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Often appears with: tigris crossing · strategy and the aims of war · john of cappadocia · empire and the rule of provinces · conspiracy and assassination · belisarius retreat
Usually: narrative (1) · betrayal (1) · crisis of belief (1) · detachment (1)
Antonina and Photius’s conflict escalates while Rome’s East politics unfold: after Antonina deceives John of Cappadocia through repeated oaths, Belisarius retreats near the Roman frontier due to Antonina’s arrival, narrowing his strategic campaign.
Belisarius should swear fidelity to him by the most sacred oaths known to Christians, and they bound themselves never to abandon each other, even at the cost of their lives. For the present, they both agreed that it would be unwise to make any attempt; and they resolved to wait until Antonina had left Byzantium to join them, and Theodosius had returned to Ephesus, which would give Photius the opportunity of going th…