[PGR88]

Belisarius was a great general who achieved a lot for Justinian - but didn’t his public life eventually end in disgrace and disfavor of the crown?

[Verginius Rufus]

Supposedly he ended as a beggar outside Constantinople. A political cartoon from 1767 mocking Britain's mistreatment of its North American colonies shows Belisarius with limbs chopped off seated on the ground. There is a sash reading Date obolum Bellisario ("Give a penny to Belisarius").

[Antoninus]

Belisarius was a great general who achieved a lot for Justinian - but didn’t his public life eventually end in disgrace and disfavor of the crown?

Well, Belisarius was disgraced for a period of time toward the end of his career according to the contemporary sources. It's doubtful that he was blinded, as the story goes. The sources are unclear. But it seems he ended his life in Justinian's good graces.

This aspect of Belisarius's life was turned into something of an historical fantasy by the pre-Revolutionary French author Marmontel who used it as an anti-royalist allegory for his own time.