Ibi tunc forte Ursulus praesens, qui aerarium tuebatur, dolore percitus exclamavit: En quibus animis urbes a milite defenduntur, cui ut abundare stipendium possit, imperii opes iam fatiscunt! Quod dictum ita amarum militaris multitudo postea apud Chalcedona recordata, ad eius exitium consurrexit.
And Ursulus, the state-treasurer, who chanced to be there at the time, was filled with sorrow and cried: Behold with what courage the cities are defended by our soldiers, for whose abundance of pay the wealth of the empire is already becoming insufficient. And this bitter remark the throng of soldiers recalled later at Chalcedon and conspired for his destruction.
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