# What Injustice and Lawlessness means in The Secret History

> The book highlights the systematic dismantling of legal protections, where trials are rigged, laws are retroactively changed for profit, and the innocent are punished while the guilty go free.

## Explanation

The book highlights the systematic dismantling of legal protections, where trials are rigged, laws are retroactively changed for profit, and the innocent are punished while the guilty go free.

Chosroes is accused by his own nobles of breaking his plighted word by invading in peacetime, and the Roman army suffers from Belisarius's neglect of duty.

Innocent men are tortured and exiled for their association with Photius and Belisarius.

Belisarius is condemned without proof, his property seized on false pretexts, and his life spared only through his wife's intervention.

Sergius murders ambassadors under safe conduct, and Solomon kills his rescuer Pegasius, yet both escape justice through imperial favor.

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