[kabumpo]

I recommend ”Count Belisarius”, a novel by Robert Graves about that era.

[Verginius Rufus]

There was a proverb date obolum Belisario based on the legend that Belisarius later was a poor beggar in Constantinople--"give an obol to Belisarius" (an obol was one-sixth of a drachma). There is a cartoon thought to be by Benjamin Franklin from the era of the American Revolution which displays this proverb (but spells Belisarius' name with two L's).