Note 855 — Chapter II · THE ROMAN EMPIRE UNDER ANASTASIUS: THE INHERITANCE OF JUSTINIAN
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Under Arcadius the traffic was barefaced by Eutropius, and probably little less so in the succeeding reign by Chrysaphius:
Vestibulo pretiis distinguit regula gentes. Tot Galatae, tot Pontus, eat, tot Lydia nummis. Si Lyciam tenuisse velis, tot millia ponas, etc. Claudian, In Eutropium, i, 202.
Afterwards it was more underhand; see Novel. viii.