Note 002 The names of these Dardanian peasants are Gothic, and almost English: Justinian is a translation of uprauda, (upright); his father Sabatius (in Graeco-barbarous language stipes) was styled in his village Istock, (Stock); his mother Bigleniza was softened into Vigilantia.

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 40