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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;arnoldoe, post: 2761484, member: 72712&quot;]His official historian Procopius&nbsp; says He was a monster who killed a trillion people + is to blame for plagues, earthquakes etc</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/procop-anec.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/procop-anec.asp" rel="nofollow">https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/procop-anec.asp</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;When there was nothing left to ruin in the Roman state, he determined the conquest of Libya and Italy, for no other reason than to destroy the people there, as he had those who were already his subjects.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;That Justinian was not a man, but a demon, as I have said, in human form, one might prove by considering the enormity of the evils he brought upon mankind. For in the monstrousness of his actions the power of a fiend is manifest. Certainly an accurate reckoning of all those whom he destroyed would be impossible, I think, for anyone but God to make. Sooner could one number, I fancy, the sands of the sea than the men this Emperor murdered. Examining the countries that he made desolate of inhabitants, I would say he slew a trillion people. For Libya, vast as it is, he so devastated that you would have to go a long way to find a single man, and he would be remarkable. Yet eighty thousand Vandals capable of bearing arms had dwelt there, and as for their wives and children and servants, who could guess their number? Yet still more numerous than these were the Mauretanians, who with their wives and children were all exterminated. And again, many Roman soldiers and those who followed them to Constantinople, the earth now covers; so that if one should venture to say that five million men perished in Libya alone, he would not, I imagine, be telling the half of it.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have 2 coins of him,</p><p>[ATTACH=full]634735[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]634736[/ATTACH]</p><p>supposedly he looked like Domitian </p><p>&quot;Now in physique he was neither tall nor short, but of average height; not thin, but moderately plump; his face was round, and not bad looking, for he had good color, even when he fasted for two days. To make a long description short, he much resembled Domitian, Vespasian&#039;s son.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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