Yet some generations elapsed before their minds were reduced to the level of slavery.

The populous villages of Mount Taurus were filled with horsemen and archers: they resisted the imposition of tributes, but they recruited the armies of Justinian; and his civil magistrates, the proconsul of Cappadocia, the count of Isauria, and the praetors of Lycaonia and Pisidia, were invested with military power to restrain the licentious practice of rapes and assassinations.

[124] [Footnote 119: Turn back to vol.i.p.

328.

In the course of this History, I have sometimes mentioned, and much oftener slighted, the hasty inroads of the Isaurians, which were not attended with any consequences.] [Footnote 120: Trebellius Pollio in Hist.August.p.107, who lived under Diocletian, or Constantine.