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Drawn by George ArmstrongFOR THEPalestine Pilgrims Text Society.
Outline from Dr. Smith’s Atlas.
Palestine Pilgrims’ Text Society.
OF THE
BUILDINGS OF JUSTINIAN.
BY
PROCOPIUS
(Circ. 560 A.D.).
Translated by
AUBREY STEWART, M.A.,
LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,
AND ANNOTATED BY
COL. SIR C. W. WILSON, R.E., K.C.M.G., F.R.S.,
AND
PROF. HAYTER LEWIS, F.S.A.
LONDON:
1. ADAM STREET, ADELPHI.
1888.
CONTENTS.
- PREFACE.
- LIST OF PLATES.
- INTRODUCTION.
- BOOK I.
- BOOK II.
- BOOK III.
- BOOK IV.
- BOOK V.
- BOOK VI.
- APPENDIX I.
- APPENDIX II.
- INDEX.
PREFACE.
Procopius was born at Cæsarea in Palestine, early in thesixth or at the end of the fifth century. He made hisway, an adventurer, to Constantinople, where he beganas an advocate and Professor of Rhetoric. He had thegood fortune to be recommended to Belisarius, who appointedhim one of his secretaries. In that capacityProcopius accompanied the general in his expedition tothe East, A.D. 528, and in that against the Vandals,A.D. 533. The successful prosecution of the war enrichedBelisarius to such an extent that he was enabled to maintaina retinue of 7000 men, of whom Procopius seems tohave been one of the most trusted, since we find himappointed Commissary General in the Italian war. Onhis return to Constantinople, he was decorated with oneof the innumerable titles of the Byzantine Court, andentered into the Senate. In the year 562 he was madePrefect of Constantinople, and is supposed to have diedin 565—the same year as his former patron Belisarius.
His works are (1) the Histories (ἱστορίαι) in