Procopius

The subject was well chosen and the material ample, and Procopius lost no opportunity of lauding his sovereign to the skies.

Procopius, writing 800 years later, describes it as broad enough for two chariots to pass.

Procopius compares the reckoning of losses to that of reckoning the sands of the sea.

The intricacy introduced into the question by a passage of Procopius is greater.