At one point, the narrator describes the "supernumeraries," a body created to allow people to purchase a chance to serve with the venerated scholae.  
At one point, the narrator describes the "supernumeraries," a body created to allow people to purchase a chance to serve with the venerated scholae.  In addition to detailing instances of abuse toward astrologers and the reformation of adultery laws, this work relates the success of a plot to strangle Princess Amalasuntha in her bath.  It also recounts the deeds perpetrated by the forger Priscus who enlists the Church of Emesa to extort its supporters. This work, which inspired a drama by John Masefield and a novel about a "Count" by Robert Graves and included such chapters as "Justice for Sale" and "How landowners were ruined," marked a departure from its author's previous works: On the Wars and On the Buildings.  Beginning with a chapter on Antonina's manipulation of Belisarius, for 10 points, identify this chronicle of misrule in Byzantium under Theodora and Justinian, a work by Procopius.
At one point, the narrator describes the "supernumeraries," a body created to allow people to purchase a chance to serve with the venerated scholae.  
The Secret History or Historia Arcana