The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire . t and Writinq : Page from an Evangelistarium, dated 995 (British Museum) 424 Byzantine Mural Mosaic ; the Crucifixion, in the monastery of Daphni in Attica (eleventh century) ... ... ... ... ... 456 From a Photograph of the Collection des Hautes jStvdes, by M. GabrielMiUet. Byzantine Mosaic : Our Lord with the book of the Gospels, in the Church of St. Luke of Stiris in Phocis (eleventh century) ... ... 480 From a Photograph of the Collection des Havtes Etudes at the Sorbonne,by M. Gabriel Millet. Byzantine Lead Seals (sixth to thir
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire . t and Writinq : Page from an Evangelistarium, dated 995 (British Museum) 424 Byzantine Mural Mosaic ; the Crucifixion, in the monastery of Daphni in Attica (eleventh century) ... ... ... ... ... 456 From a Photograph of the Collection des Hautes jStvdes, by M. GabrielMiUet. Byzantine Mosaic : Our Lord with the book of the Gospels, in the Church of St. Luke of Stiris in Phocis (eleventh century) ... ... 480 From a Photograph of the Collection des Havtes Etudes at the Sorbonne,by M. Gabriel Millet. Byzantine Lead Seals (sixth to thirteenth centuries) (British Museum) ... 512Coins, from Justin II. to Basil II. (aU in the British Museum) 524 1. NoMisMA, Justin n. 2. ,, Tiberius II. 3. ,, Maurice Tiberius. 4. ,, Phocas. 5. „ Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine. 6. ,, Constans II. 7. ,, Constantine IV. 8. ,, Justinian II. 9. „ Leo HI. 10. ,, Constantine V. 11. ,, Basil I. and Constantine VII. 12. ,, Nicephorus II. Phocas. 13. ,, John Zimisces. 14. ,, Basil II. and Constantine COINS: ANASTASIUS I, JUSTINIAN I, AND GOTHIC, LOMBARDAND FRANKISH KINGS (see list of illustrations) THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE EOMAN EMPIRE CHAPTEE XLV Reign of the Younger Justin—Eonbassy of the Avars—TheirSettlement on the Danube—Conquest of Italy by the Lom-bards—Adoption and Reign of Tiberius—of Maurice—State of Italy under the Lomhards and the Exarchs ofRavenna—Distress of Rome—Character and Pontificate ofGregory the First DURING the last years of Justinian, his infirm mind was Death ofdevoted to heavenly contemplation, and he neglected i!i^*565?°*the business of the lower world. His subjects were^°^impatient of the long continuance of his life and reign; yet allwho were capable of reflection apprehended the moment of hisdeath, which might involve the capital in tumult and the empirein civil war. Seven nephews^ of the childless monarch, thesons or grandsons of his brother and sister, had b
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