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320        DE BELLIS CAMPESTRIB.


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De Græco ingenio conficiendi panes.


CAP. XLII.


Avaritia perfidia præfectorum noxia.                                         QVANTVM stupida ignavia, ac detestabilis avaritia
                                        perfidorum præfectorum obesse solent Principibus, arina præcipue
                                        tractantibus in campestri, sive classica expeditione, inter
                                        alia celebris autor Procopius lib. III. Vandalici belli demonstrat.
                                        Refert enim Belisarium Iustiniani potentem præfectum,
Belisarius.                                         dum venti non flarent, bellicam jussisse classem in
                                        anchoris persistere salvam, vt milites interea plures conscriberet,
                                        novoque ordine collocaret, ac reliquos duces ornaret.
                                        Quibus administratis, cum aliquandiu expectando ventos
Io. præfectus Iustiniani avarissimus. moraretur, plures morbis correpti, e causa interiere. Ioannes quidem præfectus
prætorii erat cum in aliis detestabilis, tum vehemens in ea commentando, quæ publice
sint ad hominum perniciem per avaritiam accessura. Panem, qui in exercitu
Panis biscoctus durabilior. fertur, bis est consuetudo in clibanum ponere, vt diligenter coctus diu duret, ne breviter
corrumpi possit. Verum eundem pondere a primo deficere, e quarta saltem
Modus avarorum. parte necesse est. Ioannes itaque cogitaris, quonam modo artoptis, ac pistoribus
minus lignorum, ac mercedis daret, nec tamen pondere deficeret, crudum adhuc
panem in publicum balneum ferre, ac in locum, vbi ignis vigebat, collocare jussit,
donec vehementer coctus videretur: deinde in culeis positos navibus immisit.
Panes resoluuntur in farinam. Postquam vero classis apud Methonem fuit, panes soluti omnes rursus in farinam
reversi, marcidam quidem & tabidam, ac viritim minutatimque, illis vero qui in dignatione
aliqua essent, per medimnos & modios, distributi fuere. His itaque milites
æstatis tempore in loco etiam æstuoso pasti, in morbos facile inciderunt, periereque
Milites 400. pane putrido periere. non minus quadringenti: plures etiam interiissent, ni Belisarii providentia his
prohibitis in regione conquisitos alios panes dare jussisset. Imperatori deinde de
hoc conquerendo scripsit. Ille quanquam rem detestari visus est, attamen
Artilex truculentus. artificem tam truculentum, & avarum, nulla tunc
pœna plecti jussit.
De pœna


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