[1] Aligernos in Agathias (see next note); Aligernes here and in ps-Zonaras only.
[2] Agathias, Histories 1.9 (abridged); repeated in part at omicron 966. This passage describes the fighting prowess of the Ostrogoth military commander Aligern (cf. PLRE IIIa s.v. Aligernus), leading the defense of Cumae (cf. OCD(4) s.v., modern-day Cuma in central-west Italy, Barrington Atlas map 44 grid F4), during the Gothic War (535-554 CE). The Roman army, under the Byzantine general Narses (nu 42), failed to capture the city after a sustained attack in 553, and lost an esteemed senior officer, Palladius, to an arrow shot by Aligern himself in the siege; cf. Frendo (17) and additional context at iota 231.