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To: dangus

No, it doesn’t.

The demes were chariot team supporters, not “bureaucrats”.

Justinian was a tyrant, and he did what tyrants do. Period.


21 posted on 01/08/2023 4:13:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

A deme wasn’t by definition a bureaucrat, but almost all of them were. They were the privileged class, and in Constantinople that meant bureaucrat. But your denials don’t touch the fact that they murderous insurrectionists who killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians, nor their motives for having done so.


22 posted on 01/08/2023 4:39:31 PM PST by dangus
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