Outrages of the Blues — The Secret History : by Pocopius of Caesarea1
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- May 23, 2021
Everything was settled by violence. The State might as well have been a tyranny.
READ MOREEverything was settled by violence. The State might as well have been a tyranny.
READ MORETheodora, desiring to marry the daughter of Belisarius to her nephew. She made the boy and girl live together deflowering her while she and the girl fell warmly in love with the boy.
READ MORENow Justin was able to do his subjects neither harm nor good. For he was simple, unable to carry on a conversation or make a speech.
READ MOREIt was a bitter sight, and one no one would ever have thought credible, to see Belisarius a private citizen in Constantinople, deserted, melancholy and miserable of countenance, and ever expectant of a further conspiracy to accomplish his death.
READ MORENow the Empress gave evidence to all mankind that for every murder to which she was indebted, she could pay in greater and even more savage requital.
READ MOREWhen Belisarius heard it, he became passionately angry and begged him to revenge one who had been so wronged by those who should least have treated him thus.
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