Cyprian (Byzantine commander)

Cyprian was a Byzantine military leader who played a role in the wars of the reign of Justinian I.

[1] The Goths panicked and fled, their siege engines were burned.

[1] Due to the landscape they couldn’t prevent sallies or fully cut the city off.

[1] Eventually they took Fisula after which they moved to assist Belisarius in the Siege of Auximus, where the leaders of the Fisula garrison were paraded in front of the city.

[1] This caused the Auximus garrison to open negotiations and eventually switch sides.