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to the Empire; and yet all this while continued to take the Emperors pay. They were no sooner gone, but others succeeded, who having plundered his Dominions, and carried away a most considerable booty, were rewarded by Justinian for their pains, who was grown the most liberal in that nature of any Prince in the World. In short, from that very time, the Barbarians never gave over ravaging his Countrey, one party perpetually following at the heels of another: For those people having many Princes among them, being numerous themselves, and of different interests; this War (which derived its original from the extravagant Liberality of the Emperor) begun with one, was continued with another, and so perpetually carried on, that there was not a Mountain so little, a place so inconsiderable, nor a Cave so obscure in the whole extent of the Roman Dominion, as to be exempt from the pillagings of these Barbarians: Some Provinces were so unfortunate as to be plundered five times over. I have spoken of all these things before in my other works, as also of the inroads the Persians, the Saracens, the Sclavonians, and other of the Barbarious Nations made upon the Empire. But as I said at first, I shall make it appear to be caused only by the ill conduct of the Emperor: He gave a vast sum of Money to clap up a Peace with Cosroes; and when he had done, by a stupid piece of obstinacy he brake it again, having used all his art to draw to his Party Alamandare, and the Huns, who were in alliance with
