If you wish to save yourself, my lord, there is no difficulty. We are rich. Over there is the sea, and there are the ships. Yet reflect for a moment whether, when you have once escaped to a place of security, you would not gladly exchange such safety for death. As for me, I agree with the adage that the royal purple is the noblest shroud. So she's saying I would rather die as an empress than try to be a fugitive and just try to live my life, the rest of my life, somehow comfortably. And she's able to convince Justinian, and they're able to put down the uprising quite brutally, killing 30,000 of the people who are rising up against them.