festivities. The Emperor Anastasius compensated for this lost revenue by placing income earned from certain estates into a separate fund. References The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus. Liverpool University Press, 2001, p. 184. G. E. M. De Ste Croix. The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World. Cornell University Press, 1989. Taxation in the Byzantine Empire Taxation in ancient Rome