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. Now, during that uprising, much of Constantinople is burned, including the main church, the Hagia Sophia, and it was under Justinian's rule that the Hagia Sophia gets rebuilt, and it still exists in what is now Istanbul today. Constantinople eventually gets renamed Istanbul once it's conquered by the Turks, and it eventually gets turned into a mosque, and today it is a museum. The Hagia Sophia literally means holy wisdom.