It is related that a Byzantine soldier struck him with his sword and cut him in two.

Both armies suffered from thirst and hunger, and discontent spread among the Byzantine soldiers.

He refused to pay a very small ransom in 599 or 600 to free 12,000 Byzantine soldiers taken prisoners by the Avars.

Most Byzantine soldiers would have worn swords as secondary weapons, usually suspended from a baldric rather than a waist belt.

The battle was decided when an unnamed Byzantine soldier managed to capture one of the waggons.

There he was martyred by Byzantine soldiers.

A great number of Byzantine soldiers, including the two bishops, drowned in the Ofanto attempting to flee.

On 4 May there was a solar eclipse which frightened the Byzantine soldiers and lowered their morale.

Cartagena has in recent years been excavated quite thoroughly and a housing complex probably created for Byzantine soldiers occupying the city discovered.

Most of the Byzantine soldiers and sailors were killed, drowned, or captured.