Imperial Courier to Galerius
Galerius in Nicomedia
It was midnight before Constantine was able to step down from the throne chair of the audience chamber in his father’s now his own palace and turn his attention to perhaps the...
The official panegyrists
His brief speech finished the official panegyrists had spent hours earlier delivering the customary final orations in honor of the dead Constantine turned toward the steps. Dacius, however, was before him.
“Hail, Constantinel Caesar!” he...
Constantius has left Ebora cum
“Your father writes whenever he can,” Helena said as they moved to the cushioned couch and low table, where the old servant who had been with them in Naissus had laid out a light...
Innocent people to the sword
“Maximian has a son.”
“Maxentius is nothing but a cruel and oppressive libertine,” Helena said with scorn. “In Africa he put thousands of innocent people to the sword, for no reason at all. The common...
Pronouncements and decisions
Now, though Rome clung desperately to its former glory, and the Senate continued to meet there, its pronouncements and decisions turned out to be little more than sound and fury the sound of words...
The householders in Constantinople
Such were the constant afflictions of mankind under the rule of Justinian and Theodora; for there was no release from war or any other of these calamities in all their time.
While I am on...
Huns and barbarous Saracens
For Cabades retired after doing hardly any damage to the buildings, but Chosroes burned to the foundations everything he took, and left greater ruin in his track. Yet to these remaining sufferers, for whom...
Landowners
HOW LANDOWNERS WERE RUINED
I will now tell how he ruined the landowners everywhere; although it were a sufficient indication of their sufferings to refer to what I have just written about the officials who...
Accompanied Photius to Ephesus
Theodora was now in some fear for Antonina, for she had heard what had happened to her; so she sent word to Belisarius to bring his wife to Constantinople. Photius, hearing of this, sent...
Showing the danger of interfering with a woman’s intrigues
Aroused at this, Chosroes found the following remedy for the trouble. He read them a letter which the Empress had recently written to Zaberganes. This was the letter:
“How highly I esteem you, Zaberganes, and...
