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together, as his Predecessor Anastatius had done, it would have been no great matter, considering the great misery to which they were reduced. In short, Cabades invaded the Territories of the Emperor, and returned every way Victorious, but his Son Cosroes produc’d greater Consternation, by Burning and Killing all where ever he passed with his Army. And yet those of the East, who had been exposed so often to the Incursions of the Huns, the Persians, and Sarazins, and ruined by their Armies; and the Romans, who being setled in several parts of Europe, had many times felt the Hostility of the Barbarians; those I say, who had suffered so much for their affection to the State, found more cruelty in Justinian, then among all the Barbarians; his Edicts and Impositions, compleating that Ruine, which the Enemy had but begun. I shall now recite what was the Contents of those Edicts.
Those whose Estates were in Land, were by them obliged to furnish a certain quantity of Provisions for the Souldiers, at their own Charges, every Man paying his part; nor did they consider what was given according to the Prizes of things, but according to a former Assesment made a long time before; and if at any time they were so unfortunate, not to have so much Cattle or Forrage upon their Lands, as would satisfie for their share; they were constrained to buy them at any rate, and convey them from the Provincial Magazines, which were very far off, to the place where the
