Note 018
From Chapter 40 of the Decline & Fall

Justinian an ass — the perfect likeness of Domitian — Anecdot. c. 8. — Theodora's lovers driven from her bed by rival daemons - her marriage foretold with a great daemon — a monk saw the prince of the daemons, instead of Justinian, on the throne — the servants who watched beheld a face without features, a body walking without a head, etc., etc. Procopius declares his own and his friends' belief in these diabolical stories, (c. 12.)

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