Note 040 Sallust represents the Moors as a remnant of the army of Heracles (de Bell. Jugurth. c. 21 <18>, and Procopius (Vandal. 1. ii. c. 10 (tom. ii. p. 450. ed. Bonn) ) as the posterity of the Cananaeans who fled from the robber Joshua . He quotes two columns, with a Phoenician inscription. I believe in the columns I doubt the inscription and I reject the pedigree.]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 41