The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 07
CHAPTER IV
THE LATER YEARS OF JUSTINIAN’S REIGN (535-565 A.D.) 106
Byzantium rids Rome of the Goths, 106. Finlay’s estimate of Belisarius, 109. The Goths renew the war, 110. Belisarius in Rome, 111. Gibbon’s estimate of Belisarius and his times, 113. Barbaric inroads, 114. Slavic incursions, 116. Turks and Avars, 119. Relations of the Roman Empire with Persia, 121. The revolt in Africa, 124. Invasion of the Cotrigur Huns, 127. End of Belisarius, 129. Death of Justinian, 130. Justinian as a legislator, 131. Bury’s estimate of Justinian, 136.