The Secret History of Procopius, tr. by Richard Atwater, [1927]
| | Introduction | 1 |
| | Foreword by the Historian | 23 |
| I. | How the great General Belisarius Was Hoodwinked by His Wife, Whose Lover Became a Monk | 27 |
| II. | How Belated Jealousy Affected Belisarius's Military Judgment, to the Joy of the Enemy | 35 |
| III. | Showing the Danger of Interfering with a Woman's Intrigues, Especially When the Woman Is the Friend of an Empress | 45 |
| IV. | How Theodora, Revenging Her Dear Antonina, Humiliated the Conqueror of Africa and Italy | 53 |
| V. | How Theodora Tricked the General's Daughter Into a Liaison with the Empress's Nephew, and Belisarius Became a Public Laughing Stock | 63 |
| | p. vi | |
| VI. | Ignorance of the Emperor Justin, and His Stencilled Signature; and How His Nephew Justinian Was the Virtual Ruler | 73 |
| VII. | Outrages of the Blues | 80 |
| VIII. | Character and Appearance of Justinian | 90 |
| IX. | And How Theodora, Most Depraved of All Courtesans, Won His Love | 98 |
| X. | How Justinian Created a New Law Permitting Him to Marry a Courtesan On Her Promise to Repent Her Past; and the Truth About the Apparent Quarrels of a Happy Pair | 109 |
| XI. | How the Defender of the Faith Ruined His Subjects | 117 |
| XII. | Proving that Justinian and Theodora Were Actually Fiends in Human Form | 127 |
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| XIII. | Deceptive Affability and Piety of a Tyrant | 137 |
| XIV. | Justice for Sale | 145 |
| XV. | How An Roman Citizens Became Slaves, and a Complaining Patrician Was Ribaldly Mocked by Theodora's Eunuchs | 151 |
| XVI. | What Happened to Those Who Fell Out of Favor with Theodora | 159 |
| XVII. | How She Saved Five Hundred Harlots from a Life of Sin, Made Away with Her Own Natural Son, and Other Curious Incidents of Her Passion for Match Making | 167 |
| XVIII. | How Justinian Killed a Trillion People | 178 |
| XIX. | How He Seized All the Wealth of the Romans and Threw It Away In the Sea and On the Barbarians | 188 |
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| XX. | Debasing of the Quaestorship | 193 |
| XXI. | The Sky Tax, the Selling of All Offices, and How Border Armies Were Forbidden to Punish Invading Barbarians | 200 |
| XXII. | Further Corruption in High Places | 207 |
| XXIII. | How Land Owners Were Ruined | 216 |
| XXIV. | Unjust Treatment of the Soldiers, and How Justinian Tricked the "Students" Out of Their Pay by Threatening to Send Them to War | 223 |
| XXV. | How He Robbed His Own Officials, Merchants, Sailors, Workmen, and Everybody Else | 231 |
| XXVI. | How He Spoiled the Beauty of the Cities and Plundered the Poor | 239 |
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| XXVII. | How the Defender of the Faith Protected the Interests of the Christians | 250 |
| XXVIII. | His Violation of the Laws of the Romans, and How Jews Were Fined for Eating Lamb | 257 |
| XXIX. | Other Incidents Revealing Him as a Liar and a Hypocrite | 262 |
| XXX. | Further Innovations of Justinian and Theodora, and a Conclusion Which Imagines the Death of an Emperor | 270 |