CHAPTER XL: Reign Of Justinian .-- Part I.
Elevation Of Justin The Elder .-- Reign Of Justinian .-- I.

The Empress Theodora .-- II.

Factions Of The Circus, And Sedition Of Constantinople .-- III.

Trade And Manufacture Of Silk .-- IV.
Finances And Taxes .-- V.

Edifices Of Justinian .-- Church Of St.Sophia .-- Fortifications And Frontiers Of The Eastern Empire .-- Abolition Of The Schools Of Athens, And The Consulship Of Rome.
The emperor Justinian was born near the ruins of Sardica, (the modern Sophia,) of an obscure race of Barbarians, the inhabitants of a wild and desolate country, to which the names of Dardania, of Dacia, and of Bulgaria, have been successively applied.