49.) For Justinian's gold coin, see Evagrius, (l.iv.c.

30.)] [Footnote 88: The oath is conceived in the most formidable words, (Novell.viii.tit.

3.) The defaulters imprecate on themselves, quicquid haben: telorum armamentaria coeli: the part of Judas, the leprosy of Gieza, the tremor of Cain, &c., besides all temporal pains.] [Footnote 89: A similar or more generous act of friendship is related by Lucian of Eudamidas of Corinth, (in Toxare, c.

22, 23, tom.ii.

p.
530,) and the story has produced an ingenious, though feeble, comedy of Fontenelle.] [Footnote 90: John Malala, tom.ii.p.101, 102, 103.].