02-24-2014, 02:36 PM
We have also germanic art showing very Roman looking soldiers in early middleages which shows at least that they had still some idea of what ancient Roman army looked like and for example Draco standard is recorded as far as 11 century in Western europe.I have no reason not to believe Procopius in this.Although he was not a direct witness it was not so long from the fall of the west during time he had mentioned it.
