very rich, or had otherwise offended.

Justinian and Theodora also dealt very harshly with the astrologers,
so that the officers appointed to punish thieves proceeded against
these men for no other cause than that they were astrologers, dealt
many stripes on their backs, and paraded them on camels through the
city; yet they were old and respectable men, against whom no reproach
could be brought except that they dwelt in Byzantium and were learned
about the stars.

There was a continual stream of emigration, not only to the lands of
the barbarians, but also to the nations most remote from Rome; and one
saw a very great number of foreigners both in the country and in each
city of the Empire, for men lightly exchanged their native land for
another, as though their own country had been captured by an enemy.




CHAPTER XII


Those who were considered the wealthiest persons in Byzantium and the
other cities of the Empire, next after members of the Senate, were
robbed of their wealth by Justinian and Theodora in the manner which I
have described above. I shall now describe how they managed to take
away all the property of members of the Senate.

There was at Constantinople one Zeno, the grandson of that Anthemius
who formerly had been Emperor of the West. They sent this man to Egypt