The Senate consented, and Domitian's wife, not wishing to leave to posterity a memorial of the brutality of those who had butchered her husband, adopted the following plan.

She collected the pieces of his body, pieced them accurately together, joined them properly, and sewed the body together again.

She then sent for the statuaries, and bade them reproduce this pitiable object in a brazen statue.

The workmen straightway made the statue, and his wife, having received it from them, set it up in the street which leads up to the Capitol from the Forum, on the right hand side, where to this day one may see Domitian's statue, showing the marks of his tragic end.

One may say that the whole of Justinian's person, his expression, and all his features can be traced in this statue.
Such was his portrait; but it would be exceedingly difficult to give an accurate estimate of his character; he was an evil-doer, and yet easily led by the nose, being, in common parlance, a fool as well as a knave.