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Later he contrived another unheard-of scheme. The offices which he believed to be the most powerful in Constantinople and the other large cities, he...

For this Justinian left them unpunished, awaiting the time when they should have gained immense riches; as soon as this happened, he brought some...

But the first man that this Emperor appointed to the office was Tribonian, whose actions I have fully related elsewhere. And when Tribonian departed...

Again he licensed many monopolies, as they -are called; selling the freedom of his subjects to those who were willing to undertake this reprehensible...

Some he accused of polytheism, others of heresy against the orthodox Christian faith; some of pederasty, others of love affairs with nuns, or other...

19. How he seized all the wealth of the romans and threw it awayHow he seized all wealth I will next discuss: recalling first...

So while he was Emperor, the whole earth ran red with the blood of nearly all the Romans and the barbarians. Such were the...

All of these he utterly depopulated. For those who did not die in battle perished of disease and famine, which as usual followed in...

For Libya, vast as it is, he so devastated that you would have to go a long way to find a single man, and...

Saturninus, lying down finally to pleasant dreams with his new bride, discovered she was already unmaidened; and later told one of his friends that...