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Belisario

Index: El Zahir, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 591. A quien ya no es joven, El otro, el mismo, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 895.

Belisarius, Roman general, c.505-565, in whose honor medals were struck; according to legend, Belisarius later wandered the streets of Constantinople a blind beggar

Fishburn and Hughes: "Justinian's general, one of the greatest military leaders of the eastern Roman Empire.
An apocryphal story relates that in old age Belisarius went blind and was reduced to begging his bread from door to door." (25)