Jordanes mentions the Antes and the Slavs not only in his Getica but also in the Romana. Although the mention is brief – indeed at the very end of the work, it is worth of notice so we add it here using Momsen’s edition:
388 These are the misfortunes of the Roman Empire aside from the daily inroads of the Bulgars, Antes and Slavs. If anyone wishes to know them, let him go through the annals and the history of the consuls without disdain, and he will find a modern-day empire worthy of a tragedy. And he will know whence it arose, how it grew or in what way it subjected all lands to itself and how again it lost them through ignorant rulers. It is something we, to the extent of our ability, have treated so that, through reading, the serious reader may gain a broader knowledge of these things.
Hi sunt casus Romanae rei publicae preter instantia cottidiana Bulgarum, Antium et Sclavinorum. Que si quis scire cupit, annales consulumque seriem revolvat sine fastidio repperietque dignam nostri temporis rem publicam tragydiae. Scietque unde orta, quomodo aucta, qualiterve sibi cunctas terras subdiderit et quomodo iterum eas ab ignaris rectoribus amiserit. Quod et nos pro capta ingenii breviter tetigimus, quatenus diligens lector latius ista legendo cognoscat.
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