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So she forthwith persuaded Justinian to send Peter, alone, to Italy as ambassador to Theodatus. When he set out the Emperor gave him the...

“Highness, it is hard for a patrician to ask for money. For what in other men brings sympathy and pity, in one of my...

But to the Queen’s presence even the highest officials could not enter without great delay and trouble; like slaves they had to wait all...

And even buying Leo’s support gave no certainty, for Justinian was quite willing to take money from both sides: he felt no guilt at...

Under this reign of violence nothing was stable, but the balance of justice revolved in a circle, inclining to whichever side was able to...

For his constant wakefulness, his privations and his labors were undergone for no other reason than to contrive each day ever more exaggerated calamities...

For if there were an ever infamous, he had no scruple against making a law and then repudiating it. Nor were his decisions made...

Furthermore he committed an inconceivable number of murders for the same cause: for in his zeal to gather all men into one Christian doctrine,...

Furthermore some of Theodora’s lovers, while she was on the stage, say that at night a demon would sometimes descend upon them and drive...

And they say his mother said to some of her intimates once that not of Sabbatius her husband, nor of any man was Justinian...