terbelis

Updated: May 15, 2025

In rewarding his allies, and recalling his wife, Justinian displayed some sense of honor and gratitude; and Terbelis retired, after sweeping away a heap of gold coin, which he measured with his Scythian whip. But never was vow more religiously performed than the sacred oath of revenge which he had sworn amidst the storms of the Euxine.

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

He survived this impious menace, sailed into the mouth of the Danube, trusted his person in the royal village of the Bulgarians, and purchased the aid of Terbelis, a pagan conqueror, by the promise of his daughter and a fair partition of the treasures of the empire.

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