Note 37 — Chapter V · REIGN OF JUSTIN II TO HERACLIUS [565-629 A.D.]
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[The words are given by Theophanesf but Buryg finds the lines so metrical that he thinks they must have been quoted from a lost work by George of Pisidia, whose Heraclian Persian Expedition and War with the Avars are important sources of information in this respect.]