CHAPTER XI

Legislative innovations--Avarice and cruelty of Justinian--Barbarian invasions provoked--Exorbitant subsidies to the chiefs of the Huns and Chosroes King of Persia, followed by disturbances and violation of truce--Saracens, Slavs, Antes, and other barbarous peoples--Desolation of the provinces--Religious persecutions and confiscation of Church property--Montanists, Sabbatians, Arians, and Samaritans--Pretended conversions--Manicheans and Polytheists--Caesarea, the author's birthplace--Revolt of the peasants under Julian--Hellenism--Law against paederasty--Persecution of astrologers--Continuous emigration.