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Cyprian was a Byzantine military leader who played a role in the wars of the reign of Justinian I. He was one of Belisarius’ subordinates during the Vandalic War. During the Battle of Tricamarum he served in the left wing. During surrender negotiations with Gelimer he informed Gelimer of the guarantee for his safety. During the Siege of Rome when the Goths broke through the first wall in a section of the defences where there were two walls. Belisarius sent him on a counterattack. The Goths panicked and fled, their siege engines were burned. Later he and Justinus were sent to besiege Fisula. Due to the landscape they couldn’t prevent sallies or fully cut the city off. Eventually they took Fisula after which they moved to assist Belisarius in the Siege of Auximus, where the leaders of the Fisula garrison were paraded in front of the city. This caused the Auximus garrison to open negotiations and eventually switch sides. He was killed in 545 by his own bodyguards.
“Habere non potest Deum patrem qui ecclesiam non habet matrem.”
“For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.”
“It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.”
“Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.”
“Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.”
“Humi iacent fessa laboribus viscera, sed poena non est cum Christo iacere. Squalent sine balneis membra situ et sorde deformia, sed spiritaliter intus abluitur quod foris carnaliter sordidatur.”
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