Who reported all these private conversations, and how did they reach the ears of Procopius ?--M.] [Footnote 1162: This is a strange misrepresentation--he died of a dysentery; nor does it appear that it was immediately after this scene.
Antonina proposed to raise him to the generalship of the army.

Procop.
Anecd.p.14.The sudden change from the abstemious diet of a monk to the luxury of the court is a much more probable cause of his death .-- M.] [Footnote 1163: The expression of Procopius does not appear to me to mean this kind of torture.

Ibid .-- M.] In the succeeding campaign, Belisarius was again sent against the Persians: he saved the East, but he offended Theodora, and perhaps the emperor himself.

The malady of Justinian had countenanced the rumor of his death; and the Roman general, on the supposition of that probable event spoke the free language of a citizen and a soldier.

His colleague Buzes, who concurred in the same sentiments, lost his rank, his liberty, and his health, by the persecution of the empress: but the disgrace of Belisarius was alleviated by the dignity of his own character, and the influence of his wife, who might wish to humble, but could not desire to ruin, the partner of her fortunes.