The Loeb Classical Library: Secret History

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The Loeb Classical Library: Secret HistoryProcopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 against the Vandals and in 535 against the Ostrogoths. Sometime after 540 he returned to Constantinople. He may have been that Procopius who was prefect of Constantinople in 562, but the date of his death (after 558) is unknown.

Covering every sphere of activity known to the Romans

human bodies and health

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desperately trying to avoid his fate

Seen close-up

In The Missing Thread

these include political essays

was charged the following year with parricide

he launched a violent attack on Cleon

A final chapter

Before 29 BC came one of the best of all didactic works

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