### q11 factional divisions can doom popular uprisings > The ending of the riots showed that while the unity between the Blues and Greens made the trouble so threatening, the division between the factions, imaginary as it was in many ways, came back to doom the uprising. Justinian’s grand chamberlain, the eunuch Narses, warned the Blues that a Green was about to take to the throne and bought their loyalty with gold coins, isolating the Greens, who were promptly slaughtered in cold blood. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fjaegpxx0ke609s3ewkzaknw) - [[Chariot-Racing Hooliganism The Nika Riots of Constantinople by Antigone#q11 factional divisions can doom popular uprisings|View in Vault]]