... the ruins of Sardica, (the modern Sophia,) of an obscure race ^2 of Barbarians, ^3 the inhabitants of a wild and desolate country, to which the names of Dardania, of Dacia, and of Bulgaria, have ... governor of his native provinces of Bruttium and Lucania, quaestor, magister, palatii, Praetorian praefect, patrician, consul, and private secretary, and, in fact,first minister of the king. He was ... theseDardanian peasants are Gothic, and almost English: Justinian is a translation of uprauda, (upright;) his fatherSabatius (in Graeco-barbarous language stipes) was styled in his village Istock,...