[Footnote 90: Procop. Anecdot. c. 11. Theophan. Chron. p.
122. John Malala Chron. tom. ii. p. 62. I remember an
observation, half philosophical. half superstitious, that
the province which had been ruined by the bigotry of
Justinian, was the same through which the Mahometans
penetrated into the empire.]