Saksagan

Their annual taxes were not remitted, and they had to pay not only their own, but their deceased neighbors’ share. And in addition to...

Yet to these remaining sufferers, for whom he made this ridiculous remission of taxes, and to all the others, who had many times been...

Those who were thus deprived of their dole sat around in great grief. Furthermore, he did not coin the customary amount of gold, but...

They say, too, that she had been involuntarily charmed by magic to become Peter’s friend; for this Barsyames was a devotee of sorcerers and...

For from the time when this tyrant first managed the affairs of state, in each department the ministers without any justification claimed the moneys...

22. Further corruption in high placesNow when the Emperor and Theodora dismissed John of Cappadocia, they wished to appoint a successor to his office,...

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...