The Secret History of the Court of Justinian
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He actedin the same manner in regard to the laws and the army; not that he wasled to do so by any love of justice or the public advantage, butmerely in order that all institutions might be new and might bear hisname; if there was any institution that he was unable to abolish atonce, he gave it his name, that at least it might appear new. Hecould never satisfy his insatiable desire, either of money or blood;but after he had plundered one wealthy house, he would seek foranother to rob, and straig...htway squander the plunder upon subsidies tobarbarians, or senseless extravagance in building. After he haddestroyed his victims by tens of thousands, he immediately began tolay plots against even greater numbers. As the Roman Empire was atpeace with foreign nations, his impatience of quiet led him, out ofuncontrollable love of bloodshed, to set the barbarians fighting withone another. Sending for the chieftains of the Huns for no reasonwhatever, he took a pride in lavishing great sums of money upon them, under the pretext of securing their friendship, just as he did in thetime of the Emperor Justin, as I have already told you.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He actedin the same manner in regard to the laws and the army; not that he wasled to do so by any love of justice or the public advantage, butmerely in order that all institutions might be new and might bear hisname; if there was any institution that he was unable to abolish atonce, he gave it his name, that at least it might appear new. Hecould never satisfy his insatiable desire, either of money or blood;but after he had plundered one wealthy house, he would seek foranother to rob, and straig...htway squander the plunder upon subsidies tobarbarians, or senseless extravagance in building. After he haddestroyed his victims by tens of thousands, he immediately began tolay plots against even greater numbers. As the Roman Empire was atpeace with foreign nations, his impatience of quiet led him, out ofuncontrollable love of bloodshed, to set the barbarians fighting withone another. Sending for the chieftains of the Huns for no reasonwhatever, he took a pride in lavishing great sums of money upon them, under the pretext of securing their friendship, just as he did in thetime of the Emperor Justin, as I have already told you.
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