Anatolius died while this law was in force.  His daughter was preparing to divide her inheritance with the public treasury and the senate of the town in accordance with the law, when she received letters from the senate of Ascalon and from the Emperor himself, in which they resigned all claim to the money, as if they had received their due.  Afterwards Mamilianus (the son-in-law of Anatolius) died, leaving one daughter, the legal heiress to his estate.  The daughter soon afterwards died, during her mother’s lifetime, after having been married to a person of distinction, by whom, however, she had no issue, either male or female.  Justinian then immediately seized the whole estate, giving utterance to the strange opinion, that it would be a monstrous thing that the daughter of Anatolius, in her old age, should be enriched by the property of both her husband and father.  However, to keep her from want, he ordered that she should receive a stater of gold a day, as long as she lived; and, in the decree whereby he deprived her of all her property, he declared that he bestowed this stater upon her for the sake of religion, seeing that he was always in the habit of acting with piety and virtue.

I will now show that he cared nothing even for the Blue faction, which showed itself devoted to him, when it was a question of money.  There was amongst the Cilicians a certain Malthanes, the son-in-law of that Leo who had held the office of “Referendary,” whom Justinian commissioned to put down seditious movements in the country.  On this pretext, Malthanes treated most of the inhabitants with great cruelty.  He robbed them of their wealth, sent part to the Emperor, and claimed the rest for himself.  Some endured their grievances in silence; but the inhabitants of Tarsus who belonged to the Blue faction, confident of the protection of the Empress, assembled in the market-place and abused Malthanes, who at the time was not present.  When he heard of it, he immediately set out with a body of soldiers, reached Tarsus by night, sent his soldiers into the houses at daybreak, and ordered them to put the inhabitants to death.  The Blues, imagining that it was an attack from a foreign foe, defended themselves as best they could.  During the dark, amongst other misfortunes, Damianus, a member of the senate and president of the Blues in Tarsus, was slain by an arrow.

When the news reached Byzantium, the Blues assembled in the streets with loud murmurs of indignation, and bitterly complained to the Emperor of the affair, uttering the most violent threats against Leo and Malthanes.  The Emperor pretended to be as enraged as they were, and immediately ordered an inquiry to be made into the conduct of the latter.  But Leo, by the present of a considerable sum of money, appeased him, so that the process was stopped, and the Emperor ceased to show favour to the Blues.  Although the affair remained uninvestigated, the Emperor received Malthanes, who came to Byzantium to pay his respects,