PROLEGOMENA.

Proc. I 335, 9

Wishing to punish the Vandals for these reasons, Emperor Leo assembled an army against them. They say the size of this army reached about one hundred thousand. Having gathered a fleet of ships from the entire eastern sea, he displayed great generosity toward the soldiers and sailors, fearing that some stinginess might hinder his eagerness to carry out the punishment against the barbarians. (They say, in fact, that one thousand three hundred centenaria units of weight, typically 100 pounds of gold were spent by him on this effort.) But since the Vandals were not fated to perish by this fleet, he made Basiliscus commander of the war, who was the brother of his wife Verina and who desired the throne excessively, which...

Theoph. I 115, 21

In this year, Emperor Leo, having equipped a great fleet, sent it against Gaiseric, who held power over the Africans. For Gaiseric, after the death of Marcian, displayed many cruelties in the lands under the rule of the Romans, plundering, taking many captive, and tearing down cities. Hence, moved by zeal, the emperor gathered one hundred thousand ships from the entire eastern sea, filled them with soldiers and arms, and sent them against Gaiseric. They say that he spent one thousand one hundred centenaria of gold on this fleet. He appointed Basiliscus as general and leader of the fleet, who was the brother of Verina the Augusta, and who had already participated in the consulship and...

Niceph. Call. XV 27

Gaiseric, however, the king of the Vandals, having begun to rule over the Africans, as I have mentioned before, and having advanced to a great power after the death of Marcian, did very many cruel things, entering the land of the Romans; for he removed the walls of all cities except Carthage. And whatever money and farms belonged to the Western Libyans, he took them away and bestowed them upon his own people... Leo, being vexed by these things, having gathered ships from all the land under his hand—having gathered one hundred, and having filled them with arms along with a capable army—he sent them against Gaiseric and the Vandals. The story goes that he spent one thousand two hundred centenaria of gold on this fleet; and that those sailing the ships were more than seven thousand. And he appointed a commander in chief for the...