Note 95 — Chapter I · ODOACER TO THE TRIUMPH OF NARSES [476-568 A.D.]

[Buryb here uses this spelling, as do most of the German writers, while Hodgkinc prefers to retain “the Odovakar of the contemporary authorities in all its primeval ruggedness, instead of softening it down with later historians (chiefly the Byzantine annalists) into the smooth and slippery Odoacer.” In this work, however, the more familiar form sanctified by long usage is continued.]