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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XL: Reign Of Justinian
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Kuster.) The silence of Evagrius is a poor objection.
Baronius (A.D.548, No.

24) regrets the loss of this secret history: it was then in the Vatican library, in his own custody, and was first published sixteen years after his death, with the learned, but partial notes of Nicholas Alemannus, (Lugd.

1623.)] [Footnote 18: Justinian an ass--the perfect likeness of Domitian--Anecdot.

c.

8 .-- Theodora's lovers driven from her bed by rival daemons--her marriage foretold with a great daemon--a monk saw the prince of the daemons, instead of Justinian, on the throne--the servants who watched beheld a face without features, a body walking without a head, &c., &c.


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