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The Secret History of Procopius
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Contents
- I. How The Great General Belisarius Was Hoodwinked By His Wife, Whose Lover Became A Monk
- II. How Belated Jealousy Affected Belisarius's Military Judgment, to the Joy of the Enemy
- III. Showing The Danger of Interfering With a Woman's Intrigues, Especially When the Woman Is the Friend of an Empress
- IV. How Theodora, Revenging Her Dear Antonina, Humiliated the Conqueror of Africa And Italy
- V. How Theodora Tricked the General's Daughter Into a Liaison With the Empress's Nephew, and Belisarius Became a Public Laughin
- VI. Ignorance of the Emperor Justin, and His Stencilled Signature, and How His Nephew Justinian Was the Virtual Ruler
- VII. Outrages of the Blues
- VIII. Character and Appearance of Justinian
- X. How Justinian Created a New Law Permitting Him to Marry a Courtesan On Her Promise to Repent Her Past; and the Truth About t
- XI. How the Defender of the Faith Ruined His Subjects
- XII. Proving That Justinian and Theodora Were Actually Fiends in Human Form
- XIII. Deceptive Affability and Piety of a Tyrant
- XIV. Justice For Sale
- XV. How An Roman Citizens Became Slaves, and a Complaining Patrician Was Ribaldly Mocked by Theodora's Eunuchs
- XVI. What Happened to Those Who Fell Out of Favor With Theodora
- XVII. How She Saved Five Hundred Harlots from a Life of Sin, Made Away with Her Own Natural Son, and Other Curious Incidents of
- XVIII. How Justinian Killed a Trillion People
- XIX. How He Seized All the Wealth of the Romans and Threw It Away In the Sea and On the Barbarians
- XX. Debasing of the Quaestorship
- XXI. The Sky Tax, the Selling of All Offices, and How Border Armies Were Forbidden to Punish Invading Barbarians
- XXII. Further Corruption In High Places
- XXIII. How Landowners Were Ruined
- Unjust Treatment of the Soldiers, and How Justinian Tricked the “Students” Out of Their Pay by Threatening to Send Them to War
- XXV. How He Robbed His Own Officials, Merchants, Sailors, Workmen, and Everybody Else
- XXVI. How He Spoiled the Beauty of the Cities and Plundered the Poor
- XXVII. How the Defender of the Faith Protected the Interests of the Christians
- XXVIII. His Violation of the Laws of the Romans, and How Jews Were Fined For Eating Lamb
- XXIX. Other Incidents Revealing Him as a Liar and a Hypocrite
- XXX. Further Innovations of Justinian and Theodora, and a Conclusion Which Imagines the Death of an Emperor
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