To: Verginius Rufus
I recommend Count Belisarius, a novel by Robert Graves about that era.
42 posted on
05/12/2013 8:13:30 PM PDT by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: kabumpo
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).
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