It is not known whether he was of noble or common birth, but he represented the elite Roman culture that had survived from before the Slav migration, and he had a negative view of Slavs, often mistakenly conflating them in his chronicle with the Goths.
Tidak diketahui apakah ia lahir dari bangsawan atau biasa, tetapi ia mewakili budaya Romawi elit yang selamat dari sebelum migrasi Slav, dan ia memiliki pandangan negatif tentang Slavia, sering kali secara keliru menyatukan mereka dalam riwayat hidupnya dengan orang-orang Goth.