At last she was betrothed and married to Belisarius, although she had already borne many children. She herself at first lived a lewd life, giving herself up to unbridled debauchery besides this, she devoted herself to the study of the drugs which had long been used in her family, and learned the properties of those which were essential for carrying out her plans. Her mother was one of the prostitutes of the theatre. The wife of Belisarius, whom I have spoken of in my previous writings, was the daughter and grand-daughter of chariot-drivers, men who had practised their art in the circus at Byzantium and at Thessalonica.
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