Note 164 This supply was very acceptable: the Goths were insulted by the Vandals of Spain with the epithet of Truli, because in their extreme distress they had given a piece of gold for a trula, or about half a pound of flour. Olympiod. apud Phot. p. 89 [p. 60, ed. Bekk.].

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 31