Procopius.

The books about which I am about to write here, since they are titled differently in various manuscripts—a fact you will find noted in the critical apparatus—are titled in my edition as: Books on the Wars original: "ὑπὲρ τῶν πολέμων λόγοι", because they are consistently cited as such by Procopius himself in the books on buildings; cf. I 1, 6 it is declared in the books on the wars original: "ἐν τοῖς ὑπὲρ τῶν πολέμων δεδήλωται λόγοις". I 1, 20 it is narrated in the books on the wars original: "ἐν τοῖς ὑπὲρ τῶν πολέμων δεδιήγηται λόγοις". II 1, 4. III 2, 8. V 8, 2. VI 1, 8. VI 5, 6. VI 6, 9. It is difficult to investigate what sources the writer of Caesarea used while composing these books. Agathias (IV 26, p. 264) says indeed that he read a great many things; but he himself praises few ancient writers: Herodotus, Arrian, Strabo, Aristotle, Homer, Aeschylus, although very reliable historians such as Priscus of Panium had already composed the events he narrates in the introductions to the first and third books on the wars, from whom it is very certain that many fragments flowed into the works of later historians; I think it can be shown that several exist in the histories of Procopius; compare these passages: