Jornandes, about an hundred years afterwards, affirms that Aquileia was so completely ruined,
ita ut vix ejus
vestigia, ut appareant, reliquerint . See Jornandes de Reb.
Geticis, c. 42, p. 673. Paul. Diacon. 1. ii. c. 14, p. 785
[Grot. Hist. Goth.]. Liutprand, Hist. 1. iii. c. 2.
The name of Aquileia was sometimes applied to Forum Julii (Cividad del Friuli ), the more recent capital of the Venetian province.