Associations to the word «Belisarius»

Wiktionary

BELISARIUS, proper noun. (history) a general of the Byzantine Empire, who was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously

Dictionary definition

BELISARIUS, noun. Byzantine general under Justinian I; he recovered former Roman territories in northern Africa and fought against the Persians.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats