The Age of Justinian and Theodora: A History of the Sixth Century A.D., Volume 2 (of 2)

by William Gordon Holmes

[543] Ibid., xxviii, 4.

[544] Ibid., xxvi, 3; xxviii, 1.

[545] Ammianus, xxviii, 4.

[546] Ibid., 1. Cf. Voltaire's account of the fashionable poisoning craze under Louis XIV.

[547] Ammianus, xxvi, 3; xxviii, 1.

[548] Ibid.

[549] Ibid., xiv, 6; xxviii, 4; Cassiodorus, Var. Ep., i. 20; iii, 51, etc.

[550] Ammianus, xix, 10; xxvii, 3.

[551] Cassiodorus, Var. Ep., i, 13, 27, 42; iii, 12; v, 41, etc.

[552] Ibid., vii. This book consists of forms of instruction to newly appointed officers, from Consuls and Praetorian Praefects downwards.