Excerpt from Belisarius: General of the East Marcellus. SO hated is he, Sergius, these days, That all we need do is to take a stand In any street or forum in the city, And cry for his successor, and the people Would plump their votes for anyone we chose, And push Justinian down. Sergius. Hush, not so loud! Although I think his popularity Wanes, as his taxes and his years increase There always will be busybodies round To carry news where they'll be paid for it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.