Procopius
Americannoun
noun
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As a military historian, Procopius had helped create the myth of Justinian’s greatness in his eight-book treatise “The Wars of Justinian.”
From Salon • Sep. 25, 2018
Parishioners at voter registration tables after a Spanish-language mass outside St. Procopius in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood said their faith doesn't play a big role in their vote.
From Reuters • Oct. 11, 2012
In her last novel, Theodora, Stella Duffy took a scurrilous account of the Byzantine empress by the Roman historian Procopius and turned it on its head.
From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2012
“A pestilence,” Procopius wrote of the plague, “by which the whole human race was near to being annihilated.”
From Washington Post
My family might never have become silk farmers if it hadn’t been for the Emperor Justinian, who, according to Procopius, persuaded two missionaries to risk it.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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