Excerpt from The Life of Belisarius
The events related in the following pages fall within the scope of Gibbon, in his justly celebrated history, and had he treated of them with that fulness of detail which distinguishes some other portions of his work, any further attempt to record them would be both unnecessary and presumptuous. But although the space he has allotted to them is well proportioned to his general limits and design, yet he has dwelt so lightly on several important transactions, has omitted so many circumstances, and has merely alluded to so many others not unworthy of attention, that this interesting period may, perhaps, be thought to require a more particular narrative.
A careful consideration of the original authorities has also led me in some cases to new conclusions; and thus, for instance, the mendicity and loss of sight of Belisarius, which every writer for the last century and a half has treated as a fable, may, I conceive, be established on firm historical grounds.
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