[Footnote 51: Some of the cruelties of Phocas are marked by
Theophylact, l. viii. c. 13, 14, 15. George of Pisidia, the
poet of Heraclius, styles him (Bell. Avaricum, p. 46, Rome,
1777). The latter epithet is just - but the corrupter of
life was easily vanquished.]