[186] See p. 198 et seq.
[187] See p. 162.
[188] Jn. Lydus (De Magistr., iii, 51) confirms the statement of Procopius (Anecd., 19) that the immense savings of Anastasius were dissipated during the reign of Justin. He supplies a reason, viz., that the Emperor and his nephew were averse to bearing hardly on their subjects. There seems, however to have been a sinking fund kept up under the name of Anastasius, which continued to exist as a small reserve; Jn. Ephes. (Smith, Oxford, 1860), p. 358.
[189] "He spared no expense, still less did he spare the property of his subjects"; Zonaras, xiv, 6.
[190] "Justinian was insatiable in his lust after gold, and coveted his subjects' property to such an extent that he sold them all in a body to his officials and tax-collectors"; Evagrius, iv, 30; cf. Procopius, Anecd., 21 et passim.
[191] Procopius, Anecd., 14.
[192] Procopius, De Bel. Pers., i, 24.
[193] Suidas, sb. nom. Two separate notices, apparently of the same Tribonian, but there is some discrepancy.
[194] De Nov. Cod. Fac. (528), and De Confirm. (529).
[195] Cod., I, xvii, 1; Procopius, loc. cit.