CHAPTER XXX.
The "posts" and "spies"-- Rapidity of the imperial couriers--Their chief routes--Superiority of the Persians--Reverses of the Romans in Lazica at the hands of Chosroes--The army commissariat--Spoliation of the lawyer Evangelius--Justinian's sarcasm--He and Theodora required their feet to be kissed by those who had audience of them--Their titles of "master" and "mistress"-- The palace crowded by applicants for audiences--The death of Justinian alone will show how the vast wealth of the Empire has been spent..