almondar

Updated: May 22, 2025

Instead of repelling the arms, Justinian attempted to seduce the fidelity of Almondar, while he called from the extremities of the earth the nations of Æthiopia and Scythia to invade the dominions of his rival.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

An immemorial tribute for the license of pasture appeared to attest the rights of Almondar, while the Gassanite appealed to the Latin name of strata, a paved road, as an unquestionable evidence of the sovereignty and labors of the Romans.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

But the trophies of Belisarius disturbed the slumbers of the great king; and he heard with astonishment, envy, and fear, that Sicily, Italy, and Rome itself, had been reduced, in three rapid campaigns, to the obedience of Justinian. Unpractised in the art of violating treaties, he secretly excited his bold and subtle vassal Almondar.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4