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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3005733, member: 72790&quot;]The author Procopius, who you mention, did nothing unusual about writing that almost everything Justinian did was done for a &quot;bad motive&quot;. That is human nature. Once a writer decides that he finds a leader or a general, to have been a bad one, he very readily ascribes a bad motive for every action, even if the action itself turned out to be a good one. One of the problems with knowing the truth about the &quot;interesting&quot; or in their eyes, the infamous, earlier First Century AD Roman emperors is that the historians we depend on for our information were universally hostile to the idea of imperial rather than senatorial rule. As badly as Tiberius was portrayed in the city of Rome, in the provinces he seems to have been respected by the common people. Domitian may have been hated by the senatorial class (and by his wrestling coach) but he was well liked and respected by the legions. This is something to always keep in mind when evaluating a leader&#039;s performance, who is it that is doing the writing. Since the OP has presented a coin of an emperor I much respect, I pronounce the coin to be a beautiful one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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