{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4029.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4029.tlg002.local001","title":"Ἀπόκρυφη Ἱστορία","titleGreek":"Ἀπόκρυφη Ἱστορία","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Procopius","authorityName":"PROCOPIUS Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4029-procopius/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4029-procopius/","editors":["Michael Krascheninnikov"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Procopii Caesariensis Opera omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Mattiesen","place":"Jurievi","date":"1899","volume":"5","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Digital Library Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal","Bridget Almas"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015069901448&seq=80","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Procopius. Ἀπόκρυφη Ἱστορία. ed. Michael Krascheninnikov. Procopii Caesariensis Opera omnia, Jurievi, Mattiesen, 1899. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4029.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"Ὅσα μὲν οὖν Ῥωμαίων τῷ γένει ἐν τοῖς πολέμοις ἄχρι δεῦρο ξυνηνέχθη γενέσθαι, τῇδέ μοι δεδιήγηται, ᾗπερ δυνατὸν ἐγεγόνει τῶν πράξεων τὰς δηλώσεις ἁπάσας ἐπὶ καιρῶν τε καὶ χωρίων τῶν ἐπιτηδείων ἁρμοσαμένῳ· τὰ δὲ ἐνθένδε οὐκέτι μοι τρόπῳ τῷ εἰρημένῳ ξυγκείσεται, ἐπεὶ ἐνταῦθα γεγράψεται πάντα, ὁπόσα δὴ τετύχηκε γενέσθαι πανταχόθι τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἀρχῆς. αἴτιον δὲ, ὅτι δὴ οὐχ οἷόν τε ἦν περιόντων ἔτι τῶν αὐτὰ εἰργασμένων ὅτῳ δεῖ ἀναγράφεσθαι τρόπῳ. οὔτε γὰρ διαλαθεῖν πλήθη κατασκόπων οἷόν τε ἦν οὔτε φωραθέντα μὴ ἀπολωλέναι θανάτῳ οἰκτίστῳ· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐπὶ τῶν συγγενῶν τοῖς γε οἰκειοτάτοις τὸ θαρρεῖν εἶχον. ἀλλὰ καὶ πολλῶν τῶν ἐν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν λόγοις εἰρημένων ἀποκρύψασθαι τὰς αἰτίας ἠναγκάσθην. τὰ τό τε δ̓ οὖν τέως ἄρρητα μείναντα καὶ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν δεδηλωμένων ἐνταῦθά μοι τοῦ λόγου τὰς αἰτίας σημῆναι δεήσει. Ἀλλά μοι ἐς ἀγώνισιν ἑτέραν ἰόντι χαλεπήν τινα καὶ δεινῶς ἄμαχον τῶν Ἰουστινιανῷ τε καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-24"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-25"},{"label":"Chapter 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-26"},{"label":"Chapter 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-27"},{"label":"Chapter 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-28"},{"label":"Chapter 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-29"},{"label":"Chapter 30","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/#tlg4029-tlg002-local001-30"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4029.tlg002.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4029/tlg002/local001.json.gz"}}