Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847

part in the business transacted. It was she, and not Belisarius, who

interrogated the pontiff. The general's wife insulted the representative of Saint Peter with reproaches, while the general remained a silent spectator of the lady's arrogance, and did not even investigate the evidence of the Pope's guilt. Prejudged by the suspicions of Belisarius, and condemned by th...