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complained; that he had kept to himself, great part of Gilimeres and Vitiges estate, not bringing it into the Coffers of the Emperor, as a thing of little or no value or concernment. However, they thought it not fit to discover their resentment, because of the many great things he had performed, and least their methods should be blamed in confiscating the estate of a person, against whom there was no accusation, nor any appearance of offence that might give any lawful occasion against him. But the Empress knowing that he suspected it, and had lost his antient constancy, she found out a way to secure that estate by an alliance, and that was by promising her Grand-child Anastasius, to Jane, the only Daughter of Bellisarius. In the mean time Bellisarius requested that he might be restored to his charges, and return at the head of the Army, into the East, to make War upon the King of Persia. Antonina on the other side clamored in the ears of the Empress, That she would never consent her Husband should return into those Provinces, where she had suffered so many indignities, and been so barbarously treatted. The contrariety of their demands obliged the Emperor to make Bellisarius Master of his Horse, and send him the second time General into Italy, but with this condition, That he should defray the whole charge of that War himself, without any expectation from the Emperor. Some there were, who supposed Bellisarius had come to this agreement with his Wife, and the Emperor, with design, when he was out of
