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Excerpt from Procopius, Vol. 1 of 6: With an English Translation; History of the Wars, Books I and II The history is more general than the title would imply, and all the important events of the time are touched upon. So while we read much of the cam paigns against the nations who were crowding back the boundaries of the old empire, we also hear of civic affairs such as the great Nika insurrection in Byzantium in 532 similarly a careful account is given of the pestilence of 540, and the care shown in de scribing the nature of the disease shows plainly that the author must have had some acquaintance with the medical science of the time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.