In case you havent heard the fairy tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves here is a brief summary. Ali Baba overhears a large band of thieves visiting a treasure they have hidden in a cave. The magic words to open the cave are "Open, Sesame". After the thieves are gone Ali Baba sneaks in and steals some of their treasure and takes it home. Ali Baba's brother finds out about the cave and asks Ali Baba about it. Ali Baba tells his brother the password and he goes off to get his own treasure. Ali Baba's brother gets inside the cave and has his treasure but forgets the password to leave "Close, Sesame". The Thieves come back and find Ali Baba's brother there and kill him. When his brother doesn't return home Ali Baba gets worried and returns to the cave and finds his brother dead, he takes the body home for a proper burial. The thieves return to the cave to see the body is missing and know somebody knows about their cave. They set out to find Ali Baba only to be tricked and eventually killed by a slave-girl named Morgiana. There are actually several lessons to learn here. The first lesson doubles as a math lesson. 40 > 1. If you are after a treasure that belongs to forty thieves and something goes wrong (and you should always assume that when it comes to treasures something will go wrong) then the other side had 39 more people than you do. Not good odds. 2. Don't mess with slave-girls. I said above that one person should never take on forty but the one exception is slave-girls. Slave-girls are very angry due to their slavery and what not. Women scorned have nothing on slave-girls scorned. 3. If you ever get a magic word to open and close a hideaway with treasure in it then you should WRITE IT DOWN! I mean these words are going to get you treasure how can you even forget them in the first place? But you should write it down in case you do. I mean what's the worse that can happen? You can drop the piece of paper in the cave and they will find out someone was there, but the whole lack of treasure is going to tell them that anyway. If you're worried about dropping the piece of paper and the thieves coming after you then get yourself a slave-girl.
Justinian I failed to regain all of the former provinces of old Roman Empire because he ran out of money. His once powerful army was weakened by the plague and the finances were down. He ran out of options.
Justinian I or Justinian the Great was the Eastern Roman Emperor from 527 to 565.
