The Historian Procopius, in his Secret History, claims that the emperor Justinian attempted to interfere with the Jewish calendar in the 6th century, and a modern writer has suggested that this measure may have been directed against the protopaschites.

* The Anekdota (" Secret history ") of Procopius in English translation.

Procopius was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought by Justinian I, a panegyric on Justinian's public works throughout the empire, and a book known as the Secret History ( Greek: Anekdota ) that claims to report the scandals that Procopius could not include in his published history.

* Procopius ' long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the Vatican Library.

* Procopius writes Secret History ( approximate date ).

The information from the Secret History of Procopius was published posthumously.

The exemplar secret history is the Anecdota of Procopius of Caesarea ( known for centuries as the Secret History ).

The Secret History of Procopius was discovered in the library and published in 1623.

* The Secret History of Art by Noah Charney on the Vatican Library and Procopius.

The word ' anecdote ' ( in Greek: " unpublished ", literally " not given out ") comes from Procopius of Caesarea, the biographer of Justinian I, who produced a work entitled ( Anekdota, variously translated as Unpublished Memoirs or Secret History ), which is primarily a collection of short incidents from the private life of the Byzantine court.

: For Procopius's Secret History, see Procopius.

As for their function, the 6th-century historian Procopius notes in his Secret History:

Notwithstanding its enormous costs, in the Eastern Roman Empire the service was still fully functioning in the first half of the sixth century, when the historian Procopius charges Emperor Justinian with the dismantlement of most of its sections, with the exception of the route leading to the Persian border ( Secret History 30. 1 – 11 ).

In his Secret History, however, Procopius gives a different account of Belisarius's inaction, completely unrelated to the Ghassanid ruler.

In his History of the Wars, Procopius mentions a story ( which Gibbon disbelieved ) where, on hearing the news that Rome had " perished ", Honorius was initially shocked ; thinking the news was in reference to a favorite chicken he had named " Roma ".

* Procopius, History of the Wars, book I, chapter xiii.

For instance, in the third book of the History of the Wars Procopius details: " There were many Gothic nations in earlier times, just as also at the present, but the greatest and most important of all are the Goths, Vandals, Visigoths, and Gepaedes.

Procopius writes in History of the Wars Book III: The Vandalic War: " the Massagetae whom they now call Huns " ( XI.

He wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from Antiquity ( the last was written by Procopius ).

Bede's account of the early migrations of the Angles and Saxons to England omits any mention of a movement of those peoples across the channel from Britain to Brittany described by Procopius, who was writing in the sixth century.

Ossetic bættən " bind ", bast " bound ") and Iranian * arna-" offspring ", equating it with the δουλόσποροι " slave Sporoi " mentioned by Nonnus and Cosmas, where Sporoi is the people Procopius mentions as the ancestors of the Slavs.

An alternate name for Greek fire was " Median fire " (), and the 6th-century historian Procopius, records that crude oil, which was called naphtha ( in Greek νάφθα, naphtha, from Middle Persian نفت ( naft )) by the Persians, was known to the Greeks as " Median oil " ().

Dengizich is believed to have been king ( khan ) of the Kutrigur Bulgars, and Ernakh king ( khan ) of the Utigur Bulgars, whilst Procopius claimed that Kutrigurs and Utigurs were named after, and led by two of the sons of Ernakh.

Similarly, the 6th century Slavs were presented as Hun groups by Procopius.

Even earlier than this collection, it is referred to by Procopius of Gaza ( c. 465-528 ), and Methodius appeals to Justin in support of his interpretation of 1 Corinthians 15: 50 in a way which makes it natural to assume the existence of a treatise on the subject, to say nothing of other traces of a connection in thought both here, in Irenaeus ( V., ii .- xiii.

Procopius adds that the object was later sent back to Jerusalem where there is no record of it, although it could have been destroyed when Jerusalem was pillaged by the Persians in 614.

When Belisarius was sent back to Italy in 544 to cope with a renewal of the war with the Goths, now led by the able king Totila, Procopius appears to have no longer been on Belisarius ' staff.

* 365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.

After Scupi was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 518 AD, Justinian, according to his historian Procopius in " De Aedificiis " ( On the Buildings ), built a new city near his birthplace Tauresium and Bederiana ( believed to be today's villages Taor and Bader ) at the fertile entry point of the River Lepenec into the Vardar, making Skopje the city of Justiniana Prima.

Bronze coin issued by Procopius ( usurper ) | Procopius.

Though his early reception in the city seems to have been lukewarm, Procopius won favor quickly by using propaganda to his advantage: he sealed off the city to outside reports and began spreading rumors that Valentinian had died ; he began minting coinage flaunting his connections to the Constantinian dynasty ; and he further exploited dynastic claims by using the widow and daughter of Constantius II to act as showpieces for his regime.

Even after he steadied his resolve to fight, Valens's efforts to forestall Procopius were hampered by the fact that most of his troops had already crossed the Cilician gates into Syria when he learned of the revolt.

The failure of imperial resistance in 365 allowed Procopius to gain control of the dioceses of Thrace and Asiana by year's end.

The Christian King Kaleb of Axum learned of Dhu Nuwas's persecutions of Christians and Aksumites, and, according to Procopius, was further encouraged by his ally and fellow Christian Justin I of Byzantium, who requested Aksum's help to cut off silk supplies as part of his economic war against the Persians.

Procopius notes that Abraha later submitted to Kaleb's successor, as supported by the former's inscription in 543 stating Aksum before the territories directly under his control.

On the flagship Belisarius is accompanied by his military secretary Procopius and his wife Antonina.

The difficulty has been raised, especially by geologists, that the promontory ceased to be an island well before Homer's time ; but Procopius remarked that the promontory has all the appearance of an island until one is actually upon it.

Ludmila, Wenceslas, Procopius, Cyril and Methodius, and Adalbert ), although numerous legends about Bohemian saints were also written by foreign authors.

R. Hercher ( 1873 ); see also K. Seitz, Die Schule von Gaza ( 1892 ); L. Eisenhofer, Procopius von Gaza ( 1897 ); further bibliographical notices in K Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur ( 1897 ), and article by G. Kruger in Herzog-Hauck's Realencyclopadie für protestantische Theologie ( 1905 ).

Constantius II built there a magnificent bridge over the Pyramus ( Malalas, Chronographia, XIII ; P. G., XCVII, 488 ) afterwards restored by Justinian ( Procopius, De Edificiis, V. 5 ) and has been restored again recently.

It was utterly destroyed by Alaric in 408-10 AD, and both Procopius ( E. G.