Note 027
Theophylact Simocatta (l. iii. c. 11) declares that
he shall give to posterity the speech of Justin as it was
pronounced, without attempting to correct the imperfections of
language or rhetoric. Perhaps the vain sophist would have been
incapable of producing such sentiments.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 45