visandus

Updated: May 12, 2025

The bolder Barbarians advanced to the more honorable combat of swords and spears; and the praise of an enemy has graced the fall of Visandus, the standard-bearer, who maintained his foremost station, till he was pierced with thirteen wounds, perhaps by the hand of Belisarius himself.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4