That he was deprived of his eyes, and reduced by envy to beg his bread⁠—‘Give a penny to Belisarius the general!’⁠—is a fiction of later times, which has obtained credit, or rather favor, as a strange example of the vicissitudes, of fortune.”

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The son of Evander, sent to assist Aeneas, and slain by Turnus. Virgil, Aeneid , X , Davidson’s Tr. :⁠—