There are two passages that are illuminative : Procopius writes ;
"It is said that Justinian's own mother told some of her close friends that he was not the son of her husband Sabbatius or of any man at all . For when she was about to conceive she was visited by a demon, who was invisible but gave her a distinct impression that he was really with her like mn in bodily contact with a woman, Then he vanished like dream ."
It gets better :
"In view of this I, like most of my contemporaries, never once felt that these two were human beings : they were a pair of blood thirsty demons and what poet's (Homer and Aeschylus) call 'plaguers of mortal men' . For they plotted together to find the easiest and swiftest means of destroying all races of men and all their works, assume human shape became man-demons, and in this way convulsed the world. "
"But wait, there's more" :
"For the actions of demons are unmistakably different from those of human beings . In the long course of time there have doubtless been many men who by chance or by nature have inspired the utmost fear, and by their unaided efforts have ruined cities or countries or whatever it might be; but to bring destruction on all mankind and calamities around the whole world has been beyond the power of any but these two, who were, it is true, aided in their endeavors by chance, which collaborated in the ruin of mankind ... "
You can see it rite ? I don't know how this can be missed .
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