Fake footnotes?

[Robert Vermaat]

I've come across far too many that were simply wrong or made up.

I've noticed over the years that it's necessary to always look up quotations when it comes to ancient sources. There are so many misquotes or perhaps writing errors around, which are then quoted again and again, it becomes silly. I fully understand that an author does not have the time, especially for a major article with, say, a dozen quotes per page, to look them all up again. But especially when you know the text but not the exact lines, mistakes are made.

I'm still looking for the actual text from Procopius when he allegedly wrote that a plumbata killed the cousin of the Vandal king in a battle against Belisarius. Yet it's re-quoted again and again...