[Footnote 100: (Compare Procopius, Goth. l. ii. c. 7, 21.)
Yet such population is incredible; and the second or third
city of Italy need not repine if we only decimate the
numbers of the present text Both Milan and Genoa revived in
less than thirty years, (Paul Diacon de Gestis Langobard. l.
ii. c. 38.) Note: Procopius says distinctly that Milan was
the second city of the West. Which did Gibbon suppose could
compete with it, Ravenna or Naples; the next page he calls
it the second. - M.]