Thursday, March 12, 2026

Procopius

 

Procopius (c. 490-565)

“While cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.”

  • From The History of the Wars (Book I, section 1) by Procopius, translated by H. B. Dewing (Harvard University Press, originally published 1914).

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