dagisteus

Updated: May 3, 2025

The wall, supported by slender and temporary props, hung tottering in the air; but Dagisteus delayed the attack till he had secured a specific recompense; and the town was relieved before the return of his messenger from Constantinople.

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

Their repentance was accepted at Constantinople by the prudence, rather than clemency, of Justinian; and he commanded Dagisteus, with seven thousand Romans, and one thousand of the Zani, to expel the Persians from the coast of the Euxine. The siege of Petra, which the Roman general, with the aid of the Lazi, immediately undertook, is one of the most remarkable actions of the age.

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