[1] Agathias, Histories 5.23, on the young Byzantine military leader Germanus (cf. alpha 4595 end). Leading the defense of the long wall at the base of the Thracian Chersonese (cf. chi 215) in 559 CE, Germanus was wounded during a sortie against besieging Kotrigur Huns; cf. omicron 782, pi 1522, pi 2901, sigma 1653, tau 881, and Frendo (159).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 2.9.17.
[3] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as coming from a fragment of Cassius Dio preserved by Zonaras (see p.190 lines 28-30 Boissevain), on Hannibal's siege of Saguntum (a city in eastern Spain, close by the Mediterannean Sea, Barrington Atlas map 27 grid E2) in 219 BCE, one of the catalysts of the Second Punic War. It is the men of Saguntum (here called Zacynthians) who are the unnamed subject. See in brief C. Theodoridis in his Photius edition, vol.II pp.LXXXVIII-LXXXIX.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
[5] Quotation unidentifiable, but reminiscent of events in 216 BCE during the Second Punic War, when Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus "Cunctator," the "Delayer" (cf. OCD(4), p. 564) urges caution against Hannibal and relinquishes his command to Lucius Aemilius and Publius Terentius Varro; see Eutropius, Breviarium 3.10.1 and alpha 971.