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First the rebels revolutionized the style of wearing their hair. For they had it cut differently from the rest of the Romans: not molesting...

For some he slew without reason, and some he released to struggle with penury, and their fate was worse than that of those who...

By this time he was an old man on the verge of the grave, and so illiterate that he could neither read nor write:...

But when Solomon arrived in Constantinople, the Emperor pardoned him on the ground that the man he killed was a traitor to the Roman...

For they thought the reason for his perjury was not uxoriousness, but his fear of the Empress. But after Theodora died, as I have...

And when he received the monarch’s permission to do this, he left straightway in high spirits, bidding a long farewell to the Roman army...

Since he had been given no funds by the Emperor, he plundered nearly all the Italians living in Ravenna and Sicily, and wherever else...

Now everybody took it for granted that Belisarius had arranged this with his wife and made the agreement about the expedition with the Emperor,...

Quadratus, however, approached only to hand him a letter from the Queen. And thus the letter read: “You know, Sir, your offense against us....

Belisarius, although none of the charges against him were proved, was at the insistence of the Empress relieved of his command by the Emperor;...