Belisarius

, a celebrated general, who, in a degenerate and an effeminate age, in the reign of Just in i an emperor of Constantinople, renewed all the glorious victories, battles, and triumphs which had rendered the first Romans so distinguished in the time of their republic. He died after a life of military glory, and the trial of royal ingratitude, in the 565th year of the christian era. The story of his begging charity, with date obolum Be lisa rio , is said to be a fabrication of modern times.