Some of them are constantly in Byzantium, while others have long been established in Galatia or other provinces.

Justinian frightened these in the same manner into abandoning their salaries to him.

In conclusion, it was the custom that, every five years, the Emperor should present each of the soldiers with a fixed sum in gold.
Accordingly, every five years, commissioners were despatched to all parts of the Empire, to bestow five staters of gold upon every soldier as a gift from the Emperor.

This had long been an established and inviolable practice.

But, from the day that Justinian assumed the management of affairs, he did nothing of the kind, and showed no intention of doing so during the thirty-two years of his reign, so that the custom was almost completely forgotten..